[ SECRET POST #2071 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2071 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Important: I'm really sorry about this, but I accidentally misclicked and deleted the submission post from last week instead of saving it. Managed to save the first page (25) of secrets, but the rest (about 100 or so) are gone.

If you submitted something last week (Aug 26-Sept 1), please resubmit it here.

The submissions post for next week is below as usual.

Secrets Left to Post: ?? pages, ??? secrets from Secret Submission Post #296.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[intrigueing]

Oh don't mind me, I'm a very bitter and reactionary person, especially when it comes to painful ex-fandoms.

[insanenoodlyguy]

If I may ask, what soured you?

[intrigueing]

It was pretty much a build up of everything to a critical mass of fuck-this-shit. See, I never followed current comics month-to-month for extended periods of time. I read mostly just Spider-Man as a kid. So when I started reading comics really hardcore in earnest, I jumped into all Marvel comics, from all periods, all the time, picking and choosing whatever sounded interesting and branching out. So I was reading Dark Age and Silver Age and very recent stuff at the same time. And basically, I realized that no matter how hard I looked, pretty much every single thing about Marvel comics from recent years -- I'll tentatively date it to somewhere around Avengers Disassembled, but it was a lot more gradual than a precise turning point -- made me want to punch all the characters in the face and I could not muster up the willpower to give a flying fuck about what happened to any of them, and that was such a massive, jarring difference from how glorious and how emotionally resonant the comics I was reading from earlier times were that it was pretty much impossible for me to reconcile the whole timeline together without feeling disgusted.

I'll give you an example: if you've read Avengers Forever, remember when the Avengers teams from all the alternate timelines in which the Avengers turned bad and got corrupted and ceased to be heroes came out into that limbo-place to attack the 616 Avengers? And then all the Avengers teams from all the alternate timelines where the Avengers remained good and heroic came out to join the 616 Avengers and fought off the bad Avengers? And it was just EPIC? Well, the 616 Marvel Universe is one of those universes in which the Avengers went bad, except it's the entire Marvel universe, not just the Avengers. The idea of painting the current 616 superheroes as heroic individuals or people you should ever like or admire in the slightest is preposterous. To me at least. Maybe other people don't see it that way, maybe they are still interested in the characters and stories, but I just can't care about them anymore. At all.