[ SECRET POST #2083 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2083 ⌋

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 05 pages, 110 secrets from Secret Submission Post #298.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 2 - posted twice ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Re: What song is stuck in your head at the moment (or recently)?

[spicandspan89.livejournal.com]

Gangnam Style. :D

[(Anonymous)]

DUDE. 6.4 MILLION AMERICANS LIVE OR WORK OVERSEAS. I THINK WE HAVE PASSPORTS. IF WE'RE SPENDING THE MONEY, HELL YEAH WE'RE GOING TO MAKE IT SO WE CAN EASILY ENJOY IT. THERE'S A REASON ROWLING SOLD THE RIGHTS TO AMERICANS.

Re: Dildo or vibrator?

[omorka]

Depends on what you're using it for. I like both, but I do use them differently.

Re: Where do people masturbate?

[omorka]

Mostly in bed, although I think I've masturbated at least once in every room of the apartment except the spouse's study. If you're worried about fluids, get a couple of cheap hand towels at Target or something and use them as underliners.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, because everyone in this thread are white people with hurt feelings because op doesn't want to hit Chevy Chase. You're so right.

[(Anonymous)]

You should know: the Wizarding World of Harry Potter isn't a theme park in itself. It's a section of a theme park that includes DC and Marvel Comics, as well as various blockbusters like Jaws and E.T. It's in the same city as Disney World, Sea World, and Busch Gardens. Warner Bros. owns the sets as well.

But, hey, rock on with the nationalism if you want.

[(Anonymous)]

Slicked back oily hair... helpful US audience shorthand for "villain". Especially with handy receding hairline.

Loki looked kind of uncharacteristically ...startled? unsure? confused? afraid? at the start, before he looked at the staff, and seemed to go, oh yeah, that's right, kill, destroy. The uncertainty seemed to go along with the ill look. It's not like it was necessarily caused by the teleporting between worlds, he indictated in Thor he'd done that lots.

[ladyknightanka]

Now I mostly read fanfiction so. . .maybe they're like me and they just want some candy of the soul when they're not studying.

+1! I used to read anything and everything I got my hands on, but ever since starting college, most of what I read is fanfiction and YA series. That isn't to say I wouldn't read anything else, ever. In fact, I'm trying to get back into reading more, in general, since I'm almost done with school, but sometimes, it's really nice to lose yourself in a light, silly book/story, after dredging through a hundred "classics" and textbooks.

[(Anonymous)]

“Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”

- C.S. Lewis

[hwc]

MTE.

am i just desensitized from all the horrors of fandom?

[(Anonymous)]

during some random browsing, i found out that someone wrote rpf about some band member's infant daughter being raped and killed. (don't even ask how i landed on that, i'm not sure myself.) it spread all over the fandom and the band found out, and it's hugely fucked up. i should be appalled and disgusted. intellectually i am. but emotionally i'm just kind of puzzled, and i feel horrible for it. i'm kind of hoping it's just shock beause i shouldn't be this unfeeling about something so awful.

Re: Dildo or vibrator?

[(Anonymous)]

Um, both. Not necessarily at the same time, but really that is not a question.

[(Anonymous)]

You sound like a straight white guy, lucky you. Sometimes the nausea gets in the way for others despite best efforts, yk?

[justvan]

I love this show SO MUCH and I was in the tiny fandom for it a few years back. It's largely over run with older fans a bit set in their ways, but there are some awesome communities on LJ including a rewatch that just started and is still on S1. I've written tons of fic and have some I can rec you, too, depending on what you want/ship. I'm "van" on LJ if you want to go through my memories. Also, b7fic.com exists.

[(Anonymous)]

If you don't know where L.A. and New York are, you're pretty out of sync with the world. Hell, most Americans can tell you which countries in the UK Edinburgh and London are located in. You can't call Americans stupid and then not know anything about their country.

[(Anonymous)]

OP, are you complaining how the UK doesn't have the same things that the US fandom has when it comes to Harry Potter?

What is stopping the UK fandom from doing so?

You would think it would be easier for the UK fans to get off their asses since Harry Potter is set in the UK when compared to what the US fans have to do when it comes to Harry Potter. (Train tickets are much cheaper than plane tickets.)

What have you done to make this happened? What have your fellow UK fans done? I know what the Americans have done because, here, we have a result.

You want a big Harry Potter UK con? Have you tried anything to make this happened? Have you tried to gather people and pool your money? Have you looked at venues that would work? Have you even made social media pages asking if anyone would be interested in going to this con? Have you even tried anything?

Re: am i just desensitized from all the horrors of fandom?

[(Anonymous)]

it is awful that someone would write something about that (seriously, what kind of sicko...?), but it is just a fictional story not based on reality. maybe you should be a little more concerned if you hear about something like that (god forbid) actually happening and you are unfeeling about it.

I can't help but be curious though, what band was it?

[(Anonymous)]

Brits need to get the fuck over themselves. You guys have had a monopoly on racist, ethnocentric, classist douchebags for way too damn long. Every time Brits whine about the US, it sounds like a parent wondering why their kid didn't turn out the way they wanted. Maybe it's cuz you were sucky ass parents.

Re: Fanon that annoys the shit out of you

[(Anonymous)]

A very minor example, but the persistent name "Honora" for Zuko's daughter in AtLA/LoK. tbh I'm reluctant to accept anything other than Ursa, but Honora is just completely stupid

[(Anonymous)]

LET ME LOVE ((((((YOU))))))

Also, lol at AYRT's use of "strong". Lol old fashioned sexism. My mother told me I should be "strong" and suck it up and not be "sensitive" when my father was abusing me. "women have to be stronger than men". No, "strong" meant saying "fuck you" and walking out of my family's life.

Re: Favorite and Least Favorite Works of Prose You Had to Read in High School

[omorka]

Favorites:
Pride & Prejudice, but only the first time (due to changing schools, I had to read this three times for different grades/classes, and by the last time I was bored with it)
Lord of the Flies
1984 (although I found out much later the one I read in high school had had most of the sex cut out - yes, I read a censored version of 1984!)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (what can I say, my 12th grade teacher thought we should read some SF)
pretty much all the Shakespeare
Huckleberry Finn (although my teacher and I fought about it, a lot - he was more interested in the bildungsroman aspects than the social commentary)

Hated:
Tess of the d'Urbervilles (which I also had to read three times for the same reason, and by the last read-through I wanted to throw it through the window)
Billy Budd (don't really remember why)
Everything by Dickens except maybe Tale of Two Cities; Great Expectations was particularly bad


I never had to read Grapes of Wrath in school; I ended up reading it a couple of years ago because it was the assigned book for Academic Decathlon (I'm a coach), and I really liked it, but I suspect I would have found it less fun if it had been for a grade.

I neither liked nor hated Scarlet Letter, but I think Hawthorne was a better short-story writer than a novelist.

[(Anonymous)]

You have every right to feel the way you feel, but you do not have the right to beat everyone upside the head with your feelings. I don't even like Kelly Clarkson and the shitstorm over this song is making me want to go buy all of her music.

And I don't think the term "gaslighting" means what you think it means.

Re: Shitty week

[(Anonymous)]

Eyezmaze! I should see if they've any new games :D

Re: The moment you gave up a tv show

[inkdust]

Less giving up and more ragefully quitting Lost after Charlie died. My intense terror of drowning contributed to that one. From what I hear, it got better toward the end, but I never watched any more except the series finale.

[(Anonymous)]

This comment seems to be saying both that adult YA readers want to be teenage girls and that says a lot about them, and that they want grown-up jobs/relationships/whatever but feel unable to achieve it due to circumstances. So they like feeling young because… they don't like feeling young. What?

Also, 98% of all statistics on the internet are made up, so either back up your numbers or admit you're talking about a very small, probably self-selecting sample of adult YA readers and not 95% of anything meaningful.

And "If this hits home a bit too hard, I'm sorry, and I hope you figure things out" is really condescending and unnecessary. You assume you're speaking some kind of ~new truth, when in fact you are saying the EXACT SAME THING that people have been saying about a) genre fiction, b) comic books, and c) fiction with a majority-female audience for CENTURIES.