[ SECRET POST #2083 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2083 ⌋

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

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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

OP, how do you feel about genre fiction?

[(Anonymous)]

'Cause you not only seem judge-y about YA, which is an age bracket that encompasses a pretty damn wide variety of stuff--and I won't even get into the books that are variously classed as both YA and adult reads depending on where you see them--but also your tone seems to denigrate "romance-steampunk-vampire-sci-fi", all of which are available in adult flavors as well.

But they're genre fiction and not "literary fiction" so do you feel free to shit all over them too? Plenty of other people do. Someone upthread has already snarked about adult romance novels, which is a perfectly valid and well selling genre, ranging from utter tripe to fun fluff to, yep, literature.

[(Anonymous)]

Yup. See the butthurt anon a few posts above yours.

[blueonblue]

See, that's your problem - you're writing for the attention rather than the pure joy of creating art.

Just kidding - people post their work online because they want readers. I have never seen please don't read this in a summary.

[(Anonymous)]

It's just so his male fans can cosplay him that much more easily.

[(Anonymous)]

To be fair, the costumes of the superheroes aren't much better.

[(Anonymous)]

Because it's easier to make a secret and whine about how no one in the US is organizing a UK event in the UK so that UK fans can have something to go to?

Come on now.

Re: Dildo or vibrator?

[(Anonymous)]

YOUR COMMENT SUBJECT? :P

Re: Fanon that annoys the shit out of you

[(Anonymous)]

lol I had seen it around so much that I actually thought it was canon for a bit even though you're right that it's a stupid name

[(Anonymous)]

"Books, movies, fandom in general, all of it is escapist, and what you want to escape to says a lot about how you see yourself and/or what you wish your position in life was."

When it comes to movies, my escapism is always the same: slasher movies.
According to you, that probably means I want to kill people.
Even though I don't want to do such thing and I'm pretty happy with my life, but that will go against your theory so it can't be true, right?

[becka]

I hope you seriously do this because that means it's not just me. Sometimes real life requires hand gesture tildes.

[(Anonymous)]

Right. Because clarification from someone who might know what they're talking about would get in the way of your epic butthurt over not being American and attempting to look down your nose at us, amirite?

[(Anonymous)]

Your assessment of trolly behaviour is spot on. Trolls often/usually believe the shit they're spouting, but they are doing it for the ensuing arguments, not to timidly or innocently air their unpopular opinions. Applies beyond F!S too.

[(Anonymous)]

His pimp ensemble (suit/cane and green scarf) in the museum scene would simply not have been complete without that amazing hair.

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

Thank you! I'm a long time mild mannered lurker who has never posted and felt prodded out of obscurity by the last "god, you man-hating sjw's with all your *feelings* suck."

I'm sorry you had to go through that & hope all is well now :)

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

[(Anonymous)]

pretty sure it was one direction. and yeah, whoever wrote that seriously needs help.

[(Anonymous)]

Dang, Loki, do you always have to get the most comments on fandomsecrets? Leave some for the other fandoms for god's sake!

[(Anonymous)]

I commented on it upthread. Yeah, this secret is icky.

[blueonblue]

They will be back.

The next season will be better.
I just want to see what happens.

Disappointment and endless complaints.

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(Sorry, didn't mean to sound pedantic! I've just seen a lot of people talk about "the writers" in a way that makes me think they don't realize that M&B wrote the whole thing themselves, which was not the case for A:TLA, where there was a staff of writers that collaboratively worked heavily on every episode.)

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

[(Anonymous)]

One of them has a child?? (or did someone actually make a fake daughter just to do that? I guess that's slightly better than writing a story about an actual baby. Still gross)

Re: Fanon that annoys the shit out of you

[omorka]

In my case part of the issue is that it's 20-year-old fanon I'm fighting, but: the idea that we know for sure what branch of the service Winston was in, that we know for sure he was drafted, and that he for sure served in Viet Nam. I have no problem with the idea that he did. I have issues with people yelling "OOC!" on stories in which he was in the Air Force (which is actually supportable, based on the first movie novelization), or that he joined the Marines of his own free will, or that his service was post-'Nam Cold War stuff. And half the time the argument is on ten-year-old comments on a fic that was published in a 'zine before it ever made it to the web.

I tend to write him as having joined the Army out of fear of the draft at the tail end of the Viet Nam conflict and then stayed a while after his term was up because he didn't like his prospects in the job market. Most current readers have no issues with that, but there are one or two old-timers who will still go "no, he was drafted," etc.

[iggy]

Wizarding World needed to be part of an existing theme park. They weren't going to take the risk of opening a whole new theme park in a smaller country when they could just do it as PART of a theme park in the biggest theme park destination in the world.

It was just economically sensible.

That being said, Wizarding World has been so successful that they could probably do a small theme park in the UK.

As for leaky-con, Americans set up the con so of course it's in America. Finding Hogwarts is the same. I'm pretty sure if UK fans set up these things they would be set in the UK.

Basically outside of WW, these are all fan created things, and it seems a bit silly to be upset in this manner that fans in the US just happen to be a bit more proactive than fans in the UK. The only people at fault there are the UK fans.

[(Anonymous)]

Are you paying attention to what aspects of YA literature actually appeal to your friends? Chances are, if you are able to get a grasp on what they like about what they're reading, you could recommend adult reads that they'd like as well. I mean, adult romance, steampunk, vampire, sci fi, and various blendings thereof do exist. But if you're not paying attention or your preferences are just completely at odds with theirs, well, your recs aren't gonna work just like it wouldn't work if they recced some YA fiction to you that didn't include any of your preferred tropes.

I read a lot, from junior readers to YA to adult, and across multiple genres. I personally tend not to care for so-called literary fiction though because most of what I've read involves main character death, incest, or just dreary, depressing endings in general. (Also quite a bit of pretentious writing that would have benefited from a sterner editor.) I'm a counselor. I get enough misery and drama in real life, so when I read I'm willing to go through hell for a happy ending but I want that happy ending to damn well be there.

Dildo or vibrator or Deadpool?

[hwc]

NOW IT IS PERFECT!

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Jesse Pinkman what are you even doing on Fandom Secrets don't you have meth to cook or something.