[ SECRET POST #2083 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2083 ⌋

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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 2 - posted twice ].
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Comments

Re: OP, how do you feel about genre fiction?

[(Anonymous)]

If someone espouses the opinion that genre fiction isn't as worthy as "literary fiction", their viewpoint is automatically worthless, to me.

Nothing quite says "butthurt English major who thought Asimov's ideas were too haaaaaaaaard" like it.

[(Anonymous)]

begone with your fancy logic and numbers!

[diorama]

This is a brilliant comment.

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

[fickletastictot]

Lana Del Rey - National Anthem

The whole album's pretty catchy so I've been cycling through it for a while now :x

Re: Fanon that annoys the shit out of you

[(Anonymous)]

Just having read lots of Marauder fanfiction, I have a whole damn list

- "James asked Lily out a million times"--NO. He asked her out once, goddamn. How did people extrapolate that to mean he stalked her since he was 11? What the fuck.
- Remus is a genius who loves chocolate and reads all the time--he wasn't a genius, he wasn't even said to be particularly smart even. James and Sirius were top of the year, but somehow they're the ones depicted as morons. Remus knew chocolate was a common cure for post-dementor depression, he wasn't some chocoholic.
- Snape was this loner kid who just wanted to read his books in the corner in peace--dude, he had a gang of Slytherins to hang out with. He spent his time inventing Dark Magic and laughing about it with his creepy friends. He went around bullying Muggleborns. He's not the geek who got bullied mercilessly.
- "Lily was a bookworm with anger management issues"-- she had a right to be pissed in the scenes we saw her in, she wasn't crazy. We know she never hated James, so I doubt she blew a fuse every time he walked into a room. And she was popular and vivacious, so NOT a Hermione-type.

Just the tip of the iceberg. Lots of it has to do with the Wolfstar fandom, ugh. And honestly most of my issues seem to be thanks to the Shoebox Project. Funny story, but it seems like the start of all these dumbass fanon assumptions.

[diorama]

Let's be honest, most of the population is easily-impressed and easily- distracted by shiny things with little substance. This is why 95 per cent of television is crap.

Re: Fanon that annoys the shit out of you

[(Anonymous)]

People really seem to like the idea of everyone getting abused. Somehow, Sirius hating his family for their shitty fucked up beliefs has turned into HE WAS PHYSICALLY ABUSED DAY AND NIGHT! And Snape's parents fighting has turned into PHYSICAL *AND* EMOTIONAL ABUSE! HE WAS BEAT UP ALL THE TIME BY HIS DRUNK FATHER! Literally all the books said about Snape's parents were that his mum and dad argued a lot, and that his dad "didn't like much of anything" which sounds like depression.

[(Anonymous)]

involves a lot of wasting time on stuff you're never going to use (especially if you aren't planning to specialize or don't really know what you want to major in)

Whine whine whine whine whine whine whine whine whine

Get the fuck over yourself.

Re: Fanon that annoys the shit out of you

[(Anonymous)]

...wait, what?!

I've never seen that one before, and I thought I was keeping on top of the delicious crazy Avengers fandom spits out. Seriously, where DID this one come from?

Re: Dildo or vibrator?

[(Anonymous)]

Vibrating dildo, definitely.

[diorama]

I can't wait to see Mako as a cop, because I hate cops. And I hate Mako, so Mako as a cop is like the perfect storm.

Re: Shitty week

[fickletastictot]

Applause!

[(Anonymous)]

How are you people not understanding the very basic concept that Americans have a tendency to use their time, money, and effort in their immediate area? The US is much bigger than most other countries and is thousands of miles away from most other developed countries. It'd be expensive as shit to pay to go overseas so Americans choose to create more local fandoms. There are almost always country or even region based fandoms because the situation is common across the world: nobody wants to travel far when there are fans close by.

Americans aren't "getting it all". It's not a luck thing: it's Americans investing more on a larger scale into fandoms than other countries. If you would like to have the same things, get off your ass and empty your pockets.

I don't bitch that my non-American bands don't tour in the US where they have a tiny fanbase because they're trying to make money. Oh, boo hoo, they always tour in France and Russia; French fans always overrun the fandoms. No, the French and the Russians put a fuckload more effort into fandom, fanactions, and interviews, and recruit and hold fans. My country doesn't. That doesn't mean the French or the Russians are somehow luckier than I am, except maybe in that they are geographically closer to the bands: it means they've gotten off their asses and spent way more money than I ever will.

Re: Is there a different term for double penetration when it is in the same hole?

[insanenoodlyguy]

Double vagina or double ass.

Or if you got 4 guys and some cleaver positioning...

DVDA... the holy greail.

[manifold]

No, not really? If you're not into sex scenes, that's totally fine. I was mainly just riffing off of another comment that was all "LOLS adult fiction can also mean PORN". And, well, that is still reading something that isn't just YA fiction, so okay! I'll joke about it! ...and someone will take me completely seriously. Well, damn, that'll show me for trying to have fun.

To be honest, I think most of the sex scenes in Literary Fiction these days are complete horseshit. So my preference tends towards the absence of sex, anyway. I am a "boring" reader of genfic, nonfiction, and miscellaneous whateverthefuck.

[(Anonymous)]

The distance between New York and L.A. is 2,451 miles. The distance between the easternmost cities in the US and the UK is 2,716.5 miles. You'd have to drive up and down the length of Great Britain four or five times to get that sort of mileage. Anon may not care, but it's a valid point that many Americans don't have a reasonable amount of access to fannish things.

Re: Is there a different term for double penetration when it is in the same hole?

[anonymouslyyours]

Yeah, I bet DVDA is easier when you involve a cleaver.

[(Anonymous)]

Why? It's beyond stupid.

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

That was a joke? Damn, my sarcasm detector must be broken. Sorry about that!

I actually like all sorts of books. YA, literary fiction, genre fiction, whatever. I'm just really sick of otherwise excellent books where the story suddenly abruptly stops for ten pages so the author can indulge in terrible (and often purple prose-y) porn. That's when I'm like "Hey, I don't give a fuck about how much HAWT SECKS your protagonist is having; get on with the goddamn plot."

[(Anonymous)]

I generally just really loved JLM's take on Holmes. There was something really appealing about him that makes me want to keep watching.

Though I agree it wasn't mindblowing or anything. Having seen all of the network pilots, I'd put it on my second tear for the new season. Very solid with a lot of potential -- which is WAY more than I can say for a lot of the pilots -- but not great.

[dragonimp]

But it's not like adult novels are a wonderful array of creativity either.

THIS, ffs. There are so many vapid, shallow, idiotic "adult" books out there that drawing that kind of line is pretty pointless.

[(Anonymous)]

Not to me it isn't. It's exactly how I feel, too.

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

[fickletastictot]

Yeah, I always liked To Kill a Mockingbird too. X3 It took ages for my to go through books though because I was always impatient graaah

Others I liked:
- Pride and Prejudice (I laughed all the way through it, okay?)
- Waiting for Godot
- Shakespeare plays in general

Hated, mostly because it gave me nightmares/I was really depressed at the time, although I really liked the themes in them:

- Disgrace by JM Coetzee
- A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

I also did not like Death of a Salesman. It was boring to me.

I had a really bad experience with Lord of the Flies because the teacher that taught it to us was spewing crazy religious bigoted crap about the whole thing and it cheesed me off. I still haven't been able to reread the book, tbh.

[(Anonymous)]

Not in Britain she's not.

[(Anonymous)]

You can be culturally literate without a piece of paper. It's called educating yourself without forking over thousands of dollars to an institution that only gives a shit about your money anyway.

Talk about narrow-minded.