[ SECRET POST #2096 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2096 ⌋

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

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04. http://i.imgur.com/KENos.png
[True Blood; sort of porny, illustrated ... choking and spanking or something?]


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[Koi Kaze; Freefall]


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[Suits]


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[A Song of Ice and Fire]


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11. [SPOILERS for Doctor Who]



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12. [SPOILERS for A Song of Ice and Fire]



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13. [SPOILERS for the Stand]



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14. [SPOILERS for Teen Wolf]



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15. [SPOILERS for Shin Megami Tensei IV]



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16. [WARNING for self-harm]

[bogglelovesyou@tumblr]


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17. [WARNING for attempted suicide and depression]

[The Walking Dead]


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18. [WARNING for suicide]















Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 000 secrets from Secret Submission Post #299.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 - broken links ], [ 1 2 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Anime is nothing like real in Japan, you realize that right? It's actually worse there. Especially with the whole "Lol lesbians aren't real, it's just a phase school girls go through". I think there's also a high suicide rate in school because of all the pressure/what I mentioned above.

[(Anonymous)]

Of course Japan isn't a wonderland where everyone is happy. These aren't docu-dramas, they're fiction. They're works of artifice. It's that creation that people respond to, not the idea that life actually is the way it's depicted in these works. Or at least that's what I respond to. Life in Japan, to me, is not really related to the emotions engendered by a slice-of-life high school anime. I don't see any reason why they should (except, I guess, for dumb anime fans who can't distinguish reality and fiction and do make this mistake).

Of course the reality of Japan is not the same as the created work of fiction. That doesn't and shouldn't lessen or change the reaction to that work of fiction. Sure, Japan is shitty, but that doesn't make the anime any worse.

[childings.livejournal.com]

Japan has a high suicide rate in general. Isn't it the highest in the industrialized world? Or something?

[ill_omened]

No.

South Korea (and some petty european countries) blows it out the water, and whilst the suicide rate is high it's such an immensely complicated subject that you boiling it down to stress in the way that anon is is so reductive as to be meaningless.

[childings.livejournal.com]

Well, I agree with you about anon's statement being reductive, I was just trying to clear up some statistics. Thanks for enlightening me?

Every time I think about Japan and suicide I just think of this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aokigahara)

[ariakas]

By "blows it out of the water" she means "eight percent higher" and "aside from South Korea, the highest of any major nation, yes". Always check shit on Wikipedia for yourself, I'd suggest.

Yes, Japan's high suicide rate is extremely concerning to their government, though most social scientists there attribute it to the prolonged recession (i.e. the "lost generation" of the 90s).

[deadtree]

it's apparently 7th, which is still pretty high, but not #1.

[(Anonymous)]

OP here. Just want to clarify I'm not sad because I can't be there, or live that life. A lot of the sadness comes from certain aspects of Japanese society and culture I think, like the general treatment of homosexuality and the stress placed on a person's school life and school work.

[yeahscience]

That's commendably realistic of you, OP. I came into this post ready to be all "oh God" because I do, in fact, work at a Japanese high school and would not wish that life on most children. I see and hear a lot of things that make me pretty angry.