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[ SECRET POST #2143 ]

⌈ Secret Post #2143 ⌋

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

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[Ariel Winter/Modern Family]

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[Chrono Crusade]

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[Shezow]

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[Desperate Romantics]

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[Rugby union, Brad Barritt / Mouritz Botha]

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[999/Virtue's Last Reward]

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[Fringe]

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[Homestuck]

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[ASoIaF/Jack White]

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[Revenge]

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[Crash Bandicoot]

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[scarlett johansson/ryan reynolds]

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[Marvel Cinematic Universe, Journey Into Mystery 2011]

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[Tokyo Dogs]

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[Fate/stay night]

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[Inazuma Eleven]

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[Avatar: The Last Airbender]

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[Suits]

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[Once Upon a Time]

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 043 secrets from Secret Submission Post #306.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 1 - repeat ], [ 1 2 - ships it ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

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Tolkien was very racist and sexist. Just FYI. Also he used archetypes from folk stories from other countries. LoTR isn't some holy book that nothing can be compared to. You're the reason why people won't read LoTRs.

Tolkien never went around to the book clubs of his day being a total dick to everyone just to see what would happen.

OH my god you poor child. Yes, Tolkien kind did. Tolkien could be a grade A asshole.

Proof or tits, bro.

Sorry, but I'm not breaking the spines on my books to show you. Look up CS Lewis and Tolkien and their book club.

Then I'm going to take that as your admission of "I'm making shit up now to be right on the internet" and go with my first assumption that you're a dumbass =D

So you don't know how to look things up on the internet that's not on wiki or urban dictionary? That's sad. But seriously. Not breaking my book just to scan pages you won't read in. I care more about my books than what you think of me.

You're the one who made the assertion. If your response when asked for backup is "I'm too lazy, go look it up yourself", then I'm going just going to assume you're making it up. Because if I should be able to Google it in 5 minutes, then so can you without having to scan any books. If you won't even bother with that, then I'm going to assume there's nothing to research.

I don't want to damage my property =/= I'm lazy

I don't want to take half an hour to show you what you could figure out in five minutes =/= I'm lazy

Shut up, brony bitch.

The laziness is in the fact that said person made an assertion and refused to provide any evidence to back it up. If one is going to make an argument, then one should be prepared to defend it. Saying, "I'm not going to defend my position because YOU can research the points that support it" is lazy, and antithetical to the spirit of debate.

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diet_poison - 2012-11-15 15:28 (UTC) - Expand

Do you have to like knee your book in its spine to take a shitty cell-phone picture of the paragraph you're referring to?

Either way, it's irrelevant. Tolkien's pretty damn dead and the original comenter never had to deal with him, unlike how they have to deal with the homestuck creator/fandom right now.

unlike how they have to deal with the homestuck creator/fandom right now.

No one HAS to deal with Homestuck.

Seriously, if you don't like it, then don't read it and when you see references to it (like in F!S) then scroll the fuck by.

Shut up, brony bitch.

The burden of proof is on the person who made the argument. It's not reasonable to say, "I am right, but I won't demonstrate why."

You mean Tolkien was an early twentieth century British male academic?

Oh my god

Oh my god

Next you'll reveal that sometimes the artist behind Tintin drew nonwhite characters in a SOMEWHAT SCANDALOUS MANNER

If there's one thing I've learned from my study of history it's that we must never read anything with oldtimey racism in it because this is how you defeat racism, never encountering it ever.

Also I find it hard to believe that the guy who wrote Eowen is very sexist in the context of EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY BRITISH ACADEMICS

Hey idiot, I think they are pointing out that calling Hussie racist while being all "LORD OF THE RINGS IS PERFECT" is kind stupid.

Hey moron, I think the conversation's progressed past that.

No, I brought up Tolkien being racist and sexist because people like over looking that and the main reason we're all talking about Hussie right now is the 'omg racism' angel. I wanted to point out that LoTRs isn't perfect and that people are not committing some kind of unholy blasphemy by comparing things you don't like to it. Seriously. It's a good story, but its just a book. And really I wouldn't compare Homestuck to Tolkien anyways, for a great deal of reasons. I just dislike it when people act like you cannot compare anything to it. I'm sorry I upset you so greatly.

You really didn't.

I'm saying you can't compare the two because they're entirely different genres with entirely different subject matters. It's like comparing some random Russian symphony to some random Red Hot Chilli Peppers song. Both are good, neither are holy, but any comparison is going to be pretty nonsensical.

In all seriousness, I was simply going for the comparison of one long thing to another. Hussie always said he meant to make it all sequential. So only reading the first week of the comic (which unlike most webcomics is about 50 pages or so) or less and saying you gave it a try is about the same as abandoning a long tome in the first chapter or two because you are bored with the world building.

But if you're bored, then you're bored. If the first chapter bores me, then no, I'm probably not going to continue because I'm not seeing any reason to.

"You didn't try hard enough to like it" is not the way you get people to give something a second shot. It's obnoxious and pushy.

Eh, you'd be surprised how many people who are convinced to try a second reading end up hopelessly hooked rabid fans who admit they should have read further.

the cutoff point is [s] wv: ascend, most agree. You read to that page, and if you aren't in, you are never going to be.

But granted, I haven't been trying very hard.

So?

You're missing the point, though. The way you're going about trying to convince people to give it another shot is what's obnoxious. When I hear "you didn't watch enough episodes/read enough chapters/you did it wrong", I'm more likely to say "fuck off, asshole" than pick up whatever you wanted me to.

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diet_poison - 2012-11-15 15:32 (UTC) - Expand

Ehh, I was bored at first but I continued because my friend told me there was stuff I enjoyed later on.

I don't normally try to get people to like things but if you want to be sold on it, I guess, you can name a thing that you enjoy and I'll tell you if Homestuck has it?