[ SECRET POST #2180 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2180 ⌋

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


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[Fraiser]


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[Homestuck]


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[Kili/The Hobbit]


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09. [SPOILERS for the Walking Dead]



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10. [SPOILERS for How I Met Your Mother]



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11. [SPOILERS for Rise of the Guardians]



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12. [WARNING for abuse]



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13. [WARNING for rape, noncon]

[American Horror Story Asylum]


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14. [WARNING for rape]

[MLP: FiM]


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15. [WARNING for rape]

[Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen]


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16. [WARNING for suicide]

[Doctor Who]


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18. [WARNING for IRL murder/shootings]



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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 000 secrets from Secret Submission Post #311.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 1 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
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Comments

[fscom]

18. [WARNING for IRL murder/shootings]
http://i48.tinypic.com/2e31t0z.jpg

[(Anonymous)]

idk everyone copes in different ways

[(Anonymous)]

I can understand the wishful thinking that your favourite fictional characters are real and can do something about tragic events we see on the news. Not the same thing, in my opinion, as people using them as a source of cheap angst so their OTP can bang.

[(Anonymous)]

Um.. as long as you're not the person posting fanfic the day after.

[n7of9]

i read this and my first thought was 'yes you are a horrible person'...but i recant that...i think it's just your way of dealing with it, right? and we all have different ways? don't feel bad :)

[tasogare_n_hime]

It's just your way of coping OP. As long as you aren't doing something extremely douchey like say, writing a poem about the theater shooting, posting it on Deviant Art, and then tagging it with every damn fanom you can think of just to get noticed I think you're ok.

[nyxelestia]

No, OP, you are not a horrible person, not at all. The fact that you think you are is a sign of everything that's wrong with fandom, but certainly not you.

Obviously, there are some people attempting to exploit this tragedy, using it just to make their favorite characters bang or to bump up their popularity, I get that. But not all fanfics and artworks about RL tragedy is inherently exploitative. Some people want to write these things because it's comforting, and other people want to read these things because it's comforting. Some people just want proverbial fix-it fic to cope with this, because there isn't one in real life.

The fact that we shame people for finding comfort about real life tragedies in fanfiction is almost as awful as trying to write mindless porn about or abuse the fame surrounding the event itself. Everyone is allowed to be emotionally different and have their own way of doing things and be super-inclusive of the fact people experience things differently, until a tragedy happens and suddenly, nope, there's only one correct way to grieve and if you don't fit into that well then clearly you're a heartless asshole who deserves to be lynched and burned for it. I expect this in real life, how people will verbally smack you down if they think you're not crying enough or you're smiling too much because or the way you dress or whatever, but it's even worse in fandom.

Why, exactly, is it supposed to be disgusting that in a time of crisis, some of us want to read about favorite heroes helping out and making it all better? None of us are stupid enough to think that makes the horror of the situation any less*, and it can genuinely make some people feel at least a little bit better. (And I hate the "write your own and don't post it" argument, too - some people are not writers or artists but would still like to have this little piece of solace or comfort in the midst of this insanity.)

* = those who are already think so with or without fanfiction/fanworks

I'd obviously advise against sharing this in fandom, OP, when so many others will assume if you don't care exactly like they do then you don't care at all, but please remember: you are NOT a bad person for this, OP. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Everyone grieves and copes in their own ways.

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[gunchuks]

[(Anonymous)]

Yes. This.

[(Anonymous)]

I agree. Very well said.

This sounds like a coping mechanism to me, and people cope in different ways. Don't feel bad about it, OP.

[(Anonymous)]

Idk, anon, you're essentially saving real life people at the expense of your favorite fictional characters. It's just a wish-fulfilment fantasy in my opinion, because you want to save the people, and you're probably not the only one who does this. There's probably a lot of people out there who wished they could've be there (or have someone they knew be there) to do something to save those kids. I don't think you're a bad person at all.

[(Anonymous)]

I get this. It's kind of like wondering what you would do if you were there, but knowing you couldn't really do anything. I'm curious why you always kill off your faves though.

[(Anonymous)]

well, as long as you exercise tact with this, and you're not hurting or trying to offend others, who cares how you cope

[(Anonymous)]

Pretty much anything that helps people process this is ok in my book.

[citrinesunset]

I don't see anything horrible about this. It sounds like a way for you to cope with and process hearing about terrible things. And it doesn't sound like you're doing it in a way that exploits or minimalizes the tragedy.

Honestly, everyone deals with stuff differently. People can be very judgmental about the way other people react to things like this, and I think that sort of judgment does a lot more harm than your wish-fulfillment fantasies.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't see anything horrible in this ***as long as you're not treating it like an episode of Supernatural/CSI/[insert show where the good guys rescue other people].***
If you're coping by wanting to save these victims -or, rather, wishing they had been saved - how is that bad?

[(Anonymous)]

OP, even Marvel did this. Google "The Amazing Spider-Man volume 2 #36".
http://comicstore.marvel.com/Amazing-Spider-Man-36/digital-comic/AUG011443

[(Anonymous)]

The day after it happened, I imagined that Deadpool burst into the school, killed the shooter and made it look like the suicide, helped the survivors, and then became the "man in camouflage" that the news claimed the police took in for questioning. Because I like to believe that even someone as psycho as Deadpool would storm in and try to right that wrong because what that awful young man did was just that hideous and appalling. And that's how I dealt with it.

How did one of the local (Midwestern) radio stations deal with it? By marking the one week anniversary with the story of the children going to heaven and meeting Jesus, told a la "The Night Before Christmas." It made me tear up.

We all do/think different (sometimes odd) things to deal with tragedy, and no one can shame you or any of us for it. Sometimes fictionalizing it helps us deal with it because it helps us come to terms with a horrible thing we couldn't prevent. In our heads, we can change the outcome and/or imagine what comes after, and that helps us cope.