[ SECRET POST #2196 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2196 ⌋

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

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

12 hours. Of their entire life.

I feel bad for you if your time is so important you can't spare that just to get some jokes your friends make. :/

[(Anonymous)]

Why shouldn't their friends just not make references they know OP won't understand?

[(Anonymous)]

Why should they? Especially in a group setting where many poeple are familiar with the referenced topic, no one should make the reference because of the few who don't know it?

If that's the case, no one should make references to anything ever because other people won't know the thing being referenced. Riiiiiiiiight.

[(Anonymous)]

because it's as easy as

friend 1: "meme"

friend 2: "what does that mean"

friend 1: "explains"

friend 2: "ah, thank you. now I know."

bam problem solved

[sc0urge]

This past Christmas I took a totally non-Homestuck friend visiting Vancouver from Portland to a Homestuck dance I'd helped organise. I warned her in advance and asked her if she really wanted to go, but it was an Event, with Music and Booty Shaking, and that was something she really wanted to attend.

There were two categories of references she didn't get.

A) Group-specific in-jokes.
"Why are you peeing on everything?!"
"Do all of you say 'I'm so done with this/you/whatever'?!"

B) Homestuck references.
"...What's a kismesis?"
"...Do we really need this much Nicki Minaj at this- wait, seriously? How Do I Live? Seriously?!"

Each of which required about as much explanation.
"Uh, I think L got that off Tumblr and just wouldn't stop saying it and I picked it up?"
"So this one time C had this picture of a really unhappy owl in the front of her engineering textbook and it looked like it was really done with life."
"It's like a hatesex thing, but a whole relationship."
"I apologise for my fandom's taste in pop music."

It's not like she needed to read 198345039847 pages of comic to be able to socialise even with fifty-odd Homestuck fans she'd never met before. If you can't hang out with ten people you've known for years because you don't immediately get all of their fandom references, maybe they're just douchebags.

[(Anonymous)]

I feel bad for you if your friendships are so shallow that you expect every friend to spend 12 hours educating themselves on jokes that you might make.

[(Anonymous)]

HELL, I wouldn't do that. There are are much, much more important things I could do in twelve hours, and I say that as someone who LOVES Firefly.

[(Anonymous)]

My friends aren't going to ditch me just because I don't get some of their jokes...Just like I'm not going to ditch them if they don't get some of mine.

They may, however, raise their eyebrows if I forced myself through 12 hours of a show I don't like just to get a couple of stupid jokes...that I probably still won't entirely get because I didn't enjoy what I was watching. Instead, I'll save us all some pain and watch things I like. It's entertainment, not a homework assignment on what jokes exist.