[ SECRET POST #2212 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2212 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 063 secrets from Secret Submission Post #316.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom]

Official advertise your fandom-related comms/events thread.

RULES FOR THIS:
1. NO images bigger than 600x600 in either direction (banners, et cetera).
2. ONE POST PER USER under this thread.
3. What IS allowed: roleplay advertisements, fandom comms, fandom events, things like that.
4. What is NOT allowed: anything for profit, any kind of fic/art commissions, seeking 1-on-1 RP, that kind of thing.

[fscom]

Official clickables thread.

RULES FOR THIS:
1. NO huge images or columns of images that require scrolling, please.
2. ONE POST PER USER under in this thread.
3. If you're going to post, try to at least help the others.

[imbrifer]

[ex_paola492]

[kaitekat]

[blue_rampion]

[ewanfan1]

[meria]

[othellia]

[heartsday]

[honguito_nii]

[fscom]

General comments:

How's the weather?

[tamabonotchi]

Ohio froze over today at a high of 16 degrees F and all I wore was a jacket.

[morieris]

Do you ever think that Anon Fraud goes on here?

Like one person replies to someone as Anon, someone replies in turn, and they think they're conversing with the original anon, but they're not?

I know there's DA and SA, but what if an anon lied?

A/B/O

[(Anonymous)]

I told myself I'd never write it, but I forgot to nix it when requesting a longfic bingo card, and so there it is. Since I figure writing the prompts I don't like first will make the whole thing easier, that's what I'm doing.

I don't suppose anyone has any resources on how to do the trope well? And if not that, examples of what has already been done? I'm looking at my options here. :/

Unintentionally Disturbing Shows

[(Anonymous)]

This afternoon I saw "A History of Violence" was playing on cable. I remember going to see it in the theater with my mother when it came out (both of us having enjoyed Viggo Mortenson in LOTR and Hidalgo, and mistakenly thinking from the trailers it was a kick-ass action flick) and both of us commenting about five minutes into the movie that, with his built and jawline and hair cut/colored the way it was, Viggo's character really resembled my father. Like, a LOT.

Aaaand then the weird shit started. Graphic sex. Murder. Emotional abuse. We both walked out feeling really creepy and dirty and I couldn't look at my dad the same way for a while. I mean, I probably would've felt icky coming out of such a dismal commentary on human nature anyway, but having "my dad" do all that shit just made it so, so much worse.

Have you ever seen a movie that made you feel awkward and gross for completely unintended reasons?

Girls love to kick guys in the balls? (or, Online Dating Wierdness)

[(Anonymous)]

I have an account on an online dating site, and some dude with no pic messaged me asking if he could ask me a "really weird question." I said yes, and he asked me if I had ever kicked a guy in the testicles. Apparently - according to him - girls really like to go around kicking men in the balls and think it's the funniest thing ever and he wanted to know why.

I'm thinking it's someone with a fetish, but still. Odd.

(FWIW, I have never kicked a guy in the balls, but I did hit one with a pole once. It was sort of an accident - I meant to hit him, but wasn't deliberately going for his crotch)

Fashion question...

[mekkio]

If you could bring back any fashion look from the past, what would you bring back?

I want to bring back tricorn hats like from Colonial American times. (I used to go to Colonial Williamsburg when I lived in Virginia all the time and I so wanted to rock the tricorn hat everywhere.)

Spooks

[(Anonymous)]

I want Spooks porn so badly (yes, I've just discovered Richard Armitage, shut up). Specifically, Lucas/Beth angry sex. Lucas/Ros would be great, too.

Too fucking late, huh.

Fandom Fraud (not about anons!)

[sockpants]

The anon-fraud thread got me thinking- have any of you ever run into fraud in fandom? I'm talking about the kind of illegal shit like charity fraud, job scams, identity theft, and stuff that's not technically illegal, just immoral, like taking advantage of people's goodwill and promising to deliver on things they never do?

The major one I can think of is this Arkh Project thing. I knew almost nothing about it until I did some looking into it, because an acquaintance of mine had talked about it, and if that's legit I'll eat my computer. $5000+ gone to concept art? Yeah. That screams scam if I've ever heard it.

There was another very recent incident that is only on my radar because an online friend of mine was very pissed after this, but a creator of this thing called Firework Comic was constantly begging for money, even got Neil Gaiman to promote her requests. Anyway, turns out this girl was loaded. She basically took the money of well-intentioned people and buggered off. Which I find kind of disgusting.

<3

[cuteanimalpics]

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(Relatively) obscure kink meme recs?

[inkmage]

I feel like we should have one of these.

Do you guys frequent any kink memes? Any obscure ones that you'd like to see get more love? Any ones where you just love the atmosphere or the writing? List them here for others to find!

Nostalgia Critic news

[fenm]

Holy shit.

Re: Nostalgia Critic news

[(Anonymous)]

I saw that earlier, but it is a half hour that I don't want to watch.

Sum up, please?

IMPROMPTU STREAM!

[insanenoodlyguy]

anybody wanna watch dexter's rude removal, if you didn't see already?

http://www.synchtube.com/r/kagato23

Three people come in we'll get started!

Re: IMPROMPTU STREAM!

[insanenoodlyguy]

YOU MISSED IT

wall of text response

[(Anonymous)]

Some of the harm of these episodes comes from the idea that "forgiveness" means bringing someone back into your life. People sometimes forgive those who murder someone they love, not because the act was forgivable but because they want to release the pain that festers inside. But they still want the person to do the work of paying for the crime. Forgiveness is not the same as embracing someone into your home and heart. Often it just means treating someone as human and nothing more. The family forgiveness episodes treat the issue of terrible parenting (from minor to major) as an issue of returning parental rights to the offending parent and I think therein lies the problem.

I'm incredibly biased. As a kid those sorts of episodes were a beacon of hope and a way to deny the reality of being an isolated only child with abusive parents. It took me years of rejecting my parents before I could make peace with the fact that it was possible to separate who they were as parents (sometimes deeply loving, other times violent) from the fact that they had their own baggage. They were people who never should have met or married and certainly never should have had a child. My mother developed early Alzheimer's so trying to reconcile was never a possibility there, she was already very hard to talk to about serious matters and once it really started taking its toll there was no point in bringing up the past.

My father on the other hand. Well, I tried to reconcile and it worked well enough for a year. He seemed to genuinely have matured. But then his girlfriend kicked him out and he became verbally abusive (we live a continent apart). He began to throw in my face things I had foolishly confided to him. Systematically he tried to tear me down but the cherry on top was when he said that there was something fundamentally wrong with me. It was a great wakeup call. The next day he denied having said anything and asked why I was so upset. After that I stopped talking to him. Six months later he had a stroke and wanted to reconcile. My final communication was to let him know that he had my sympathy but that our relationship is like volatile chemicals, best kept apart.

I still ache to reconcile with both parents despite being aware that it is only a silly fantasy. Fiction that tries to sell reconciliation bothers me because it never actually warrants more than a single episode. The fact is, it is a lifelong process when it works and when it doesn't it still consumes huge chunks of your life. I don't disbelieve that people can reconcile but only when both sides see each other as human. My father expects me to be the forgiver (in part because I'm a daughter and not a son) but he refuses to modify his view of who I am. But I'm not his only victim. He was thrilled to find out that my mother had Alzheimer's because it freed him from blame for their divorce which she initiated. She'd told me around seven that she wanted to leave him but was scared that he would take me back to his home country and she'd never see me again. He says he fell in love with her because she "couldn't take care of herself".

To be honest, it has been much more interesting to know who my parents are and why they coped with parenting so badly than it would be to forgive them and renew the cycle of abuse. The fairy tale, trope version is so poorly done but it only tends to reveal the unwillingness of a creative team to delve down the rabbit hole of what it really means to have relationships at all.

Re: wall of text response

[(Anonymous)]

mispost, but good comment