[ SECRET POST #2230 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2230 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Early because blizzard, not quite sure if power will last.

Secrets Left to Post: 05 pages, 103 secrets from Secret Submission Post #319.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 2 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom]

08. http://oi48.tinypic.com/196vy1.jpg

[elephantinegrace]

Statistically speaking, people tend to band together and feel closer when they feel they have a "common enemy" (like the writers), so to speak. It's because centuries of survival of the fittest meant that those who noticed bad things first would live longest, so our brains are wired to reward us for spotting negativity.

Also, I thought the twenty gifs of random people crying and throwing things captioned by "MAH CREYS!!1!" or "CAN'T CONTAIN ALL THESE FEELZ!1!!" were exactly what made Tumblr so hilarious.

[lunabee34]

So these are not gifs of the sad moments from canon but gifs of the *fans* being sad over teh shows? Is that right?

[royalbk]

Also, I thought the twenty gifs of random people crying and throwing things captioned by "MAH CREYS!!1!" or "CAN'T CONTAIN ALL THESE FEELZ!1!!" were exactly what made Tumblr so hilarious.

My thoughts exactly. Frankly it's those types of posts that amuse me the most because they're kind of rare on LJ or Dreamwidth. On tumblr everything goes. xD

[(Anonymous)]

I think you should unfollow those people. Otherwise, tumblr savior.

I didn't really know this was still a thing though... I guess I blocked just the right fandoms?

[(Anonymous)]

#but can we just take a moment to appreciate how DEEP the bond between them is from this 5-second long gif from an overrated tv show #see the pain into this pretty white male actor's eyes #as he's gazing at this other pretty white male actor #he know #he know that it hurts to be separated from him for the next scene #just leave me here to die

or

#WOW YOU GUYS ARE SO HETEROSEXUAL #gays #homos #now kiss

[(Anonymous)]

If there's one thing I want to GO AWAY FOREVER it's this "look at those heterosexuals doing heterosexual things totally heterosexually, nothing gay here, tee hee" stuff. I can't even put into words how much it bothers me.

This will probably sound wanky, but I think straight fangirls sinking their teeth into the queerbait is almost as bad as queerbaiting itself. Just stop.

[dreemyweird]

<3 You do it really well

[(Anonymous)]

Helloooo everything written about Stiles/Derek, EVER.

[(Anonymous)]

I think it's something that happens with both sides:

One side gets annoyed that *fandom* doesn't let friends just be friends without most of the discussion being about shipping them. If you love their friendship, it's annoying that other people insist on interpreting it as romance. It's also true that there's not a lot of media that focuses on close friendships in general.

The other side gets annoyed that the fiction itself doesn't ever have gay romances, when pretty much every female/male relationship always ends in romance or has a touch of romantic feelings in it.

Part of the problem is there's just little of either. There's not a lot of media that focuses on female friendships, and most media about guys is very careful to make it seem TOTALLY PLATONIC.

Both sides feel like they're not getting enough of what they want, and they often feel at odds with eachother.

[morieris]

The sadness is more annoying than the meta. I mean, the overly sad posts are really just people repeating themselves, posting gifs, and elongating my dashboard.


(I wonder if someone is going to have a problem with this comment)

[tamabonotchi]

Sometimes it's hilarious, like the little joke where someone reblogged an innocuous text post and made it supernatural related and sad, and another person added a gif of a person running out a window.

Although yeah, most of the time people just keep reliving sad moments in series and crying.

[(Anonymous)]

It's a performance. The more devastated you are by a piece of media, the more "feels" you have, the better of a fan you are, apparently.

A while ago there was a post making the rounds of a noise citation that someone received for opening her window and screaming her damn head off, over Doctor Who, IIRC. I don't think that the reblogs took a tone of censure. Because that's a normal and completely appropriate thing to do… Scream loudly enough at a TV show in the middle of the night that someone calls the cops. Right.

Tumblr is really strange about this. It's like you can't be fannish without having some kind of baptism in your own tears. The performance of overly dramatic emotional attachment confers some kind of legitimacy. Like some kind of Jesus camp where everyone gets the spirit and just falls over crying.

[intrigueing]

It can be irritating or hilarious sometimes, but you really haven't encountered this phenomenon before tumblr? Humanity LOVES wallowing and going way OTT in exquisitely tragic concise moments of grief and misery in fiction, because it's cathartic and emotionally intense without being as ugly and painful as it is in real life. IMO tumblr just throws it into sharper relief than other venues.

[(Anonymous)]

And I thought that was part of the humor.

[(Anonymous)]

I just joined Tumblr so I don't have a huge circle I follow, but there has been a sudden rash of sad gifs. Which whatever, but I think people should be morally obligated to post X amount of happy gifs to equal out the sad.

[darkmanifest]

I really hate the posts that are nothing but a long string of reaction gifs. One or two can be funny, but tons of them at once just reeks of trying too hard.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't mind if there's just one or two random sobbing gifs, but when there's a line of 10 or more it just gets annoying. Okay guys, we get it, it's sad, you're clogging up my dash and making everything load slower...

[(Anonymous)]

The only thing worse than "sobbing" gifs are "this!" gifs. Usually, because they are always used for those annoying "if you don't reblog this, you are a bad person!!!1" posts.

But at least this gives you something to use for tumblr savior. I've blocked all those "reblog if you agree", "if you don't reblog then" etc. phrases.

[ninety6tears]

If you're referring to the WHY WOULD YOU REMIND US OF THAT?-type sadposts, I'm pretty sure there's some seeerious hyperbole going on there like there is in 90% of Tumblr memes. "I'm still not over that" is like Tumblr code for "I'm still sad about that but I can actually live with it and what I'm really doing is celebrating that [fandom] has made me feel a lot of things."

totally stole this analogy, sorry

[(Anonymous)]

Because we all like to masturbate our tear ducts from time to time. It makes you feel so much more relaxed after you've used up an entire tissue box.

[(Anonymous)]

I feel you. About half the posts in my main fandom's tag are along those lines (when they're not "how DARE [publisher] put out a game for a current-gen system" or speculation on the antagonist's identity, anyway).

[ex_paola492]

A part of Tumblr is like that chick from Mean Girls, that wants to bake a cake made of smiles and rainbows so everyone can all eat it and be happy, because they have a lot of feelings.

The rest is porn porn slash porn cute animals porn.

[tenlittlebullets]

So is this a good opportunity to reiterate what my favorite form of schadenfreude is? Poking through random Doctor Who-related Tumblr tags, looking for overblown reaction posts from people who are watching New Who for the first time and got to some sad moment in s2 or s3, and just waiting for one of them to use this gif to express the depth of their feeeeeeelings about Ten:



Bonus: trying to imagine what gif would express their feelings when they watch on a little further and realize what that gif is from.

[(Anonymous)]

You think the fandom part is full of sad - trying reading the "tired" tag at 3 AM some morning and play "spot the suicidal ideation". There's almost always a hit in the first three pages.

(no, that's not why I'm reading that tag. I was reading the tag to find adorable pictures of yawning kittens. Actually, it's why I stopped tracking it - I can't save every tumblr kid from themself - can't save anyone from themself, really - but I always want to try. :(