[ SECRET POST #243 ]

[shahni.livejournal.com]

⌈ Secret Post #243 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 074 secrets from Secret Submission Post #035.
Secrets Not Posted: 0 broken links, 0 not!secrets, 0 not!fandom
Next Secret Post: Tomorrow, Thursday, September 6th, 2007.
Current Secret Submission Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Re: [ NAME THE FANDOMS! ]

[burningvigor.livejournal.com]

3. Darker Than Black
21. Metal Gear Solid

[sarajayechan.livejournal.com]

5. Archie wouldn't look the same in live-action. And I think you meant Reggie. XD I kinda ship Jughead/Betty, though. A little. >.>

16. Despite agreeing that it's sad when people put SO MUCH STOCK in being the best writer of trendy buttsex pairings and keeping their fandom pure and clean of what they personally hate, it's still a "I lose respect" secret and therefore I must make good on my promise from 2 days ago:



17. Fuck that. Fandom says you're not supposed to do a lot of things, but people do them anyway. Only mindless drones do everything they're told. =P

[elendraug.livejournal.com]

11. SERIOUSLY. Totally agreed.
21. I hate being "stuck" like that in fandom. When you reach the point where you're so desperate for fic, anything at all, that you'll take whatever you can get and just try to make the best of it. :\ Having to lower your standards sucks.

[elendraug.livejournal.com]

TOTALLY OT BUT I LIEKZ UR USERNAME

[katsu]

9) I get kind of whiny about this myself, sometimes. Especially at conventions, it feels like fanartists get all the love. There's an art show at pretty much every con, but rarely anything like a fanfic contest. We don't really get a good option to try to sell fanfiction or take commissions or anything. >.> I guess I just feel like writing gets less love as an art in fandom. (I think the story when it's professional and original is quite a bit different, though.)

28) Maybe it's because fandom's more relaxed than real life, so people feel more comfortable being a little daring and coming out.
...and keep in mind, until you've met someone in person, you have no idea if they're anything like they say they are, even in gender. ^^; So there might be far fewer - or far more - lesbians than you think.

[sailormoon.livejournal.com]

16- If more people were like that the interweb would be a much better place.

28- If your the only straight person you know in fandom you must not know a lot of people O_o Get friends outside of fandom maybe? ::shrugs::

[cu-da-rukia.livejournal.com]

02. Seigaku has become irritating :X I totally understand, tho, I wish Rokkaku would get more attention too D:
10. it made me think diffrently : )) Gintama is a great anime~

[elendraug.livejournal.com]

and that was 100% sarcasm-free, for the record. Seriously. I love that game so much. ♥ You win. :3

[loquaciousquark.livejournal.com]

27/10 OTP?

[ovendoor.livejournal.com]

27. I think it's fucking brilliant.

[ovendoor.livejournal.com]

The one i remember is right after season 1 when they're fighting over the food :D

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[atrypical.livejournal.com]

WORD WORD OMG WORD. I identify as female to male but I LOVE how Haruhi doesn't stick to one gender or another. I've seen that with males more often in anime/manga/video games, but there aren't enough girls. I can think of... Haruhi and Utena. And that's it, at least within the anime/manga/video games I've known. ...Maybe Juliet in Romeo x Juliet?

[(Anonymous)]

5. Reggie once pushed a kid in a wheelchair down a hill. That's pretty evil to me. XD I agree with the other points though.

[pimmy.livejournal.com]

15. I was JUST thinking about this the other day. All my friends that write fanfiction go on and on and on about their dirty fics... which is fine.. but i don't really like it and i don't wanna read them. It feels kinda outcasty, it seems like EVRYONE does it.

23. man, i can barely relate to Haruhi at ALL. She doesn't get excited about things I would get excited about, she's very flat, doesn't laugh often...

yet I still love her~

[fishy-pooser.livejournal.com]

11. Some people just say sorry a lot to avoid confrontation. Chances are it's not supposed to be whatever gimmick you seem to think it is.

14. There are some fandoms that are like that for me, too. It's not that it feels wrong, but just that it feels like...unnatural. Like with Eureka 7 or something, most of the main characters are already paired off heterosexually and I already like those pairings so I don't really bother looking for subtext, etc. I don't necessarily think it makes you a homophone, that you don't want to slash one series.

16. I seriously doubt anyone would want your pity. If someone is fulfilled by internet life, I think they can have as much of it as they want. I'd rather be outside than on the computer all the time, but it's a personal choice, imo.

22. OMFG I WANNA SEE THE LITTLE MERMAID SO BAD. I think there are plenty of people who agree with you, don't worry about being all "hardcore" or whatever.

28. IDK, but I think I've seen that trend too. Maybe it's because a different type of person is attracted to LJ/fandom in general. As far as I've seen, the more adult members (like who participate in hogwarts_elite, for a random example) don't often list their sexuality in their profiles. I don't think it's a defining characteristic, so it just seems weird to me that it would even go in a profile/general info/friends only entry? But that's just me.

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[(Anonymous)]

16. You come off as incredibly self-righteous and self-absorbed. I mean, it's great to enjoy the outdoors and do volunteer work to help other people, but it's another thing entirely to go around bragging about it, as it reflects that your true motives for doing such things are not to better other people's lives, but to instead make you feel better about yourself and make you able to lord your "good nature" over others, like you're doing in this secret.

Some people are happy doing fandom stuff instead of meeting your standards of normalcy. Is that really so terrible? And if you feel the need to brag about your healthy lifestyle to other people, perhaps the person whose sense of fulfillment you need to reflect on is yourself.

...Unless you're a troll. :X

[(Anonymous)]

16. Oh, jeez. People will do whatever the hell they want with their time, and they're allowed to.

My dad wastes hundreds of dollars and countless hours building model airplanes. IMO it's a ridiculous hobby that he should not be involved in, but he loves doing it, so I let him be. Whenever he finishes building one, you're damn right he's proud of it, and he gets excited about starting a new one.

Should I tell him he's wasting his life simply because I don't see the value in what he's doing?

[(Anonymous)]

there have been multiple JoJo secrets. I know I've posted at least two (though one of them isn't up yet) and when I was going through backlogs, I saw another one from a million years ago. XD

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you! 8D ♥

[ew-younerd.livejournal.com]

Eh, the characters go through ups and downs. Archie has deliberately two timed Betty and Veronica and has ditched both of them for each other before. Reggie also saved a drunken Betty from a bunch of disgusting frat boys before she degraded herself before them once :D They all have their angels and devils existing inside of them.

[case]

23. Haruhi kind of bores me. It's not that she's a girl, it's that uhhhhh she's Haruhi. She's in the host club, she wants to be a lawyer, she's hard-working......... that's about it. Uh, great. Good for her? Nothing in that interests me as a friend/significant other/whatever the hell. She's just another uhhh, nice ordinary studious type that I wouldn't glance at twice?

Like you said, she's the straight-man. She's supposed to be the logical, dull one that beats everybody over the head with common sense. And she does. So what's wrong with thinking she's dull?

[threepwillow.livejournal.com]

hey 8 IS THIS WHO I THINK IT IS

If not - god, I ROFL every time I see that image and I think we need to be friends. XD

21: I used to have this problem in one of my smaller fandoms - it was fanfic about a certain pairing and not just a certain character, but I HATED that other chick and it drove me crazy. FINALLY I found someone else that liked the pairing too, and she is really cool. :D Don't give up!!

Two GinTama secrets in a day is impressive. :/

[sincere]

I'm curious too. I suspect the secret-maker has a lot of RP-promoting friends, but I've been sitting here in my tiny corner of the Bleach fandom actually bemoaning the lack of good games up until like, three days ago. XD

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[starlightstorm.livejournal.com]

SEE ICON. \o/

That is all.

[vespawoman.livejournal.com]

27: I ditto the Excel Saga. It's damn funny~. Can't say so about Gintama. Zetsubou is quite amusing, too~. I wonder who's the one with odd sense of humor here? :P