[ SECRET POST #249 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #249 ⌋

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

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Notes:

- Getting semagic to post this, throw in a 'name that fandom' comment! ;D

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Secrets Not Posted: 0 broken links, 0 not!secrets, 0 not!fandom
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Comments

[xenoglossy]

1. Why not sell them on eBay? I'm sure people would buy them.

8. That happened to me last night, and it really made my entire day. It was so great to find someone with whom to flail over fandoms I don't even get to talk about most of the time (plus I got the soundtrack to Little Busters! out of it, but that was only a side benefit). So no, it doesn't make you a nerd. At least, not in a bad way.

20. Oh man, I know the feeling. Once, in my senior year of high school, a friend of mine (also 18, so old enough to know better, you'd think) asked me to "beta" her original novel for her. This was a sort of pet project she'd been working on for two or three years. And it was horrible. It was a lame, derivative vampire novel with a main character who was very, very clearly an idealized version of the friend in question. She tended to use the same adjectives over and over, and was allergic to the word "said", so much that she ended up with things like "'Good morning,' Character X sneezed," which made no sense at all. I couldn't bring myself to tell her it was actually good, but I couldn't tell her how awful it was either. In the end, I picked a few things to talk with her about (like the adjectives and the "said" issue, and also the fact that however good a pianist you are, there is no way that you can play well enough to make three-year-olds sit still and listen, as her character did) and decided to let the rest go. It's a really sucky position to be in.

... Sorry, the teal deer seem to have come out to play.