[ SECRET POST #2325 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2325 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 037 secrets from Secret Submission Post #332.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom]

09. http://i.imgur.com/71l2BX5.jpg

[galerian-ash.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know what you mean. I try to comfort myself with the fact that people wouldn't know what Grendizer/Gaksital/whatever is, anyway, even if I were to bring it up.

Cute photo, BTW!

[(Anonymous)]

Yep. I feel you.

.... don't really have anything else to say. Just that.

[kaijinscendre]

Just say anime maybe? That is pretty accepted now. Then if the other person ALSO likes anime, you can talk about what specifically interests you.

[pockysquirrel]

80s mecha anime and Tokusatsu? You are my kind of anon.

[intrigueing]

CUTE PUPPEEEEEEE. CUTE KITTEEEEEEEEE.

Oh, wait, there's a secret! Uhhh...I don't know. I think if you know someone doesn't know anything and/or isn't interested, I totally understand feeling self-conscious about flat-out mentioning it. But you might want to drop some in-jokes and references to see if anyone you know picks up on them -- stuff that would go unnoticed by people who know nothing about your interests, but which people who do would immediately realize what you're referencing. You never know, you might have a case of twice-shy, and one of your friends might be another secret nerd!

[cloud_riven]

Ahhaaha are you me?

There's this dude at work who knows I like video games, and because he knows this he's constantly testing me whether I know about things like the PC Engine so that he can show me his power level. One that doesn't just extend to games, but also tech and animes and other nonsense. I'm constantly checking myself to make sure I don't show mine first, because I have a very good feeling mine is bigger and made of spaghetti.

One little slip up, and I'm gonna blow my casual fan cover, revealing my sekret identity as a gross nurd.

[tamabonotchi]

I actually had converted my friends into a lot of different things I had liked and we've been awesome fandom friends for a bunch of shows!
You should see if your friends could watch a little something with you and test the waters if they're into that.

[writerserenyty]

I know that feeling; I have nerdy friends, but I'm the only person I know offline who listens to a lot of Japanese music, for example.

So when I'm chatting with people I met and the conversation turns to "oh what kind of music do you like?" it's almost always "indie rock ... and JPop."

wall of text, sorry

[childings.livejournal.com]

Wow, what 80s mecha anime do you watch?

I sort of hide my power level too, but I don't mind talking about things I really love in public with people who know what I'm talking about. It's when they don't know what you're talking about that things get awkward, because it's impossible to have a conversation. It's not because the "nerdy" things you like are bad, just obscure to most people. I don't really have any good advice for finding friends IRL who share you interests aside from maybe using the internet to your advantage and going to cons and trying to hook up with the normal people you find there (who are kind of hard to find but they're there -- 18+ cons are good for this in my experience). Or maybe slowly and adeptly exposing some of your non-fandom friends to fandom. If you have a really good friend and they are confused because they know nothing about the shows you watch, maybe offer to watch something with them? I mean, don't force them, but maybe one day if you have nothing else to do ask if they want to. You'd be surprised. I've been able to watch Kamen Rider Black and Heavy Metal L-GAIM with just about everyone I know here and most of them aren't anime or toku fans whatsoever, and they enjoyed these shows. It helps to go into it with a sense of humor so you don't get all offended if people enjoy stuff on a different level than you do (nobody ever knows WTF is going on L-GAIM but still manage to enjoy it anyway?)

Finally, for whatever reason, most 80s mecha anime fans I find online would probably be branded as "hipsters" irl

[(Anonymous)]

Eh, I just say, "I like weird shit. It's kinda my thing." If they don't ask, great. If they ask, I tell them I'm into European rock music, Asian pop music, boybands, revenge/martial arts movies and dead white guys (writers). I then watch most people back up slowly, but I've learned to enjoy that.

[fleshisyummy]

I know the feeling, OP. :/ I have some great RL friends and they respect my hobbies, but anime really isn't their thing.

[(Anonymous)]

Funny, OP. I just recently found out that one of my friend IRL is a passionate fanfic-writer. And what did she talk about the first time we found out our mutual passion? Fucking seme-uke position of a pairing in a fandom I (secretly yet passionately) hate. In public, no less. I'm just hoping no one there was weaboo enough to know what seme-uke, slash, or R-18 means.

...That was the last time I'm going to let anyone know my power level, ever.