[ SECRET POST #2341 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2341 ⌋

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

01.
[David Mitchell]


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02.
[Carry On]


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03.
[Jay and Silent Bob]


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04.
[Simcity Societies]


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06.
[Game of Thrones]


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07.
[Game of Thrones]


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08.
[Noel Fielding]


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09.
[Once Upon a Time]


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10.
[Doraemon]


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11.
[Uninhabited Planet SURVIVE]


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12. [SPOILERS for Star Trek: Into Darkness]



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13. [SPOILERS for Arrow]



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14. [SPOILERS for Naruto]



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15. [WARNING for pedohpilia]

[Neon Genesis Evangelion]


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16. [WARNING for ]



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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 000 secrets from Secret Submission Post #334.
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]

05. http://i.imgur.com/HExF8C2.gif

[(Anonymous)]

I don't understand the distinction you're drawing between those sentiments, and why you agree with one but think the other is wrong. Explain, please.

[(Anonymous)]

not op

while both are snobbish/hipsterish, the first encourages others to read the books, or just books in general; the second just flaunts their old-fan-ness

[bored_bitch]

I don't understand this thing people have with telling people that they "should" read more.

It's good to be literate.
It's good to know what's going on.

But reading isn't the only way to accomplish these things.

I don't go around telling others to "PLEASE PLAY MORE VIDEO GAMES." just because I like them.
I really wish people would pull their heads out of their asses about the pedestal they've placed literature upon.

[(Anonymous)]

you don't??

i am very disappointed in you how are we going to convert people to our most sacrosanct of activities and media consumption

[(Anonymous)]

Thinking about your comment made me realize that I pretty much spend all day reading. I sit in front of a screen and read and read and read. It's just that most of what I read these days isn't books.

But all these internet denizens are just so illiterate because they don't read many novels. Right.

[(Anonymous)]

Studies show that kids who read more are statistically more likely to succeed in school. My vocabulary wouldn't be as diverse if I wasn't such a voracious reader. Video games are a different beast, but lbr, literature deserves to be placed on a pedestal.

[(Anonymous)]

i think that's probably what the op means: it's great to encourage people to read the books, but it's kind of a shitty thing to throw it in their faces, especially in fandom where there's a kind of elitism between "book fans" vs. "tv fans" which i think is what the op meant to distinguish

but i'm not sure that the second part of their animation was actually doing that, and i don't really know the full context enough to judge on my own

[(Anonymous)]

Because reading novels* is a really good way to gain a more diverse vocabulary, explore different view points, time periods, and general concepts while exercising you're imagination to a greater extent than visual media? Plus the publishing industry is dying because people aren't reading? An added bonus is that you can learn something about writing from reading novels as well.

The way the video is saying 'READ NOW' is wrong. It shouldn't be shoved in people's faces but...at the same time? People shouldn't be condemned for suggesting that "Hey, you might want to check out the books - they're awesome!"

Also, bring literacy isn't necessarily the best of arguments since, at least in my country [which is 1st world], there is a pretty large part of the younger population that is functioning at barely literate.

*I don't specifically mean classic lit here

[(Anonymous)]

Yes. Because people tell others that they should read more often just because they like books a lot and not anything the part where we're a literate society who use written words for a majority of our information transmission, and reading is proven to facilitate easier understanding from vocabulary to empathy.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't go around telling others to "PLEASE PLAY MORE VIDEO GAMES." just because I like them.

You must not like them that much if you're not excited to share them.

[(Anonymous)]

Because there's a lot of good stuff out there that nobody's made a tv special about.

[(Anonymous)]

I think reading more novels doesn't do the trick, but reading more -period- is never wrong. My brother doesn't even bother to read the dialogue in his video games because "eww yuck reading's hard work".
He's 22 and his spelling is a catastrophe.
He wasn't even able to write job applications without making a few glaring mistakes even though he used spell-check.

No, he doesn't have a condition. He just never ever liked to read stuff.

[insanenoodlyguy]

This is wonderful.

[greenvelvetcake]

I halfheartedly agree with this message

But this was a shitty way to say it

[galerian-ash.livejournal.com]

Slow-moving GIF secrets like this one makes me think of Sweet Brown, and her very apt quote of: "Ain't nobody got time for that."

[feathercircle]

'Too long; didn't watch'?

[(Anonymous)]

Working at a library and watching the books languish while the movies get checked out by the truckload (and people being annoyed that putting one title on hold got them the book and not the movie), I do kinda feel him here.

I mean, as a joke, mostly, but it was still a cathartic thing to watch.

[shukivengeance]

I love this song, it's hilarious.

[(Anonymous)]

I completely agree with him.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm completely ignoring the content of this secret because I'm so astonished to see someone else talking about Axis of Awesome!

I had no idea anyone else (especially in fandom) had ever heard of them.

[(Anonymous)]

There's even been a few Axis of Awesome secrets in the past few months! It's amazing!

[(Anonymous)]

But there are tons of reasons one would not want to read the books on which a series is based.
I read a lot. I watched the first two seasons of the GoT series. I have no intention of reading the books. None at all. They bore me to tears.
I get the "it's been available for a long time, nobody considers it spoilers anymore" sentiment. Especially in cases like The Hobbit, where the source material is only a pretty short children's book and it's been a classic for a long time. ASoIaF takes much more time to read and, compared with LotR an The Hobbit, hasn't been around for nearly that long - especially in the case of the latest book in the series.

I'm not part of this particular fandom but it sucks having to avoid a fandom just because some people can't be arsed to put up a simple spoiler warning.
Don't pretend it's rocket science or too much to ask. It's really not that hard and only antagonistic hipster fuckers do it because they like to annoy people.

[arcadiaego]

Sorry, I'm busy reading other things.

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

I can't help wonder how many people read the books after they see the show/movie. I know I finally went back and read the half of LotR I'd never got through after I saw the latter two movies, as well as finally sitting down to read The Hobbit. Maybe if I watched GoT I'd start reading the books, but I'm just not interested in watching it, or reading it.

And I don't need some guy yelling "READ THE DAMN BOOK!" at me,