[ SECRET POST #2343 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2343 ⌋

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

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[not a repeat, was too big before]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 055 secrets from Secret Submission Post #335.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[making_excuses]

That only makes the picture bigger, not clearer... So sometimes that helps, but usually it just makes it even more unreadable.

THank you though Anon!

[making_excuses]

But, deaf people can enjoy music... They can feel the beat and stuff, so use a better example Anon...

OP

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah this is pretty much what I meant. It's not really the stupidity of the plots that bugs me more the ''omg he is such a genius for knowing this''

Most other detectives surprise me a least once but these just never do.

[(Anonymous)]

Nope, I'm not bothered at all. In fact, it's one of my narrative kinks.

I always stay out of threads about cheating because the holier-than-thou attitude of most of the commenters in them makes me rage, but I was glad to see this comment. I have no personal experience with cheating either, but I don't think cheaters even irl are the Worst People Ever and should never be forgiven. Often there are complicated reasons for why people cheat.

Re: Cultural differences - privacy

[making_excuses]

I guess it depends, I am not open with my shop people to the degree that they know my name, I am open in the way that I smile say hello and aks where stuff is or when they will get new stuff in. And sometimes we talk about the weather...

Yeah, (I would probably smile at you, but if you are too far away then I would not say Hi, because that would be too intrusive)

I don't care, people are more than welcome to find out how poor I am!

Re: Cultural differences - privacy

[(Anonymous)]

Even that won't get you decent service around here half the time, but yeah, I do tend to do that too (I've had jobs with costumer interaction before and remember how terrible it could be, so I'm always trying to be nice out of some sense of 'let's not make their day worse')

Pretty much my thinking too!

Re: 0/10

[(Anonymous)]

Come on yourself. It wasn't a serious attempt

Re: Cultural differences - privacy

[making_excuses]

Yeah, I think it depends on where you live, right now I live in a tiny city (which makes the people a bit more open and welcoming than in the bigger cities), but when i lived in a much city I behaved the same, but the shop people did not remember me (or care) so that is a factor.

[riddian]

Ehhh, at this point it sounds harmless, since you're not digging for personal info and such, but I'd advise against taking it much further. Also, you'll probably want to consider more criteria than that when making a decision about moving, but that's just me.

[riddian]

It was weirdly cute until "okay misato’s only like 30 and shinji’s like 14 that’s not TOO big of an age gap right" OH GOD ABORT ABORT

[(Anonymous)]

... Have you read the originals? I ask because they're, ah, not the same. Some of the solutions might still be obvious to a modern reader, but the original Holmes was 'the world's greatest detective' for the most part because a) he could think outside society's clear strictures on who could be considered a criminal and who couldn't, b) in a world without even much of an idea of forensics he could use physical evidence at scenes to help him, c) he wasn't part of a police force that was still suffering the stigma of having failed to catch the Ripper and therefore garnering a reputation for inefficiency, and d) he could do the 'Sherlock scan' of looking at someone and telling minute details about them.

He was arrogant, yes, but the whole 'genius detective' thing is mostly in adaptations, for whom an avant-garde forensic ability and a lack of care for society's strictures don't quite mean the same thing. It all weights onto the 'Sherlock scan' part, which is essentially just a faster and more mobile forensics lab, so they need to try and ramp up his 'genius' attributes to compensate. The results can be ... hit and miss.

[(Anonymous)]

Why do people suddenly love this? It's very bad and it's always been (or at least since I have memory of it).

Are we back in the 60?

Re: Fandom Things You're Happy About

[pantswarrior]

I love how the Tiger & Bunny fandom reacted to the first character revamp for the next movie not with "OMG WHY REDESIGN" or "We have to wait so looooong ;_;" but "OJIISAN LOOKS HOT IN SUSPENDERS!" and immediate additions to cosplay lineups. :D

Also not fandom-wide squee, but a friend of mine started watching yesterday, and I told him that episode 16 was one of my favorite episodes of anything ever because it's full of "holy crap, they actually WENT THERE". Last night just before I went to bed he updated and said that he'd watched it and was pretty much floored, and immediately started on the next episode, and so a bunch of us who HAD seen it all already were confirming "yes indeed, manly tears ALL THE WAY HOME from this point." XD

[(Anonymous)]

Nah, I ain't bovvered either. And I've been cheated on. I'll be watching Mad Men for instance and be more *eyeroll* than anything else (like I know for Don Draper it's basically pathological, a spiral he keeps perpetuating even though he tries to stop it he keeps letting himself get stuck in the same patterns of behaviour so every time he starts it up again I'm like WELL THAT FAILED)

There are other times and other characters who I'll be surprised and pissed at them when they cheat. But it's not in any way a thing I OMG CAN'T STAND to watch.

[(Anonymous)]

I think that sums up my feelings on it, too. Although I wouldn't say weak or pathetic, but reprehensible and selfish? Yes, unless there is an extremely good reason for it where the established relationship they're in actually abusive to them, etc.

However, what I also can't stand is when someone goads or seduces someone in a relationship and then acts like they're blameless for that person's cheating and the damage it causes the party uninvolved in the affair.

Yeah, the person who cheats should have known better, but if someone presses their buttons and wears away at their willpower to selfishly get what they want, then uh. No. They don't get to step back and act like it was ~someone else's choice~, and pretend that whatever damage was done to the relationship they injected themselves into wasn't their fault. That's just as scummy as cheating in its own right.

[(Anonymous)]

I always suspect people like that have rather bland lives and need to go looking for something to get their dander up about.

[straycatblues]

Damn,I applaud you for being able to solve mysteries like that.I can't for the life of me.

[straycatblues]

That's cute.It reminds me of my brother,who once called the brothers "Sam and Dean Wincest".

Re: Sorry, I'm ANOTHER person with at Tumblr question

[(Anonymous)]

OP of this thread:
All my picture posts (from hitting the "photo" button on the tumblr dash) had been uploaded directly from my computer, no url needed?

[straycatblues]

I don't feel strongly about it in fiction (and I don't watch Mad Men),but in real life it's a different thing.

But,you know,life isn't just black and white and people cheat for different reasons,so I think it would be hard to identify with TV cheaters.

Re: Cultural differences - privacy

[straycatblues]

Romanians are pretty open people,I'd say.But it depends on where you live. I've found out that in rural areas people are going to chat you up,on the bus,standing in line etc.In cities people are more standoffish and dislike talking to you if it's not necessary.

It depends on who you're talking to a lot.By example,I've had more meaningful conversations with old ladies than I've had with guys my age (and how unfortunate is that?).

Re: Transcription of secret 1

[manifold]

....dude, chill. Every person I have known who uses a screen reader can read text in brackets just fine. Worst comes to worst, you get the boring monotone computer voice going "left bracket, text with punctuation stated, right bracket".

Seriously, transcription_guy—if you (or anyone else) want someone on Dreamwidth to check your transcriptions to make sure they work with JAWS or NVDA, you can probably PM either we_are_spc or not_a_sniglet and they'd be glad to check it out. They're both blind fannish types, and I'm pretty sure the only reason they don't hang around F!S has been the lack of alt text and transcription for secrets.

[manifold]

Yeah, I know. Deaf parties are the fucking loudest parties! They're intentionally turning it up high enough to feel the bass vibrating through the floor!

...it's awesome, really. I miss NTID shindigs.

[manifold]

I have blind friends! I pretty much just have to repost a secret to my journal with a homemade alt-text transcription if I want to discuss a secret with them, because otherwise, they're not going to have any idea what it says.

Transcriptions are also awesome because I can refresh my memory of which secret is what without having to scroll up or open the image link in a new tab.

[(Anonymous)]

Ha. I just finished playing Catherine which is all about the cheating.
I went into it for the puzzle aspect and came out being impatient at the puzzles so I could get the story over with.

It was like watching a trainwreck. Terrible but you can't look away. lol.