[ SECRET POST #2356 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2356 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 06 pages, 134 secrets from Secret Submission Post #336.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 2 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 1 - repeat ].
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Comments

[intrigueing]

But who says it has to be strictly divided into either "feels" or "cold hard calculated logic"? Feels can totally survive for ages after marinating a while.

[(Anonymous)]

Not for a lot of people. It's not unusual for excitement to die down if you wait awhile; other stuff comes along to occupy your attention. You can still have 'feels' over something long after it loses its new status but it's not the same thing anymore.

This secret reads like fandom policing tbh. There is no indication that people actually believe a fandom explosion right after something airs is better, that's just how excitement works.

[(Anonymous)]

DA

You can still have 'feels' over something long after it loses its new status but it's not the same thing anymore.

Really? What's the difference? I'm generally a logical person, and I tend to need time to process large bursts of emotion to figure out what they are, to get a grip on what exactly it is I'm feeling. My initial reaction to emotionally exciting or shocking things will usually be either surface-blank-over-undefined-emotion or surface-anger-over-undefined-emotion (depending on what happened), and I need a while to figure out what's actually happening underneath that. Is that a different thing from 'feels', then?

Not sarcasm, by the way. I'm just not sure of the terminology.

[(Anonymous)]

In my experience, "feels" = "OMGSQUEEE!!!! I am so excited and my cup of enthusiasm runneth over!" That sort of feeling fades with time and analysis, even if the passionate enjoyment underlying it doesn't.

[(Anonymous)]

Ah. I honestly don't think that's ever happened to me? I've had long-burning excitement that's sustained over time, and I've had small bursts of excitement that resurge whenever I think about bits of canon that really got to me, but I don't think I've ever had that initial ... surge of clear emotion? As I said, large bursts of emotion take time for me. (Well, I've had an initial surge of OMGRAGE before, an instinctive revulsion for something that's just happened, but I don't think I've had the excitement equivalent).

Does that mean I've never actually had 'feels', as such?

DA

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe? Honestly though I don't think it's even got to be that extreme to count as 'feels'. You ever seen a movie or something and just said to yourself, "Wow, I loved that! I really need to talk about this with someone or write fic or something, just can't wait." That's basically what it is, just on various scales for different people.

Re: DA

[(Anonymous)]

That I remember, not without taking a while to mull it over and figure out what I was feeling? Which was what I thought the post meant, and what the commenter above was saying isn't the same as feels?

It could just be that I've a very slow reaction to emotions. I really need to figure them out before I actually act on them, even just in the sense of a post about the movie. I'm the kind of person who will actually go away and think about it, and come back to talk to people the next day instead. I need to be sure about my emotions before I starting trying to explain them/talk about them. (Yes, this does make conversations with me as stilted and fun as it sounds).