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[ SECRET POST #2389 ]

⌈ Secret Post #2389 ⌋

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[Avenged Sevenfold]

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[Professor Layton]

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[Yoroiden Samurai Troopers (Ronin Warriors)]

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[Picture is a drawing of one of those toys for toddlers where you fit geometrical block pieces into a larger block with slots that match each block's shape, but in the picture the block pieces have human legs, feet, arms, hands, mouths and eyes. A square, a circle, a triangle and a rectangle are sliding into their respective spaces and smiling and laughing, having a grand time, while a pentagon looks on crying, because there is no space for it.]

I feel like I will never fit in on fandom. I've never made a fandom friend. I don't know how to approach people, online or offline. I'm really frightened by the idea of exposing myself the way tumblr-famous people do. I'm too shy and closed off to even post a selfie, let alone make a bunch of personal life posts. Trying to contact other people usually results in quick replies, the kind that usually means "that's all you're gonna get from me. I'm not interested in being your friend."

I know I can be recognized by my work, but even that's really hard for me. I like my own art, but that doesn't seem to be the case for other people... And sometimes it gets really lonely, because I like all these things that I have no one to talk about.

Edited 2013-07-19 00:18 (UTC)

[Picture is a promotional poster of a live action adaptation of the anime "Attack On Titan", where a giant human-looking monster without skin is attacking a city, while an armed soldier looks on from the ground.]

The only reason I look forward to the live action adaptation is because I know if it enjoys some modicum of success in Japan, there will inevitably be a Hollywood remake.

[Picture is a photograph of an underwater ocean floor in the Antarctic. There is a huge wall of ice, and near it there are some colorful looking bivalves, sea urchins, sponges and other underwater creatures lying on the floor.]

I hate when old fans won't share their rares with new fans.

[Picture is a black and white photograph of the guitarist Synyster Gates from the musical group "Avenged Sevenfold" performing with his white and black striped guitar on-stage. He is a man with pale skin, spiked black hair, wearing a white v-necked T-shirt, black pants/trousers and with tattoos on his chest and arms. Behind him is the blurry picture of another member of the band performing.]

I got so turned on when I saw those pics of Syn almost kicking that guy's ass for spitting on Matt. Guys who stand up for their friends are sexy.

[Picture is a colorful helium balloon floating upwards to the sky, which looks very polluted or dirty, it's a weird brown-purple color. Maybe they're clouds illuminated by the city lights below? It seems to be nighttime.]

I have been in quite a few fandoms where the majority of people are depressed, socially awkward or have some other issue. When the simple issue of "how's your life" comes up, I overplay the few bad things in my life. If I say my life's actually pretty good right now, I feel like I'm bragging.

Sometimes it's as simple as saying "no, I wouldn't drop my life to go to (canon location), I'm actually satisfied here" and I feel like I'm rubbing their sadness in their faces. So I pretend my life sucks just as much. I'm tired of this.

[Picture is the dwarves from the live action movie "The Hobbit". They're all wearing traveling cloaks and robes and they all have pale skin and beards and mustaches of various lengths, styles and colors, ranging from black, to brown, to blond, to gray. Some of them are carrying weapons like hammers, maces, short swords, bows and arrows and spears.]

I know it would never happen but I would trade in the remaining Hobbit movies for a spin-off miniseries all about their adventures before Thorin's quest.

[Picture is the villain Shocker from the Spider-Man comic books. He is a man wearing a skin-tight full-body suit that covers his entire body head to toe. The suit is yellow with a mesh pattern, and there is a sort of red leotard over it. He is wearing red gloves and a metallic belt.]

I feel like he doesn't get the respect he deserves. He's my favorite Spider-Man character, and whenever I try to talk about him all I get is "Laughing Out Loud, Shocker" or "Wafflesuit". He's a great villain with a more fleshed out personality than Carnage, who has a ton of fans. It's just not fair to his character, he deserves more fans.

[Picture is the character Raymond Doyle from the TV show "The Professionals". He is a man with short curly dark brown hair, lightly tanned pale skin and is leaning out of the open door of a car to aim at something with a handgun.]

I still fancy him desperately.

[Picture is the logo from the DreamWidth community Fandom Secrets, which is the character Kamina from the anime "Tengen Toppa Gurren-Lagann. He has lightly tanned pale skin, short spiky blue hair and is wearing pointy orange sunglasses. His chest is bare, except for dark blue circular tattoos around his shoulders areas, and he has bandages around his wrists. He is throwing his arms to the air and screaming to the heavens.]

I LOVE THIS COMMUNITY!!

Thanks to the moderators for running this site, hugs to all the fantastic people who participate. I love having a place to share all our favorite things and how they make us feel. I think the real drama is minimal for a secrets community and everybody seems willing to give advice to people who need it. You guys are like a big geeky family and I love it. Keep being awesome guys!

[Picture is the cover image of the romance book "Lovestorm" by Judith E. French. It features a man with tanned skin, longish dark brown hair, golden armbands and a loincloth and wearing nothing else, holding a woman who is leaning back. The woman has long blonde hair, lightly tanned skin and is wearing a white see-through dress. They are on a beach.]

I'm a little worried that all the bad eighties romance novels I read as a pre-teen have given me a lifelong dubious consent kink. (Picture is just a randomly selected example, not the specific book in question.)

[Picture is the submission form for uploading a fanfiction story at the website Archive Of Our Own. It asks for fandoms, warnings, category, relationships, characters and additional tags.]

This is my favourite part of posting a work on Archive Of Our Own. Tagging. And no, I don't use tumblr tags. I just like choosing tags from the existing list. Not kudos, not comments, not bookmarks. Tagging. Seriously?

[Picture is the cover image of the book "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman. It features a house on a green countryside field being hit by lightning from a sky filled with storm clouds. It has the blurbs: New York Times Bestseller; Author of Neverwhere; and "American Gods manages to reinvent, and to reassert, the enduring importance of fantastic literature itself in this late age of the world. Dark fun, and nourishing to the soul." --Michael Chabon]

I didn't think 'white-washing' was that big of a deal until I saw how many people's fancasts for this book involved casting the main (mixed race, half-black) character as a white guy. I'm just astonished how many people take "mixed-race" to mean "white dude with darker hair". What the fuck? That defies both genetics and good taste.

Edited 2013-07-19 00:22 (UTC)

fancasts = the fandom activity of looking for actors you'd like to play the characters of your fandom if it were given a live action adaptation

[Picture is the musical group "Avenged Sevenfold" performing on-stage.]

I went because you didn't want to go alone. We've been five times. Now they're touring again I'm afraid you're going to ask me to go again. I still don't like their music.

[Picture is Flora Reinhold and Emmy Altava from the "Professor Layton" videogames. Flora has long brown hair pulled into a ponytail, pale skin, and an orange dress over a long-sleeved white blouse. She has a red bow tied on her hair, and another one around her waist. She is wearing green-brown knee-height boots. Emmy has long wavy dark hair, lightly tanned pale skin and is wearing a white blouse with a coral pink bow on the collar, a yellow dress coat over it with a thin light brown leather belt around the waist, white thighs and green-gray boots. Flora is holding her hands against her chest and smiling sweetly, while Emmy is holding up her index finger as if to say something, with her other hand resting against her hip. She is smiling softly but confidently.]

Much as I like these characters, I get the feeling that they're nothing more than the token chick in the games.

yaaaaaaaaaaaaay

I love you ;_; almost as much as I love case for uploading to FS every day

Hey, thanks. c:

[Picture is from "Yoroiden Samurai Troopers"/"Ronin Warriors" (possibly promotional art?)]

It breaks my heart that no one remembers this show anymore.

Watching the dub in the '90s was what made me the anime fan that I am now, and it still remains one of my all-time favorite anime series ever.

(Bonus secret: I'm also sad that Sunrise isn't doing anything to mark its 25th anniversary this year.)

This transcript was made by baranohanayome at livejournal. Thank you, baranohanayome!

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