[ SECRET POST #269 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #269 ⌋

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

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Notes:

1. The F!S Friending Meme! Go do it! I am totally open to friending. (:
2. Have some emopuppy in a fish tank!
3. BECAUSE I CAN: TAKE THIS POLL BUTTMUNCHERS FTW

Secrets Left to Post: 07 pages, 168 secrets from Secret Submission Post #039.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 ] broken link, 0 not!secrets, [ 1 2 ] not!fandom, [ 1 ] repeat.
Next Secret Post: Tomorrow, Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007.
Current Secret Submission Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

34

[aristastarfyr.livejournal.com]

She didn't die! YAY! -=joy=-

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[atelierlune.livejournal.com]

All these Okami == love secrets make me want to play it. I'm glad for you and your maternal unit.

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[bluucircles.livejournal.com]

I completely agree with you there. I've loved that show since I was about 13/14. I'm 21 now and it's still in my top favorites ever. I will still go back and watch it all the time. Digimon will always be part me <3 (omg that sounds so dorky but I don't particularly care)

[khukuri.livejournal.com]

Hello, you appear to be me. :D Same. Oh, to be 13 and getting up early every morning to watch Ken and Daisuke be awkward at each other... ♥

[blizzardseason]

15. Dude. You aren't alone. I wrote a whole fanfic about some characters converting to Lawful Neutral.

[hughes]

34. I actually kind of wish she'd died, not so much because I dislike her (because I don't), but because Nick had already been near-death and survived, so it seemed pretty weird for it to happen again, and I wasn't really liking the romance dynamic between her and Grissom, and if she'd died, it would have made for SUCH GOOD plot and Grissom, in all of his scientific thinking, could still see visions of her from time to time and be totally devastated over it, and jhsdkfl it would have been awesome 8D

But hey, I understand the attachment to a character too, and wanting them to live. :/ <3

[kinneas.livejournal.com]

ERIN, YOU L&O TRAITOR.

MOVE AWAY FROM THE CBS

re: 15

[roko-epsilon.livejournal.com]

ILU :D
That is all.

[amandier.livejournal.com]

1. YES! I LOVE YOU.

3. I do like some of the younger people (like Yzak), but I kinda like Natarle now XD;!

5. ...I think I love you.

16. Ooooh, yes.

38. Okami does wonder to all!

[willag.livejournal.com]

14 - I notice I'm like that now as well. For the fandoms I get into, the majority of the pairings I like are the ones that aren't popular or are obscure.

15 - I've done things like that at times (though not using the references you use) to characterize/define the characters. I like being able to organize them... it's also a fun way to waste time.

18 - I LOVE THAT SONG!!! And I know how you feel. I'm not really religious but watching that movie and listening to that song makes me wish I was.

19 - Ouch.

24 - Yeah, I think the rabid fangirls and slashing would be inevitable... y'know, if it became really popular

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38 - That's sweet!

[(Anonymous)]

OP of #37 here. I'm curious as to how, exactly, it's unreasonable of me to expect people to have at least some firsthand knowledge of series canon before they dive headfirst into my or any fandom and start flinging their fic around. I--no, wait, let's try this another way.

I've seen precisely no episodes of Bleach, but I know what the story's about, and I've read the wiki article and seen a lot of screenshots and icons and some really hot smutty fanart, and I've read all the posts on it in this community. Also, I know some people on my friendslist really like it and I trust their taste. I think Orihime is really pretty and the boys are all totally hot. I certainly feel like I know the canon never mind that I've got absolutely no firsthand acquaintance with it whatsoever.

Would you like to read my Bleach fanfic?

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[aishiteru.livejournal.com]

.. You must be slightly retarded to put Philip Pullman in the same secret as the .. freaking authors of Eragon and Twilight. And Jonathan Stroud is leaps and bounds more brilliant than the Eragon dude.

Eragon is pretty cliche and terrible, but likable.

But His Dark Materials is a classic series for a reason. And Jonathan Stroud is an excellent comic writer; he practically embodies tongue in cheek, and his writing is smart.

Better than Harry Potter? Who cares. Besides - on what basis are you comparing them? Style? Content? Characters? What? An off the cuff remark about "which is better" doesn't take into consideration the different levels these authors are working in. If you haven't read any of them, give them a chance. I hate the "X > HARRY POTTER BLAH BLAH" argument - it's just dumb and I don't like it. The works are just plain different, not any better or worse than the other.

.. although Eragon remains just plain terrible. Paolini WISHES he was Tolkien. And I can't speak for Twilight, but eh.

(This is coming from a huge, huge, huge Harry Potter fan, by the way.)

Re: 7

[aetheristic.livejournal.com]

I think I love you. ^_^

[nickel-curry.livejournal.com]

10. <3333333333

[fyretoppaaa.livejournal.com]

1. Never heard of that movie, but after the quote-off in the beginning comments of this post, I kind of want to. XD What's the actual title?

5. ... I thought the lead female in FMA was Winry or something. ;;;

7. I think you could have had a point, but then the asshattery ate it. :/ (Fan of BOTH Harry Potter and His Dark Materials and damn proud of it. Dunno about the other ones, I don't have much time to read these days. ):)

10. Been loving that show for years and years, will never stop loving it. :DD I still squee when marathons of the old seasons randomly show up on various channels. XDD

12. ... Oh god seriously. The recent hostility over the Shikamaru-centric arc is just... urgh. I love Hidan and Kakuzu as much as anyone, but the fangirls kind of scare me. ;;

14. Heeeee well I don't know about 'elitist' being defined as 'liking crack pairings'. I'm an elitist and I like crack!pairings (Oishi/Shishido and Atobe/Gakuto ohohoho \o/), but apples is not equal to oranges is not equal to grapes, if you get me. 8D/ *phails at being coherent*

25. .... Aww, Sakuno. She's so darn cute, and not deserving of the pan!girl hate that afflicts fandom. :/

32. ... I loved that movie so, so much. XD Just because it was so... outside the box/thinking at the time, I'unno. But I can see how that might be creepy. 8D

36. I kind of like her music. >>; In small doses. It brings back memories. But she's like the Dixie Chicks. Everything starts sounding the same after a while IT'S SO DULL. ):

38. Good for you! If only it could do that for me and my mom. :/ I still want to play that game now, though.

[elwing-alcyone.livejournal.com]

7. That's totally your choice, and I'm sure the fans won't miss you, but that is really weird logic. You won't read something... because some people think it's better than your favouritest of favourite books? Not reading a book because people like it? That's a new one.

24. :D That's one of the things I'm most looking forward to seeing, if any of my original work gets published. I love crazy fandoms.

[chakuura.livejournal.com]

25. WORD. I don't particularly dislike her or her obnoxious friend, but they really don't have any use whatsoever in the series other than to cheer Ryoma on, and they could both easily be replaced. Sakuno was just shoved into the story so Ryoma would have the possibility of a female love interest.

[asdhjfbciwu3487.livejournal.com]

Ahaha, I'm about to pop my stitches laughing. I hope you're including Harry Potter under the "riddled with cliche" umbrella, if you're going to toss the others under that same list. ESPECIALLY if you haven't read them.

(And I HATE Twilight, so I'm not acting out in those books' defense or whatever)

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[planecrashdream.livejournal.com]

2. LOL @ "is the shiz"

5. God. I know of like 50 people like that online. All girls. It's just so completely obvious that they're jealous of all of them.

7. See, the problem with secrets that say "deal with it" is it's an oxymoron. YOU are the one saying you have a problem reading / a problem with the other books. Therefore, you are the one who needs to deal with it.

18. You could still get a strong faith back. You could believe again one day. Something could just happen and then, you know, BAM, life changing. It wouldn't have to be Catholicism either. I've lost faith more than once and I've always come back through something that I really believe was a sign. I know what you're saying, though. It's hard when you see / hear something that makes you want to believe in something, but you just don't.

32. Wasn't a secret exactly like this up just a few days ago? Or am I dreaming?

34. Question. Are you lesbian/bi? I'm really asking. Seriously. Because it seems like every single person I've ever met that's into her is one of the 2, and a woman.

36. Hell, I'll admit it. She's an amazing singer. It's not her fault that radio stations and certain individuals have made the whole world sick of her. I'd love to see her Vegas show.

34 OP

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I'm bi. But it's not that I find her attractive. I just think she's completely underappreciated. She's not your typical female, and that's what I find appealing about her.

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[cheesydorito.livejournal.com]

Whenever I'm brushing my teeth or making weird faces in the mirror, I always think that there are people watching me do it from a camera hidden inside the mirror. Because of that movie. XD

[threepwillow.livejournal.com]

7: I'm kind of irritated at how HP is becoming the "comparing standard" for all children's fantasy lit now. I read HDM light-years before HP (well, okay, a couple years anyway) and I greatly enjoyed it (though I will say that once Will showed up, I felt the whole series improved tenfold. Iorek is one of my favorite characters but GC was kind of dull compared to SK and AS). But I was bored senseless by Eragon, Twilight's fandom alone has scared me off, and I haven't even gotten to Stroud yet as I've been uh..... frantically rereading all of my Animorphs books.

30. I'm going to pretend this secret is about me. ; ; Sounds like something I would do. I still ship characters I wrote in sixth grade, and when you take into account that they were all based on my friends and me, I'm shipping myself/male-version-of-my-friend-Rebecca and male-version-of-my-lesbian-cousin/my Vietnamese friend.....

ALSO, OKAMI SECRETS ARE ♥

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[(Anonymous)]

13. Oh, the perils of having a roommate. You're definitely not alone there.

29. Sexiest secret to date.

35. Agreed.

[enjolras.livejournal.com]

Not!fandom secret #1: OWWWWWWWWWWW.

7. WORD. Although, I have picked up Twilight. :D

10. ;__________________;!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE YOU OKAY.

18. 'Tis a very good movie with good music. :3

21. :\ Okay. I ship them both. And I don't really see it as incest in my head, and even if it is, I don't really care. XD I think they're cute together, so whatev.

33. Zetsubou secret is love.

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[teostra.livejournal.com]

I totally never even compare HDM and HP. o.0 Both are written with such different intentions in such different styles. Just because they're both fantasy and English does not make them comparable.

Not to mention that many, many, MANY books are better then Harry Potter in any category you'd like to choose. Even if the category is "Books about English kids with glasses, scars on their foreheads, and pet owls," I would say that Books of Magic wins.::cough:: Just because someone prefers a book to your MIGHTY FANDOM doesn't mean you should automatically never read it.

[longlongwaytogo.livejournal.com]

1. oh wicked! :) It's not my favourite, but it's pretty funny.

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[fishie]

14. Pretty much cements what I said the other day:

Also on the topic of fandom, a thought has occurred to me lately. Why is it that fandom often makes people who ship 'obvious' or 'mainstream' pairings feel like they're inferior, somehow? As if someone's Kai/Zaizen OTP makes them better than someone who ships Kai/Rin or Kai/Kite? What's the deal with that? And I'm not making shit up, am I? I mean, it really does seem like there's some kind of stigma attached to the more popular mainstream pairings.

Fail.

25. Good on you. ☆ Sakuno's just the character type that I dislike, personally, but I don't hate her. She just doesn't interest me at all. I'm always glad to see people who don't hate her, especially because those who do usually do so for reasons like the ones cited in secret #5.

Re: 14

[(Anonymous)]

it really does seem like there's some kind of stigma attached to the more popular mainstream pairings.

then we are obviously not traveling in the same fandom circles because this is something I've fought for many years - that I'm somehow this pariah in fandom because I don't like or write obvious or mainstream pairings.

[ldkirby.livejournal.com]

7. AMEN. (And twelve year olds would come up with /much/ worse names. Trust me, I am one.)

18. Dude, I haven't watched that movie in so long. I watched it so much when I was a kid.

[ldkirby.livejournal.com]

7. Scratch that, His Dark Materials is amazing. It's not better than Harry Potter, but that's because it's a really different kind of book.

[callmejude.livejournal.com]

5. When I saw the heading to this secret, I was scared for a second that it was directed at me, because I hate so many female leads, and then I scrolled down and saw you had pictures of pretty much the ONLY female leads I like, so I suppose I'm safe. XD

7. XDD I love you.

10. ...Edo? oO;

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[lunar-wandering.livejournal.com]

Do you happen to have the source for that extremely sexy picture?

Re: 29

[daruki.livejournal.com]

Look up Ruaki in y!Gallery. Or her LJ.