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[ SECRET POST #2405 ]

⌈ Secret Post #2405 ⌋

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[Picture is a black and white photograph of the actor Jude Law playing Dr. John Watson in the Guy Ritchie "Sherlock Holmes" movies. He is a dapper man with light skin, short dark hair, a mustache and wearing a suit, a top hat, black gloves and holding a cane in one hand, and letting it rest against his shoulder. He is staring daringly at the viewer.]

Not Secret: Despite numerous therapy sessions and being in my late twenties, I walk with a distinct limp and have to sometimes use a cane to get around. I'm still fit and active, though, and try not to be embarrassed about it.

Secret: I can't begin to explain how bitter I felt when the newer adaptations did away with Watson's cane. I get that it's not practical and they were trying to give the characters a new spin but it just makes me feel like they don't want Watson to have any physical limits because "of course" he wouldn't be able to keep up with Holmes if he did.

Just because he - who am I kidding? - we have our limits, it doesn't mean we can't keep up with you.

Bonus Secret: I didn't always use a cane but to get through the pain of having it now, I sometimes pretend to be Watson out on my way to see Holmes. It makes it easier.

[Picture is the Great Crystalline Entity from the TV show "Star Trek: The Next Generation". It is a space creature that looks like a light blue crystal with a bunch of fairly geometrical tree roots jutting out if its center, which shines with a light of its own. Below that, is a car's license plate from the state of Indiana, in the United States of America; next to the license numbers is a symbol consisting of a lightened torch with thin rays of light coming out of it and ending in stars, and various stars scattered beneath and around it. It does look like the Crystalline Entity from afar.]

Every time I see an Indiana plate, I think it has the crystalline entity on it.

[Picture is Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge holding her newborn son in her arms; deceased actor Cory Monteith, from the TV show "Glee"; deceased actor James Gandolfini, from the TV show "The Sopranos"; and musician Kanye West and socialite Kim Kardashian attending the Costume Institute Gala, with Kim Kardashian visibly pregnant.

The Duchess is a young woman with light olive skin and long brown hair, wearing a light blue dress with white dots and smiling. Her baby is wrapped in a white blanket. Cory Monteith was a young man, had light skin, short brown hair and was wearing a black suit, black tie and white shirt. He was smiling a little. James Gandolfini was a middle-aged man with receding short dark hair, rosy pale skin and wearing a dark suit and tie with a white shirt. He was smiling. Kanye West is a man with bronze-tinted dark skin, wearing a black suit and white shirt with no tie and wrapping an arm around Kim Kardashian, who is wearing a brown and light pink floral dress with a leg slit. Her stomach is bulging with a baby. She has light tanned skin and long black hair pulled back in a ponytail. Kanye looks serious and Kim is smiling softly.]

It really bothers me when a celebrity dies or has a child, there's always someone who has to tell the world how much they don't care. We get it, you're so edgy and superior to the rest of us who DO care. It's not even the fact that they don't care. It's that they feel the need to rub it in everyone's face that gets to me.

It's okay to be indifferent about it, but why do you have to be so snotty about your opinions? Do you really have so little compassion for other people that you can't just be happy/sad for them? It doesn't affect your life either way so why go to so much trouble to be a dick about it?

[Picture is Merlin, from the TV show of the same name. He is a young man with pale olive skin and short dark hair. He is wearing dark orange-red clothes and holding a sword, letting it rest against a shoulder. He is inside a castle and looking down to the floor, somber.]

I marathoned this entire show over the last two weeks. I walked away thinking he was a traitor to his people who spent a decade protecting an oppressive regime and being slavishly devoted to two below-average kings.

He was the hero, why exactly?

[Picture is Princess Celestia from the cartoon "My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic". She is a pure white horse with wings and a horn. Her mane and tail are flowing as if being pushed by a wind current, with pastel blue, green, purple and pink stripes. She is wearing a golden crown with a purple gem in it, a golden torc around her neck and part of her chest, and is sitting down on a purple rug, with cushions around her. She is writing on a pierce of parchment with a red quill and ink, levitating the quill with magic. She is in a room that might be a lounge room or a bedroom, with purple and blue decorations, and a wall with pictures of the stars.]

I wish I had a mentor like her. I know that sounds silly, but I really admire the way she believes in and encourages Twilight, pushes her in the right direction, and isn't afraid to be stern with her when she needs to be, not to mention her ability to admit when she's wrong.

Those are great qualities and all, but it still feels like a little odd to want a talking cartoon pony as a mentor.

[Picture is the actress Lea Michele, from the TV show "Glee". She is posing for a photograph wearing a white T-shirt with short blue sleeves, wearing panties? and knee-height white and blue striped socks, leaving her thighs and waist bare. She is leaning against a row of lockers, licking a red lollipop and looking at the viewer. She has light olive skin and long wavy dark brown hair reaching her mid-back.]

When I first read about Cory, the first, unguarded thought I had was "Oh sweet! Lea Michele is finally single!" Yes, I'm fully aware of what an awful person this makes me.

Bonus secret: I'd still hit it.

[Picture is... a black and white picture of two people walking somewhere? One of them is wearing a light colored T-shirt and dark pants, the other is wearing dark clothing and has dark hair. Sorry, I really can't find what it's about.]

Sometimes when I think of my old fandoms I'm filled with such rage. I wish I could forgive them. Maybe then I could forgive myself for feeling this way.

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[Picture is a poster featuring the cast from the movie "Bridesmaids". They are a woman wearing a wedding dress and her bridesmaids wearing pink dresses standing against a red brick wall and looking though and challenging at the viewer. They're all wearing a white collar, and some wearing pearl earrings. The first one has a full figure, and her dress has actual sleeves and is longer than the version worn by all the other bridesmaids, dark brown hair pulled back in a bun, and light skin. The next one has long blonde hair and light skin and is leaning forward, supported by the women around her, and has a knee bent and her foot against the wall. The next one has paler skin and red hair pulled back. The next one has blonde hair reaching her neck and light skin, the one wearing a wedding dress has tanner skin, wavy long brown hair reaching a little past her shoulders and pulled back with pink hair accessories. Her dress is sleeveless and strapless, a fairly simple design with a pink lash around her waist and many waves? around the skirt. The last bridesmaid is turned sideways and leaning on her arms against the bride's shoulder, and has dark brown hair pulled back and light olive skin.]

It's been over two years since this movie came out and I still can't believe people thought it was the funniest movie they've ever seen.

Since when has watching a person's life go from bad to worse with very few comedic moments in between considered funny?

[Picture is musician Gerard Way from the musical group "My Chemical Romance". He has light olive skin and hair dyed bright red, layered and reaching past his ears. He is wearing a black leather jacket.]

I think he's the most beautiful person I've ever seen. But I hate you can't admit that to anyone who's not a My Chemical Romance fan because they'll mock the shit out of you.

[Picture is a full-head dark gray helmet with a yellow visor lying on the grass on a field. There is a crashed aircraft on the distance, and far on the horizon, a mountain that seems to have been sliced in the middle.]

Out of all the Role Playing Games and First Person Shooters I've ever played, none made me cry as hard as the ending of Halo Rich did. I consider it one of the best examples of storytelling in a game.

Secret because... it's a Halo game. It feels embarrassing to talk about. No one believes me, and even if they do, they don't want to try.

[Picture is a simple blueprint of the first floor of a house, showing the entry, a staircase, a hallway, an office, the living room, the kitchen with a back door, and the dining room.]

I almost always have a mental image of what a character's place looks like when I'm reading fic (general idea of a floor plan, what furniture they have and where it is, etc.). If something in canon (whether it's because it's revealed after I thought of my mental image, or because I forgot about something) or in a fic contradicts my mental image, I spend a lot of time trying to reconcile it, and if I can't, I happily ignore it in favor of my mental image.

[Picture of the blueprint.] This is one of my headcanon houses.

It's never a deliberate thing to think up my mental image. I just sorta realize halfway through a random fic, 'oh yeah, I totally know what their house would look like'.

Bonus secret: Sometimes I find myself reusing a mental place, or elements of it, kind of like the previous owner moved out and someone else moved in.

[Picture is Shinnosuke Nohara from the anime "Crayon Shin Chan". He is a five year old drawn in a very simple cartoonish style. He has light skin, short black hair and thick eyebrows. He is wearing a long-sleeved red shirt and yellow pants/trousers. In the picture he has his eyes closed and his teeth bared and sort of, dancing? Mocking someone? He has his arms raised and in each hand he is pointing with the index and middle fingers randomly to the sides.]

I hate most dubs and prefer subtitles because 1) Many times the English voices sound horrible and 2) a lot of little details about anime gets lost in translation. There are certain things in Japanese that English doesn't really do (for example, how characters refer to each other) so when it's translated it just doesn't sound right.

But then I love dubs like Shin Chan and Digimon. I enjoy the rewrites that make Shin Chan hilarious and Digimon also funny, and for the other dubs I like them because I don't know the dubs for older anime were better? Some but not all.

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