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[ SECRET POST #2407 ]

⌈ Secret Post #2407 ⌋

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[Picture is a white and gray cat hissing from inside a very small wooden house set on someone's yard. There is the caption "Get off my lawn! You damn kids!"]

In principle, I support the right of every fan to create fanworks at their own level of skill and with however much effort they choose, because this is all for fun, and fanwork quality is largely subjective anyway.

In practice, I spend a lot of time shouting "Learn to spell!" and "That is an indescribably awful story premise!" and "Nothing about this is a good idea!" at my computer, and wishing I could throw things at the authors.

Bonus Secret: I deeply resent the avalanche of crap you get on Archive Of Our Own these days, and blame tumblr for being a bad fic platform and driving all the newbies there.

[Picture is a black and white image of Dean Winchester and Castiel from the TV show "Supernatural". They're both men with light skin and dark hair.]

I FUCKING HATE DESTIEL.

I sail a lot of ships on this show, because there is always something in canon that makes me think, "Hrmmm, maybe... I can get down with that!" But it's how fucking entitled Destiel shippers are, how convinced they are that Dean is gay, when that hasn't been made canon at all. It's the way my supposed friend fell into that bullshit trap and can't see anything but her own vanilla love and everything else is "gross." Her lack of imagination and spam posting of Destiel crap is what really pushed me over the edge, not just the amount of Destiel crazy that is par for the course these days.

Not to mention the fact, I'm very much open to the men of Supernatural having relationships with women on top of my fandom ships. But all I see is negative crap about any woman who dares to come between the pretty men.

I love Wincest (not just Sam/Dean, just in the family) as my main ships, but I'm not pushing that down anyone's throat. I also don't give people crap for loving what they love. I just wish the Supernatural fandom would get a clue and do the same.

[Picture is two men kissing. Both have short dark brown hair and light olive skin. One is wearing a white top and the other a dark T-shirt.]

Lately I dread discovering that gay romance authors I enjoy used to be in my old fandoms. Some were real jerks. I just want to enjoy reading without reminders of old elitist crap. [sad face emoticon]

Picture unrelated; not mine.

I think I have some old fandom issues I haven't been able to forget. [sad face emoticon]

[Picture is a poster of the Pixar CGI animated film "Cars". It features Lightning McQueen, a red sports car with eyes on its windshield and a smiling mouth where the bumper goes, and Tow Mater, an old rusty truck with similar anthropomorphic features and buckteeth. They are smiling at each other.]

This is my ABSOLUTE favorite Pixar/Disney movie, and every time someone makes a mention of it (usually negatively, can you san underrated?) I just get overwhelmed by CARS FEELS and can't go on.

[Picture is Kathryn Janeway from the TV show "Star Trek: Voyager". She is a stern-looking woman with light olive skin, reddish brown hair pulled back in a bun and wearing a lilac blouse underneath a black and red uniform. There is foliage behind her.]

I am convinced that she is Batman's great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-granddaughter.

[Picture is Hannibal Lecter from the TV show "Hannibal". He is a man with tanned skin and short dark hair parted on the side. He is wearing a gray suit with a brown tie and a light blue shirt. He is looking upwards, a light shining down on him. He looks like he might kind of smiling a little.]

I love Mads but I hate what they've done to Hannibal. Hannibal wouldn't kill innocent teenager girls to see what would happen. He kills people who offend him or pose a threat to his survival. He's not a "good" guy but he doesn't kill children either.

[Picture is the Disney cartoon chipmunks Chip and Dale. They are sort of dancing or posing happily as they smile at the lower center of the picture.]

They helped define my childhood, even though I only saw a couple of episodes.

[Picture is a screen-captured of the media player "VLC" playing an episode of the anime "Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters". In the paused screen, there is a split-screen shot, with close-ups of the villain Maximillion Pegasus and the antagonist Seto Kaiba's eyes, as they stare at each other dramatically. Maximillion has a light brown right eye and a golden magical artifact/fake eye/magical eye called "The Millennium Eye" in his left eye-socket, partly covered from sight by his long silver hair. He has light olive skin. Seto has short brown hair and blue eyes, and light skin. There is the subtitle "Blue-Eyes White-Dragon!"]

It took me years to admit without embarrassment or apology that this was the fandom I started out in. (I changed my pen name when I "left it behind.")

Bonus secret: Even when I do, I rarely mention that it was the most fun I've ever had participating in a fandom, with some of the friendliest, funniest, most talented people I've ever met ... because I'm afraid I'll get laughed at or thought of as unintelligent or a freak (or worse) by the new fandom.

[Picture is a poster of the movie "Children of Men", featuring a slightly gaunt man peeking out from behind a wall that has seen better days. He has short curly black hair, pale skin, and looks a little unshaven.]

I was always disappointed this movie wasn't a male-pregnancy flick.

[Picture is the cast from the cartoon "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic" and the cast from the CGI animated films "Disney Fairies".

Friendship Is Magic cast from left to right and top to bottom: Pinkie Pie, a pony with light blue eyes, a fluffy pink mane and tail and pastel pink coat. Rainbow Dash, a pegasus pony with with a rainbow colored mane and light blue coat and magenta eyes. Twilight Sparkle, a unicorn pony with a dark blue mane with a pink streak and a purple streak running in the middle, a pale violet coat and purple eyes. Rarity, a unicorn pony with a purple curled mane and tail, white coat and royal blue eyes. There is a picture of three blue diamonds on her hip. Applejack, a pony wearing a light brown cowboy hat, blonde mane and tail tied at the ends, light orange coat and a picture of three red apples on her hip. She has green eyes. And Fluttershy, a pony pegasus with pastel pink mane and tail, pastel yellow coat and turquoise eyes. Pinkie Pie is standing on her rear legs, holding herself up with a front leg on Rarity's head, who is sitting down and raising a front leg daintily. Rainbow Dash appears to be hovering, Twilight is sitting in the middle, Applejack is standing up and raising a front leg and Fluttershy is laying down in front of all.

Disney Fairies cast, from left to right (they all have gossamer wings and handmade shoes? matching their general color scheme, pointy ears and look like small female humans around teenagehood or young adulthood): Iridessa, with black hair pulled back in a bun, somewhat dark skin and wearing a sleeveless yellow dress. Tinkerbell, with light olive skin, blonde hair pulled back in a bun and wearing a strapless, sleeveless light green dress. Rosetta, with long wavy red hair, light olive skin and wearing a pink strapless, sleeveless dress. Fawn?, with light tanned skin, long brownish red hair pulled back, wearing orange shorts and a sleeveless red dress or long blouse over that. Silvermist, with long black hair, light skin and blue dress with only the right strap and no sleeves. Vidia, with light skin and very long dark blue hair pulled up in a high ponytail, wearing tight purple pants and a short sleeveless blouse or dress over that. They're flying on a field, hugging each other and posing for the camera.]

It bothers me when a children's cartoon has characters that figure out their skill and purpose in life in an easy way. It's not easy to find your destiny in real life and some people go through their entire lives not knowing what they're meant to be. Teaching kids to "follow their heart and their destinies will reveal themselves" is a pretty poor lesson when it's not conducive to real life.

[Picture is the logotype of the manga/anime "Death Note". It features a gloomy font, with the letter "T" as a cross, and above it and in the middle of the picture, there is a skull surrounded by a sort of halo (or a glowing donut). It has elegant corners.]

When this first came out, this was one of my favorite things ever. I wasn't super-fannish about it, I just enjoyed it a lot. But now I can barely re-read it, and I don't understand why, it's about the only thing I lost interest in this quick.

[Picture is the logotype of the microblogging website "Tumblr". It's the word "tumblr." in lower case, white with shadows giving it the illusion of three-dimensionality and a neutral blue color in the background.]

I REGRET introducing my friend to Tumblr. She dove off into fandoms that have fucked with our friendship. She doesn't know yet, because I haven't told her, but I created a new Tumblr just to get away from her and another someone I only met due to playing around on Tumblr.

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