[ SECRET POST #2409 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2409 ⌋

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Comments

[kaijinscendre]

Ah, fandom hipsters! I am ecstatic to know they exist even in learning about history and culture.

[deadtree]

ugh I have a degree in history and I once let it slip that the original reason I started studying Greek/Macedonian history was that I picked up "The Persian Boy" by Mary Renault when I was in high school and OH MY GOD the backlash I got in the online history communities was insane.

Interestingly I talked to my department about that book several times and several of them expressed their love for her work as well :P

[kaijinscendre]

My casual interest in mythology was started because of Thor. I also got more interested in religion (I grew up Baptist with Catholic parents) because of Supernatural! *shrug* Who cares why someone is interested, be happy they are!

[deadtree]

yeah but idk, 90% of any fandom is shaming people for either WHY they are there or what they do once they get there. IDEK.

[kaijinscendre]

D:< I know and I hate it. I don't give a fuck if suddenly people are in a fandom I have been in forever. That means more meta/discussion/fanstuff for me.

[(Anonymous)]

I hope you don't mind my asking - but how'd you grow up Baptist with Catholic parents?

[kaijinscendre]

No problem. My father went to Catholic school in CT and my mother in Vermont. Before I was born they (and my grandmother) found their way down to small town, South Carolina. The town they settled in had no Catholic Church and my parents were lapsed Catholic. My grandmother ended up going to a Baptist because (not condoning it) "They were less crazy than Methodists". And thus, I went to Baptist churches my whole childhood. :)

I have been to several Catholic services since I moved away from home (several of my friends in college were Catholic). I also went to a college affiliated with the Methodist church.

[deadtree]

you know, it's funny because I was raised Catholic with a Baptist mom and an atheist dad ._o lol

[kaijinscendre]

Woah, how did that happen? Catholicism doesn't seem like something you can get into as easily at Baptists or Methodists.

[deadtree]

Catholic school-- my parents wanted me to go to a private elementary school and their options for the general vicinity (that is, less than an hour drive) were Montessori and Catholic. They thought Montessori was too hippie-dippie so they chose the Catholic school. I remember my dad telling me every day before school "don't believe anything they tell you!" and my mom following up in the car with "you can believe it if you want to!"

fun fact: I was baptized to get a discount on my tuition :p

[kaijinscendre]

Ahhahahaha. Guess there are worth reasons for baptisms. :P

[maplelump]

That's how I got into religion as well. Coolio. :)

[kaijinscendre]

Whatever led you to it, who cares. :3 Except fandom hipsters I guess.

[iceyred]

That book is great (and kinky iirc). Half the point of reading is to discover new things you might be interested in.

The online history communities can jump in a lake.

[deadtree]

I haven't actually been back to an online history community since, I think xD oh well.

Yeah that book gets downright sexy in places. Still one of my all-time favs. In fact I think I'm going to start rereading it tonight.

[(Anonymous)]

That is absurd that they jumped on you! I got into feminism via fandom (pre-Tumblr, though, so it was less the "SJW" crowd and more the thoughtful meta crowd), which, through several steps, led me to my major and passion, sociology. I got into heavy lit critique through fandom, which led me eventually to philosophy, which led me to my minor in political theory. And so on.

Whatever gets someone interested ought to be good enough. Haters can fuck right off.

[deadtree]

yeah, it's so gross when people are condescending just because of *how* you got into something. I mean, yes, I went to Japan the first time because I loved Japanese indie bands at the time; but I still learned a LOT and grew as a person so does that matter? Also people act like it's some new thing. No way. People have ALWAYS traveled/gotten into new subjects/etc based on the "fandom" things they did (eg reading books), there was just no such term as "fandom" then.

[honestys_easy]

That book's actually sitting on my "TBR" shelf right now! (I had a gay-historical-fiction request binge on PaperbackSwap a while back.) Glad to hear from this thread that it's a good read!

And just to stay on topic, I got interested in A Midsummer Night's Dream after Puck, Oberon, and Titania showed up on the Gargoyles TV show.

[deadtree]

it's definitely one of my comfort books. Some of the history it presents is no longer considered accurate but as a work of fiction it's lush and wonderful.

[(Anonymous)]

Can I ask which parts (if they are easy to describe)? I read it about a year ago and loved it so much. I heard they used pieces of it for the movie Alexander.