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[ SECRET POST #2412 ]

⌈ Secret Post #2412 ⌋

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Secrets Left to Post: 04 pages, 093 secrets from Secret Submission Post #345.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 1 - repeat ], [ 1 - take it to comments ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

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[Picture is the musical group "The Monkees" on a recent presentation on-stage. They are three older men with light skin. One of them has graying hair, is wearing a black T-shirt, a white jacket and black pants, the other is wearing a black hat, a black shirt and pants and a gray suit jacket and the last one has short dark or brown hair, is wearing eye-glasses and a shiny brown long-sleeved shirt. They are standing up and soaking up the public's praise.]

I just saw three of my childhood heroes live in concert for the first time. I never saw the appeal of Real Person Fic before. Now I'm shipping three seventy-year-olds with each other.

[Picture is a white and ginger cat resting on its side on a dark reflective surface, with its left foreleg extended in front of its face as it stares off to something off-screen.]

I've been out of active fandom for a couple of years and I tried making a new tumblr account and posting and interacting with people. I wanted to try to have fun with shows and characters and plots. then I deleted everything and abandoned it completely without warning. I just felt like I was trying to have fun in the same way teenage-me had. But I'm not that person any more, and that sort of thing isn't for me. I couldn't keep it up, and the longer I did the more I felt like a phony.

Sometimes I wonder if anyone else wonders where I went.

[Picture is the cast of the American web mockumentary sitcom "MyMusic". There are three men and two women in the picture, behind the logo of a purple cassette tape with the words "My Music" on its label. The first man has light olive skin, short brown hair combed to the side and sideburns. He is wearing a dark suit with a light blue shirt and a red tie He looks mockingly professional. Next to him is a woman with light olive skin, long dark brown hair with a lock of hair dyed red smiling dreamily to one side with her hands clasped. She is wearing a purple long sleeved piece of clothing over a black long-sleeved piece of clothing. Next to her is a man with short dark brown hair combed to the side, eyeglasses with only half the rims, a brown mustache, light olive skin and wearing an orange sweater with a very large light brown scarf. He looks annoyed but holding on to his professionalism. Next to him is a woman with olive skin, wavy dark blonde hair reaching past her shoulders, a royal blue dress with a low neckline and short sleeves and a blue tie-accessory thing hanging from her hair. She is pursing her lips and looking serious but kind of posing attractively. Next to her is a man with dark olive/light brown skin, wearing a black cap on his head, a black jacket, a yellow T-shirt and a chain around his neck. He looks somewhere between upset and disbelieving.]

MyMusic's fandom makes me feel so old. And I'm barely twenty. It's just filled with fics written by young people who have clearly not been in fandom for very long. Song!fics, self-inserts, suddenly suicidal characters, etc. There's really nothing for me to read.

So I started writing my own fics for myself. I doubt I'll share them online. I just don't think people would be interested. Especially considering the fandom is big on Scene/Intern 2 and it just does nothing for me.

[Picture is the screen-capture of a "Top Comment" by the user mustanglover12, which says "John and Henry are pretty much how I picture James and Harry Potter." on a YouTube video by the "vlogbrothers" in which John Green sings a lullaby to his baby. John Green is a man with rosy light skin, messed up short brown hair, wearing eyeglasses, a dark gray hoodie and is sitting down on a sofa-type of chair, and holding a baby who looks a lot like him, wearing a long-sleeved shirt with light gray and white horizontal stripes and denim pants.]

All of my friends think this comment is adorable. To each their own, and I get that it's just for fun, but it just bothers me. I don't mind fan-casting usually, but I guess I'm weirded out when kids are involved.

[Picture is Stiles Stilinski from the TV show "Teen Wolf". He is a young man with light olive skin, short dark hair and this huge bruise on his left cheek and part of his leep. His eyes look bruised too. He is wearing a light gray sweatshirt and looking sort of pensive or dejected.]

There's this fic in my fandom. I think it's terrible. The characters are all Out Of Character morons, the plot's a convoluted mess and the very premise makes no damn sense. I keep seeing it recommended all over the place, even by people who's taste in fic is generally (in my opinion) good. It drives me up the wall and makes me irrationally angry.

Secret because: Uh, irrational much?

Bonus secret: This isn't the first time this has happened to me... But last time was a different fandom.

[Picture is Snarf from the cartoon "ThunderCats" who is a short red and cream-colored alien cat thing, Scrappy Doo from the "Scooby Doo" cartoons, who is a light brown Great Dane puppy standing upright with his fists put up, Lila Sawyer from the cartoon "Hey, Arnold!" a young girl with rosy skin and long red hair pulled in two braids with green bows and wearing a light green blouse and a green jumper, Venus de Milo from a "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" CGI animated series who is an anthropomorphic turtle wearing a long blue tie or ribbon around her eyes with holes cut for her eyes and blue armbands, and The Great Gazoo from the cartoon "The Flintstones", who is a small humanoid green alien with a green helmet, green antennae, green gloves and a green cape.]

I liked these characters. I wish people didn't try to make me feel bad for liking them.

Edited (no sexy leonardos today) 2013-08-10 23:09 (UTC)

[Picture is the drawing of a light blue typewriter machine with white keys.]

Writing is something I've always thought about doing, though never really done. But now I'm thinking about writing fic for my fandom. The secret is that instaed of writing for myself, I want to write fanfiction to gain attention from the Big Name Fans in my fandom and maybe have something to talk about with them.

Secret because: I'm scared it won't be any good or I'll hate it because I'm doing it for the wrong reasons. I'll probably find the results disappointing and maybe I'm a little desperate to make friends in my (small) fandom.

[Picture is Dean Winchester from the TV show "Supernatural". He is a young man with light skin, an unshaved beard and mustache, short brown hair and brown eyes and wearing a light gray coat or jacket over a dark jacket.]

Dean Winchester is gorgeous, but I detest him as a character and his rabid fangirls. They don't let you get in a word edgewise. If they feel that you've said even the tiniest negative thing about Dean, watch out! It's especially annoying, because he's kind of a crappy person on a personal level. Excuse me for not turning off my brain, just because a pretty face is on television. [annoyed face emoticon]

[Picture is the screen-capture of a text document on a text editing program. It says this, centered:

TUSK

by

Kevin Smith

Based on a story from

SModcast 259:

The Walrus & The Carpenter

by

Kevin Smith and Scott Mosier

First Draft
6/28/13]

I am unreasonably excited that he's really making this. (For the life of me, though? I have no freakin' clue why I even care.)

From Wikipedia:

SModcast is a weekly podcast featuring filmmaker Kevin Smith and his long-time producing partner Scott Mosier, although guests are occasionally featured. Released each Sunday night/Monday morning, the episodes are generally one hour in length and feature Smith and Mosier discussing current events and other non-sequitur topics.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SModcast

Here is the podcast referenced, but I'm not sure what the OP is talking about otherwise:

http://smodcast.com/episodes/the-walrus-and-the-carpenter/

EDIT: From an anon:

There was an online ad for a housemate in a house somewhere in England. The person who wrote the ad said the housemate could live with him for free, perfect privacy and everything, but once a week would have to wear a walrus suit and make walrus noises.

Smith and his podcaster/producer buddy Mosier started riffing on the story (not sure how legit the ad was, though), and discussing making it into a creepy horror movie. They basically ran through a whole fictional movie, and Smith got really into the idea and began writing it. I think he's looking to make it into a small-budget horror flick.

Edited (thank you anon!) 2013-08-11 18:48 (UTC)

[Picture is The Valeyard from the TV show "Doctor Who". He is a man with light skin wearing a shiny dark gray strange type of helmet headdress thing and a shiny dark gray outfit with one of those round collar things that covers the chest in a half circle come on there's gotta be a name for it.]

I knew Moffat would refer to HIM as soon as Capaldi was announced. I also know, going by the way Moffat does references like this, IT WILL BE A HOT MESS.

[Face smiling with is tongue poking out emoticon] Watch this make the failbar LAUGHING OUT LOUD.

[Picture is a bunch of white sheep grazing and chilling on a field.]

I have been a lurker in fandoms for years, using sock accounts if really needed. At the beginning of this year, I made my first proper fandom friend. It was awesome. And she gave me the courage to stop lurking in the fandom with her around. It was not hand-holding, just knowing there was someone who knew me helped a lot.

Then, after six months of constant e-mailing, she visited me, because she was on a holiday in my home country. We haven't talked much since she left. I think it's something I did, though I have no idea what it could have been. I've been trying to keep the friendship alive, but it isn't looking too good. It took me seven years to get a first fandom friend and half a year to lose her. And I am back to complete fandom lurker mode. I just can't bring myself to participate, even though it was fun when I did.

Too long; didn't read: Sad lurking anon needs friends to participate in fandom but is shit at making/keeping them and is sad [sad face emoticon].

Picture barely related. I just like sheep.

[Picture is the plastic shape of a hand doing a thumbs-up with the word "Feedback" printed on it.]

One of the Big Name Fans in my fandom recently complained that she got very few comments when she wrote a fic for a fest. Then she and her cronies basically started trashing the mod in the comments. I wanted to say the reason her fic got zero comments was because it was really bad.

Secret 13 is a repeat.

[Picture is Snow White from the Disney animated movie "Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs". She is a teenager with pale skin and short, wavy black hair. She is wearing a red bow on her head, a dress with a yellow skirt and a blue blouse with a high, stiff, white collar and puffy short sleeves with red accents. She is smiling at the viewer and holding and twisting her hands together in a sort of demure pose.]

There is a Big Name Fan in my fandom, who everyone loves. All she has to do is mention she's having a bad day, and the gift!fics and picture spams come flooding in. She runs several fansites, wins awards for her fanfiction and videos, and always tries to welcome new fans to the fandom. Whenever her name comes up people rave on about how sweet and kind she is. She's partially disabled with a severe mental illness, but somehow she always finds time to help other fans, volunteers for charity work, advocates against mental health stigma, is an activist for LGBT rights. Anyone would think she's in the running to be the next Mother Teresa.

The secret... I don't believe any of it, I think she's a liar and a fake. I've been in fandom for years, and all the Big Name Fans I've known have been a bunch of fake ass wankers who hide behind their sycophantic minions. I don't see how she can be any different.

The bigger secret... I've been waiting for her to slip up and show her true colours, but so far she's been too good for that so I've decided I'm going to befriend until I can get enough dirt to knock her off her pedestal.

This probably makes me a misanthrope or something, but fandom deserves to know the truth. NO Big Name Fan can be *that* nice, and it's making me sick watching her take advantage of people with her sweeter than thou act.

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