[ SECRET POST #2416 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2416 ⌋

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Comments

[fscom]

12. http://i.imgur.com/jolpLTF.jpg?2

[feotakahari]

I'm trying to think of a fandom that has camping!fic. Some fantasy fandoms have fics about long journeys, but I'm used to those writers having at least some idea of what a long trek without modern conveniences would be like.

[(Anonymous)]

Confused because how can the author be writing something other than what they're describing. Is "camping rough" in the fic summary or something? I've never heard that term before in my life.
This is about one specific fanfic, isn't it.

[dinogrrl]

Maybe OP is trying to disguise the term 'roughing it' so that the specific fic is less easily found? I dunno.
But I kinda agree with the sentiment.

[transcriptanon]

[Picture is some people camping on a rural-forest-type of place, with a mountain? right next to them. The trees are tall and leave enough of a clearing for the people to set up next to their dark van (which has the back door and one of the side doors open), put a table over boxes, make a fireplace from a box? and set up a sleeping tent. There are two men and two women, all have light skin. One man is crouching down next to the table, wearing a green hat, a light and dark tartan shirt, denim pants and a red vest. A woman is sitting and resting against the table, wearing a brown hat, a light yellow long-sleeved shirt and salmon pants. Another man is sitting at a chair next to the fireplace wearing a light gray hat, a light and dark gray or blue tartan shirt and denim pants, and the last woman is sitting at another chair next to the fireplace wearing a light gray blouse and shorts or skirt, along with dark boots. Oh, and there is a small light brown dog sitting at her feet. Anyway, they seem to have a good deal of urban amenities along with them. Nothing "rough" about their campsite.]

If you write your characters camping rough and describe it like this I stop reading.

The camping fandom is so lame

[chardmonster]

I mean one moment they're alienating you for preferring some kind of outdoor toilet to a hole in the ground and the next they're shipping REI and Eastern Mountain Sports together

Re: The camping fandom is so lame

[(Anonymous)]

Ugh don't forget those who discriminate over whether you sleep in just a sleeping bag or if you bring a blow up mattress! People can do both!

[(Anonymous)]

This is an odd secret but I do get it, OP. I did Gold DofE. Camping isn't pretty fairy lights and glamorous sunset evenings. Camping is trekking across a freezing campsite at four am in flip flops getting your feet wet to use some damp toilet paper, and trying to keep everything you have with you on that tiny little itty bitty porch to save it being ruined by the dew.

Fuck man I love camping.

[(Anonymous)]

...to save it being ruined by the dew eaten by bears

FTFY

[(Anonymous)]

No. If bears are a concern, the porch will not help. I believe you have to put it in an airtight metal container and hang it in the middle of a clearing.

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

I was being facetious. "Being ruined by the dew" is the least of one's worries for one's stuff if one is camping anywhere reasonably nature-based. :-)

[(Anonymous)]

It's...both of those things.

I don't see how the hardships of camping nullify the beautiful things about it. Do True Campers just convince themselves that nothing about their activity is enjoyable in order to, I don't know, feel more badass and "pure?"

[(Anonymous)]

Where I'm from, my friends all go camping and they mean one of two things. They either mean they're taking their big ass camper an hour or two away to stay at a campground that has a pool OR they're going to their fishing camp, which is essentially a home away from home. Nobody ever means getting a tent and sleeping bag and roughing it.

Traditionally, camping means tents and wilderness, but the word has expanded to mean much more. Just staying away from home period is camping to some people. People camp out in lines for things, they camp out in living rooms for movie marathons. Hell, they even camp spawn points in games. So basically, different strokes for different folks.

[fingalsanteater]

Just staying away from home is camping to some people? People from where?

Staying in a camper in the wilderness I'll accept. But, staying in a hotel or resort or house you rent or own that just happens to be situated in the wilderness IS NOT CAMPING.

Camping out in line is a totally different kind of "camping" that has nothing do with the wilderness and everything to do with one of the definitions of camping being to "lodge temporarily in an uncomfortable place."

[(Anonymous)]

Having gone through basic training a tent at this point is like staying in a Hilton.

[(Anonymous)]

camping sure is serious business!!!

I live by REI's Original Store. I draw power from it.

[(Anonymous)]

My friends and I distinguish between "car camping" (what the people in that pic are doing) and "backpacking" (carrying EVERYTHING on your back, including water purifiers and trowels for digging holes for toilets). And then there's serious backpacking, like the Pacific Coast Trail where you are hiking for months.

Of course, some people think being in a hotel without wireless is "roughing it." YMMV.

[(Anonymous)]

We don't camp any more. We got either thunderstorms or torrential rain every time. Every. Time.

[(Anonymous)]

okay I laughed at this secret and all the comments in this thread because I can relate so much. I love to go camping, and while I don't do the really rough camping for the most part, it drives me crazy when people say they are going on a camping trip and they end up in a trailer park with a billion other people who are all there to party all night or whatever.
I like to camp to get away from people and get to enjoy some of the wilderness, I don't want to go camping and end up in a parking lot with people.

[(Anonymous)]

Lol, I too am a camp snob. I think it depends on the characters/point of the story, though. I mean, I think it would be sort of amusing to have a relatively sheltered/prissy character believe that the sort of camping in your pic is really "roughing it", you know? I have these friends; they can be really hilarious, or even really obnoxious to the more serious camper/outdoorsy types.

For the record, this is actually how my friends and I usually camp. Not so much with the lights, but we tend to set up little tent villages out by the lake. It's fun and a nice way to get outdoors with everybody. If I want to do more serious camping, I have to drive a lot farther, and only the bff will go with me at that point. It's still fun, but a lot less convenient or affordable.

[(Anonymous)]

Camping is like volunteering to be homeless and then paying for it.

[(Anonymous)]

it really is, but its worth it sometimes ha ha