[ SECRET POST #2429 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2429 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Arrested Development]


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03.
[George R.R. Martin]


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04.
[Bee and PuppyCat]


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05.
[Harry Potter]


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06.
[Resident Evil 6]


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07.
[The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings]


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08.
[Naruto]


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09.
[Jin, Hanzawa Naoki]


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10.
[Neverwinter Nights]


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11.
[Shina Dark]


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12.
[Thomas Gibson from the series Criminal Minds]












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Comments

[honk]

ok i gotta know

for those of you in your 20s do you ever talk to teenagers and shit online and maybe become internet friends with them ?? cuz idk i'm 24 and i suddenly feel fuckin weird talking to 16yos but sometimes you really like them as people and as friends and then you find out theyre like 8 years younger than you but. it's too late. you're already friends. you blew it. ur gonna look like an asshole if you cut off contact with them JUST because of their age like if you really enjoy their company and shit does it matter to you guys??

i'm jw cuz i feel really freaked out right now realising i probably shouldn't be talking to 16/17yos anymore unless i'm tutoring them or smth. it never bugged me before but it just now dawned on me that wow what am i even doing talking to these people ? ? i mean they know i'm 24 it's not like i'm pretending to be younger and they seem fine with it but like??? i don't think i'm fine with it anymore. basically i just wanna know if i seem like a creepy weirdo

i just kinda shriveled up and am completely detached from these friendships now lmao and this was all really sudden

ftr i have a lot of irl friends that are my age or a few years older/younger and i don't form close friendships online but i do enjoy talking to the people i talk to on the internet. long story but it's therapeutic for me sometimes when irl shit gets too hectic. so i never really cared who i talked to but now i find that i kinda do, but mostly because i'm afraid others have this stigma towards it and i don't want people to call the cops or some shit u feel me

[thene]

I think you're overthinking it. Did you never talk to older people when you were that age? I did, and I found the chance to talk to older people was valuable. I kinda worry that the social dislocation between teenagers and twentysomethings is preventing people from passing on valuable information to others, and leads to more people having that ambushed-by-life feeling after college.

I don't think I have any teenage online friends right now, but there's a couple of people I met when I was mid-20s and they were 16/17 who I'm still friends with now they're in their 20s. It's not like those friendships magically only became fulfilling when those people turned 20, is it?

[honk]

yeah, i did. i had a few of them honestly and i personally had no problem with it but

mostly i am just thinking about it because this guy i talk to acted really surprised/almost appalled today when he found out i was 24?? i don't know how he didn't already know, it's not like i keep it a secret. but now i just feel weirded out by myself, like when i was younger and i talked to older people i did so knowing they were older than me. i just feel like ? the guy wouldn't have started talking to me if he knew how old i was. he "joked" about unfollowing me on twitter for something unrelated but i don't really think it was about that, nor a joke. i think it's because he's not comfortable talking to me now knowing how much older than him i am, and i'm just worried other people i talk to might share this feeling.

and yeah i feel you. i just can't shake the feeling of being a creeper ?___? i only talk to a couple of people that young, the rest are also in their twenties. and that guy i was talking about - plus my other young friends - talk to people who are 21, 22, and that's not that much younger than me. eh i am probably overthinking it a lot but that's a constant pattern in my life

[greenvelvetcake]

Going by the writing style... are you sure you're 24?

[honk]

yea im positive but thanks for ur input socrates

[(Anonymous)]

this reply made my day, ty :)

[(Anonymous)]

I have a lot of younger online friends, and when I was younger, I had a lot of older online friends. It happens. You're being honest about your age and you don't have any ulterior motives. If they think you're a creep, they can very well cut off contact with you just as easily as you can with them.

Personally, when I was younger, it was really comforting to have older friends who had more experience than I did, but were still on my level and could give me advice or just sympathize when things went to shit. They gave me perspectives I couldn't get from my peers, and that was really awesome.

The thing is, the more you think about it, the bigger deal you're gonna make of it, and that's what's gonna make it weird. You're focused on numbers and not on the idea that they're just people who have the same interests you do and just like talking to you. Just ignore it and don't make a big deal out of it.

[honk]

yeah see i talk to this other kid who's a year younger than the guy i mentioned in an above comment and i think he appreciates my input re: college and stuff? it's kinda hard to tell, he's not very forthcoming with affection so idk if he even pays attention to what i say. but i know i've appreciated people who've reassured me about future things through their own experience, and i know i've reassured people younger than me in this way as well.

but you're right, the more i think about it the more it bothers me. it's not really the numbers that bother me personally, it's knowing that they probably bother other people. they've just stigmatised it for me now. i guess i shouldn't care what they think tho

[(Anonymous)]

Pfft, I'm 42 and I'll talk to anybody online without knowing or caring how old they are, or hiding my own age either. Granted, teeny bopper angst and drama do wear pretty thin sometimes, and obviously if conversation or roleplay or whatever veer into decidedly adult territory I'll check ages before proceeding, but otherwise--nah, who cares?

If you haven't said or done anything inappropriate, but some twerp can't handle interacting with someone who's reached the UNFATHOMABLY ANCIENT age of 24, that's their problem.

[honk]

nope nothing illegal on my end they should all be well aware that i'm not that stupid and also not interested whatsoever. like that's not even a thing that comes up (aside from jokes? if those count). they know i have a boyfriend and i'm not invested in the internet like that lmao so there's not even a way for them to misunderstand anything. i guess i really shouldn't... think of it as weird unless i'm tryna bang them

[(Anonymous)]

Are you trying to have sex with them? Are you planning to have sex with them? Do you want to have sex with them? Do you think about having sex with them while you're talking to them?

No?

Then there is no issue here. Despite how paranoid our culture can get with the THINK-OF-THE-CHILDRUNS!!!1eleventy-one, talking to people - even young people - is not against the law.

Also, we're not talking about hanging around the playground talking to eight year olds because that's the only level of conversation that appeals to you. 16-17 year olds are pretty close to being adults, many of them think and talk pretty much more like adults and fandom is for everyone.
Hell, I've had some fun conversations with my twelve year old nephew about Star Trek. :D

[honk]

well to be fair i do tease ALL my friends sometimes about us being married and i guess some ppl might consider that sexual harassment but i make it really obvious i'm 13242395209% not attracted to anybody online regardless or their age

but yeah i like the way you think and i've come to realise i really don't have a problem with the stigma as long as the people i talk to don't either, everyone else can eat it

[(Anonymous)]

All the textspeak would have me thinking you're in your teens, too. Insult me too if you like ("thanks for ur input socrates"? Seriously?), but that may well be the reason why people think you're younger than 24.

That said, I don't think the age gap is a huge deal among friends. It might be a cause for worry if ALL your friends are teenagers and you don't have any friends your own age or older, but it might also mean that for whatever reason, you relate more easily to people who are younger.

[honk]

ok i literally don't give a shit about your personal opinion regarding what age you project me to be i am 24 that is a fact sorry

everybody i talk to is aware i am in my twenties it's just that one dude who seemed surprised i was 24 and not like 21 which ... the difference seems so negligible to me when youre talking about being friends with someone idk

i think some of you should focus less on the stylisation of my comments and more on the content. but tbh i think i have enough answers so w/e

[morieris]

Off the top of my head, I think some of my closest internet friends are 14, 16, 18, 19, 26, 22 and I'm 20.