[ SECRET POST #2442 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2442 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 045 secrets from Secret Submission Post #349.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom]

01. http://imageshack.com/a/img27/5536/eczs.png

[kaijinscendre]

What are "adult" fandoms? Like anime would be kid fandoms...or?

[kallanda_lee]

I'm thinking like shows targeted as adults, instead of targeted at kids/teens, judging from the secret.

[iceyred]

I honestly can't tell the difference between shows that are targeted for adults and shows for kids.

[(Anonymous)]

Most live action shows that aren't set in a high school (or junior high) are aimed at adults.

[(Anonymous)]

I dislike the trend in media to make 'adult' or 'serious' things that really are just gratuitously brutal/grim/porny/etc. Torchwood was too over-the-top for me, whereas Sarah Jane Adventures, despite being a 'kids show', had characters actually acting in mature and reasonable ways in situations what were realistic without being needlessly depressing.

[(Anonymous)]

My DW fandom friend accurately summed up SJA as "what happens when you can't rely on sex and violence so you have to come up with an actual plot."

Secret 1 - Fandom friendship

[transcriptanon]

[Picture is the children's book "Yip and Yap, a Rand McNally book". It shows two puppies wearing red and blue infant bodysuits.]

Dear fandom and real life friend, I'm sorry I just can't get into your "adult" fandoms like Game of Thrones and Sherlock. I just wish you would stop mocking mine whenever I try to explain why I don't want to watch your shows.

[(Anonymous)]

Those puppies look so sad to be in those clothes.

But like what you like. And tell your friend to their face that the mocking makes you feel bad and knock it the fuck off.

(Friends sometimes tease each other, thinking it's just fun-n-games, and may not have any fucking clue when they're going too far.)

[(Anonymous)]

(Friends sometimes tease each other, thinking it's just fun-n-games, and may not have any fucking clue when they're going too far.)

This, although I'd caution that sometimes they do and just aren't very good friends. But assuming it's the former and not the latter, definitely say "you know what, I'd rather not talk about it anymore." And don't bring it up.

wait until you see the rest of the book

[(Anonymous)]

check out the rest of the book!

http://www.rubylane.com/item/11055-06997/Yip-Yap-Rand-McNally-Book

[(Anonymous)]

Mocking someone else's fandoms is stupid. "Adult" doesn't automatically make it superior.

But then again, I have a wide range of fandoms. I like some "adult" fandoms, but I also like some ones that are targeted to children. I get into a fandom because I like it, regardless of the target audience.

[souljelly]

This, and same here. My current fandom is a 'kids' fandom and it's dorky as heck but hey, it's fun and has its share of good quality fanwork.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't like grimdark fandoms and tend to prefer YA or lighter fare.

I am so hooked on Game of Thrones that it's not funny.

[(Anonymous)]

as a tumblr fanartist who sticks to anime/manga fandoms I've been told more than a few times that I should "graduate" to live action fandoms in order to be taken seriously

wtf

[hamimi_fk]

Wtf indeed!

Sometimes I really think some people think cartoons and animes are drawn and made by kids. -.-;;

[hamimi_fk]

I feel the same sometimes. I'm 27 but still love kids' cartoons and sometimes I dip a toe into one of these fandoms but... I always feel like people judge you a bit for doing that. Like, 'how dare you write these characters older and in sexual situations or dealing with rl problems that aren't kid-friendly fanfare you're messing with my childhood and/or these kid characters', and so I always feel weird whenever I get an idea for one of the 'kid' fandoms. =\

Still, I like a bit of everything and don't feel guilty for writing what I write, no matter the original age range of the series.

[(Anonymous)]

I will never understand people who can't understand that you can like both, or either, and it doesn't reflect on you as a person. Your friend sounds like one of these people.

Geesh. I like Sherlock and Supernatural and all that, but you can have my Disney fandoms when I'm dead.

[iggy]

Ugh I hate when people do this.

Let's be real the storytelling and characterization in something like Avatar: The Last Airbender is more sophisticated and mature than half the 'adult shows' out there.

(Actually recently I've started watching a lot MORE anime again. I haven't watched as much as I've been watching lately since I was under twenty. And hell I'm an English major but most of the books I read are YA.)

[(Anonymous)]

I feel really bad for all the people in the pushy-friend secrets :( It sucks that there are so many friends out there that don't know when to step back and stop the recommendations

/has some friends like this but thankfully after a discussion they've realised a "no" upfront means flatout not interested versus an "ooh maybe"

[forgottenjester]

Your friend sounds like a butt. You should tell them they're being a butt. And if they don't change you should eat them.

[fangirlism]

I hate people that act snobbish about other people's interests. Live and let live, you know?

And I say this as someone who has both "adult" fandoms (Entourage, The Social Network) and "childish" fandoms (Ben 10, Harvest Moon)

CS Lewis said

[ozaline]

Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

Late and OT but...

[(Anonymous)]

I'm sorry about your situation, OP, but ngl, my principal reaction this secret was HOLY FUCKING SHIT YIP AND YAP.

It's been years since I saw that book, and now I feel old.

[(Anonymous)]

Seeing the scare quotes around "adult," I do wonder whether you're able to tell your friend "I like what I like" without launching into a diatribe about how the stuff they like is "depressing" or "pretentious" or "about boring 30somethings doing boring mundane shit."