[ SECRET POST #2449 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2449 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 041 secrets from Secret Submission Post #350.
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]

04. http://i.imgur.com/i1i4ZTM.png

[bored_bitch]

I feel this way about any kind of fandom thing that people claim "changed their life."

[(Anonymous)]

Fandom taught me that the world wouldn't always be, more or less, secretly repulsed by my sexuality or the slightest mention of it and yes, I did in fact want a girlfriend. Name one other space where queerness is as expected and not worth commenting on as journal fandom.

[(Anonymous)]

judging by your comment here and the ones in the thread above I think you might be in the wrong place

[arrowslinging]

jesus christ, you really are on your high horse about people being invested in fandom, aren't you?
fandom helped me cope with my sexuality. fandom is infinitely more accepting of my mental disorders than the other people in my life. fandom helps me express myself creatively in a way that was mostly stifled by my school and work place. fandom meta and analysis taught me a great deal about feminism and social justice.
i made a number of incredibly tight friends that i wouldn't have met without fandom, friends that can cope with my social anxiety and ticks the way no other person before did, not even my family.
just because you personally haven't experienced it doesn't mean that it's pathetic or depressing when people do. how is fandom any different from any other group experience like a church or what have you that normally changes peoples' lives? expand your fricking horizon.

[(Anonymous)]

you should probably stop coming here. because anyone who is invested enough to have fandom-related SECRETS are exactly the type of people you hold yourself above. fuck off, we don't want you.

[(Anonymous)]

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/h?ammem/scsmbib:@field(DOCID+@lit(scsm000163))

this is a song written about abraham lincoln for his death using les miserables as a theme

but fiction being an important cultural touchstone is clearly bullshit so we better chuck this one out. thanks for enlightening us here on fandomsecrets bored_bitch

[(Anonymous)]

Why comment so much on fandom stuff and thought processes if you don't care about them that much?

[(Anonymous)]

For a person who posts on FandomSecrets, you certainly seem anti-fandom. Like, first you go on and on about not empathizing with characters when that is HUGE part of why fandom is so prolific, then you pity people whose lives have been changed by fandom.

I'm just not understanding your angle here today. If you're a part of a fandom, you know how intense it can be. Fandom is the only good thing some people have. Some kids come from bad homes, they have no friends in school, they have little personal freedom...fandom is a GOOD thing. Yet you seem to be putting a lot of energy into minimizing it's impact.

[(Anonymous)]

what if someone had a shitty life, shitty parents or some horrible thing happened to them causing them trauma, and the fandom gave them joy when things are hard? Gave them a light when everything else was bad.

Would that ~depress~ you?

If so fuck you.

[(Anonymous)]

Slow clap of approval (and I mean this honestly, not yanking your chain) for you.

[bored_bitch]

It could depress them in the sense that the people posting things like this don't have meaningful real life experiences to "change their life," and instead HAVE to rely on fandom stuff.
As in, they feel bad for them.

Or that's what I gathered.

Secret 4 - Homestuck

[transcriptanon]

[Picture is a tumblr post with a drawing of the first two main casts of the webcomic "Homestuck". (The "Trolls": Karkat, Aradia, Tavros, Sollux, Nepeta, Kanaya, Terezi, Vriska, Equius, Gamzee, Eridan and Nepeta; and the "Beta Kids": Jade, John, Rose and Dave.) It has the title/text: "Reblog if they changed your life." It has 17,112 notes (people who "liked" it and "reblogged" it).]

This seriously depresses me.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah it depresses me that Tumblr people tend not to source their images correctly!

[vethica]

+1

[(Anonymous)]

Other people's happiness and enthusiasm depresses you?

[(Anonymous)]

You're depressed because over 17 thousand people had their lives changed in some way by media that doesn't hurt anyone? I can't even imagine what your life must be like. Or why you're in Fandom!Secrets, for that matter.

[nailtek]

idk, as someone formerly in the fandom i'd say that it changed my life or at least some parts of it, by way of helping me meet a fair few people who i bonded and made friends with. granted we have shared interests beyond homestuck but we wouldn't have met if it weren't for the fandom.
so i wouldn't consider a reason like that "depressing", homestuck is (or was when i read it) basically catered to shut-in/socially awkward teens so if they get out of the house and go to a con or something and make some friends to hang out with that's not a bad thing.

i dunno if that would really "count" though, since it's more an end result of the fandom that spawned from the source material and not the source itself.

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[insanenoodlyguy]

I'm reblogging this!

[(Anonymous)]

I seem to have read this the opposite way of everyone else. I thought they were sad because ONLY 17,000ish people reblogged.

How does it depress you?

[elephantinegrace]

Because the number is smaller or bigger than you expected? If it's smaller than you expected, then hey, it's still pretty big and the size of the fandom doesn't matter so much as the people in that fandom and how they relate to each other. If it's bigger than you expected, well, pretty much everything changes your life in some way, and just because a television show is less necessary to survival than, say, toilet paper doesn't mean the effect of its discovery on a person's life is any less important.

[al28894]

...because they didn't change your life like others did?

[cbrachyrhynchos]

I'll just drop this here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkbpmFOuKrc

[rbhudson]

Why? Why can't something fandom-related change a person's life? My first tattoo was the Deathly Hallows because Harry Potter changed my life, you going to judge me too?

[(Anonymous)]

Strange. Am I the only one read the secret as OP being sad specifically about 'Homestuck' inspiring people instead of some other, 'worthier' media?