[ SECRET POST #2456 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2456 ⌋

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

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[China, Illinois]


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03.
[The Mortal Instruments]


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04.
[Community]


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05.
[Hunter x Hunter, Senritsu/Melody]

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06.
[Hetalia]


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07.
[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]


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08.
[It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia]


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09.
[Ghostbusters]


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10.
[Teen Wolf]


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11.
[Malik Ishtar from Yugi-oh Duel Monsters]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 000 secrets from Secret Submission Post #351.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 - ships it ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom]

04. http://i.imgur.com/LZ28xkH.png
[Community]

[(Anonymous)]

Not everyone ships Annie/Jeff, so perhaps it doesn't mean the same thing to them as it does to you.

[dancing_clown]

This. OVerdramatic secret is needlessly overdramatic

[(Anonymous)]

The thing is, most people do ship it and it is the pairing that tends to be used to publicize the show (which is weird for a relationship that is borderline non-canon/barely canon), so I don't think the OP is out of line for assuming.

[(Anonymous)]

Right.

[(Anonymous)]

The thing is, not everyone's in fandom and ships everything. My husband watches Community with me and he doesn't see Jeff/Annie the same way I do.

[(Anonymous)]

That's not how I took it? I thought the OP was just commenting on the fact that while she's like Annie and she knows a Jeff, she could never date him even though she likes the idea of them dating on the show.

I mean, I saw myself and a guy I like in a TV couple and there's no way in hell I'd date the guy IRL. (And of course the couple ended up splitting.)

[unicornherds]

I was thinking the same. Just because OP ships Jeff/Annie doesn't mean the Jeff of the group does. Which I can see still being weird in OPs eyes, I guess.

[herongale]

But she* said in her secret that SHE ships Annie/Jeff. I bet that this self-proclaimed Jeff knows it, too. So by calling her "the Annie" when everyone else in their group has determined he's "the Jeff," it's a kind of annoying dudebro way to say that he thinks that she totally should have for the hots for him.

*assuming secret OP is the same gender as Annie

[(Anonymous)]

UGH, this. I loathe Annie/Jeff. Loathe.

[thene]

arguing over who is which Community character = best way to start frienddrama

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, that's nice!

But... yeah. I definitely know who is who, but even if they know the show I don't say anything. I have a friend who is so Abed, but I don't think she'd appreciate me telling her that. (Come to think of it, her Troy can be a bit Troyish... you're right, this is dangerous.)

[(Anonymous)]

Because someone is inevitably Chevy Chase?

[(Anonymous)]

I think this makes sense. Jeff IRL would probably not be fun to date.

(Am ambivalent about Jeff/Annie myself; I kind of like the idea of them, I guess?)

[(Anonymous)]

I would love for the show to go there, but I fear the execution. Pairing characters up is not something Community does well. Or, y'know, competently.

[(Anonymous)]

You're aware that both characters have personality traits other than their relationship to each other, right?

[(Anonymous)]

I got from the OP's secret that someone else is playing that card on hir, not that s/he agrees with it or thinks it's remotely okay.

[(Anonymous)]

This is my first reaction, too -- you can be the X and Y of a group without being X and Y to each other.

[(Anonymous)]

Stop seeing your lives and identities in terms of who most resembles which character on an NBC drama

tia

[(Anonymous)]

Stop seeing your lives and identities in terms of who most resembles which character on an NBC drama single-cam comedy.

Fixed that 4 ya!

And how is this secret different from the million and one similar secrets that have graced this meme?

[(Anonymous)]

You can be the so-and-so of a group without having to ship yourself with anyone else in a group. For example, I'm generally the Chandler of a group, though I'm a girl, and my husband would be more like a Ross. I don't have to ship Chandler/Ross to see the connections between our personality types.

[(Anonymous)]

I have a best friend who's obviously the Monica of our group. I don't ship myself with her.

[(Anonymous)]

I've always found it amusing that I'm the Rachel, my sister (who is my best friend) is the Monica, and her husband is the Chandler. We fit so perfectly.

OP

[(Anonymous)]

I was debating whether or not I'd comment. Most people understood what I was getting at and those who didn't, that was my own fault for being vague.

My group of friends ships me with the "Jeff" in the group, in real life. So I refuse to allow them to label me as a character that I ship with his character because that would give them more fuel to try to push us together. This happens with every television show we collectively watch in which we are labeled as a popular shipped couple from a show. The "Annie" label though seems to be my last straw, because I'm least like her out of all the other characters they have tried to label me as.

From my end he seems to lean into the expectations the group places on us and one of the reason I resent his pushing the Annie label on me.

I know I shouldn't take fictional character labels so seriously, but I worry he's placing real life expectations on them.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

I feel you, OP. Your friends have got some serious shipping fever, and the "Jeff" is more than happy to oblige this because this is a chance to land himself a SO without any of the legwork.

Let me guess, almost everyone in the circle has a partner and there aren't many singles, am I right? And the circle probably considers this to be more like tying up some loose ends rather than considering your feelings.

It's time to sink this ship. Torpedo that sombitch. They will probably push back with all sorts of 'buts' "But he's such a nice guy..." "But you should give him a chance..." and all that predictable junk about going against your better judgement.

And if you get criticized with the phase "friend zone" well then you know they were really just "Jeff's" friends all along.