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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2013-10-10 06:49 pm

[ SECRET POST #2473 ]


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(Anonymous) 2013-10-10 11:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Whenever someone says something isn't an adult thing to do, I immediately think it makes them sound childish, or at least very young. Once you are an adult you realize adults are just children in bigger bodies with credit cards who are flailing around still trying to figure shit out and we're all way more immature than we're 'supposed' to be, lol

(Anonymous) 2013-10-10 11:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Same here.
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[personal profile] kaijinscendre 2013-10-10 11:23 pm (UTC)(link)
I read fanfic to decompress from a long, awful day at work. To forget about my $20,000 in student loans and to stop worrying about how I am going to pay my bills.
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[personal profile] queerwolf 2013-10-10 11:23 pm (UTC)(link)
This
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[personal profile] ninety6tears 2013-10-10 11:32 pm (UTC)(link)
This is such a good comment.
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[personal profile] sarastark 2013-10-10 11:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes! I always assumed as an adult I would understand grown up things. Now I'm a 32 year old mom with 1 1/2 kids, a grown up job, and a husband and I still feel like I'm playing house. I've even started wearing pearls when I clean so it feels more like a game than work. :)

And if I want to unwind after the kiddo goes to bed with some fanfic, who does it hurt?

(Anonymous) 2013-10-11 08:38 pm (UTC)(link)
How very Donna Reed of you ;)

(Anonymous) 2013-10-10 11:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Excellent comment.

(Anonymous) 2013-10-10 11:52 pm (UTC)(link)
So very true, well said.

And this C.S. Lewis quote also applies here, too:
"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.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."
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[personal profile] cakemage 2013-10-11 03:03 am (UTC)(link)
I was wondering if someone would quote C.S. Lewis here. Thank you for saving me the trouble of doing it myself!
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[personal profile] fleshisyummy 2013-10-11 12:01 am (UTC)(link)
I didn't say it was a bad thing that it wasn't adult-like? That's why I like fanfic. I get to act more like a kid. When I'm at work talking to people who are much older than me, it's kind of taxing because I feel like I kind of have to put up a front of maturity.

When I read and write fanfic, I get to be more childish and silly than I have to appear IRL.

(Anonymous) 2013-10-11 12:30 am (UTC)(link)
I mentioned nothing about good or bad in my comment.

Those people who are much older than you probably daydream about being Superman, too.

You sound very young.
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[personal profile] fleshisyummy 2013-10-11 12:42 am (UTC)(link)
You're right. I am young.

I just thought you were annoyed by comment, so I was trying to articulate my point better.
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[personal profile] electromouse 2013-10-11 01:24 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, this was my experience with transitioning from teen to adulthood. I was terrified becauase I thought I was going to go through some sort of personality change but nope, still the same just with more responsibilities and still figuring shit out.