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[ SECRET POST #2515 ]

⌈ Secret Post #2515 ⌋

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[ER]

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[Pacific Rim]

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[Assassin's Creed 2]

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[El Goonish Shive]

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[Trigun]

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[Ellen Muth, Cara Delevingne, Doutzen Kroes, Denise Richards, Billie Piper]

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[Dodgeball]

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[football rps]

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10. http://rs954.pbsrc.com/albums/ae23/fandomsecretsaccount2/Mobile%20Uploads/Peter_zps7113afe9.png~320x480
[Peter is the Wolf; OP requested link for nudity]

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[bandslash]

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03. http://i.imgur.com/SbO8baO.png
[Pacific Rim]

They're only friends because they went through a war filled with deaths and destruction together.

I'm sure you can find friends with less destructive cement. Give it time.

They also weren't even friends until the very end. It's not like they were lifelong bffs.

They could have been, the movie doesn't show us one way or another (ignoring existence of movie novelization which I have not read).

i might be remembering this wrong, but in the supplemental material on the dvd, it said that newt and hermann were internet friends before meeting each other in real life, and shared ideas and all that, and then they met irl and took an instant dislike to each other

so they were friends online, and then they had to learn how to be friends again in real life

(although i'm not sure if that supplemental material even counts as canon since it got newt's age wrong but it's the only somewhat official thing we have about how they met, so i'll take it)

That's actually cute as hell.

Oh, that is actually a great backstory for them if it's canon! I tend to ignore supplementary material unless it's a gag reel, tbh. I shell out for the blu-rays for the EYE BLEEDING HD but then never watch the featurettes/making-of's/countless other special features.

Well, technically the OP said nothing about being friends with their Hermann.

OP

While I hope this is true, I have my doubts. The fact that they worked together in the military as scientists most likely dissuaded most of the negative traits of academic rivalry. It's not like anyone is going to punk someone else's work, because they can't publish their findings in an academic journal, as they would have had to have signed NDAs and everything.

Sure they have interpersonal working problems, but for myself personally, those I can handle. I would rather have a bit of interpersonal problems than little confidence or trust in my colleagues when it comes to work related matters.

Idk what you study, but I kind of get it. I thought I was going totally bonkers until I got close with another woman in my field. We approach things a bit differently, but apparently I am good at keeping her motivated/inspired, and she is definitely great at letting me know when I need a little restraint or to step off a project for a while.

It can get weird and lonely, for sure, to have other people have no idea what you're talking about, because you've gotten so specialized and focused. I don't think it's so much about ~smart~ as it is about having someone there who knows how and why you dive into the research and the work and end up way down the rabbit hole, and knows how to pull you back out for your own good.

OP

My field's kind of interdisciplinary, but I tend to comprise the social sciences section while most of my colleagues are in engineering or hard science.

And this is exactly what I mean, what you're describing. It's not necessarily about friendship, but at least a sense of not being alone in what you're driving toward in your research, especially if the other person is as motivated as you are.

I'm the type of person to throw myself into my research and get in over my head, and that can sort of take its toll. Even if not a friend, then just having someone that I work closely with who can help me dig myself back out. Or just yell at me from the top that I'm an idiot and need to stop. I'd do it for them, after all.

LOL @ that guy's face lines. (0)

You can always try to make friends outside your field, anon, or at least get to know some others within it and take time to do stuff that's not related to your research. I know, for example, some of the professors in a certain department at my school go out for drinks together on Friday night. I have no idea what environment you are working in, but taking time to do non-work related stuff, even if it's with work people, can be very healthy. (Sorry if you've already thought about all this and it's really unhelpful. I wish I could be more helpful. ^^;)

I'm really curious now. If you don't mind my asking, what is your field?

Actually, Hermann and Newton aren't in the same field (Hermann's a mathematician, Newton's a biologist), but I guess (this wasn't in the movie, but in... the novelization, or something) they corresponded and talked about their work.

Oh, I haven't seen the movie. I was just talking about a general situation of "I'm obsessed with my work and it's making me lonely". And OP mentioned they were on the "bleeding edge" of their field so now I'm really curious as to what that field is

OP

Oh it's not that I'm necessarily isolated within my field-- the area where I work is so new and constantly changing that it nets in disciplines from all over the map. I'm social science where my colleagues are engineers and hard science. It's just more that... I suppose that I wish I had a more structured environment period, where I'm working more closely with people. As it is, I'm mostly doing work on my own. I guess I hope that I can find my own and get the chance to work alongside people, and develop a strong familiar and working relationship.

I would share more details about what I'd do, but I'm afraid it would identify me fairly easily. I'm the only one who does what I do.

Well best of luck getting to work with other people. :)

I was really let down by their relationship. I didn't read it as strong or as positive as the rest of fandom did. :T

A lot of that positivity is fanon, not canon. They both were brilliant scientists, but they didn't exactly respect each other or each other's ideas until they had to absolutely work together to save the world.

For real; I read it as borderline-hostility for the first 2/3 of the movie. To me they did not act like friends in any capacity until they drifted.

DID YOU SEE THE SHIT THAT WENT DOWN WHEN PEOPLE FOUND OUT HERM WAS MARRIED

and it was even worse when it turned out his wife's job is as a model. :( Basically sexism all around. Actually, for a giant fanbase on tumblr it has a surprisingly "loud" portion of sexists and racists in the fandom :/ They get told off a lot, but it doesn't stop them. On the flip side, the SJW's in the fandom are also rather batshit. Hopefully it will settledown in time

You mean people were annoyed by yet another example of nerdy guy/hot girl, presented in side canon purely for NO HOMO rather than making the character a character in her own right?

Well, I'm shocked. Shocked, I say.

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My first impression was "fighting like a married couple" then as the movie went on it did seem kind of like they honestly disliked each other, but I caught a bit in their drift. Maybe I misinterpreted it, but I got the impression Hermann never really had anyone who understood him until Newt, and since most of the memories after that were seemingly positive ones of the two of them interacting, I thought they at least had some affection for each other.

Personally I'm a sucker for those pairings in which one character is "the only one able to/allowed to [whatever]" but a platonic relationship like what I got from the flashbacks is equally sweet.

I am a Gottlieb. I don't think I would want a Newt in my life. He's way too chaotic.

I had someone who was into my studies, for a while. It was so nice to have someone outside my training to vent about stuff with, and she gave me a great outlet. I also valued that she didn't tune out when I started using jargon, but asked questions and really got me thinking about the things I was learning and how I could pass them on to others in a concise manner. And boy was she great for getting out of my hermitude. The only downside was when she got SO into my field she started coming up with projects for us to do together...

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