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⌈ Secret Post #2524 ⌋

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[Picture is Mad Moxxi and Tiny Tina from the videogame "Borderlands 2". Mad Moxxi is a woman with light skin painted with a light purple dust?, and make-up on her cheeks, lips and eyes. She is wearing a sort of circus ringmaster outfit, consisting of a purple suit jacket with a low neckline, golden buttons and trims, and the wristbands and neck have fabric with thick black and white stripes. She is wearing a matching purple tophat, also with a black white stripe on the band. Tiny Tina is a woman with tanned skin, short blond hair and gray eyes. She is wearing a sleeveless dress, a detached gray sleeve on her right arm, and a sort of apron thing around her waist with the picture of a cute animal. It seems she is wearing pants/trousers too? She has a band-aid over her nose.]

I found them both to be very annoying, Tina more so than Moxxi. I wish I could say why, but they just really, really got on my nerves. I liked Claptrap better than either of them.

Apparently this makes me a bad fan and sexist even though all the other female characters are awesome.

Also, how come no one else ever gets fanart? It's always, ALWAYS Moxxi!

Edited 2014-01-04 20:34 (UTC)

[Picture is a colored image by "daaakota" where John Watson and Mary Morstan are kissing on the street, while Sherlock Holmes looks on from his window in contempt.]

Not Secret: I'm a huge Holmes/Watson shipper.

Secret: Holmes was such an unappreciative passive-aggressive pill at the start of The Sign of Four that I totally cheered when Mary stole Watson away with her sweetness and left Holmes all alone.

Secret Because: Fanfic has assured me that these two opinions are incompatible, for some reason.

[Picture is one of the first panels from the webcomic "Homestuck". It shows a young boy with eyeglasses and the instruction "Enter name."]

I gave up on Homestuck when I realized I didn't get to pick his name.

[Picture is the cover of the fifth season of the anime "Hetalia: Axis Powers"? It shows the entire cast of the series and has the text: "Beautiful World! Hetalia Axis Powers".]

When I was in Highschool, I didn't know what I really wanted to do. I laid down my choices to two: history and law. I picked law because I wanted to work in EU institutions and that was motivated primarily by Hetalia and its fandom.

Now I'm doing an LLM in International law, loving every second of it and I have no regret whatsoever. I am glad that it was a push in the right direction. (Except homework, that's still a freaking pain.)

EU = European Union, I think?

LLM = The Master of Laws is an advanced academic degree, pursued by those holding a professional law degree, and is commonly abbreviated LL.M, from the Latin Legum Magister (meaning "master of laws").

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LLM

[Picture is the actor, comedian and television host Greg Proops, known from the UK and U.S. versions of the TV series "Whose Line Is It Anyway?". He is a middle-aged man with light skin and short brown hair wearing eyeglasses and a dark suit. He is smiling for the camera.]

I'm starting to find him kind of annoying.

[Picture is a photograph of a small kitten with the caption "Cause mischief?" and below the options "Yes" and "No". The words are positioned to look like the cat is trying to reach the "Yes" option with its paw.]

I recently made my first ever Tumblr just to gank images/gifs of an actor I like. I have no idea how to interact, or even act, on Tumblr, or if I'm going to offend people by following them from an account that has nothing posted. Would it bug people if I made a single post saying "I'm just here for the pics"?

On the other hand, I find that I have a childish urge to do weird yet ultimately innocuous shit just to see if I can piss off some rabid Social Justice Warriors.

[Picture is Rachel Berry and Sam Evans from the TV series "Glee". Rachel is a woman with light olive skin and long brown hair, wearing a white blouse with polka dots. Sam is a man with light olive skin, short blond hair reaching the top of his neck and wearing a short-sleeved light gray and bluish-green tartan shirt. They are dancing together.]

This caught my shipper self so hard. It just works for me and I don't know why. It's even got me hooked again (at least for a couple more episodes).

Secret Because: Who cares? It's Glee, I barely even hate watch this show anymore. Plus it's way too soon for Rachel to move on and they basically play musical partnership with the characters.

[Picture is Taissa Farmiga, actress, and Vera Farmiga, actress and director. They are sisters with very similar facial features, although Vera is two decades Taissa's senior. They both have light skin and brown hair. They are sitting on a couch and laughing together. Vera has an arm slung over Taissa's shoulder, who is reaching for her hand.]

I want them to star in a movie together.

[Picture is a cropped screen-capture of an "Archive Of Our Own" fanfiction page, which only says "by orphan_account, 16 Nov 2013"]

I always wonder what happened when I see an orphan account on a recently active story (especially an incomplete one, since I guess it could be used to anonymize something kinky). I always thought it took longer to drift so far out of fandom you don't want to leave evidence. Was the author driven away from the fandom? Did they suddenly become so mortified by these particular stories that they wanted to renounce them? Did they get a real life publishing contract? What happened?

(The fandom distribution is uneven enough that I guess it's probably really some new subculture thing, orphaning an account to announce you've left the fandom, which seems really silly because what if you change your mind? But I still wonder.)

[Picture is Katniss Everdeen, as portrayed by Jennifer Lawrence, from the movie adaptations of the book series "The Hunger Games". She is a young woman with light olive skin and long dark hair pulled back. She is wearing a dark coat, half-crouching in what looks like the edge of a forest or field, and carrying a quiver of arrows.]

I relate to Katniss a lot, personality-wise. I say this as a war veteran, and an older sister. I get her reactions to things, her need to survive, above all else, and keep her sister alive as well. I especially understand her anger and grief when she fails.

I love the epilogue, and get unreasonably upset when people talk about how much they hate it. Maybe she just wanted to rest. Be normal. Allow herself to love and trust that she could have a family again. None of them seem to have any idea what's it like to hate yourself and what you've become. To want soft. To want normal.

Secret Because: People are allowed to have opinions, and you are too old for this sort of temper tantrum. Also, I'm worried that by relating to her this much, I need therapy. Katniss is a mess by the end of the series.

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Transcripts!

Secret 1 - Borderlands 2 (videogame), Mad Moxxi (character), Tiny Tina (character)

Secret 2 - The Sign of Four (Sherlock Holmes novel)

Secret 3 - Homestuck

Secret 4 - Hetalia: Axis Powers (anime and manga)

Notes

Secret 5 - Greg Proops (comedian, actor, TV host of Whose Line Is It Anyway?)

Secret 6 - Tumblr, fandom, social justice warriors, trolling

Secret 7 - Glee (TV series)

Secret 8 - Taissa Farmiga (actress), Vera Farmiga (actress and director)

Secret 9 - Fanfiction writers, Archive of Our Own (fanfiction archive), orphaned accounts

Secret 10 - The Hunger Games (book trilogy), Katniss Everdeen (character)