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[ SECRET POST #2559 ]

⌈ Secret Post #2559 ⌋

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Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 062 secrets from Secret Submission Post #366.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 2 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 1 - repeat ].
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[Picture is three different screen-captures from the movie "Sweet Charity". Two of them are group dances, the last one has a single woman dancing on a street.]

I never get turned on by movies, or much of anything really. But I can't watch more than a scene or two of this movie without having to leave the room for some private time.

Is 'Bob Fosse's choreography' a valid sexuality?

[Picture is Benedict Arnold as he was portrayed in the cartoon "The Fairly OddParents". He is a man with light skin, short black hair with sideburns, blue eyes, an old-fashioned American Revolution era military suit and a devilish grin.]

I honestly thought that Benedict Arnold was some sort of cartoon villain. I'm not American and most stuff is just translated without a lot of context but still.

Benedict Arnold was a general during the American Revolutionary War who originally fought for the American Continental Army but defected to the British Army.

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

warning for gore

[Picture is Michonne, as portrayed by Danai Gurira, and The Governor, as portrayed by David Morrissey, from the TV series "The Walking Dead". Michonne is a woman with dark skin, long black hair and wearing a gray headband. The Governor is a man with light skin and short dark hair wearing dark clothing. Michonne is stabbing him in the eye, and he is screaming.]

After watching the midseason finale, I've been having these really intense sex dreams where Michonne fucks the Governor's eye socket with a strap-on.

Edited 2014-01-04 21:46 (UTC)

[Picture is private detective Milton Arbogast, as portrayed by Martin Balsam, and Norman Bates, as portrayed by Anthony Perkins, from the 1960 movie "Psycho". The detective has his back to the camera and is talking with Norman Bates somewhere indoors. The picture is in black and white. They both have light skin and dark hair, although the detective is wearing a classic detective suit and hat while Norman is wearing more "everyday person" clothing.]

I wish I could enjoy Psycho, but I can't stand to watch this scene (where Arbogast interrogates Norman Bates) because it makes me feel really uncomfortable. I know it's intentionally meant to be uncomfortable to watch, but I get so much second-hand embarrassment watching Norman attempt to lie about Marion's whereabouts that I have to fastforward the scene.

This is the only movie that has ever made me feel this uncomfortable.

[Picture is an illustration of a woman holding an ink quill to write something. She is holding the feathery side to her mouth as she looks to the side and thinks.]

So there's this writing exchange in my fandom. It's very popular, and lots of people you could probably call Big Name Fans sign up. The participants are matched to who they're writing for by a small group of one or two moderators. Every past exchange I've felt like a small clique of writers - basically the Big Name Fans - are matched up to one another, with those outside that clique being matched to others outside the clique. I wasn't sure how to feel about this, because on the one hand, my recipients were really nice and people from in and outside the clique would comment on my work. On the other, though, it sort of smacked of elitism and some people being excluded from the 'top-tier' of writers.

However, the last two exchanges, I've been matched with people who are very definitely inside the clique. I don't know what changed. Have I been accepted into the group? Am I somehow a Big Name Fan? (I don't feel like one). Have I been reading too much into the matching all this time? I've loved my recipients and I love the exchange, but I don't know how to feel about this.

Too Long; Didn't Read: There's a fandom writing exchange, possibly with a clique, which I may have been accepted into. I don't know how to feel.

[Picture is a screen-capture of a news report on the High Definition re-release of the videogames "Final Fantasy X" and "Final Fantasy X-2". It has a picture from the International version of "Final Fantasy X-2". It shows a battle where Rikku, a blond haired young woman with tanned skin, has just changed into a "Festival Goer" dressphere. The actual news article goes like this:

"Final Fantasy X|X-2 HD Remaster voice drama spoilers leak out, suggest sequel is inevitable

From what we know, Tidus and Yuna call off their relationship at some point as she sets off to defeat Sin again, who has somehow reappeared in the world of Spira. Written by scenario writer Kazushige Nojima, the voice drama takes place after the events of Final Fantasy X-2 and it along with the 2.5 novel attempt to expand the universe started by Final Fantasy X.

Edited (Thanks, supermanda!) 2014-01-04 23:50 (UTC)

[Picture is the title card of the TV series "Hemlock Grove". It shows a skull with wings and a crown of flowers or leaves?, all made of smoke.]

The thing I appreciate most about this show is not the plot, or the characters. It's the amount of oral the women in it receive.

[Picture is two Care Bears (a cartoon franchise and line of toys) fancharacters. One of them is pink and has a drawing of two flowers on its chest, and the other is white with a blue and red cape and a drawing of a shield on its chest. The pink one appears to be hitting on the white one, who is horrified. The picture has the credit? "ThisCrispyKat" and the words "And what are your thoughts on yaoi?"]

I don't have a problem with slash at all in principle. In fact, I ship a whole lot of slash ships myself. But when I look for fic, I find that slash, far more than gen or even het, tends to come packaged with a whole load of really annoying and unsavory tropes, from childish, whiny Nice Guy approval to infidelity-condoning, that are absolutely part of the slash, not just due to writers being gross people in general -- I've seen writers whose gen I loved write the nastiest things in their slashfic.

It makes me wonder if maybe, these writers don't know any gay people and don't understand that gay relationships are bound by the same rules as straight ones, and are not magical transcendent life bonds that are above the petty morality that constrains het love?

Edited (Thank you, anon!) 2014-01-04 23:55 (UTC)

[Picture is a screen-capture of an "Amazon" product review of a box of "Kleenex Facial Tissue, White (pack of 36)". It has the watermak of the website "UhPinions.com"

The review goes like this:

Five stars, "A mother's struggle", December 8, 2013.

"I want to start this off by thanking Kleenex for selling these in 36-packs. I've put it on subscription, and if they want to start selling a 72-pack, sign me up. I have three reasons for needing this much Kleenex, and their names are Liam, Samuel and Hank.

This is how it goes in the house. First the Kleenex disappears. Then the toilet paper. Then they go for fabrics. And you don't want it to get there, unless you're ready to invest in a five gallon drum of Fabreeze.

This used to be a good Christian home. But it's not about moral judgment anymore. I'm way beyond that. I'm in survival mode. If I don't supply absorbent paper products, I'm going to find my dish towels hidden in the basement, stiff as aluminium. The other day, I almost cut my hand on a sock. I am sorry to speak so frankly, but with three teenage boys, a woman has got to be practical.

The funny part is, they think they're being sneaky, with their 45 minute showers and sudden need for "privacy", as if I'm going to walk in on them journaling. They slink around the house like unfixed cats, while I try to announce my location at all times. No one needs to ask me to knock anymore. I knock on the walls. I practically wear a cow bell. I'm not looking to catch anyone by surprise, believe me. I'm just trying to get through this.

The other day my husband was watching me unload the groceries, and he asks me, all sweetness and light, "Honey, what're you doing with all that Kleenex?"

I about knocked him off his chair.

[Picture is a drawing of Sherlock Holmes and James Moriarty fighting next to the Reichenbach Falls from the book "The Final Problem". It has the caption "SWAN DIVE into the best night of your life", and one of the characters is saying "allie-oop!"]

Edited (Thanks brandiweed and anon!) 2014-01-04 23:53 (UTC)

(warning for description of gross odors)

[Picture is white text with black outlines over a white background.]

I've noticed that a lot of secrets here on Fandom Secrets aren't really secrets that anyone would keep even from their pets. So I thought I would reveal a secret to this community, since it's anonymous anyway (one that isn't made up, of course):

Whenever a character reacts to or mentions the scent of dead bodies (usually in crime shows or movies), I always imagine it to smell exactly like the end of a period when the blood is brown and sludgy and has sat on a pad for a while. Usually mixed with sweat from sitting for long periods of time, like in a vehicle or something. Smells kind of like rotting gym socks and old blood. Or at least one mine does.

Yeah, I don't think I have to explain why this one's a secret.

Original secret was posted in the post number 2518

http://fandomsecrets.dreamwidth.org/915418.html?thread=699824346#cmt699824346

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[ SECRET POST #2559 ]

Transcripts!

Secret 1 - Sweet Charity (film)

Secret 2 - Benedict Arnold (historical figure), The Fairly OddParents (cartoon)

Notes

Secret 3 - The Walking Dead (TV series), (warning for gore)

Secret 4 - Psycho (1960 film)

Secret 5 - Fandom writing exchange

Secret 6 - Final Fantasy X and X-2 HD Remaster (videogames) voice drama

Secret 7 - Hemlock Grove (TV series)

Secret 8 - Slash fanfiction

Not Secret 1 - (It's about masturbation)

Not Secret 2 - Sherlock Holmes

Repeat - Smell of dead bodies in fiction, Menstruation (warning for description of gross odors)

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