[ SECRET POST #2561 ]

[case]

⌈ Secret Post #2561 ⌋

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

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[Breaking Bad]


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03.
[The Hobbit]


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04.
[Monster]


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05.
[Hannibal]


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[Law and Order SVU]


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[GTA V]


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08.
[Meitantei no Okite]


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[The Big Bang Theory]















Notes:

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Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom]

01. http://i42.tinypic.com/1zciozt.jpg

[(Anonymous)]

...this secret makes the history lover in me very sad. (And the rest of me mildly concerned.)

[fingalsanteater]

You didn't even take basic world or "your country" history in school? I'm not very knowledgable on history, but I still learned some in school and outside of fanfic.

[(Anonymous)]

Could be they don't remember any of that.

[(Anonymous)]

they were reading star trek fanfic in class

[(Anonymous)]

OP

well, I did say "pretty much everything"...I did learn some at school, but I learned a LOT from reading. I read a lot, and all my history classes were boring as hell.

[(Anonymous)]

why is that guy gazing so fondly at his fingernails?

[(Anonymous)]

He's holding the lapel of his suit-coat with one hand, and looking down at his cards with the other. This book is 100% perfect because Spock plays poker. In the 1800s. Where he's trapped. Because of time stuff. And he just barely escapes a romantic entanglement with SPOILERSPOILER

Secret 1 - History, historical Alternate Universe fanfiction, time travel fanfiction

[transcriptanon]

[Picture is the cover of the "Star Trek" novel "Ishmael" by Barbara Hambly. It shows Spock sitting with another gentleman, both of them wearing old-style suits. There is a red-headed woman in a cabaret-type? dress standing behind them.]

Pretty much everything I know about history comes from reading time travel and historical Alternate Universe fanfiction. (Star Trek novels are pretty much published fanfic so I think this book counts!)

[(Anonymous)]

... so... Basically you have a very very lose understanding of the major events, and that basic understanding probably isn't all that accurate on a number of them?

[(Anonymous)]

SA

*loose

[queerwolf]

History is usually a class in school. Was is not wherever you're from?

[hands4healing]

But-but history is fun!

[(Anonymous)]

Especially when you start getting the juicy stuff [that they usually don't teach in class]!

[(Anonymous)]

So am I the only one who remembers that the ST novel "Ishmael" was crossover with "Here Come The Brides?' Starring a pre-Starsky & Hutch David Soul?

[otakugal15]

Ishmael was AWESOME!! I need to reread that at some point.

[sootyowl]

I believe "Ishmael" is suppose to be one of the slashier Star Trek TOS books. I don't think it constitutes as a history lesson tho. AU's/historical novels aren't generally 100% historically accurate.

[(Anonymous)]

I wouldn't say everything I've learned, but I have gained a great deal of knowledge from historical AU's.

you know nothing!

[(Anonymous)]

That seems unlikely. I'm going to assume you are exaggerating. If you are not exaggerating - can you even say you really know anything? I mean fanfiction and fictional books are not exactly bound in reality or have to use facts in their stories. So if really everything you know comes from fanfic, what you're saying is that you know very very very little about history.

[logicbutton]

Man, I was so hopeless at history when I was younger. I just couldn't internalize anything that didn't come from an American Girl book.

[(Anonymous)]

This is an excellent book, if there are any TOS fans left in the world who haven't read it. Just sayin'.

/no comment on the content of the secret sorry OP

[(Anonymous)]

I can relate to this secret a lot, OP. I have a sucky memory for numbers, so I don't usually remember dates outside of family birthdays and the like. If I remember in what half of what century a given historical event occurred, I feel I'm doing well. (It"s what half of what decade for the 20th and 21st centuries.)
Oh, and all I know about the Warring States Period in Japan I learned from reading Usagi Yojimbo. So, yeah.

[unicornherds]

A lot of my knowledge on basic things comes from books, video games, and tv shows. But I don't think I could ever say that pretty much all of my knowledge comes from those things. There was all those years of school after all, and even if I was a poor student and failed more than my fair share of classes a surprising amount of stuff sticks with you.

Except for religion. I can say without a doubt that 90% of my information about the Bible comes from Andrew Lloyd Weber and maybe some random PBS shows. But mostly the musicals.

[(Anonymous)]

It's possible their history syllabus was just shit.

For some utterly inexplicable reason, my (Australian) school basically taught the same few topics over and over again - nothing but Ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome and Australian History in junior school and then a bit of WWI and II stuff and a bunch more of the same stupid Australian history no one fucking cares about in high school.

We learnt literally not one single thing about American, British or European (excepting one term on Hitler's rise to power) history and only did about a few lessons each on Asia, Africa and the Middle East and that was in year 11 and 12, when it was an elective subject, so the majority of students never learned any of that.

There are loads of things I wouldn't have even heard of without them being mentioned in media. For example, I literally didn't even realise that America was colonised by the British until I was at least 13 or 14. I can't remember what I watched that mentioned it. Might've been National Treasure? I can't remember when I first found out that the Civil War was about slavery, but I was around the same age and it sure wasn't in school. I only found out what the War of the Roses was a few months ago when I started watching The White Queen. (Don't worry, I know none of them are perfectly accurate, I've looked up some actual information.)

And I'm a person who likes history. I don't even want to imagine how ignorant others who've never researched anything outside of school are.

We did almost fucking nothing on geography too. I remember wanting to tear my hair out when I found out my friend couldn't even find Canada on a globe. I tenuously hold out the hope she was just fucking with me.

[littlestbirds]

All I know about professional sports I know from reading fanfic AUs. So I'm assuming your knowledge of history is a lot that, ie. so shallow I don't bring it up because I'm sure I'd embarrass myself.