[ SECRET POST #2636 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2636 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 04 pages, 086 secrets from Secret Submission Post #377.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

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[insanenoodlyguy]

Monkeys with pants is a regular in the troll posse who is stepping up this weekend! It's a bit weird to talk to a collective monkey hivemind but you should come anyway!

In their own words:

Hello Fandom Secrets! You don't know me BUT I KNOW YOU, mwahahahaha! But naw, some of you know me as MonkeysInPants on the various Shit and Awesomestreams put on by Kag and other cool folks. But here on FS I am but a lurker.

However! TODAY AT 6:00PM EST, I SHALL BE TAKING OVER THE WEEKLY STREAM.

The theme is! Children's sci-fi movies from my childhood! Or maybe Children Meet Alien Technology And Hijinks Ensue. It will consist of:

The Flight of the Navigator!

The Last Starfighter!

And Star Kid!I Am Number Four! A movie that isn't from my childhood, but is so tropey and fanficcy that it makes me feel nostalgic anyway!

Be there, or be square!



6pm EST here!

http://www.livestream.com/monkeysinpants

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(If the thread contains triggery content please post as 2nd comment so it collapses!)

Motivational Music! Academic Writing BS!

[(Anonymous)]

Ahoy, fandom secrets!

I have to finish writing my thesis this weekend. And I've pretty much exhausted the motivational powers of good music (baroque beatles book, ftw!); and really bad music ("Work Bitch"!? Really, brain?!). So please, if you would, link to your favorite "music to write tons of academic bullshit to".

Also, for a bonus, add your favorite bullshit phrase used to up your word-count. Mine are: "characterized by the fact that," "as will be demonstrated in the following chapter".

Something I've been meaning to say

[(Anonymous)]

In a way, the general comments section feels like what my LJ flist used to feel like.

Anyone else feel that way?

Fandom and Anxiety

[(Anonymous)]

I'd never even met anyone with an anxiety disorder until I encountered fandom, and then it was like 90% of the population suffering from it are on Internet or something. I've only ever witnessed one anxiety attack in my life, and that was in a hospital.

It's gotten even worse now with Tumblr, because it's like everywhere I turn, there's someone with an anxiety disorder. The way they describe it sounds so traumatizing, too. I mean, breaking down in tears or yelling uncontrollably every time people start speaking loudly around you? I've worked in extremely stressful situations, often involving hundreds of people having to be together for months at a time working 12-18 hours a day, with tempers flaring explosively almost on a daily basis, and never once have I seen any meltdown like that.

I guess I'm just a little spooked. Back on LJ I knew a few friends who confessed to having problems with anxiety, but now that I'm on Tumblr it feels like nearly everyone I follow has it to some degree. It makes me wonder if there's any rhyme or reason to this.

Veronica Mars

[(Anonymous)]

Have we talked about the movie already? I haven't really been around this past week, but I'm interested what people think of the movie.

[(Anonymous)]

School will be over for me within four days, then I'll begin a three-month internship, then I'll finally get my diploma and start working. From someone who spent the last 10 years stalling and running in circles and starting over at uni, let me tell you it feels damn weird. Liberating and empowering, but weird.

Inspired by #6 - What is F!S to you?

[(Anonymous)]

What kind of comments do you leave and what kind of secrets do you post? What do you get out of being here and what do you think it should be like?

Personally, I comment with my first reaction to the secret, so what I say depends what the secret is. I don't think I've ever posted a secret looking for sympathy or compassion. I mostly just want a reaction or discussion. I never thought negative comments were meant to be taken seriously and I always liked the laid back sarcasm this community has.

Tropes that irrationally annoy the hell out of you.

[(Anonymous)]

So, there are a lot of storytelling tropes that are annoying for reasons you can easily defend: they're sexist, or racist, or otherwise objectionable.

But some of them are entirely innocent, but somehow still ENRAGING.

For me, it's that in every crime series, the universal reaction to finding a body, is to stand still, open your mouth as wide as possible, and just SCREEEEEEAAAAAAAM!

I hate this.

I know it's just fiction and a way to hype things.

BUT NOBODY WOULD EVER DO THIS. THIS IS STUPID. I CANNOT GET OVER THE STUPID.

Yeah, sure, maybe you'll scream if you really found somebody's murdered ass unexpectedly. But a scream accompanied by ... leaving for safety, or reaching for your phone to call help, or furiously wiping whatever body part of yours came into contact with the dead body on the nearest available surface.

Or there'd be, perhaps, bafflement, or disbelief, or denial going on. "WTF, it isn't Hallowe'en, wait, is that a...? Oh hell, it IS! Time to call the police!"

Even, sadly realistically, the reaction could be to carefully check the area for live people, before slinking away because no way you're getting yourself involved in that.

Or, in the case of a loved one, you'd presumably... CHECK that they're dead. By, say, calling their name, or trying for a pulse, all, while (unless you happen to be a trained medic) reaching for the phone to get help. You do not stand there in the doorway, staring - not at the body, but at the opposite wall (where the camera can lovelingly zoom into your startled horrified face) screaming yourself horse.

I just refuse to believe this reaction.

And it's EVERYWHERE, goddamnit.

It's not like other stupid things people always do in films or TV where you can argue that it's meant to be a nicer, more aesthetic thing than RL or where when being realistic would just take too much time from the story -- Like the way nobody in movies fumbles while undressing unless its a comedy, or how people all look great exiting cars smoothly in one movement, or the post office actually works, or you can pay for cabs by throwing random bills at them, or order "beer".

Because this takes TIME (so, so much time, so that the scream can usually echo over the credits or filter into the next scream for dramatic irony or whatever) and it's not showing us people as we'd like to be if we could (because presumably, nobody imagines themselves in this situation and thinks "Scream at the air like a dumbass" as their ideal response). It's just so ... useless. I don't GET it. WHY DOES THIS HAPPEN, somebody please tell me why productions think this is a good idea.

Are your favorite characters usually the characters you relate to most?

[(Anonymous)]

I've noticed that a LOT of times, people say "character X is my favorite because I relate to him/her the most" which kind of baffles me. It's not that I dislike the characters I relate to most, but they tend to feel familiar to me because I relate to them so much, and therefore I am more interested or entertained by characters who are nothing like me. So...how many people like their most-relatable character best? Does it depend on the fandom? If you don't gravitate towards your most-relatable character, what tend to be your personal reasons for having a favorite character?

awesome things you recently discovered

[(Anonymous)]

Last week I found out about Project Gutenberg.

SO MANY BOOKSSSSSSSSSS. :D

Characters you emulated when you were a kid

[(Anonymous)]

Lets hear your stories! What characters? How old were you? What decade did this happen?

(if there's any characters you still emulate, let us know about that too!)

Slow-motion

[(Anonymous)]

Do you like it? Hate it? Like it only in certain kinds of situation? If so, which situations and do you have any particular examples?

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Games thread!

Re: Pet peeve about use of the word "stan"

[(Anonymous)]

Stan would like you all to know he is displeased with the misappropriation of his name to mean anything short of 'creative individual'.