[ SECRET POST #2650 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2650 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 062 secrets from Secret Submission Post #379.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Re: Interesting Secret Thread?

[(Anonymous)]

Exactly. I know it's not at all a popular opinion but I don't think going to college is necessarily the right choice for everyone. I quit after a few years (I kept switching majors and just couldn't find anything I wanted to pursue) and ended up finding a well-paying job that I love that didn't require a college degree, so now I wish I'd never gone at all and hadn't had to take out all those student loans.

Popped Bubblewrap

[(Anonymous)]

So, I did it.

http://poppedbubblewrap.blogspot.com

For (hopefully sustained) geeky talk about fannish things all week long. It's modeled after Mark Spoils, but hopefully a little less wanky. The main thing to remember:

It is not the place for assholery nor is it your safe space.

Re: Interesting Secret Thread?

[rubbertea]

thanks, anon

Re: Questions there's never a good time to ask.

[pantasma]

2) There are some things we can do to decrease the likelihood of severe damage, but there's only so much one can do when the fires are fuelled so much by weather. Where I grew up, Fire Season is a thing -- and it's not in high summer. Since we recently had two major firestorms only 3 years apart, everyone start getting really antsy when fire season rolls around, and we jump quietly from foot to foot wringing our hands waiting for the first rains.

Some neighborhoods have started hiring goats herds to come eat the "excess" undergrowth. But they keep cutting away all the ice plant, and other super-high-water-content plants in favor of houses made of wood and plaster, which burns. I think they recently imposed a stipulation that you're building a new roof/reroofing, you have to make it with slake, which are those asphalt-looking tiles. It means you're less likely to go up if ash lands ON the house, but if it flies up under the eaves, you're still screwed.

For history, at least in my area there weren't fires worth mentioning until about a decade ago. There's been one every few years, since. That first one is even still "immortalized" in the local natural history museum, with articles written during those couple weeks, maps showing the spread and control, burn rates, damage done, etc. They're taking water restrictions more seriously, too, but I don't know how much that affects the outcome...

Other than that, there's not a whole hell of a lot we can do but continue fining people who flick cigarettes out their windows, fail to properly put out camp fires, etc.

tl;dr
It's a lot harder to adapt to the land, or adapt the land, to prevent fires than it is for floods. It's more like avoiding an earthquake: you can take steps to prepare yourself and try to limit the damage done. It's an inevitable eventuality that you learn to live with.

Re: Person Of Interest anon

[rubbertea]

it was me! haha, i'm so glad you liked it anon! you're welcome!

i was worried you'd think the season wasn't worth watching because carter dies, but yeah, i think it was handled very well, and her whole character arc was amazing.

Re: Early gayness on American movies and TV

[(Anonymous)]

The Ritz (1976) is a comedy-farce about a straight man on the run from hitmen who hides in a gay bathhouse. It's pretty entertaining, actually.

[toshi_hakari]

Indeed :D Rei's my absolute favorite, I love him <3

Re: Have we talked about CA: Winter soldier yet? (Spoilers inside)

[(Anonymous)]

I haven't a clue! Maybe they get sent the earlier version so that they can sub/dub it properly, and they don't add the stinger till later?

Re: Fanfic recs?

[(Anonymous)]

You didn't mention SGA among your fave series, but Tipper is my very favourite 'comfort read' author, so here's some recs! McKay's bluster covers a huuuuge self-esteem problem, but his best side always comes out to help his team and they appreciate the hell out of him. Tipper is the best for action/adventure/hurt-comfort genfic/teamfic; here's 2 of my faves!

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4213960/1/Figurative-Hell-and-Literal-High-Water

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5097362/1/The-Black-Lake

[heartsday]

Re: Interesting Secret Thread?

[(Anonymous)]

If they're so strong they go through the winter coat, then to hell with trying to "fix" things with padding or pasties. In fact, just tell hell with being embarrassed at all. As much as people try to pretend otherwise, breasts naturally DO look like (*)(*) just as often as they look like ()(). I'd try getting comfortable about how it looks, some self-confidence excersizes, until you can go out and stand tall and just

Re: Interesting Secret Thread?

[(Anonymous)]

If they're so strong they go through the winter coat, then to hell with trying to "fix" things with padding or pasties. In fact, just tell hell with being embarrassed at all. As much as people try to pretend otherwise, breasts naturally DO look like (*)(*) just as often as they look like ()().
As a pointy-person myself, I remember being shamed for YEARS into wearing a lot of padding I didn't like and wasn't comfortable with just because the fact that I have nipples was obvious. (Because having huge boobs to cover that up was somehow less ... overt?) Don't let people do that toyou, OP, it's not worth it.
Now, I just say to hell with all of that. Since my boobs are relatively small, I never have to wear a bra for support, so now I only wear one - simple, non-padded, barely there, if my shirt is on the see-through side. If they point, let 'em.
I'd try getting comfortable about how it looks, some self-confidence excersizes (look in the mirror and give yourself compliments, etc.) until you can go out and stand tall and have pride in your nipple-first entrance.

[(Anonymous)]

"It's all pretty damn dark."

/looks at that entire tag

dying

Re: The ridiculous little things that make your pets happy.

[caerbannog]

The rug. If I let Dusty on the rug she will dance about and be so damn happy that I'm letting her shed all over my rug.

[(Anonymous)]

That's what I was thinking. Especially phobs' artworks and comics are like that - if you actually think that what they are drawing is actually phobs being serious about it, I have news for you.
But I generally often get the feeling that there is a certain branch of Silm elitists who just don't get that you can both be seriously invested in a thing and at the same time not take everything about it seriously all the time.

Re: Questions there's never a good time to ask.

[(Anonymous)]

1.) Unsure of why you want to know? But okay. They were pressure cookers filled with shrapnel and nails and whatnot. No, not all the wounds were leg wounds but most of the serious ones were, since that was the closest body part to the explosions.

Re: Questions there's never a good time to ask.

[(Anonymous)]

"Fire is more powerful than water."

Tell that to people who lost their homes, friends and relatives during a flood or tsunami.

[(Anonymous)]

You people are absurd. This is a general observation, not related to Tolkien in specific; stomaching torture and genocide and going all "ewww, creepy, gross" at rape or even a grope is completely illogical. As an adult woman, I understand that the former in reality are immensely worse than anything else so everytime I see people acting like you, I imagine you must be very immature still.

Re: Favourite Characters you like to see Whumped?

[(Anonymous)]

Ninth through Eleventh Doctors.

[(Anonymous)]

Fuck the Average Viewer.

[(Anonymous)]

You have no reading comprehension. At all. I'm not saying that OP should like or even watch the show. I'm saying that Hannibal is a good show, so if OP doesn't like it, it's not the show's fault but their fault.

I read Don Quixote and i hated it to death. Does it make it a bad book? No. It just means that for some reason I wasn't able to enjoy a good book. But the book is good.

[(Anonymous)]

Lol you can see what kind of people frequent and run the site by the enormous and frankly silly list of trigger warnings.

I'm actually pro trigger warnings, but when you tell people to warn for stuff like food, images of elevators, the sound of snapping fingers or ANIMALS IN WIGS, you've fallen way too deep into the rabbit hole.

[(Anonymous)]

Same here OP. Same here. :(((

Re: How do guys feel about touchy-feely fictional guys?

[elaminator]

No no, I misread the subject, thought it read “How do you guys feel about touchy-feely fictional guys?” I didn't even look back at the thread until now so didn't realize I wasn't supposed to comment. Makes more sense now... Lmao.

Re: Interesting Secret Thread?

[(Anonymous)]

A Catless CatLady.

Like me.