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    Image of Sunshineyness Sunshineyness
    08/25/09

    In reply to Fan Community Gets Its Own Answer to Post Secret
    This is actually fairly interesting... and sadly relateable. Although I find the difference in the post-secret pathetic-ness and the geek pathetic-ness is that I can at least sympathize with the nerds... I have a hard time sympathizing with the normals.
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    Image of Meirelle Meirelle
    08/25/09

    In reply to Fan Community Gets Its Own Answer to Post Secret
    I'm going to so browse that when I get home from work. I wish LJ wasn't blocked here. That's so much drama I could be lolzing at while I should be working.
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    Image of MargaretMoony MargaretMoony
    08/25/09

    In reply to Fan Community Gets Its Own Answer to Post Secret
    I did not know this existed! Why didn't I know this existed?
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    Image of Rasselas Rasselas
    08/25/09

    In reply to Fan Community Gets Its Own Answer to Post Secret
    In related news, what the hell is wrong with people?
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    Image of Zombie Ms. Skittles Zombie Ms. Skittles
    08/25/09

    In reply to Fan Community Gets Its Own Answer to Post Secret
    FandomSecrets spawns so much LJ drama it is not even funny.
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    Image of CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard) CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard)
    08/25/09

    In reply to Fan Community Gets Its Own Answer to Post Secret
    Im...er...im errr, I just dont know what the hell to post here!! But the crayon cake is making me bloody hungry I can tell you that for nothing!!
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    08/25/09

    @CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard): It's a cupcake. A morsel of fabulous goodness. Now I want to get out my cupcake pans and bake some.

    Or just buy one at the store so I don't have a dozen around the house taunting me.
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    Image of stereobot stereobot
    08/25/09

    In reply to Fan Community Gets Its Own Answer to Post Secret
    That has got to be the most depressing fucking website I have seen in a long time..
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    Image of sulayman sulayman
    08/25/09

    In reply to Fan Community Gets Its Own Answer to Post Secret
    Anyone who's read PostSecrets knows that a lot of the submissions can be pretty sad.

    The same can be said for Fandom!Secrets. Though they're a different kind of sad.
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    edosan promoted this comment sulayman was starred sulayman was unstarred
    Image of edosan edosan
    08/25/09

    @sulayman: "nerdy-pathetic" instead of "generally-pathetic"?
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    Image of Dirk Anger Dirk Anger
    08/25/09

    @edosan: Everybody who feels "nerdy-pathetic" should read postsecret every week to see that pathetic comes in all flavors (Jock-pathetic, Barbie-pathetic, Successful-pathetic, rich-pathetic, etc etc). It's just the human condition that's sad, not one specific group of people.
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    Image of Dirk Anger Dirk Anger
    08/25/09


    @Dirk Angry: Next time I go grocery shopping I'm gonna pretend I'm Doctor Manhattan. It's going to be so fun until they call security...
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    MargaretMoony promoted this comment Dirk Anger was starred Dirk Anger was unstarred
    Image of MargaretMoony MargaretMoony
    08/25/09

    @Dirk Angry: That actually sounds like fun! Grocery shopping is very boring.
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    Image of Dirk Anger Dirk Anger
    08/26/09

    @MargaretMoony: Nothing is boring when you're 8ft tall and go around with all your blue stuff hanging in the fresh air
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    Image of Dirk Anger Dirk Anger
    08/26/09

    @MargaretMoony: The image disappeared, even from the site :? I guess they don't like deep linking, I'll download/upload next time
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    Image of SwapnaStoat SwapnaStoat
    08/06/09

    In reply to When Science Fiction Fans Go Bad
    What is the difference between a evil genius and mad scientist? Are they the same thing?
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    Roklimber promoted this comment SwapnaStoat was starred SwapnaStoat was unstarred
    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    08/06/09

    @SwapnaStoat: No. Not all geniuses are scientists and not all scientists are geniuses, regardless of their evilness or madness.
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    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    08/05/09

    In reply to When Science Fiction Fans Go Bad
    As a former mad-scientist who owns a secret lair inside the Krakatoa volcano (currently on lease to another ioniner) and who was for a time bent on conquering the world, until the bad economy took its toll, I feel it's my obligation to defend my fellow comrade in arms, Syndrome.
    Need I remind people that Syndrome invented a number of extremely useful things, like his flying boots and his zero-point-energy weapon?
    I'm constantly appalled by how little love we mad scientists get. If it wasn't for us, those pathetic heroes would live depressing and unfulfilled lives.
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    08/05/09

    @Roklimber: *wipes away tear*
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    Image of geesejuggler geesejuggler
    08/05/09

    In reply to When Science Fiction Fans Go Bad
    Does it make insane/evil if you totally agree with one of the people on this list? I mean, Catgirl does kinda have a point.
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    08/05/09

    In reply to When Science Fiction Fans Go Bad
    Hey, what about ROACH -- or rather, the bozos ROACH was formed to fight against?
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    Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. was starred Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. was unstarred
    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    08/05/09

    @Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: We can't "go" bad if we were bad to begin with.
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    08/05/09

    @crashedpc : ゴキブリ and 蟑螂 division: Ooh, good point.
    I think we can make a case for the C.H's as fans-gone-bad, in the same way that Comic Book Guy did in the mentioned episode.
    Superheroes in costume in comics? Good.
    Fat unemployed nerds in costume IRL? Bad.
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    Image of CodenameV CodenameV
    08/05/09

    In reply to When Science Fiction Fans Go Bad
    the Trio from Buffy was an insult; make fun of "Comic Book Guys" if you will, but he made them such preening idiots that it wasn't at all what I thought an "evil nerd organization" should be like
    a true sign that by the final seasons, the Buffy writers were going mad with power
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    Image of Alexis Alexis
    08/05/09

    @CodenameV: Sir, the Troika was an amazing thing. You must've watched a very different season 6 than I.
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    Image of Hamslicer Hamslicer
    08/05/09

    In reply to When Science Fiction Fans Go Bad
    Mojo, X-Men fan.
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    Image of downdb downdb
    08/05/09

    In reply to When Science Fiction Fans Go Bad
    I feel an honorable mention should go to Freakazoid's "The Nerdator".
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    Dr Emilio Lizardo promoted this comment downdb was starred downdb was unstarred
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