You are the only one who needs to know.

[wolfpangs]

You asked for it and here it is: the secrets meme, back by popular demand. Share a secret, any kind of secret, whether it be silly or serious. Do it anonymously or not. IP logging is turned off and the only rule is that comments that explicitly name eljay members* are verboten.

Secrets are made to be found out with time.

*excluding your hostess

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Since this is for secrets and all, am I allowed to ask why? I'm just curious because I've seen this come up a lot lately.

[danisse.livejournal.com]

I don't really have an answer (and I don't want to derail RG's post) -- it's just an overall feeling. If you've heard this from someone else, I'm sure I'd agree with some of their reasons.

[(Anonymous)]

I'll combo derail/tell my own secret, since I'm not the one who originally posted this comment: lately, it seems like a huge percentage of the posts on OTZ fall into one of two camps: a transparently desperate attempt to be seen as witty and pop-culture-savvy that really just makes me think "jesus, you are WAY too invested in what a bunch of relative strangers think of you"; or regulars being mind-numbingly catty bitches to anyone who doesn't fall into their own particular clique. I've made some solid friends from FT and OTZ, and I'm not saying all we should ever post about is purely celebrity gossip and no commentary or personal shit, but if I read one more Brokeback-icized interview or pearl-clutching response informing someone in the Dating thread that they're 1. a huge prude, or 2. a huge slut, I'm going to scream.

[(Anonymous)]

Um, excuse me? There's no such thing as a clique* on the internet.

And um, it's just the internet anyway, so I'd like to think that anything we say or do shouldn't be taken seriously at all, so whatever.

That being said, don't say anything about us or we'll pepper our thousands of posts with taunts that are just subtle enough that if we get called on it, we can claim that we're just having fun.

*And can I just say that I'd like a moratorium on using words like "clique" and "junior high" to describe us? Um, because if someone's making squicky sex posts or making endless boring posts about their nephew, we reserve the right to drive them out, because our squicky sex posts and nephew pictures posts are so much more interesting.

[(Anonymous)]

"There's no such thing as a clique on the internet."
"...we reserve the right to drive them out... "

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, wait. I get it...

[(Anonymous)]

Not for nothing, and I know this is a secret post and that people can post what they want, but it doesn't seem fair to me to have this conversation in Salome's journal.

[(Anonymous)]

As one anonymous person to another... wuh? How is it that two anonymous people are having a conversation when no-one knows who anyone is?!

[rockgeisha.livejournal.com]

It's okay--I'm giving the people what they want!

[(Anonymous)]

Ha! Will you sign my slam book!? An anonymous X will do.

[(Anonymous)]

[(Anonymous)]

I really miss what FTOTZ used to be. The irony is that it was partly formed to get away from the unfavorable aspects of FT, yet some of the same things we detested so much are becoming more apparent within the community itself. Which is kinda sad, really because I never thought it would become that way. There's a part of me that wants to leave, yet another part that doesn't.