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fandomsecrets and I came across this secret when I realized just how important fandom has become to people. I know I know, there are at least a thousand other secrets on how fandom has helped this person or other overcome suicide attempts and made life brighter in general, but that was the only secret which hit the switch for some reason. It reminded me a lot of this dialogue from the Hogfathertelevision adaptation:
Death: Humans need fantasy to *be* human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.
Susan: With tooth fairies? Hogfathers?
Death: Yes. As practice, you have to start out learning to believe the little lies.
Susan: So we can believe the big ones?
Death: Yes. Justice, mercy, duty. That sort of thing.
Susan: They're not the same at all.
Death: You think so? Then take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder, and sieve it through the finest sieve, and then show me one atom of justice, one molecule of mercy. And yet, you try to act as if there is some ideal order in the world. As if there is some, some rightness in the universe, by which it may be judged.
Susan: But people have got to believe that, or what's the point?
Death: You need to believe in things that aren't true. How else can they become?
That last line of Death's says it all, really. When life becomes too much, when the big pile of shit that's been hanging over your head begins to topple, when your fingers finally slip from the edge that you've been desperately hanging on to for so long, you need a place to run away to for a while, even if it isn't real, even if it only exists inside your head. How else do you go on? It's like being too sober all the time. We all need that veil, that slight haze of not!life and not!reality to make things just that bit more bearable.
Speaking of the TV adaptation, I had no idea that there was an actor inside Death's costume. I honestly thought it was a giant puppet. XD; They hired this Dutch guy to play him, and there's a button inside which he hits with his chin everytime he opens his mouth and Death's dialogue comes from speakers somewhere AND IT'S ALL SO COOL-- *_* Although I thought Death's voice should be more booming and menacing.
And while we're on the subject of fandom secrets, this secret made me go AWWWWW while this one made me want to laugh and cry at the same time because it could have been me when I first started poly nine years ago.Wait, it's been NINE YEARS?! I'M OLD. T_T
Oh, and all of you should go watch Cloudy with a chance of meatballs if you get the chance. The main character's A-DORK-ABLE! ♥ He does his own narration and sound effects! His pet monkey is voiced by Neil Patrick Harris! And there's an over-zealous policeman IN SHORTS! :DD
fandomsecrets and I came across this secret when I realized just how important fandom has become to people. I know I know, there are at least a thousand other secrets on how fandom has helped this person or other overcome suicide attempts and made life brighter in general, but that was the only secret which hit the switch for some reason. It reminded me a lot of this dialogue from the Hogfathertelevision adaptation:Death: Humans need fantasy to *be* human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.
Susan: With tooth fairies? Hogfathers?
Death: Yes. As practice, you have to start out learning to believe the little lies.
Susan: So we can believe the big ones?
Death: Yes. Justice, mercy, duty. That sort of thing.
Susan: They're not the same at all.
Death: You think so? Then take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder, and sieve it through the finest sieve, and then show me one atom of justice, one molecule of mercy. And yet, you try to act as if there is some ideal order in the world. As if there is some, some rightness in the universe, by which it may be judged.
Susan: But people have got to believe that, or what's the point?
Death: You need to believe in things that aren't true. How else can they become?
That last line of Death's says it all, really. When life becomes too much, when the big pile of shit that's been hanging over your head begins to topple, when your fingers finally slip from the edge that you've been desperately hanging on to for so long, you need a place to run away to for a while, even if it isn't real, even if it only exists inside your head. How else do you go on? It's like being too sober all the time. We all need that veil, that slight haze of not!life and not!reality to make things just that bit more bearable.
Speaking of the TV adaptation, I had no idea that there was an actor inside Death's costume. I honestly thought it was a giant puppet. XD; They hired this Dutch guy to play him, and there's a button inside which he hits with his chin everytime he opens his mouth and Death's dialogue comes from speakers somewhere AND IT'S ALL SO COOL-- *_* Although I thought Death's voice should be more booming and menacing.
And while we're on the subject of fandom secrets, this secret made me go AWWWWW while this one made me want to laugh and cry at the same time because it could have been me when I first started poly nine years ago.
Oh, and all of you should go watch Cloudy with a chance of meatballs if you get the chance. The main character's A-DORK-ABLE! ♥ He does his own narration and sound effects! His pet monkey is voiced by Neil Patrick Harris! And there's an over-zealous policeman IN SHORTS! :DD
