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What are some things you like but tend not to admit liking out of fear you'll be castigated?

Usually when I ask this kind of question I go first as a gesture of hospitality. But here my naked motive is that I want to castigate someone. Will it be you or must a stranger suffer?

Relatedly, how fucking great a word is "castigate"? It's a shame it means castigate. Rather than casting a gate across a fence, which is maximum punk rock. Because we think of casting as an offhand gesture. To toss aside a gate requires great strength. As well as disdain for bystanders. Perhaps it is this that attracts me about the word and makes me want to castigate you.

I wrote this after finding out people tend to hate Tenacious D: The Pick of Destiny. I refuse to say whether I agree with them.

Anyone who reads this and does not respond runs a risk they can probably guess.

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there is some cinema i admire that others - let's call them Heartless Bastards - are pleased to call "maudlin" (well, it probably is / but all maudlin isn't created equal, dammit ..): Snoopy, Come Home, Portrait of Jennie, and - sure - aspects of Bridesmaids mebbe possibly come under that umbrella.

Sting

ETA, actually I admit my horrific taste in music freely to watch people cringe and writhe.

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I feel that I've tried, in these last years, to admit to what I like. Starting with Shakespeare (in my profession). I guess my recent post on how Richard Brautigan was actually really good.

I know! Kipling! I tend to stay quiet about that.

Slender women. Fire away.

Hm, there's not much that I like that I won't admit to liking. Maybe that explains the high rate of castigation. There are things that embarrass me though.

For a while it was Yes. In the middle 90s, prog rock was the antithesis of all that was good and right.

I like McDonald's. I definitely don't admit to that much, given the upper-middle class liberal circles I often find myself in. I generally have appalling taste in food.

I love that Bad Lip Reading stuff. My ex used to complain it was like listening to Weird Al. But she's the one who listened to Sookie Stackhouse audio books! Lord have mercy.

Guess that risk. New LJ meme.

Liking anything that's coded girly or feminine or minor still comes with a lot of cultural baggage.

It's taken me a long time to admit I love the color shell-pink (to look at but, oddly, not to wear), emotional melodrama (in fiction but, explicably, not in life: Victorian sensation novels, contemporary mythpunk [well, some of it], the movie Labyrinth, Aurora Leigh, Dorothy Dunnett), and internet videos of slow lorises eating rice balls:

in certain circles, video games.

(in contrary circles, literature, though less and less of those circles as I get older and pick my company)

from video games ---> mc chris

oh, I know! sometimes, when I don't even realize it, I find myself quoting Jim Morrison's terrible poem American Dream. "The moths & atheists are doubly divine & dying."

Slavic folk metal.

At first I thought of TV shows, but nobody blushes about the awful TV shows they like. (Trailer Park Boys.)

So, here it is: deconstruction.

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