[ SECRET POST #3129 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3129 ⌋

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

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Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 026 secrets from Secret Submission Post #447.
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: Current Reading

[badass_tiger]

I finished Diana Wynne Jones' Homeward Bounders yesterday afternoon, then started on Dogsbody last night. It's Diana Wynne Jones, it's pretty great so far.

Homeward Bounders really hurt me with its ending :c It was a really good one though. Not like, say, Fire and Hemlock. What even was that book.

Re: Current Reading

[(Anonymous)]

ohhhhhhh Homeward Bounders. That one wrecks me (and that's one of the meanest last lines ever). I just passed off my copy to my nephew with a warning that it is not happy.

Also, it pleases me that you appear to not love Fire and Hemlock...

spoilers

[badass_tiger]

Homeward Bounders is such a good book though. I like how Diana Wynne Jones never 100% villainises her antagonists, like how Prometheus didn't really hate Them despite everything, and the scene where Prometheus comes back to his valley is quite lovely.

Yeah, I liked it a lot at first, the whole thing with Polly and the adventures she and Tom made up and weirdly came true, but then the narrative came back to the present day and it was just ridiculous imo. I really disliked how weird their relationship turned out in the end. That was just so not cool.

Re: spoilers

[(Anonymous)]

Her male antagonists don't tend to be 100% evil, but she's written some horrific unforgivable women.

Re: spoilers

[(Anonymous)]

Eh... Kankredin, Uncle Ralph, Keril starts out sympathetic but ends pretty awful, both the uncles in Conrad's Fate, most of Marianne's family in Pinhoe Egg, almost all of the villains in Merlin Conspiracy (which is spread out between 100% evil men and women, which is on theme). Those are all unforgivable male villains. She didn't just do awful women.

Re: Current Reading

[(Anonymous)]

Fire & Hemlock is my favourite :) That or Archer's Goon.

Homeward Bounders is my least favourite!

Re: Current Reading

[ginainthekingsroad]

I have a special, special love for The Homeward Bounders because my sisters and I used to play a game with our small figures that bore a more than a passing resemblance to the actions of Them. For those characters, in-universe, we were omnipotent usually unseen forces called Giantesses. For us, The Homeward Bounders is too meta for words.