[ SECRET POST #3136 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3136 ⌋

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

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Comments

[fscom]

04. http://i.imgur.com/JrbXe8y.png

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah I really hated this book, too.

[(Anonymous)]

I've never read that book but from the excerpts I've seen, it seemed terribly written.

[dancing_clown]

The more I hear about this, the less I want to read it.

[solticisekf]

I didn't read the book but feel like I did, lol.

So. There's this huge fandom for the book series not in Eng. The main character annoys me. So much so that I didn't finish the book. (Btw, this character annoys me in fics also, probably because he's IC there). However he's one half of the most popular ship. I think it's about readers identifying with him and not about how awesome he is. Maybe a bit like Archie in Hornblower movies, I think it's about Archie = reader.

Same with the book - the fans see themselves in the main character. They don't care about her flaws - they care about the get together and the happy-end. And maybe about being accepted. Because you wish the best for someone who's just like you. In theory. I don't know how self criticism enters in there.

All in all we need more characters who are slashers. The otaku male character is well known in manga/anime, and it's well known that guys like girl on girl action, so slashers should get more recognition to balance things out.

[(Anonymous)]

Chiming in that everything I've heard about this book so far has put me off, especially the part about the main character needing to be cured of her unacceptable enthusiasm levels and being a "fangirl" in order for her to get her happy ending. There are enough bland, bored, unenthusiastic people in the world without everyone needing to conform to that norm.

[(Anonymous)]

I read bits of it, and I get the idea that the author was meaning to have her be over-obsessed or over invested in fandom partly because of some loss in her life (her mother I think). Sort of like burying yourself unhealthily in an interest.

But I can totally understand and agree with being tired of that being the norm for fandom people or being common. Showing fandom as something abnormal and unhealthy. I'd just like it to be treated as an acceptable hobby, and not a hobby that's an acceptable target or seen as weird or inherently unhealthy.

[anarchicq]

So, it's the literary equivalent to the furry episode of My Strange Addiction?

[(Anonymous)]

I really could not sympathize with her thinking it totally made sense and was fine to turn in her fanfiction as class work. Like, it seemed a very particular/peculiar level of fandom for her to have NO CONCEPT that this was out of place.

But then, most contemporary-set YA books about writers tend to annoy me--give me Cassandra Mortmain or Betsy Ray or even Sophie Fitzosbourne and their lack of bratty entitlement any day.

[diet_poison]

Is that Noelle Stevenson's art?

[(Anonymous)]

Yep. :)

[(Anonymous)]

This fucking book. I wanted to like it, but it was just... the ending was terrible. Ugh.