[ SECRET POST #3582 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3582 ⌋

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

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[Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries]


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[Daredevil, Wilson Fisk/Vanessa Marianna]


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[Overwatch]


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[Mob Psycho 100]


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[Malcolm in the Middle]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 39 secrets from Secret Submission Post #512.
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

[fscom]

07. https://67.media.tumblr.com/74111dd13e1119c882351ee1ea95049d/tumblr_of980luQ6c1sivacmo1_1280.png

[(Anonymous)]

I never got into this series as a kid/teen even though I was really into fantasy... and in hindsight, I don't regret it at all for the reasons you describe.

[(Anonymous)]

You missed it when you were growing up because you still had a sense of fun and adventure, which I'm guessing feminist theory has nearly completely stomped out of you by now.

[(Anonymous)]

Right? Damn those feminists and their lack of appreciation for sexualizing kids! It's political correctness gone mad...

[(Anonymous)]

Fuck off with your inability to recognize fiction from real life.

[(Anonymous)]

LOL. Having a sense of fun and adventure does not mean never being disturbed by anything ever. And it doesn't take "feminist theory" to become disturbed by sexualizing kids.

[(Anonymous)]

OK, well regardless I'm confused as to why this is a secret since everyone seems to be in complete agreement that these books are sexist and terrible.

[(Anonymous)]

That escalated... no, wait, you just made it up out of wholecloth. Do feel free to take your boring antifeminist shit somewhere else.

[(Anonymous)]

I feel the same way about a fantasy series I read when I was younger. Rereading it made me realize....ugh. I'm just disgusted and frustrated with it. I didn't even finish the last book.

[(Anonymous)]

I feel you. It was the same for me.

Sometimes I worry that reading those at such a young age screwed me up in some subtle way. I mean, I don't seriously think this, but holy shit there was some weird stuff in those books.

[(Anonymous)]

I've worried about this too. But I can't figure out any connection between the weird shit I'm into and his books.
What I remember from them are the cute love stories- particularly the ones in his incarnations of immortality series. It's like I just got what I wanted out of them and managed to ignore the weird shit. I guess kids are good at that?

[(Anonymous)]

You missed it at the time because society wasn't in the same place with regards to feminism, and you were too innocent to pick up on the little kid sexualization. At least, that was the case for me. As soon as I discovered Piers' attitude towards pedophilia is completely ruined all of his books for me.

[(Anonymous)]

Yep. They're awful.

[(Anonymous)]

For me as a little kid I think I brushed aside the treatment of women as obvious ridiculous fantasy logic. Like obviously no one would think that was how women worked any more than they'd think dragons were real.

And then as a sadder wiser adult I wasn't able to suspend my disbelief.

[atalantapendrag]

His other stuff is even worse.

[(Anonymous)]

You read his "Mode" series. Open pedophilia, blood play, and discussion of suicide methods. And also fractal theory. Yeesh, what a mix.

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks for the rec. Hail Satan!

[(Anonymous)]

I read the first two Split Infinity books and enjoyed them when I was younger, but then upon rereading realized it was essentially a harem plot for the tragically-short-yet-amazingly-talented main character.

[erinptah]

I loved them as a kid too, and in retrospect, I was really good at compartmentalizing. Like, thinking "sure, this is fine for these specific fictional characters who were written as being cool with it, and has absolutely no bearing on how anyone should behave toward women/children/humans in reality."

Plus I frickin' loved puns, so.

[feotakahari]

I read Firefly at a relatively young age: http://hradzka.livejournal.com/392471.html At that time, I saw it from the kid's perspective and thought it was weirdly cute. To me at that age, "power" was what parents or teachers had over you, so it wasn't until I was much older that I realized how big of a deal power dynamics are in any interaction between adults and children, and how many issues Anthony was conveniently ignoring.

[(Anonymous)]

You wanna get seriously creeped out, try his "Mode" series. That one skeeved the hell out of me even as a teenager. Yuck.

I can't believe he hasn't been named as a Yewtree-er.

[soldatsasha]

I loved Xanth when I was a kid (iirc I read the first five and then several others), because it's such a lighthearted fantastical world. I discovered them at the perfect age to think "harpy sex sounds hot" rather than "why does this guy keep going on about little kids fucking?". Looking back they're super weird and creepy.

I don't really have a problem with kids consuming "adult" material, whether that's sex or violence or complex topics. But Xanth was borderline pedo porn with a side dish of cartoonish misogyny, wrapped up in a package that made it all seem fun and exciting.

[(Anonymous)]

I feel you, anon. I think I read like FIFTY of those freaking things when I was in 4th/5th grade and I think they contributed heavily to a lot of my insecurities about my body/value as a woman as it relates to being considered a viable sex object.

I didn't even reread them, I just remembered some of the stuff in them like, man. There sure was a lot of unnecessary talk about tanned centaur breasts. And that's just the tip of the iceberg, or in this case the tip of the tanned centaur breast.

[(Anonymous)]

I remember reading a handful of these when I was a kid. I think the first couple I read were on the less creepy end of the Piers Anthony scale, where the fetishy pedo stuff only popped up in a couple of throwaway lines. But I'm the kind of person who tends to power through series, so it didn't take long to notice that the obsession with little girls was more of an overarching theme. The Xanth series might actually be the first series I ever noped out of.

[thelesbianfuturist]

Oh Piers Anthony is the fucking worst, because unlike most sexist garbage people, he has some fucking talent, and some really good ideas. The fact that he's such utter scum is really disappointing and ruins some otherwise brilliant ideas.