[ SECRET POST #3651 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3651 ⌋

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Comments

[nonnymouscawitz]

I am the opposite. High school sucked for me too, so I enjoy reading A) characters I love doing more with their teenage years than I did with mine and B) characters I love going through the same kind of bullshit I got stuck with. And I have a thing for 'character gets bullied and finally snaps back' because I was not a brave teenager.

[(Anonymous)]

This is how I feel about high school AUs too.

I mean, one totally crap thing about high school was that in addition to being kind of miserable, it was also utterly boring. Which is partly because that's just reality most of the time, but also partly because I was a very withdrawn sort of person in HS (and still am, I suppose), so I never really did many of the things that are often depicted as quintessential "coming of age" things. So on the one hand, I really love reading about the characters I love dealing with the kinds of anxieties and insecurities I find so relatable. But I also love reading about them doing all those often dramatic, often cliched quintessentially teenage things I never really did.

Plus, I love the extra squeeze of protective affection I feel for the characters I love when they're young and more vulnerable and not quite fully formed yet, but still fundamentally their magnificent, flawed, quirky, wonderful selves.

Also, yaasss @ your icon!

[nonnymouscawitz]

Yes to all of this. I never went to parties or drank underage or caused major trouble with my parents or joined sports (except a brief stint in powder puff football). My mother, who was a wild child, often laments that I was TOO well behaved and she wishes I'd gotten into just a little trouble so I could have had "the full teenage experience." And while I have no regrets about being a good kid and a good student, I do wish I'd gotten out more and it's nice to read about for me. Heck my favorite non fic genre is YA for similar reasons.

I love this icon. I used to pop up on all the taylor swift discussions going "well, actually, let me explain you a thing" so I figured I needed an icon to go with it.