[ SECRET POST #4026 + 4027 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4026 + 4027 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Bit early today to make up for yesterday!

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 00 secrets from Secret Submission Post #576.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

That's a character trait I could tolerate if it's presented as, at best, endearingly stupid. Is the reader actually supposed to think it's hot and manly?

I read the first few Princess Diaries books and All-American Girl, and "sameness" is exactly how I felt about them. The main characters were the same person disguised as being totally different because like -- one lives in NYC and the other lives in Washington DC! One's a vegetarian and the other loves hamburgers! And etc. and same for every other character.

Oh, and here let me rant about something I always wanted to, which is also a great example of Meg Cabot actually being a teenager: in All-American Girl there was this art contest that the main character had to pick a winner for, and the subject was "Draw what you see when you look out your bedroom window." The judges' favorite entry was from a girl in some quiet northern state that showed a field with a deer, but the main character decided it was "fake" and "too perfect," so she chose one that was of a building with angry graffiti all over it. Because real people never live in nice places, and True Art Is Angsty. I wanted to write to Meg Cabot and send her a photo of my best friend's backyard where you could see a pretty view of the woods behind it and find deer in it on any given morning. I guess I had an imaginary best friend the whole time!

[(Anonymous)]

Only city people exist in Cabot's worldview, I guess? Then again, that's a very teenager thought from a city kid, so if that's the intended idea...lol.

I've only read the 1, 2 and 4th Princess Diaries books (I think, I know I read 3, I'm not quite sure which 3), and I remember the first two being fun, me being a teen myself and all, but book 4 (maybe? all I remember is purple cover and thicker than the others) annoyed the hell outta me. Main characters STILL going "woe is me" after all that happened and everyone around her secretly devoting themselves to making her happy and...wow, that really is a teen dream situation isn't it. I guess Cabot is a better teen writer than I thought, too bad the characters don't seem to grow.

[(Anonymous)]

"Only city people exist in Cabot's worldview, I guess? Then again, that's a very teenager thought from a city kid, so if that's the intended idea...lol."

I think it's more the edgy-teenager view that life only counts as "real" if it's troubled, gritty, and grim. Nice places might exist, but they're still somehow "fake" or "phony."

An example of this kind of kid (written deliberately) was Fats from "The Casual Vacancy."

[(Anonymous)]

That's weird, because Cabot is from Bloomington, IN... a small college town surrounded by farmland.