[ SECRET POST #4037 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4037 ⌋

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

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[Watership Down]


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[Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little Town on the Prairie]


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04.
[Gordon Ramsay]


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05.
[Line of Duty]


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06.
[Spider-Man (Marvel-616)]


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07.
[The Grimsby Brothers (2016)]


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08.
[Dirk Gently / Dollhouse]


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09.
[Electronic Arts]









Notes:

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Comments

Re: I am totally loving

[(Anonymous)]

I’m always weirded out by this because the real story of what happened to them (and the reasons the books were written and edited the way they were) is so creepy and sad.

Re: I am totally loving

[shortysc22]

I don't know this story. I just know the books were published much later in life during the Depression and I think it was Rose who pushed her, but I don't know much of the story.

Re: I am totally loving

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT—Rose Wilder was an Objectivist who hung out with Ayn Rand and edited the books to be more Objectivist propaganda and downplayed all their failures (Alonzo and Laura ended up
losing their farm right about when The First Four Years ends, for example.) The Wilders/Laura failed utterly at homesteading but kept chasing the dream and promoting it, even though it fucked them over.

Re: I am totally loving

[(Anonymous)]

It sounds like they did eventually have a prosperous farm after moving to Missouri later, but it took years and years to build up (only to lose their savings to the stock market crash because Rose told them to invest it, and then started supporting themselves through Laura's books). Everything that happened after The First Four Years didn't make it into what is traditionally considered the Little House series, so ending that book with utter failure would have been a pretty downer ending (I know both Laura and Rose wrote about later events, including the move to Missouri, but I don't know if those works were aimed at children, since I haven't read them).

I think the modern version of homesteading is starting your own business, and I get so frustrated with the idea that this is what everyone should aspire to. No, I don't want to quit my job because I actually love my job. No, I don't want to be my own boss, because that would require doing a whole lot of bullshit that I don't enjoy.