[ SECRET POST #4893 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4893 ⌋

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

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[Interview with the Vampire]


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[Disney Descendants 3]


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10. [WARNING for discussion of transphobia]



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Comments

[fscom]

03. https://i.imgur.com/D1dr8Yf.png

[(Anonymous)]

Haven't seen this, but I agree the art style is weirdly generic and fluffy for something so damn dark.

[(Anonymous)]

I've never seen this, but based on your summary, it sounds really freaking dark. Darker than Digimon Tamers, which I think was the most messed up show I watched when I was a kid.

[feotakahari]

“Running away from destiny?”

[type_wild]

BEAUTIFUL CHAOS

[(Anonymous)]

Me too!

[(Anonymous)]

Oops, that was meant for #4.

[(Anonymous)]

I've seen clips of this and it's so horrifying it's almost funny.

[segnung]

This is just the tame animated adaptation of the book, which I highly recommend. Though it's emotionally devastating, the animals have no voices and neither are they anthropomorphized, so the realism of the story hits harder.

Scruffy was a real dog - a stray set to be euthanized, but Daily Mirror reporter Jack Stoneley was moved by the sight of her and her story made the front page of the paper. She ended up with her own happy ending and he ended up writing a book to give her a backstory.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/scruffy-how-mirrors-tragic-tale-2867009

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/648484.Scruffy

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I was gonna say, it was based on a children's book because I remember reading the book when I was a kid. I didn't find it particularly darker than a lot of other things I read around that age, I think it was just the fact that it was about dogs that made it seem so rough because most people expect stories about dogs to be fairly... cute, I guess?

[segnung]

Basically, yeah. But oh goodness was Scruffy's poor mom was put through the wringer! The deaths of her siblings and her mother's struggle to keep her alive really hit me hard as a kid, but everything after that was comparatively easier to read. Definitely a good bit of fiction for a real dog whose life probably wasn't that harrowing, but it made her actual happy ending feel that much more earned.

[(Anonymous)]

omg this was one of my favorite books as a kid.

I don't know if I remember it [the story] all, but the cover art of the poor dog abandoned somewhere with naught but a rope around his neck...and there was the fear he was always going to die...shit. I named my stuffed animal after him. I think I ight have cried. I still have the book.

I don't think I want to re-read it. I haven't since I was about 8 or 9...and here I was laughing because the secret sounded ridiculous. I used to walk around with that book, the binding undone it was a used book too).

[segnung]

Yes! Newer editions of the book have a less dire looking cover, but that image of Scruffy looking so alone and desperate was so effectively moving. I definitely cried reading the book and I still tear up when I think about particular parts of it. For years I wanted a dog that looked like Scruffy.

I might re-read it if I can get a copy with that original cover. It's also nice to see others have read the book since I felt like I was the only one who kept checking it out from the elementary school library.

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

Yeah, when I'd describe that book back in the day, no one knew what I was talking about. I got from an after-school center I used to attend. I don't think I was supposed to keep it, but alas...

[segnung]

Well, you gave it a good home and it sounds like it was well-loved, which is a nice fate for a book to have.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh god, I remember watching this at a friend's house when I was like 6 or something. It was her favorite movie. For me it was just barely less traumatizing than Watership Down (which my parents let me watch when I was 4, alone, because the tv guide mentioned bunnies. Fun times)

I don't remeber much, only that the homeless man coughed so hard he nearly choked, and then he died in an ambulance. That night I was afraid to go to sleep, because I coughed a lot too af the time and I was afraid I'd also choke.

It did make more involved and present when my kid is watching something, so at least there's that...

[(Anonymous)]

Most kids stories are dark. Look at Bambi. It's how kids begin to learn to process feelings like fear etc. If you shield kids from anything remotely scary you do them no favours.

[(Anonymous)]

lol nah, at least with bambi it eases you in.

from what op says, this isn't exactly something a kid can watch and healthily process because there are some sad/scary bits.

[(Anonymous)]

Older kids it sounds fine for.

[cloudtrader]

I named my first dog after this movie, when I was in 1st grade. RIP, Scruffy.