[ SECRET POST #5306 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5306 ⌋

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


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03. [SPOILERS for the Tearling trilogy by Erika Johansen]




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04. [SPOILERS for Danganronpa V3]
















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05. [WARNING for animal death]



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06. [WARNING for discussion of transphobia]




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07. [WARNING for discussion of sexual harassment]














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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I thought the books were only okay when I read them when they came out and I was like 10 at the time. The first lot were fun child-fantasy books, but the attempts to 'age them up' didn't work with various parts of the lore crumbling under trying to give the books more depth. The sorting house alone is just stupid as fuck beyond the first installments, because no nuance was added to that concept at all and it's basically the 'good/evil' marker with no complexity.

So no, it's not hate of JKR clouding my opinion, I just never thought they were amazing.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, same here. I read them to bond with my nieces and nephews but I thought they had a lot of fat to trim. I also don't think any of the characters are likable. Not terrible but nothing to write home about.

[(Anonymous)]

(cozy werewolf anon)

this is pretty much my opinion in a nutshell. And it's very obvious to me as an adult when she stopped listening to her editor and had way to much pressure to finish the series and no actual plan.

Then I got too invested and wrote a 24 page youtube script about it and I know if I record/post it as a "this is how you don't go from MG to YA b/c lack of nuance/bad characters" I am going to get attention. Which could be a good or bad thing.

The saddest thing is, imo, is because Harry Potter became such this HUGE franchise if you want to write a fantasy boarding school type story (b/c houses are actually a THING in English boarding schools) or even something more dystopian, I really don't think anyone is going to publish it (especially Scholastic) as it would compete with the cash cow or be compared and it's like "Look if Terry Brooks could knock off LotRs for Sword of Shannarra, at some point someone else gets to write a boarding school fantasy." But hey, epic fantasy by white guys is evergreen where boarding school fantasy by... I suppose women, isn't considered so much. Sigh.

Look, I just want more fun boarding school fantasies... hell, I have one of my own I want to write but it's really HARD to have motivation when I know there's no one that would publish it so I might as well not bother to query. But at the same time it's corgis and shapeshifters and portals and FRIENDSHIP. -mutters-

[(Anonymous)]

I want to read your novel so bad! It sounds like a checklist of things that appeal to me!

[(Anonymous)]

(cozy werewolf anon)

awwww, thank you. I have started a first draft and the "theme" of the book(s) being good valued friendships is like a recent thing. And my editor and I both went "how to write MLP:FiM without it being MLP:FiM." I told her to get out of MY HEAD. I just need to find an adventure for Gwenda and her friends to go on.