[ SECRET POST #6735 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6735 ⌋

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


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 50 secrets from Secret Submission Post #964.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom]

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[(Anonymous)]

I actually love these books, but I feel you because that is pretty much how I feel about the Discworld books. Boring and near incomprehensible. However, I don't hold it against the author.

[(Anonymous)]

same
I really would like to like Discoworld books

[(Anonymous)]

So I started these in the wrong order when I read them as a kid -- I found Deep Wizardry in a bookstore and thought the description looked neat so I bought it and I *loved* it. I memorized the Silent One's song, I copied the whole song on the back of a paper cover I'd made for one of my school textbooks and drew whales and sharks all around it. It was my favorite thing. Then I got the first and third book out of the library and....I did not like them. I thought they were kinda confusing and boring. I did kinda like the fourth one but dropped them after that. (Also I recently downloaded an ebook of Deep Wizardry and apparently it's been updated to be more 'modern' which really annoyed me for some reason.)

[(Anonymous)]

I saw that they updated all the books to be more "modern" and appeal to a new generation and I was so happy to have my old beat up copies.

[(Anonymous)]

The only thing I like about the updated versions is they changed the ending of A Wizard Alone because the original ending was not, uh, good (autistic wizard leaves his autism behind with magic and becomes 'normal' and that's a happy ending because fuck autistic people I guess, can't be a wizard unless you're neurotypical). I'm glad Diane Duane presumably reread it when they were updating the books and realized how bad it was.

[(Anonymous)]

Aw, I really liked the ending. What did they change it to?

[(Anonymous)]

He chooses to stay autistic now, which I think is the better ending. I don't like the idea that as an autistic person my happy ending is to be 'cured.'

[(Anonymous)]

IIRC he was mute, unable to communicate and essentially locked into his body. Like at the lowest level of functioning. Autism shouldn't be stigmatized, but when it impacts a life to the point a person can't engage at all with the world, I don't think that needs to be celebrated.

[(Anonymous)]

DA - yeahhh. I mean I get where other anon is coming from and respect what they're saying, but I get a little frustrated when people don't take nuance and individual situations into account. It's like the whole X-Men thing where Rogue wanted to be 'cured' because she couldn't touch anyone and then Storm or whoever is like "be proud of who you are how dare you want a cure." Really easy for people who can live a relatively "normal" life to say they don't want a "cure".

All that being said, it really would have been better if the author just hadn't traveled down that plot path in the first place.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not a huge fan of them (though to be fair I didn't find them until I was an adult) but I love her Star Trek stuff.

[meadowphoenix]

i also love these book, but i def sometimes reread passages several times

I haven't read them in years

[(Anonymous)]

but I remember really loving the first three (they were all together in one giant book my mom had) and then slowly losing interest as the series went on. And now I want to go and dig that giant book up and re-read it to see if I still love them or if it was all nonsense that didn't actually make sense.

[(Anonymous)]

I read and liked the first... four? books when I was a teen, but reading them back to back was a bad idea because there were SO many inconsistencies that were so obvious I don't know how the author missed them, and it took me out of the story. Like how the main characters' parents had different names between one book and the next, even though they call each other by name so often you'd think the author would remember.

Then I found out apparently later Kit's sister joins the team and decides not to be a wizard but makes up for it with "normal person" skills... like becoming fluent in a foreign language in a few months. Because that's totally something a normal person could do without magic. That's when I decided I was never going to give the books another chance.

[(Anonymous)]

I mean, try reading books meant for adults?

You're on FS; I doubt you're 12 years old.

[(Anonymous)]

I mean, maybe try having the adult thinking skills to understand that someone saying they've read one series of books for kids doesn't mean that's all they've ever read in their life?

[(Anonymous)]

this is a weird secret to me bc.... the way you like an author is to like their books, right? you read the books and enjoy them so much you then go to check out the author? the author seeming like a "rad person" is a strange lead-in to wanting to read a book.

[(Anonymous)]

Welcome, time traveler! You must be from far enough in the past that not only does social media not exist, but television, radio and newspapers don't exist either. And you hail from an extremely remote and rural area where no one brings news of the bards and storytellers and their lives. You must have so many questions about the modern world!

[(Anonymous)]

oh my god are you are roleplaying as a skyrim npc? are you sponsored by tiktok? do you not know how to like, use the internet or purchase a book?

[(Anonymous)]

there are Famous Places of Legend known as Bookstores. perhaps Libraries? If one is brave enough to enter their dangerous caverns, they might find a fucking book to read! You might simply pluck up a book and go "oh, sounds cool" and read it. Clearly you aren't some brave fucking adventurer like me lmfaoooo god