[ SECRET POST #2029 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2029 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 04 pages, 85 secrets from Secret Submission Post #290.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 - posted twice ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
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Comments

[miarrow]

No, bitter that they're so ignored now. Like why hasn't everyone read them??? They did so many things YA doesn't do now (like a multi-ethnic cast).

They're releasing them and updating the cultural references for ebook, which I guess is great if it brings in new readers, but I'm sort of like NO MY CHILDHOOD.

[(Anonymous)]

idk... I was a huge bookworm as a child/teenager that read pretty much everything but I stayed far away from those books because the covers.

FREAKED ME OUT. So yeah, there are probably a lot of people like me. If they have different covers I probably would have read them. And even thinking back realizing cover=/=content quality, I still get Furry vibes from the covers. :s

[miarrow]

Try reading them now! I haven't reread them as an adult yet, but even thinking about the concepts, they were really good. Not like when I try to explain how I used to watch Seaquest and what it was like outloud.

[(Anonymous)]

Apparently, I'm in a serious minority in loving the covers because MORPHING.

The new releases have different covers. I can't even explain this well, but it was a bit like the best and most original sci-fi writers had written a series with language and pop culture references meant for teenagers in the 90's. The themes were heavy and numerous: mind control/mental slavery, infestation, large-scale planetary invasion, conspiracies within conspiracies, racism, some sexism, xenophobia, ableism, pacifism to the point of extinction of your species, death, war, propaganda and brainwashing, overcoming societal norms and mores, overcoming racist and ableist societal values, murder, and abuse. There was no way you could come out of them without having your whole concept of ethics fucked.

But the greatest part was that almost every book was told from the POV of one character and each character had a fucked up story to tell. One was actively pursued by the incarnation of evil and was losing the battle, one was shown in every AU as either dead or living a terrible life, one had become a fucking HAWK and could never live a normal life again, one continually hurt or risked the lives of others due to her conflicting morals, one was stranded on an alien planet, and one knew that his dead mother was actually alive and one of the highest ranking officials in the organization they were trying to destroy.

The alien races were original (the author had actually been told that her creation wasn't alien enough and strove to create the most bizarre creatures possible), almost every character was both sympathetic and deplorable (the main enemy was largely blind, deaf, tasteless, and scentless if they didn't force other species to succumb to them), and the characters were well fleshed out. The stories made you think.

And they were funny. They still make me laugh, and I keep the longer supplementary books because they are genuinely good writing. The only things kid about these books are the language and the length.