What's actually kind of awful is when you have that moment of absolute recognition . . . and then realize that because this creator (mine was a TV series) is not a group member, does not actually seem to understand viscerally, that it was an accident, and they will screw it up.
(Mine was actually "Gifted caretaking older siblings of disabled dependent younger siblings", but hey).
I read Malinda Lo's Ash the other week. And it was a sweet little book. But I wound up looking at it afterwards with a kind of an ache in my chest trying to think about just how much my thirteen year old self needed that book, back in the 90s when it wasn't there, and all she really had to replace it was a secondary character in a Lackey novel (which was important, but not the same.)
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Date: 1 Oct 2009 06:32 pm (UTC)(Mine was actually "Gifted caretaking older siblings of disabled dependent younger siblings", but hey).
I read Malinda Lo's Ash the other week. And it was a sweet little book. But I wound up looking at it afterwards with a kind of an ache in my chest trying to think about just how much my thirteen year old self needed that book, back in the 90s when it wasn't there, and all she really had to replace it was a secondary character in a Lackey novel (which was important, but not the same.)
I just, yeah. Thanks for this.