Claudia and the Middle School Mystery! Part 1!
I needed to burn off some steam, and I didn't want to fall in the Tumblr hole, so I started my next snark. And omg, you guys, there is so much exposition! So, sorry if this is a little short, but the first three chapters are basically filler. Yeah, it's easier on me, but I feel like I'm slacking. I promise that better things will come. At least, I
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Ann totally fails at writing a cute kid. On purpose. When she writes an actually likable kid, it's totally on accident and she wanted them to be hated. Karen bullies. Karen lies. Karen steals. Karen snots. Karen does basically all the things that make you want to bitch slap a child and she gets away with it! I can see if she was trying to do simple wish fulfillment, but you can't write a kid getting away with everything and expect people not to hate her. If she had just made her a rich kid but still nice about it, that would still fall under the wish fulfillment umbrella without making her a total brat.
Like, let's take 'Baby-sitters on Board'. Karen could have just had her storylines be about the excitement of going on a cruise and going to Disney World. But instead Ann added that she lied and charged money and ran away. She had her lie again, without punishment, about it being her birthday. Every chapter of hers had her lying about something. And not once was she punished! That doesn't make her relatable! Real kids get punished! They're gonna look at Karen and think 'What a spoiled brat!' I know that's how it was for me.
I love that you share your Karen hate with your husband! That's so cute! I always think mutual hatred brings people closer together. That's hilarious that you give Karen a demon voice! I'm gonna have to start doing that from now on!
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--boy did she ever. i loved her books growing up! i can't wait until my nieces are old enough to read, i'm going to totally be getting them ramona books for birthdays and christmases. :)
"Now that I think about it, I never hear anything about Ann's writing. There's no criticism or praise, there's just nothing. It's really weird. I feel like we should all get together and write essays on why her writing is so toxic. Let the world know!"
--that's so true...and we totally should do that!!!!
'Ann totally fails at writing a cute kid. On purpose. When she writes an actually likable kid, it's totally on accident and she wanted them to be hated."
--ha! ikr? god, she's such a failure. the most likable, realistic kids are the ones we're supposed to hate, and the kids she obviously LOVES -- karen, are the fucking worst and were pretty much unanimously hated by the fans of her books.
"Karen bullies. Karen lies. Karen steals. Karen snots. Karen does basically all the things that make you want to bitch slap a child and she gets away with it! I can see if she was trying to do simple wish fulfillment, but you can't write a kid getting away with everything and expect people not to hate her. If she had just made her a rich kid but still nice about it, that would still fall under the wish fulfillment umbrella without making her a total brat."
--exactly.
"Like, let's take 'Baby-sitters on Board'. Karen could have just had her storylines be about the excitement of going on a cruise and going to Disney World. But instead Ann added that she lied and charged money and ran away. She had her lie again, without punishment, about it being her birthday. Every chapter of hers had her lying about something. And not once was she punished! That doesn't make her relatable! Real kids get punished! They're gonna look at Karen and think 'What a spoiled brat!' I know that's how it was for me."
--same here. i've always hated karen. she's such an entitled, monstrous little liar of a brat, i just can't stand her. in one of the karen books, not sure which one off the top of my head, she made a list of things to do to hurt another kid--bobby, i think--and the list included lying to him and telling him he was adopted. how fucked up is that? and she actually did it!!
"I love that you share your Karen hate with your husband! That's so cute! I always think mutual hatred brings people closer together. That's hilarious that you give Karen a demon voice! I'm gonna have to start doing that from now on!"
--lol!! it freaked him out the first time i made her talk with a demon voice, he was like, "WTF?!??!" and i told him, "sorry, i have to give her a demon voice to show just how evil she is." it's so much fun reading him these and laughing about them with him. there are characters he straight up hates now, right along with me. :D
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