Recent stuff and...Wow, I didn't know my mind could go there.

[hermione_vader]

I must get this out of the way:  I wrote Captain John Hart/the Joker porn for 10_quotes .  It is probably the dirtiest and most twisted thing I've ever written, and I'm pretty darn satisfied with it.  So, um, yeah.  I think I feel like a better class of criminal or something.

I'm on break from school for a month now, so there'll probably be more of that.

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[lavendergaia]

Anastasia and Cleopatra were my ABSOLUTE FAVORITE Royal Diaries books. I loved those.

[hermione_vader]

Those were the first two that I ever read. Cleopatra was so wonderfully astute for a 12-year-old and Anastasia was such an outgoing tomboy, and I loved them for it. :D Did Rasputin's appearances in Anastasia's book creep you out? He gave me the willies thank you, Dreamworks.

[visiblemarket]

Oh my god, the Princess Diaries! Elizabeth I was my favorite, favorite, favorite ever, but Marie Antoinette made me so sad...the Anastasia one as well. I think I gave some of them away but I've still got like four of them.

[hermione_vader]

Elizabeth I was so much fun! Oddly, she was easy to relate to, at least for me---the inquisitive kid with daddy issues, a cute younger brother, and an annoyingly bitchy ice queen (who just happened to be her older sister) who just doesn't like her and loves to taunt her? That was pretty much...middle school.

I think Marie Antoinette's and Anastasia's books feel so sad because they seems like perfectly nice people who ended up meeting these horrible deaths because they were locked away in these opulent worlds of privilege, ignorant of their countries' problems. And Anastasia's book ends the day before her death I just checked.

Also: HOLIDAY WASH ICON!!! YAY!!!!

[visiblemarket]

Exactly! I was (and am) totally a daddy's girl, and something about that I just got. Plus I totally thought she and Robin should end up together. *laughs* Oh, Virgin Queen and/or history, messing up one of my earliest OTPs.

I remember really clearly talking about the Marie Antoinette one with my dad, and I said something about how stupid I thought she was, for thinking certain things and being so oblivious about the world around her, and he asked me if it was that she was stupid or that she was naive, and isolated, and that she was not the person to blame for that. And it was that day I learned that rich royal people are people too ;) But like you said, there's some pretty deep stuff going on in those books. Especially in Marie Antoinette, a lot of the class issues (I also remember a moment where she wonders if she really knows anyone who's truly handsome, and decides that some stableboy she's seen around can't be, because he's lower class) that would later be, you know, their downfall. Anastasia broke my heart because while Tsar

[hermione_vader]

Well, Robin did become her lover, so I guess it sort of worked out.

I used to think she was just a stupid person, too, until I read the book. I just realized that you can sum up and explain Marie Antoinette's situation like, "Take your average eighth grader, marry her off to a high school sophomore she's never met, and tell her to wait for her (grand)father-in-law to die so they can rule a country. And while she's waiting, she can buy as much stuff and gamble as much money as she wants." What teenager wouldn't get caught up in that?

But like you said, there's some pretty deep stuff going on in those books. Especially in Marie Antoinette, a lot of the class issues (I also remember a moment where she wonders if she really knows anyone who's truly handsome, and decides that some stableboy she's seen around can't be, because he's lower class) that would later be, you know, their downfall.Yes! That part always stood out to me. Those books had some eerie foreshadowing, like when Elizabeth I keeps saying that she'll never be queen,