What's wrong with a rainbow fairy?
Okay, so this is how Doctor Hero Daddy is going to tell his kid, and Ashley, that he's sorry he didn't marry her when he was 19, because that makes sense, and that they should totally get married now that she's all knocked up at the advanced age of 29.
Cam began his story in traditional fashion and proceeded to spin a fantastical tale about a beautiful princess who had fallen in love at a very young age with a handsome prince. And though the prince loved her, too, he had been given the gift of a magical sword and he wanted to travel the world and slay dragons, because he believed his desires and ambitions were far more important than a girl who had nothing to offer but all of the love in her heart.
His MAGICAL SWORD? OMG, he just told his six-year-old and his pregnant high school girlfriend that he left because he wanted to bang other people with his magical sword. Heh heh heh. Snort.
This has been bothering me the whole damn book, if you hadn't noticed. It is not a bad thing that he left town and went to college and became a doctor rather than marrying Ashley when he was 19 and she was 17. She is an unreasonable idiot for still blaming him for getting an education and becoming a doctor rather than marrying her when they were teenagers, just because the sum total of her ambition was to teach first grade in her hometown, and you can generally do that even if you do get married at 17. I don't think that Harlequins have to be totally progressive and exclusively focus on heroines who have OMG SRS BZNS careers and whatnot, because of course teaching is a career, and so is parenting, but for crying out loud, her childish insistence that it's unforgivable that he broke her heart when they were teenagers by GOING TO COLLEGE is driving me up a goddamn wall. That is not something anyone should apologize for, nor something for which anyone should expect an apology, because at 19, your education is more important than your relationship. Period.
Okay, /rant. So a little later in the fairy tale:
"A fairy tale needs a fairy," [Maddie] told him. "Preferably one with rainbow-colored wings."
The editor has crossed out "rainbow-colored" and written in "sparkly," with this note in the margin: "Changed to avoid any sort of odd connotation, okay?"
Any sort of odd connotation? Like the connotation that the fairy in this made-up story a made-up doctor is telling his made-up six-year-old is possibly a fairy of the homo persuasion? That kind of connotation? What does it matter if the made-up fairy in the made-up story within another made-up story is a rainbow-colored poofter with the voice of Paul Lynde? Who is that hurting? Fail.
ETA: The prince in the story also has a pet monkey. Named Oscar. I give you:
"And so the prince strapped on his sword, tucked his monkey under his arm, and turned toward home."
HAAAAAAAA. I do so love an inadvertent penis joke.
Cam began his story in traditional fashion and proceeded to spin a fantastical tale about a beautiful princess who had fallen in love at a very young age with a handsome prince. And though the prince loved her, too, he had been given the gift of a magical sword and he wanted to travel the world and slay dragons, because he believed his desires and ambitions were far more important than a girl who had nothing to offer but all of the love in her heart.
His MAGICAL SWORD? OMG, he just told his six-year-old and his pregnant high school girlfriend that he left because he wanted to bang other people with his magical sword. Heh heh heh. Snort.
This has been bothering me the whole damn book, if you hadn't noticed. It is not a bad thing that he left town and went to college and became a doctor rather than marrying Ashley when he was 19 and she was 17. She is an unreasonable idiot for still blaming him for getting an education and becoming a doctor rather than marrying her when they were teenagers, just because the sum total of her ambition was to teach first grade in her hometown, and you can generally do that even if you do get married at 17. I don't think that Harlequins have to be totally progressive and exclusively focus on heroines who have OMG SRS BZNS careers and whatnot, because of course teaching is a career, and so is parenting, but for crying out loud, her childish insistence that it's unforgivable that he broke her heart when they were teenagers by GOING TO COLLEGE is driving me up a goddamn wall. That is not something anyone should apologize for, nor something for which anyone should expect an apology, because at 19, your education is more important than your relationship. Period.
Okay, /rant. So a little later in the fairy tale:
"A fairy tale needs a fairy," [Maddie] told him. "Preferably one with rainbow-colored wings."
The editor has crossed out "rainbow-colored" and written in "sparkly," with this note in the margin: "Changed to avoid any sort of odd connotation, okay?"
Any sort of odd connotation? Like the connotation that the fairy in this made-up story a made-up doctor is telling his made-up six-year-old is possibly a fairy of the homo persuasion? That kind of connotation? What does it matter if the made-up fairy in the made-up story within another made-up story is a rainbow-colored poofter with the voice of Paul Lynde? Who is that hurting? Fail.
ETA: The prince in the story also has a pet monkey. Named Oscar. I give you:
"And so the prince strapped on his sword, tucked his monkey under his arm, and turned toward home."
HAAAAAAAA. I do so love an inadvertent penis joke.