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Mary Anne and Miss Priss! Part The End!

Feb 19, 2017 21:27

Greetings, my lovelies! How is everyone doing? I can't believe I got this up in a good time but well...my Sims crashed. So, I took that as a sign that I shouldn't be playing games and should get snarking. And good lord, is this book depressing. I swear to God that Ann's only talent is taking perfectly innocuous characters and turning them into ( Read more... )

mal must suffer, snarker: road_baby, bad writing, drunk parents, bad parenting, #73 mary anne and miss priss, i hate ann, hypocrisy

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shatisarockgod February 20 2017, 05:31:36 UTC

Claudia, of all people, solves the problem--Not surprising. Claudia isn't book smart but she has a lot of common sense imo ( ... )

road_baby February 20 2017, 23:49:47 UTC

PAY ATTENTION TO JENNY TOO

Right? Everyone's acting like the problem with Jenny is unsolvable when really all they have to do is pay attention to her. How hard is it to play with her or read her a story and tell her you like her?! Why is it her own Goddamn mother can't do this?! You're absolutely right that they're treating her like a toy they got tired of. Like, 'Oh! We got something new! Better play with that and throw the old one in the trash!' It's seriously fucked up how abusive Ann writes people.

The Pikes are terrible parents. It really comes off as they know Mal is well enough to sit but don't want her sitting for fun so, they just make her sit her sibling cuz they're lazy. Like I said, either they think she's well enough to sit or they don't. Sitting for her siblings is no different than sitting for like Jamie or someone except it doesn't benefit them so they forbid it. And I sincerely hope they're paying her because if not, that's absolute bullshit.

That sentence makes as much sense to me as saying "Things would be ( ... )

andromeda331 March 3 2017, 09:42:39 UTC

ikr? Like what exactly does Mary Anne miss about Dawn? She's not a good friend or sister and all she does is bitch and complain. Really, after Mary Anne's Makeover, Mary Anne should have want nothing to do with her. You can't treat someone like shit and expect no repercussions. But Ann never does that. She has her characters acting awful to each other and never face any consequences. Mary Anne should have been mad at her over the course of a few books. She should have confronted Dawn and the BSC for how they treated her. Not laughed it over like some cute mistake. They were purposely trying to hurt her. And no one apologized! If I ever met Ann, I'd be hard pressed not to sock her molars out.

This yes! You can't have best friends being upset over a hair cut and purposely trying to hurt her. Then have them just make up without apologizing to Mary Anne. It doesn't work that way. You treat a friend that badly and you just lost a friend.

road_baby March 4 2017, 01:05:01 UTC

I wish I knew why Ann is like that. Why does she think writing everyone being mean to their 'friends' is normal?That when people are mean to you for no reason, you should go crawling back to them with an apology? If I could ask her one thing, that'd be it.

lisaerin February 20 2017, 11:16:52 UTC

I think the book with the auction might be Kristy and the Worst Kid Ever, but I'm not sure. I never read it but I vaguely recalled some snarks mentioning an auction.

road_baby February 20 2017, 23:35:30 UTC

Ah, thanks. I was thinking of doing that one because I always found they auction aspect hilariously stupid but I hate that book so maybe not...

fairest1 February 24 2017, 01:45:22 UTC

Maybe Mr. P was busy at work? Like, most of the jobs they went to were right after school, I think, so Mrs. P got back before he returned from work. Jenny might've acted up less around him because he made an attempt at parenting so she didn't feel he was ignoring her for the audition-ready baby like her mother was.

"My child is acting out because she wants attention. What possible solution could there be for this impossible problem?"

. . . given how she responded to the compliments, I'm thinking if Jenny had even been told "Oh, you look lovely today!" in response to her carefully protected dress as her mother was heading to an audition, it would've helped a lot. Which tells us she didn't even get that.

the1812overture February 26 2017, 13:20:17 UTC

Mrs P shows that she's an asshole by saying she knows that Jenny has been having a problem with Andrea getting a lot of attention but doesn't know what to do about it.

Talk to your kid and give her some attention. PROBLEM SOLVED, BITCH.

Ann thinks so little of parents that it makes me uncomfortable sometimes.

She says she could cut back on some of Andrea's jobs but she doesn't want to.

They don't rely on Andrea's jobs for financial support. There's no reason not to cut back. If you're going to so many auditions and jobs that you literally have no time for your other child, then the baby is being worked too hard.

Mrs. P is doing this because she likes the attention for herself.

When Mary Anne suggests she have someone sit for Andrea while she has some mother/daughter time with Jenny, she says she's too busy. She's too busy.

I feel for Andrea here too. Mrs. P. never has time for Jenny because she's off at auditions with a baby. How tired must that baby be?

If you don't have time to spend with your kids, you shouldn't ( ... )

andromeda331 March 3 2017, 09:31:26 UTC

I would have never pegged her as a neglectful parent but she spends the whole book ignoring Jenny. And it just gets worse and worse. I seriously wonder what's wrong with Ann. Well, let's go ( ... )

road_baby March 4 2017, 01:08:04 UTC

She usually seemed like a good mother who loved her daughter

If you read the books before Andrea was born, Mrs P is a good mother. She pays attention to Jenny and worries about her and spends time with her and is generally loving. But as soon as Andrea was born, Mrs P started ignoring her. Which is really shitty because it's basically treating Jenny as something you got tired of and tossed aside.