Comments | deathycat: Sweet Valley High; the road to obsession...

deathycat

Sweet Valley High; the road to obsession...

Nov 25, 2007 17:08

The true tale of a lonely melodramatic girl and the friendship that was based on a ridiculous teen book series called Sweet Valley High.

( Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction )

sweet valley, writings, nastalgia, memoir

Comments 13

ultimate_cin November 26 2007, 01:15:50 UTC

This is an awesome story about you and your friend - I actually laughed out loud at a few points because it reminded me so much of me and my Sweet Valley obsession - though I didn't have a friend that was as into it as I was. I collected the books faithfully from the time I was 9 until my mid-twenties (when SVU started coming out). Then the obsession started to fade and all my books either got destroyed or lost throughout a couple of moves.

Until I found 1bruce1.

Now my Sweet Valley obsession is fueled again and I too am working on collecting as many of the original SVH and SVU books as I can find. (Not interested in the kids, jr. high, etc. series, and I may start on Senior Year once I finish the originals.)

deathycat November 28 2007, 02:30:50 UTC

Thank you. ^_^ 1bruce1 sort of has that effect, doesn't it. ^_^

getyourwingss January 16 2008, 02:37:01 UTC

Don't bother. really, the SVHSY is a waste of time. They have no Winston!!!

remindmeofthe November 26 2007, 02:26:19 UTC

Stop secretly being me!

I, too, shared fandom obsessions with a best friend named Amanda. We started "roleplaying" when we decided we were too old for "playing pretend," but really it was the same thing. (No board game to revolve it around, but sometimes we incorporated random pieces from games.) And I read me a lotta Christopher Pike.

I mean, damn, Michelle is even my mom's name, for pity's sake!

But, all goofiness aside, this is really cute and nostalgic. I very much enjoyed reading it. And, as a bonus, I now understand where the SV/Gundam crossover came from - I did a major double-take when I saw it on your site!

deathycat November 28 2007, 02:29:22 UTC

Wow, that's kind of freaky. ^_^ But cool. I do feel a little less weird now, though. :p

cookie77 November 26 2007, 02:42:14 UTC

A stepback is one of those double-layer covers, right? How did you know they're called that?

deathycat November 28 2007, 02:29:49 UTC

From V.C. Andrews web terminology. Those books are known for their stepbacks. ^_^

cookie77 November 28 2007, 02:40:06 UTC

Okay, thanks! Cool story, BTW!

moonspinner November 26 2007, 06:29:30 UTC

Wow. I started this as a satire to go through our friendship that was really based on Sweet Valley but it wound up kind of serious in the end. It’s kind of pathetic how much of our lives revolved around those books and our own world created upon the characters featured in the board game, but that’s okay. We stayed out of trouble. We had fun. And right now we’re both doing pretty good.

I think you and Amanda are pretty awesome people. I hope you don't mind if I add this to my Memories? It's really nice.

deathycat November 28 2007, 02:31:11 UTC

Aww thank you. ^__^ And of course I don't mind.

getyourwingss January 16 2008, 02:33:27 UTC

I think we should become friends! We both heart Sweet Valley and V.C. Andrews. We should like, rp it sometime! Sooo much fun! I'd even relinquish Margo heh.