Late 2001 or early 2002 was when I got my first cell phone, and I know I was a late adopter. It was largely a safety precaution -- I rarely made actual calls other than to say stuff like "hey, I'm here, are you coming out yet?"
But I was very glad to have it, and if I'd been a single woman roaming the countryside in tornado country, I would probably have done it sooner.
Even in 2001, this would have been a somewhat antiquated mindset to have. I knew a few 13-year-olds who had an "emergencies only" cell that had about 30 minutes of talk time per month ("Mom, Taylor invited me back to her house after the movie, can I go? Her mom will give me a ride home. Okay, thanks!"), and even my technophobe mother had one. Not to mention that her specific gripe - cell phones will give you cancer - now seems laughably dated
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I could honestly forgive Shannon's aversion to cellphones if it weren't for the comment about her friends dying from brain cancer. On it's own, it would've been just a quirk. An annoying, stupid quirk, but nothing that ruins the character.
But that aside makes Shannon look like a colossal asshat. Worse, like the lovely heroine who takes after her, she looks like the alpha bitches PC loves to tear down. And I'm supposed to be rooting for her?
Wow, Shannon is Zoey Redbird. Why do she have friends if she'll gonna drop them like hot potatoes the moment she enters magic land? The main character in a book I was writing was also transported to a magical world, and she tried to find a way back home because she had friends. Here though, our charming heroine says 'screw my friends, they'll waste away from cancer for being airheads'.
And naked, fiery version of herself transporting Shannon, huh? I can think of...less interesting ways of getting to a magical land. I like to think Shannon died when she took her eyes off the road to look at the Death Pot, and the fire her represents a car crashing into her.
"I tolerate the ridicule of my peers because I’ve decided that when they are all dying of brain cancer I am going to tell them 'I told you so.'" I'm pretty sure I said stuff like this when I was twelve lmao
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Late 2001 or early 2002 was when I got my first cell phone, and I know I was a late adopter. It was largely a safety precaution -- I rarely made actual calls other than to say stuff like "hey, I'm here, are you coming out yet?"
But I was very glad to have it, and if I'd been a single woman roaming the countryside in tornado country, I would probably have done it sooner.
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But that aside makes Shannon look like a colossal asshat. Worse, like the lovely heroine who takes after her, she looks like the alpha bitches PC loves to tear down. And I'm supposed to be rooting for her?
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And naked, fiery version of herself transporting Shannon, huh? I can think of...less interesting ways of getting to a magical land. I like to think Shannon died when she took her eyes off the road to look at the Death Pot, and the fire her represents a car crashing into her.
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I'm pretty sure I said stuff like this when I was twelve lmao
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