Especially when we first read something as teens, we don't always parse the wider context of its politics, stereotypes or cultural depictions, not because teens are lazy readers, but because we've got less to compare those things to then & a newer analytic framework.
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Does that mean we have to wholesale disavow our affection or nostalgia for those stories? Of course not! But there's a difference between saying "this book was important to me despite its problems" and "because this book was important to me, it can have no problems."
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ANYWAY. I really need to go to bed, but I'm going to keep chewing on these thoughts because I think it really matters. FIN
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As someone who ended up in fandom at a young-ish age, this makes me wonder about what drew me to fandom that I couldn't find in published books. Was it diverse stories? Was it the subversion of the expected? Hmmmm...
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