July, July
This is randomly inspired by
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but who remembers Baby-sitters Club because even though people stan Animorphs still BSC was great for then and is still great, oh jeez.
July, July
I know this is completely and utterly random and Fey is probably going ??? because of wow random ping but that was my shit growing up because of how Ann M Martin fleshed them all out.
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I AM, how did I inspire
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did you hear they're doing a netflix revival
July, July
For whatever reason your plurk about Russian Dolls and your decided favorite minor character just pinged that hard and random.
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go rimbaud
: Literally five minutes ago.
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Per your mention of artsy Asian girls not getting enough love in media.
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nice
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how is netflix making all these shows?
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anyway I was a member of the babysitter's club book club
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Ohhhh I SEE
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I read neither the babysitters club nor animorphs!!
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They're going after making original content based off things that had a decent following and were good or have good nostalgia value but aren't going to be wildly expensive.
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One of the main characters of the books is Claudia, who is Japanese-American and a lot of her stuff is dealing with not being the Perfect Asian Grade A Student Daughter since she's artistic and, quite frankly, a bit of a mess.
July, July
The books were all very excellent because while they weren't TRAUMA TIME special like Animorphs AMM it wasn't perfect life soft YA fiction.
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Aw that's nice!!
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It was also
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WOMEN NEED NOT BE BITCHES TO SUCCEED OR BE POPULAR so it was very just generally Good Shit.
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Yeah a lot of my friends were into it!
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fun fact, ka applegate got started at scholastic ghostwriting for babysitters club
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so without bsc we would not have animorphs
July, July
Yes.
July, July
BSC was just great and wholesome. I hope that Netflix pulls off its usual trick with making their YA-kid oriented adaptations accessible for adults, too.
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there's actually a line of babysitter's club graphic novels these days that are pretty popular!
HEY LADY
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: THAT'S SO CHARMING? but yes I agree. I never got super into BSC but it was just Good Shit About Girls
Juliet
oh a hundred times yes
Juliet
man was that ever squad goals or what??
Juliet
A successful small business with your diverse group of cool gal-pals? dang i still want that life
Juliet
I can totally see how KA Applegate went from BSC to Animorphs because I mean
Juliet
totally different genres and tone, but they both DID do that "one narrator a book in a cycle in a series about a close knit group of high empathy friends who truly like each other"
Juliet
i can't think of other book series that quite nails that "diverse cast of kids who really genuinely like each other" tone
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seriously. and not just diverse and being about building each other up, but while it was still a soft positive series AMM still made it clear issues existed in their world and there were problems.
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instead of it being perfect and the issues coming from the children they watched only.
Juliet
too true!
Juliet
man what an underrated formative literary experience