as always, I'd love to hear your answer in the tags, especially if it's one of the "other" choices!
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boxcar children vibes
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You know, I loved the original Boxcar Children book, where they're actually living in the boxcar and evading their unknowingly kind grandfather, but I always wished they would have kept the survivalist aspect of the books more instead of turning the kids into detectives. Like what if they started out the same, where they're going on a homeschool trip across the country, and they get lost in the desert, or in a plane crash, or running from the law? Way more interesting than a thinly veiled Hardy Boys knockoff imo
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Okay obviously the polls are going on so submissions are closed and it doesn't really matter at this point, but did anyone submit the Boxcar Children? Even just one person?
I'm mad at myself for only thinking of them now and not when I was actually going through the process of sending in submissions. I had to read some of those books in 3rd grade and I absolutely loved them.
They were actually submitted once! Sadly, they were chosen during the prelimonary round :(
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obsessed with how different the first boxcar children book is from the rest of the series. like i haven't read any of them in ages but iirc it was like
boxcar children book 1: they are living in a boxcar
boxcar children books 2-160: they are solving mysteries
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"He especially likes children barbecued with a steak sauce and honey glaze."
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The boxcar children to cottagecore anti-capitalist pipeline is a very comfy ride with pretty flowers. You cannot convince me otherwise.
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The fear of falling apart - in which the Boxcar Children don’t get adopted by a rich relative, and angst ensues
I feel like myself again - in which Skull/Drunk Guy finds a tiny, meowing new reason to stay sober
If a tree falls - in which Evan Hansen is a homeworld gem desperately trying to hide his social anxiety from the Diamonds
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The Boxcar Children (revised edition 1942)
(original edition 1924)
Story: Gertrude Chandler Warner -- Art: L. Kate Deal
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Does anyone else dream of running away from everything, living in an abandoned box car and working odd jobs for the local doctor, Only to then be found and taken to live with a caring (and rich) family member... Or is it just me?
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Book Spotlight 📚
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every time the wholesome vs weird discourse crosses my timeline and it seems like folks are lining up for one and not the other i get so cross-eyed. you need both? you need stupid skyhooked happy ending wish fulfillment bullshit and you need visceral upsetting flensing wish fulfillment and trying to get rid of either of them is damaging. you need the boxcar children and you need hogg, it's not one or the other, it's both, at different times or simultaneously, stop insisting that they both don't have their purposes.
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