Oh man, I also feel that way about the Tortall books which I loved so much and reread many times! Maybe it is better to just stick with my childhood joy memories.
You’re right about how absolutely sexless Swallows and Amazons feels. Everyone definitely reproduces by budding, and then goes off to have Jolly Good Adventures with their Jolly Good Friends. But weirdly enough I don’t feel the same way about, like, Mallory Towers? Where I definitely think that Bill and Clarissa were in love, shacked up after school, ran a riding stables together, and had a very good sex life, even though I sort of feel like that should also be a sexless canon. Hmm. I wonder what the difference is to my brain.
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Date: 2022-01-13 02:42 am (UTC)You’re right about how absolutely sexless Swallows and Amazons feels. Everyone definitely reproduces by budding, and then goes off to have Jolly Good Adventures with their Jolly Good Friends. But weirdly enough I don’t feel the same way about, like, Mallory Towers? Where I definitely think that Bill and Clarissa were in love, shacked up after school, ran a riding stables together, and had a very good sex life, even though I sort of feel like that should also be a sexless canon. Hmm. I wonder what the difference is to my brain.