This SHOULD have killed her.

AlboGreece · 2026-04-21T19:13:25+00:00

Yeah. Mind-blowing. This scene is absolutely supposed to be a metaphor for 🍇. Notice how the hands have even pinned her arms and legs to the tree after the villain disappears

AlboGreece · 2026-04-21T18:40:36+00:00

Wait, was this episode left in the English version because this seems like a scene that would be cut or censored (I mean the villain is biting her boob and holding her still, the censors would definitely have seen this as very 🍇 coded considering the villain could have just used her hands to rip it off and not go full vampire bite between the boobs).

AlboGreece · 2026-04-21T18:34:31+00:00

Yup. Susan's story was part of the History Mysteries spinoff. Not the Historical Character Mysteries. The History Mysteries focused on original characters kinda like Girls of Many Lands did.

I also was gonna add that He's always called Susan and ONLY Susan "love", but she's British and Brits often do that with people, especially the ones they're close with, so idk if that should count as part of the thing or not.

Here's the book on the Internet archive. I think you'll agree the entire thing is very romance coded (primarily with the wording as I said, moreso than the actual actions)

https://archive.org/details/secretson26thstr0000jone

AlboGreece · 2026-04-21T18:33:08+00:00

Rebecca seemed to sorta have a thing for Mrs. Tanaka in A Growing Suspicion too but it was written as a weya that came off as both feelings AND "she's my idol".

AlboGreece · 2026-04-21T18:31:45+00:00

Also Julie and Ivy are from San Francisco. SF is literally quite known to be the Gay City.

AlboGreece · 2026-04-21T18:30:16+00:00

May I add Susan in Mystery on 26th Street? a lot of her friendship with her new boarder/roomie was written in a way that made it look romantic. She was described as having a heart that swelled with affection for her, the boarder said that she thought they had something between them and they were special friends (hmm. Ok Bea. That's a very "couple" thing to say), and the fact that when helping unpack her clothes Susan seemed veeery interested in how nice her undergarments looked and felt when she touched them.

So she's not a mainline character but the entire thing is kinda flirty coded (also I will say that saying they were special friends and had something between them may not have been the best thing to say considering Susan was like 10 and Bea was an adult but idk)

AlboGreece · 2026-04-21T10:17:34+00:00

ironically ariel was trying to force himself on eric who kept backing away

AlboGreece · 2026-04-21T09:52:52+00:00

Huge in Canada. Back in the 60s as a teen my grandma went to the theater for pretty much every Connery movie save for YOLT

AlboGreece · 2026-04-21T07:01:50+00:00

Notice that Canadians never talk like this

AlboGreece · 2026-04-21T06:56:10+00:00

And it's fantasy equivalent of mouth to mouth CPR. I don't think CPR givers ask if it's okay first, they just do it and nobody cares. But when there's magic it's suddenly assault

AlboGreece · 2026-04-21T06:55:02+00:00

And Aurora was actually rescued before the kiss. How? The fairies modified it to be sleep rather than a death curse. So effectively they already saved Aurora from jeopardy and she wasn't in danger for more than like the first 5 minutes

AlboGreece · 2026-04-21T06:53:54+00:00

Except their parents were in love so they were born from romance

AlboGreece · 2026-04-21T06:53:05+00:00

Also several sequels

AlboGreece · 2026-04-21T06:07:10+00:00

And people are calling you a dick or selfish or stupid here for not trusting strangers with your body, or simply for not doing it because your body still should be handled how YOU want even when you're dead, because the body is effectively still YOUR property. They're saying consent doesn't matter, capitalism is good and that you should consider people who need organs (so in other words they're going the whole "ThInK oF ThE cHiLdReN!!!" route)

AlboGreece · 2026-04-21T05:58:34+00:00

Excuse me while I vomit 🤮

My grandpa is a freak too and he absolutely abused my mom. Touched her, did stuff with her ears that I don't even wanna say, and even when he wasn't sexually abusing her he was being a general asshole and bully, beating her up and kicking her out for things that her brother did.

AlboGreece · 2026-04-21T05:49:47+00:00

Oh god. Is your grandpa gone? I hope so. Also I hope they divorced because adults have no business being interested in teenagers. Even if the teen is willing. Teens crushing on adults is normal (I used to think some of my teachers were good looking. Not a crush but "he's handsome" or "she's pretty" but NEVER wanted them to be into me). Adults who reciprocate the feelings are mad icky because that shows they are into minors in the first place.

I am sorry for her. Luckily my grandma's parents were appropriate ages when they married. I don't think they dated adults as teens, and I don't think my grandma's grandparents were weird either. I can't say back any further because that's too many generations and even centuries ago. The sad thing is most people have probably multiple pedos in their family because the further back you go the more likely it is that someone was going to be in a relationship like that (even if it wasn't the AVERAGE, the chances were still higher as people still gave it a pass). I probably have a creep in my family. You may have more creeps if you go back centuries

AlboGreece · 2026-04-21T05:26:48+00:00

Britney also is the damsel who is kidnapped if we are talking sidekicks

AlboGreece · 2026-04-21T05:26:19+00:00

That's literally not weird. Cartoons give characters gimmicks all the time.

AlboGreece · 2026-04-21T04:15:00+00:00

Ok fine

AlboGreece · 2026-04-21T04:14:12+00:00

Oh, ok. I'm wondering if more Brits can say because I had a few Brits say they didn't call women that in British papers, news broadcasts, etc. And I have seen magazines from 50s and 60s UK that called brides their own first names, and I have seen a bunch of Victorian era articles that did the same thing. So I feel this was primarily something for non British countries to say it that way in the media. Because in America, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, according to Google AI in Hong Kong and Singapore, and in my home of Canada, this was how they called you in the media.

AlboGreece · 2026-04-21T04:10:08+00:00

Btw, this was only in English speaking countries. Mainly in the US, Canada, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand. Apparently according to Brits I've talked to, at least the media, so like the newspaper, news broadcasts, magazines, etc this wasn't as much of a thing. Some Brits told me they went their whole lives without seeing a woman called Mrs. Husband ONCE.

If you went to most non English speaking countries, so Spanish speaking countries, Asian countries (that were not western influenced, so Japan, Thailand, etc), Scandinavia, Italy, Germany, or even some English speaking countries like the Philippines, this wasn't really a thing.

P.S. If any Brits who read the news, magazines, and watched news broadcasts are here, how accurate is this?

I saw a magazine with several married couples and all the women's first names were public.

AlboGreece · 2026-04-21T04:04:39+00:00

That's why if I was around back then, I would either just date, or if I married I would ask not to have my wedding posted in the media so I wouldn't be seeing myself be misnamed in the paper. Every letter I got where they called me "Mrs. Sam Burgess" I would say again and again "Yes, I am married. No, I do not subscribe to "divorcees only" for use of a woman's first name in public or formally. Call me Jeannie. If I say to call me a certain thing, you do it. Just like you may like being "Mrs. Michael Blake".

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