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Carry On (book)
- Accidental Aesop:
- For better or for worse, PTSD requires more than therapy to overcome; you also need a support system. You need the courage to keep going to therapy, even when you hear something that hurts you. Simon worsens when he starts blowing off therapy sessions in Wayward Son and Penelope tries to help out, but her road trip ends up going wrong for everyone.
- You can't blow off people in your life. Penelope's boyfriend Micah reveals that he broke up with her ages ago, but she never listened to him. She also took him for granted, so he moved on with a normal girl.
- Angst? What Angst?: In Wayward Son, Shepard reveals he was cursed through a demon ritual gone wrong, and it opened his eyes to a magical world that fends off dangerous threats and mind-wipes Normals. What is his response? Start a blog and seek out magical creatures to befriend them, both for writing material and because he's genuinely a Nice Guy who wants to understand this world.
- First Installment Wins: Carry On is quite well-beloved as far as YA and Queer Romance goes. Wayward Son and Any Way The Wind Blows, however, have a more mixed reception due to being much more darker than the first title, pacing issues, and plots.
- Fridge Horror: Lamb takes interest in Baz on realizing that he is a vampire that can do magic. While Simon thinks that Lamb is sincere in that his clan would take care of Baz and won't hurt him, Baz thinks otherwise. Besides which, the interest that Lamb has in Baz is more possessive than genuine curiosity about science. It might not have been a Gilded Cage situation for Baz, as he and Simon assume, given how Agatha and Penelope were treated while held captive.
- Portmanteau Couple Name: The real-world fandom has dubbed Simon/Baz "Snowbaz." Portmanteau Couple Names are not used in either Carry On or Fangirl though.
