![]() ![]() But, like Barry has to learn, it’s a little more complicated than that. It’s not bad to want to make your way in the world, in a big way. I don’t think it was bad for me to want people “groveling at my fett” for my writing, as I typoed as a seventeen-year-old on my profile, back when Facebook was newfangled. His time has come!!Īnd in my opinion, those aren’t bad things to want. This gif from Friends perfectly sums up the ridiculous over-the-top triumph I imagine Barry feeling every time the lyrics come crashing back in after the bridge, with “I can hear the music playing, I can see the banners fly,” imagining himself a future where he glides into manhood with great fanfare. As his 16th approaches, Barry has a slightly naïve, marginally egotistical idea of his future, one that a ton of us can identify with from being teenagers ourselves: the idea that if he seizes diligent enough control over his own life, then the seas will part before him, and hang “banners” and “play music” in his wake. He only has eyes for his own big, manly plans, full of cars, college, girlfriends (hopefully), and making a name for himself in the non-magic world. So I like to think that while she was bustling about that morning, trying not to be disappointed that her magic line was going to end-because after all, she was so proud of her dear sixteen-year-old-that part of Dania’s mind was thinking about Uncle Larry, and the fraction of a possibility that a wand would appear above her oldest baby’s head at 9:42am.īarry however, as usual, is completely clueless, genre-blind to the foreshadowing in his own life (as I think most of us are). Fairy mothers are automatically the fairy godmother to their biological children). And especially fairy godmothers on behalf of their fairy godchildren (which Dania is to Barry, which I don’t mention directly until later. As demonstrated as the story goes on, fairies can often feel things “in the wind” so to speak, especially the more in-tune with magic they are. And I rather like the idea that that’s true in-universe as well.ĭania would never dare to hope that her boy would be an oh-so-rare glitter baby! But I like the idea that part of her feels it coming. I tend to think my plot choices are glaringly obvious, so it’s always a nice surprise when they’re more subtle than I realize, ha.)īasically, the foreshadowing on the morning of Barry’s 16th birthday was never intended to be subtle. ![]() Most people expect him to get magic, but a lot of people haven’t expected the gender change until his pubes flip outside-in, lol. (I have been pleasantly surprised how many people * didn’t* expect him to turn into a girl, who didn’t know beforehand. If people anticipate the nature of the inciting incident, I ain’t mad. It’s not a subtle trail, nor does it steer away from tropes at all. Meanwhile, he’s totally oblivious to the “writing on the wall”…Īs might be obvious, considering his transformation begins on the 4th page of the story (including the cover page) and 7.5 minutes into the audiobook version (right around 7 min and 26 secs, and 7/26 is my birthday), I never intended the foreshadowing in the first scene of the story to be especially subtle.īarry Anderson wakes up on the morning of his fateful sixteenth birthday, and his fairy godmother mom worries he’ll be disappointed not inheriting her powers, and then before he goes downstairs, Barry contemplates magic being a feminine thing in his mind, especially fairy godmother magic of course. Or really, drive through mud at high speed with slow-mo cameras watching him spin out cinematically. Showing the world (starting with his dad) that he’s ready to go play in the big kid mud of the wider world. In Barry’s 15.99-year-old mind, “coming of age” means demonstrating responsibility and ambition in a very masculine, solid way. As Barry approaches his 16th birthday in the weeks preceding Chapter 1, he feels like this is his chance! He’s moving up in the world, becoming the MAN he’s always known he could be! ![]() You’ll see as the story and music go along how much I love both lyrical irony and foreshadowing, and there’s so many things I love about this song being the first one in this story.įirstly, it’s such a coming-of-age guy song, owning the MAN element in such an unapologetic 80s way. ![]() Considering this song is the very first in the whole story, it was a fairly late addition, but it has been super beloved and on repeat since the moment I designated it. I love all of my Barry music (all my story soundtracks, really). I can hear the music playin’ I can see the banners flyįeel like a man again, I’ll hold my head high Elmo’s Fireĭon’t know just how far that I can go (Just how far I go) I’ll be where the eagle’s flyin’ higher and higher You know in some way you’re a lot like me You’ll find you’re all alone, everything has changed ![]()
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