For SOME STINKIN’ REASON, my friends don’t want to hear ANYTHING about the Wingfeather Saga. They just don’t seem to be interested, and it’s really frustrating because either they don’t want to know about it, or they say yes and still don’t care :(
The fact that it’s easier to get ADULTS into a kid’s book (which I’ve managed to do—twice) than actual kids is no less than insane! I’m not sure why my friends don’t want get into either versions (TV adaptation OR the books), but it makes me very sad inside☹️. So yeah, I have no in-person friends to talk about the Wingfeather Saga to except the Broken Shield Salesman (and he hasn’t even finished the entire series yet!). I don’t know why I’m talking about this honestly, I’m in a forum full of Featherheads. Still, kinda sad. Anyways I have a spoon🥄.
There’s this kid in my grade who started going to my school last year, and I didn’t really pay much attention to him or get to know him. Then this year we were on the same tennis basketball and lacrosse team so I got to know him super well. We have so much in common it’s crazy. He loves books as much as I do! And fantasy is his favorite genre! So, as I was saying, this year I got to know this kid super well and we became good friends. We talked about books and sports and baguettes (just kidding not baguettes). When I learned he loved reading as much as me, I asked him if he’d read the WFS, and he said no, so I told him he should and he said he would. Happy story right? Wrong. Just as I was getting to be good friends with him, he told me he was moving to Florida this summer because his dad’s in the military! 😭 I literally cried. Anyway, the point is, this kid was basically my one and only friend who I could talk to about books AND sports and now he’s gonna be gone! He’s moving on June 20. **starts crying*
BONIFER SPOON???
Oh, I once got a very reluctant and stubborn friend to read WFS!
ONCE UPON A TIME.....................I had a friend who REFUSED to read WFS. No matter how much I begged, she refused to open the books and read the amazingness. Eventually, I grabbed my Nintendo Switch, inserted my Pokémon Sword game, and made a deal with her. If I could hatch 100 Eevees (adorable Pokemon) in ONE week, she would read WFS. (I also had to trade any Shinies I hatched, but that's not important cuz I didn't get any shinies) I began, and I spent my screentime that week riding back and forth across the fields of that game, hatching Eevees so she would read WFS. It was one of the most tedious things I've ever done. BUT! The Thursday of that week, I hatched the 101th Eevee, and she read WFS! And she LIKED IT! But she still refused to admit it...and she doesn't think Janner lives...
😭yeah it’s sad. Even my friends who have read it don’t really want to talk over it with me…
Oh spoon! I love spoons 🥄 **holds up spoon*
😭All my friends won’t read it either-AND MOST OF THEM LOVE READING! I ask them and they’re like “yeah I”ll look into that” and then I ask them about a few weeks later and they never really look into it
It’s annoying
But I got you guys so I guess it’s fine
hon i totally get you- i've recommended the series to SO MANY PEOPLE (including my family) and NO ONE READS IT!! ok actually thats not true- i have a bunch of really close friends who are girls- including my sisters- and i talk abt it ALL THE TIME to them and keep telling them to read it and offering to let them use my books- and their always like "oh yeah i should read that" MOVES ON IN LIFE!! but so far i've managed to get two of my guy friends to read them- LITERALLY MY MENTIONING IT ONCE! WHAT THE HECK!! i was vaguely like "oh yeah this is a really good series, you might wanna check it out" and WABAM the next week both of them started reading it- ONE OF THEM I'VE LIKE BARELY KNOWN FOR A COUPLE WEEKS AND YET MY OTHER FRIENDS WHO I'VE KNOWN MY WHOLE LIFE STILL HAVEN'T GOTTEN AROUND TO READING THEM!!!! lol the other guy i've also know my whole life and he reads suuuuper slowly its a stark contrast to me🤣 i read the first book in a couple of hours and it took him three weeks to read the first three chapters🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣
um anyways- i've also been trying for AGES to get my family to watch the series with me (I haven't been able to watch it cuz my mom is the one with Prime Video) I LITERALLY MENTION IT ALMOST EVERY TIME WE'RE TRYING TO FIND A MOVIE TO WATCH- and YET IT HAS NOT HAPPENED!!!! 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
**hugs the spoon*
Everyone is entitled to their opinion, except for people that don’t like books. They’re wrong.
I’d suggest going to people who you already know like books, and suggesting it to them.
One other tip is to use stuff to relate to it. I’ve been able to insert the series into about a dozen conversations by now just by saying “This situation is similar to this one scene in my favorite book series, the Wingfeather Saga…”
You can’t get everyone, I’ve found, but you can get a few. Take joy in the few you can get.
That’s so sad!! 😭
offers you a baby chorkney to hug
OOH! is the spoon shiny!?!?!?!?