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I Was a Teenage Fairy is a young-adult novel written by Francesca Lia Block. The protagonist, Barbie, is a dissatisfied daughter of a Stage Mom who pushes her into modeling as a child. Her only real ally is a tiny fairy who offers her advice and companionship. |
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I Was Quite a Looker |
| | I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_126ce03c |
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I Was Quite a Looker: Barbie's mother "won Miss San Fernando Valley in 19... let's just say I was a winner!". |
| | I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_126ce03c |
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I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_126ce03c |
| | I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_16b734e7 |
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Hippie Parents |
| | I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_16b734e7 |
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Hippie Parents: Todd ascibes his "freewheeling" nature to them. |
| | I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_16b734e7 |
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I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_16b734e7 |
| | I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_1b36d1dc |
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Fairy Companion |
| | I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_1b36d1dc |
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Fairy Companion |
| | I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_1b36d1dc |
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I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_1b36d1dc |
| | I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_1b4e322c |
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Mr. Fanservice |
| | I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_1b4e322c |
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Mr. Fanservice: Todd in-universe, since he's a famous actor. |
| | I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_1b4e322c |
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I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_1b4e322c |
| | I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_22cf536c |
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Chekhov's Gun |
| | I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_22cf536c |
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Chekhov's Gun: The camera Todd gives to Barbie on their first night together is later used to photograph Waverly groping a little boy, providing evidence that brings him to trial. |
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I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_22cf536c |
| | I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_243eeb00 |
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Don't Do Anything I Wouldn't Do |
| | I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_243eeb00 |
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Don't Do Anything I Wouldn't Do: Subverted. |
| | I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_243eeb00 |
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I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_243eeb00 |
| | I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_28ae9dbf |
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Pen Name |
| | I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_28ae9dbf |
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Pen Name: At the end of the book, Barbie publishes her photographs of Mab under the name Selena Moon. |
| | I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_28ae9dbf |
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I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_28ae9dbf |
| | I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_28cd01ca |
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Disappeared Dad |
| | I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_28cd01ca |
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Disappeared Dad: Barbie's father. |
| | I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_28cd01ca |
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I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_28cd01ca |
| | I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_2978c012 |
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Stage Mom |
| | I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_2978c012 |
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Stage Mom: Barbie's mother names her after a plastic doll in hopes that Barbie will become a beautiful model (and not much else). |
| | I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_2978c012 |
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I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_2978c012 |
| | I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_2ed5e99d |
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Depraved Bisexual |
| | I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_2ed5e99d |
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Depraved Bisexual: Hamilton Waverly sexually abuses both Barbie and Griffin. |
| | I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_2ed5e99d |
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I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_2ed5e99d |
| | I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_31da1e24 |
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Shipper on Deck |
| | I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_31da1e24 |
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Shipper on Deck: Mab for Todd/Barbie and Griffin/Damian. |
| | I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_31da1e24 |
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I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_31da1e24 |
| | I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_44ba9580 |
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The Snark Knight |
| | I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_44ba9580 |
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The Snark Knight: Mab |
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I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_44ba9580 |
| | I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_466ccbb4 |
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Gayngst |
| | I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_466ccbb4 |
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Gayngst: Griffin believes Waverly's abuse is his own fault for being gay. |
| | I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_466ccbb4 |
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I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_466ccbb4 |
| | I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_50cc01e1 |
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Do Not Call Me "Paul" |
| | I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_50cc01e1 |
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Do Not Call Me "Paul": Barbie's mother changes their name, Markowitz, to "Marks", which deeply offends Barbie's father and contributes to the reasons for her parents' divorce. |
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I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_50cc01e1 |
| | I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_59938d30 |
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Better than Sex |
| | I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_59938d30 |
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Better than Sex: Griffin's night flight with Mab, according to him. |
| | I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_59938d30 |
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I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_59938d30 |
| | I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_5a365ed2 |
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Incompatible Orientation |
| | I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_5a365ed2 |
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Incompatible Orientation: Griffin loves Todd who is heterosexual. |
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I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_5a365ed2 |
| | I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_5e2e55e4 |
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The Casanova |
| | I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_5e2e55e4 |
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The Casanova: Todd. |
| | I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_5e2e55e4 |
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I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_5e2e55e4 |
| | I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_643618e5 |
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Replacement Goldfish |
| | I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_643618e5 |
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Replacement Goldfish: Blatantly lampshaded in that way only great fairy tales can get away with. Mab actually scouts Los Angeles' gay neighborhood for a man to replace Todd in Griffin's affections, and finds one who is not only handsome, but creative, romantic, able to see fairies due to Rape as Backstory, and HIV-negative. He's also part Asian. |
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I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_643618e5 |
| | I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_6bda9a30 |
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Meaningful Name |
| | I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_6bda9a30 |
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Meaningful Name: Barbie's name represents her entrapment within the life of a model. |
| | I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_6bda9a30 |
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I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_6bda9a30 |
| | I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_8382e003 |
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Fairy Sexy |
| | I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_8382e003 |
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Fairy Sexy |
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I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_8382e003 |
| | I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_939a84fa |
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Embarrassing Tattoo |
| | I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_939a84fa |
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Embarrassing Tattoo: Todd's body is covered with the names of girls he has been in relationships with before. At the end of the novel, he commits to Barbie but the tattoos are still there. |
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I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_939a84fa |
| | I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_96fbeaf |
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There Are No Therapists |
| | I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_96fbeaf |
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There Are No Therapists: Barbie's self-harm (dragging her knuckles against a wall to make them bleed), reckless behavior (hitchhiking with men after dark) and occasional argument with Mab in someone else's hearing go unnoticed. Subverted in the end, when prompted by Barbie's book of fairy photographs, Mrs. Marks goes to see a therapist herself. She turns out to have been deliberately ignoring Barbie's problems in order to suppress her memories of her stepfather's abuse. The therapist may or may not be a grown-up version of Mab. |
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I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_96fbeaf |
| | I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_99404851 |
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Ladykiller in Love |
| | I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_99404851 |
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Ladykiller in Love: Todd becomes one when he meets Barbie. |
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I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_99404851 |
| | I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_c0961831 |
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Interrupted Suicide |
| | I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_c0961831 |
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Interrupted Suicide: Griffin, either by Mab's magical web or by Todd and Barbie. |
| | I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_c0961831 |
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I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_c0961831 |
| | I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_c35d837f |
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Loves My Alter Ego |
| | I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_c35d837f |
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Loves My Alter Ego: A variation with Barbie and Griffin; even though she's in love with Todd and vice versa, her possible Imaginary Friend loves Griffin, and they become a Beta Couple to Todd and Barbie for a while until after Griffin's attempted suicide, when Mab decides to find him a human lover instead. |
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I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_c35d837f |
| | I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_c75df49a |
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Shout-Out |
| | I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_c75df49a |
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Shout-Out: To the Clap Your Hands If You Believe moment in Peter Pan. |
| | I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_c75df49a |
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I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_c75df49a |
| | I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_cb70651c |
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Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane |
| | I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_cb70651c |
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Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: It's left deliberately vague whether Mab exists, or whether she's a manifestation of Barbie's (and Griffin's) anger, courage and hope. |
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I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_cb70651c |
| | I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_d49671b4 |
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Zen Survivor |
| | I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_d49671b4 |
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Zen Survivor: Barbie |
| | I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_d49671b4 |
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I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_d49671b4 |
| | I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_d7fc9fd0 |
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Vitriolic Best Buds |
| | I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_d7fc9fd0 |
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Vitriolic Best Buds: Barbie and Mab, mostly due to Mab's tendency to bluntly and sarcastically state the things that Barbie is afraid to acknowledge. |
| | I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_d7fc9fd0 |
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I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_d7fc9fd0 |
| | I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_dd2444d3 |
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Shiksa Goddess |
| | I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_dd2444d3 |
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Shiksa Goddess: Barbie's Gentile mother to her Jewish father, though the "goddess" aspect has worn off considerably over the years. |
| | I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_dd2444d3 |
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I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_dd2444d3 |
| | I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_e621b159 |
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A-Cup Angst |
| | I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_e621b159 |
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A-Cup Angst: Barbie is frequently criticized for having small breasts. This makes sense, however, since she is a very slender model and large breasts would be unnatural on her frame. |
| | I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_e621b159 |
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I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_e621b159 |
| | I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_eb6912 |
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Pretty Fly for a White Guy |
| | I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_eb6912 |
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Pretty Fly for a White Guy: Ashley, Todd's (mostly) ex-girlfriend, threatening Barbie to "watch it, Miss Thang". |
| | I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_eb6912 |
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I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_eb6912 |
| | I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_fea27091 |
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Buffy Speak |
| | I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_fea27091 |
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Buffy Speak: Barbie and Mab's private code. A "biscuit" is an attractive man; a "crocodile" is someone they hate. |
| | I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_fea27091 |
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I Was a Teenage Fairy / int_fea27091 |
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