I am quite conflicted & do not know who to vote for.
On the one end, my undying hatred for Les Mis is, at this point, a part of me, I've consistently kept it in my tumblr bio for probably ten years now.
On the other end, I have not being very vocal about my contempt for the superciliousness of Tolkien's fans, should any criticism of Tolkien & the damage inflicted by the pervasive hold of his work & its dubious legacy on the fantasy genre come into their awareness.
Why only last year, I mentioned that I believe enough time, attention & money have been give to adapting Tolkien's work, why there is something outside of Tolkien you know, other books might well deserve their turn in the spotlight, I would even go as far as to say Toliken is overrated. As soon as the word came out of my mouth, outrage poured, the idea of Tolkien's work being overrated, unconceivable.
Put my words into context: I'm wasn't saying it was bad, merely overrated, which has to be weighted against how highly rated Tolkien's work is, which is so very extremely high that some people seem to believe the fact that they only read fantasy books that have dwarfs & elfs everywhere & they constantly have to back themselves into a moral cul-de-sac to defend a racist author's vision of race that has permated the fantasy genre, is their sacred duty.
Just let go of an author, let go of his work. Stop trying to redeem the things you loved when you were younger, you can admit you loved a thing & that is kinda sucks that it gave you shitty ideas about race & gender & other stuff probably.
I don't really know, I haven't read the books, I started but I didn't like it, so I stopped. I read Virgil & Rabelais instead. You don't stan the OG, you stan a contemporary writer whose work, quite frankly, might not stand the test of time, people.
So yeah, between Scylla and Charybdis, I don't know who to vote for. I guess I still hate Les Misérables more? It's true that I hate how people don't care about the history of (French) revolutions as much as their ships, like don't you know that Napoleon's code madee it so women was a minor for their entire life, under the authority of their fathers, husbands & even sons if the former were dead, but never a citizen? The books also take place in the colonial France, which had colonies & slavery, until 1848, so long after the setting of the books. Fantasizing about those rich & privileged white men who are the villains of the story (not the only villains I will grant you, but certainly they are of the bourgeoisie & that makes them villains), I find it gross. I hope when you read your fics, if they wear clothes, you will remember that the cotton comes from slave labour. If they drink coffee, tea, have sugar at at all, slave labour, colonial exploitation. If they talk to any women, remember, no right, no property, no body autonmy, no speech, no authory.
Please go ship something else & at least, acknowledge what who you've chosen to spend some time caring about.
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