i honestly no longer wanna be part of the #ACOTAR fandom anymore.
it's nothing the loving community that was formed over 10 years ago, with SJM interacting with the fans and all of us holding genuine love for the stories and the characters she poured her heart and soul into.
It's just not there anymore. Even SJM knows that tbh.
For the 10 year anniversary, the author herself did not post about it which is no matter what, pretty much an alarming call of how deeply fucked and ruined this fandom has become with the amount of toxicity on every platform in relation to this.
I dont blame her, who'd want to interact with a community where majority of the 'fans' are hellbent on hating the goddamn MCs, writing and spreading negativity about the same and the author, acting entitled thinking SJM is nothing but a system like ChatGPT where anything can be said and there'd be zero repercussions and that she owes us everything she does/has done, outright hating the plotlines and the stories in the name of 'criticism', taken the ship war to an extent where most 'readers' have started using it as rage bait for likes and views, so on and so forth?
Imagine spending years of your life and creativity into something you love and are passionate about and people have nothing but hate filled for it after it being loved for so long. Imagine how gut wrenching that transition must've been.
Would you rather want to interact with a community where most don't like your books or are just so focused on pitying your own FICTIONAL characters against each other that they tend to constantly forget the meaning of morally grey? I don't think so. It's not that hard to drop a book and keep it to yourself when you don't have nice things to say unless and until an author is genuinely fucked and an outright bad person.
I love SJM and the world she has created, and maybe i'll continue to interact sometimes or during major events but from here on, I just can't call myself a fandom member of the ACOTAR universe any further.
I hope this community gets a fandom cleanse which is much needed and maybe we're able to go back to the loving and cherishing genuine readers it used to have. Reading was supposed to be an escapism, especially fantasy.
It can't be a goddamn escape when most of the people are hellbent on relating reality with the fantasy.
Until then, to the stars who listen
& the dreams that are answered xx
