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Wings of Pages
Exploring this concept a bit more. Imagination lets you fly~
It’s really funny to me when I ask for book recs online and give a really clear guidelines for what I’m looking for and you can just tell that some people didn’t read it at all. I made a post on reddit asking for adult fantasy recs and so far I’ve gotten:
a historical fiction
2 books with a heavy emphasis on romance, despite saying that I don’t like books that have a heavy emphasis on romance
1 book that I mentioned in my post that I already read and did not enjoy.
Like, I fully understand the urge to constantly recommend your favourite books, but like... this is just ridiculous.
That being said, I’m looking to transition out YA fantasy, and am looking for some adult fantasies that are easy to follow and not super wordy and convoluted. If y’all know any please let me know.
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I’m back
So, a little life update I guess but I’m back in school. That’s kind of old news, but this past semester was just really tough. I was taking 3 classes and also working part time, and my mental health took a bit of a hit, so as you can imagine there wasn’t a lot of time for me to be on tumblr.
Also, I just got like, really into Breath of the Wild. Like, really really into it.
Anyways, the semester is over now and I got my work hours reduced so I’ve got a little more time for chilling out here. For now, at least. My hours are going back up, and I’m going to be taking exactly one class over the summer.
Also, Tears of the Kingdom is coming out soon.
But for now I’m back, not that anyone really asked, but just in case anyone was wondering, that’s where I’ve been. I’ve got a couple tag games lined up that I promise I’m going to try to get to soon (I promise I wasn’t ignoring you guys).
My characters, as I'm starting on my bullshit again
I wonder if the book/media at large community is ready to have the discussion of just because your story includes and highlights marginalized characters, it doesn't automatically make it good.
Coming from a queer person, I've read many books with queer characters that really fell flat for me, not because of the representation, but due to things like overstuffed plots, pacing issues, lack of cohesion, etc.
The fact that media as a whole is becoming a little more diverse and inclusive is great, but most of the time it's not enough to save a story that doesn't work for you.
I'm not sure we're ready but it's a conversation that will need to happen fairly soon, because yeah. You're not wrong. I know you're talking about the communities here, and I'll get to that, but I suspect publishers are doing what they always do with trends, which is buy up anything and everything that fits the Moment without regards to quality, because they know it'll sell. In this case, they've got the added benefit of looking woke which they're not going to pass up, ever. Not when they keep getting criticized for, say, publishing racists and continuing to hire white people.
(Oh, and if you can't get a big publisher who probably won't edit your book all that well, you can always go with small press publishing, which will edit your book but won't always have the best of editors, or you can self-publish and we know how fraught that can be, for quality.)
And then yeah, the internet flattens things. The call for diverse books has meant celebrating diverse books (good) but also only celebrating the diversity of the books, so that the diversity is the only thing that matters. Which is how you get "diverse book is best book" and the mentality you're talking about. Especially when you insert the internet's notable lack of reading comprehension and nuance into things. It's entirely possible that a book's most vocal fans really, truly only care about the diversity or the general plot or their favourite tropes, and don't notice plot holes or weak characterization or whatever, and because they're loud, everyone else goes, "Wow, that must be a good book, I will also read it."
And none of this is really helped by the weird corollary that if you didn't like the diverse book, you must be a bigot, so there's pressure to not criticize or put out bad reviews. It's difficult to say, "I really love the rep in this, it felt authentic and powerful, they're flawed believably and this really spoke to me" but also "what was even going on during the climax and why was there a goldfish POV that suddenly disappeared?" when there's a chance the fans or the author will get hold of your review and twist things. So you just talk about the good stuff, or you don't talk about it at all, and so it looks like you love the book too…. (I have done this.)
I don't have a solution. I don't think anyone wants me to have a solution. I suspect the answer is small-scale discussions like this and also time. I've definitely seen shifts in thinking in the last couple years that are encouraging—and I think the more diverse books we get and people read, the less the "diverse is good" thinking will be out there anyway. It's one thing to have, like, 2 adult ace characters, and another two have 200.
IT'S MINE.
What do you mean you don’t know what my WIP is about purely from the bizzare posts I have tagged with the blorbos from my WIPs.
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Can you read/write cursive (bonus: tell me your answer & how old you are in the tags)
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Read but not write
No
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Also my managers: Hey, we need you to go do this thing. Sorry, we know it triggers your anxiety but we're super short staffed and you're the only one here who can do it for some reason
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Talking to people about your characters really is a game changer. You'll start saying things about them you didn't even know you knew.
whatever was left, that was ours for a while.
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