#fandom problem 5335

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Fandom Problem #5335:

I've had enough of fucking booktubers "Reading X So you don't have to". Especially when they cringe and whinge about sexual content in adult books. "Oh goooddddddd you guys, I can't believe you want me to read this horrible nasty SEX book that has vile putrid SMUT in it!!! Oh noooo!!!" Oh my god just admit you wanted to read the smut, it's fine, but stop being such a baby about it.

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5335:

This reminds me, there's a popular book series that also has a large hatedom and most of the complaints just keep going on about "smut" and I'm like. Are the books actually poorly written, or do you just not like that there's sex scenes in it. And they go "look at all the bad stuff this author did!!" and i'm like, "wow, that's awful, but also doesn't answer the question, of is it actually a badly written book" Sometimes i wonder if these people even read for any reason other than being proud of selecting books that make them feel like a good person.

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5335:

Yeah... I once tried to watch one on a dark romance book that did have some legitimate writing problems, but instead the reviewer just spent 15 minutes complaining about how all the things that happen in it would be /so horrible/ in real life, and they can't belive the author would condone violence like that. The blurb on the authors website literally has a content warnings for stalking and kidnapping, so I don't know what they expected. And even when it's not the main focus of the review, sometimes they'll feel the need to stop and mention how gross and weird and wrong it is. I had to exit out halfway through a review once because they got to the first sex scene and they had to spend two minutes complaining about the lack of consent in a book where the main character gets FUCKING KIDNAPPED! Not "the lack of consent made me uncomfortable", but "I can't belive the author portrayed this and it clearly means they think it's okay".

Just about the only booktuber I can stand is KrimsonRouge, who actually talks about, you know, the writing quality of the book and whether or not the plot makes sense. Instead of complaining about how a book he's not the main audience of made him uncomfortable to read for 15 minutes with a Better Help sponsership and then giving it 0/5 stars based on arbitrary bullshit that changes every video.

Also (because I've seen this brought up), there's a difference between a lack of consent in a lighter romance book because the author doesn't realise that they've written a questionable situation, and a lack of consent in a dark romance book where the characters been kidnapped/held for ransom/sold into slavery. In one the author isn't neccesarily aware that they've written something with dubious consent (sex while drunk, mild coersion, ext.), in the other one the author is pretty clearly aware that all of this is a fucked up scenario that would be horrible in real life.

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5335: God. I used to love book reviews and would try to use them as a resource to learn to improve my own writing to see what "works" and what doesn't "work".

Now every book review is just moralistic handwringing

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