#juniper hayward

[rodrickheffeley]

I’ll argue with the book idgaf

[laufire]

After finishing Yellowface I looked around a bit and saw a few people calling Juniper delusional for that last chapter, for thinking she could manage to turn things around and make a comeback, that she still has a shot at rehabilitating her image and continue to succeed as an author. But honestly, my perspective is closer to this one Kuang herself expresses in this interview:

[...] That’s exactly June’s game. It’s all a question of who controls the narrative and what story she gets to tell. Even if everything blows up in her face, even if everybody hates her, even if all this comes out, and it’s clear she’s in the wrong, she still feels convinced that she can take that, profit off it, and spin the story back into her favor. Here’s where my deep pessimism about publishing really comes out. I believe that is just what happens to bad actors in publishing. They can take those blow-ups and turn them into narratives that serve them. Maybe it takes time for the pendulum to swing the other way, but the scales always rebalance in favor of who had the advantage in the first place.