#reading takes

[odpadkreativity]

How mainstream sci-fi authors name their short stories:

One sad and dreadful day they finally came down to Earth

unique name

it's easy to find (there simply isn't another short story with the same name)

you can tell this is a sci-fi right away

it pretty well summarizes the story

How mainstream sci-fi authors name their novels:

The Ship

the most common name you can think of

it is NOT that easy to find that one book you are looking for (there are literally like five other books with the same name from the same year and by the same author)

idk is this a sail tale? pirate story? a fanfic?

first few pages are located in a spaceship, but then they land on a planet and the ship is never going to be brought back ever again

[onehawtwriter-blog]

am i the only millennial who read HP when it was coming out and immediately went “…this is really bad actually?”

not “overrated”

not “i didn’t connect with it”

BAD.

even as a kid i’d already read fantasy that trusted the reader more, had better prose, better world logic, and characters that didn’t feel like cardboard cutouts wearing plot armor

and rereading as an adult just made it worse

because now you can actually see the biases baked into the worldbuilding, the weird moral framing, the shallow metaphors, and how much of it feels stitched together from other stories without understanding why those stories worked

like the cultural phenomenon? fascinating

the books themselves? absolutely not the sacred text people act like they are

how millennials seem incapable of letting go? kinda sad actually

please tell me i’m not alone in having grown up during peak hype and still going “nope”

[grotesquehorse]

libby needs an exclude tags feature so bad

[grotesquehorse]

the moment you guys are like "fanfic shouldn't be published because it's bad writing" then you've lost the argument. once you start policing what is "good" writing and advocating for only "good" writing to get published, you've become part of a much bigger problem than what you were trying to take down

[grotesquehorse]

you would think that all of the millennial contemporary romance authors would want to criticize the act of house flipping, considering it is DEFINITELY part of the reason that the housing crisis is, and will continue to get, so fucking bad. there's multiple books where the main character wants to flip a house for a profit, ignoring the idea that flipping a house means you ALREADY have the money to do so. usually these main characters buy a house and want to "fix it up" which is fine, i get that, i would love to buy a house and fix it up. but the "flipper" mindset is so fucking harmful and it's never criticized. the idea of a mid to late 20 year old who can FIND a cheap house to buy is unrealistic in the world we are living in currently. all of the cheap starter houses have been bought by flippers who flip houses as a side business. and then sell them for Slightly Higher Than What A Starter Home Should Cost. there are no starter homes anymore. the concept of buying a cheap home and being able to fix it up for yourself is unattainable. mass produced suburbia houses are getting built and are too expensive for young people to invest in for their first house. more and more apartment buildings are being built instead of 1200 sq ft ranches, FORCING young people into renting (at stupidly inflated costs). and i do know why these authors don't criticize it. it's largely white women with generational money and husbands who have "real jobs" to support them. and i do think a lot of millennials are, frankly, so up their own ass, that they cannot think about WHY things are the way they are, they just go "capitalism bad :(" and then go to disney world every year.

[grotesquehorse]

people would really rather hold a fictional character up to their own personal beliefs rather than consider any deviation to their own way of thinking

[grotesquehorse]

contemporary romance novels are expected to confine to purity culture (with too many sex scenes). and its SO BORING. every main character has to have the correct opinions on everything and is not allowed to have backstory or context with ANY nuance at all