#sam forster

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[theboyatthebustop]

And people say we conquered racism a long time ago

[paranormal-taters]

started re-reading the first book of The Phantom Stallion series because i was feeling nostalgic and in all the years since i first read these books, i never realised how mean Sam's dad is sometimes. Sam honey how did you turn out normal.

[nowitstimefort]

Vague recollections of phantom stallion books

Do you remember when Jake Ely didn't saddle a horse when trying to catch Sunny and Sam was like "wtf why wouldn't you do that? Are you showing off? Why???" And just before that Jake was like "quit crying sam, ur not bleeding" and Sam was like "unless you want to see the blood I am bleeding you'll help me catch this horse, bitch" because I remember

[theboyatthebustop]

I was on the fence about making this poll, but I realized i wanted to hear what people who don’t keep up with drama in the book community (or those aren't even in it) have to say about it.

I do want to say that this is not a complete list of book drama because it’d be way longer, so I didn’t include things like Soapgate, the A Deadly Education fiasco or the multiple controversies Cassandra Clare/Colleen Hoover were in.

also, I found out there’s a bit of character/option limit when it comes to poll choices, so I had narrow it down.

which one of these bookternet scandals was the most “wtf” thing to ever happen?

A dude calling female BookTubers “fake “readers ”*

Handbook for Mortals taking the 1 spot on NYT bestsellers list bc of scam

That romance writer who faked her death

A black woman's book gets accused of plagiarism because the MC had sun powers

that time B&N decided to slap POC onto covers of classics to be more diverse

Matt Shaw harassing a girl for not liking one of his books

White author reviewbombs books by POC because she had a breakdown apparently**

Vulture article accusing bookstagrammers of faking their photos

A Canadian journalist doing blackface to write a book about race

J.D Barker asking Booktokers to make lewd videos to promote his new book

Booktokker's thirst over a hockey player causing a feud between her and his wife

the author who faked being Latinx while catfishing under 10 fake names

Voting ended onDec 1, 2024

*by that, he meant if you are a woman in your 20s who wears makeup, does book tags/hauls, make high quality videos, and/or rave about YA, you’re not a “real reader™️”

**in a later interview she then tried to rectify this by saying it was actually her upbringing and mental illnesses that caused her to reviewbomb other debuts Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that the Reylos got involved in this.

[letmeliedown]

holy fuck, one of the alt lit guys redid Black Like me in 2024?? good lord

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[andybeckerman]