#I hate people who hero worship authors like this it is so obnoxious man | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

the-hype-dragon · 1 year

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ok I am a hater but it would do a lot of people who make "literary criticism" content a lot of good not to have bad faith readings of every stupid little word an author puts on paper

like I remember reading a sporking/blow-by-blow of some cassie clare book here on tumblr years ago, this character was saying shit that you were obviously supposed to find objectionable--because he was a villain and he was saying it to his traumatized mother who felt like a bad mom already because of the crap her husband pulled on her in the backstory--but then the person writing this critique went off on this tangent talking about how oh no ladies you aren't a bad mom just because of this that and the other thing and I was sitting there like, are you for fucking real right now, like they were acting like cc was sitting here saying "oh yes, this obvious bad guy is totally parroting my own opinions about women and moms in particular" I felt like I was idk I felt like I was going kinda crazy

#are there a lot of bad messages in a lot of ya novels? yes #but this was obviously not supposed to be taken as like something the author was condoning #idk what tf the poster was smoking but it was crazy town. legit unhinged to believe that was anything the author agreed with!#and this isn't close to the only time I've ever seen this #I was watching a video about a colleen hoover book yesterday and just about everything the guy who made it was saying #was like the most nitpicky bullshit #and like he was trying to psychoanalyze coho and all this shit and it was like bruh please. occam's razor #like he was trying to ascribe all these real funky motives to her writing process #but obviously if she's putting out two books a year she's on a pretty tight schedule and since her books are popular #her agent and publisher just kind of pump her books out. like it's not that deep #and I mean I lost all respect or patience for the guy when he revealed himself as a fan of brandosando so #I was like oh so some pulp authors are good but not colleen hoover huh?? why's that???#sanderson's books suffer from the same rushed crap as coho's or any pulp author's #just because he's also a nerd doesn't mean he's better at writing necessarily lmao #I hate people who hero worship authors like this it is so obnoxious man #there are so many tells that sanderson is just as rushed and given no room to think or refine his ideas as coho and others like her #but oh it's different because he writes fantasy ooooo

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