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maggi-cube · 2 years

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Legitimately when I was still into ya 15-17 the preoccupation with romance was what made me hate the genre… I felt like it was insulting my intelligence. Like I wanted to read abt kids my age shouldering circumstances way beyond their control like I literally had been reading in children/middle grade lit (ex: Animorphs? Hello?) and complex moral questions or even just Wow! Cool dragon! Knights with sword!

And I thought that there would be more of that as I got older so they’d get more complex and have more politics but it was like they got dumber. Ykwim? Like “So and So is 16/17/18/fucking 19 and thrown into circumstances way beyond their scope. It’s up to them to do XYZ in a society that has failed them or who cannot be relied on. Anyway what about this boy 🥺🫣” and it pissed me off every single fucking time bc it was inescapable!! Every single book!! And -1/10 times was it ever done well! Not even an exploration of codependency or something! This is not even getting into the complete absence of any other interesting dynamic no it’s a motherfucker named Pokemon LeafRain or SkywardSword smoldering in the MC’s general direction and suddenly the war and oppression is the B plot!! God!!

Also special FUCK YOU to Uprooted bc I was so excited about this mentor student dynamic and parent figure and oh she makes a move on this century egg ass old man and they smash. Great 👍 loved that so wanted to read that

#like genuinely it felt like every adult writing this was taking me for an idiot because I was the same age or younger than these characters #and yet none of them could think of anything beyond the nearest love interest #it was shallow riding but also made me feel like the author saw my age group as shallow people #*writing #it doesn’t help that most the protagonist of the books that I picked up were girls #so extra. :/#but even with a male protagonist there is always a female of interest that they could not NOT focus on #*love #sometimes I feel like it was just because it was written by 📄#and so they would demonstrate 🧻 behaviors #but like. the hunger games didn’t do that 😠#anyway I have more thoughts on this but just know that I stopped reading YA at 17 and I still hate coming across romance in my stories #although I won’t really mind it if it’s done well

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