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unnecessarilygrandiose · 1 month ago

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finished dark heir just now and googled if there's any updates from the author on the last book of the trilogy and clicked a reddit link to check... got gobsmacked with the worst possible opinion in human history... never talk to anyone about a piece of media you like Ever

#said the fandom girl on the fandom website #no but seriously i just wanted to see an update and instead i get gobsmacked with the shittiest opinions known to humankind #i get that we all need our dose of yaoi but why are you reading a political dark fantasy series for it.#go read an actual romance novel or smth #im sure they make romance novels which have all the tropes you like in this book #without the complex and fascinating character developments that you obviously dislike.#'i hate all the characters for not having the omniscient view that i as a reader who gets to read multiple internal monologues have!'#this is dark fantasy for fuck's sake! the entire point is that the main character is fighting the corruption but is unable to overcome it!#it's not good vs bad oh my fucking god!#it's not the good main character who he fighting his evil past self and nobody understands his poor little self!#it's the fact that no matter his intentions his present self is beholden to his past self and his actions just play into that #it's about the self fulfilling prophecies of being told you are something and trying not to be that #and the harder you try not to be that the closer you come to becoming it!!#'his good friends don't support him for no reason' did you just skip over some of their internal monologues???#they tried so hard not to hate him!!#some of them nearly overcame their cult-like conditioning for it!#'i just read the book for the two male characters' scenes' yeah i can tell #with opinions like that i can't believe you ever read anything without the shipping goggles #which is such a fucking shame for you too because you won't even be able to truly appreciate their first kiss at the very end.#because you missed the entire point of the book #you won't even be able to see its wretched glory. its lovely awfulness. and if you do you simply won't be able to appreciate it.#because you boiled down a book of complexities and nuances and fighting against the horrors within and #choosing to do right thing in the face of easier wronger choices #about good vs bad and shipping.

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