Representation Again
I want real representation with our own characters, not recycled white characters made black
I Hope This Doesn't Make You Mad...
One of my pet peeves is when I’m having a conversation about a book and someone gets angry about my criticisms. I definitely still loved the book, but sometimes characters are flat and plot holes are abundant. Neither of those things make a story bad. However, I’m not allowed to mention either of them without some Instagram teenager jumping down my throat to tell me I’ve “never seen a well written female character”? Yikes.
Despite a growing consistency in these kinds of "conversations", I still like to talk about my favorite and least favorite books and why I feel the ways I do about them. I refuse to exchange insults over it, though. I’ve created this site to say what I really feel about a story without having to worry about someone getting offended that I didn’t say their favorite book or character was literal perfection and deciding to insult me. If you're one of those people then hope it doesn’t make you mad, but if it does, haha you can't insult me.
Disclaimer: I don't read smut.
There's nothing wrong with enjoying those books, but I don't and I never will.
There is a growing pressure for authors to include extreme sexual content in their books and in my opinion that is a tragedy. People should write what they love.
Even as an adult I prefer to read stories that do not include any sexual content at all, especially in books about teenagers and fresh adults (18-21).
The demand for it on social media has caused me to have an extreme aversion to mainstream titles including "spice".
If the characters sleep together in detail (fade to black is fine!!) in the book I will not be reading it. While those books have their own place in the literary world and can be great, the pressure to read and write that content is gross and off-putting.
Random Rants
Representation
Representation and how it's done is often a touchy topic. I think representation is important, but no one should be forced to write it. Still, when you do write it you should be open to criticisms from the groups you're writing about.
