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you know what i think kids/teen books do 'fantasy romance/fantasy books' way better than any of the adult fantasy books booktok raves about. i try and read some of them and 90 percent of the time its just smut and abusive relationships disguised as 'dark romance'. then i read books like Keeper Of The Lost Cities, The School for Good and Evil, Percy Jackson, Land of Stories, the Nevermoor series, that kind of thing, and they are all actually so amazing because they have fleshed out characters with flaws and an engaging plotline instead of just badly written romance. and when they do have romance it's well written and about the people rather than the tropes.
#anti booktok#six of crows is the only booktok book i have loved#this is not me being anti- smut#it's just when it's the only thing driving the plot it's bad#it should not be used as a plot device#anything by taylor jenkins reid i don't mean you you are beautiful#keeper of the lost cities#the school for good and evil#nevermoor#the land of stories#percy jackson#six of crows#anti sjm#anti coho#booktok#you know what i'm talking about#blue analyses things
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More things I hate about modern literature because today is a bad day and I need to be a dick online to feel better:
How much sex there is in everything
And again I am not a prude, erotica has existed for decades and it's okay but every popular YA or adventure book nowadays is a bad erotica with some low stakes adventure in the background
And somehow they are able to be both bad porn and bad adventure
And also people will promote those books as " yes the plot kinda sucks but there's good sex scenes"
The word Mary sue
The misuse of the word Mary sue
Any attempt to make a "LOTR inspired" book made by a man
Because usually the things that made LOTR good go just over the authors head and we end with basically a vin diesel movie set in the middle ages
This is not just about modern literature but books about or set in horrible moments for a oppressed minority(like holocaust or slavery) written by people who aren't part of said minority
Coleen hoover
She did for feminist literature what Seth MacFarlane did for adult animation
The harry Potter/Percy Jacksonification of children's literature
The magical choose one trope being taken to a magical world did irremediable damage to children's literature
The mean girl trope
Books set in fictional middle ages but the protagonist go to balls in fashion show modern runaway style dresses
You know the tacky Pinterest glittery showing shoulders back and leg
Those official arts of the same exactly white women and the same white guy in slightly different clothes with the same 2016 style eyebrows and the sharp jawline and the nothing expression
Characters being described as "golden skin" so depending if the author needs some representation points they can be interpreted as people of color but if no one says nothing they stay as just tan white
Comparing dark skin color to any food
How many authors try to make at the same time "this is brainless wish fulfilment fantasy about being desired by a hot dominating guy" and " this is a profound take about the horrors of abuse"
Usually by having the second love interest to abuse the protag
In the end the message that stays is any abuse is forgivable if the abuser is hot enough
The "I'm skinny but not hot super model skinny I am ugly skinny my bones show because of malnourishment"
"yet I don't feel any other effect of starvation like being weak and I can carry five times my body weight in whatever animal the author needs me to hunt in the beginning of the book because making me a farmer wouldn't be cool"
"I am ugly" cried the skinny girl with locks of auburn hair porcelain white skin and eyes of emerald green.
The jk Rowling stupid name school (she named the werewolf Wolfy mcwolf in Latin and people though it was smart now we have a girl who fights on a island named island and the archer who marries a fae named fae archer )
And again faes because fuck faes
#anti sjm#anti sarah j maas#anti booktok#books#writing#unpopular opinion#i guess#yes i am sour and mean#anti jk rowling#anti lore olympus#i know it doesn't counts as a book#but i bloody hate it#fuck booktok#anti coho#anti coleen hoover#i think this is how you write her name
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Booktok makes me sick, not just because of all the shitty books. It's the prevalence, no, the celebration, of toxic masculinity. Every single booktok book features some variation on the same man. And without fail, against all sensible reason, these characters are portrayed as handsome and charismatic and desirable.
It makes me sick when these authors hold up these toxic, predatory traits and put them on a pedestal as some kind of Ideal Man.
It makes me sick when their aggressiveness and possessiveness is treated as romantic. It makes me sick when these shitty men forcibly grab women, invade their personal spaces, and render them helpless by 'purring' in their ears, every. single. fucking. time.
It makes me sick that these misogynistic, heteronormative, and hypermasculine social conventions keep appearing in so-called feminist literature.
Strip away the idealized elements and you have what is basically the rich, white, cishet, alpha-male archetype. He's tall, usually six feet, physically fit and muscular with obligatory six pack abs, and conventionally handsome, with a chiseled jawline. He's usually clean-shaven, and any hair he may have on his body is minimal. He maintains composure at all times and rarely shows anxiety or uncertainty. He exudes raw charisma and charm and navigates social spaces effortlessly.
His hobbies, if he has any, are stereotypically masculine. When it comes to sex, he's confident, skilled, exclusively dominant, and always knows what to do without communicating with his partner. The sex he enjoys is usually rough, animalistic and overpowering. He may have been with several women in the past, and he may be regarded as a sex god, both in-universe and out.
His toxic traits are rarely portrayed as negative. But when they are, they're usually held up as some edgy, anti-hero persona and the reader is inevitably manipulated into sympathizing with him. He'll be portrayed as a tortured, wounded animal, and his female love interest (and, by proxy, the reader) will decide on some variation of 'I can fix him'.
He is essentially the unrealistic standard the ideal Proper Man; the one that men are expected to emulate, and that women are expected to swoon over.
But what really irks me is the lost potential.
If there are men who don't fit into this mold, they are depicted as pathetic, ineffectual, or any number of negative traits.
The narrative quietly and passive-aggressively mocks them and portray them as boring and un-sexy.
After all, is this the kind of man who will bravely swoop in and sweep a helpless woman off her feet? Of course not. Such men are boys. Wimps. Cowards.
These books are supposed to be fantasy: a genre in which easily anything can be explored. If faeries, magic, and contrived mating bonds can exist, then why can't we also have male characters who exist outside the stereotypical, hypermasculine mold?
Why is it that we can have so many fantastical, impossible, and wondrous magical forces, creatures, and peoples, but we can't have men who aren't possessive, abusive, or controlling?
Why is it that male characters, have to be so innately dominant, abusive, and violent? Why do they have to be so fit and muscular and strong?
Even worse, why is it treated as something that is so natural, so inescapable, even in the realm of fiction?
Where are the men who aren't tall and fit? Where are the men who don't have sculpted abs or chiseled jawlines? Where are the men who aren't lean and muscular?
Why can’t we have men who are skinny or overweight? Why can't we have men who aren't handsome or attractive, but just average looking? Why can't we have men who are shorter or just average height?
Why can't we have men with non-stereotypical hobbies? Why can't we have men who love to read, or paint, or write, or sing, or dance, or build model kits?
Why can’t we have men who are timid and shy? Why can't we have men who feel anxiety, fear, and sadness? Why can't we have men who aren't afraid of crying openly?
Why can't we have men who aren't sex gods? Why can't we have men who aren't confident in bed? Who are anxious, or even scared, at the prospect of sex? Who are passive instead of dominant? Who want to experience intimacy and affection?
Why can’t we have men be kind and gentle and sweet for once?
I'll tell you why we can't. Because booktok says men like these are not 'man' enough. Booktok says men like these are the 'boring' option, and completely devoid of interesting quirks, traits or personality. Booktok says men like these are underserving of attention, and only fit to be background noise.
As far as booktok is concerned, men like these can't exist.
#anti sjm#anti booktok#anti colleen hoover#anti coho#masculinity#toxic masculinity#booktok critical#healthy masculinity#fuck booktok
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Hold me back hold me back I’m about to go on my ACOMAF rant and I won’t be able to stop, I’ve held back for so long and it’s so pent up I can’t deal with unhinged Rhysand stans anymore help help I’m getting my soapbox out help help help
#anti acotar#anti sjm#anti rhysand#anti feysand#acotar#acomaf#acowar#acofas#acosf#sjm#a court of thorns and roses#a court of mist and fury#a court of wings and ruin#a court of frost and starlight#a court of silver flames#anti a court of thorns and roses#anti acosf#anti coho#anti colleen hoover#anti it ends with us#anti ugly love#anti anna todd#anti after#anti penelope douglas
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entering hell
#reader struggles#books and literature#books#colleen hoover#it starts with us#it ends with us#romance books#romance#chicklit#booktok#anti colleen hoover#coho#anti coho
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Reblog to drop kick Colleen Hoover
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"Colleen Hoover could write Crime & Punishment but Dostoevsky couldn't---" I am going to stop you right there. Colleen could never write classic Russian literature and I don't think Dostoevsky had an interest in writing trashy romance novels
#shay speaks#anti coho#anti colleen hoover#saw a fucking tiktok comment saying this (it ended w 'it ends with us' as the coho book)#a screenshot of a tiktok comment i should say#someone sent it to the bad books book club
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Booktok needs to be put down. It is the fast fashion of literature.
It’s full of impressionable young teenage girls and middle aged women who are bored of their husbands. There’s no nuance in literature in media anymore, it’s just how spicy the book is and wether or not it includes an age gap (they always do with the woman being freshly 19 and the man being too old) and a morally gray love interest. Plots are washed out for the sake of a quick romance. The books are juvenile and readers have to turn off their brains to enjoy it. Even book review websites like Goodreads have become overrun with 4.6 star ya fae romances.
#anti sjm#anti sarah j maas#anti coho#anti colleen hoover#anti booktok#Theyskippedtheircringepreteenwattpadphase
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"omg!!! wuthering heights is so difficult to read and so boring!!! i didn't understand a thing!!!" just get good at reading bc you are absolutely missing out on so much. coho isn't 'dark romance', emily brontë is.
#anti coho#anti colleen hoover#wuthering heights#wutheringposting#emily bronte#bronte#classic literature#books#classic lit#literature
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recent highlights from the bad books server
#anti sjm#anti coho#anti booktok#the first one... it was so hard to figure out what that said i was like#pullishevt? pullishvelt?#also tiktok censoring is killing me not the ✨slãve✨ 😭😭😭 STOP IT!!!
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no matter how shit your writing is, you’ll always be better than colleen hoover
#gay fanfic >>>> heterosexual trash#look… i’m sorry (not really)#writing#writeblr#colleen hoover#this is really random#but this is my blog and i post what i want#anti coho#i’m sorry if this offends anyone
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Thanks to booktok, should we expand the idea of 'enshittifcation' to books as well?
Booktok's rampant commercialization and dumbing down of anything that is remotely good and interesting about reading has created a wasteland of derivative, tropified, 'spicy' books that bring nothing new or unique to literature.
There's simply nothing good to read. It's just shelf upon shelf of Colleen Hoover crap.
(On the plus side, t's because of booktok that I'm now reading more manga. But that's another story.)
#anti booktok#booktok critical#booktok#fuck booktok#anti colleen hoover#anti coho#anti sjm#anti sarah j maas
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It Ends With Us is so frustrating because it goes against its own theme of breaking the cycle of abuse by letting Lily co-parent with Ryle because "parents have to work through their differences to do what's best for their child". Those aren't differences you have with him, he sexually assaulted you, and there's a chance he can pull the same abusive shit with his daughter
And the thing with Colleen Hoover is that she clearly doesn't think emotional abuse counts as abuse, given the kind of men she writes as love interests. They all treat the female main character like shit and then get away with it by having her rationalise it. So excuse me if I don't think she's a feminist icon or a great writer
#just to clarify i know it's a very personal story to her because of her this isnt to invalidate her experience or anything#its just that she's a shit writer and a misogynist#have you seen this woman's prose its garbage#anti coho#anti booktok
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#yes i did like this thank you so much this made my day#anti colleen hoover#anti coho#anti booktok#asks#rav!
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