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@EmmyLouReview
Fantasy fiction addiction. #booktwt
Scotland, United Kingdom Katılım Mart 2026
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the reader as consumer passively receives the events of a story, assessing a book on how it reflects on them personally and palatable relatability, if reading an author makes you come across as smart, with ‘good politics’, if acts of violence and cruelty are indeed immoral
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I think it’s very reasonable to feel upset and hopeless with Zionism being so pervasive in every single institution. That being said, this should be an opportunity to transcend the act of reading from a consumer choice and identity to an activity of pleasure, imagination, inquiry
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Il vostro problema è che invece di affezionarvi alle opere vi affezionate agli autori e li idealizzate come se fossero dei modelli da seguire. Non lo sono. Opere bellissime sono state scritte da persone orribili. Questo attaccamento emotivo a persone che non conoscete non è sano
ᥫ𝒎𝒆𝒍᭡@motsdemaelys
honestly i'm this close to quitting reading for good. every single author i actually love turns out to be problematic or worse. i'm so tired of finding out after i already got attached. feels like i can't enjoy anything anymore without a background check first
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People need to understand that reading is not a form of activism
Have fun in your blank empty room because in some shape or form, every creator has something that makes them "problematic"
You'll never be able to enjoy anything with this neurotic attitude.
ᥫ𝒎𝒆𝒍᭡@motsdemaelys
honestly i'm this close to quitting reading for good. every single author i actually love turns out to be problematic or worse. i'm so tired of finding out after i already got attached. feels like i can't enjoy anything anymore without a background check first
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@theBookDevourer I’ll take a look through my bookshelves when I get back to them and give you some recommendations, then! I find it a fascinating subject, too.
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@EmmyLouReview Honestly, I would take non-fiction reccs. I'm just obssesed with cults. No idea why. They don't happen in the UK very often. My earliest memory of them is a soap character being drawn into one.
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#cr - Eleutheria by Allegra Hyde. Picked this one up when I was looking for books about cults a few years ago. It’s very strange and interesting so far
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@mara_saidwhat @ser_crispincool The original tweet that started this discussion referred to the OP wanting to give up reading because she was disillusioned by authors turning out to be shitty
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@ser_crispincool @EmmyLouReview Nobody swore off reading. I said I was disappointed in an author I liked. Those are very different things.
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To be clear, I absolutely think RF Kuang is in the wrong; you can be disappointed and choose not to support her going forward. I just think treating these things like a personal betrayal that means you have to “break up” with books you’ve already read and enjoyed is immature.
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@theBookDevourer I haven’t actually read a lot of fiction about cults so far, mostly just non-fiction and academic texts.
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@EmmyLouReview Any others you recommend?
I've read The Girls, The Running Grave, Gather the Daughters, Bunny ...
I'm sure there are more that are escaping me right now lol.
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@theBookDevourer I’m a little more than half way through and it’s excellent so far!
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@EmmyLouReview Omg, a cult book I've not heard of. Guess that's being added to my TBR.
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@devinity111 No, I think at this point in what we all know is a g*nocide the criticism and turning of public sentiment is well deserved. I just think people acting like they’re going through a breakup rather than just stopping promoting the book is fandom-brained silliness
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@EmmyLouReview You'd almost assume she killed someone, but she only mentioned a country. It's so overdramatic.
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you can read something and find out the author sucks and still have an opinion and interact with the book and conversations around it, you don’t have to agree with all themes or all authors you read, reading should not be agreeable it should be interactive
ᥫ𝒎𝒆𝒍᭡@motsdemaelys
honestly i'm this close to quitting reading for good. every single author i actually love turns out to be problematic or worse. i'm so tired of finding out after i already got attached. feels like i can't enjoy anything anymore without a background check first
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For one thing, you come to understand your own politics better when you are faced with opposing views and make yourself articulate your thoughts on the matter.
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When it comes to art made by problematic people, I see more merit in confrontation & critique than in total disengagement.
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@aghastlygay I think we need to separate reading a book from supporting the author. There are ways to obtain a book that do not give them money—secondhand copies, or less legal means—and there’s still value to be had in engaging with the works of shitty people.
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I'd love to agree with this take but it kind of lands as a "separate the art from the artist" stance. It's valid to not want to support shitty people's art and that's okay.
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People need to stop treating reading as fandom. If you like a book, take note so you can pick up the author’s next book if it appeals. But you need to stop getting ATTACHED to authors. This parasocial style of media interaction is crippling your ability to engage with fiction.
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I forget that most people view reading a book as supporting the author, because I buy all my books secondhand. The writer’s getting nothing from me lol
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Literature is not solely meant to be enjoyed; it’s meant to be critiqued too. When you look at it through the fandom lens of enjoyment only (and particularly if you let your feelings about the author tint that lens) you lose a large part of the value of reading.
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Again, it’s fandom culture. It’s treating books as part of your personality – something you perform for an audience – and not as works of literature.
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Three, it also normal to be disappointed that an author can’t reach the bare minimum of human decency and no longer want to support them.
Dunno how you can spit out that tied “seperate art from the artist” spiel when it was originally meant for DEAD authors and after…
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Y’all are abusing the meaning of being parasocial a lot.
One, it’s normal to think people are at least decent people.
Two, it’s normal to get attached to an author’s writing that made you feel something reading their work. Sometimes it can even inspire you.
The Emmy Lou Review 📚@EmmyLouReview
People need to stop treating reading as fandom. If you like a book, take note so you can pick up the author’s next book if it appeals. But you need to stop getting ATTACHED to authors. This parasocial style of media interaction is crippling your ability to engage with fiction.
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@Mil3na26 There’s value to be had in entering the minds of bad people.
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@EmmyLouReview Isn't it about the idea that "reading is entering the mind and soul of the writer"? I once dated a writer (or aspiring writer?) and I loved everything he wrote because I could feel and see what he was really like.
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People need to stop treating reading as fandom. If you like a book, take note so you can pick up the author’s next book if it appeals. But you need to stop getting ATTACHED to authors. This parasocial style of media interaction is crippling your ability to engage with fiction.
ᥫ𝒎𝒆𝒍᭡@motsdemaelys
honestly i'm this close to quitting reading for good. every single author i actually love turns out to be problematic or worse. i'm so tired of finding out after i already got attached. feels like i can't enjoy anything anymore without a background check first
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