#and many of them have done interviews with her and they did t0d as the b00ksplosion book a couple months ago

[battlestar-royco]

It’s really annoying when a booktuber throws shade at sjj/m in a random video and say how they don’t like the direction the books are going in, how alien is getting really unlikable.... but when you go see the video on the books its a huge gush fest where there are no negatives.

Yes! This is a huge reason why I stopped watching b00ktube. All the mainstream BTers clearly lie through their teeth about certain books, but it’s especially noticeable when they talk about SJ/M because her writing can no longer hold the minimum water it once held in the T0G/C0M era. I really can’t stand when these same BTers say something like “I’m aware of the problematic issues in these books” or “There were a lot of missed opportunities for diversity in this book :(” or “The writing was a bit OOC at times” but then proceed to praise SJ/M through the roof. They’re saying that for woke points but it just indicates that they’re aware that some stuff in the books are wrong but they don’t want to talk about it, in typical performative privileged ally fashion. Plus, it simply makes them a bad reviewer. Professional criticism isn’t saying “Some things about this book could have been done better :/” and then skimming over those things just to talk about the positives. It’s giving equal/equitable weight to the positives and negatives so that prospective viewers/readers can know what they’re getting into and share their opinions. I totally understand that some BTers don’t like making negative reviews, and that the decision to only make positive reviews has never had anything to do with sponsorships or promoting certain authors. But if they don’t want to say negative things about SJ/M, they just shouldn’t review her. It’s not fair to their viewers that they get paid off by publishers just so more people can be exposed to influencers’ fake positive opinions and buy more of SJ/M’s books. Plus it’s super privileged of them to overlook the truly horrible things SJ/M has done to her minoritized characters and fans so she can sell more books and any criticism of her books can be further invalidated. I really abhor that kind of behavior.

#anti sjm #anti booktube #i think an anon on kat's blog mentioned that mess has all the big bters in her pocket #and it REALLY REALLY shows #there's not one negative or neutral opinion to be seen on any of the top channels with more than like 25k subs #and many of them have done interviews with her and they did t0d as the b00ksplosion book a couple months ago #and christine in the beginning of her k0a video was like basically quoting sj/m's newsletter saying how t0d is 'definitely necessary' to rea #we get it you're salty that your ableist and racist book didn't make the nyt like all the other t0g books sj/m just admit it and go

[spaceshipkat]

I just don’t know how to take a person who wrote that wall scene in ACOFAS seriously. Like for you to think that’s okay must mean that you have some fucked up way of thinking. I mean this is the same woman that says all these “feminist” shit on panels but then writes stuff for a character that would basically make him a pedo. Not even to mention that she changed her books midway through to sell erotica (not just sex) but violent erotica to 12 year olds.

i feel the same! sj/m’s reputation has always been confusing, but the fact she’s still thrown around as some powerhouse of fantasy (as evidenced when TWCAD used t0g as a comp title) after things like ac0fas and soap dick is absurd and odd and confusing. it’s no secret that she writes erotica and then peddles that porn to minors with blooms’ backing, and yet her career wasn’t at all harmed by that. there’s the slightest possibility that k0a’s sex scenes being watered down is a result of soap dick, or the backlash that e0s garnered since it was suddenly erotica in a YA series, but i still don’t think it was enough. after all, k0a still had graphic sex scenes and sex jokes and sex thoughts almost nonstep (even when Dorian shapeshifted into a woman!).

what’s really interesting is comparing sj/m on panels with sj/m on solo tour stops. on solo tour stops, her conversations largely revolve around sex and/or how hot her male characters are (has anyone ever seen her say something like this about Chaol? i can’t think of a single instance, but now i’m really curious), and she loves when her readers have shirts boasting about wingspans or when they have tattoos regarding riceman. but when she’s on panels, it’s completely different. around other authors she tries to have this air about her of being serious, being feminist, constantly working to improve her craft and aiming to help any readers who might ask writing questions. in the friendship in YA panel, she boasted up, down, and sideways about her female friendships and those she wrote into her books and how much they all mean to her. it’s clear she wants to be One Of The Greats, and thinks that spoken words are enough, despite no hard evidence to support her claims.

sometimes when i think about sj/m and her female friendships, i think back to an interview she did after Nehemia died and how she said she had to imagine what it would be like if her husband was responsible for killing Susan Dennard (at the time, they were still friends) and how, as soon as she said it, you could see her realize what she’d just said and she kind of curled back in on herself and tried to bury that statement, and i think it’s pretty telling toward her writing style. she doesn’t plan anything, so it seems as though she was talking out of her ass and it made it pretty clear Nehemia’s death was done without much forethought. it could certainly have been planned (after all, in h0f it was still fairly clear that chaelin could have still happened—until fae frenzy took over ofc) but it wasn’t planned with any future in place, bc e0s, t0d, and k0a weren’t supposed to happen from the get-go. q0s was supposed to be the end.

anyway, i am totally off-topic. when it comes to sj/m, it’s hard to take anything she says seriously when it comes to how she writes, why she writes, what messages she’s trying to drive home, etc. there’s only so long we’ll accept that she’s trying to sell the idea of sex positivity and female empowerment bc she constantly has those messages in her books, but none of them match it bc she never follows through. her idea of sex positivity is having sex with your MaTe and her idea of female empowerment is her narrator being the only female character allowed to wear dresses bc she doesn’t wear it to show off parts of her body that other females might want to show off (i’m still not over when faerug said that) and being the only one allowed to have multiple (meaningless) sexual partners and being “sassy” toward the male characters who become putty in her hands for reasons unknown.

god everything sj/m is known for is meaningless crap and yet so many goddamn people still praise her female characters for being badass while being girly, as if those two traits are unique anymore (which obviously they’re not, but sj/m still writes like we’re stuck in 2008).

/end rant, methinks

#ask #anonymous #anti sjm #anti acotar #anti tog