#for example tm's racism and fatphobia

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#tbh there are far better reasons not to want to read tlt #than the fact that it's influenced by fanfic #for example tm's racism and fatphobia #you can just pull some gtn and htn quotes about ortus's appearance #or the way tm writes her dark skinned and brown characters #as pretty good examples of why you might not want to read them #because yeesh #(they're certainly the reason why i stopped paying for these books lol) #tbh the fannish aspect of the writing makes the series actually fun to read #despite all the other dogshite #though I would also argue that tm coming from the hs fandom no doubt shaped her treatment of poc in her writing #because that fandom and the source material was full of a lot of racist sentiments #scuttlings #🐞