I could devote some time to shitting on SE Hinton but honestly like there's only so many white ladies with typewriters you can dedicate your life to warring against
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(I mean his book isn't fanfiction or anything, it's a contemporary story about a trans man who takes the name "Pony" because he's literally such a fan of The Outsiders The plot is not a direct "ripoff" of The Outsiders in any sense It was a really shitty thing for her to say)
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Anyway the whole possessive author act is weirdly hypocritical with her having dished in the past about how she writes tons of fanfic under a pseudonym apparentlyhttps://www.vulture.com/2015/03/6-famous-authors-whove-written-fanfiction.html …
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It's honestly a lot harder to respect Hinton once you've read THAT WAS THEN, THIS IS NOW, the sequel to OUTSIDERS where she decides to dive into racial issues and doesn't necessarily do so well at it
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Much like with Harry Potter, I'm very comfortable nowadays saying re: The Outsiders that it's fine to skip the book and watch the movie
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Has anyone pointed out to her that she ripped off "staying gold" from Robert Frost It just seems like such a bizarre self-own to deny that anyone could make a literary reference to your own literary reference, like it seems to presuppose that her own work is not art/literature.
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Apparently she's been salty for a while about how "Stay gold, Ponyboy" became a meme totally detached from her book But that's... how references work, and it is not somehow fair that she should get paid five cents every time someone says it
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