@jennygadget Yeah. You're right, of course. "Every first novel is the author either as Jesus or as Faust" was observed a good bit pre-Bella.
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Replying to @chaosprime
@chaosprime and yet, we don't generally go around calling Ender and Luke Skywalker Gary/Marty?Mary Sues/Stues.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @jennygadget
@jennygadget No? We should get in the habit. Ender in particular works the way he does because he's geek revenge fantasy in a can.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @chaosprime
@chaosprime I don't think that using the term without analysis is helpful. and expanding it to include Ender isn't going to even things out.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @jennygadget
@jennygadget Fair enough. But, yeah, obvs YA and UF and fanfic get used as punching bags because of misogyny. Still criticism != hate.4 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @chaosprime
@chaosprime if@BNBuzz had wanted to do thoughtful, useful crit, they would have stuck to talking about things like racism.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @jennygadget
@jennygadget Enh, issues like writing to formula and trope overuse are valid points to critique, aren't they?5 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @chaosprime
@jennygadget It just seems more like they were critiquing What People Think of YA than, y'know, actual YA.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@chaosprime O.o if so, they totally failed. bc that's not how I read it, that's not how the authors I follow read it.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @jennygadget
@jennygadget I didn't mean that they were critiquing people's attitudes, but that they were substituting those attitudes for a real survey.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
@jennygadget That they were validating crap stereotypes about YA by holding those up for mockery in preference to actual examination.
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