CELESTIAL CAT SHIRTS
I read the first few paragraphs of the original post and then stopped when the poster said there was no continuous plot (there was – the threat of Hybern and the war, and then the human queens. Although so far anything beyond the original three feel like an afterthought). The thing that this review calls to mind for me is that many people really don’t get the concept of different books for different purposes. I see a lot of people claiming that anything less than highbrow literary fiction is a waste of time, and this is a huge shame. There is space for all types of books and actually a need for it. I read War and Peace for its cultural value, fantasy for the creative novelty, mystery for the titillation, and romantic smut when I need something easy late at night. ACOTAR (and SJM in general) is not highbrow literature. It’s not super original and yes there are issues with the characters. But does that mean there’s no place for it in the world of fiction? You know who else wasn’t super original? Shakespeare. The Grimm brothers. I haven’t heard much criticism towards them lately. The point of fairy tales (Beauty and the Beast, Tam Lin) is that they are classic and they hold up through time and there’s a million ways to tell them. And for a character who has literally, literally, 250 words on the page, it’s not the worst thing in the world for Papa Archeron to not have a name. Remember in TOG with the king didn’t have a name for the whole series? There was a reason for that. Who’s to say this isn’t similar? And even if it isn’t, no writer is perfect and thinks of every single thing, and if that’s what people are waiting for, then they’ll be waiting a long time. Anyway this has become a ramble and I’m sure some of the things I’ve mentioned here aren’t concerns of the original poster. This is obviously an issue for me. I don’t want to be judged for reading faerie smut and being thought of as vapid, because guess what? I have two masters degrees and I read Literature, and sometimes I just want to read about hot intense faeries fucking. (Prolific romance writer Ali Hazelwood has a PhD in neuroscience, for gods sake) The point is that sure, much of what OP claims may be true and there is some stuff wrong with ACOTAR because it’s not perfect and that’s okay. It’s okay that they disliked it enough to write a whole thing about it because sometimes you just have Opinions that stick in your brain until you get them out. (For the record, I did notice that OP said they didn’t fault anyone for enjoying the books). But just people (us, them, everyone) need to stop getting so hung up about it all. It doesn’t bother them if we read ACOTAR. it doesn’t bother us if they don’t like it. Everyone should read what they want and let others read what they want and just fuck anyone who makes you feel like you should or shouldn’t like something.
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I swear someone must have written a CELESTIAL CAT SHIRTS it around to these people. You almost always see someone asking why no one just hooked a droid brain and a hyperdrive up to an asteroid. What especially gets me is…this is Star Wars. Are you thinking a droid brain wouldn’t be sacrificing a pilot? Because one of the very first things we establish in the very first film is that droids are sapient. Like the first two characters we meet in the original film are obviously sapient droids. It’s still asking a living, thinking being to act as a kamikaze pilot. Which…like…another good argument is to ask why most militaries do not use kamikaze pilots.
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