Joy reading with school burn out is a pain too. And I agree with you on the YA romance (not)fantasy being p**n. It’s a trend I’ve noticed and don’t want to write in. For one, I don’t want to write spice. Two, I refuse to write literary p**n for teens, and adults still reading YA books religiously who refuse to read anything else. Lastly, hopefully this trend dies off soon. If not, well then my hope for future readers is damaged….. like I’m going to stop writing because I don’t like popular trends. Also, Marry Christmas! Hope you’re feeling better soon!
We beat this trend by writing good speculative fiction without the need for pornographic material, and promoting good books. We need to make it clear what is and isn't worth time. Sex isn't inherently bad. Explicit content is fine. Porn however is low and base, and should be considered for what it is.
Uuh that's so true... I remember when I read first book like this. I got it from my middle school library 💀 Recently I read Nevernight trilogy and thankfully the romanse part was a side story there. But still every time a bed scene was described I just got very disgusted even tho I'm 19 rn. The descriptions were just distasteful. And then at the end of a book something I would never suspect happened... There was an add-on with a threesome of main character and two others she romanced throughout the book, WHICH DIDN'T LIKE EACH OTHER! Ome of them even killed another one (he came back alive but the explanation was pretty reasonable). It was not canon but the author wrote it after fans literally begged him for it 💀💀💀 Let's just say I never read that extra chapter...
Yeah, I'm aware of that and I didn't want to even consider Jay Kristoff books for future reading for years. As far as I'm concerned, that is comparable with a middle school library stocking pornographic magazines and encouraging the boys to look at them. If I had a daughter I would be deeply disappointed if she read such things, just as I would if I has a son watching porn. Now I know sexual exploration is natural, but we don't need to encourage or advertise it. We wonder why 12 year old girls are doing jerky "dances" on tiktok and all in a rush to grow up. (Seriously modern 12 year olds are more sexualised, image conscious, and terminally online than my generation was at 16). I blame these smut books. If a direct video adaptation of a book would require extended close up porn-like sex scenes, such that it would likely be classified as erotica, maybe it shouldn't be sold to literal preteens. I'm talking to you Sarah J Maas.
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Joy reading with school burn out is a pain too. And I agree with you on the YA romance (not)fantasy being p**n. It’s a trend I’ve noticed and don’t want to write in. For one, I don’t want to write spice. Two, I refuse to write literary p**n for teens, and adults still reading YA books religiously who refuse to read anything else. Lastly, hopefully this trend dies off soon. If not, well then my hope for future readers is damaged….. like I’m going to stop writing because I don’t like popular trends. Also, Marry Christmas! Hope you’re feeling better soon!
We beat this trend by writing good speculative fiction without the need for pornographic material, and promoting good books. We need to make it clear what is and isn't worth time. Sex isn't inherently bad. Explicit content is fine. Porn however is low and base, and should be considered for what it is.
Uuh that's so true... I remember when I read first book like this. I got it from my middle school library 💀
Recently I read Nevernight trilogy and thankfully the romanse part was a side story there. But still every time a bed scene was described I just got very disgusted even tho I'm 19 rn. The descriptions were just distasteful.
And then at the end of a book something I would never suspect happened... There was an add-on with a threesome of main character and two others she romanced throughout the book, WHICH DIDN'T LIKE EACH OTHER! Ome of them even killed another one (he came back alive but the explanation was pretty reasonable). It was not canon but the author wrote it after fans literally begged him for it 💀💀💀
Let's just say I never read that extra chapter...
Yeah, I'm aware of that and I didn't want to even consider Jay Kristoff books for future reading for years.
As far as I'm concerned, that is comparable with a middle school library stocking pornographic magazines and encouraging the boys to look at them. If I had a daughter I would be deeply disappointed if she read such things, just as I would if I has a son watching porn. Now I know sexual exploration is natural, but we don't need to encourage or advertise it.
We wonder why 12 year old girls are doing jerky "dances" on tiktok and all in a rush to grow up. (Seriously modern 12 year olds are more sexualised, image conscious, and terminally online than my generation was at 16). I blame these smut books. If a direct video adaptation of a book would require extended close up porn-like sex scenes, such that it would likely be classified as erotica, maybe it shouldn't be sold to literal preteens. I'm talking to you Sarah J Maas.
Agreed lol
I find Booktube shockingly more welcoming now. I get positive responses here, I get nothing but entitled woke crying on tiktok.
"I've been watching BookTok..."
Well, that explains feeling unwell and the migraine...
(I'm kidding, of course)
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(Actually, I'm not kidding)
Actually, yeah... it probably doesn't help. Screen time is not great for my eyes.