I THOUGHT I WAS INSANE. no it sucks so much!!!!!

I am seriously considering making a video essay now because I have. so many thoughts about this. I’m at least gonna make a tiktok that I don’t post LMAO

Hi Stella I’m glad you enjoy me nerding the fuck out <3

YOU GET IT!!!!! YOU GET IT!!!!!!!!!!

I MIGHT!!!! I feel so passionate about this dude it’s such a worrying trend and there’s SO MANY MOVING PARTS

Wait I never even thought about that! That’s so interesting and true! It’s talked about like some secret special thing in these books not like a thing that (almost) everyone does! If we didn’t treat one of the most human acts and taboo we would be so much freer as a people.

And regarding the decline in reading for pleasure, we have less time to read, and thus all reading must serve a “purpose,” the purpose in this case being sexual satisfaction or arousal. It is more so the conservatism, but multiple factors are driving this new trend

Okay not to be a # librarynerd but it’s a trend that indicates a decline in reading for the sake of it AND a decline in sexual freedom. The social trend towards conservatism that we’re seeing is everywhere, and one of the first places we can look at to gauge it is is what media people are consuming

Speak on it. Not to mention the whole weird fascination BookTok has with smut. Don’t get me wrong, love me some smut here and there but EVERY BOOK? Me thinks we need to dig a little deeper on why we’re feeling the way we are about this genre.

It genuinely is, it’s smut for people who haven’t deconstructed their sex-related shame yet. Which is FINE!!!!! But once they graduate from ACOTAR I hope they find better

If I said this shit on the bird app I’d be hanged for treason so thank you for posting this here where I can speak freely XD

AND IM GLAD YOU SAID IT!!! Dude i once flipped it open just to see what it was about and I land on the most 8th grade 1D self insert “doesn’t even know what sex is but is trying her best” wattpad writing. 2/20, and the two is for the aesthetics of the cover.

It’s booktok overhype 100%. Mediocre fantasy imo, too many fancy names to follow and plot is fine but wouldve been better if it was shorter than 500ish hundred pages

It’s by Simon Jimenez, a queer Filipino author!

I’m not fucking around it’s the best fantasy novel I’ve ever read PLEASE just give it a shot it’s very long but it’s so worth it bro

THE SPEAR CUTS THROUGH WATER.