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9:01pm July 13, 2013

soilrockslove:

warlocksexalways:

I also hate the whole “everything is gritty, people fight all the time, love isn’t real, everyone is just a shallow self-interested jerk because that’s how the world is" mentality that a lot of fantasy writers seem to be so fond of.

And also “Adult Literary Fiction".  The attitude that cynicism is the same thing as adulthood and sophistication.  When it’s not.  You learn wonderful complexity as you get older too, not just depressing complexity.

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    I don’t know about the book or the situation, but I know I for one would rather read stories where misogyny isn’t a...
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    And when you write a story where the world is better, instead of people enjoying it and being hopeful that such a world...
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    took me so long to learn that being cynical doesn’t make you smart fuck “depressive realism”, ugh
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    a song of ice and fire
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    A Song of Ice and Fire It is some books that are like that
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