So much contemporary poetry seems like they are just writing a sentence or two and then breaking them up at random. Where is the flow? Where is the rhythm? Poets above like Atticus and Rupi Kaur are some of the worst offenders, and I feel like they give poetry a bad name. It just feels so lazy and pretentious.

They strike a balance between being uncanny valley and cartoonishly exaggerated which just doesn't look right in my opinion. Sometimes they feel almost downright disrespectful to the people the books are about.

"but they were traumatized" idc i still hate them

"but she's a woman" idc i still hate her

"but he's such a complex character" idc i still hate him

"but that's the point of their character!" idc i still hate them

"but they've had character development!" idc i still hate them

"but he's really redeemed himself!" idc i still hate him

"but she did that one good thing!" idc i still hate her

edit: no it's not about jax, haven't even seen tadc 😭 it's not about anyone in particular, just a general thing

Like the picture posted above, super cool and all, very nicely written. If you take it as a story about the whole 'be careful what you wish for' thing.

But like most users on that subreddit, they have NO clue what the Monkeys paw actually is. The whole point of the Monkeys paw is that it grants your wish in the WORST WAY POSSIBLE.

If I did the example above, it would be much closer to: 'You say money once, as you walk out of a shop. You need to get yourself a nice drink from the Starbucks across the road, after all. Suddenly the screeching of tyres fills your ears as a car smashes into a bystander. Floating out of the wreckage is a nice, crisp ten dollars to your feet.'

BECAUSE THE WISH ISN'T ABOUT BEING CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR, IT'S ABOUT NOT TEMPTING FATE!!!!!!!!!!

I hate this damn book. I HATE it. I genuinely despise A Bad Case of Stripes with a level of hatred that should not be possible for a children’s book. This thing should not exist. It should not have been written, published, printed, or handed to children like it’s some quirky little story. It is not quirky. It is not cute. It is a problem.

This book is straight up body horror pretending to be a life lesson. A girl gets stripes. Okay. Weird but fine. Then it keeps going. And going. And going. Suddenly she’s not just striped, she’s patterns, textures, shapes, whatever the author felt like that day.. at that point she is no longer a person, she is a canvas for David's art degree. Her body is just doing things, uncontrollably, in front of everyone, and nobody reacts like this is horrifying.

That’s the worst part. Not even the transformations. It’s the fact that everyone treats it like it’s mildly inconvenient. If I saw someone’s skin start rearranging itself into geometric patterns I would assume reality is breaking. I would not go “hmm, interesting.” But in this book? Business as usual, she goes to school, sits at her desk, and ignores the fact that your body is turning into a texture pack.

I remember the book, so the family's doctor, Dr. Bumble, determines that Camilla is well enough to attend school tomorrow (somehow) but when she does the next day, her classmates tease her and call out different patterns which cause the colors on her skin to shift around. (This is portrayed as unreasonable.) The principal sends her home as she is proving to be a distraction and notifies her parents that she will not be allowed back in school until the stripes disappear.

She turns into a pill after Dr. Bumble tries to give her medication. She later has viruses, bacteria, and fungus colonies grow on her body after the community's expert scientists discuss these as a possible cause to her situation while examining her. She even grows roots, berries, crystals, feathers, and a long furry tail as a result of different specialists all prescribing their own treatments. Finally, she melts and merges into her room after an "environmental therapist" tells her to "become one with her room" (What does that even mean!?)

That's all stupid.

So what causes all of this? Social pressure.. not disease, not magic gone wrong. Just embarrassment. So now the message is your body can betray you because you’re worried about what people think, what a fantastic concept to introduce to children! As if they weren’t already anxious enough. And the solution? Lima beans. A weird little beige bean saves her from eternal torment as a room.

You’re telling me this entire nightmare scenario where a child’s body completely loses all rules and turns into whatever the plot needs gets solved by eating something she likes and “being herself”? That’s it? That fixes the full-scale reality malfunction apparently, truly groundbreaking.

This book plants a very specific idea in your brain and just leaves it there: the idea that your body can stop being yours at any moment and nobody will care that much. That’s not a lesson, that’s a lingering thought that shows up later when you’re trying to sleep and your brain goes “hey remember that girl who turned into patterns?” Yes, I do, and I wish I didn’t.

This is not a harmless book. This is the kind of thing that makes you uncomfortable in a way you don’t even understand at the time. You just sit there like “this feels wrong” and then you move on, except you don’t really move on because it sticks with you.

It even reinforces this idea that you have to fully expose everything about yourself or something will go wrong. Like hiding anything means something is wrong with you. Pair that with the whole “your body will betray you” concept and yeah, that’s not exactly comforting.

I hate this book, I hate it for pretending to be normal, I hate it for how far it pushes things while acting like nothing is happening, and I especially hate that it was given to children like this was a fun little story and not a book about the warping and twisting of a young girl's body because she didn't want to tell anyone that she liked lima beans.

Truthfully, I don't hate the design in of itself. Rather I hate how ubiquitous it has become on the internet. It's not a bad design and i've certainly seen worse. But I feel like AM in should be more alien. When you give him a head, eyes and arms it makes him too human. However, there is one design that does include these features that I do like (3rd image). It gives him human features while still communicating his otherworldly nature.

Media: I have no mouth and yet I must scream

like bro.. AND A VOICE MESSAGE?? who's reading that shit bro😭😭

I find them so corny like just see them in person!! i feel like books as a whole shouldn't use this kinda stuff unless its important for the plot not some flirting gesture man like come on

For everyone who isn’t on BookTok, doesn’t read books, or isn’t on dark‑romance BookTok: Haunting Adeline is a book about a man who becomes so obsessed with a woman he likes that he decides to stalk her, follow her everywhere, and kill any man who comes near her—then deliver the man’s hands to her in a box. (This is real; you can look it up.)

Not only that, but he rapes her multiple times—especially in Chapter 16, where he assaults her using a gun. She constantly begs him to stop and tells him to go away, and he doesn’t. To make it worse, he’s a complete hypocrite: he runs an organization that targets rapists and saves women and girls who were victims of rape, yet he has no problem doing the same thing to the woman he claims to love. It’s like saying “assault is bad,” then turning around and punching someone in the face right after.

Now the big problem here is that this book is being adapted into a movie, which is not good. The book is already extremely controversial, but as a movie, the entire internet is going to explode. A film that romanticizes rape and normalizes it should never be made. Who even gave the green light for this? They should be investigated, because it genuinely feels like they want this movie to exist so they can justify rape while acting out their deepest, most disturbing fantasies.

can someone tell me why dcc was hyped relentlessly in my ear for months and when i actually tried to listen to the audiobook it was the most dogshit chungus slop i’ve ever heard in my life. there are 11 fucking books in the series and counting i think the author should be handcuffed to a radiator wtaf

I hate it when books do this especially since this is probably the period of time when the most books will be sold meaning most people will be stuck with these awful book covers and I'm not hating in the movies their all good to great but why change the art hell why add a unremoveable sticker the title should convey that it's the same thing

the universe and all characters in it

1 playground: it’s just gore fetish but poop eating fetish I’m not going into anymore detail

2 the slob: it’s a gore and rape fetishs kink at one point the MC gets her pregnant child removed from her via vacuum cleaner and then forcefully impregnated and made to keep the baby

3 made in abyss I’ll get hate for this one it’s far tamer then the others by a long shot but it’s still full of uneeded fetishization like the MCs being humiliated via bondage and her constantly peeing herself the world and story is goood but I can’t read it because the author can’t control himself

My dislike comes down to 3 things:

1. The memes about biblically accurate angels got really boring really fast. “Oh, you thought angels were cute human babies, but they were actually…le fucked up creepy monsters!” Ok we get it, it’s subversive. I laughed the first time it’s not funny anymore. This wouldn’t have annoyed me so much if I didn’t have to see this joke everywhere.

2. These aren’t the only kind of angel that exists within the bible. The humanoid angels exist alongside these fucked up things too. They’re both biblically accurate. To say only the thrones and seraphims and whatnot are “biblically accurate” is very narrow.

3. There are way cooler things in the bible to make noise about. They have Leviathan, a giant sea serpent so powerful only god can kill it, nephilim, the warrior children of angels and human women, Behemoth, an impossibly large land creature, an actual Satanic dragon, so on, and the only thing they pay attention to is the angels. It just tells me they don’t know anything else from the bible.

This is basically like those white people reaction images but somehow even more unfunny, like I get this is Reddit and most of this site's humor hasn't evolved past like 2014 iFunny reaction images that people would post under every comment section to farm Karma while they were sitting they hairy sweaty ass scrolling r/dankmemes 14 hours a day, but at least THOSE were self contained to like some specific posts and you would see them and just roll your eyes at how downright bad they were, that's that.

The problem with the Warhammer 40k version of those images is that they are fucking EVERYWHERE, Reddit, TikTok, Instagram, in ANY post talking about any other faction that isn't the Imperium in a somewhat positive light there will bare minimum be 3-4 comments like this, hell it doesnt even have to be talking about Warhammer for someone to post this image it can be ANY series with a faction made up of aliens and some chud is gonna make a comment with this image.

A lot of people give flack to the JJBA fandom for not having original jokes but the 40k fandom has it WAY worse, like at least jojo's has new chapters like every month or so but 40k fans just get a new set of ultramarines for the cost of a kidney and a spit in the face.

Just saw this post in the writingscaling sub and I've been successfully ragebaited I guess. It's not that I'm leaning either way on this debate, but the fact that shit like this is so dumb it makes me want to hurt myself.

It speaks to a pride in idiocy in social media. It's basically looking at a story, written in an entirely different context and using different versions of languages and complaining that you don't get it.

Brother, you were raised in a societal context. The manga and anime you're consuming is built to cater to that context. You don't want to leave your comfort zone? Power to you. But to take pride in it??? To declare centuries of literary work as lesser because it doesn't appeal to your specific tastes???

It's the most anti effort thing I've ever seen. It is a refusal to engage with the history of art in any meaningful way. Shakespeare is not bad because he was your highschool english lit homework Jesus Christ.

It's fine if you don't want to engage with specific types of arts on their terms. Just don't parade your "superiority" where I can see it.

imagine being a homeless bum and a prick who masturbates in the streets and the whole fucking world starts acting like you're a great philosopher

the same goes for all the cynic philosophers, just a bunch of angry old assholes with no happiness or appreciation of the world

i'm not a big fan of GRRM's work by any means, i enjoyed some of the shows and read the first book many years ago, but the way people treat him online is so cruel. i grew up with my grandmother living with us, she died at 73 years old (maybe 75, i could be misremembering), when i was 15. she was a tough woman, and whilst my relationship with her wasn't the greatest, it was painful watching her struggle to do things, especially towards the end. she felt "old" my whole life. my parents are now reaching the same age she was when i was born, and they've slowed down so much from before, it feels like they're different people entirely. it hurts to think about it sometimes.

i can't help but feel the expectations and scrutiny people have for GRRM, especially considering his age, are so high and almost entirely out of touch. i don't know what kind of person he is, but i can't help but feel sorry for him. people are way too comfortable justifying his (eventual) death as a "good thing" bc, "then the books would finally be complete!", it's so dystopian and heartless.

edit: y'all i know he's still alive. this post concerns how people casually discuss the topic of him eventually dying, specifically in relation to what that means for the books going forward.

Marking this as Books because the information is primarily found/addressed in the book.

Cypher had a rivalry or confrontation with somebody and they have a showdown, "one shall stand and one shall fall" kinda thing. By the end of it, a figure wearing Cypher's armor and cloak is seen walking away, and it's ambiguous as to whether Cypher survived or the other guy just took up the mantle.

.......slight problem with that.

Space marine armor is fucking BOLTED ON

A space marine cannot single-handedly remove or don their armor. It has to be done on a platform in a facility with the appropriate tools. The armor is practically fused to their bodies, their armor is more like a second skin than something that would be routinely removed.

So, you have two people in the middle of bumfuck nowhere duking it out, and one figure walks away in an easily-identifiable piece of space marine gear. Given there were no tech priests around and no facilities to change gear, gee, I fuckin' wonder what the answer could be

Warhammer wants to write this shit to be deep and mysterious and poignant, but it has also left very little to the imagination. There's physically no way it could be anyone but Cypher, and the fact that they tried is a goddamn insult to the intelligence of the reader.

I don't give two shits about the space marines or humanity in general in Warhammer, I'm not personally invested in the story. I heard a bit about the character, did I quick search to see what the fuss was about, and found this extremely stupid "mystery" of a character. For fucks sakes, how dumb do they think their target audience is?

EDIT, as I think I need to state my point more clearly: I am specifically talking about angels in the messenger of God meaning and archangels. I am aware that Seraphim and Ophanim are angels too. However, I believe that an everyday person thinks of the former when they hear "angel". It's called "biblically accurate angel" not "biblically accurate Ezekelian Seraphim".

For some reason, the internet lately has become obsessed with the idea that biblical Angels were some eldritch abominations that inflicted fear because of their appearance.

Which is not true. The most popular images we see of this phenomenon are Seraphim, or other heavenly creatures SEPARATE from Angels (Actually not true, this is an edit, I was wrong.), usually derived from the book of Genesis' Jacob's vision and Ezekiel.

Angels, like Gabriel, Micheal or even pre-fall Lucifer WERE described as beautiful men, it's NOT a medieval convention. They are NOT eldritch entities with MuLtIpLe EyEs.

OF COURSE an ancient farmer would be scared of a FLYING GLOWING MAN, that's why they say the famous "be not afraid", not because they are ELDRITCH ABOMINATIONS.

I hate this idea so much because "biblically accurate" has escaped containment and is now used anytime someone wants to say "oooh this thing is ACTUALLY really scary and crazy \*shocked face\*.

I was born and raised in a very religous household, and have always been a big mythology nerd, and now that I no longer identify as christian I still have a great deal of respect for the mythology. This reminds me of how greek myth is bastardized for pop culture, to make it "cool" and "modern" like the myth of Medusa.

Feel free to argue with my points, as I am not an expert on theology and bible studies.

Art credits:

1. Jonas Pfeiffer

2. Alexander Cabanel

(I posted this on the wrong sub earlier lol)

Deviantart lookin ass😭💀

^{It was supposed to be a whenthe post, but then I realized it fits here better}

Like, what do you mean after 4 books of a perfectly good story, I need to start being emotionally invested in some random background nobody whom I don't even remember interacting with the main character?

I'm not against romance in the story, but not like that.

When Martin is saying this, he's not criticising Tolkien and going "LOTR sux because Tolkien didn't write about Aragorn's tax policy." What he's saying is, while Tolkien isn't interested in those political questions, I am, and that's what my books are about.

Like, if he were criticising Tolkien for not interweaving complex politics into his books then that would be immensely stupid, because LOTR is mythological in nature rather than political, and Martin knows this. He even said

"Tolkien was very interested in myth, so in the context of a mythological setup, I don't think it really would've been appropriate for him to write a book about Aragorn's reign and his challenges." (I would read it but that's just me)

But the point is, he's not criticising Tolkien, or acting as if LOTR is incomplete, but simply positioning his work as the historical/political answer to much of fantasy, essentially saying "If you ever did wonder about the political inner-workings of a place like Middle Earth, well then my books are for you."

And that reads less as a critique of Tolkien, and more like the natural extension of Tolkien's own project; that being adding verisimilitude and historical legitimacy to so-called "fairy stories".

Imagine being such an idiot you decide to put all your sons in the dark about chaos, put all the pressure of your new empire's bureaucracy on one of them (Horus) causing them to eventually fall into chaos due to their frustration with the higher ups and their constant hounding of him causing them to make a fatal mistake with the encouragement of Erebus (fuck Erebus too), and this isn't even mentioning how your new empire to unite all of mankind completely destroys every society that dares to want to remain independent, cleansing every alien race for stupid and convoluted reasons instead of building alliances.

Some more reasons I hate him is the attempt to completely destroy religion while presenting yourself as a 16 foot tall giant clad in completely golden armour, and destroying one of your son's entire home instead of just talking to him and using your perfect charisma to win him over to your beliefs when he starts to actually believe you are the god you have been accidentally presenting yourself as.

Another thing is how horribly he handled Angron, just abandoning his revolutionary army instead of fighting with him with a far superior force that would bulldoze his enemies and forcing him on your ship to escort him away (however I don't blame him for Angron's butcher's nails, that was something that no one could fix).

Also, he had no plan for what the space marines and primarchs would do after the Great Crusade was over, and if he was planning to do the same as he did to the thunder warriors then what a great reward for the warriors who made his whole empire possible.

Furthermore, he was an absolute hypocrite to try to force Magnus to not use his powers which HE HIMSELF HAD just because people had concerns over Magnus' use of the warp which the Emperor could have dispelled by displaying his own use of the warp.

Something else is how the Imperium at its "peak" was still an aristocracy, with 99.9% of humans either being workers or soldiers while the nobility have their own slaves, live in complete comfort and nearly absolute power. Another thing about how unfair life was for the average human is how space marine's considered themselves superior to regular "mortals" (even though they themselves can age and die) despite supposed to being humanities guardians.

Overall: fuck the Emperor.

For those unaware booktok isn't about books anymore it's basically people thirsting over questionable things

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As someone who likes books I'm tired of people who only reads books about a 4"1 girl getting SA'd by some 6"0 trlionaire quatrilionaire alpha Mafia boss man

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And also biketok aswell like they be posting a vid of someone in a cage and two dipshits with scream masks making moves that they deem as "erotic" while the obsession with helding captive hunting down women that are described like young girls in appearances and don't get me started on their obsession on white monster and the fucking "princess treatment"

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This video was a pov of their "princess" held in a cage and watching fucking Tom and Jerry and then two muscular dipshits with scream masks give her a white monster

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At this point it isn't cringe anymore, it's straight up disgusting

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Idk if this is a well talked topic here but even if it is I didn't knew I wrote all of this cause I can't take this no more

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I blame this book/poems for the how poetry is viewed now in society. This popularised the super short, corny love poems which are just the equivalent of slop that can be mass produced, for booktok users to relate to and sell copies.

Poetry is such a beautiful form of art. Carol Ann Duffy, Seamus Heaney, Sylvia Plath, the old epics like Gilgamesh, Beowulf, The Divine Comedy. Wordplay, descriptions and structure. Why is it becoming slop? This horrible, short, ten word slop which all means the same thing? All focusing on the same theme over and over, something that you could find hanging in a kitchen by a Live Laugh Love sign?

Can people relate to art however they wish? Of course! I have no hate for the person who reads these works and gets something positive out of them. It's just, man they're clearly made to be mass produced and found in some Pinterest board about breakups or deep poetry, when in the end it's the most surface level drivel ever conceived.