#also i dont think im ignoring characterization i think ive studied sy and jessie like bugs and im correct

[lakesbian]

@girlstare-too-close-to-the-sun 7m Wow I haven't been on Tumblr for a bit but I forgot how exhausting you are. with most people id consider this argument a cope to dissuade analysis but your interpretations really are poisoned by your hatred of the author. You can think I'm stupid or too generous to wildbow but I think you're jumping at shadows and I gotta say I don't envy the experience of loving individual parts of what is clearly a hate read so much 5m Like there's no way it isn't, if you're going this far with ignoring characterization and making unflattering assumptions of authorial intent

i didn't say i think you're stupid or even imply it, as far as i'm concerned you asked what i'm talking about with regards to my opinion on twig and i was having a fun and enriching time answering that question. my Autistic Attempt at parsing why you're suddenly getting insulting is that i missed that you didn't genuinely want to know my thoughts/engage in the conversation, and then i misunderstood that you saying "maybe i have lower standards/maybe it's my toxic trait" wasn't actually a social indicator that it was permissible to agree that we have different standards for what makes a good book?

aside from how you saying that i'm "poisoned by hatred of the author" & am "making unflattering assumptions of authorial intent" is you trying to dismiss my analysis as emotionally motivated and thus irrational (<- note: this user does not believe that feeling strong emotion about a subject reduces your ability to be correct about it), it. doesn't really make sense. unless i missed an instance of it, i actually have not mentioned wildbow once in any of these posts--i've only talked about things in terms of "the narrative's opinion on xyz" or "twig's perspective," which is to say, i have solely commented on how the text itself presents things, with no attribution of any particular beliefs or intentions to the author.

that was a choice i made partially because i wanted to be generous/good-faith in describing twig's decisions in isolation from patterns in any of his other works or authorial posts, and partially because i don't think there is a coherent pattern with regards to misogyny. i was actually coincidentally posting earlier today about how awesome wildbow is at writing female characters/why worm's handling of women is so good (ironically, in defense of worm & wildbow from someone who was being haterly about it). i have no idea why twig does what it does in that department, and it's certainly not visible in any of his other works that i know about. but i digress.

it also, for the record, was not a hate-read. it was a "i'm in bed due to surgery and id like to finally meet the horror children ive been told about, so let's check twig out" read. i Do do "witnessing something i know will suck for fun so i can hate on it" activities for other forms of media, but i don't do it for books specifically. oh and then around, like, arc 16 it turned into a "jesuschrist this isnt even bad in a fun way when am i out of here" read for the sake of completion. sad times

you're on the account of someone who likes reading books and analyzing them for fun. i'm a frequently long-winded poster because i have many things to say & i type really fast so it doesnt take that much time or effort. literally every reblog in this chain was me going "whee! i am having fun posting my thoughts on a book in my free time!" if you don't enjoy that, then you can just walk away. you do not have to read the posts or keep replying to them, and you especially do not have to call me an exhausting person like a giant jackass because my Autism Funtimes Posting is not personally for you. the "bad faith actor who hates wildbow" banner in my bio is a riff on things exactly like this, where i'm literally just posting analysis of part of a story, but because it's not a positive review, someone decides to come announce that i'm like. paranoid and full of malice. believe it or not some people can and do enjoy writing critical analysis or negative reviews without needing to personally hate someone's guts as inspiration first.

something evil about twig is that one of sylvester's most endearing, redeeming traits is his complete and utter love for and obsession with his aborted twin evette, but the monkeys paw curls in on that and it becomes one of The Worst Bits Of The Book