#insufferable and arrogant about it. no you're not better than a coho fan just because you read kafka if you refuse to engage with the world

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all online discourse about "good" vs "bad" books and writing taking skill would be solved if people saw the ability to entertain as a skill lmao. every day a "thought daughter" shits on rom coms after reading three literary fiction books without realizing that comparing the two genres is useless because they each fundamentally require different skills — as well as being written for a completely different goal; our hypothetical rom com authors were simply not trying to write a philosophical piece on suffering, they were trying to write a rom com, so what's the point in believing one is inferior to the other when neither of them is trying to be anything like or unlike the other? Of course tiktok has had a weird annoying effect on publishing by turning it into a tropey capitalist shitshow but that's not the fault of rom com authors, it's the fault of tiktok.