#my beef with the sookie stackhouse books is 100% for both petty reasons and irrational ones

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I've thought about this a lot but often I find that you'll find interesting and amazing worldbuilding in pieces of media that just... won't focus on it at all. I've read a few romance novels (I was getting desperate for what books to read at school) that had so many fun worldbuilding implications but nooooo the relationship drama was what mattered more (which is okay if you like those, it's just not my cup of tea) This happens in fanfiction too. The example that inspired this post gave so many interesting tidbits about how the autobots and Decepticons might differ culturally speaking (and even how the high commands have cool differences from their subordinates) but the fic was dark as hell and so... so much smut. Smut is great and all but I'd've loved to have learned more about how the factions have very different approaches to 'facing.