#so you'll see

[thedomesticanthropologist]

**pre note: Exclusively voice to text was used to write this.There will be errors in wording, spelling and grammar even while I complain about published.Novels having the same issues

I have huge issues with the fantasy and particularly fantasy romance.Novels that are being published.

On one hand I am over the moon.I am thrilled that the things that I used to be only able to get through fanfiction are now available for purchase on bookshelves. I have huge respect for the authors that have taken the time to write out these stories for consumption

But what the hell is going on in the editing and publishing industry?!?!

I am seeing books being put on the shelves.That should have had at least one if not three more rounds of editing done. I'm seeing book series where the titles are so consistent with other authors' works that it is almost impossible to tell who wrote something and it's almost impossible to tell which series are which!

I see cover art and in particular choice in cover font. That is so consistent that it's insane to me, that these are by different designers and different publishers.

And when you're actually reading the book looking through and finding missing quotation marks misspellings of main characters or side characters' names inconsistencies with descriptions of what type of stonework buildings are made out of inconsistencies with grammar and just overall things.That you would find in a first draft, and yet i'm paying twenty six dollars canadian for a paper back !!!

Not to mention longer series that have severe issues with red conning characters or dropped plot points or contradictory plot points that sort of a thing is one thing.But when i'm reading a book and i'm seeing them repeating information that was introduced earlier in the same book in a manner that suggests that the author forgot that they already introduced that information when I am seeing a character getting their name misspelled -

This is not just of writing issue.Especially seeing words that are used like on repeat if I see the same word repeated in a giant paragraph five or six times in a seven sentence paragraph that is not the author's problem that is an editor's problem.They should have caught that!!

Why is everything a court of something? Why are all of the main love interests?The same guy in a different hat?? Why are all of the main characters? The same basic brat type personality in roughly the same age range.???

And someone's gonna get on here and say, if you don't like it, don't read it and someone's gonna get on here and say they write it because it's what sells, and it's what's popular and they want to make money and someone's going to say all of these things, and you know what fuck you.

The type of why that i'm asking here is not something that has that basic of an answer.I am prompting screaming, begging and pleading for editors and publishers to stop rushing things in the name of capitalism and for authors to Please stop being so god damn formulaic

[lhavibid]

atsumu remembering the very alive aran

[rogueshadeaux]

“I hate the script, the vault dwellers sound so cheesy—“ my Brother in Steel you realize that’s the point, right? They were bred to act like the physical embodiment of an HR e-mail. Did you not catch the memo that Vault-Tec put out regarding their experiment facilities?

[dr-rato]

"I need someone to remember me

I need something bigger than the sky

Hold it in my arms and know its mine

Just how many stars will I need to hang around me

To finally call it heaven?"

[idliketobeatree]

i'm living the dream, in the dream, i'm buried alive two bed grave, one bath, car in the drive mirrored covered windows block the light feeding back reflection distorts life cut connection — jesca hoop

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

The musical episode.

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[creatureimages]

christmas beetle season‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️

wahoo! hooray!

[rationales]

Majima Goro for the lovely @igari @kotaki — happy birthday!! 💖

[nouverx]

Day 1 and Day 2 of RadioStatic Week

First Meeting and Sharing a meal! I like the idea that Alastor is the one who approached Vox first because of how unique he looks eheh

[madamemiz]

saw a post recently about the sun and moon fandom and how non-selfship content is rare, and how that's frustrating, and it struck me, like... how rare that is. genuinely in all my 20ish years in online spaces, i've never seen a fandom that not only welcomed selfship but actively encourages it, when usually the rule of thumb is that it's tolerated at best and despised at worst

so why is this fandom so selfship centric?

the answer is a combination of factors, of course, but I think it was mostly just a perfect storm of the right character with the right traits at the right time. many people between about 23 and 33 were and still are experiencing intense childhood nostalgia that's being perpetuated by online culture and various media, often through a distorted or slightly unsettled lense. the daycare attendant is fun! they're childish, but decidedly not children. they're not human, unattainable in reality, but plausible enough in the age of ai that they make you ponder. they make you long to nap and play and color and do all the whimsical things you wish you could take a week off from your dull job and do! but there's something... off about them. an element of danger that's intriguing. they're dangerous, but what if they aren't to you specifically? or, if they are, what if they overcame that, just for you? what if you were worth it?

people our age are lonely, and if not, often working through issues they didn't have time to contemplate in their teens and early 20s because they were still living throigh the issues. younger people too, of course, but it's especially rampant in the aforementioned age group. past college and college friends, too caught up in work to make new ones. if the dca really clicked with you as a character, it's kind of fun to imagine what it would be like to hang out with them. what if they were your friend? what if they were more?

which leads to my last point--cringe is dead and we stomped on its corpse

maybe it started with a few people drawing a y/n with the dca, and wow the art is cute! who's the cute jester character? ... is that a self-insert? huh. and then more people join in. is that allowed? yes! and the crowd cheers for it too! the right people drawing the right character dynamics at the right moment, drawing others like a moths to a strange robotic flame

ultimately, the fandom attracts so much selfship because that's the bedrock, the foundation the rest of the fandom built its home on. almost all of the common tropes and characterization have roots in selfship fic and art. the dca's popularity very much kicked off from that, and seeing other people using them as an outlet for their loneliness, friendship, romantic or sexual desires, or even just for creative character and plot setups that are only tangentially related to canon actively encouraged others to join in, in a way that could only happen while riding the funerary coattails of cringe culture

it's very much a lightning in a bottle fandom, the likes of which i doubt we'll see again for a while

[arthursfuckinghat]

Oh Jack...

[vongulli]

jerma freddy fazbear noise:

[rad-roche]

the treatment is rough, the job is difficult, but at least the pay is awful

[gracefireheart]

A few sketches of these guys :]

[the---hermit]

here's a link to the free pfd of Ur-Fascism by Umberto Eco. It's a 10 pages long essay in which the author talks about his own experience with fascism and then tries to list the 14 elements that make up fascism in all its historical forms.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Lan Wangji goes to Lotus Pier (No relation to the AU of the same name)

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