/lit/ - Literature

>>20365589
Jesus Christ what the fuck am I reading? Why would they let literal children write articles?

>Chelsea takes photos of me as I stand in the book signing line, clutching books written by all three authors, and then I am asked the question everyone before me has also been asked: are you a writer, too? It occurs to me that the cooler answer would be no, that it is cooler to read poetry without the pretension of calling myself a writer, especially given that I have yet to be published.

>I am a fan of fanfiction in the least transformative sense: I have never written it or even left a comment or a “kudos,” but I am a devoted reader of Archive of Our Own, a popular fan-created fanfiction website. For example, for this essay, for research purposes, I finally read the most “kudos”-ed Harry Potter fanfiction, a 526,962 word saga by MsKingBean89 titled All the Young Dudes, narrating Remus’ and Sirius’ love story from childhood to wartime. I love the work for its meticulous character development and for the way it thoughtfully embeds queerness into a world originally created by J.K. Rowling, whose “disgusting transphobic views” are explicitly denounced by MsKingBean89.

I pretty much can't read western SF & Fantasy anymore. It's almost all written by and targeted at unlikeable elderly american politicals and what gets published is unironically decided by aging women and homos by most accounts.
Pretty much anything published after Jack Vance's death has had zero appeal to me.

Anyone looking for a fix of what older fantasy and SF gave them i'd advise checking out chink webnovels, Xianxia in particular. Lots of it is power fantasies only somewhat better than Rothfuss's shit but there's plenty of gems in there too.