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some puzzling writing hot takes i’ve encountered:

genre fiction is fascist. the only ideologically pure fiction is slice-of-life with no plot.
any book with more than one sex scene is erotica
romance novels encourage women to have unrealistic fantasies, like “having enjoyable sex” and “being apologized to”
describing a female character’s body for any reason, even during a sex scene where her love interest’s body is described too, means you’re a gross male writer who doesn’t understand women
if the protagonist is an anti-hero or morally gray, each chapter should have a disclaimer detailing all of said protagonist’s moral failings

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I can add at least one more, from someone I unfollowed last week because of it:

- if anything bad happens to any of your characters for any reason, it’s because you have unprocessed trauma and you should stop writing fiction and go to therapy

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can’t forget these

if a romantic relationship between two fictional characters is anything less than wholesome and drama-free without it being explicitly condemned every chapter, the writer thinks it’s a perfect romance everyone should aspire to and is thus encouraging abusing relationships
if a book about queer characters does not perfectly encapsulate my personal experience and i personally didn’t relate to it or like it, it was definitely written by a cishet person for a cishet audience and is problematic and bad