i know it's not fair to compare the writing of recent debut tumblr authors to Terry Pratchett no matter how much they want to be him but reading a discworld really is making me despair at ppl not understanding what makes a metaphor good. Pratchett just hit me with "the silence of the room crowded in like a fist slowly being clenched" and you want to try my patience with sharpened bananas. go home.
Hard disagree!!!
I really like it, its a good simile. It tells me how ridiculously oversized the claws are. If it were just "giant claws" I'd assume normal giant claws, like a grizzly
But with this description I'm imagining like
yes, it tells you that the claws are the size of bananas. but it says "like sharpened bananas", invoking the spirit of the banana: soft. yellow. sweet. it invokes the size, but not the menace, of huge fuck-off claws, and distracts the reader from a high-action moment by inviting them to imagine trying to sharpen a banana to hurt someone with






















