like seriously, what’s the point of the reader insert tag if the reader isn’t even inserted? a tag meant for readers where readers aren’t included, give me a break. and on ao3 it’s getting even worse.

these oc writers seriously need to get some shame, my god.

you have HUNDREDS of tags to use, and you choose the one that’s meant to insert and include as many readers as possible so they can feel represented.

You can change quite a lot of Frankenstein and still have it be recognizable as Frankenstein because well... Frankenstein's monster is there.

But when it comes to Wuthering Heights, if you change a lot of things from the original novel... well you are simply not making Wuthering Heights anymore. You are making another middling gothic romance, a concept so trite that Jane Austen was satirizing it forty years before Wuthering Heights was even written.

Wuthering Heights disregards the majority of the source material and shifts its focus onto more melodramatic romantic tropes that weren't present in original book, even if they might have their own merits elsewhere.