Aug 23, 2020
Fantasy authors stop making their worlds sexist, homophobic and racist for the sake of RealismTM challenge
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Fantasy authors stop making their worlds sexist, homophobic and racist for the sake of RealismTM challenge
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I keep losing followers because the sjmess stans have realized I am no longer one of them so yikes bois and girls, reblog this and help a brotha out so I can establish a new core of followers that don't hate me!!! I'll follow back because I'm in a good mood and need some action on my feed anyways, avengers assemble!!!
I was reading another post about ACOWAR only selling 102,000 copies & wow that is so low considering SJM is arguably the most hyped YA author right now. And b/c of the special editions one fan would buy like 4 copies? THUG and Turtles sold more w/ only one type of edition (I think). I guess terrible writing and treating your fans badly does effect your sales?! Lmao. Now I understand why KoA has six something special editions. Why even bother w/ a normal one?
Oh, wow, really? That does seem very low by SJM standards. I wonder how accurate those numbers are, though? I feel like the only people who’d have accurate sales numbers is Bloomsbury and SJM, so I would definitely take that with a grain of salt. But neither would I be too surprised if that was true, too. Everything is bound to affect book sales. It’s interesting that you mention KOA’s special editions – there are only four of this this time around (only…HAH.) I also noticed that seemed to have dropped Australia/NZ from their special editions? If I recall correctly, then both ToD and ACOWAR had special editions in the Australia/New Zealand region but don’t this time around. Guess they didn’t sell well enough to warrant one for KOA…
it’s like sjmess only watched the got show and tried to unsuccesfully copy paste dany as her own character and a self-insert, looking past the subtleties of dany’s character and layers of her personality and of course, the effing narrative and how it portrays dany... oh..
Tower of Dawn
white savior trope, women pitted against other women under the veil of ‘feminism’, cultural appropriation, ableism, cause god forbid diversity.. coming to you fall 2017
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oh my god i'm loving the tea. Actual question tho: why do you think SJM stopped using Twitter? She was actively posting stuff about the TOG show, which hasn't had any news shared about it in ages, but then she just left?
Thanks! It’s probably a combination of a few things, really. I feel like in 2016 (around the time when she became very sparse on social media) there was an upswing in diversity and accurate representation in YA literature. I remember – a little before EOS was released, I think – there were multiple threads going around on Twitter about SJM & critique of her novels. I’m guessing this is also the time where SJM and Susan Dennard (& co.) stopped being friends, as well. (As for the show…I don’t know what’s going on there. Adaptations are notoriously slow, I’ve heard other YA authors saying, but ultimately, SJM is so popular that the show will probably go ahead. Eventually.)
Re: Illyrians and Eyriens. Sjm definitely copied that entire race/world-building from the black jewels. Right down to the war camps and such. I’m disgusted. Even worse, the Illyrians were an actual civilization in the Baltic in ancient times - a diverse and fascinating culture that modern day Albania occupies. And sjm just stole that and infected it with her Fae peen obsession, and soiled it :(
(Putting this together with another Anon because they’re similar.)
One of your recent(?) asks mentioned Illyria and Illyria was actually the old name for Slovenia and northern Croatia iirc however Shakespeare used Illyria as his location in Twelfth night and I think that’s probably where SjM got it from
Yep, not only did she take the concept from Anne Bishop’s Black Jewels series…but she took the name from an actual culture (probably.) To add to Anon, the Illyrians were an Indo-European-speaking people that were eventually conquered by the Romans. If, however, we were going to give SJM the benefit of the doubt, then she could have gotten the name Illyria from other places too – it’s a fairly common name (eg. it was used in Buffy, etc.)
Verified source here: can confirm that KoA has two “prologues,” although neither is called that. They’re two short sections before Part One, each narrated by a different character written similarly to the last chapter in Tower of Dawn.
Ah, I see. I…guess that makes more since? Still not convinced it’s necessary but I’ll do my best to reserve judgement as I obviously haven’t read it. I do wonder, though, if any other YA author but SJM would be able to get away with such a thing. Personally, I find one “prologue” obnoxious enough, let alone two…