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April and May were painful, lonely months for me because I couldnāt talk to you. I never knew that spring could be so painful and lonely. Better to have three Februaries than a spring like this.
- Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

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I was so happy when I got this in the mail today! I really needed this after the shitty week I had
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Divergent is a bad book, but its accidental brilliance is that it completely mauledĀ the YA dystopian genre by stripping it down to its barest bones for maximum marketability, utterly destroying the chances of YA dystopian literatureās long-term survivalĀ
please elaborate
Sure. Imagine that you need to make a book, and this book needs to be successful. This book needs to be the perfect Marketable YA Dystopian.
So you build your protagonist. She has no personality traits beyond being decently strong-willed, so that her quirks and interesting traits absolutely canātĀ get in the way of the audienceās projection onto her. She is dainty, birdlike, beautiful despite her protestations that she is uglyāyet she can still hold her own against significantly taller and stronger combatants. She is the perfect mask for the bashful, insecure tweens you are marketing to to wear while they read.
You think, as you draft your novel, that you need to add something that appeals to the basest nature of teenagers, something this government does that will be perversely appealing to them. The Hunger Gamesā titular games were the main draw of the books, despite the hatred its characters hold for the event. So the government forces everyone into Harry Potter houses.Ā
So the government makes everyone choose their faction, their single personality trait. Teenagers and tweens are basicāthey likely identify by one distinct personality trait or career aspiration, and theyāll thus be enchanted by this system. For years, Tumblr and Twitter bios will include Erudite orĀ DauntlessĀ alongside Aquarius and RavenclawĀ and INTJ. Congratulations, you just madeĀ having more than one personality trait anathema to your worldbuilding.Ā
Your readers and thus your protagonist are naturally drawn to the faction that you have made RIDICULOUSLY cooler and better than the others: Dauntless. The faction where they play dangerous games of Capture the Flag and donāt work and act remarkably like teenagers with a budget. You add an attractive, tall man to help and hinder the protagonist. He is brooding and handsome; he doesnāt need to be anything else.Ā
The villains appear soon afterward. They are your tried and true dystopian government: polished, sleek, intelligent, headed by a woman for some reason. They fight the protagonists, they carry out their evil, Machiavellian, stupidĀ plan.Ā You finish the novel with duct tape and fanservice, action sequences and skin and just enough glue and spit to seal the terrible, hollow world you have made shut just long enough to put it on the shelf.Ā
And you have just destroyed YA dystopian literature. Because you have boiled it down to its bare essentials. A sleek, futuristic government borrowing its aesthetic from modern minimalism and wealth forces the population to participate in a perversely cool-to-read-aboutĀ system like the Hunger Games or the factions, and one brave, slender, pretty, hollow main character is the only one braveāno, specialĀ enough to stand against it.Ā
And by making this bare-bones world, crafted for maximum marketability, you expose yourself and every other YA dystopian writer as a lazy worldbuilder driven too far by theĀ ārule of coolā and the formulas of other, better dystopian books before yours. In the following five years, you watch in real time as the dystopian genre crumbles under your feet, as the movies made based on your successful (but later widely-panned and mocked) books slowly regress to video-only releases, as fewer and fewer releases try to do what you did. And maybe you realize what youāve done.
one quibble: hunger games was intense and sincere and the writer had worked for tv and knew exactly what she was talking about when she wrote how media machines create golden idols out of abused kids and then leave the actual people inside their glamorous shells to rot. hunger games had a genuine core of righteous anger that resonated with a lot of people. the hunger games was genuinely angry about shit that is genuinely wrong.Ā
but divergent was clumsy make-believe the whole way through. it aped the forms and functions of dystopian lit but the writer didnāt actually have any real, passionate, sincere anger to put on the page. she didnāt know what it was talking about, so she didnāt have anything worth listening to.
thereās a difference between anti-authoritarianism as a disaffected, cynical pose and anti-authoritarianism as a rallying cry by people who believe in a bitter world. and the former is something corporations and industries and publishing houses are so much more comfortable with. soĀ divergent and the flood of books published and marketed alongide and after it showed how the dystopian genre was no longer truly revolutionary, no longer a sincere condemnation of corporate oligarchies. the mass-market dystopian genre was now nothing more than an insincere playspace for people who were writing dystopia as a safely distant, abstract make-believe stage for their pretty girl heroes, rather than a direct allegory for everything that needs to be torn down in this world today.Ā
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Me: relationship tropes are boring
Character A: [falls asleep in Character Bās bed]
Character A: that was the best sleep iāve had in weeks
Me:
A nice picture Iām not using for a book photo challenge but still enjoy

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i analysed the books tumblr ya is wild about & heres a venn diagram about how we all love birds, being gay and murder
anyway tag yourself iām ānecromancy?ā
english: coconut oil
french: :)
english: oh boy
french: oil of the nut of the coco
IM CRYINGNFN
english: ninety-nine
french: :)
english: oh no
french: four-twenty-ten-nine
english: potato
french: :)
english: oh geez
french: apple of the earth
french: papillon
english: :)
french: donāt
english: beurremouche
French: pamplemousse English: :) French: pls no English: raisinfruit
english: squirrel
german: :)
english: oh dear
german: oak croissant
english: helicopter german: :) english: uh oh german: lifting screwdriver
english: toes
spanish: :)
english:Ā no donāt
spanish : fingers of the feet
english: bowl
spanish: :)
english: oh lordy
spanish: deep plate
english:Ā car
polish: :)
english:Ā i changed my mind
polish:Ā that which walks by itself
french: coccinelle
UK english: ladybird!
american english: ladybug
french: weird
dutch: :)
french: ā¦what
dutch: the good lordās little animal
french: ā¦ok
irish, polish and russian: *giggling*
french: ā¦just tell me
irish, polish and russian: GODāS SMALL COW
English: jellyfish Japanese: :) English: what yo got Japan Japanese: ~*~*o c e a n m o o n*~*~
English: gloves Dutch: :) English: omg what now Dutch: hand shoes
English: porcupine Dutch: :) English: ⦠please, no Dutch: sting pig
JUST KEEPS GETTING BETTER
English: Poppy
Dutch: :)
English: ⦠tell me
Dutch: Clap rose
English: dragon
Finnish: :)
English: for fuckās sake
Finnish: salmon snake
english: dragon
asl: :D!
english: tell me?
asl: SPICY DINOSAUR
English: nap
Romanian: :)
English: huh?
Romanian: a baby of a sleep
@the-cloud-road
English: Giraffe
Latin: :D
English: what?
Latin: camelopardus!
English: In the middle of nowhere
Slovene: Behind Godās back
Serbian:
Serbian: Where wolves fuck
Polish:
Polish: where dogs bark with their asses
English: somewhere really far and isolated
Italian: :)
English: what now?
Italian: in the ass of the world
Welsh: hiraeth
English: :S
Welsh: ā¦
English: a longing for something or somewhere which no longer exists, to which you can no longer return; the longing for the lost homeland of your ancestors, which you know only through blood and tradition, and will never feel under your feet
English: ladybird
Welsh: :) :) :) :) :) :)
English: look, you literally just made fun of me for my lexical limitations, why are you -
Welsh: little red cow :)
English: aw :)
Welsh: :)
There may be a day I do not reblog this post but today is not that day!!!
please read this oh my god
These are better than the originals tbh
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