I'm sick it -
I am actually sick of it. I'm sick of reading the same shit 100 times.
Sometimes I'll be reading a young adult book and I will sit there, and I will actually get
angry and I need to take a moment to just calm down like mmm, boi,
better let out the breath that I didn't know how I was holding. It's come to the fact that I've realized with my inevitable
death, um
Man, I don't have time to be wasting on generic shit.
First thing I'm sick of reading in young adult literature is main characters who are blander than
my bloody walls... and my jokes.
I just don't understand why authors write these main characters who want to be the physical embodiment of
unseasoned chicken so bad.
You open up a book and you can just tell from the first line whatever book it's gonna be, they'll be like:
"I wake up,
I brush my mousy brown hair and look into the mirror and stare at my grey, green,
cerulean, blue, paracetamol-coloured eyes.
Today is the day of the choosing, but I
Am part of The Other.
They can't know, they must not know..."
So these characters suffer from what I call 'Special Snowflake Syndrome' , when somehow they're
apparently really smart, they can calculate, like, the square root of Pi within 0.3 seconds, they can also kick ass,
but somehow at the same time, they're
unemotional and cold and stoic and really, like, hardcore and they don't feel emotion.
Why do authors think that being a strong female
character, whoo feminism, means that these people have to kick people in the balls and shoot guns and all and have no emotions?
It's like, you have to be complex as well, you can't just-
just punching someone does not mean you're a strong female character, it just- it just means you're violent!
'Cause like these authors, they'll write in sort of like present tense and it'll all just be sort of the same very clipped, short
syntax very "I did this, I did this, I thought this" and it's just like
"Okay, cool story, bro, move on, I'm getting bored,"
and all the female characters, they're all the same:
There's nothing that differentiates them apart from this special blood or whatever from
every other character that I've ever read and they all blend into one big white... mash.
The second thing that young adult really needs stop is having this six hundred
thousand billion point of views when you can barely write one that isn't shit.
I mean some writers try and compensate for not being able to write one good, solid,
interesting plot line and they think, "Oh, well, I can't write one
well, might as well add in 5 other different characters and 5 other subplots and try to interlink all of them
but it just ends up being big mess, or it just ends up being boring.
Allegiant, did we need Four's point of view? Do I care? Like even with Heir of Fire, like Manon
Did I care? Like No...
The other thing young adult needs to stop is the romanticized bad boy. Can someone
please explain this to me, because I just really don't get it - how're you gonna be
15/16 years old, fall in love within the space of two or three days and suddenly be risking life and death for this one person,
because, *awkward laugh thing*
"She's not like other girls" when I can't even get the flies to land on me but okay, yeah,
I understand you wanna write 'complex characters', so they have to have flaws
I mean: Nobody's perfect, your fave is problematic,
Some of these relationships that I'm reading about, with these teenagers, and it's just like, so controlling and it's so abusive
And it's so possessive, and it's so like...
It's just uncomfortable for me to read. I mean when you're young, you're like "Oh my God, this is so romantic,
look at the way he like, bruised her, and then now he's saying sorry,
this is goals!" These 'bad boys' are
perfect, somehow they're
multilingual, they can do taekwondo,
they're also really smart. They're probably really rich they probably have daddy issues as well.
And somehow they have ripped abs at the age of like 15 and they fall in love with the most
boring, awkward, nerdy, klutzy, mousy, lame
protagonist who has no emotions, and it's just like... What's the appeal? Why does he fall in love with her, I don't
...understand.
It's- it's kind of something that appeals to sort of like, younger audiences and like our fantasies like, "Yeah I know me and I love this!"
It's like, let's be real here, isn't that everyone's fantasy wouldn't you wanna be a boring little piece of shit -
But still get the whole perfect dude?
The fourth thing that young adult really needs to stop is whenever
The whole diversity thing when you have characters who are diverse, or who aren't hetero -
Can you please stop making us out to be a walking piece of
exotic fruit-cream whipped caramel macchiato latte chocolate flavoured
cinnamon swirl tree bark type shit like - What the heck, are we not human?
Like just because you have diverse characters in doesn't mean it has to be about being diverse
It doesn't mean it has to be about being a minority doesn't mean it has to be about the struggles you
I mean like you can just put in diverse characters and just
That's it! Like I don't like it when their defining feature
or their defining personality is the fact that they're black, or is the fact that they're Asian,
or is the fact that they're gay. It's like you can just be human and just be in your book like I don't understand- What, Why?
I think it is important to have books about being a minority and like sort of like the struggles:
And there's like a time and place for them. And the last thing that I was, like I was reading a book and it's like in young adult
why are the descriptions so extra? Just the detail when the author's trying to be fancy and they try to use a little bit of embellishments in the
writing and they're using both adverbs and adjectives like
Okay: Just because in primary school your teacher told you that it's really good to use lucid adjectives doesn't mean you have to use
like 700 synonyms for the word "red" to describe someone's lips. Sometimes I sit here
and I think to myself: Am I reading a published author or am I reading..
...like a printed version of a Wattpad story? sometimes eyes
are just eyes.
You know, they don't have to be these like crystal glowing sapphire cerulean
diamond globular glowing orbs...Ok?
And there was one time I was reading a young adult book:
I don't remember which I was but it was like this guy was sleeping and the author was like
"His lashes lay and rested against his cheeks" - Like bitch: What the fuck?
Whatever longass eyelashes do you have that rest-
How do your lashes even lay against your cheeks? Like your cheeks are here and your eyes are - Oh well, I was like uuh heell yeah
So yeah, stay in tune for the next roast session where we just rip apart
Young adult tropes and just talk about how shit they are and how they really need to stop and it's just like
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