50 shades of grey. The writing was so cringe that I just couldn’t get further than one chapter or so. And I’ve read some bad writing on AO3 before, so it’s not like I’m especially sensitive.
50 shades of grey. The writing was so cringe that I just couldn’t get further than one chapter or so.
What I find so bizarre is that the women who go hardest for this stuff tend to be either repressed housewives or hardcore feminists.
Because if Christian Grey had been an unemployed layabout in a decaying double-wide, it would be a horror novel instead of smut. The only reason why it’s smut is because Christian is filthy f**king rich and exemplifies almost every toxic masculinity trait imaginable. And that is in addition to behaving like a controlling abuser.
Some works have genuinely surprised me and surpassed my expectations, to the point where continuations of a series would come out and I’d be disappointed over how little development the characters actually received by contrast.
Strange how the wattpad slop is always the stuff that seems to find publishers lol
Oh for sure, I didn’t mean to imply otherwise. It just happens to be where I read through some pretty bad writing when I was invested enough in the source material, so it came to mind as an example.
50 shades of grey. The writing was so cringe that I just couldn’t get further than one chapter or so. And I’ve read some bad writing on AO3 before, so it’s not like I’m especially sensitive.
What I find so bizarre is that the women who go hardest for this stuff tend to be either repressed housewives or hardcore feminists.
Because if Christian Grey had been an unemployed layabout in a decaying double-wide, it would be a horror novel instead of smut. The only reason why it’s smut is because Christian is filthy f**king rich and exemplifies almost every toxic masculinity trait imaginable. And that is in addition to behaving like a controlling abuser.
There’s also really good writing on AO3 too.
Some works have genuinely surprised me and surpassed my expectations, to the point where continuations of a series would come out and I’d be disappointed over how little development the characters actually received by contrast.
Strange how the wattpad slop is always the stuff that seems to find publishers lol
Oh for sure, I didn’t mean to imply otherwise. It just happens to be where I read through some pretty bad writing when I was invested enough in the source material, so it came to mind as an example.