Pinned
ill never stop being democracy pilled ive got that give me liberty or give me death dog in me even if my fellow americans took theirs out back and shot it
at this point "they're both the same" is just as detached from reality as "he's making america great again"
It was a dark day when I realized that the Anne Rice haters on Twitter don't point to specific problems because they can't, because the average 20-something can't read genre fiction. Even to hate it, even to mock it. Like they can't read a book. Functionally illiterate. They cannot read a book and then know from it the events that took place in it. Can't read a book.
Like trust me, people who can read them have lots of stuff we razz them for (though I do think most of them are sincerely good). But they can't, because they can't read them.
Like making a joke about Flavius' rough week wouldn't make sense to them because they can't read Pandora (which is the easiest prose of any of them I think) and from reading Pandora, keep track of how quickly events take place. As a genuine critique it doesn't scan to them and they wouldn't be able to make it because they can't read Pandora.
i think if twitter went down, TV writing would get at least 30% better