Unfortunately true for many children’s books published today as well. At my library we refer to these books as “children’s books that were written as therapy for the person writing the book”
Then when they're outside the hospital and he's arguing with the nurse and she *gets out the car and starts pirouetting* I was like oh this was written by somebody who KNOWS
After nikki breaks the bottle on her head at the party & they go home and bear fucking tells her “your so beautiful and stuff but I need you to be normalllll” 😃😃😃😃😃😀😀😀😀😀😀
still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them
sitting in a theater full of men laughing because a woman psychologically deteriorates after having her autonomy violated beyond repair added an entirely different layer of horror for me and you are all so stupid
every fantasy series now is indeed called The Ballad of Blood & Bone & every back cover blurb is like Lenora Sparrowlove was the first of her clan to be born without magick. Or so she thought, until her Seventeenth Name Day arrived.