I’ll so you one better. People who got into reading because it was trendy also fucked up the publishing industry to the point that commercial books are geared towards them as the default now and that’s why we’re getting slop after slop and publishers aren’t picking up historicals
james baldwin was so right when he said you think you’re alone and then you pick up a book and realise someone else has felt the same way as you and managed to find a language for it. the realest shit