ClaraBlackInk@clarablackink@writing.exchange
@ljwrites@writeout.ink I know it doesn't feel great but I really admire people who used to love those books but have done their grieving and moved forward.
You're a stronger person for being able to recognize that even though the books meant something to you, they aren't worth putting above the lives of real people. That you can internalize the positives the books gave you and reject the idea that you must support the deeply flawed person who made them.
This seems to be hard for many folks to do...
Author-ized L.J.@ljwrites@writeout.ink
@clarablackink@writing.exchange Thank you. It probably helped in my case that I had moved on and mostly left the series behind by the time "op is a terf" hit the fans. Even before the series became radioactive, it started feeling stiflingly conventional and uninteresting because it challenged so little of the world and demanded so little of readers--and I hold that's precisely why it was successful, in addition to a heaping of luck and other circumstances. Ursula K. Le Guin was one of many writers and critics who saw through the hype, bless her, when she called the series "stylistically ordinary, imaginatively derivative, and ethically rather mean-spirited" in 2004.