Idunno, the protagonists almost always become radical anti-state terrorists, could be worse role models
If you've never read Unwind, its a YA dystopia novel where kids who fail the standardized tests are completely disassembled so their everything can be 'donated' for the people who pass the tests who need parts, like a new heart, or a finger, or lungs, or whatever.
So some kids who fail go AWOL, form a society, and start doing terror bombings and shit
And that’s all well and (very) cool, but it seems like that happens in like every YA novel, just swap out some nouns Mad-Libs style. It’s honestly the general quality of the writing itself that drives me up the wall. There will always be about 2 billion unnecessary and annoying acronyms and ridiculous names for the tech and societal groups or whatever, so basically A Clockwork Orange but somehow that didn’t annoy me. The lexicons just feel really forced.
Also forced: every time a character says “fuck” it feels calculated and above all so lame, like the author is just trying to get cool kid points. Basically same energy as Marvel execs deciding where to place their precision fucks so they can be edgy while still maintaining a PG-13.
I'm calling it if eating people turns the Ukrainian neo nazis into wendigos Liberals are going to want us to feed them people
further calling it specifically we will feed them afghan and climate refugees
Feed Our Starving Azov
and no, it'll be like some YA schlock dystopia novel, if you don't pass the standardized tests you get fed to the Azov Wendigo
Bruh I swear every YA dystopia/sci-fi novel is the exact same book, and it’s fucking terrible
Idunno, the protagonists almost always become radical anti-state terrorists, could be worse role models
If you've never read Unwind, its a YA dystopia novel where kids who fail the standardized tests are completely disassembled so their everything can be 'donated' for the people who pass the tests who need parts, like a new heart, or a finger, or lungs, or whatever.
So some kids who fail go AWOL, form a society, and start doing terror bombings and shit
And that’s all well and (very) cool, but it seems like that happens in like every YA novel, just swap out some nouns Mad-Libs style. It’s honestly the general quality of the writing itself that drives me up the wall. There will always be about 2 billion unnecessary and annoying acronyms and ridiculous names for the tech and societal groups or whatever, so basically A Clockwork Orange but somehow that didn’t annoy me. The lexicons just feel really forced.
Also forced: every time a character says “fuck” it feels calculated and above all so lame, like the author is just trying to get cool kid points. Basically same energy as Marvel execs deciding where to place their precision fucks so they can be edgy while still maintaining a PG-13.
Agreed, I'm just glad they aren't just Ayne Rand protagonists, you know?
What, you don’t enjoy unlikeable and completely irredeemable pricks as your protagonists?
Don't talk about Egon Must like that >:C