YABookgate

[Elite Kipchak]

>visit opening for local bookstore
>one half of one stand for the "classics" (mostly margaret atwood + a handful of copies of the odyssey)
>entire fiction section is divided neatly between "#fyp" and fantasy slop
>special display for "hockey romance"
>the one potential saving grace, comics, is just "as seen on amazon" invincislop plus literal pornographic manga
>the rest of the store is just legos and other random shit for some reason?

 

[Freshawn]

>visit opening for local bookstore
>one half of one stand for the "classics" (mostly margaret atwood + a handful of copies of the odyssey)
>entire fiction section is divided neatly between "#fyp" and fantasy slop
>special display for "hockey romance"
>the one potential saving grace, comics, is just "as seen on amazon" invincislop plus literal pornographic manga
>the rest of the store is just legos and other random shit for some reason?

This is not a defense of foidslop book shops, but the market is entirely directed to retarded foidslop consumers because they spend exponentially more than people who aren't retarded. Same goes for comicslop and nipponslop consumers.

 

[Dragged Into Sunlight]

https://markatwood.substack.com/p/the-voiceover-problem

The result is a generation of readers who are engaged, articulate, passionate about fiction, and functionally illiterate about how fiction works.​

What a fantastic article. Very succinctly explains the issue with modern fiction and readers. And it touches how Tumblr really was one of the most destructive websites in history. It bred so much of the poison we have to deal with today.

Buddy of mine was joking the other day about the buffetification of literature.

https://pjmedia.com/jamie-wilson/2026/03/19/no-ache-no-story-ai-and-todays-publishers-are-producing-the-same-cowardly-fiction-n4950836

Adam Szetela’s book That Book Is Dangerous! (MIT Press, 2025), backed by Quillette reporting, documents the wider pattern. Authors now self-censor before submission; worse, they are required to sign contracts with morality clauses, forcing self-censorship even outside the book. Hard scenes vanish. Moral ambiguity is flattened. Raw longing – the ache of submission, the terror of trust – is replaced with safe, pre-approved dynamics. Writers learn the checklist: avoid offense, avoid risk, avoid anything that might make any reader uncomfortable. A committee approves the story, not a single human soul. The edges disappear. The result is identical to AI output: safe, average, edge-free fiction written by biological algorithms instead of silicon ones.​

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Real writers are being turned into what AI already is: generators of predictable text. Their agency to choose mercy or vengeance, to let silence cut deeper than explanation, to let the throat choke without metaphor is removed by fear.​

It's really upsetting that we're seeing so much dystopian fiction come true right before our eyes.

We're watching newspeak develop in real time as people contort themselves to get around YouTube censorship rules. The internet was supposed to free us but instead it has allowed corporations to control every facet of our lives.

"It's been years since I last went to a bookstore, I think I'll go check one out. I wonder why I stopped going"
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"Oh yeah, now I remember"

Wasn't there some drama around this series/author?