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amyahhhh Professional	1 week ago by amyahhhh I just love debating 😭 about anything really. Theres a difference , however, between ARGUING and DEBATING, and I don’t wanna argue lol
MidnightTH Bracelet King	1 week ago by MidnightTH What are we debating about?
amyahhhh Professional	1 week ago by amyahhhh @MidnightTH literally ANYTHING
amyahhhh Professional	1 week ago by amyahhhh I do professional debating at my school, my teacher says I need practice 😭

MidnightTH Bracelet King	1 week ago by MidnightTH Well, do you like Sonic the Hedgehog? And if you do who’s the cooler hedgehog?
MidnightTH Bracelet King	1 week ago by MidnightTH Sonic or Shadow…hmmmmm🤨?
amyahhhh Professional	1 week ago by amyahhhh @MidnightTH I’m not a big big fan of sonic the hedgehog, but I don’t mind it. I think shadow is the best tho, because doesn’t he turn good? And I like his colors ❤️🖤
GiuseppeK Bracelet King	1 week ago by GiuseppeK "You're never too old for Laser Tag!" Vs. "Sir, if you're not accompanying a minor, we're going to have to ask you to leave."
MidnightTH Bracelet King	1 week ago by MidnightTH I would have to agree Shadow is the cooler hedgehog! I mean come on who doesn’t like the Edge lord? Here’s a saying my brother and I came up with “Sonic is OG(original game) but Shadow is OP(Overpowered)!” @GiuseppeK “You’re never to old for laser tag!” Says the person who’s never played laser tag, wish I have though😔
GiuseppeK Bracelet King	1 week ago by GiuseppeK @MidnightTH If it's any consolation, you probably aren't missing much--it was WAY cooler back in the day. Probably my favorite TV commercial of all time (and yes, it's 100% real): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH2cUE5zMbU
amyahhhh Professional	1 week ago by amyahhhh @GiuseppeK LOL 😭😭😭😭 idea what to say to that 😔

GiuseppeK Bracelet King	1 week ago by GiuseppeK @amyahhhh Please don't waste another moment fretting over it--it's entirely probable my tongue was firmly in cheek all the while. 😉 Although in all seriousness, I do kinda wish they'd let me play in Little League now (I'd kick SO much a**).
amyahhhh Professional	1 week ago by amyahhhh @GiuseppeK no doubt u would 😝 and we need to start a petition for there to be an adult laser tag league 😔
blackcat79 Bracelet King	1 day, 13 hours ago by blackcat79 Is anyone else tired of the overhyping of romance in ya novels? It’s gotten quite annoying to me- it feels like every book I pick up at barnes and nobles has similar plot lines, has the same tropes that have popped up six million times, and veer way off the cool plot lines and into “omigosh we made eye contact” It’s quite sad that so many modern writers feel the pressure to conform to the cramped standard presented by modern readers (namely “booktok girlies”). It honestly just ends up diminishing their creativity and their writing, boiling it down to a point where it just blends in with everything else. This is really unfortunate to me because the whole reason I’m there in the first place is to read something new! Anyone else feel the same? Or do you disagree?
GiuseppeK Bracelet King	1 day, 3 hours ago by GiuseppeK @blackcat79 Is it some sort of bait and switch going on, or is the romance the whole point? In any case, it's quite clear that you're a bit more cerebral than most of your peer group. While this has advantages, one of the drawbacks is probably having to face up to the realization that we've outgrown the literature intended for our demographic a few years early...
blackcat79 Bracelet King	1 day, 2 hours ago by blackcat79 @GiuseppeK A lot of times it acknowledges that there will be some romance in the blurb, however a majority of its focus is on the plot. Once you’re actually reading, they’ll just throw out the entire plot and center everything around the romance, which is NOT what I signed up for 😭 Frankly, I suppose I just need to explore different genres and branch away from mainstream reading… I’ve recently picked up “Medusa’s Sisters” by Lauren J.A. Bear and it’s been quite good so far
GiuseppeK Bracelet King	1 day, 2 hours ago by GiuseppeK @blackcat79 So not something in the same vein as TWILIGHT, then? I did give the original book an honest try when it was still all the rage (wanting to understand the hype), and went into that cold read with the full knowledge that I was not the target demographic. This was truly brought into stark relief for me when I was hundreds of pages deep, and it dawned on me that I had absolutely no idea what our protagonist looked like, whereas the perennially 17-year old object of her attentions (and, for some inexplicable reason, vice versa...) was described in exquisite, excruciating detail. To be honest, I didn't get much further, since I came to the cynical conclusion that the former was deliberately left as a blank slate, save only for the vague characteristics of being awkward and lonely--all the better for a female reader to insert herself into the role.

GiuseppeK Bracelet King	1 day, 1 hour ago by GiuseppeK As for the authors themselves, and while it's once again cynical on my part, we probably have to take into consideration that anything with a copyright date of 2025 onwards can be strongly assumed to be partially or wholly the product of AI. According to some of the cultural/nerd commentators for whom I'll tune in while knotting, there's quite the scandal going on now. All that aside, and while liable to be a hot take on my part, I have a hunch that the quality of fiction has been on a steady decline for a while now. I speculate that this is one downside to us collectively having had it too good for too long, one symptom of which can be mediocre at best literature. Off the top of the head, I think of men like J.R.R. Tolkien, who fought at the Battle of the Somme, where he witnessed so many childhood friends perish horribly. He himself was only spared when he feel too ill to stay on the front line, which in all probability saved his life (his unit was almost entirely wiped out shortly after, and I have no doubt he was plagued with survivor's guilt until the day he passed). Also, there was Miguel de Cervates (author of DON QUIXOTE), who led a fascinating life in an unforgiving time, and lost the use of one arm for the rest of his life while serving his country by fighting Ottomans in the Mediterranean. Fortunately for the literary world, it wasn't his writing arm. So while active participation in armed conflict nor debilitating permanent injury is necessarily a prerequisite for wordsmithing or master storytelling, that sort of life experience may be the secret sauce we're lacking. Thinking of one of my favorite quotes in Dumas's THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO when the wrongly imprisoned protagonist meets and realizes that the crazy old cellmate of his in fact isn't so crazy after all, and he rhetorically asks what a man like him might've accomplished if only he was free. "Possibly nothing at all; the overflow of my brain would probably, in a state of freedom, have evaporated in a thousand follies; misfortune is needed to bring to light the treasures of the human intellect. Compression is needed to explode gunpowder. Captivity has brought my mental faculties to a focus; and you are well aware that from the collision of clouds electricity is produced — from electricity, lightning, from lightning, illumination." (LOVE that gunpowder analogy. ❤️)
blackcat79 Bracelet King	1 day ago by blackcat79 @GiuseppeK I also find it not unreasonable to think that there has been an over-saturation of literary ideas and story lines. There is so much literature out there that it’s entirely possible for whatever idea you have to already exist in some form! This may be the root cause of the current issue in which all the plot lines seem to be the same. Though I’m not opposed to reading romance in a novel, it’s irritating when it takes over the entire plot line and the book is transformed into a never ending list of popular tropes and oogling characters
GiuseppeK Bracelet King	14 hours ago by GiuseppeK @blackcat79 I would have to concur, and this was a notion that occurred to me a long time ago when someone insisted I give the works of author Dean Koontz a look. As I was reading along, I couldn't help but find his prose reminiscent of, well... ME in the eight grade, which critics rapturously praised as "dorktastic" and "lame as balls" before crumpling my illustrations and unceremoniously stuffing me into a locker. Not the least bit bitter; I'm genuinely happy for him and pleased that at least someone made it big. 👍

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