if I ever write a negative review of an internet-famous writer’s novel, I will actually stick to my judgments instead of doing the spineless thing of:
I’m sorry, I always liked you
I’m sorry, I just wanted to use your artistic work as a vessel for my own personal rant about Contemporary Culture™
like! this is so spineless! and writing a takedown largely to air some other viewpoint is just so…intellectually irresponsible, imo…other people’s projects shouldn’t be instrumentalized like that…