for me it’s people who act like they’re super well-read and better than everyone when all they read is either SJM or CoHo, Frieda McFadden etc stuff that’s listed in the library catalogue as a fifth grade reading level 😭

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Hi! You don’t like me either, I only read fantasy 🥰 and yea it is a little pretentious, do you like get to know someone and really hit it off and then suddenly hate them because of their choice in books?? The gatekeeping is real. Read what makes you happy folks!

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And that’s not ridiculous to say that

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I have a friend who I always knew she liked reading and she seemed really chill. Then I saw an account she ran that was just about books and it's all freaky ass shit which forever changed the image I had of her.

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no i get it bc a lot of romance is just Not good. and theres a wealth of literary styles that never really get a chance to shine in stories that focus on romance.

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It’s like the best selling genre if it keeps the spaces I love alive I won’t complain. I read fantasy but certainly not just fantasy. It rubs me the wrong way some of these comments seem to think we are better than the people that just read romance. I wouldn’t look down on someone for something so minuscule, feels like gatekeeping a community that requires those types of readers to survive. No hate, I’m open to discussion, just feels mean.

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same for me but for people who recc me books bc they know I like fantasy, then they recc me a webtoon. I hate reading webtoons 😭

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People who don’t keep up this same attitude for other genres piss ME off

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