[ SECRET POST #6434 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6434 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Secrets you don't want to make...

[(Anonymous)]

There is this underrated book series that I used to tell people was one of my forever favorites (Warchild by Karin Lowachee is the first book).

The author is still working on it and I was super pumped for new books and novellas in the verse and ... then she released the first novella and I HATED it. A lot. Suddenly there is a romance between two characters happening no one has ever asked for (they're both shipped with several people but I've never seen anyone ship them - most people wanted them to become brothers int he found family kind at most) and that imo doesn't work, one character doesn't feel like himself anymore and another character has somehow regressed his character development (all in my opinion ofc). I don't want to say that it ruined the rest of the books for me, because I feel like that's a bit childish, but I'm no longer looking forward to new stuff in the series. I'm so bummed about it.

Doesn't help that I used to be very active on her now gone author run forum, reviewed all of her books, always recommended the series and regularly commented on her instagram posts.
I've stopped that. I haven't told her I didn't like it, didn't give it a rating anywhere and didn't write a review.
We were never friends or something but I still feel bad.

Re: Secrets you don't want to make...

[(Anonymous)]

Oof, I've heard about it and that's why I've been putting off reading it so far... I loved the first book, liked the others (though I didn't warm up to the other protags as much) and I also felt, from hearsay, that thing was kinda out of the blue. She got some criticism on her tumbl for it and for what it's worth, she replied that the relationship isn't necessarily meant to be all-out romantic though. Again, haven't read it yet so I have no opinion on the matter but eh.

Re: Secrets you don't want to make...

[(Anonymous)]

(SA)

I started reading it like "Aaaaw, yes. Brotherly bondi-wait what???"
I have zero idea where it came from. For both characters there were several options that made more sense if there needed to be a romance? I used to re-read the books every one-two years or so, so I remember them better than others and it was REALLY out of the left field.

I think I even unfollowed her on tumblr in my effort to go LALALALALA and... yeah no. That shit was very romantic and it was very odd.

Re: Secrets you don't want to make...

[(Anonymous)]

I generally shipped both characters with different options so I wouldn't have been hugely enthused if it had actually made sense but it not really making sense kinda adds insult to injury....

Re: Secrets you don't want to make...

[(Anonymous)]

I mean. Same. I ship them with other characters and wouldn't have been exactly HAPPY with any other ships, but would have probably accepted it, because hey. Happens sometimes while shipping. I'd still read for other characters/ships I also love and just roll with it.

This just felt insulting.
It's not even one of those cases where the fandom somehow made a juggernaut ship up out of nowhere and the author got inspired. I feel like most people would have been happy with no official explicit romance for all the characters.
I feel mostly confident in saying that NO ONE asked for this.