Expecting An Author To Explicitly Detail Every Feature You Might Wish To Affirm, And To Resolve Every

Expecting an author to explicitly detail every feature you might wish to affirm, and to resolve every idiomatic expression, is very much like demanding an author to spell out the work’s morality (lest it be presumed the author condones all that is written).  The failure to connect with an individual reader’s imagination does not necessarily equate to a failure of the writer to establish proper description.  Their works exist in a support, inspiration, provocation role.  You are expected to bring something to it.  Your own cultural upbringing, your own personal experiences, your own family values, your own ethical framework are the skeleton of your media consumption.  No publication can be relied upon to entirely outsource a developed personality.  The moment you allow yourself to expect that, you allow those natural pieces of yourself to be not supplemented, but supplanted.

as a fantasy writer, i assume you have approximately 47 maps, 3 invented languages, and still no plot

chappell roan is right about one thing that y’all parasocial fucks aren’t ready to hear yet and that’s that you shouldn’t base important fucking choices in your life on what a fucking celebrity tells you to do

My name is Helga Sinclair. I’m acting on behalf of my employer, who has a most intriguing proposition for you. Are you interested?

ATLANTIS: THE LOST EMPIRE (2001)

—sue zhao