lucyliuism:

i feel like reading fanfic has kind of broken my desire to read published stories bc like theyre so bland tbh like. where the hell am i gonna get queer android romance in a bookstore. who writes about past assassins working together in a coffeeshop. all i see are straight white people making out like really like REALLY

This is so true! Like, several years ago I bought a couple paperbacks – by authors that I used to really enjoy – and I quit both of them just a few chapters in; they seemed so boring, repetitive, predictable. I actually have a couple more that I bought a while back, but they’ve been sitting in one of my closets practically since I got them; I haven’t so much as tried yet (I’m hoping that they’re good, but really, I’m expecting the same as the last time).