Things got out of control, with the author suffering all kinds of harassment and heated discussions on social media involving readers from various countries.
This situation draws attention to something that has become common in the community for some time: the inability to deal with frustration.
When we invest time and money in a book, it's inevitable to create some expectations, but the direction of the story and the characters is in the author's hands, so disappointments can happen. Criticism and expressions of dissatisfaction are valid, and even necessary, but there is a limit between recognizing that something was not to your liking and disqualifying someone's work.
Attachment to certain narratives and characters is understandable, since within certain contexts, fiction can generate identification, comfort, and catharsis, but loving a character doesn't make them real, unlike the person who created them, who can truly suffer from malicious comments and attitudes. Would it really be valid to harm a REAL person to defend your point of view about a FICTIONAL character?
Things got out of control, with the author suffering all kinds of harassment and heated discussions on social media involving readers from various countries.
This situation draws attention to something that has become common in the community for some time: the inability to deal with frustration.
When we invest time and money in a book, it's inevitable to create some expectations, but the direction of the story and the characters is in the author's hands, so disappointments can happen. Criticism and expressions of dissatisfaction are valid, and even necessary, but there is a limit between recognizing that something was not to your liking and disqualifying someone's work.
Attachment to certain narratives and characters is understandable, since within certain contexts, fiction can generate identification, comfort, and catharsis, but loving a character doesn't make them real, unlike the person who created them, who can truly suffer from malicious comments and attitudes. Would it really be valid to harm a REAL person to defend your point of view about a FICTIONAL character?