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I went to my local bookshop the other day to look for The Hobbit and there was not even the slightest shadow of Tolkien anywhere.
Instead the entire English fiction section was wall to wall shit like this. Fantasy porn for women.
I mean, I know that this particular "creation" is AI, but even the human-made fantasy/sci-fi porn is so bad, lifeless and paint by numbers the same story over and over, that it might as well be AI.
It is a particularly dystopian experience to step into a modern day book shop and all fantasy literature is just shit like this.
I'm part of the problem because I spent a good number of years not really buying and reading books and most books I interacted with were audiobooks when I was out on walks.
But genuinely, fuck this is sad. Bookshops practically have turned into bored housemom shops. Fantasy porn, cook books and the occasional biography about a topical famous person whom women would find interesting.
The kids section is hidden away in the back of the store and there's seemingly no incentive for men to visit the shop. Probably because men generally don't read anymore. I know one man around my age who reads. One.
And us women don't really read either, but those who do, read fantasy porn Dx
I read, but it's almost always fantasy/sci-fi to escape reality for a while. I've started reading Dungeon Crawler Carl and it is like turning off my brain lol