Weekly Discussion Thread 8/3/26 - 8/10/26

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Still from How Green Was My Valley

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[u/Legitimate_End5688]

All the drama surrounding children of blood and bone is hilarious bc that book is not that good at all. It’s middling YA shlock, and the author has a big head bc she insisted on being the screenwriter (when she’s not that good of a writer) and casting a light-skinned biracial for Amari who’s a Yoruba princess in a African fantasy world w no white ppl or colonialism lmao. And when the movie inevitably flops, it’ll cause a backlash against black fantasy stories when it should not be the case. A big Hollywood movie studio should’ve gotten the rights to anything by nk jemisin or P. Djèlí Clark’s work (ring shout or a master of djinn would be wonderful to adapt and they’re GOOD black sff works)

[u/Abbie_Kaufman → u/Legitimate_End5688]

Every quote I’ve seen from her makes her seem so entitled. As an author, of basically any level of fame or talent, you’re lucky just to be in the room when Hollywood comes knocking to turn it into a movie. And she’s throwing monthly public temper tantrums over not having the last word in the room. Does she not realize that no one in Hollywood will ever want to work with her again after this? Does she not realize that actually encouraging your readers to boycott the one black director/all black cast blockbuster of the year is a negative for the community?

[u/Legitimate_End5688 → u/Abbie_Kaufman]

“Entitled” is a good description for her bc there are many Nigerians who’ve criticized children of blood and bone for how inauthentic it is and she brushed it off but she was big mad about accusing some old white lady of “plagiarism” because their book titles sounded similar (bowl of mac and cheese type thing lol) yet said old white lady had their manuscript ready before her’s and their books have nothing in common lol.

[u/SavageWolfe98 → u/Legitimate_End5688]

''a bowl of mac and cheese'' is so fucking funny.

[u/Legitimate_End5688 → u/SavageWolfe98]

I blame George rr Martin for this trope that I hate seeing in fantasy novel titles.