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There’s plenty of stories from other countries about the cunning hero outsmarting the fae or similar. Just that in America, the hero always wins vs other countries where there are also many stories where the hero gets killed.
Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allen Poe, two of America's most famous writers, both based their bodies of work on people paying the price of losing to temptation/sin. Although to be fair I couldn't think of any popular songs about that.
I know it's not a popular take, but I don't like Poe or Hawthorne. I always felt like their shallow exploration of death/edgy topics really only appealed to the immature or unintelligent reader.
I can see their work on a shelf between The Nightmare Before Christmas and a Dashboard Confessional CD- maybe a Jr High textbook as well.
I wouldn't use them as an example.
Thats only because they write with emotion in mind, in my opinion. They are trying to evoke feelings and cause dissonance, not lay out an intellectual thesis on the subject.
I'm saying they didn't do a good job of conveying mature emotions. Anyone who can relate to their work has the emotional intelligence of a pre teen. A lot of Americans are stuck in that phase.
What would you consider to be mature emotions?
It's unpopular because instead of just saying you don't like them or personally think they lack depth you go straight to insulting their readers and fans.
I don't like them, but they're also bad and unintelligent. Those are objective. Sorry if someone not liking a vapid old guys who can't write their way out of a paper bag makes you feel attacked.
That's subjective not objective...
Im sure they can't hold a candle to your own peerless prose, king.
Well, the problem isn't that your take is unpopular, it's that it's confusing. You say they only appeal to the unintelligent or immature but you also say you don't like them. I'm sure you can see the contradiction.
Oh no. Some terminally online brainrot poster wants to be a prick. Lol. You're such a loser.
You're immune to irony. It's impressive.
It looks like there are some perks to being so far up ones own arse after all. His bum cheeks muffle all sorts of things.
A famous legend in my culture is of a humpbacked man stumbling across some magical fuckers and they take pity on him and take away the hump in his back. He is so happy and chirpy he sings their praises and jumps with glee, so they give him a worse hump for being an annoying cunt.
But america is special
/s