Ahhhhh, and there goes my up-to-dateness, still lots of catching up. I spend a day away and everything is totally different. I want to grab out a few things, really quickly this time...
I..love you, I think we have a same page situation going on here 
When great minds meet, as they say! 
I used to be real vocal about the books that I saw as lowbrow..then I wrote a book. It took almost two years to do and I put so much work into it. It actually made me gain respect for writers. Even if a book is terribly bad, it takes a whole lot of work and dedication to make something out of a blank page.
Also, I would hate to ward off potential readers of my own by crapping on something they actually love. It's the same as movies, I think. I love some movies that are known as "some of the worst movies to ever be created." but there are two reasons I go to the movies, 1) To experience some great moving story that leaves some lasting impression on me and 2) To simply be entertained.
I only watched the first Twilight and read the first book. It wasn't really my style but I know it works for some and I'll just leave it at that.
I won't rekindle the Twilight topic, that's not what I want to respond to here - I wanted embellish my opinions of the day before yesterday in the light that I, too, am a writer. I have finished (albeit officially unpublished) works, but my best story is a decade plus in the making, and still in the workshop so to speak. I know all about the colossal effort that goes into actually doing it - that being said, I also know just from reading back to my writings of ten years ago that all that effort does not exclude the possibility that it's terrible. My book had no direction, I was pretty good with dialogues even back then, but I ended up cutting 99% of it, i.e. only the vaguest plot concept framework.
Now, I know for a fact that you can have great concepts and terrible execution and vice versa, I can be critical without being insulting, arrogant or unsympathetic. Criticism should never be equated with those qualities - the fact that I find a book to be bad does not mean in any way that I am dismissing the effort that went into it, nor putting down the significance of the accomplishment of actually finishing it, especially because I understand intimately the way a book is born. This does not change the fact that it's not necessarily a book worth reading, and yes, it could totally be true of my own works, too. I do not presume myself above this truth.
As someone who has little to no interest in the twilight books [but did watch most of the films in connection to riftrax]...it is time for the twilight circlejerk to come to an end. I somewhat dislike the notion that girls and women aren't capable of distinguishing fiction from reality. Like anyone who reads twilight is now doomed to having problematic relationships for the rest of their lives.
Its like saying reading a crime novel is going to make you a criminal. Sure, twilight might be the junk food of literature, but at least people are reading. One day maybe they'll pick up a good book. Or they'll decide to write their own book or fanfiction.
Whether or not Solas romance is 'twilight' romance is a null point. You can certainly critique things you don't like about the particular romance. I could certainly say a few things that turn me off from Bull's or Blackwall's. But when you get to the point that you're saying: 'all fans of this romance are X', you've destroyed your argument. It just comes off as someone who is really committed to their romance, and is incapable of imagining someone else wanting to experience something different.
Also remember that this sort of generalizing is not limited to Solas romance. I think just about every romance has had something nasty said about it towards their fans. [IE; Sera/Iron Bull is abusive111, Cullen/Josie is just for disney babies, ect ect.] Just be aware of it, laugh it off, and make sure not to respond by making similar comments.
TLDR; Critique is fine, generalizing just makes you look silly.
Again, I don't mean to poke at a sleeping subject, but I wanted to just signal in my agreement. I am all for literary "junk food" as you put it to kindle interest in ever deeper literature, too, I believe there is a profound reason why people are so massively attracted to certain subjects and I believe that a writer should make use of that, not dismiss it outright because they find it distasteful. Also, I completely agree about generalization.
Anyway, back to catching up - sorry everyone for dredging up the long ago past of Friday!
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- I'm never growing out of this ****, don't want to *be* 19 but I would be happy to look say.... 25. /vanity 
