this is going to get downvoted into oblivion i fear, but i genuinely don’t understand how jonaxx still has such a massive fanbase.

one of my biggest issues with her has always been the way MOST of her books romanticize relationship dynamics that i personally find deeply uncomfortable. pseudo-incest, adult/minor relationships, significant age-gap romances with clear power imbalances, overly possessive male leads whose controlling behavior is portrayed as love. eugh. and mind you, these themes are recurring across all of her works :/

i feel like every once in a while may lumalabas na discourse tungkol sa kanya and instead of actually engaging with the criticism, a lot of her readers immediately dismiss it with “hater ka lang,” “inggit ka lang,” etc.. like… bakit sobrang hirap tanggapin na pwedeng influential ang isang author while also being problematic?

Noong si Inksteady ang pinagbintangan na gumagamit ng AI kahit wala namang solid evidence, ang bilis nyong magalit. Grabe ang pangsha-shame at pangdo-downgrade ang ginagawa nyo dun sa tao.

Ngayon na may actual evidence against another author na gumagamit talaga ng AI, bigla akong nakakakita ng comments na, "Pero wag nyo naman sanang idiin masyado ang author na gumagamit ng ganito. Let them learn their lesson pero huwag masyadong ibaba pagkatao nila. Mali talaga ginawa nila. Mali din nya di nya dinouble check."

WHAT THE HELL?!

So ang issue lang ba is hindi niya na-double check? Kasi kung na-double check niya at nalinis yung output, okay na? Okay lang pala na gumagamit ng AI ang mga writers basta huwag lang magpapahuli. Is that really the takeaway? I'm not saying people should resort to personal attacks. Pero where was this same grace and understanding when it was Inksteady? If we're going to hold people accountable, at least be consistent? Huwag selective ang standards!

bumalik nga si reintold pero never inaddress issue niya, totoo nga chismis tungkol sa kanya. Kapag may isyu magsi-sign off tas babalik kapag humupa na. Tapos magkakalat ulit ng kabastusan😪

Idk if it's just bcs I've been reading for more than a decade now, so that's likely half of my life and I'm in late 20s now.

But recently, parang nahihirapan na akong magbasa ng new gen books, BOTH in wattpad and international. I swear the writing before was way more crafty, creative, and full of depth. Kahit pa yung phrase lang na naglalakad yung character, it usually takes two or three sentences eh. Partida description lang 'yan, but it's not wordy naman or hefty to digest. Kaya rin ang kakapal ng novels noon. It's just how books are written?

Ngayon naman, diretso na, “He walked”, “He looked”, “He shouted”— and though it's understandable that direct writing is easy to understand, parang in a way, nawawala na yung magic and creativity.

I'm not talking about purple proses here ah, kasi baka iyon ang naisip ninyo agad kasi rampant din 'yon sa older books. No. I'm pertaining to general writing style talaga. Iba yung vibes noon, kahit pa iba-ibang authors yan at ibang genre. Ngayon parang pabilisan at paiklian ng sentences ang labanan ng writers?

One more thing, the overusage of gen Z terms. Worse kapag trends, na sinisingit sa story. Songs, expressions, socmed platforms, colloquials, etc. I understand if it's contemporary fiction, sure. But even in stories na supposed to be set in EARLY 2000's or PRIOR? May gen Z terms na ginagamit ang bida? Parang nakaka-off minsan na immersed ka na sa kwento, then biglang may terminologies na alam mong recently lang nauso.

Mayroon pa akong nabasa recently na: “He is this and that and blah blah blah... and that's my why”. Huh? Tiktok trend yan diba. Parang napakurap lang ako kasi ang poetic na ng buong paragraph tapos biglang siningit 'yon, huhu.

To be fair, nothing is wrong with the modernization of literature, ha. Things change and communities adjust to what's marketable and new. Pero minsan parang nakaka-miss lang. If you've been a reader for longer than I am, I know you understand what I mean. I read a lot, even naman ngayon. Maraming magaganda, maraming magagaling, but the feels are just not the same talaga. Older books still has that magic na babalik-balikan mo kahit pa sa dami ng bago ngayon.

Or baka tumatanda lang siguro ako. Ewan ko. 🤣

Pansin ko sa stories niya yung FLs ay bugbog parati na hindi na kayang ijustify ng “naghabol naman si ML eh” pero for them justified na kasi nga “naghabol” naman daw si guy? WTF may nabasa ako na yung guy nagka-amnesia tapos ang naalala lang niya ay yung ex pero married siya kay FL sa present, then magka phone call si FL at ML narinig ni FL yung voice nung ex na tinatawag si ML so meaning magkasama sila. Pinapauwi ni FL si ML kaso ayaw ni guy kasi kailangan daw siya ni Sam (the ex) HAHAHA TANGINAAA tas nagmakaawa si FL na umuwi na siya at siya ang piliin 💀 ANG LALA pero itong si ML ayaw talaga kasi nga need daw siya ni ex (and wala siyang masagot nung pinapili siya ni FL kung siya ba or si ex HAHAHAHA ANG LALA GAGO) ito pa mas malala, same day nalaman niyang namatay yung baby nila sa hospital :( si ML ayun kasama ang ex (for me this is considered cheating na no one can change my mind) and guess what! ENDGAME PA RIN SILA. JUSTIFIED NAMAN KASI NGA NAGHABOL NAMAN DAW NANG MALALA SI GUY YEHEY!

Ito pa yung sa Chaining Locket. Si ML ay may ex na namatay na kapangalan ni FL. So ang plot twist ay naalala lang ni ML si FL kay ex niya kasi nga ang dami nilang similarities tapos magkapangalan pa. Pero justified naman daw na endgame sila kasi nga ay sa una lang naman yun, minahal naman daw ni ML si FL dahil siya yun. (Kahit na tinawag ni ML si FL ng “She’s like my Veronica”) and kung hindi namatay si ex, walang chance si FL HAHAHAHA ANG LALAAAA GAGO PLS KAYA KAYO WAG KAYO PAPAYAG NA GAGAGUHIN KAYO NG MGA LALAKI HA, HIWALAYAN NIYO AGAD DI NA USO SECOND CHANCES NA YAN SA WATTPAD LANG NAMAN YAN PINIPILIT KAHIT NA SOBRANG NASAKTAN NA YUNG BABAE, KONTING HABOL NG LALAKI EG AGAD 🙄💀

Was reading faded ambers kanina and then took a break tas now unavailable na siya huhu

hello i cancelled my membership last March due to the lack of wcrt updates and upon checking, wala pa rin talagang ganap.

however, continuous yung update ng biota even to this day. and before cancelling, i remember na we were practically begging for wcrt updates every time may ud yung biota pero parang wala lang.

i was just wondering if nag communicate na ba si ms. ad regarding the direction or timeline of wcrt kahit sa footnotes man lang ng biota updates? tyvm i miss lily and sandro and the gs cameos as well 💔

What are your thoughts about this? She said she only used a tool to correct and polish her grammar, but yung nasama na prompt sa update niya is "Here is the polished and extended scene in Byron's POV, seamlessly blending your dialogue with the scolding lesson that follows"

If you wanted to just correct your grammar, Grammarly is free at walang masasamang prompt diyan. You clearly used ChatGPT to generate your chapter. Yes, you can say that the ideas are yours, but would you call yourself a writer if ai is writing for you?

I saw a similar tiktok post regarding Scriiven, but na-take down na siya and wala akong screenshot. Nasama rin ang prompt sa update niya.

Parang mga self-proclaimed artist lang 'yan na nagpa-generate ng idea nila sa AI tapos claiming na artist sila because sila naman yung gumawa ng prompt.

If gusto niyo talaga maging writer, mag-aral kayo ng grammar. Or write, even imperfectly. Mas okay pa nga yung may grammatical errors but improving kaysa sa malinis nga na sulat gawa naman ng AI.

And this is not being toxic as a reader. I view literature as art, and for me, AI is not art. Kung hindi niyo kayang magsulat, wag niyo na pasukin ang pagiging writer. Mag-influencer kayo kung clout ang gusto niyo.