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Fandom with Sheena Patel

Literary Friction

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Is There a Fandom in a Novel?

I was thinking about unavailable love and Instagram and how whiteness and privilege are like what are the new iterations of privilege displayed through the internet because it looks like TikTok in the minute. What if you had a story of someone who wasn't the main character telling you the story not of someone successful but someone on the outside someone very isolated I mean I'm sure lockdown definitely added that flavor its own atmospheric flavor without even me really knowing about it. The novel feels very unjudgmental do you think that's literature's job to be unjudgemental? We'll do we'll do almost like the thing of your id you're acting from the id everything is from the want it's almost

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