i LOVE it when mediums lean really hard into their quirks!! i love it i love it i love it!! i love you digital art that doesn't imitate the textures of traditional art!! i love you low-poly 3d models!! i love you, pottery with fashionable burn marks on them!!

i feel bad DNFing a book because of the prose. it feels like putting down all anime because you find the standard Anime art style uninteresting or unattractive. because i feel like on some level, it's like looking at the strings during a puppet show and the Meat Of It is the plot/content/whatever

however it feels like exaltation fucking rapture shit when the prose/artstyle/whatever meshes well with all the other parts. it makes the entire experience feel whole, like i wanna experience the thing and not glance over it for 5 seconds on wikipedia or wikia and go "oh that's cool lol".

but a lot of it is taste. maybe i COULD like this book if the 21st century author didn't decide to write in 17th century prose for some long reason. i will cry if i have to read things like Prithee, Dear Reader, I apologise on Accounte of my Self, for I have Masturbated Fondly insteade of Finishing this Booke