like, in my generation there was Harry Potter, right, which people loved because of its worldbuilding and the richness and mystery and magic of it all, and the plot and gradual development of the story over the course of their childhoods and there’s so MUCH to it—but the writing is mostly worthless and nobody is seriously out here like “i’m trying to copy J.K. Rowling’s Literary Style” unless they’re intentionally doing a parody (i hope)
and then there was Twilight, which is a completely garbage story built on entirely unbelievable premises which somehow manages to work anyway because the writing is actually really fucking good
i mean i think it could be better obviously and i have some notable disagreements with choices it made in story structure but it walked so that somebody else could run