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Victoria Ying
@victoriaying.com

The best compliment I get about my books is that they make people cry. I can’t imagine shying away from the truth of emotion as an author or a reader.

Boze Herrington, Library Owl@sketchesbyboze.bsky.social

A key point in Fahrenheit 451 is that books were banned because they made people depressed and uncomfortable. The novel's protagonist, Montag, is taken into custody after he reads a poem that makes a woman cry because she realizes the emptiness of her life.

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Charlie *Perpetually drawing*
@emberkitsune.bsky.social

That’s my goal with any medium of art. I want to evoke an emotion, even if it’s not the one I intended, even if they say “I hate it!” Or get angry, sad, what have you. But when they just… are neutral and it slides from their mind immediately, I failed my job