IDK sometimes this website makes me feel like “death of the author” is soon to be followed by “death of the text”, where subjective interpretation and wish fulfillment is all that matters, and readings with the right political capital gain acceptance on that merit alone, even totally unsupported by the work itself.

see also: rewriting the movie as critiquing the movie. the whole ‘how it should have ended’ concept. no one cares about the story actually being told anymore. everyone just wants to be told the story they want to hear. and they will either ignore or distort the text to make it fit or they will cite the fact that it doesn’t fit their expectations as a flaw (x)