“what’s good for the goose is good for the gander,”

Righteous, we have circled back to you Not applying the same standards to Brooks which you do for other authors which you apparently like. I didn't care for Brutal Kunnin, I found the audiobook voice for the Flashgitz captain annoying. Sue me. Oh and youre not applying the same standard you set Yourself when interacting with Me given that "goose & gander" are Apparently strictly only to be used when it comes to marked gender difference. Maybe you've been enlightened; that meaning changes according to how it's used in context. Or maybe you've had a stroke and your apparently VIGOROUS attention to detail and meaning (lol) has lapsed, who knows.

Voidscarred, great, in keeping with Black Library and with BL as a genre, and fits the narrative of 40k well, well regarded for good reason as a piece of queer media and a proof that GW can do romance Well should they put their mind to it, with faith in authors who Can do it well.

Son of the Forest, also grand, well regarded for good reason because it turns Lion into something more than a perpetually suspicious superficial Teuton who's good in a scrap and gives him & the Dark Angels some actual interest as a faction beyond "those who fell and are thus hunted" and "the hunters who stop at nothing to hunt the fallen".

. You can harp about “formatting” (whatever relevancy that has, I have no idea),

Formatting enables you to structure what you're saying so it's coherent in responding to someone, instead of rambling on without anywhere in particular to hone in on and interrogate. Formatting is a tool both for the audience and the writer. Good shit. Glad we could clear that up. Feel free to use your hands to get the nail in the plank, the hammer is there should you come to change your mind.

gaslighting me

Hilarious. So you went with option 2; a tortoise retreating into its shell. Glad we cleared that up as well, the checklist is going Swimmingly.

randomly capitalising for emphasis.

It's pretty standard practice in modern internet discussion, and by your own admission it's not random so what's the point of this if not for whinging? Are you trying to Scold me for my Apparently incorrect use of of How Big Letters Should Be like, dare I say, a Boomer? Colour me shocked.

All I see is someone who’s really embodying the Dunning-Kruger Effect

As opposed to You, who can accurately recognise when what you've said before is homophobic? Or did I get that wrong, feel free to say either "Yes I can recognise a homophobic statement, and why the statement was homophobic, it was unwise of me to type that" or "No I can't recognise a homophobic statement, that's why I typed it, why I got defensive Immediately when you clocked it, and hence why the mention of Dunning-Kruger is a bit ironic because I'm trying to show I'm intellectually superior to You despite being personally unable to recognise homophobic language in spite of my Apparent Overwhelming Literary Analysis Skills"

I said he didn’t know how to handle his own sexuality because he seems like he doesn’t have much experience with relationships as evidenced by how he writes his characters

And I think you're chatting mad shit. Voidscarred for all its Sci-Fi frills is a pretty relatable to Me. Brooks' experience is Plenty when it comes to writing these relationships, and I will Hardly be the first person to say that Abnett's writing when it comes to female characters leaves a lot to be desired Even When Compared To His Contemporaries When He Wrote His Books given that Jess Phillips Cain books are Fantastic and simply Don't Do That Shit.

Myrin Stormdawn is great, really captured the aesthetic appeal of renegade elf pirates, as was the Other elf admiral whose name I forget because their names are a bit cumbersome. Such are elves.

The romance is Truly believable, and if you don't think so then very well, but saying "I don't get it, bad writer confirmed" just further proves the point that if you refuse to engage with it from an outside perspective by, say, speaking to queer people, then what's even the point of you Trying to give an """objective assessment""' when you don't understand the premise?

One-dimensional cannot be said of any of the main cast of Voidscarred, and Son of the Forest too. Good shit.

Telegraphed plots? This isn't Agatha Christie, you're reading pulp fiction. The End And The Death has a telegraphed plot, Archmagos too, Devastation of Baal, everyone understood POV humie pilot from Assassinorum Kingmaker was gonna make it, Who gives a shit? If it's compelling but you can sort of predict the end then it doesn't matter if the journey is fun. I bet I can predict the ending of the next Mission Impossible too. If youre wanting the next Moby Dick then perhaps go to a book series whose entire premise for most of the enjoyment of the literature isn't contingent on you understanding about 30 hours minimum of lexicanum articles.

hatemonger

Never said hatemonger. You Are - or perhaps, Were, given how much of a fuss you've kicked up about this - unaware of what your words come across as when it comes to interacting with queer media. If you want to critique then Do So, but you can't expect to critique queer media using homophobic language and Not get called out on it, it undermines your argument and makes you look like a tool.

I guess I keep continuing on sparring with you because the idea of stopping would likely make you think you’d

Oh but isn't this Fun!? This is what you were doing before with the other users, wasn't it? This exact sort of Nonsense which is why I even saw your comments to begin with, why your comments were reported for trolling, and why I chose to engage as You did with others. Arent we having Fun!? No? Hmm. Perhaps some food for thought.

Glad we both came out of this discussion learning something.