I don't know many Sanderson fans are around here, but for those who don't know, the 5th book of the Stormlight Archive just came out. I'm about halfway through it and there is so much shoehorned woke garbage in it.
One character is suddenly gay, like Kaiden in Mass Effect 3. There are all these references to transgenderism, which hasn't existed at all in this universe until this point. All of it is so jarring and out of place. I guess Sanderson has been spending too much time on reddit.
I just want one thing I can enjoy.
mentioned it elsewhere... Asmongold is right on this...
these people run out of gas and can't get funding anymore. so they turn to the ESG funbucks which are super easy to get, but it's a deal with the devil. you're fine to tell your story, as long as it involvesgay sex, trannies, miscegenation, incompetently baffoonish white male villains, and women who are so fat/ugly they might as well be trannies.
simply put, woke implies the content was shit in the first place, so they sold out to the easiest money they could get... the larry fink (marxist CEO of blackrock) faggot lobby. and people like fink are happy to do it because he's just spreading his communist bullshit everywhere. if the franchise survives pushing his extremist agenda, great. and if the franchise dies, it's one less thing for his extremist agenda to compete with.
It doesn't fit for Sanderson though. He has F.U. money after that 30 million dollar+ Kickstarter. This has to be more of a degeneracy or 'please accept me' plea to the coastal shitlibs in mainstream publishing. He wants accolades from those people.