i signed a contract with the admins so the mods could sexually harass me politely, and that makes it extra legal. no i’m not referring to any specific communities or instances.

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Cake day: June 27th, 2023

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  • i feel like people expect(ed) way too much out of harry potter because it sold well. then jo rowling turned out to be a terf and used her billions predictably. it’s kind of like star wars, it’s just taken a life of its own. you can’t really help or harm jo rowling or george lucas anymore, except maybe make their social media intern sniffle a little bit. they simply have so much wealth their lives occur outside everyday reality anymore. the line goes up, it goes down, it has no effect on them except ego. they get to do what they want. they’re going to fund harmful causes regardless. so do what you want.



  • And “The plot was bad, I don’t even remember what happened”. Bro, what do I even say to that?

    The story wasn’t so bad that it failed to sell tens of millions of copies in dozens of languages.

    Thanks, i can respond to that. It may have not had the best written story, but it was a story that resonated with people (even though we, on reflection, found a lot to pick apart in it) and that’s really, really hard to do. Tens of millions of copies each volume indeed.

    From then on he’s a mere vessel for the reader to experience the world and the author to move the plot along.

    I mean i’m exposing my writing naivete here but if we get rid of the word mere above, isn’t the primary job of the MC to be a vessel for the reader to experience the world and the author to move the plot? we kind of come back to the same idea. give a bland protag that the reader can feed their emotions and reasoning into and they connect a little more. the more they connect the better the book sells. it seems like a decent writing strategy if nothing else is working.

    given that thought, maybe i should write a novel about me. i can’t think of anything blander. maybe that’s why they say everyone’s first novel is about themselves.