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Brandon Patterson. My favorite author of Stormlight Rider.
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She did an interview with Daniel Greene where she explicitly said that her history "research" is more important to her the writing by a large margin. Her tone made it sound as though, as you suggest, that she just wanted to get the writing stuff out of the way. That basically sealed the deal on me not touching Poppy War. It's greatest merit, going by the praise for it, is attempted shock value.
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That's it. I'm firing my editor. Although now I also want to read a Brandon Patterson book.
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I can't wait for my name to be on there one day.LOL, this is great. Possibly the greatest Twitter thread of all time.John Green and Sarah J. Maas are secretly alt-right racist hatey mchaters. I never knew.
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The only thing where this would work would be:
A) There is a blind person in the room
B) It's important for people to know your image ie: on a radio and you have to say "I have escaped the bombing and am currently covered in blood"
We've never had the radio guy describe himself. It seems highly patrionising, like a big finger pointing the non-sighted person out.
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Color me fucking shocked that Harper Lee (born 1926) used a derogatory word for black people in an autobiographical novel about racism in the American South during the early 20th century. Clearly she is an awful, awful human being and should be dug up and beaten with sticks and canceled, and so should Shakespeare and Woolf and Kipling and O'Connor and Dickens and Dahl.LOL, this is great. Possibly the greatest Twitter thread of all time.
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Also, imagine wanting to cancel Ernest Cline for any reason that isn't "he's a hack who only writes embarrassing self-insert fantasies and shitty poems."
Seriously, though. There is someone out there who is so joyless and self-righteous and sanctimonious that they said to themselves "the problem with the world is that there are not enough lists about authors who I personally think are Bad People (TM) and should be canceled", and then they actually took the time to make this list and decided to make things like sexual assault and pedophila equivalent to soft-blocking people, an Asian woman tweeting that other Asians remind her of her cousins, and confronting negative reviewers. Moreover, they decided to include authors who have been dead for decades or centuries and were often quite fair for their day, because of course we must always, always judge the people of the past by modern standards, no matter how irrational that might be. And then they put this list out for the public to read, and they thought "yes, this is a good thing I have done. I have accomplished something worthwhile." What a dreadful life she must lead that this is what she thinks is worth spending time on.
(also lol she doesn't know how to spell "romanticizing", maybe read a fucking dictionary before you get on your high horse about literature, ma'am)
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By this point, being in a book-twitter shitlist is a mark of quality now (your milage may vary). The ones writing these things are such shitty/failed writers that they have to make such stupid lists to feel better about themselves (or just pathetic clout chasing), and makes me want to read the works from the listed authors just to spite these cunts.
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The only reason they really want to cancel these authors is because they hope if enough shit gets banned then people will have no choice but to buy their shitty YA drivel.
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Mercedes Lackey makes me laugh so hard. That lady has pushed woke since before woke was woke.LOL, this is great. Possibly the greatest Twitter thread of all time.
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GRRM "mispronounced names." Quelle horreur.LOL, this is great. Possibly the greatest Twitter thread of all time.
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I have seen people say this list is so hilarious that it has to be parody. It is not! She is just citing the deep magic.
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GRRM getting canceled would be fucking hilarious.
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They tried, over those mispronounced names. It blew over. A lot of them blow over, although I think this one blew over because somebody realized how stupid it was.
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Still chuckling over “Any Rand”
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Never apologise. It's pointless anyway.
Once the bad guy, always the bad guy. Ironic really, because redemption arcs are pretty standard in fiction.
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I don't have any examples to give you, and I can't go trawling through #writingcommunity Twitter to find them right now, but a whooooole lot of woke shitheads do indeed argue that redemption arcs are awful things, or at least there are many characters who don't deserve one (and the offenses they consider Unpardonable Sins are, of course, absurdly petty and usually related to identity politics).
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I'm more and more convinced these people just hate art of all kinds and are determined that none of the rest of us can enjoy it either.