Careercow Chuck Wendig / Charles Wendig / TerribleMinds - Terrible author, terrible person, ruined Internet Archive's online library

[LordofCringe7206 Vol. 2]

Someone tweeted this out the other day.

 

[Nanashi no kiwi]

oh and also if we make one wrong move online the parasocial relationships we’ve been inadvertently cultivating will suddenly flip over on us like a janky four-wheeler, crushing us underneath even as its engine revs louder and louder

I didn't notice it when I posted earlier because frankly I can barely stand to read Chuck's prose, but this little line wedged in amongst the rest of the word vomit is rather telling, given how he managed to torpedo his reputation with the whole Internet Archive fiasco. Yes, Chuck, you were simply the helpless victim of unhealthy online parasocial relationships you got sucked into against your will, certainly not anything your own choices might have had to do with.

Someone tweeted this out the other day.
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Case in point.

 

[The Taco Santo!]

I don't think coffee is the solution to his malfunctioning brainmeats. A shotgun shell might work, though.

 

[Second Missing Primarch]

Counterpoint: there is a non-zero chance that Wendig's writing has been scraped from the net and included in the AI's training data.

Tbh, that could lead to a funny outcome. Chuck finds out that some writing AI or other is being trained on his books, flips a tit like he did with Internet Archive, and goes on an insane windmill-tilting crusade that ends with him getting laughed out of another corner of the internet.

 

[Fakenamemagoo]

God the tone of that blog sets my teeth to edge. He is in an incredibly sympathetic position- AI is upsetting a lot of things right now and a lot of people share Chuck's fears about it. But he can't bring himself to be genuine, he has crouch behind his reddit zany humor because he's a fucking bugman. He's a man whose struggling to find work in his field and not once does he mention his family because he feels he has to maintain this detached facade. He defies sympathy.

 

[ChampFantana]

With a bang-shazzle-pow and a doopity-doo! He needs to be beaten with a sack of his own writing guides.

I refuse to believe that Cucky Pissbag's entire career ISN'T a demoralization tactic by the left wing.

The fact that he can continue to fail upwards is just the left saying "Ha Ha! We can endlessly prop up an utterly worthless moron!"

Who in the HELL is buying his shit?!

 

[Leblanc]

Oh to pay the tax... I check Chuck's twitter.
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That's literally all he's tweeted. Everything else is retweets way back into June. (I got tired of scrolling.)

Trying to reference Hunter S Thompson as if the good doctor wouldn't put 3 rounds between his eyes and spit on his corpse

 

[Incel Death Note]

Trying to reference Hunter S Thompson as if the good doctor wouldn't put 3 rounds between his eyes and spit on his corpse

“Look over there,” I said. “Two women fucking a polar bear.”
“DOES NOT COMPUTE,” he said. “SELF-DIAGNOSIS: TERMINAL CASE OF THE MONDAYS."

 

[Gulls on Film]

A glance at his latest post on his blog, a screed about how it's harder to reach one's audience as a writer when you abandon Twitter and AI is making it nearly impossible to make a living as a writer, shows his writing style is as insufferable as ever. The schadenfreude's too delicious not to post it here:

I would imagine actually writing a good book would help with that. Even Lindsey Ellis has enough shame to realize that she shouldn't blame the internet for her poor book sales, even if that comes from not wanting people to point out she swindled a publisher out of money by repurposing her trashy Transformers erotica into a shitfest of a trilogy.

 

[Second Missing Primarch]

I refuse to believe that Cucky Pissbag's entire career ISN'T a demoralization tactic by the left wing.

The fact that he can continue to fail upwards is just the left saying "Ha Ha! We can endlessly prop up an utterly worthless moron!"

Who in the HELL is buying his shit?!

Based on the sales numbers @Boston Brand posted a while back, almost no one. The absolute best Chuck ever did was when the Mouse handed him Star Wars, and people weren't buying those books because they were being written by Chuck Wendig, they bought them because this was the start of the new expanded universe after Disney nuked the old one and they wanted to see what was what. As soon as he squandered that opportunity by being a belligerent asshole on Twitter his numbers dropped right back down into low four digits and have stayed there ever since. Nobody actually gives a shit about his writing, not even the lefties who ran to his defense when he got shitcanned.

 

[AnOminous]

The absolute best Chuck ever did was when the Mouse handed him Star Wars, and people weren't buying those books because they were being written by Chuck Wendig, they bought them because this was the start of the new expanded universe after Disney nuked the old one and they wanted to see what was what.

It was sad and pathetic to let a complete loser and shitty, incompetent writer like Cuck Wendigo do anything related to Star Wars, which used to have real writers like Alan Dean Foster writing its books. I mean ADF was sort of a hack himself, but he at least wrote well when he put his mind to it. Cuck is a complete shitmongler. Even his prose has extra chromosomes.

 

[Second Missing Primarch]

It was sad and pathetic to let a complete loser and shitty, incompetent writer like Cuck Wendigo do anything related to Star Wars, which used to have real writers like Alan Dean Foster writing its books. I mean ADF was sort of a hack himself, but he at least wrote well when he put his mind to it. Cuck is a complete shitmongler. Even his prose has extra chromosomes.

Yeah. The old EU had its fair share of shit, but then you had writers like Alan Dean Foster and Timothy Zahn and Matt Stover. They weren't ever going to win a Nobel Prize for literature or anything, but they were competent writers who could produce good stories with interesting characters that you actually liked. And now we've got Chuck "Lord of Fragments and Hyphens" Wendig and those two creeps who wrote the thinly disguised fart fetish scene. It's a tragedy.

 

[AnOminous]

And now we've got Chuck "Lord of Fragments and Hyphens" Wendig and those two creeps who wrote the thinly disguised fart fetish scene. It's a tragedy.

Eat a boot covered in shit, herkily-jerkily I AM REEL WRITUR!

 

[CervixHammer]

Yeah, no, check it out, right? So it’s like,

Kill yourself, Chuck.

 

[Cactuar King]

I have to ask, is Chuck possibly the one writer who could actually be worse than Rick "Fat" Tomlinson?

 

[Flexo]

I have to ask, is Chuck possibly the one writer who could actually be worse than Rick "Fat" Tomlinson?

In terms of talent ot likeability? It would be a tough competition.

If you mean as a human being overall? No. Go check the SFWA thread for some truly stomach churning tales.

 

[Cactuar King]

In terms of talent ot likeability? It would be a tough competition.

If you mean as a human being overall? No. Go check the SFWA thread for some truly stomach churning tales.

Oh, I know all about Rick's league of pedo buddies he goes to bat for. As a person, Rick is undoubtedly worse, I was more talking in terms of writing abilities.

 

[AnOminous]

In terms of talent ot likeability? It would be a tough competition.

If you mean as a human being overall? No. Go check the SFWA thread for some truly stomach churning tales.

Their prose ("herkily-jerkily" "plane of the eclectic") is pretty similar in quality, but Cuck at least has a work ethic and when he was doing Star Wars books he could churn them out on time and that's mostly what these crappy hack factories want. So Cuck edges out Hoglinson just in terms of actually being productive.

As a human being, though, Pat is absolute fucking garbage and Cuck is merely kind of annoying. The one thing I can really hate him for is the Internet Archive bullshit but it's not like he somehow did that all on his lonesome.

 

[Temperance]

Who in the HELL is buying his shit?!

People (lolcows) like Becky Gerber, apparently. Really says it all.


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She also defended him (for years) throughout the Internet Archive drama, even though she's supposed to be an archivist herself.

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edit: Please enjoy a recent-ish soyface.

 

[Flexo]

Their prose ("herkily-jerkily" "plane of the eclectic") is pretty similar in quality, but Cuck at least has a work ethic and when he was doing Star Wars books he could churn them out on time and that's mostly what these crappy hack factories want. So Cuck edges out Hoglinson just in terms of actually being productive.

As a human being, though, Pat is absolute fucking garbage and Cuck is merely kind of annoying. The one thing I can really hate him for is the Internet Archive bullshit but it's not like he somehow did that all on his lonesome.

Totally agree, however I do not think a work ethic is an advantage when it comes to prose as awful as Chuck's. Hence why on the writing scale I'd give it to Chuck.