Jerry Peet / Lily Orchard / Lily Peet / Valkyrstudios / Bhaalspawn / Tara Callie / "Mod Ebara" - Sociopath writer of pedophile fanfiction and cartoon reviews, faked getting raped to force a divorce, then mobbed and gaslit their ex off Tumblr, satanist neoliberal of the MovieSlob variety, also wants to fuck dogs and/or pokemon

[A Watchful Ghost]

That's not engaging at all because it goes over an important question every reader has at the start, "Why should we care?" A good way to make this work is if you were to begin the story with the MC and the patient in the middle of a session so that way we get an idea of what's going on. A heavy story needs a sense of humanity first before bad stuff begins to happen.

Establish your characters first before thrusting them into the plot. But not like you know anything about humanity because you fucking hate any kind of vulnerability, and a story about psychiatry relies on taking a deep look at one's self to heal.

 

[AMHOLIO]

good way to make this work is if you were to begin the story with the MC and the patient in the middle of a session so that way we get an idea of what's going on. A heavy story needs a sense of humanity first before bad stuff begins to happen.

Lily knows dead kids are something you're supposed to feel bad and guilty about. Therefore, Peet can put one in and suddenly instant feels. Lily isn't a good enough writer to cover up how manipulative it is either. Readers would likely identify how manipulative it is like how hurting a dog or other animal is an instant shortcut for shock and sadness. Writers can use them effectively, but Lily writes with the subtlety of a brick.

Spoiler: pony remembering

I still think of when Lily was Jerry and gloating about the "MILF Mommy" Addagio, the MLP OC Jerry crowed praise on for making an objectively awful person but he figured out how to make his fanbase like her. The way turned out to be just portraying everyone who disagreed with her or disliked her as dumb or a bigot. So, still what Lady Lily does now. Edit: It's an easy trick, but to a reader base who isn't at moviebob revenge fantasy level, it tends to come out as hollow.

 

[Cloverpuff]

I'm impressed Lily's writing original fiction again. Hopefully it comss out so we can dissect Lily's brain and boring writing again.

I've indulged in way more shitty fanfiction than I'm willing to admit, but Lily's writing is uniquely bad in a way I can't put my finger on.

She seems to write like a much much younger person would. Not even a 16 yo or something, I'm talking 12-14 at the oldest. It's all just so incredibly flat. A common thing with fanfiction or amateur writing is people using flowery prose to try and make what they're writing seem deeper or more intellectual. Lily sort of tries to do this, but it's obvious she doesn't have the vocabulary to do it. She ends up misusing words/expressions (not that surprising, since she also does that while talking) and everything she writes ends up sounding like a series of commands instead of a story.

Everything ends up being very blunt and clunky. Her liking towards slice of life stories doesn't particularly help her cause either. You can also tell she isn't very imaginative. There's basic mistakes like excessive repetition that could be fixed by an editor or a second look, but it seems like she doesn't bother.

She has watched/read like 6 things total and most of them are kids cartoons, so I doubt she has any reference for how a story should go.

 

[Cyber Bowling]

A part of character design I'm starting to loathe is when a character acts like a complete cunt, and then the writer drops their backstory on you as if they're trying to make you feel guilty for disliking their cunty behavior.


But it never works unless you already liked the character.
"Oh don't you feel bad for your first impression of this character?"


No, I'm laughing at their misfortune, actually. I'm going to deliberately make things end badly for them.

For such a short tweet, there's a lot to criticize here. And just a lot of telling Lily personality traits at work.

Firstly, writers don't try and make their audience "feel guilty" for disliking a character because writers (assuming we're talking about legitimate ones) don't look down on their audience like that and want them to feel like they were wrong about something. I'd even argue when it comes to writing scenarios like that, they might not be trying to make you like the character in question. Usually those backstory moments are meant to explain *why* a character is the way they are. It might make them more sympathetic where you can relate or even excuse the character's actions under the new light, but even those ride or die fans that really get behind a tragic backstory justifying stuff won't try and say a character's "cunty behavior" was anything but, they'll just say it's justified because of their backstory. And funnily enough, Lily is very much one of those people. I mean, that's basically his whole Sylvanus argument is that her tragic backstory excuses any of her future "cunty behavior."

And then Lily hits the nail on the head why because he believes it doesn't work "if you didn't already like the character." So Lily is basically admitting that he thinks people make a first assumption about a character and then never change it. Which, again, very much something Lily does himself, but doesn't realize the majority of readers do not.

Going back a statement, Lily is also patently wrong about the backstory reveal never working. A lot of people who defend/relate to less likeable characters often do so when they learn about their backstory. I'd also point out it cuts both ways. Some characters that initially seem kinda boring/generic at first arguably become a lot more interesting after you see their backstory and understand how they got to that point. With TV shows, while they can sometimes be hit or miss, when they really do hit, "backstory" style episodes tend to be very highly rated. Backstory is also a fairly common thing for people to speculate about. I think it's where a lot of head canon comes from. Again, something Lily himself is very guilty of, where he invents massive chunks of backstory to reshape a character into something he wants, like claiming Tai is trans.

And then the last bit is just fucked up. Laughing at their misfortune is bad enough, but saying you'd deliberately make things end badly for them is exactly the kind of psychotic stuff I'd expect a disciple of Movie Bob to say. It also encapsulates Lily's view on first impressions meaning everything. He doesn't believe people can change or realize the error of their ways. If they make a mistake, they not only have to bear that cross forever, but it's justified people go out of their way to make things as bad for them as possible. Which is exactly the tragic motivation writers frequently use to make a character sympathetic with their backstory.

 

[Duine In Cudromach]

Lily you have absolutely called women (especially queer women) 'pickmes' before, shut the fuck up.

Lily is awake at 2am AST and upset that Crispy is getting views off her. Getting views while being a very well put together person in front of the camera. They are well styled and conventionally attractive so of course Lily has to view them as the opposite.

Crispy mentioned he's aro/ace during that video. I know that only counts as queer every other Tuesday, but yet another case of Lily being a right cunt to an openly queer creator.

That's not engaging at all because it goes over an important question every reader has at the start, "Why should we care?" A good way to make this work is if you were to begin the story with the MC and the patient in the middle of a session so that way we get an idea of what's going on. A heavy story needs a sense of humanity first before bad stuff begins to happen.

Establish your characters first before thrusting them into the plot. But not like you know anything about humanity because you fucking hate any kind of vulnerability, and a story about psychiatry relies on taking a deep look at one's self to heal.

Full agreement, and I just wanted to add:

Like many people trapped in a teenage mindset, Lily is confusing 'heavy' with 'edgy'.

Related:

I still think of when Lily was Jerry and gloating about the "MILF Mommy" Addagio, the MLP OC Jerry crowed praise on for making an objectively awful person but he figured out how to make his fanbase like her. The way turned out to be just portraying everyone who disagreed with her or disliked her as dumb or a bigot. So, still what Lady Lily does now.

Adagio also died in a car crash. I remember this being a HUGE point in the TVTropes entry about how 'realistic' and 'deep' this was, but (naturally) you look at the actual story and it was literally some other character coming into the house sobbing and explaining that Adagio had died OFF-SCREEN in a car crash and then everybody else cried. Like Lily couldn't even bring herself to write a car crash, she just had it happen and then tried to milk the sadness of the moment while everybody talked about how great she was and how they all loved her and how she was so beloved and gentle and kind and we'll just ignore the multiple scenes where she molested her seven-year-old daughter on page.

 

[Ultraman Orb Dark]

Everything ends up being very blunt and clunky. Her liking towards slice of life stories doesn't particularly help her cause either. You can also tell she isn't very imaginative. There's basic mistakes like excessive repetition that could be fixed by an editor or a second look, but it seems like she doesn't bother.

She has watched/read like 6 things total and most of them are kids cartoons, so I doubt she has any reference for how a story should go.

If she just wanted to write for kids, she could do that. Instead, she still wants to act like her stories are mature.

Crispy mentioned he's aro/ace during that video. I know that only counts as queer every other Tuesday, but yet another case of Lily being a right cunt to an openly queer creator.

How many LGBT creators has Lily attacked?

Ant's bisexual, Sai's a lesbian, Crim's trans, and now there's Crispy.

 

[Frank Greene32]

I'm impressed Lily's writing original fiction again. Hopefully it comss out so we can dissect Lily's brain and boring writing again.

Maybe but it’s probably gonna be Lesbian psychiatrist has to overcome one of her patients dying (not showing at all how patient died) and psychiatrist adopted sister/wife comforts her tells her it isn’t her fault and she’s the best. Complete with barely/poorly done research despite having a “Behavior Science” degree.

That's not engaging at all because it goes over an important question every reader has at the start, "Why should we care?" A good way to make this work is if you were to begin the story with the MC and the patient in the middle of a session so that way we get an idea of what's going on. A heavy story needs a sense of humanity first before bad stuff begins to happen.

I mean you could start at the end sort of and work your way backwards to show how this patient went to this psychiatrist for help to their death… but that would require talent and understanding of writing… Lily doesn’t have that

She seems to write like a much much younger person would. Not even a 16 yo or something, I'm talking 12-14 at the oldest. It's all just so incredibly flat. A common thing with fanfiction or amateur writing is people using flowery prose to try and make what they're writing seem deeper or more intellectual. Lily sort of tries to do this, but it's obvious she doesn't have the vocabulary to do it. She ends up misusing words/expressions (not that surprising, since she also does that while talking) and everything she writes ends up sounding like a series of commands instead of a story.

Everything ends up being very blunt and clunky. Her liking towards slice of life stories doesn't particularly help her cause either. You can also tell she isn't very imaginative. There's basic mistakes like excessive repetition that could be fixed by an editor or a second look, but it seems like she doesn't bother.

What doesn’t help is the fact she so clearly hates reading on anything that she doesn’t like. Like to really write well you have to read a shit ton of stuff. Even stuff you don’t like. Once Lily gets that her writing will be better… not by much but it will improve.

How many LGBT creators has Lily attacked?

Ant's bisexual, Sai's a lesbian, Crim's trans, and now there's Crispy.

A total of six. If you include Contra points (a much more successful trans YouTuber) and Essence of Thought. (Trans YouTuber who made videos on Lily about Stockholm and her flashing)

Funny how Lily just hates you if you are LGBT, A cis gendered woman, man, successful kr have talent. Then that hatred is intensified especially if you’re a combination of those things. Or worst you do something like making her blorbo Sylvanas a villain.

 

[A Watchful Ghost]

I mean you could start at the end sort of and work your way backwards to show how this patient went to this psychiatrist for help to their death… but that would require talent and understanding of writing… Lily doesn’t have that

That honestly could also work. The concept itself has potential in the right hands. But it's no surprise that Peet just doesn't have the skills to make something worthwhile with it because those flaws, and that immature mentality, continues to hamper them. If this fucker wasn't such a stubborn asshole that needs to be dragged to watch newer stuff then maybe those writing skills could improve.

How many LGBT creators has Lily attacked?

Ant's bisexual, Sai's a lesbian, Crim's trans, and now there's Crispy.

A total of six. If you include Contra points (a much more successful trans YouTuber) and Essence of Thought. (Trans YouTuber who made videos on Lily about Stockholm and her flashing)

Funny how Lily just hates you if you are LGBT, A cis gendered woman, man, successful kr have talent. Then that hatred is intensified especially if you’re a combination of those things. Or worst you do something like making her blorbo Sylvanas a villain.

It makes my dark heart so happy seeing that community realize how much of a jerkoff Peet is, and have done their best to snuff them out. It just highlights that Peet didn't have one ounce of respect for the LGBT community. Not only that, but it was a temporal filter that only became useless as time went along.

 

[SomeDudeInA6PointedStan]

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Wow I know it was lacking in self awareness but I definitely didn't know that Ol' CDomo the Chomo literally has *negative* self awareness.

 

[AMHOLIO]

And funnily enough, Lily is very much one of those people. I mean, that's basically his whole Sylvanus argument is that her tragic backstory excuses any of her future "cunty behavior."

2D Chess: accepting a character's evil actions as is.
3D Chess: blaming a character's backstory for their evil.
4D Chess: blaming the writers for a character's mishandling being evil.
5D Chess: Blame the fans AND the writers for them both working together to make your favorite character poorly written.

Firstly, writers don't try and make their audience "feel guilty" for disliking a character because writers (assuming we're talking about legitimate ones) don't look down on their audience like that and want them to feel like they were wrong about something.

It feels like Lily is saying that when a writer gives Lily a charactet Lily dislikes, she immediately gets mad when a sympathetic backstory is set up for them. Lily ALREADY decided the character was bad! Why is the author trying to personally make Lily feel stupid for being wrong?! It's the author's fault when Lily guesses wrong, even if a reveal makes a character a better character or improves the story.

I think it's genuinely why Lily Orchard likes simple, stupid, or predictable plots: Lily feels so much better after guessing everything correctly and having the outcome she wanted personally confirmed. No, really. It's like shne wants the story to either be familiar or dumb enough to her for her to feel better about herself. A story should give Lily what SHE personally wants and expects. If not, it's stupid and should have fucking done it better if the writer listened to smart people like Lily.

but saying you'd deliberately make things end badly for them is exactly the kind of psychotic stuff I'd expect a disciple of Movie Bob to say.

Like whenever Bob said he liked a movie specifically because it beat up and humiliated a political group he hated. That's all you need to get perfection in their group.

and it was literally some other character coming into the house sobbing and explaining that Adagio had died OFF-SCREEN in a car crash and then everybody else cried.

Poochie died on his way back to his home planet.

Complete with barely/poorly done research despite having a “Behavior Science” degree.

Excuse me, it will be perfectly researched because it is Lily's lived experience, and we're too stupid to know what Behavioral Psychs ACTUALLY do because we don't have a degree ourselves.

 

[Ultraman Orb Dark]

It just highlights that Peet didn't have one ounce of respect for the LGBT community.

It feels like Lily is saying that when a writer gives Lily a charactet Lily dislikes, she immediately gets mad when a sympathetic backstory is set up for them. Lily ALREADY decided the character was bad! Why is the author trying to personally make Lily feel stupid for being wrong?! It's the author's fault when Lily guesses wrong, even if a reveal makes a character a better character or improves the story.

It's ironic because a big part of Lily's stories involves people making incorrect assumptions about her characters, like Aliana, Kiera, or Niva

Like whenever Bob said he liked a movie specifically because it beat up and humiliated a political group he hated. That's all you need to get perfection in their group.

When did he say that? And for what movie?

Excuse me, it will be perfectly researched because it is Lily's lived experience, and we're too stupid to know what Behavioral Psychs ACTUALLY do because we don't have a degree ourselves.

Imagine if Lily got to meet an actual psychologist, or if a psychologist reacted to one of her videos. How would she try to weasel her way out of it?

 

[A Watchful Ghost]

Imagine if Lily got to meet an actual psychologist, or if a psychologist reacted to one of her videos. How would she try to weasel her way out of it?

Either Peet will call them a hack, or they will lash out that they are getting the tongue smackdown of a lifetime because you don't fuck with one unless you're ready to be hit where it goddamn hurts.

 

[Bears Repeating]

I might have to take a look at that stream later, the discord tapped out like half an hour in because it was boring, but there might be some nuggets of seething about the crispy video in there. Only one way to find out.

From a skim of the transcript, nothing of note. Just 3 hours of gameplay broken up by the occasional moment of Mikay roleplaying as Bonnie (Look forward plenty of that in future streams).

About the most interesting thing comes at the end, 2 minutes before the stream ends mid-sentence. Lily quits the game she's playing (This War of Mine, a game about civilians surviving in an active war zone by scavenging and looting from other civilians) and complains that you spend too long not having enough materials in the early game, before "the game's themes really hit you"

For any other media critic on Youtube, that would be about the dumbest thing they've said. For Lily? Average Monday.

 

[Frank Greene32]

About the most interesting thing comes at the end, 2 minutes before the stream ends mid-sentence. Lily quits the game she's playing (This War of Mine, a game about civilians surviving in an active war zone by scavenging and looting from other civilians) and complains that you spend too long not having enough materials in the early game, before "the game's themes really hit you"

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For any other media critic on Youtube, that would be about the dumbest thing they've said. For Lily? Average Monday.

Getting some real DSP vibes
“The themes aren’t hitting cause you’re too busy trying to survive. The game isn’t balanced. I have to grind for resources” well yeah… it’s a survival game

But what gets me is “I haven’t seen a survival game do resource shuffling good.” Okay what have you played that does resource shuffling good? But she won’t answer it. She’s just bad at resource management.

I would love for her to play like RE2 original or remake and be like. “This zombie game has too many zombies, plus I don’t have enough inventory space. The zombies aren’t giving me enough bullets”

 

[A Watchful Ghost]

Lily quits the game she's playing (This War of Mine, a game about civilians surviving in an active war zone by scavenging and looting from other civilians) and complains that you spend too long not having enough materials in the early game, before "the game's themes really hit you"

This has to be one of the most brain dead things Peet has ever said and there is a list of them. What really sticks out from this is the fact that those "themes" hit right of the gate because again YOU ARE PLAYING AS THE CIVILIANS GETTING FUCKED OVER BY A WAR.

Of course, the theme is war sucks and resources are not guaranteed. You have to make due to survive, even when it's being unsubtle, Peet still manages to miss the goddamn point because it comes back of them lacking empathy and patience to see the situation to try and make due with it.

It doesn't help at all that they are a shit player when it comes to games this jackass doesn't care for. Even the games they are ""good"" at, Peet manages to be shit at by cheating, or modding it. That reluctantcy to try something more than it isn't the same 5 games.

It's quite a frustratingly dull existence.

 

[FanFicFreak]

Everything ends up being very blunt and clunky. Her liking towards slice of life stories doesn't particularly help her cause either. You can also tell she isn't very imaginative. There's basic mistakes like excessive repetition that could be fixed by an editor or a second look, but it seems like she doesn't bother.

I agree about everything, especially regarding Ms. Peet not being the most creative when it comes to topics and themes to write about - she pretty much reuses all the same topics and "issues" present in her stuff, or slightly changes them, but they always feel the same.
And the thing is, as you also said, due to her immature writing, she cannot even dip into them properly. Slice of life is also not my favorite genre, but there are people who are fucking masters at writing it, basically pulling in the reader with the "vibe" created in the story - Bret Easton Ellis (The American Psycho guy) and most of his novels are like this -> there is no big, grand story, it is usually a really simple premises (The Rules of Attraction: The lifes of a three, new-rich, coked uni students in the 1980's. Less than Zero: A guy arrives home from uni to his family for Christmas) but shit happens, and it is important how that shit happens. Less then Zero is arguably one of the most depressive books, depicting how pointless and useless you feel in your 20's, and it didn't sell like candy because B.E.E wrote the next Odessey regarding the action-packedness of the plot, but because you cannot read that fucking book without wanting to smoke three cigarettes' back to back once you are done.

The only think Lily's writing makes me to feel is utter boredom and total numbness. These is no depth, no feelings or care.

 

[Cloverpuff]

I agree about everything, especially regarding Ms. Peet not being the most creative when it comes to topics and themes to write about - she pretty much reuses all the same topics and "issues" present in her stuff, or slightly changes them, but they always feel the same.

These issues also end up falling kind of flat because she doesn't actually care about them. I mentioned before that the only thing stopping her from being a full blown fascist is the fact she's trans, and I stand by that.

Lily knows that since she is a trans woman, she is supposed to be a leftist and thus is supposed to care about leftist issues. The thing is, she doesn't understand why. She is supposed to care about wealth inequality and the government's ability to address it properly, but she doesn't know why. So every time she tries to write about it it's a shitshow. The worst offender might be Avatar Niva. She repeats over and over again that the government is bad and prides herself on the fact that Niva helps small villages, because she doesn't fully grasp that is a systemic issue. Niva, in the grand scheme of things, isn't doing shit.

Lily just repeats "government bad", "citizens unite" over and over again because she knows those are the words she is supposed to say, but doesn't understand why.

Her black and white thinking doesn't help either. Certain people are supposed to be bad, so they are a caricature with no redeemable qualities.

She also has no real experience of the world. She is a shut in with no real job and o real friends. Her education is poor and in general she seems to not know how a lot of things work.

And the thing is, as you also said, due to her immature writing, she cannot even dip into them properly. Slice of life is also not my favorite genre, but there are people who are fucking masters at writing it, basically pulling in the reader with the "vibe" created in the story - Bret Easton Ellis (The American Psycho guy) and most of his novels are like this -> there is no big, grand story, it is usually a really simple premises (The Rules of Attraction: The lifes of a three, new-rich, coked uni students in the 1980's. Less than Zero: A guy arrives home from uni to his family for Christmas) but shit happens, and it is important how that shit happens. Less then Zero is arguably one of the most depressive books, depicting how pointless and useless you feel in your 20's, and it didn't sell like candy because B.E.E wrote the next Odessey regarding the action-packedness of the plot, but because you cannot read that fucking book without wanting to smoke three cigarettes' back to back once you are done.

The only think Lily's writing makes me to feel is utter boredom and total numbness. These is no depth, no feelings or care.

I actually really like slice of life stuff because eliminating most action leaves the focus entirely on the characters. Like you said, these type of stories can really fuck you up, but to Lily it doesn't work that way.

To her, eliminating the action serves almost exclusively to have the characters be cute and talking about their feelings directly out loud. If you don't have a team avatar, then Niva and Lavi can cuddle and be codependent. If you don't have Steven interrupt stuff, then the gems can say exactly how they feel. She wants quiet stories so that everything can be uncomplicated and spelled out for her, it's fucking horrible.

What doesn’t help is the fact she so clearly hates reading on anything that she doesn’t like.

She seems to hate reading in general, she can't even get through RPGs if they have too much text. She doesn't even seem to like stories in general.

I think it's partly because she thinks everything is an attack on her. If there's a plot twist, she doesn't like it because the creators are hiding stuff from her. If there's a redemption arc she doesn't like it because the creators are lying to her about the character being good. If there's a cliffhanger, she hates it because the creators are manipulating her. If a conflict doesn't get resolved immediately, she hates it because the creators are wasting her times.

She doesn't want stories of any kind. She wants a bunch of perfect lesbian sisters enmeshed with each other who talk about their feelings openly and with details. Nothing ever happens, except sometimes a completely evil antagonist shows up and the lesbians do violence. She doesn't want to be challenged or even excited, she wants a weird mush that produces vaguely pleasant feelings and numbs her brain.

 

[SatanicPanic]

Lily truly is one of those bronies who thought Friendship is Magic was the best thing ever and is mad that everything else isn't a carbon copy of it. Except she's too embarrassed to say that out loud because bronies are cringe now. A cute little adventure with an almost entirely female cast that Lily can imagine are all her friends and they all want to have sex with her. Importantly at the end of every episode, someone tells you what it all meant in a nice and neat letter addressed to a beautiful princess goddess.

 

[ÁchtunaRoll]

it's like they literally want to 'incorporate' the term into meaning the exact opposite of what it means by most feminist women. To me a 'pick-me' is a very sad, often brainwashed teenager (in our years as millenials, it was rom-coms and some awful ads) that is completely convinced 'romance' NEEDS to happen in her life ..or at least, some sort of erotical attraction towards men needs to happen. sure, the 'pick-me' to 'brainrot Tradwife' to a desperate 'boy-mom' is very obvious. I have seen some zoomer women going from 'equality for all of us' to 'but, but, but cottage core is perfect! I love my sons' promise ring'.. But of course the people who try to steal the term from feminists don't care. Being a millenial , I will never understand. Then again, the gaming community is already toxic as is.

Your reply chain demonstrates the issue perfectly because you just redefined the term on the fly.Pickme is just a garbage term used to replace Internalized Misogyny for reasons that defy all logic and sense. The term is phonetically so vague and nondescript that it can fall into everyone having their own definition. It's like Mary Sue for feminism.Whoever is coining these vague alternatives to perfectly functional language needs to knock it off and accept that words mean things.

Breaking containment and Crispy getting views upsets her. But she can't get upset over a Queer filipino absolutely putting her in her place.

 

[Duine In Cudromach]

I think it's partly because she thinks everything is an attack on her. If there's a plot twist, she doesn't like it because the creators are hiding stuff from her. If there's a redemption arc she doesn't like it because the creators are lying to her about the character being good.

This all feels very true. She gets quite upset when a story has a twist or asks you to recontextualize information you've already received. Maybe it feels like a betrayal, but just as likely (as speculated above) it makes her feel dumb for not seeing it coming.

I think back to her SU video and I realize that she only turned on the show after it was revealed that Rose was actually Pink Diamond, and she was livid that there were no clues, or the clues were so 'generic' as to be baseless, that it was a poorly-executed twist nobody could have seen coming and the writers were hacks. And I distinctly remember thinking that I, a person who had seen approximately four episodes of Steven Universe (and one of them was the April Fools Uncle Grandpa crossover) had figured out that Rose was probably Pink Diamond.

The whole video seemed to be working up to that point, and it was that point -- that Lily felt stupid and humiliated because she hadn't seen a twist in a kid's cartoon -- that broke her.

She was forced to reassess her assumptions about Rose, which had all been made on the surface level-- everybody loves her, everybody misses her, ergo she must have been an unequivocally good person with no grayness because literally everybody lionizes her even though it was pretty obvious from the flashbacks that Rose was deeply flawed and the way the Gems talked about her with nothing but admiration was colored by their grief. Pretty sure Greg called her out on her behavior in one of those flashbacks. That wasn't a bit of 'bad writing' that put a flaw in a character who was supposed to be perfect,

Lily was just too stupid to realize what was being told her face. That somebody who everybody says is perfect was not, in fact, perfect. That somebody the show claimed to be the pinnacle of evil was actually not, in fact, evil. That the Crystal Gems didn't win their fight by murdering their enemy, but by their enemy turning against the Gem Empire because she realized how vile its ethos was.

Lily was told that the Goodest Guy on the Good Guy Team was actually what had become of the Bad Guy after she was confronted with moral dilemmas she had never needed to face before and questioned herself. It said that bad people are often misguided, that compassion and empathy can change hearts and minds, that you don't need to murder your enemies for peace. And Lily didn't like that.

Therefore, Rebecca Sugar is a Nazi sympathizer.

As mentioned, this is even more ridiculous because she did the same thing with Aliana in reverse-- introduced this badass bitch who easily dispatches enemies and kills without any questions because she's so certain of her righteousness, but also she's just a sad bean whose mommy died when she was a little baby eighteen-year-old child (later aged down to fourteen) who goes to her room and cries when that meanie head Leia says mean things about her. Don't you feel bad for Aliana now? Don't you understand why she's like this and that it's totally justified?!

If there's a cliffhanger, she hates it because the creators are manipulating her. If a conflict doesn't get resolved immediately, she hates it because the creators are wasting her times.

Seeing this also reminds me of when she said that serialized shows were just feeding people's addiction to drama to force them to keep coming back to see what happens next. The very concept of tension is apparently 'addiction peddling' so in her own works she just doesn't even bother.

At least she's consistent but my god imagine misunderstanding basic story structure this badly.

I mean you could start at the end sort of and work your way backwards to show how this patient went to this psychiatrist for help to their death… but that would require talent and understanding of writing… Lily doesn’t have that

You could do this, but it's clear that's nowhere in her purview because she talked about it totally incidentally. " How do I communicate this story is heavy? I'll kill a child at the start!" That's not a theme or plot point that's being woven with care into the narrative, it's literally just throwing in a child suicide to make the audience feel sad.

It also sounds like an Iris and Kiera story so good luck with how 'heavy' it's actually going to be. She couldn't even finish her vignette where the non-mute one got shot throwing herself in front of a racist bullet to save her girlfriend.

Then again she did write a 75k word fic about Anevay being repeatedly tortured and raped so maybe she's got the fire to finish this project if it abuses the women enough.