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

[Red Hood]

It's like the first thing the Mouse did after getting it's filthy paws on the franchise was to rush to see how quickly it could destroy about twenty-five years of memories.

Hey, George - did the money Disney paid you keep you warm at night?

Lol, calm down.

 

[SaladV]

My favorite thing about these soys getting fired is that it's all under the same context: said some dumb shit on twitter, had a meltdown about politics or threatened fans/co-workers over opinions. It's always a similar case to the last.
Will they ever learn? I doubt it. Is is amusing as hell? I can confirm it.

 

[Skeletor]

This guy is like a more successful version of Dobson.

 

[Zebedee]

My favorite thing about these soys getting fired is that it's all under the same context: said some dumb shit on twitter, had a meltdown about politics or threatened fans/co-workers over opinions. It's always a similar case to the last.
Will they ever learn? I doubt it. Is is amusing as hell? I can confirm it.

It's probably the soylent shit they drink, it mass produces these morons like an industrial processor. They drink estrogen tainted shite so much then spew out substance of equal value.

Which is to say, none at all.

 

[Curt Sibling]

Why do these soy-droids invariably have their mouths cranked open like they are ready to choke on some hefty mule dick?

 

[Bridge to Nowhere]

Oh, hey, another soy who got woke and went broke while blaming everything but themselves for it. His writing style in both his blogs and his books is one of the worst I've ever seen.

Why do these soy-droids invariably have their mouths cranked open like they are ready to choke on some hefty mule dick?

My guess is they want to make themselves look more wacky and zany, since that's what their sense of humor always revolves around. I don't know how they all chose exactly the same facial expression, though.

 

[Mola Ram]

Been digging through his twitter thread, I bring you all a best of.

Spoiler: Chuck's thready thread thread excerpts

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He really fethisizes being part of some resistance and standing up against the evil CG, GG, alt-right, Drumpf-supporting Naziskinheads. Despite his connection to the SW-brand giving him a massive audience and every mainstream and respected media outlet/ personality from here to Timbuktu taking a "stand" against those mean people on the internet and the occassional crazy zealot.
Chuck also uses a phone app to limit his online presence, I dread to think what record he'd break without it.
A hilarious lack of maturity and professionalism manifests itself towards the end, when he asserts people powerleveling too hard in their own work is somehow a good thing and that you shouldn't "want that audience, or those opportunities" only the "opportunities that serve you, not the ones that demand you serve them."
Such an attitude makes him nigh unhirable by companies (i.e. Disney) that want him to write stories for their audience and then provide him with the opportunites they offer.

How is this man a functional adult? He has a family, a job, friends and does not appear unhealthy (soy notwithstanding). It baffles me how low some people can go, but Chuck has been so consistently jumping down the canyon. I am at a loss.

As for the sperging about SW and the people complainig about it, take it outside.
SW thread is here: https://kiwifarms.net/threads/star-wars-griefing-thread-formerly-about-last-jedi.32492/

I've been theorizing for a while that the utterly unhinged, 2-years-and-counting primal scream/tantrum against Trump is largely fuelled by narcissism: the Toupeed Horror squatting in the Oval Office is the worstest, most awfulest, most monsterest "person" ever to run the country; this is the darkest timeline; the Burning Times are at hand ... so look how fucking special, awesome, courageous, and no doubt virile/fuckable I must be for having the sack to stand against him! Vive la Resistance! (Really, you could see a lot of this when Bush 43 was in office, and on the right a lot of the doomsaying about Obama had this flavor, if not this volume.)

It is so weird to see that theory borne out in realtime over this ridiculous Twitter feed.

Why do these soy-droids invariably have their mouths cranked open like they are ready to choke on some hefty mule dick?

I'm going with Occam's Razor for this one.

 

[AnOminous]

He really fethisizes being part of some resistance and standing up against the evil CG, GG, alt-right, Drumpf-supporting Naziskinheads.

He says creating things is resistance. Nazis are bad because they destroy things.

So what does this fucker call what his faction did trying to burn Richard Meyer's book, which doesn't even contain any right wing politics, and bully publishers into not publishing?

I can't take these cunts seriously when they praise these ideals that they spit on from their ivory tower, going out and wrecking people's livelihoods for disagreeing with them.

 

[Christopher Robin]

His 'Recipe For A Shooting' kept the cook book motif for a grand total of 1 line, then it just became a rambling rant. Really creative. I wanted to hear 'Add 1 gun nut orange drumpf lover and mix with a gay women of colour hating society and boil for 5 minutes'.

At least that would have been entertaining.

lol I just read his piece about how upset he was because he saw someone hitting on his blind waifu that he admired from afar at the grocery store. Why is he so outraged that someone would flirt with her? Aren't blind people entitled to love? Chuck is ableist scum

 

[RJ MacReady]

Over 9000 hours in MS Paint
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Why the fuck is this dude's beard the colour of a smoke-damaged ceiling in a rat-infested Beijing restaurant?

 

[damian]

What do we do? Perhaps stop writing shit like "thready thread thread".

Date of birth: April 22, 1976 (42)
Date of birth: April 22, 1976 (42)
Date of birth: April 22, 1976 (42)

@Ride mentioned that the OP could use some more background on Chuck, so I wrote up something quick

Spoiler

Chuck Wendig was a writer for two of Disney's latest massive IP acquisitions - Marvel and Star Wars. His early career was of little note, with his biggest accomplishments prior to signing with Disney being a six book saga about a woman named Miriam Black, who can see how someone will die through any skin-to-skin contact and a massive amount of RPGs such as 2008 game Hunter: The Vigil.

Starting around 2011, Wendig began publishing his novels. His Miriam Black series was going to be adapted as a TV show in 2014, the plug was pulled on it in 2015. Otherwise, his bibliography includes mostly YA and adult novels, some as their own series. He was the writer behind a handful of Marvel comics such as The Shield and Hyperion. He was nominated for a Campbell award in 2013, but did not win. Otherwise, he was involved in two failed projects for TNT and Starz networks, among some "transmedia" stuff in the vein of Sundance films.

Chuck was announced as an author for the "flagship" Journey to Star Wars: The Force Awakens, titled Star Wars: Aftermath in 2015. Aftermath is considered canonical as it explains the events that occurred between the final movie of the original Star Wars trilogy, Return of the Jedi, and the first Disney Star Wars movie, The Force Awakens. He got the job by literally asking on Twitter. No, seriously. (archive) Aftermath debuted at #4 on The New York Times Best Seller list and USA Today's best seller list in 2015.

Aftermath focuses on a group of characters, largely from previous Star Wars media, but most importantly, introduces Sinjir Rath Velus, who is the first canonical gay character played by a trans woman* in the Star Wars universe. Except not really, because there has been a gay character in Star Wars novels before, Moff Delian Mors in Paul Kemp's Lords of the Sith. However, Sinjir is considered the first "major" gay character in the Star Wars universe. There are some background lesbians in Aftermath as well. Mainstream articles covering Wendig's Star Wars books portray it as being the biggest thing ever (couldn't archive), though the general reception was lukewarm. He told critics of his Star Wars books that they're like "the shitty, oppressive, totalitarian Empire" (archive) if they had issues with his LGBT characters.

As with many liberals, Donald Trump winning the 2016 election gave him a severe case of Trump Derangement Syndrome. He spent multiple tweet threads literally screeching at Trump with his Joss Whedon-esque insults (archive) like calling Trump a "greasy naughahyde human" and a "rancid tub of Russian dressing."

tl;dr: Joss Whedon knock-off that worked mainly in YA and RPGs. He never surpassed Cassandra Clare-tier success but when he asks for a job writing for Star Wars on Twitter, he gets signed later that year at New York Comic Con. Makes a gay main character in something that is considered canon in Star Wars and is thus a martyr to LGBT people everywhere by getting fired for his Twitter screechings on Drumpf.

* This is a joke referencing Gen Zed, not actually a fact

Thanks, I'll add it to the OP.

 

[Luthien]

He says creating things is resistance. Nazis are bad because they destroy things.

So, like, creating concentration camps is resistance? Good to know.

(I'll see myself out)

 

[registereduser]

Really minor stuff like "stop sperging about TFA & TLJ, nobody cares" & "propositioning a blind woman at a grocery store with a shitty pick-up line is indeed very scummy" & "I think there may be a problem with how men are generally socialized," but I'm being very generous.

I would be really surprised if this isn't all projection.

 

[AnOminous]

lol I just read his piece about how upset he was because he saw someone hitting on his blind waifu that he admired from afar at the grocery store. Why is he so outraged that someone would flirt with her?

Because he's personally too much of a cuck even to approach a blind woman who can't see what a joke he is.

 

[Skelter Helter]

Aftermath was the only Star Wars audiobook I ever shut off. I got 15 minutes in before I was done with it. My reason is where my personal :autism: kicks into overdrive, but what that reason is?

He wrote the entire thing in present tense rather than past tense.

Your reaction isn't autistic at all. It's pretty reasonable.

Whether it's set a long time ago or in the far future, most fiction is written in simple past tense, and this is especially true when it comes to fiction written in the third person. It's the default. If an author writes in a different tense, it's usually a conscious choice intended to produce a specific effect. While I'm no expert on Wendig's writing, the samples in this thread read exactly like screenplay writing (third person, present tense, short sentences, sentence fragments, lots of dashes), so my guess is that he's trying to convey some of the immediacy of cinema.

It's easy to see how this stylistic choice might be like nails on a chalkboard for some people.

 

[AprilRains]

It'll be both and I'm sure it won't get at all annoying seeing the same "muh Star Wars sold out to libruls" whining for the four millionth time.

That's kind of exactly what didn't happen. Dude got the boot for political sperging.

 

[Starscreams Cape]

I've been theorizing for a while that the utterly unhinged, 2-years-and-counting primal scream/tantrum against Trump is largely fuelled by narcissism: the Toupeed Horror squatting in the Oval Office is the worstest, most awfulest, most monsterest "person" ever to run the country; this is the darkest timeline; the Burning Times are at hand ... so look how fucking special, awesome, courageous, and no doubt virile/fuckable I must be for having the sack to stand against him! Vive la Resistance! (Really, you could see a lot of this when Bush 43 was in office, and on the right a lot of the doomsaying about Obama had this flavor, if not this volume.)

It is so weird to see that theory borne out in realtime over this ridiculous Twitter feed.

Narcissism definitely. But don't overlook Republicans being seen as "daddy". I know a dude who is totally TDS-unhinged. A nightmare. His dad was an abusive asshole and now the abuse lives on in the form of his stunted, 50 year old son who sees every Republican online as a stand in for him.

If you've found an SJW who had a healthy relationship with a normal dad you've found a rare bird indeed.

Also, great job with this thread, damian

 

[AprilRains]

Narcissism definitely. But don't overlook Republicans being seen as "daddy". I know a dude who is totally TDS-unhinged. A nightmare. His dad was an abusive asshole and now the abuse lives on in the form of his stunted, 50 year old son who sees every Republican online as a stand in for him.

If you've found an SJW who had a healthy relationship with a normal dad you've found a rare bird indeed.

I know several examples of this, and you're right. To them, the GOP is Dumb Old Dad.

 

[Replicant Sasquatch]

Your reaction isn't autistic at all. It's pretty reasonable.

Whether it's set a long time ago or in the far future, most fiction is written in simple past tense, and this is especially true when it comes to fiction written in the third person. It's the default. If an author writes in a different tense, it's usually a conscious choice intended to produce a specific effect. While I'm no expert on Wendig's writing, the samples in this thread read exactly like screenplay writing (third person, present tense, short sentences, sentence fragments, lots of dashes), so my guess is that he's trying to convey some of the immediacy of cinema.

It's easy to see how this stylistic choice might be like nails on a chalkboard for some people.

I just finished Peter Newman's The Vagrant, which is written entirely in present tense. It's weird and it has that distinct staccato flow you usually get but he made it work. You're absolutely correct though when you say Wendig's aping screenplay format. Explains his adverb vomit as well. He's trying to make it "cinematic" which isn't a word in the literary language.

 

[The Great Chandler]

The average millennial is more mature and professional than he is and he's about my working dad's age.