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

[Curt Sibling]

I drew a Halloween portrait of our soy-zombie hero!

 

[Stock Photo James]

I wasn't too concerned about the guy when I first heard of him getting fired, seemed like Gunn all over but way less remarkable but nope, just went trough his work listed here and he deserves maximum mockery. He's one of those smarmy tryhard writers who think they're witty because they refer to teeth as tooths or use cutesy diminutives in a serious context but their work only has significance because they cling to successful properties with huge plebeian following, like Star Wars, or write books for lowest common denominators, such as grown manchildren who still read young adult novels.

 

[Red Hood]

I wasn't too concerned about the guy when I first heard of him getting fired, seemed like Gunn all over but way less remarkable but nope, just went trough his work listed here and he deserves maximum mockery. He's one of those smarmy tryhard writers who think they're witty because they refer to teeth as tooths or use cutesy diminutives in a serious context but their work only has significance because they cling to successful properties with huge plebeian following, like Star Wars, or write books for lowest common denominators, such as grown manchildren who still read young adult novels.

It's not quite like James Gunn, because Gunn is capable of producing unironically entertaining media, whereas Wendig, to my knowledge, cannot.

 

[Kulee Baba]

It's not quite like James Gunn, because Gunn is capable of producing unironically entertaining media, whereas Wendig, to my knowledge, cannot.

And Gunn is an actual professional. He might shit on The President and GOP in charge but he’s never attacked Non-Public Figures. BTW please correct me if I’m wrong on that. Wendig was fired because he said “Trump supporters can eat shit.” That’s attacking millions of Americans. If Jimmy Kimmel or Stephen Colbert said that on their show they would be forced to do a mea culpa tour or just be replaced.

What really gets me is that Wendig was in the position to keep things underwrap. Just say he left Marvel due to “creative differences” or perhaps he needed to focus on another project. And if he stayed professional there would have been a good chance Marvel would hire him back down the line or DC/IDW would have hired him.

Instead Wendig gave Marvel bad publicity and let Comicsgate have a big laugh. Big companies will remember when you act like a dick after being fired. He also cemented his status as a Lolcow. It’s a pretty impressive lapse in judgement and shows why even small creative types would benefit from having managers.

Remember Kiwis, if you ever get a social presence make sure you’re either irreplaceable or truly independent before you start flapping your gums.

 

[mrdk_04]

Remember Kiwis, if you ever get a social presence make sure you’re either irreplaceable or truly independent before you start flapping your gums.

I have a better idea, limit your online footprint and keep it squeaky clean. Stay off Twitter and if you have to post on social media in order to sell your product, please present excerpts or something more substantial than angry raving.

Crossposting from the SW thread:

A good example of how to handle such online presence would be Justin Roiland's twitter.
The man doesn't post daily, relates his tweets to his projects/work/events/POI, most tweets are accompanied by a file, he doesn't engage his own comment section, barely retweets & when he does he post a simple message,
merely expressing general emotions for people he admires and/or works with.
When Dan Harmon's twitter was still up, it was such an interesting case study of both approaches,
as they are both creators of the same show.

 

[Zaryiu]

I suggest making a thread about people creating enter

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

Among certain types of primates t's a sign of submission which definitely fit soyboys

 

[whitepumpkin]

This is the one that sort of fills me with shame and regret. Not because I defended him or anything, but because a couple of years back I bought his books on writing for my kindle because they were recc'ed. I guess this shows you really need to research some people before forking money to them, because I probably wouldn't have done so if I even looked at his sperging twitter account.

 

[Zbk3VmLfujjzjxBd43tL]

I have a better idea, limit your online footprint and keep it squeaky clean. Stay off Twitter and if you have to post on social media in order to sell your product, please present excerpts or something more substantial than angry raving.

Crossposting from the SW thread:

Why not publish all your hateful offensive comments under a different name? There's probably celebrities and other public figures here on this New Zealand cyberbowling forum right now doing that. And if you're on the right side of history, you'll be a martyr when they find you posting your hateful shit like B.(long-ass Thai name)S.(long-ass Thai name) aka Requires Hate.

 

[RockVolnutt]

I know I'm :late: with this and reposting but man, this is always a great talking point that you get from people from Wendig. It's usually an excuse as they're insecure with not knowing enough about a thing and so they want to get rid of the idea of events following a logical order for everything existing off in a bubble where they can do anything with it.

It's really sad since he's a writer by trade. Imagine reading a series of books where every single one is an unrelated "what if" that only shares a name with the others for marketing purposes. Even worse if he picked up that "theme is the most important thing" meme as this means these stories not only get to ignore logical progression, it means they don't even have to be good as long as the message is "good".

Ain't it convenient how this deep thinker stuff overlaps with a lazy man's ideals?

 

[LordofCringe7206]

Instead Wendig gave Marvel bad publicity and let Comicsgate have a big laugh. Big companies will remember when act like a dick after being fired. He also cemented his status as a Lolcow. It’s a pretty impressive lapse in judgement and shows why even small creative types would benefit from having managers.

I said this in another thread when this was first getting started, but I wonder if Mark Waid's antics this year have sort of "rattled" both Disney and Marvel into taking better precautions with what their employees put out on social media.

It seems kind of odd that every since Waid got Diversity & Comics deal scrapped, there has been multiple instances of these companies firing people for what they put out on social media when before it there was no indication that they even cared.

 

[Curt Sibling]

Seems Disney and Marvel are slowly realizing that inviting these mental patients into the banquet hall was a bad call...

 

[mindlessobserver]

Seems Disney and Marvel are slowly realizing that inviting these mental patients into the banquet hall was a bad call...

I dont know if it's Marvel so much as Disney's general counsel Allan Braverman

Ah, you are the CEO of Marvel I see. May I refer you to this contract you signed in blood with my master. it clearly stipulates we have certain...control...over your actions. Please, close the door behind you so we can discuss what this means further...

 

[Jaimas]

"Worst People" must be a Wendigism, akin to the Chipmanisms "Wasteland Ghoul" or "Obsolete People". Why can't he just call them Deplorables like his master Hillary did?

Speaking of her, how the hell did he not get lynched by Team SJW for having his Hillary Clinton-looking white woman be the hero and his Thrawn-knockoff black woman be the villain? Isn't that doubly offensive since not only is the black woman a villain, but she works for the Empire which you aren't allowed to like since they're literally Nazis?

I will bet you an entire bag of Skittles that he got away with it by claiming that the black woman was a metaphor for Condoleeza Rice.

 

[UE 558]

This guy looks like the lovechild of Doug Walker and Jeremy "Quarter Pounder" Hambly

 

[Jaimas]

I know I'm :late: with this and reposting but man, this is always a great talking point that you get from people from Wendig. It's usually an excuse as they're insecure with not knowing enough about a thing and so they want to get rid of the idea of events following a logical order for everything existing off in a bubble where they can do anything with it.

It's really sad since he's a writer by trade. Imagine reading a series of books where every single one is an unrelated "what if" that only shares a name with the others for marketing purposes. Even worse if he picked up that "theme is the most important thing" meme as this means these stories not only get to ignore logical progression, it means they don't even have to be good as long as the message is "good".

Ain't it convenient how this deep thinker stuff overlaps with a lazy man's ideals?

Holy shit, this is one of the most fucking insane things I've ever seen written by someone claiming to be a professional writer. Verisimilitude is the single most fucking critical thing to have in a work of fiction, and in turn, the most critical to that is logical consistency within universe. That's how you make a universe with fantastic elements feel legitimate. You can have a work with magic and elves and orcs and make it feel real by being consistent and fleshing things out. You can have a setting with giant robots and still have it feel fucking grounded in reality. If you violate your own internal consistency, your audience can't get immersed and your work becomes more and more likely to suck. Comedy is the only genre that can reliably get away with violating this critical rule of logic, because Absurdism relies on it.

Assholes like Wendig and others like him, big on pushing the idea that canon isn't important and that we need to stop complaining about things like plot holes, logical inconsistencies, and a lack of verisimilitude, are big on doing so because coincidentally, it shields their work from criticism, but a darker element is at play, just under the surface. A major tenet of postmodernist ideology and Social Justice as a whole is that objective reality and truth do not exist, and that lived experience is all that matters. Coincidentally, in their worldview, this means that they can completely disregard anything they don't like and they're automatically right all the time.

It's a small wonder that people like Wendig fucking despise fanbases. Those fanbases have every reason to hate him twice as hard in turn.

 

[Kyria the Great]

It's really sad since he's a writer by trade. Imagine reading a series of books where every single one is an unrelated "what if" that only shares a name with the others for marketing purposes. Even worse if he picked up that "theme is the most important thing" meme as this means these stories not only get to ignore logical progression, it means they don't even have to be good as long as the message is "good".

The only way that sort of unrelated type of writing works is if you are writing a collection of short stories or you are doing something like Black Mirror or Twilight Zone.

 

[RockVolnutt]

The only way that sort of unrelated type of writing works is if you are writing a collection of short stories or you are doing something like Black Mirror or Twilight Zone.

He should write a Harry Potter sequel for J.K. except it contains 0% Harry Potter and is actually about unrelated aliens street racing. You can't say it's not god tier writing as there's a completely random "You should eat your vegetables" on page 56 paragraph 3. This will never come up again, fuck canon. lol

 

[andr0id psycho sho(ker]

He should write a Harry Potter sequel for J.K. except it contains 0% Harry Potter and is actually about unrelated aliens street racing. You can't say it's not god tier writing as there's a completely random "You should eat your vegetables" on page 56 paragraph 3. This will never come up again, fuck canon. lol

perhaps it could be a fanfiction, he claims is a original work? He's just a skilled writer as your average fanfiction writer on various websites

 

[RodgerDodger]

I have a better idea, limit your online footprint and keep it squeaky clean. Stay off Twitter and if you have to post on social media in order to sell your product, please present excerpts or something more substantial than angry raving.

Crossposting from the SW thread:

This! Post nothing but Cat pics or similar. Ignore social media, at least any social media traceable to you, otherwise. Do not be an online asshole under your own name!!! How hard is this?

 

[mindlessobserver]

Holy shit, this is one of the most fucking insane things I've ever seen written by someone claiming to be a professional writer. Verisimilitude is the single most fucking critical thing to have in a work of fiction, and in turn, the most critical to that is logical consistency within universe. That's how you make a universe with fantastic elements feel legitimate. You can have a work with magic and elves and orcs and make it feel real by being consistent and fleshing things out. You can have a setting with giant robots and still have it feel fucking grounded in reality. If you violate your own internal consistency, your audience can't get immersed and your work becomes more and more likely to suck. Comedy is the only genre that can reliably get away with violating this critical rule of logic, because Absurdism relies on it.

Assholes like Wendig and others like him, big on pushing the idea that canon isn't important and that we need to stop complaining about things like plot holes, logical inconsistencies, and a lack of verisimilitude, are big on doing so because coincidentally, it shields their work from criticism, but a darker element is at play, just under the surface. A major tenet of postmodernist ideology and Social Justice as a whole is that objective reality and truth do not exist, and that lived experience is all that matters. Coincidentally, in their worldview, this means that they can completely disregard anything they don't like and they're automatically right all the time.

It's a small wonder that people like Wendig fucking despise fanbases. Those fanbases have every reason to hate him twice as hard in turn.

There is probably some petulent child mentality involved as well. "You can't tell me what to do mom!" These kinds of people hate rules that exist externally to their own thought bubble. The idea that all stories have a basic structure to them is anathema. Post modern literary types (which are pretty much all literary types these days) go absolutely ape at the notion Joseph Campbell and Carl Jung may have been right about how the way our minds work with respect to culture and art. Its why Modern Art looks the way it does. Like shit. They are trying to prove to themselves and others that there need not be any logical structure or consistency with what they are trying to do. Yet at the same time they jizz themselves over a Banksy painting because its "so subversive!" being painted on streets and walls, ignoring of fact that the only truly subversive element to a Banksy painting is the choice of canvas, not the content or the basics of how it was made. Wendig (and those like him) are the literary equivalent to self fellating modern artists.

Perversely though, big corporations love this kind of Post-Modernist shit. They like it because it requires minimal effort. If you dispense with all the rules of making a good product you can hammer out shit quickly and in great quantity. The shit is tailer made for mass media production. Everything from Teen Titans Go! to Wendig's shitty novels. Corporate accountants love it because they can be made by a trained monkey, who is paid in bananas and ass pats.

also surprised nobody has posted the thread theme song yet.