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

GethN7 said:
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History is just that. Sure, a lot what people write about it can be slanted or biased, but it objectively happened, it can't be changed as an objective fact later. Fiction creates it's own internal history, and even if it's a story with time travel or something else that alters pre-existing canon, those events still happened in an objective sense in the earlier parts of the fictional history created by the fiction writer.

Chuck is basically saying he can wipe his ass with that concept for no better reason than he said so.
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As the saying goes:
"If you're not going to care about your story or world, why should I?"

Oh wait... how are Chuck's sales....
 
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REGENDarySumanai said:
He can go wipe with sandpaper for all I care. If I want to read about history, I'll just take a book off of my dad's many bookshelves and read through. I don't need some screeching asshole behind my back screaming about what did and did not happen in history.
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Get a load of college boy over here. "I read books I have a dad" MAFANGOOL.
 
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Starscreams Cape said:
Hmmm... I know @FROG got a nice check for the Justice League movie because they used one of the characters he created or co-created. Disney may of course work differently, but it wouldn't be out of the question to give him some "don't cause trouble" money.
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@FROG wrote in a different industry in a different era. The 90's were the creator revolution in comic books and writer/illustrator types who became well known had a lot of clout. Creator ownership was all the rage.

We saw how much clout Windbag has with Disney when they kicked him to the curb over his "Trump supporters eat a boot covered in shit" Tweet despite him being one of their "best selling authors."
 
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Starscreams Cape said:
Hmmm... I know @FROG got a nice check for the Justice League movie because they used one of the characters he created or co-created. Disney may of course work differently, but it wouldn't be out of the question to give him some "don't cause trouble" money.
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From what I've heard, DC has been sending out check to comic creators whose characters get used in movies, but there's no formal agreement about this. It was something nice former editor-in-chief Paul Levitz started doing. I don't think Marvel is doing the same thing.

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BATMAN v SUPERMAN Made More Money for JIM STARLIN Than All MARVEL Movies Combined

Pipebomb?
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Save the Loli said:
But doesn't wolfaboo Filoni get a nice check whenever they use his characters and concepts in Star Wars? Cuck Wendig here might have a similar deal.
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I still don't know about the financial side of it, but I decided to bite the bullet and look at Wexley's wookiepedia entry to see if Cuck really did create him and it looks like he did. His entry is also depressingly long. I also found some interesting tidbits.

"...He's got your [Norra Wexley] spark in him. Yours and Brentin's. He's challenging because he's smart as a whip-snake, savvy as a sail-bird..."―Esmelle describing Temmin's characteristics and personality

Aw, you're so modest Cuck. Norra Wexley is Snap's mommy, BTW, and was deliberately made to look like an extremely idealized and flattering version of Qween Hillary.
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Here's Snappy with his waifu:
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A straight marriage to a conventionally attractive cracker, Cuck? Not very progressive! Why not have your self insert get married to a proud tranny of color? What did you have to say about teh hetero earlier?
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Anyway, Wexley's biography is basically like if Lewis Lovhaug's Linkara character were in officially published fiction. The wish fulfillment is strong with this one.
 
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Commander X said:
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No way Wendig doesn't make his way around his house on one of these.

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It's the mark of modern major manchildren and other boring people to be SUPER excited about using swears.
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If you're over thirteen years old and you're this excited about swearing, you're seriously emotionally stunted. Not that we needed more proof that Cuck is seriously emotionally stunted.
 
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To put Chuck's latest verbal spew into context, there was a tweet making the rounds on writer Twitter the other day from some blue nosed Christian saying that it's bad to use the word "fuck" in fiction. That provoked a lot of even more ridiculous responses (my goodness, how defensive they get), and Chuck's was typically harebrained.
 
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Mola Ram said:
To put Chuck's latest verbal spew into context, there was a tweet making the rounds on writer Twitter the other day from some blue nosed Christian saying that it's bad to use the word "fuck" in fiction. That provoked a lot of even more ridiculous responses (my goodness, how defensive they get), and Chuck's was typically harebrained.
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It really is, unless you're writing smut. It makes your writing seem cheaper.
 
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Jaimas said:
It really is, unless you're writing smut. It makes your writing seem cheaper.
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I like to treat profanity like a powerful spice: used sparingly and only when necessary.

I was not a fan of either the pious self-righteous original tweet or the deliberately filthy responses, to be honest.
 
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Wendig is a man who writes Star Wars fan fiction and says fuck on social media all day. By virtue of simply having a dominating personality, he's manipulated himself into a lifestyle that requires less emotional maturity than that of a 12 year old. If he could find a way to get rewarded for sucking his thumb and yelling COCK into a tin can telephone, I'm sure he'd be there by now.
 
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Mola Ram said:
To put Chuck's latest verbal spew into context, there was a tweet making the rounds on writer Twitter the other day from some blue nosed Christian saying that it's bad to use the word "fuck" in fiction. That provoked a lot of even more ridiculous responses (my goodness, how defensive they get), and Chuck's was typically harebrained.
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Jaimas said:
It really is, unless you're writing smut. It makes your writing seem cheaper.
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I would say it depends on the context. If the characters are supposed to be really crude, particularly in contemporary fiction for older audiences, it can be appropriate. Some characters just need to swear to properly capture what they're all about.


On the other hand, some characters need to NOT swear, and there are some settings where it works a lot better when people never swear. We've all encountered terrible fanfiction where Luke Skywalker, Phoenix Wright, Frodo, or the My Little Pony gang are dropping f-bombs and know how stupid and cringey it is. It's only a very specific type of fantasy and sci-fi where characters swearing a lot works, and even then the types of swears should probably sound a bit different than how it works in the real modern world.

It's also often more effective to use swearing sparingly. When a character rarely swears, it's more meaningful when they do. When fewer characters swear, the ones who do stand out more.

But this is Cuck Windbag. His world building is a black hole and all his characters sound the same. Of course he wouldn't understand any of that.
 
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Doctor Placebo said:
I would say it depends on the context. If the characters are supposed to be really crude, particularly in contemporary fiction for older audiences, it can be appropriate. Some characters just need to swear to properly capture what they're all about.


On the other hand, some characters need to NOT swear, and there are some settings where it works a lot better when people never swear. We've all encountered terrible fanfiction where Luke Skywalker, Phoenix Wright, Frodo, or the My Little Pony gang are dropping f-bombs and know how stupid and cringey it is. It's only a very specific type of fantasy and sci-fi where characters swearing a lot works, and even then the types of swears should probably sound a bit different than how it works in the real modern world.

It's also often more effective to use swearing sparingly. When a character rarely swears, it's more meaningful when they do. When fewer characters swear, the ones who do stand out more.

But this is Cuck Windbag. His world building is a black hole and all his characters sound the same. Of course he wouldn't understand any of that.
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This is my philosophy almost to a T.
 
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