The Mysterious Mr. Enter / Jonathan Rozanski's "Growing Around" - IndieGoGo Campaign Failed, John going off the deep end, "Turning Red" is ignorant about 9/11 (later retracted)

[Piga Dgrifm]

Besides this obvious crossdressing fetish, Enter is obsessed with Sally. He likes to focus on her and I can't tell if it is an author insert due to some underlying transgender/age issues like this.

I don't think this is a precursor to him coming out as trans. A transgirl would be happy to put on a dress, and the boys in GA are put in them against their will. If this were Enter trying to work out his own gender dysphoria, the characters would all love wearing dresses. Enter's also said that he likes having a beard, if he were experiencing dysphoria he would want to be rid of it.

I don't know if Sally is an author insert exactly. He has said before that Sally is the kind of kid he wished he could have been growing up, but that is less about her being a girl and more in regards to her being happy, since Enter claims to have had abusive parents. I'm kind of inclined to believe him on that since his perception of normal family dynamics is so warped (The roller skates scene in the book is a good example. Enter thinks it's funny but a lot of reviewers point out that it makes Sally seem unhinged and abusive since she takes such great delight in coming up with something horrible to make her mom do. If he's telling the truth about being abused, he may think it's just normal for an authority figure to gleefully make up overly harsh punishments.) Him needing to make the adults suffer in GA (prison camp, public humiliation, etc.) may also be a way of working through that.

 

[Crescent Fresh]

Reading through the uploaded chapters, and I realized something: The concept of school itself makes absolutely zero sense in a world that has always been ruled by kids. It’s not something that they’d ever come up with on their own.

Mote to the point, though, the concept of strict organized learning really doesn’t mesh even remotely well with the adult-school’s stated purpose of re-teaching creativity. You’d more expect it to be entirely unorganized.

Thinking about it, just with one major change to the GA universe’s schools, you can suddenly have everything make a lot more sense: Instead of kid-run programs to teach creativity, a concept that makes particularly no sense even in this universe, have the “schools” be essentially adult-only(as adult only as a kid’s show can get, so like a country club or something) paradises that the adults secretly go to for most of their day, while reporting to their kids about how terrible it all is. There, now you don’t have to deal with the unfortunate implications of “why don’t the adults revolutionize” since they can be generally satisfied with such a setup and aren’t completely punching bags in-universe... which is exactly why Enter would never make such a change.

 

[BlueCandle]

The only way to fix this show is to just remove the existence of adults entirely. Enter seems to prefer writing his own warped idea of how children act anyway, so really nothing would be lost in the removal. Granted, I havn't really read much of the scripts, but it seems to me like the adult characters barely do anything at all so really whats the point of keeping them around, because the only thing they seem to add is confusion and horror.

So just make it a world where its just kids. Is there still horrible implications that can be read into that? Sure, but theres a shit ton less than there is at the moment.

 

[Crescent Fresh]

The only way to fix this show is to just remove the existence of adults entirely. Enter seems to prefer writing his own warped idea of how children act anyway, so really nothing would be lost in the removal. Granted, I havn't really read much of the scripts, but it seems to me like the adult characters barely do anything at all so really whats the point of keeping them around, because the only thing they seem to add is confusion and horror.

So just make it a world where its just kids. Is there still horrible implications that can be read into that? Sure, but theres a shit ton less than there is at the moment.

The issue with that is at the same time Enter is adamantly against any sort of sci-fi/fantasy stuff in this universe, so the question of “where do kids come from if there are no adults or fantasy-based explanations” becomes far worse than the weird, amorphous never-answered blob that it is in the current version.

Also, considering the school stuff a bit more, how the fuck are grades supposed to work when the school age is suddenly... like, indefinite? You could constantly see depressing scenarios where a child teacher outgrows the class that they teach and have to then take that class for the rest of their waking life.

It legitimately feels like Enter made the entire universe out of a catchy-sounding tagline(“Where kids rule and adults get schooled”) without realizing the incredibly unfortunate implications, and attempting to disregard them entirely when they appear.

 

[Buddy]

The only way to fix this show is to just remove the existence of adults entirely. Enter seems to prefer writing his own warped idea of how children act anyway, so really nothing would be lost in the removal. Granted, I havn't really read much of the scripts, but it seems to me like the adult characters barely do anything at all so really whats the point of keeping them around, because the only thing they seem to add is confusion and horror.

So just make it a world where its just kids. Is there still horrible implications that can be read into that? Sure, but theres a shit ton less than there is at the moment.

But how is he supposed to torture evil no good anti fun adults otherwise?

 

[Tragedy of the Senate]

It legitimately feels like Enter made the entire universe out of a catchy-sounding tagline(“Where kids rule and adults get schooled”) without realizing the incredibly unfortunate implications, and attempting to disregard them entirely when they appear.

The tag line has almost nothing to with the show, I realise, and that plays into what Candle said. "Where kids rule and adults get schooled." Most of the episodes revolve around the kids and seldom feature the adults. That script I read with Riley and Bunny, no adults. The script with Molly and Max being forced to be friends, no adults. The script with Sally "squatting" or whatever, I don't recall an adult there.

There is no point to having the adults exist in this world when they contribute nothing and are rarely shown dealing with school. Removing them only does good.

 

[BR55]

Enter's made it clear that he prefers writing for female characters because they "can do so much more" (hypocritical considering he hates boy/girl stereotypes in media).

Can someone explain to me exactly how you "can do so much more" with female characters?
Is this just another thing Enter randomly has a bug up his ass about?
Aside from the obvious gender differences, fatherhood/motherhood, masculinity/femininity et cetera, what writing possibilities does Enter think that female characters open up to him that male ones don't?
Knowing him it's probably just tired tropes like "girl wants to do *masculine thing* and is told she can't" that has been done a thousand times already but is somehow fresh and original when Enter does it.

 

[glossdrop]

Enter's (now former) editor makes some faggy guilt-by-association Twitter PSA against @oddish for muh doxxxing:


Some brony expands on the tweet and recieves a clapback from @NotATurkey:

 

[Markorian]

Enter's (now former) editor makes some faggy guilt-by-association Twitter PSA against @oddish for muh doxxxing:
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Some brony expands on the tweet and recieves a clapback from @NotATurkey:
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I'm 90% sure they're at least partially confusing him with E;R.

 

[BlueCandle]

As it turns out the seeds were already sown years ago

 

[FlipTopBox]

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As it turns out the seeds were already sown years ago

Ah yes, back when enter ̶d̶r̶e̶w̶ traced his own thumbnails.

 

[LiquidKid]

Besides this obvious crossdressing fetish, Enter is obsessed with Sally. He likes to focus on her and I can't tell if it is an author insert due to some underlying transgender/age issues like this.

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Or if it's his autism that drives him to focus on his main character too much. It's hard to think of it as a kink because he doesn't do anything sexual with it in his work as far as I know. Maybe I'm wrong, though. I honestly think it's more interesting if it's his kink because of how strongly he states he is asexual, which is usually a cop out.

I don't think this is a precursor to him coming out as trans. A transgirl would be happy to put on a dress, and the boys in GA are put in them against their will. If this were Enter trying to work out his own gender dysphoria, the characters would all love wearing dresses. Enter's also said that he likes having a beard, if he were experiencing dysphoria he would want to be rid of it.

I don't know if Sally is an author insert exactly. He has said before that Sally is the kind of kid he wished he could have been growing up, but that is less about her being a girl and more in regards to her being happy, since Enter claims to have had abusive parents. I'm kind of inclined to believe him on that since his perception of normal family dynamics is so warped (The roller skates scene in the book is a good example. Enter thinks it's funny but a lot of reviewers point out that it makes Sally seem unhinged and abusive since she takes such great delight in coming up with something horrible to make her mom do. If he's telling the truth about being abused, he may think it's just normal for an authority figure to gleefully make up overly harsh punishments.) Him needing to make the adults suffer in GA (prison camp, public humiliation, etc.) may also be a way of working through that.

The issue with that is at the same time Enter is adamantly against any sort of sci-fi/fantasy stuff in this universe, so the question of “where do kids come from if there are no adults or fantasy-based explanations” becomes far worse than the weird, amorphous never-answered blob that it is in the current version.

Also, considering the school stuff a bit more, how the fuck are grades supposed to work when the school age is suddenly... like, indefinite? You could constantly see depressing scenarios where a child teacher outgrows the class that they teach and have to then take that class for the rest of their waking life.

It legitimately feels like Enter made the entire universe out of a catchy-sounding tagline(“Where kids rule and adults get schooled”) without realizing the incredibly unfortunate implications, and attempting to disregard them entirely when they appear.

I’m gonna say Sally has nothing to do with him having gender dysmorphia.

Sally is very much a mix between Enter’s ideal self and Enter’s ideal character.
He’s gone on and on about how a mature child is the best possible character and how things needs to be mature and whatever, and he has always tried to present Sally as if she were mature. Of course, the only thing mature about her is the autistic use of words and sentences that no child would ever say, but to him she’s a mature child.
If I had to guess, he was probably told he was very mature as he was growing up because he was quiet or something. Not hard to imagine since many autistic children are considered more “mature” for their age.
Sally being a girl is the natural evolution of his idea since he actually believes the “girls mature faster than boys” trope actually exists. So by his world view, a girl would need to be the lead for it make sense.

all the disturbing implications come from him having no life experience whatsoever, no social experience, no experience with actual children, and no talent or understanding for writing or narrative crafting.

 

[Piga Dgrifm]

Chapter Seven:

Spoiler

 

[Buddy]

Unrelated to the book, some things I thought of.
What happens when the girls get periods? Do their moms teach them to deal with it? Do kid shops sell pads and tampons? Or do all the girls free bleed because Enter believes all children are just filthy little goblins rolling in mud?

 

[LiquidKid]

“The clock read 7:30 as we rolled up to my house. The moon was already out, and we still had much work to do.”

Could he have chosen a less pretentious way to open this chapter? The phrasing comes across as something you’d read from the fucking 19th century, not a shitty book about a modern girl throwing a party.

try reading that in a British accent likeyou’re a Shakespearean actor and tell me it doesn’t fit.
Remember, 8 year old girl presumably in the 20th century

 

[BlueCandle]

I hope he got a guarantee on that ‘professional’ edit, Jesus Christ.

 

[Tragedy of the Senate]

I hadn't read this book for about two years now, and wow the writing is infinitely worse than I remember.

First, the grammatical errors:
1) "Ugh gross you guys," should be, "Ugh, gross, you guys."
2) "I had a 'I threw this party because I had to' look." It's supposed to clearly be "It (the party) had a..."
3) "I thought that Linda was like...a librarian or something boring when she was a kid. You're telling me that my stick-in-the-mud mother was something cool as a magician?" Should be "as cool". That's something they teach in elementary schools with similes.

Secondly, is there a given reason as to why April talks like a stereotypical high-class person? I know she's just a rip-off of Rarity, but in-universe, what's the reason? Is she not from Americandy like everyone else?

Some other things I noticed really just carry over from what I've seen in his scripts. Making every mock name for a place as infantile as possible? Dollywood. Sally being every child stereotype balled up into a single character? She hates cleanliness.

Also, that dialogue Robert gives to Sally is so weird:
"It's just that...um... We both know that the costumes you get me look...um...cute. Yeah, that's it. So, I got to thinking that...what if other people thought that wearing the costumes made me look cuter than you? I didn't even want that idea to get in people's heads. So, I put the costumes in the attic so that no one would know about them."
Not only is it stiff, it gets weirder when you consider that this is a father talking to his daughter.

 

[Piga Dgrifm]

Secondly, is there a given reason as to why April talks like a stereotypical high-class person? I know she's just a rip-off of Rarity, but in-universe, what's the reason? Is she not from Americandy like everyone else?

There is no in-universe reason. It's just because that's how Rarity talks, so that's how Enter thinks a "fashionable" person would talk.

I looked up April on his dA and in the description of the first drawing of her, Enter more or less admits she's a rip-off:

"She's like Rarity. Except different because April wants to stand out. This is the opposite of Rarity, who likes to stand out."

Like, according to the MLP Wikia, Rarity's whole motive is that she's a perfectionist that wants to be noticed by everyone...

So, I'm unsure why "She acts that way to be the center of attention!" is different from "She acts that way to be the center of attention!"

 

[Buddy]

There is no in-universe reason. It's just because that's how Rarity talks, so that's how Enter thinks a "fashionable" person would talk.

I looked up April on his dA and in the description of the first drawing of her, Enter more or less admits she's a rip-off:

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"She's like Rarity. Except different because April wants to stand out. This is the opposite of Rarity, who likes to stand out."

Like, according to the MLP Wikia, Rarity's whole motive is that she's a perfectionist that wants to be noticed by everyone...

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So, I'm unsure why "She acts that way to be the center of attention!" is different from "She acts that way to be the center of attention!"

No, you don't understand. Rarity wants to stand out because she's from a small no name village. April wants to stand out because she has a lot of siblings. That makes them totally different characters, you clearly can't comprehend Enter's genius.

Also, vying for parental attention? Areb't you the one in charge? Can't you force your parents to spend time with you?

And if they keep having kids, can you force your dad to get castrated? Or is this good, because more actual citizens are being produced? If you want a sibling, can you force your parents to fuck?

 

[Doctor of Autism]

Unrelated to the book, some things I thought of.
What happens when the girls get periods? Do their moms teach them to deal with it? Do kid shops sell pads and tampons? Or do all the girls free bleed because Enter believes all children are just filthy little goblins rolling in mud?

The implications get even worse like how the hell do the kids reproduce either? Like do they learn it form their parents and why would they be interested in populating this dystopia.