About the last... nah, i don't think so in this case.
I thought some of his takedowns of Korra in particular were pretty good.
One of my favorites here is 'the logistical nightmare of following 20 characters'. It's really not that hard since it's a character-focused piece; she just has to concentrate on Anevay but acknowledge that she isn't fighting alone. Like that two-sentence 'battle' against the Horsemen up there?
WHOAH WHOAH WHOAH
My guess is that she did it purely out of nepotism for her favorite races. And by "my guess" I mean that's exactly what she did. The Kul Tirans have such a large number because Jaina is a Kul Tiran. She likes elves far more than worgen so there must be more of them. She likes draenai females and the trolls so there's a lot of them. She doesnt care about the pandas so she just spit something out there.
I wonder if Jerry prefers draenai females for different reasons, just looking at type of troon bait coomer fuel that is churned out there might be reason. I wonder when Jerry self inserts into a fic and marries strong and inheritely psychic independent goat woman and blue skinned goat woman. I find Jerry's writing so lazy and boring that I stick to cliff notes.
I would say that The Draenei's popularity is that they are curvy as hell and somewhat unique, as opposed to the other "Hot" race who are all variants on Elves.
I was originally going to add a point about how she treats WoW as if it was SWTOR like you said, but I couldn't word it in a satisfying way. But yes, she absolutely is treating the entire game like a single player game like with how SWTOR's main story is experienced. She wants the bullshit high-level power fantasy and to feel like she's the only one that matters.
"It goes back and forth every expansion." No, it doesn't. Everyone is always just one face in the crowd. Every major threat that has resulted in a raid has canonically been handled by heroes/adventurers (except Onyxia, she was retconned to be killed by Varian). Also, The Madness of Deathwing? Lily, that entire fight is based around us holding back a monstrously transformed Deathwing in order for the Aspects to charge the Dragon Soul again. The fight literally ends with Thrall blasting Deathwing one final time. Just more proof that she doesn't know what the actual fuck she's talking about whenever it comes to actual canon; it's all just her interpretation of the lore all the way down.
Yeah, writing more than one character is super hard, let alone having readers keep track and care about them. Harry Potter? Lord of the Rings? Song of Ice and Fire? Who even cares about those, amiright?
Okay, I've seen Jerry and his fans use this deflection tactic numerous times. This is like the go-to for them to completely deflect criticism when they get stumped,https://archive.md/S9caS
Because unlike every other fanfic author, Lily claims to be a good writer who writes legitimately good examples of strong female protagonists and denounces anything that she views as inferior writing. But the problem is her writing is actually terrible so it nullifies all of her criticisms.
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Another aspect of this is the fact that the arguments are tailored by Lily. She has the power to just not respond/publish anything she receives. She only responds to things she either is confident in disputing or has, in her estimation, a clever or snarky comment to make. I'm sure that there have been plenty of legitimate messages she hasn't been able to dispute that she can just ignore and pretend never happened. It's the ultimate tool for shaping a narrative: never putting yourself outside of a position that allows you to control what/how things are said. Compare how Lily talks on her own tumblr vs when she was on TVTropes as morpmorp. On tumblr she's harsher, much more authoritative, snarky and insulting. As morpmorp she doesn't have the same kind of power and has to talk much more carefully and in a roundabout way to avoid suspicion (which she's fucking awful at). It's still clear that it's her, but without her precious ability to forcefully control the narrative she's entirely impudent.Okay, I've seen Jerry and his fans use this deflection tactic numerous times. This is like the go-to for them to completely deflect criticism when they get stumped,
"W- Well, you wouldn't say that to anyone else! Why aren't you criticizing everyone else for this, why only criticize Lily for this??"
And here I'm going to give my take on why this tactic is terrible.
The use of this tactic extends across the pond too, not only for writing criticism but for his media takes and whatnot, as I've seen it applied there too, but I'm gonna focus on this tactic in the context of his writings, plus the rebuttal to this deflection should easily apply to other instances it's been used, with a few tweaks
You hit the nail on the head talking about how Jerry is harshly critical of other works while simultaneously touting his work as some pinnacle of storytelling - look how defensive he always gets of his works (and views), heck, he's even said that Sith Resurgence was a total rewrite of the sequels due to howmuch he hated Reylobad he believed the trilogy to be. IIRC he's even used his own fanfics to show how to properly write some of Steven Universe's stories, or something along those lines, but I know for certain he's used his Mommydagio Equals Alicorns video to showcase how to properly use certain tropes, citing his own works (Stockholm
Back to the go-to tactic though, it's such a lazy deflection, because instead of actually addressing the argument, he shifts it back onto the person making it to... discredit them, I guess? It's not really discrediting them either, I suppose it's more just accusing them of arguing in bad faith so they look bad and biased when compared to Jerry and everyone else. Because they can't quite counter the tactic and are constantly hit with snide comebacks whenever they try to say anything else, I feel like the theoretical asker is kind of gaslit into believing they're wrong just because they don't criticize other people.
The truth is that nobody has the time or patience to read every fanfiction in the world and criticize all their authors, much less to seek out very specific instances of writers who make the same exact mistakes Jerry does with their writing. So Jerry keeps raising the bar to say "you can't even criticize me in the first place because you're not criticizing everyone else!" - not to mention he doesn't even say who these other people are.
I don't think it would be a stretch to say that most of the people reading Jerry's stories and sending him actual critiques based on, let's say, relationship dynamics, are fans of his who frequent his works. So it would make sense that they're only who typically directly send him criticisms, they're the ones who he's trying to entertain with his works, otherwise what's the point of writing them, talking about them at length with fans, and publishing them on AO3 for public consumption? lmfao
I suppose I should also mention that Jerry and his fans have no way of telling if an anonymous critic in Jerry's ask box has or has not sent similar criticisms to other writers (in other words this tactic is purely based on conjecture), and how that's a prime example of how Jerry feeds into his own persecution complex ("I'm the only one being criticized like this!"), but honestly I feel like that falls under some kind of whataboutery.
This tactic they use reminds me of a fallacy that Jerry made up a while ago,
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But kind of the inverse of what he's saying, instead of deflecting and changing the subject to Jerry, they're deflecting (or just simply dodging the question) and changing the subject to everyone else who may or may not be guilty of something similar. I kind of want to take this "But Lily" Argument and, like the accursed Q-slur, repurpose it to make it mean something else. I could do something like this,
and utilize it whenever this deflection tactic is used. Just for fun.
Lily is guilty of most of those. She can never answer why Rebecca Sugar has made fascist content for one thing.Okay, I've seen Jerry and his fans use this deflection tactic numerous times. This is like the go-to for them to completely deflect criticism when they get stumped,
"W- Well, you wouldn't say that to anyone else! Why aren't you criticizing everyone else for this, why only criticize Lily for this??"
And here I'm going to give my take on why this tactic is terrible.
The use of this tactic extends across the pond too, not only for writing criticism but for his media takes and whatnot, as I've seen it applied there too, but I'm gonna focus on this tactic in the context of his writings, plus the rebuttal to this deflection should easily apply to other instances it's been used, with a few tweaks
You hit the nail on the head talking about how Jerry is harshly critical of other works while simultaneously touting his work as some pinnacle of storytelling - look how defensive he always gets of his works (and views), heck, he's even said that Sith Resurgence was a total rewrite of the sequels due to howmuch he hated Reylobad he believed the trilogy to be. IIRC he's even used his own fanfics to show how to properly write some of Steven Universe's stories, or something along those lines, but I know for certain he's used his Mommydagio Equals Alicorns video to showcase how to properly use certain tropes, citing his own works (Stockholm
Back to the go-to tactic though, it's such a lazy deflection, because instead of actually addressing the argument, he shifts it back onto the person making it to... discredit them, I guess? It's not really discrediting them either, I suppose it's more just accusing them of arguing in bad faith so they look bad and biased when compared to Jerry and everyone else. Because they can't quite counter the tactic and are constantly hit with snide comebacks whenever they try to say anything else, I feel like the theoretical asker is kind of gaslit into believing they're wrong just because they don't criticize other people.
The truth is that nobody has the time or patience to read every fanfiction in the world and criticize all their authors, much less to seek out very specific instances of writers who make the same exact mistakes Jerry does with their writing. So Jerry keeps raising the bar to say "you can't even criticize me in the first place because you're not criticizing everyone else!" - not to mention he doesn't even say who these other people are.
I don't think it would be a stretch to say that most of the people reading Jerry's stories and sending him actual critiques based on, let's say, relationship dynamics, are fans of his who frequent his works. So it would make sense that they're only who typically directly send him criticisms, they're the ones who he's trying to entertain with his works, otherwise what's the point of writing them, talking about them at length with fans, and publishing them on AO3 for public consumption? lmfao
I suppose I should also mention that Jerry and his fans have no way of telling if an anonymous critic in Jerry's ask box has or has not sent similar criticisms to other writers (in other words this tactic is purely based on conjecture), and how that's a prime example of how Jerry feeds into his own persecution complex ("I'm the only one being criticized like this!"), but honestly I feel like that falls under some kind of whataboutery.
This tactic they use reminds me of a fallacy that Jerry made up a while ago,
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But kind of the inverse of what he's saying, instead of deflecting and changing the subject to Jerry, they're deflecting (or just simply dodging the question) and changing the subject to everyone else who may or may not be guilty of something similar. I kind of want to take this "But Lily" Argument and, like the accursed Q-slur, repurpose it to make it mean something else. I could do something like this,
and utilize it whenever this deflection tactic is used. Just for fun.
The list is actually much bigger, here's an image for your convenience
Getting autisic over children cartoons and media tends to make you do that
Such is the modern era of Youtube. Call me an oldfag, but I miss the star system and cat videos.
No because there are Jewish people themselves that think that goblins are inherntly antisemitic, so I believe she's just going by that community logic
Oh hahahahahahaha
It's a good thing we got heroes like Lily around.
