Media based on the writer's life, until it comes crashing down - Basing your waifu on your soon to be ex-wife

[wtfNeedSignUp]

I got the idea of the thread from a @Xenomorphs Are Cute post. There are some notable stories of writers writing their personal life into plot of their stories, which turns out bad when the subject of their work divorces/cheats on them. Which can lead to amusing/tragic consequences.

So share stories you show that happen, can be big franchise or indie.

 

[Jace on ice]

A Child Called It turned out to be complete fanfiction.

Social workers, cops, teachers, and Peltzer's other siblings were all interviewed and said the same thing. The family was poor white trash but the ridiculously over the top torture and abuse depicted in the book never happened.

A million little pieces same shit, completely made up.

 

[Shroom King]

If I recall correctly, Stephen King admitted it was a mistake to self-insert in the Dark Tower books.

 

[urr13 account]

One example that comes to mind but is cringe/embarrassing to know, Britta on Community was based on Dan Hormons beard (girlfriend), supposedly one of the reasons she became so annoying in later seasons is because he had broken up with the inspiration for the character at that point.

Stephen King admitted it was a mistake to self-insert in the Dark Tower books.

Doesn't almost every Stephen King book have a character that's basically Stephen King? Like Bill in IT, or the guy watching a child gang bang from the bushes in IT.

 

[Rudy Coleman]

sonichu

 

[Cat tit bingo]

Does glen or glenda count? It was basically ed wood showing off his cross dressing and asking to be accepted but because its made like, well like an ed wood movie it just became a joke. I know the Tim burton ed wood movie is highly fictionalized but I could see getting your girlfriend to star in your cross dressing movie very negatively affecting your relationship, that did in fact end shortly after. At least david lynch really liked it.

 

[LolRaccoon]

"No Longer Human" by Osamu Dazai mirrored his real life quite a bit.

 

[Prophetic Spirit]

Huh, reminds me of how made my protagonists in each novel basing of my experiences and believes.
Now, i planned some random cameo as my true self in form of a worker/writer talking shit to my MC's only to remind them they are not real, like a subtle 4th wall joke.

 

[DankSmoker]

Huh, reminds me of how made my protagonists in each novel basing of my experiences and believes.
Now, i planned some random cameo as my true self in form of a worker/writer talking shit to my MC's only to remind them they are not real, like a subtle 4th wall joke.

That doesn't sound subtle at all.

 

[Mayor Cody Travers]

Didn't the For Better and For Worse creator turn the strip into her personal fanfiction when her husband divorced her for someone younger and hotter, and that included turning everyone based on their family into her personal wishes for them? I say so because everyone despised the sudden, inexplicable choice the daughter-insert did where she moved from being a teacher in the Canadian Shield back home and marry some loser she dated in college, then it became known that's what the author WISHED her daughter did.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

Didn't the For Better and For Worse creator turn the strip into her personal fanfiction when her husband divorced her for someone younger and hotter, and that included turning everyone based on their family into her personal wishes for them? I say so because everyone despised the sudden, inexplicable choice the daughter-insert did where she moved from being a teacher in the Canadian Shield back home and marry some loser she dated in college, then it became known that's what the author WISHED her daughter did.

Im surprised she never got a thread here

 

[William Murderface]

Didn't the For Better and For Worse creator turn the strip into her personal fanfiction when her husband divorced her for someone younger and hotter, and that included turning everyone based on their family into her personal wishes for them? I say so because everyone despised the sudden, inexplicable choice the daughter-insert did where she moved from being a teacher in the Canadian Shield back home and marry some loser she dated in college, then it became known that's what the author WISHED her daughter did.

That explains a lot of questions I had about that comic strip, seriously.

 

[Hey Johnny Bravo]

Didn't the For Better and For Worse creator turn the strip into her personal fanfiction when her husband divorced her for someone younger and hotter, and that included turning everyone based on their family into her personal wishes for them? I say so because everyone despised the sudden, inexplicable choice the daughter-insert did where she moved from being a teacher in the Canadian Shield back home and marry some loser she dated in college, then it became known that's what the author WISHED her daughter did.

I actually thought of this exact situation when I saw the thread title. Yes, For Better and For Worse was basically Lynn Johnston's wish fulfillment for 30 years. It was far more sad than it was lulzy.

 

[BetterFuckChuck]

Sinfest and Cerebus come to mind a little

 

[Mmemes]

One example that comes to mind but is cringe/embarrassing to know, Britta on Community was based on Dan Hormons beard (girlfriend), supposedly one of the reasons she became so annoying in later seasons is because he had broken up with the inspiration for the character at that point.

Doesn't almost every Stephen King book have a character that's basically Stephen King? Like Bill in IT, or the guy watching a child gang bang from the bushes in IT.

Anytime a character shows up in King's writings that's either a writer or a teacher you can bet your ass it's supposed to be Stephen.

Im surprised she never got a thread here

Oh if Lynn Johnston had started in the webcomic era she very might've would've maybe? As it is her newspaper strip was very mainstream sort of Cathy woman neurosis (minus the perpetual single office lady but with family instead) mixed with a bit of Crankshaft slice of life minus the pensioners I guess? But you just know if she came out in this era she'd be Woke as fuck but also trying to speedrun into crazy cat lady tier.

Sinfest and Cerebus come to mind a little

Again with Dave Sim and Cerebus if he was in the webcomic era and not self publishing his comics in the indie b&w boom a lot of his crazy shit would go mostly unnoticed I'd think. Seriously Sim and Johnston should've hooked up in the 80s or 90s. Imagine the lolcow milk that would've resulted in comics?

 

[BetterFuckChuck]

i miss when milk got filtered to tard cum

 

[Mmemes]

i miss when milk got filtered to tard cum

We all know it'll be recycled in Fanta bottles regardless. Is the Great Cycle of Sonichu Great Heart Goddess of course as it was foretold many score ago in a neolithic age.

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

Allegedly VC Andrews....apparently claimed she was involved with an incestuous thing but possibly it was all taken from a war man she met who told her about his life back during the war....idk

James Frey when Oprah ripped him a new asshole

 

[Brown People are Gross]

This doesn't necessarily apply, maybe. Between Analogue: A Hate Story and Hate+ Christine Love decided that having any character disagree with him is punishable by death. Which is exactly what happens in Hate+. Aside from that, the whole novel is one polyamorous gay tranny orgy — so yeah, it might be kind of autobiographical, considering by 2014 Christine looked like this:

 

[Kela de Thaym]

Oh if Lynn Johnston had started in the webcomic era she very might've would've maybe? As it is her newspaper strip was very mainstream sort of Cathy woman neurosis (minus the perpetual single office lady but with family instead) mixed with a bit of Crankshaft slice of life minus the pensioners I guess? But you just know if she came out in this era she'd be Woke as fuck but also trying to speedrun into crazy cat lady tier.

At least Cathy finally got married.

But yeah, Lynn Johnson definitely is a pathetic case: April was a made up third kid (Lynn only had 2 kids who, if memory serves, don’t really want anything to do with her short of going no contact) and eventually became a punching bag when she reached her preteen years near the end, especially when the strip started focusing more on Lynn’s own fix-it fanfiction of her daughter’s life.