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Arglebargle III posted:Douglas Adams Also for doing a "Poochie went home to his planet and died on the way" on Fenchurch which was my favourite character.
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Mel Mudkiper posted:thanks for that valuable contribution You're welcome. Too much  to scroll back to see what you are replying to, so will just assume it was one of my stunning posts
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Don't want to confirm if this is true or not due to grappling with some mental issues right now, but rumor has it that Marion Zimmer Bradley was a pedo.
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cherry13chumscum posted:Don't want to confirm if this is true or not due to grappling with some mental issues right now, but rumor has it that Marion Zimmer Bradley was a pedo. It's true.
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"Rumor" is a fantastically in-denial way to put it. She and her husband raped their own kids and others for years.
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The very first paragraph on her Wikipedia page posted:While she is noted for her feminist perspective in her writing, her popularity has been posthumously marred by multiple accusations against her of child sexual abuse and rape by two of her children, Mark and Moira Greyland, and others and for enabling her husband at the time (who was an admitted pedophile) to abuse and rape multiple unrelated children.
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Rowling for being a massive terf and a closet Tory.
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https://twitter.com/PinkNews/status/1305523700238815238?s=19 This has to be a joke or some kind of "gotcha" thing, no one can be that transparently stupid and terrible.
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Mat Cauthon posted:
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The Silkworm and Career of Evil already had huge hints towards this: there's a 'hostile witness' who is trans in the former and the villain of the latter alters his appearance significantly. She was also threatening to sue people over them criticizing her bigot / CHUD rhetoric? That I really don't get, as she tore this mask off years ago. It's really not a joke and I wouldn't recommend reading the Strike books unless it's morbid curiosity. MoaM fucked around with this message at 00:32 on Sep 15, 2020 |
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More like Cormorant Strike. Just a big loving bird following her around and making GBS threads on her all the time.
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Katt posted:Rowling for being a massive terf and a closet Tory. Called it a year ago.
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Rowling isn't a TERF; she's a just a transphobe. There's nothing radical about her feminism. It is, not even a joke, unfair to real TERFs - who are monsters - to call Rowling a TERF. Also if we're talking about assholes who died too soon: Iain M. Banks. His death hit me harder than any other celebrity/person I don't know besides Robin Williams.
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You sure called the thing that people were already saying.
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Katt posted:Called it a year ago. Definitely a TERF, but I don't think she's a closet Tory so much as an Extremely Online Lib Dem with basically the same views as a lot of other Extremely Online Lib Dems.
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Scratch a Lib Dem and you'll find a Tory. It'll be a cold one before I vote for them again.RoboChrist 9000 posted:Rowling isn't a TERF; she's a just a transphobe. There's nothing radical about her feminism. It is, not even a joke, unfair to real TERFs - who are monsters - to call Rowling a TERF. TERF just means transphobe these days. I suppose we can say it stands for trans-excluding repulsive fuckwit or something.
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I don't think that term goes far enough, J.K.Rowling seems to be one bad day away from starting a violent hate group. If we could only harvest the brainworms and use them for good.
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Doesn't this loving tome (isn't it like 900 pages long) also have some obsession with hijabs and burkas and just Muslim women generally?
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Silver2195 posted:Definitely a TERF, but I don't think she's a closet Tory so much as an Extremely Online Lib Dem with basically the same views as a lot of other Extremely Online Lib Dems. She's been pushing Tory talking points against Labour for something like 3 years. The Lib Dems are also Tories. 
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I thought that every brit already keeps a personal Thatcher monument in their flat, it's referred to as a "loo".
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Does J.K. Rowling set the record as the world's richest transphobe? Terry Goodkind died. He wasn't a rotten person, as far as we know. More just a petty jerk whose books were prime fodder for mockery.
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Inspector Gesicht posted:Does J.K. Rowling set the record as the world's richest transphobe? I mean, he was an objectivist who mainly saw his books as a way to push his intensely creepy ideology (including a lengthy digression on why massacring pacifists is cool and good). That seems like enough to qualify him for this thread.
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Inspector Gesicht posted:Terry Goodkind died. He wasn't a rotten person, as far as we know. More just a petty jerk whose books were prime fodder for mockery. Huh. On one hand, I liked WFR back when I first read it in eighth grade (back before I knew any better), and the guy, whatever his faults, had a good mental eye for physical detail in his world and wasn't terrible at describing it (before he gave up trying, judging from some of his later stuff I flipped through). On the other hand, 1) how the gently caress did red-leather dominatrices get past an editor? and 2) how did that same editor give a thumbs up to 2a) a nearly plagiarized version of Robert Jordan's ideas with the Aes Sedai, and 2b) an equally plagiarized but watered-down version of already unpalatable objectivism?
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Terry Goodkind posted:"No war! No war! No war!" the people shouted as Richard led the men up the street at a dead run.
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i gave it a shot but didn't make it past the third "'X!' Y speeched as they Z'ed"
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anilEhilated posted:Sounds like a pretty rotten person wrote that to me. Before anyone tries to argue that this is someone writing a purposefully reprehensible character, Richard is the hero of the story. He's basically God.
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Dirt Road Junglist posted:Before anyone tries to argue that this is someone writing a purposefully reprehensible character, Richard is the hero of the story.
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anilEhilated posted:More importantly, he is Always Right. sound like the god
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Eason the Fifth posted:Huh. on the third hand,  at the source of these accolades:
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Eason the Fifth posted:on the third hand, This guy's summed it up pretty well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6ylsQ0DepI
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Dirt Road Junglist posted:Before anyone tries to argue that this is someone writing a purposefully reprehensible character, Richard is the hero of the story. yes, anyone who has ever written a book with an antihero is a reprehensible person, that's how fiction works
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that loving raskolnikov, proof positive that Dostoyevsky was a chud
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ulvir posted:that loving raskolnikov, proof positive that Dostoyevsky was a chud dostoyevsky did not contort the entire rest of the story in order to make raskolnikov Actually Correct.
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ulvir posted:yes, anyone who has ever written a book with an antihero is a reprehensible person, that's how fiction works He's not an antihero, though. Goodkind makes it clear both inside and outside his story that Richard is a model of righteousness and virtue so extreme that, for example his first attempt at sculpting a statue is enough to convert an entire city from communism to capitalism through the sheer force of noble individualism it expressed. Massacring those peaceful protesters was an objectively good thing to do. Objectivists are loving batshit.
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Terry Pratchet had an anti-democratic bent where Vetinari always came out on top and his authoritarianism is never punished and he never grows as a character. Even when he was brought down through revolution the story ends up with him back in power and the lesson being to not rock the boat or things could get worse. Several discworld stories feature unruly mobs making a mess of things and the situation eventually being resolved by the firm hand of a powerful individual.
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Darth Walrus posted:He's not an antihero, though. Goodkind makes it clear both inside and outside his story that Richard is a model of righteousness and virtue so extreme that, for example his first attempt at sculpting a statue is enough to convert an entire city from communism to capitalism through the sheer force of noble individualism it expressed. Massacring those peaceful protesters was an objectively good thing to do. I'm lacking context, but in the quoted passage they don't seem like peaceful protesters, the seem like poorly armed combatants. Get out of the way.
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Drone Jett posted:I'm lacking context, but in the quoted passage they don't seem like peaceful protesters, the seem like poorly armed combatants. Get out of the way. Nope, they're armed only with their hatred for moral clarity.
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