touch foxglove NOW I really don't know anything about this author (I read one of his books when I was younger and that's it) BUT I do know that a seething WIRED journocel wrote a very angry expose about how he is an neurodivergent and a total loser for various ill-defined reasons (didn't read). RDrama post here (if ur wondering why it says "heeheehaahaa" so much, its because the post author was chudded when he wrote it 
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Basically, the WIRED journo hates the fact that BrandoSando...
has an air of confidence
made the author drive all the way from SanFran
is resistant to pain and refuses pain medication
anywho, BrandoSando fires back very gently. I thought it was well-written, if a bit mopey. It also makes the journo look like a complete butthole without focusing on the journo himself, which is amazing.
Summary:
Brando relates his experiences as being an "outsider", due to his faith and general autism
Brando explains that his numbness to pain is probably a result of his autism
Brando says that he doesn't want sympathy for this.
He says he writes because he feels things when he writes.
He is against "gatekeeping"
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The WIRED article was whiny and reeked of jealousy, but I think we are missing the bigger point: this guy writes and looks like a bunch of reddit accounts coalesced (with some light mormon flavoring)
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Forget the Bechdel test, does your book pass the Peepee Poopoo test?
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Shallan is the worst fricking character and I want her crucified.
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Wrong.
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Who is worse
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Whiny b-word king, pseud “mysterious” insert Wit, Kaladin Buckbroken (still rank him higher than Shallan, but dishonorable mention for being as bland and childish as the actual child character)
I’ll admit I like the idea of her character better than her execution. Her story is confusing and muddled “coming of age” genre which looks fricking gray and dumb compared to everyone else’s classic hero’s journey and I feel like that did her dirty. She’s a brave and stupid child and she did some cool shit in a world that’d frick her up with a misstep, and that’s what I liked reading when I was a kit.
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Haha I just got that they're called Wit due to their rather witty remarks! Upmarsey for you sir!
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His clever dialogue is worse than the child’s.
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Can’t disagree.
Shallan is an ok concept. She worked better in the first book or 2 because her being an unlikeable c*nt was part of her arc.
Last few books it wears awfully thin. Same story for most of the characters. Really sad state of affairs.
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Jasnah 21st century feminist antislavery asexual/sapiosexual exists.
Renarian gay species-mixer neurodivergent also would get on Adolin113355's nerves, but at least his weird future-seeing stuff is cool.
Adolin113355 think it says a lot about fiction and writing when you've started introducing the whole spectrum of race/gender/sexuality, but the best characters remain the straight White men.
Funny thing is his non-whiny women characters in other books tend too be decent. Loved everypony in Warbreaker.
trans lives matter
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