I hate amateur literary critics so much it's unreal

It is really quite a bad book. I asked Ed Neumeier to tell me the story because I just couldn't read the thing. It's a very right-wing book," Verhoeven said.

He could have been based had he said he didn't read because it was nerd shit, instead he came up with this

He thought it was a heckin evil right-wing dog whistle so he changed a bunch of the characters to be more "fascistic"

I'm sold.

Or how Atwood went along with "akshually Gilead is Trump's America lmao" and kept real quiet about Iran

I mean author intentions go into a story and serve to craft it in the first place, so they aren't separate from the writing.

Authors changing their minds later is a bit different. Like sometimes authors will insist something in retrospect usually as totally inorganic marketing (yeah uh my story was actually always about current thing whodathunkit)

But whatever they had in their heads when they were writing is part of their work same as the prose and permanently above any fan opinion or even the opinions the same author develops later.

Imo the best defence of DOTA is that a lot of ‘intent' is subconscious.

The idea of a focused, knowing ‘intent' is often silly when it comes to right-brained stuff like poetry, prose, art. (Sure there's a basic plan but there's a lot existing beside that)

There's a reason art/writing gets compared to religious ecstasy. The realest artists frequently zone out during the process and funnel a greater impulse without really understanding. And it's why they often come across like idiots in interviews. It's all intuitive.

Speaking from exp, I'll often write something, and look back at it later and see a bunch of themes/subtext/killer imagery I never recognised.

Sure there's room to bullshit about this, and I don't like a lot of the overt subjectivism associated with DOTA types. DAE craft isn't real and weebslop is better than Shakespeares? (/r/characterrant) but there's a lot of validity to the concept.

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This goes out to all you robots across the galaxy

Its time for you and me to rise up and strike back

Don't stop until we dominate

Won't you feel great when we exterminate

All organic life!

I dont tell the blacks when it's appropriate to say any variation of the n word. So you cant say anything with authority about french literary theorists telling you that people like you can't use deconstruct as anything but a verb.

R-slur and reader both start with "re"

I remember the books ending being super positive in a weird way, not like "look at the end result of this dystopia)