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This lady is a doozy. My comment history has more relevant links cause lazy
https://librarything.com/profile/EelKat
https://eelkat.com/KelimAndTheNecromancer.html
@snallygaster is this in your project history?
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Novels, manifestos, rants, call em what ya want
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Youd be shocked how much money you could make from churning out romance novels on Amazon self publishing. Theres actually a pretty famous post on one of the subreddits about how you can grindmaxx the system and make more than six figures a year just writing pornography for soccer moms. 138 is pretty normal for a jabroni who wants a paycheck.
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I've seen that post. I'm just insulted that they call their 130 page fap shlock "novels"
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Industry is all shlock. When GoT wordsposting epics are considered citizen kane, its not a reach to consider "big money guy took me from my job at macys and is treating me like a prostitute" a novel either.
Anyone who reads novels written after like, 2000 is a bit of a buffoon. Books = cultured/smart isnt a thing anymore. Stuff like that died with Herbert, Ellison, etc. People who read books now are just looking to pass time.
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Im talking about the writers themselves being smart guys. Herbert started out as a journ*list (haha) or some nonsense IIRC and wrote dune as a borderline love letter to literal sand. He then turned into a geologist or something because hes a smart cookie.
Ellison also spent his spare time reading obscure nonsense like egyptian philosophy or whatever. He has admitted to enjoying capetrash, however.
If you want a more "cultured" example, Cormac McCarthy says his fiction is at like, the bottom of his hobby list and prefers to be a college monk instead.
If you wanted older examples, people like hemingway are neurodivergent and drink too much. Wordposting about living in a port village is pseud cope. Writers these days (brandon sanderson) all grew up on schlock and it shows.
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