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Not /j, /srs.

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I was looking back over my posts, and that was my honest reaction. It's not very nice to keep autistic children around as your goofy lolcow, you know. Friends don't let friends post cringe. In your own words, I want to know why you thought it was fine to act like the kind of fuckin internet posting I do was fine, and that I should continue to do so, more, worse. Does that really seem like a good idea to you? Go look at those comments and say it to my face, fucker.

If you didn't, you are obligated to share with the class why you didn't offer even an ounce of dissent about it. There's a point past which politeness becomes condescending, and many months ago you could have saved everyone a ton of trouble, if you'd just said "this is terrible" or maybe even "lol cringe" at some point. It would have been mean, but it would have been less mean than sitting back and alllowing the high volumes of horror and embarrassment that ensued to happen. I mean, really.

If you disagree, I'd like to invite you to consider that you're wrong, and whoever gave me the ability to think and transcribe those thoughts with a keyboard has a lot to answer for. I looked at the megathreads today, and seeing people even partially attribute the 2500+ comment threads to my repulsive disaster posting is awful. There are people who actually post things of value in those threads.

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[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Especially you. Your cringe is good and worthy of praise.

[–] ashinadash@hexbear.net 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Imagine posting about a webnovel for months on end, getting mad about one of the pairings being low quality, and then embarrassing yourself in front of the author about it immediately. Before the dark times of the internet age, such a thing was scarcely even possible and would have taken a journalist with zero self awareness - now any bozo can do it!

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Imagine getting mad about a webnovel's portrayal of how train level crossings work and embarrassing yourself about it in front of the author of a different but related webnovel. Any bozo (me) can do that too.

[–] ashinadash@hexbear.net 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Really? That's kind of rad, not that you embarrassed yourself, but like if someone came at me about train level crossings in my work, I'd be impressed, train gang I think. Uncritical support to your once-crusade against trainlets, sincerely.

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 3 points 2 weeks ago

Don't you see, I need people on Hexbear to be cringe and autistic about webnovels with so I don't inflict it on the authors.

The Gods are Bastards is excellent, I love its characters and setting, but its trains are a sort of supersonic magitech Lartigue monorail with APT ride quality characteristics and I can't stop thinking about how impractical that is.