I'll just go bananas with this. Bad People Who Still Write Better Than JKR: • Tommy Wiseau • Vince Russo • Ken Penders, BARELY • Stephenie Meyer • Piers Anthony, by miles • Henry Darger • Todd McCaffrey • Terry Goodkind • Whoever did the screenplay for Mortal Kombathttps://twitter.com/Nymphomachy/status/1150889732915773442 …
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Replying to @Nymphomachy
Wait no way have you reread anything by Piers Anthony recently All of his books read like Wikipedia summaries of themselves
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Replying to @arthur_affect
I probably wouldn't read anything of his for enjoyment but in terms of actual world-building (in the books I read when I was much younger) he makes JKR look like an anencephalic infant But it's not that he's good, it's that JKR is THAT bad
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Replying to @Nymphomachy
Worldbuilding isn't really a good thing in isolation honestly
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
Also his world building is probably worse than hers, it just hides behind "oh but this is a pun see?" And only works if you haven't read Robert aspirin or Terry Pratchett to down the street that you can do that and still have some sort of actual world building
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Replying to @roninkakuhito @arthur_affect
Okay, let's not go crazy here. Piers Anthony is a better worldbuilder than JKR. JKR is possibly the worst worldbulder who has ever lived.
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @arthur_affect
Her world building is more coherent and less offensive than his.
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Replying to @roninkakuhito @arthur_affect
no it is fucking not. Have you looked at JKR's worldbuilding for half a second? Nothing Piers did is on the same level of hackery or offensiveness as fucking Mahotokoro.
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @arthur_affect
Chameleon is just as offensive as the snake lady was. And that was a day zero hack
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Replying to @roninkakuhito @arthur_affect
Let's be clear here, you are effectively complimenting JKR, an author whose work deserves actually no accolades or credit, whatsoever Harry Potter is the worst popular work in human history NOTHING Piers Anthony has done has been more trite or offensive than that work. Nothing
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I mean... PA wrote a book called The Color of Her Panties
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I was just compiling a bibliography the other day of the who's who of fantasy writers of the last 200 years, and that one really jumped out at me as a WTF
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I also recall one of his forewords or afterwords of one of the Incarnations of Immortality going into way too much detail about an advertisement he saw for "18+ girls"
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