I despise the "JK Rowling was rejected by twelve publishers before publishing Harry Potter" factoid because it's characterized as some kind of triumphant upending of the clueless literary establishment and not multiple professionals recognizing it was completely derivative work
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Replying to @Nymphomachy
Let's not waste our time trashing other creatives when we should be spending time being creative ourselves. Trashing the success of others, whether you thinķ they deserve it or not, gets us nowhere
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Replying to @AlanJFisher0 @Nymphomachy
JKR isn't "a creative". She's the figurehead of an international hate group who also happens to have written some fiction.
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Replying to @autogynamelia @Nymphomachy
Which, regardless of your opinions about her personal choices, she created...so, creative. Lovecraft and Howard we fervent racists, Poe was a bit of a misogynist...we don't cancel their status as creatives because we don't like their opinions
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What do you mean "we", white man
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Excuse me?
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You heard him.
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So; the plan is to personally and "amusingly" attack someone without knowing their opinions or loyalties? I could actually be an ally so way to alienate. I'm saying we should be better than them and not descend to their level
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We have lost a powerful ally today
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4/ holding our heads up high while they get all anxious about why we're not crying or appear to be ignoring them...anyway, point very unintentionally made.
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You have typed roughly 10x more words to me than I have to you
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I've never claimed to not be a talker.
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Replying to @AlanJFisher0 @arthur_affect and
You talk a lot and say little or nothing.
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