Scottish and Irish surnames quite often have double capitalization, Carla MacLeod, Sinéad O'Connor, Katie McGrath, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Alexander Graham Bell, Liz McColgan, etc...
Not really unusual at all, there's plenty of cultures/places that utilize similar structure.
My brain actually rebooted three times in a row before I was able to move past that. I actually said out loud at one point "who is Kaylee Goo-in?" because nothing would process correctly.
I have never felt my IQ drop as hard and fast as it did just now.
Nah, fuck those people. If you defend a guy who gives millions to an organisation which takes an active stance against queer rights, you can go fuck yourself
What you said hurt my feelings, but I'm going to try to forgive you. I physically felt the hurt in my body, but I know I've hurt others too, so this is a good reminder that I need to be careful not to hurt others again.
Agreed, endlessly exhausted at reading the whole "but he's so nice and accepting of the icky queers!" or the even worse "he's trying to change the organisation from within!", quite literally CIA rhetoric designed to have people support the status quo and put aside any meaningful way to enact change.
Well, if they increased general hatred toward Sanderson, their cause is righteous and you should leave them alone. His writing is terrible enough to fling shit at him
Seriously though, if you think all sci-fi is about martians killing people and you call Tolkien and LeGuin "slop" you're just as fucking braindead as Sando fans.
...Unless this person is pulling some incredible meta-jerking that I'm too small-brained to understand, I dunno.
There, I made another post pointing all the obvious shit to you, it's fucking ridiculous I had to do this. This sub really can't r*ad, and I wish I couldn't either now.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the whole point of this sub to make fun of circle jerking around books and other dumb stuff? That's how most circlejerk subs work. Instead this sub seems to be mostly a bunch of pseudo intellectual losers who can't handle something they don't like being popular
The bookscirclejerk community is barbaric. Its predominantly 15 year old children with the mods being 35 year olds with a BA in English working at McDonald's. It makes sense why they are so toxic. They are all dissatisfied with life, I would be too if I had no friends. After all, if your only source of humor is bullying, it makes sense why you have no friends at school. I know there are some teachers there. It's so strange to me, how can someone so hateful and egotistical be a teacher?
The fuck are you on about? First person in the first screenshot says LeGuin and Tolkien are better than Harry Potter, and the person in the second screenshot explicitly says they're both slop. How did such a stupid incorrect comment like yours get a bunch of upvotes?
EDIT: And somehow people are downvoting my comment even though everything is right there in front of their fucking eyes for all to see. Fucking ridiculous.
Comment 1: Fantasy fans don’t even like the Good fantasy, just the shitty fantasy.
Comment 2: I agree, it’s sad there’s only some good fantasy and most fantasy is just Bad. Sci fi was like that, but lately there is a lot of Good sci fi.
Comment 3: (I think they r*ad too hard and hurt their brain) Sci Fi is becoming Slop.
Comment 4: Sci Fi is a slop genre.
Second page: Fans of Slop (Sci Fi) calling other genres Slop (Fantasy) are stupid. Go r*ad Dostoyevsky.
It's OK, what bothers me is some random asshole coming in being all condescending with shit like "r*ading is hard, I know!" and getting a bunch of upvotes while the truth is right there in their fucking faces, and my attempts at pointing that out getting downvoted for some reason.
some random asshole coming in being all condescending with shit like "r*ading is hard, I know!"
I know this is also a condescending thing to say, but: are you new here?
People here will regularly say they don't know how to read or that reading is stupid or that re*ders are terrible people. It's all part of the ciclejerk. I think the "reading sucks" comment wasn't making fun of your reading comprehension, it was making fun of reading.
To be fair I assumed the second page was referencing the last part of the page before since I didn’t see the original comment thread. The way you framed the screenshot doesn’t really make it clear.
There is a single paragraph in Beautiful & Damned about the end of WW1 that feels more epic and awe-inspiring than anything I've ever read out of spec fic in my life; You know, the genre that's supposed to be entirely dedicated to epic plots and wordbuilding without being hampered by silly elitist bs like coherent themes or basic writing standards?
Your genre gets mogged, at its own fucking game, by a guy known exclusively for writing about rich people getting too drunk to consider the outside world, in what is widely considered his most inelegant and uninsightful work. Genuinely please delete your account and never speak on any sort of artistic or literary topics again, to save us all the braincells.
Very generous to estimate such a large number of spec fic authors (5) that can be considered “good” nowadays as opposed to crawling over the low bar held for genre fiction. And it's humorous that he considers soft-core porn (he means romantasy) is anything different than what the modern genre has catered toward since the days of pulp. Nerd elitism is so fucking pathetic.
Or he's naive. Whatever lets me hold incredibly unearned pretensions.
Do they think that's her full surname? TF?
Maybe it's censored like K*Le Guin.
Its Jesus Krist Le Guin
Ursula kursula le gursula
Wow, I didn't even notice that. To be fair though, it is a very unusual name, it's understandable something like this can happen.
To be fair, shut the fuck up
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You think a middle initial + a surname is very unusual?
When the surname has two letters you need to capitalize, it kinda is.
Scottish and Irish surnames quite often have double capitalization, Carla MacLeod, Sinéad O'Connor, Katie McGrath, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Alexander Graham Bell, Liz McColgan, etc...
Not really unusual at all, there's plenty of cultures/places that utilize similar structure.
My brain actually rebooted three times in a row before I was able to move past that. I actually said out loud at one point "who is Kaylee Goo-in?" because nothing would process correctly.
I have never felt my IQ drop as hard and fast as it did just now.
I do know that the K stands for Kroeber, for some reason people usually ax it and I'm not on the mood for starting trends
Is that why the background became turquoise? From jerking too hard? Does that happen? Should we be concerned?
I would insert the green jizz copypasta but im thankfully I don't remember it and have to much self respect to look for it.
If I was a mod I'd ban them for jerking harder than me, my mom says I get to jerk hardest
This colleague I was chatting with recently asked me if I like fantasy novels and I told her that I liked LOTR and Narnia as a kid.
She said, "Oh, you mean sci-fi? I was talking about fantasy, like do you know ACOTAR?".
Why do I talk to people?
Reminds me of the post a little while back where the OP (not this one) was freaking about Sando fans defending... Sando.
Getting angry over Sando fans is just as funny as the fans themselves.
Nah, fuck those people. If you defend a guy who gives millions to an organisation which takes an active stance against queer rights, you can go fuck yourself
What you said hurt my feelings, but I'm going to try to forgive you. I physically felt the hurt in my body, but I know I've hurt others too, so this is a good reminder that I need to be careful not to hurt others again.
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Agreed, endlessly exhausted at reading the whole "but he's so nice and accepting of the icky queers!" or the even worse "he's trying to change the organisation from within!", quite literally CIA rhetoric designed to have people support the status quo and put aside any meaningful way to enact change.
sorry I didn’t realise we had a freedom fighter in our midst. very inspiring words.
eww, a destiny fan
Ok but the OP didn’t even mention Mormonism, it’s was other trivial crap
Well, if they increased general hatred toward Sanderson, their cause is righteous and you should leave them alone. His writing is terrible enough to fling shit at him
You guys are way too terminally online.
It hasn't killed any of us yet, so it's not terminal QED
r/worldjerking
Seriously though, if you think all sci-fi is about martians killing people and you call Tolkien and LeGuin "slop" you're just as fucking braindead as Sando fans.
...Unless this person is pulling some incredible meta-jerking that I'm too small-brained to understand, I dunno.
Well they didnt call tolkien or leguin slop, they said the opposite if you read it. Reading sucks, i know
People r*ad?
There, I made another post pointing all the obvious shit to you, it's fucking ridiculous I had to do this. This sub really can't r*ad, and I wish I couldn't either now.
https://www.reddit.com/r/bookscirclejerk/comments/1pt99aj/damn_this_sub_cant_really_rad_at_all/
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the whole point of this sub to make fun of circle jerking around books and other dumb stuff? That's how most circlejerk subs work. Instead this sub seems to be mostly a bunch of pseudo intellectual losers who can't handle something they don't like being popular
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The bookscirclejerk community is barbaric. Its predominantly 15 year old children with the mods being 35 year olds with a BA in English working at McDonald's. It makes sense why they are so toxic. They are all dissatisfied with life, I would be too if I had no friends. After all, if your only source of humor is bullying, it makes sense why you have no friends at school. I know there are some teachers there. It's so strange to me, how can someone so hateful and egotistical be a teacher?
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The fuck are you on about? First person in the first screenshot says LeGuin and Tolkien are better than Harry Potter, and the person in the second screenshot explicitly says they're both slop. How did such a stupid incorrect comment like yours get a bunch of upvotes?
EDIT: And somehow people are downvoting my comment even though everything is right there in front of their fucking eyes for all to see. Fucking ridiculous.
Reports, 1: 1: is op doing a bit or are they actually this stupid?????
It's a good question.
Do you mean me?
Comment 1: Fantasy fans don’t even like the Good fantasy, just the shitty fantasy.
Comment 2: I agree, it’s sad there’s only some good fantasy and most fantasy is just Bad. Sci fi was like that, but lately there is a lot of Good sci fi.
Comment 3: (I think they r*ad too hard and hurt their brain) Sci Fi is becoming Slop.
Comment 4: Sci Fi is a slop genre.
Second page: Fans of Slop (Sci Fi) calling other genres Slop (Fantasy) are stupid. Go r*ad Dostoyevsky.
I don’t go to Dostoyevsky for his hard magic systems and world building
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You got that wrong: the person in the second page is directly replying to the comment the first person in the first page made.
I can’t r*ad.
It's OK, what bothers me is some random asshole coming in being all condescending with shit like "r*ading is hard, I know!" and getting a bunch of upvotes while the truth is right there in their fucking faces, and my attempts at pointing that out getting downvoted for some reason.
I know this is also a condescending thing to say, but: are you new here?
People here will regularly say they don't know how to read or that reading is stupid or that re*ders are terrible people. It's all part of the ciclejerk. I think the "reading sucks" comment wasn't making fun of your reading comprehension, it was making fun of reading.
(But I guess I can't say for sure)
(Because I can't read)
To be fair I assumed the second page was referencing the last part of the page before since I didn’t see the original comment thread. The way you framed the screenshot doesn’t really make it clear.
To be fair, shut the fuck up
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Based
Were the first graders that could read the Very Hungry Caterpillar also condescending for you?
Are we jerking the jerk now?
There is a single paragraph in Beautiful & Damned about the end of WW1 that feels more epic and awe-inspiring than anything I've ever read out of spec fic in my life; You know, the genre that's supposed to be entirely dedicated to epic plots and wordbuilding without being hampered by silly elitist bs like coherent themes or basic writing standards?
Your genre gets mogged, at its own fucking game, by a guy known exclusively for writing about rich people getting too drunk to consider the outside world, in what is widely considered his most inelegant and uninsightful work. Genuinely please delete your account and never speak on any sort of artistic or literary topics again, to save us all the braincells.
Did I call Tolkien and Le Guin slop?
I think they are talking about ArtistGuild on the last slide
Lmao OP is buggin
Very generous to estimate such a large number of spec fic authors (5) that can be considered “good” nowadays as opposed to crawling over the low bar held for genre fiction. And it's humorous that he considers soft-core porn (he means romantasy) is anything different than what the modern genre has catered toward since the days of pulp. Nerd elitism is so fucking pathetic.
Or he's naive. Whatever lets me hold incredibly unearned pretensions.
I know some of these words
The false dichotomy between "genre" fiction and "literary" fiction is trash.
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Woah did you just uj in arrr slash bookscirclejerk 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 internet jannies pls ban this Sanderson denier 😤 😤😤 Tbh that rule is stupid lol
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