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[ SECRET POST #3262 ]

⌈ Secret Post #3262 ⌋

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[Yogscast: Hannah Rutherford and Lewis Brindley]

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[El Goonish Shive]

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[Evita]

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[The Blair Witch Project]

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(Kirsten Dunst as Peggy Blumquist in Fargo)

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From his facebook: "Writing an e-mail just now, I typed "several weeks" then went back and erased it, thinking to myself, "No. Not weeks. Span. There's no such thing as weeks in the world..."

I can't imagine other writers having these problems, at least not to the extent I do. Yesterday I found myself momentarily confused by the fact that I didn't have hooves. The day before that I couldn't figure out why it wasn't raining outside.

I really shouldn't be allowed to leave the house when I'm doing revisions."

Yes I'm biased, because I think that Name of the Wind is not particularly impressive despite being the current fantasy darling or something, but shut the fuck up, Patrick. Yeah, NO AUTHOR BUT YOU has ever gotten really into their own story. Nuh uh. Nobody.

I'm not the writers!!! thread OP, but lol @ these kinds of writers.

Right? I want to tell him to go hang out with Laurell K. Hamilton, Anne Rice, and Diana Gabaldon.

nayrt - I don't know the dude or his work, but what you quoted just sounds silly and self deprecating, not even close to being in the league of people like Anne Rice, Diana Gabaldon or Laurell K. Hamilton.

Well, he should go learn from the greats :P

Considering that he has written one of the most blatant Gary-Stus I have seen in recent years (and I do not use this term lightly), I'm not so quick to assume that he's being satirical or self-deprecating when he says that no other author can possibly suffer from this affliction as much as he does.

There's a big difference between writing a character who's insufferable and being an insufferable author, though. Rice, Hamilton and Gabaldon have all thrown legendary public tantrums. In comparison, maybe believing you're a special snowflake and Not Like Other Writers is small potatoes, IMO.

Wooooooooooooow.

That's...that's a ridiculous level of "but I have it worse"

Also I have totally had moments where I used common phrases only to be like "wait they don't have that here".

Dude needs to get over himself.

I fucking hate 'Name of the Wind.' What a stupid fucking book. Oh look at me I'm Kvothe of the reddest hair to ever red and a super special snowflake name that goes against all other spelling and naming conventions in this world and the hot, "troubled," two-dimensional girl who just can't seem to stop going after the ebul Bad Boys really likes me, the Nicest Nice Guy there ever was, but because I am the Nicest Nice Guy they won't be with me, woe.

And fucking shit, you spend the first couple of chapters setting up Evil Returning to the World and Impending Badass Conflict, and it's actually interesting, but instead of doing anything with that, you spend the entire rest of the book on stupid, mopey, SO ~TRAGIC~ Kvothe going to fucking Hogwarts.

I was so disappointed in that shit.

But it doesn't surprise me at all that Rothfuss is pompous enough to think he's the only writer who's ever gotten a little screwy after spending hours upon hours pouring over a work, considering that people treat him like he's goddamned Jesus for writing a saga about a boring self-insert.

You forgot that our dear Kvothe (fuck his name, seriously) was the only one to ever get accepted into university on a scholarship AND was younger than anybody else, can do fancy magic nobody else can do, befriends all the ~strange~ people and creatures, is cleverer and tricksier than anybody, and is the best musician to ever music.

I had seen all the positive reviews, and was stunned by how lousy the book actually was. I agree with you so much.

ETA: FORGOT THAT HE IS THE SENSEI OF HIS FAERIE SIDEKICK

Edited 2015-12-10 04:40 (UTC)

Oh but even though he's awesome people hate him and are trying to bring him down just 'cause, so see he CAN'T be a Stu, and also poor him, woe, woe, woe.

I also heard that, in the second book, a succubus captures him, but even though he's a virgin, HE'S THE BEST LAY SHE'S EVER HAD (because he is just such a sensitive guy, you know?). So she doesn't kill him, she just keeps fucking him until he's like, "well, I gotta go." Like what the ever-loving fuck.

Oh my god, seriously? Seriously??? That is hilarious. How can anybody take the story seriously after something like that?

My understanding is that a lot of people couldn't.

And don't forget the warriors who have never taught an outsider their secret badass arts, until one day, HARK, IS THAT A KVOTHE?

I am amazed he doesn't have several books of prophecy about him.

oh, god, this guy is just the epitome of I'm-so-special nerdery. The thing that really got me was when he was talking about getting a translation of that novella he did, and something came up about how to word the title, and he had some whole bit about how the title was just so strange and poetic that how could he ever put into words what it even meant?

The title is The Slow Regard of Silent Things. Not exactly a fucking mindbending riddle wrapped in an enigma, here.

Never drink your own Kool-Aid. Never, EVER, drink your own Kool-Aid.

Seems to be the best way to get ahead these days.

Translation: Watching Paint Dry

I'm just cracking up here. What the hell. Harry Potter was probably about a thousand times more difficult to translate, because of all the terminology and puns. Rothfuss can just fuck right off.

I would join in your mockery, but Anne Rice has a literal bajillion followers on facebook just waiting to eat up her next airy fairy aside about what Lestat is "doing" right now. And holy fuck, her LJ. Holy. Fuck. Those were the real Anne Rice glory days, I tell you what.

So, apparently this bullshit is just what you do if you want a fanbase now or something.

Fucking social media, man.

Oh fuck you're right DDDDD:
This is apparently the future of authordom.

Not for me it ain't. If my shit ever gets popular I'mma pull a Stephen King and just nope on out to nopeville.

Well, I of course will be hanging out with you in nopeville. Maintaining constant social media presence sounds like torture, to me.
May we both become successfully published and implement our high ideals!

Hear, hear!

And then, secretly write fanfiction of our own works and put it on ff.net and no one will ever know.

/life goals

And make sure to be involved in at least one shipwar.

Re: Patrick Rothfuss is So Special You Guys

herpymcderp - 2015-12-10 16:08 (UTC) - Expand

Well you'd be in good company with a racist like King :)

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