ALionettoaWidowgast

Will either be your best mate who can yap for hours about things he loves or your worst nightmare there is no in between. Profile picture by @alizorahart

[Reyes Flores @mokoloco88]

Fine !

[Larry Correia @monsterhunter45]

I’ve been telling people this for years.
GRRM pissed off millions of customers but he don’t give a shit. He got his bag. But his legacy is being such an epic bum ass bum that he crippled an entire genre, ruined consumer sentiment, and killed off an entire generation of epic fantasy authors.

Romantasy and LitRPG grew as a direct result of filling the smoking crater George left in the industry. New writers could no longer get deals to write epic fantasy unless the entire series was in the bag, and nobody can afford to gamble that much time to write that many books they may never sell.

Publishers no longer took chances on new series because customers had got burned by lazy shirkers like George and Pat. Agents wouldn’t represent new epic fantasy unless the whole thing was done. It hurt Indy because dudes had to convince customers that they weren’t bums too. Except when book one makes $50 total, because customers said Im not starting a new series until it’s done! they sure as shit ain’t writing book two. So it’s a self fulfilling prophesy of suck.

In the comments Dunning-Krugerands are saying this isn’t true. Look at guys like Brandon Sanderson. Wrong. Guys like him, or me, who already had established names, reputations, and fan bases were fine. We had enough customers who trusted us we could still do new things and people would come along to make it economically viable.

For example, the only reason my epic fantasy series got picked up is because I was already successful and could guarantee a viable level of sales off my existing fans. Newbs don’t have that. And over the ten years it took for me to write the six books to finish it, the entire time I heard from potential customers, nope, not gonna start a new series that might not finish because of George.

I am fine during this because I’m still gonna make a couple hundred grand off each of those just off my existing fans. Newbs make two bucks an hour, say to hell with being a writer I’m going back to my day job, and you all missed out on the next great author and his absolutely brilliant series, because you were too mad at billionaire George shoving twinkies in his mouth instead of writing.

Nope. Guys like me and Brandon are fine. George’s profound laziness screwed over the new guys. Customers and the industry quit taking chances on new guys. We will never know how many excellent fantasy series we missed out on, robbed by George’s laziness burning so many customers.

Some writers gave up, but others moved into different genres. Which is good. But it sure does suck if epic fantasy is your jam. LitRPG is close but different enough it blew up during this time frame because that’s where the talented went.

Being such a pretentious, bloviating bum that you damage an entire industry and strangle a generation of aspiring artists is quite the legacy.

Kal (who is a good writer btw, check out his books) asks what can we do about this? For me personally I’m just gonna continue mocking George’s work ethic in the hopes more normies realize what an outlier he is, and how they should expand their horizons to read other authors who aren’t stuck up, know it all, dickheads.

And before anybody starts barking at me that I’m such a hypocrite because I’ve not finished all my series, sorry I’ve only finished three of eight so far, and have only written THIRTY books since George’s last one, the next MHI comes out in December, and the last two books are next year, and I’m not planning on retiring anytime soon (if ever).

[ִֶָ𓂃 ࣪˖ ִֶָ 𝑨𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒅་༘࿐ @wdymastrid]

Ngl, this go HARD

[🦀 YORA 🦀 @yoracrab]

i finally did it. 100% drakengard 3 on the goddamn PS3.

i’m free from all my sufferings

[Joker @DSR_Joker]

Yep, everything is fucked.
The shear amount of institutional knowledge that was gutted, is crazy.

[Unbiased Snyder Fan @UltraBiasedFan]

Ahhh... the cope.

When Spider-Man and Avengers make at least 3 billion combined this year do you think shareholders will be like "James Gunn couldn't make it work. Obviously no one else can. Let's retire the franchise in his honor" 🤣

[CoveredGeekly @CoveredGeekly]

Legendary actor Mel Brooks turns 100 this weekend

He just filmed Spaceballs 2 at age 99

[ALionettoaWidowgast @GreatnightBat]

@maalik_hh @steusmotus Yes because it’s a black hole cop on

[🕷️Smart Alec🕸️ @_TheSmartAlec1]

Off topic but Jack Grimm is genuinely the best real-name Joker has ever had and if he ever has a real name in anything going forward it should always be Jack Grimm

[ALionettoaWidowgast @GreatnightBat]

@maalik_hh @steusmotus He threw him into a black hole

[YasukeWasHere🦇 @YasukeWasHere]

Peak 90s edge lord design
#knightfall #Azrael

[Azul ♡ @planetlina]

oh yeah let's not forget this panel as well with cass

[🔻Clue/Nora | rereading Batgirl (2000) @Norahasnoclue]

Love this moment, the bat symbol means so much to Cass cause it saved her by giving her purpose so seeing it fully stated like this is cool

[ALionettoaWidowgast @GreatnightBat]

@Signs2323 I'm aware the one I ran into early had an amusing lack of intelligence

[Leonidas @Signs2323]

Oooh big facts right here!
👇

James Gunns Superman of the DCU could not get people excited to see his cameo in Supergirl. Using their same logic, Supergirls flop rests squarely in the lack of public interest in Gunns Superman.

The DCU is cooked

[Punk Rocker Cringe @GunntArchive]

So when Henry Cavill showed up in Black Adam and the movie flopped they blamed it on people not caring for Cavill’s Superman.

So what about this?

[Leonidas @Signs2323]

This lunatic doesn’t understand there would be no Rebel Moon if Zack didn’t agree to also make the PG-13 cuts. Those were the terms that allowed him to release the hard R 3 hour versions.

How about you take a day off from the Snyder slander, and look for employment?

[ALionettoaWidowgast @GreatnightBat]

@Signs2323 If Paramount lets it happen

[Leonidas @Signs2323]

Zack Snyder was the first to bring live action movie Darkseid.

The fan campaign to get that film was historic, and it broke records and garnered global success and love from audiences.

ZSJL and “RESTORE” have dominated twitter trends for years.

This will completely backfire