parents are divorced, mom said my (very conservative) dad was calling her before one of my visits up to him to specifically ask whether or not i was gay. i told her on the spot (she's fine with it!) and have not visited my dad since.
@MAWKVLT People generally critically engage with literature so little that many donโt have a concept of it as a means of personal enrichment, so that needs to be explained. And if itโs explained, you are often labeled as either pretentious or performative.
@vigilaunte all of this is either easily easily explained or outright wrong. let's not go throwing around accusations without good cause, it only hurts the art community.
@MAWKVLT people didn't like DE because it was political, or because it was top down and heavily text based, or even because of the artstyle or setting, necessarily. the writing was the real secret sauce and imitators haven't approached that level in anything i've seen
@MAWKVLT Kurvitz and his team were also just supremely talented writers. not to say all imitations are *bad*, but Kurvitz & co. were just on a different level that could pull you into an otherwise mechanically shallow experience, and that talent was a large chunk of DE's core appeal