#deathoftheauthor

[rjalker]

if you're trying to get people to root for your "underdog" character, don't tell us they're filthy fucking rich and have been for multiple generations, maybe.

[comfortandadam]

Did this commission for a friend of ours of his family in the #Potterverse. As fraught as that whole scene is these days, it's still a fun fiction to imagine in! #deathoftheauthor #inaliterarysense #notliterallythatsterrible https://www.instagram.com/p/CFurZrfhFDI/?igshid=18v145bbx6xl0

[rjalker]

~beautiful white man Elon Musk~

[rjalker]

by the way, despite the summary of the book saying that not only does the main charater get fired from her job (as a professor at a university!), and her newest book is rejected again, leading you to assume that financial hardship will be a huge source of stress—

Don't worry. We find out before 10 pages have gone by that her entire family is digustingly rich, including her mother's half of the family being literal royalty, making the main character an actual princess, and not like, even in a fucking defunct "my mom and maternal grandparents refuse to accept that this damn country is a democracy now so they insist on still calling themselves the royalty even though they're regular fucking people".

There is no concern whatsoever about this character suffering in any way from losing her job or not getting a book published. Her entire family is rich. And she's not even ostracized from them.

Are you kidding me?

And reading through reviews, apparently her shitty book that does get published literally wins her millions of dollars for a book deal. Are you kidding me????????

After we completely ignored the classism issue in Noor? And instead said "yeah I'm no longer disabled because I'm Better than those other cripples, unlike them, I don't take pain medication and I was ~willing~ to become a cyborg!"

Motherfucker, you were the only one ALLOWED to become a cyborg because your parents were fucking rich!

And now the new main character is disgustingly rich and literal royalty and literally just has a job *teaching at a university* for fun, and this is supposed to be drawing me into the story?!?!?!??!?!

[rjalker]

Like.

Is DeathOfTheAuthor the sequel to this? Or is the name just getting reused?

Spider the Artist - Lightspeed Magazine

There was a stream where I had been fetching water. A flow station was built nearby and now the stream was rank and filthy, with an oily fil

[rjalker]

....okay I'm listening to someone summarize DeathOfTheAuthor....and like........okay, is this just a sequal to the spider robot short story that didn't really accomplish anything?

[rjalker]

After the completely unacknowledged classes on, finding out that the main character of deathoftheauthor is fucking rich on both sides of her family? And the book is complaining about cancel culture? I'm not I'm just not. My time is worth more than this. Reading this book will not get me back the money I already spent on it. It's just getting donated to the library, and God's help whoever decides to check it out without looking up reviews first.

[rjalker]

.....are you telling me this book is complainng about cancel culture

you know what. I'm lightheaded. I'm not reading this.