𝙬𝙝𝙮'𝙨 𝙥𝙖𝙞𝙣 𝙨𝙤 𝙙𝙖𝙢𝙣 𝙞𝙢𝙥𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙩? 𝙖𝙞𝙣'𝙩 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝙞𝙩'𝙨 𝙜𝙤𝙩 𝙖 𝙥𝙡𝙖𝙘𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙗𝙚
john tilman. fiction author. obnoxious man.
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STATS.
Full Name: John Carson Tilman
Age: Forty
Gender: Cis man
Sexuality: Bisexual
Height: 6′1
Education: Bachelors of arts in creative writing & journalism
Occupation: Pop fiction writer
BIO.
John Tilman refused to be ordinary. Growing up in a relatively average jewish family in Queens, he had an older brother, and a younger sister. His father was in academia and his mother was a baker. It was a quaint life, and John quickly realized he hated quaint.
The siblings were all relatively close in age, and all wound up going to NYU together. While he’s the most dramatic of the bunch, John has always adored his siblings, and he blames the middle child syndrome for making him such an ‘attention whore’ as he says.
It was at this time when John began writing every day. Between journaling his life, and writing down little snippets of fiction, he would pass them around to classmates who began to adore his writing. Not long after, he started having people call him ‘Tilman’, since John was tragically boring and forgettable.
His first book, ‘While You’re At It’ was a NYT bestseller for weeks, and became a sensation. It published only eight weeks after he graduated college. Six months after that, the rights were bought by a film studio and his book was being turned into a film.
He has never stopped writing. And with being skyrocketed into the life of the elite, he was meeting stars from all over the place. Finally, his life was no longer a snooze.
Tilman has become notorious for his dinner parties in New York. They are extravagant but he prides himself on them being kept tasteful. Some of the best chefs come to cook, the best wine imported, and sometimes, when he’s tipsy enough, he’ll get up and read from his journal, which typically has some pretty juicy and candid confessions in there.
Since his initial publication, he has published 8 books, all of which have been NYT bestsellers, but not all have been critically acclaimed. 3 of his books have been adapted into movies, and next year, one will become an HBO miniseries.
However, he turned 40 this year, and he’s been having a bit of a crisis. Does he really want to be remembered for the silly little books he writes? Sometimes on Twitter he sees people call his book vapid, or shallow. He pours his heart into them, and thinks they share a part of his soul, but maybe his soul just... isn’t that meaningful?
He’s debated making the switch into non-fiction. When he double majored in creative writing and journalism, the latter was mainly a fail safe for if he couldn’t get published. But now he wants to use those skills to write something that might actually make a change. But is his vapid, shallow self going to prevent him from being taken seriously in the scene?
PERSONALITY.
Some people describe Tilman as exciting, interesting, he’s charming and he knows how to carry a conversation. Every person he meets, he knows how to treat like they are the center of the universe. He’s an extremely good listener. He has an extensive memory, and gives the best gifts, things you might have mentioned off hand once months ago. He’s a tender lover, hosts a massive Passover dinner, and spends Christmas at his local shelter.
Other people say he’s hypocritical, obsessed with the way he looks and the way people see him. He will hold people to a standard that he will not hold himself to. He can fuel the flame of conflict just because he likes to see things crash and burn. He’s been known to use people for his own creative inspiration. He spends far too much money on frivolous things, and he’s lost the touch of being a home-grown New Yorker. Some think he’s just really, really annoying.
WANTED CONNECTIONS.
siblings (wc on main)
ex partner- the ‘almost’, someone he was supposed to marry but turned down bc he’s an idiot who doesn’t think he’s good enough or capable of marriage (for characters 35+)
actor staring in his miniseries
confidante
fake friend
hookup
attendee to his party (probably means they’re friends)
someone he might have fucked over for his own amusement
roommate from college. knows tilman before the money and elite got to him. didn’t have to go to NYU but was in NYC at the same time.
someone he pines for
someone who avoids him because of reputation
someone who think they can beat him at his own game (meaning, being more obnoxious, grandiose, and dramatic)