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[ATaxingWoman]

Who is this grasshopperpie bloke and why does he think he has any business telling fantasy writers what they can and they can't write? https://twitter.com/grasshopperpie/status/1074158221449822209

"I draw comics"

Is this white Anglophone guy culturally appropriating Martian Muslim culture? WTF we need to stop this!

 

[howyadoin]

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This page reeks of white guilt.

 

[One Man Bland]

"there has never been a warrior culture"

What the fuck would you call the Spartans then?

 

[Tootsie Bear]

Doesn't this guy understand there have been various warrior cultures and societies throughout history: Spartans, Japanese samurais, Knights, Vikings, so forth. And fantasy is the perfect setting for historic warriors like knights.

 

[Archeosaur A. Dromaeosaur]

No, writing prose is still a lot more enjoyable than mindlessly complaining about things you don’t understand.

 

[Night Owl]

He has pronouns in his bio, of course he's a cuck.

 

[One Man Bland]

View attachment 616653 No, writing prose is still a lot more enjoyable than mindlessly complaining about things you don’t understand.

Analyzing fiction is only fun if you actually know what the fuck you're talking about and have a passionate interest in that particular piece of media and its themes. It's fun to analyze your favorite film or book, for instance, because analyzing it helps you articulate why you like it so much and share that enjoyment with others.

Lecturing people for liking other things is only enjoyable if your definition of "fun" is to rain on everyone's parade from on top your high horse, so of course only joyless hacks do it.

 

[Meowthkip]

Who is this grasshopperpie bloke and why does he think he has any business telling fantasy writers what they can and they can't write? https://twitter.com/grasshopperpie/status/1074158221449822209
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Typos. Comic sans. Speaking over other people and getting indignant when proven wrong by the same people he's claiming to speak for. Lopsided portrait for his Twitter avatar.

Yep, he's a fuckboy, alright.

 

[AnOminous]

"I draw comics"

In addition to being a giant soy-gulping cuck, he is just anthropologically wrong.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrior#Warrior_communities

 

[howyadoin]

"there has never been a warrior culture"

What the fuck would you call the Spartans then?

He gave an explanation on the Spartans, along with the Vikings, Samurai, Mongols, and Native Americans, speaking over them all.

 

[AnOminous]

He gave an explanation on the Spartans, along with the Vikings, Samurai, Mongols, Aztec people, and Native Americans, speaking over them all.

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That's the whole point of it being a warrior culture. Christ this fucking cuck is stupid.

The non-warriors were an UNDERCLASS because the elite caste of warriors were central to Spartan culture, because it was a WARRIOR CULTURE.

 

[One Man Bland]

That's the whole point of it being a warrior culture. Christ this fucking cuck is stupid.

The non-warriors were an UNDERCLASS because the elite caste of warriors were central to Spartan culture, because it was a WARRIOR CULTURE.

Not only that, but in the case of the Spartans it was the norm for everyone in the community, including the women, to go through basic fitness training and children were conscripted into military training that followed fairly young. The concept of a “warrior culture” is not that “everyone is a warrior” but that fighting is their main export and holds up the pillars of the community/values.

This guy seems like he’s mostly complaining about fictional warrior cultures like the ones found in video games, tabletops, and fantasy novels where you typically only meet the warrior parts of a “warrior culture” because, you know, that’s typically where all the plot/action is.

 

[Crunchy Leaf]

He kinda has a point on the samurai--after the Tokugawa shogunate took over, the samurai became basically a bureaucrat class. Although, is Japan really what comes to mind when people think of a warrior culture? They spent several hundred years isolating themselves and a big moment in their military history is two big winds protecting them from the Mongols. And I'm not really sure early 20th century Japan counts unless you count every other imperial nation as a 'warrior culture'.

 

[One Man Bland]

I also can’t help but notice that the Spartan “underclass” that did all the menial labor was actually slaves. Kinda undercuts your argument if all the non-military work is done by a group of people who have no choice, doesn’t it?

 

[AnOminous]

He kinda has a point on the samurai--after the Tokugawa shogunate took over, the samurai became basically a bureaucrat class. Although, is Japan really what comes to mind when people think of a warrior culture? They spent several hundred years isolating themselves and a big moment in their military history is two big winds protecting them from the Mongols. And I'm not really sure early 20th century Japan counts unless you count every other imperial nation as a 'warrior culture'.

Having a warrior class/subculture doesn't make an entire culture a warrior culture, but this cuck is insisting that no such thing ever existed. The Spartans are a clear counter-example, and so are cultures like the Maori, who self-identify as such. This white cuck is telling them they don't know their own culture as well as he does.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

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Dobson's long lost brother?

 

[Koby_Fish]

Typos. Comic sans. Speaking over other people and getting indignant when proven wrong by the same people he's claiming to speak for. Lopsided portrait for his Twitter avatar.

Yep, he's a fuckboy, alright.

I am going to go out on a limb and theorize that he deliberately spelled authority as "autority" for the phonetic spelling for the reading out of the accent of the person speaking. I have heard it before in accents. Sometimes that works for effect in print, but most often it does not.

 

[Meowthkip]

I am going to go out on a limb and theorize that he deliberately spelled authority as "autority" for the phonetic spelling for the reading out of the accent of the person speaking. I have heard it before in accents. Sometimes that works for effect in print, but most often it does not.

I considered that, briefly.

But it looks stupid.

 

[Crunchy Leaf]

I am going to go out on a limb and theorize that he deliberately spelled authority as "autority" for the phonetic spelling for the reading out of the accent of the person speaking. I have heard it before in accents. Sometimes that works for effect in print, but most often it does not.

This is aggravating regardless of who's doing it. I could barely get through Huck Finn or The Secret Garden because of it.

 

[Meowthkip]

This is aggravating regardless of who's doing it. I could barely get through Huck Finn or The Secret Garden because of it.

I personally like phonetic spelling in writing, but that may be because I like old newspaper comics a lot and they were written that way because a lot of readers weren't very literate. My caveat is that it has to be done well, and made clear when it's being used.