Literary Clusterfucks 2013

lol yes

and i have come to understand that dreame really represents the straight, acceptable-to-china, even “mainstream” face of this sort of thing, which actually was brewed up in much queerer spaces

(h/t gyac)

erotica with deeply regressive power dynamics? shocked, absolutely shocked by this

lolll

surprised we've avoided this one:

the YA twitter/Lockheed Martin drama is really something. you don't expect a crossover between a toxic industry that destroys lives and a defense contractor.

— James Palmer (@BeijingPalmer) August 3, 2022

I would like to continue to avoid it tbh

Was reading about Isabel Fall yesterday..

That was the clusterfuck that drove me off social media once and for all! SFF writers are as bad as any others when it comes to piling in on things they know nothing about.

I usually tend to observe the madness.

The sentence "A nepotism gig at the war crimes factory?" has been pinballing around my head for the past week.

one of the more limping lines from "Tokyo Storm Warning"

This is the @TheBookerPrizes shortlist announcement, highlighting the apparent comedic novelty of a book club from Scunthorpe having members who are a steel worker & dinner lady.

It's embarrassing, condescending - and exactly how much of the industry sees the working class 🚮 pic.twitter.com/VDVt2W0xwR

— Kerry Wilkinson (@kerrywk) September 7, 2022

Joyce Carol Oates shouldn't have written Blonde. What could a literary non-hottie know about the exploitation of femme, highly sexualized women - women who look and act like Oates have no compassion or love for women like Marilyn. They're just as bad as men at writing them.

— Terese Marie (@TereseMarieM) September 28, 2022

This needs to stew a while before it ascends to the heights of a true clusterfuck. afaics, this is just twitter fooling around and having fun.

jeez I haven’t read that book or watched the movie but the detachment of writing, projecting your takes and the interpretation of that fiction, definitely come off differently in film and some things I’m seeing make me feel bad

Wild how this jumble of words now indicates that the speaker hates a specific group of marginalized people pic.twitter.com/t8JC9TrEFi

— Maris Kreizman (@mariskreizman) November 28, 2022

rly love how she, like her comrades, has declined multiple generous opportunities to simply shut up about trans people 🤔

that article & excerpt are deeply awful, you will be surprised to hear

Minus: read an extract

perhaps "extract" rather than "excerpt" was a warning

Is this the correct thread for this?

TW: suicide

an author unalived herself in 2020 "due to the bullying that she'd experienced in the bookish community" and ppl started to buy her books to support her family. last night she posted out of nowhere that she's back😭

— ray (@anoldcurse) January 4, 2023

what in the actual fuck

Paranormal Romance book world, who'd have thunk it.

I haven’t made it past the fact that they created a fundraiser anthology to support the family of a victim of bullying that was made up of romance bullying stories. PARANORMAL romance bullying stories.

articles spreading across second-tier news sites rapidly in the last hour. no Hell hot enough for this person

Holy shit

At the time, a group of authors dedicated this anthology to her, proceeds were given to the family I believe (will confirm). Btw, these are USA Today best selling authors. Susan’s “suicide” was due to bullying pic.twitter.com/vsnprlAVyh

— Be a lot cooler if you did 💫🌪💫 (@Draggerofliars) January 4, 2023

really fucked up that Cole was basically bullied herself for causing a suicide that didn't actually happen.

of course, it's hard to prove for sure that this is actually Susan herself, but i'd assume a family member would have stepped in to clarify by now that it wasn't her.

Andrew, every time I see that tweet I start cackling like a fiend

“I'm normally a lurker here, but thought I should use my break out post to tell you all (at least those who care) that Susan Meachen etc etc”

Discovered a new genre

It’s basically where the main character is treated like crap and there are paranormal elements in the story - could be the characters are shape shifters, werewolves, etc. mashup of sci fi/horror/fantasy.

— Be a lot cooler if you did 💫🌪💫 (@Draggerofliars) January 4, 2023

what if a sexy werewolf was also your mean shift manager at mcdonslds

— Alex P 👹 jorts.horse/@saddestrobots (@SaddestRobots) January 4, 2023

"There's only one rule that I know of, babies — God damn it, you've got to be kind - Unless! it would sexier not to be kind."

what if a sexy werewolf was also your mean shift manager at mcdonslds is killing me.

However, it’s come to light that the account may have been a burner page that Meachen created in order to maintain a presence in the book community while also remaining dead.

like lol...she was on TikTok AND posting videos of herself

She’s been on Tik Tok the whole time. Props to @AccNightmare with this. pic.twitter.com/gu32W5HRc8

— Be a lot cooler if you did 💫🌪💫 (@Draggerofliars) January 5, 2023

Author Susan Meachen, back from the dead, with one of the most impressive gaslighting performances you’ll ever read. pic.twitter.com/tHpVd7IFTT

— Anaïs is reading (@anaisisreading) January 7, 2023

Does transcending the pages of a book make me a bad Author or a good one?

Much to contemplate and consider

I do love the defense of, "Oh, I'm only worth money to you dead, you ghouls?" Good stuff.

The best literary clusterfucks are the ones where the author tries to author through it

Decided there was more "healing to be had" by yknow not being dead. She's amazing.

“i told you i would never log off!”

Donors who are angry are "cruelly wishing death on me"

I'm mostly wishing death on myself after having read all that, tbh.

This is my favorite performance by a lit clusterfuck actor. Truly hard to take the side of the victims.

i love when these deluded weirdos fo that “faux press conference” thing with themselves, asking & answering their own questions, it just makes her seem so much more unhinged

I do love the defense of, "Oh, I'm only worth money to you dead, you ghouls?" Good stuff.

― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Saturday, January 7, 2023 7:57 PM bookmarkflaglink

really is expert-level trolling.

has there already been an “I’m a celebrity, get me out of here!”- type show with people like this lady, bad art friend, the pathological liar in that NYT article, etc…? feel like I could binge that for sure

main character island

Would watch