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Frosted Gibbon (gibbon@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Dec-2023 15:12:32 JST Frosted Gibbon
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Good. Giving in to peer pressure is bad, unless it's not.

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Frosted Gibbon (gibbon@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Dec-2023 15:08:50 JST Frosted Gibbon
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Is this because NNN is over?

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Frosted Gibbon (gibbon@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 04-Dec-2023 12:33:45 JST Frosted Gibbon
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Who was it that took a dig at Wordsworth for being "too wordy?"

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Frosted Gibbon (gibbon@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 04-Dec-2023 07:32:43 JST Frosted Gibbon
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I read one. It was boring, but tolerable. I read Chamber of Secrets, thought it was solid. Moved to the third, boring as shite. Fourth, worse and longer. Watched the movies, "Oh! It's a Jesus allegory! I finally understand why atheistic, White-wine cat-feminists fucking love this!"

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Frosted Gibbon (gibbon@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 04-Dec-2023 07:32:31 JST Frosted Gibbon
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That's because Spec Ops: The Line is a great story.

I'm cool with anyone liking anything. I have my own trash tastes. I accept that they're trash, though.

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Frosted Gibbon (gibbon@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 04-Dec-2023 07:32:06 JST Frosted Gibbon
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But, do YOU look at Hogwarts and think it's a complex universe? Or is it simply mysterious, whimsical, and fun? The world-building is very 'loose.' The fact that "they like it" doesn't mean what I'm saying is off the mark.

Why is Nicholas Sparks so successful with romance? Does he world-build or character-build? [You obviously have to have both for any story to be "good." I'm saying that typically men are better at building the 'skeleton' and women are better at adding the 'tissue.' Why are Amy Hennig's games so compelling? She could leave a lot of the world-building to the developers' imaginations on top of her own talent.]

"Men make houses, women make homes." Same principle applies.

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Frosted Gibbon (gibbon@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 04-Dec-2023 07:31:56 JST Frosted Gibbon
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Then they're even more retarded than I imagined. I also hate J. K. Rowling's writing.

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Frosted Gibbon (gibbon@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 04-Dec-2023 07:31:47 JST Frosted Gibbon
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I'll counter this point.

Male writers focus on world-building. Female authors tend to focus on interpersonal interactions.

It's not that "some of the best are women;" it's that most people can't suspend their sense of disbelief, so they stick with what's familiar.

It's the part of the reason sci-fi and fantasy still aren't looked at as "real literature." It's because the focus is on creating a universe, not building characters in a universe in which every reader already knows the rules.

Look at the rules of Hogwarts compared to LoTR. Why do people like Harry Potter? It's the characters. The setting is just a decoration for the people. It's easier to suspend disbelief for Harry Potter than it is for the contents of The Silmarillion, because you're focused on people not intricate details of the tale's history and the universe's natural laws.

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Frosted Gibbon (gibbon@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Sunday, 03-Dec-2023 03:54:11 JST Frosted Gibbon
I never learned English or European history in school.

I asked a professor at my university if there were any medieval or Middle Ages courses, at all. She checked for me, then reported back there was nothing except "Classics." All of the non-standard history classes were African American, women's, Hispanic, or LGBT...

No one questions it. I had classmates mock me for even being concerned about it. We've been screwed for a long while.

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Frosted Gibbon (gibbon@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Sunday, 03-Dec-2023 02:40:41 JST Frosted Gibbon
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When did school become about torturing its male students? It's weird that they make us read shit like that in high school.

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Frosted Gibbon (gibbon@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Sunday, 03-Dec-2023 00:46:54 JST Frosted Gibbon
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I don't look into the pasts of people before I read a lit book. Blake, Coleridge, Byron, Browning [husband and wife], Tennyson, Yeats, and I need to look at some of my notes. I would say start with Robert Browning. Milton is worth reading once. I was always a fan of The Rape of the Lock and Idylls of the King.

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Frosted Gibbon (gibbon@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Sunday, 03-Dec-2023 00:36:29 JST Frosted Gibbon
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I'm being mean for no reason. I liked the book the second time.

I simply do not believe it's so impactful that it needs reading in every lot class possible. High school? Frankenstein. Intro to lit? Frankenstein. Brit Lit 1? Frankenstein! Age of Enlightenment [History/Philosophy]? FRANKENSTEIN! :soyjak_cry:

There are so many more impactful authors to read. For example, I never read Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Minister's Black Veil in school. Young Goodman Brown is usually the only Hawthorne short people read, which I would classify as horror, but will concede it technically isn't it.

Frankenstein, at an academic level, has been entirely overrated because Mary Shelley is female. If she were male, it would be about as popular as The Purloined Letter.

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Frosted Gibbon (gibbon@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Sunday, 03-Dec-2023 00:15:14 JST Frosted Gibbon
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This is a correct take. Moby Dick is good. Mary Shelley sucks.

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Frosted Gibbon (gibbon@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Sunday, 03-Dec-2023 00:14:46 JST Frosted Gibbon
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>"slower paced"
Nigga, it's like 205 pages. Bitch wrote it in a week. She couldn't make it snappy?

Percy drowned on purpose after people like you read his wife's book.

You find more boredom in Doyle than Mary Shelley? The daughter of William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, two of the most boring writers in history? She wrote something more compelling than The Lost World? [Wollstonecraft was actually a good read, but I hate feminists.]

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Frosted Gibbon (gibbon@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 02-Dec-2023 11:53:07 JST Frosted Gibbon
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I've read Frankenstein 4 times.

"Horror?" More like "borror." Amirite?

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Frosted Gibbon (gibbon@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 02-Dec-2023 11:52:35 JST Frosted Gibbon
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The biggest element of hubris in Frankenstein was that Mary Shelley ever imagined she'd be as good a writer as her parents or husband.

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