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here-there-were-dragons · 5 months ago

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Funniest thing I've seen recently, and not funny in a ha-ha way, more funny in a "the endless entropic void gnawing at my will to live" way, was somebody asking around for alternatives to Neil Gaiman, in the light of Neil Gaiman's ongoing fall from grace. As though what we're currently sitting through isn't the collapse of the carefully curated "Good Guy Neil" image that caused people to parade Gaiman as the same kind of preferred progressive alternative to, say, Rowling. As though we won't be in the same goddamn situation in a few years or months, with some number of the new progressive sci-fi/fantasy darlings- not all of them, to be clear, but at least some of them- when their impeccably-curated marketing implodes in on itself and they're revealed to be the same kind of sex pest or abuser. Can you not see the wheel to which you are strapped. The game of human pinball you are condemning yourself to with this mindset. Maybe you do see, and you're just resigned to taking it one soul-crushing disappointment at a time, one "I never would have guessed" after another. I mean I think we all need to get resigned to that one way or another, sun's gonna go out before it stops happening

#people really need to get used to the idea that humans just universally fundamentally suck and they're never going to find a creator #that isn't a Problem #no matter how good they are at marketing themselves as Unproblematic and One Of Tee Good Ones #assuming by default that everyone involved in making everything you love has unforgivable skeletons in their closet #is in fact the ONLY remotely viable way to engage with anything!#and not only that #it's basically 100% guaranteed to always be true!#and even if they somehow by black magic of some sort don't #in all likelihood they are still someone that would deeply dislike or not get along with you as a person #and would almost certainly have deep disagreements with some element of something you stand for #assume by default that all media-makers would at the very least most likely not want to give you the time of day #and would statistically most likely turn out to not be worth giving the time of day themselves #because frankly anything more than that is a one-way gate to parasociality in all of it's forms #and is setting yourself up for nearly inevitable disappointment #don't put people on pedestals. they'll always turn out to be just more of the same.#to be perfectly honest achieving the level of success that it takes to get in that position more or less *requires*-#having a personality type that lends itself to being the unshackled skeleton closet expose of the day #you can't GET to the top of any given pile without clawing through a mile of human blood to be there. you need to be the sort who's willing #even one so small as “popular content creator”#All Of Your Favorite Youtubers Hate You And All Of Them Are Probably Secretly Horrible In Some Way You Simply Are Not Yet Privy To.#because the fundamental of human nature is that in fact basically *everyone* is horrible in some personally unforgivable way #and the only reason it ever seems otherwise is because you just haven't found out what you can't forgive about everyone yet #and are probably hoping to god or whatever you do or don't worship that you never do.#the only thing to pray for harder is that you never realize what-if you were an objective observer-you would never forgive about yourself #because people a more or less built to be blind to and deeply in denial about their own misdeeds even by their own moral standards #that's what you get when you have an evolutionary process made of compounded errors optimized for whatever most ruthlessly seeks resources #getting a bit off subject but yeah #when you're talking about morality vs realistically what people are actually like it kind of innately drifts subject to something general #it's useless to try to seek the One Pure Man. there are no unproblematic people and there never will be. just people you find agreeable #a positive relationship with a creator of something is the exception not the rule and reading someone's work isn't knowing them personally

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