Likely schizotypal, definitely severe social anxiety, a fuckton of phobias, upbringing and class context which was racist AF but still he managed to have good “salt of the earth” black characters in his stories. That is, he imagined black people, with agency and everything, he was not terrified of, that’s not being a piece of shit that’s conscience and hope shining through more existential terror than you can imagine. Hard enough to find rapport with people when you’re schizotypal in the first place (you inevitably, in search for actual connection, start talking to their subconsciousness which often ends in a barrage of projection), doubly and triply so when you’re caught up in upper-class ritual.
So, kindly, fuck off with your normie judgements building the exact barriers that cause the problem you’re judging.
As humans in civil society, we’re kinda obligated to not do the bad things though. That’s the danger with becoming rich and/or famous… I don’t believe money corrupts, but reveals our darker impulses, once we feel we could get away with doing them.
Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
If the author wasn’t such a piece of shit I would love to get that tattooed.
FooBarrington@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
“Them fucks who laze about ain’t died, just napping. One of those ‘the fuck time is it?’ naps which feel fucking strange.”
There you go, that’s a Fooie original for you. And I’m not a piece of shit. Though I was a piece of shit.
swab148@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Slicked-back hair?
FooBarrington@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Let’s slop em up, boys!
barsoap@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Likely schizotypal, definitely severe social anxiety, a fuckton of phobias, upbringing and class context which was racist AF but still he managed to have good “salt of the earth” black characters in his stories. That is, he imagined black people, with agency and everything, he was not terrified of, that’s not being a piece of shit that’s conscience and hope shining through more existential terror than you can imagine. Hard enough to find rapport with people when you’re schizotypal in the first place (you inevitably, in search for actual connection, start talking to their subconsciousness which often ends in a barrage of projection), doubly and triply so when you’re caught up in upper-class ritual.
So, kindly, fuck off with your normie judgements building the exact barriers that cause the problem you’re judging.
prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
K
Dasus@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I’m only guessing it’s Gaiman based on that response.
But remberer that as humans we have the ability to good and bad.
You can like the work while not liking the guy.
Contentedness@lemmy.nz 4 weeks ago
I assumed it was HP Lovecraft, who was a white supremacist.
Dasus@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Ah. True ofc, seeing the context of the post.
My dumb
NKBTN@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
As humans in civil society, we’re kinda obligated to not do the bad things though. That’s the danger with becoming rich and/or famous… I don’t believe money corrupts, but reveals our darker impulses, once we feel we could get away with doing them.