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Anyway.
Warning: incoming bizarre, tangential, fucked up, quasi-stream of consciousness Twitter thread embeds.
Thread. (I've come to find that the only hard and fast rule when it comes to writing is "There are no rules, not really.") https://t.co/344zQo8ouI
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) June 27, 2017
I'd have said "write well" is the only "rule," except dreck like "My Immortal" or "DOOM: Repercussions of Evil" still have TVTropes pages...
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) June 27, 2017
A TVTropes page dedicated to your writing is, after a fashion, a measure of popularity, if nothing else. If you head-tilt/squint, maybe.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) June 27, 2017
For reference: https://t.co/kPZxBGVIEm and https://t.co/n6irBjkghd
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) June 27, 2017
Some would say more mainstream stuff like "Twilight" or "Fifty Shades..." are also proof that "writing well" is not a "rule" for success.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) June 27, 2017
</tangent>
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) June 27, 2017
(Ignore this tweet, because the tangent clearly didn't end after it. ¬_¬)
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) June 27, 2017
(Some say "My Immortal" might be a parody or a trollfic or something. Doesn't matter. Poorly written shit is still poorly written shit.)
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) June 27, 2017
A perpetual quandary: is it worse to actually *be* asinine or to just pretend asininity for teh lulz such that none can tell the difference?
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) June 27, 2017
I say it doesn't matter. Either way, you'll appear to be a crazy shitnoggin. If that's your goal in life, then sure, yay, go you. But still.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) June 27, 2017
Unless you own up to merely trolling, in which case, meh. You're now That Guy™ who pretended to be stupid for a while and then stopped.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) June 27, 2017
It's why Poe's Law is even a thing at all. In a way, I suppose it's an art of its own (to get back to my initial point, i.e. no rules, etc.)
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) June 27, 2017
It's just not my cup of tea, is all. If you convincingly pretend stupidity, I'll simply view you as stupid, even if later proven otherwise.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) June 27, 2017
Say, for example, Donald Trump came out to a presser and just said "The Aristocrats!" and did jazz hands and then immediately resigned.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) June 27, 2017
Even if that ludicrous possibility was the true explanation for his presidency, I'd *still* hate his guts and want to see him die in jail.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) June 27, 2017
How this went from "My Immortal" to Trump, I have no fucking clue. Chalk it up to me not going to bed 2 or 3 hours ago. So yeah. Good night.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) June 27, 2017
(Note: "My Immortal" has a rather extensive page on "the other wiki" as well, for what that's worth.)
And then, instead of going to bed, I wrote a Dreamwidth post about it, and then crossposted it to Facebook. And then went to bed.
