"A story so terrifyingly bad I hesitate to even read its sporking. :| *applauds you for actually making it through with your sanity intact*"
Sometimes I wonder if I actually did, in fact. It's the one thing I sporked that I just can't seem to let go of, no matter how hard I try to forget it--with the bad fanfics I mostly just get out my rage at them and then forget about them, whereas this one...I can say with no irony whatsoever that I've had nightmares about it! But the fact that it's so bad means that every time I come across another work that COULD be worse I have to go back to it for comparison....
Maybe I'm subconsciously trying to turn it into a tome of eldritch lore. Twisted!: the story so bad even the SPORKING is enough to make you go mad from the revelation!
"And dimwitted narcissists are all about surface glitz and glamour."
Speaking of Twisted!, that actually lines up rather nicely with what the others on Das Sporking said about its associated artwork: they all seemed to think that it gives a very good first impression, but if you actually look beyond that first impression it's mediocre at best and an endless stream of unfortunate implications at worst.
"And therefore, the most important thing to do is to have the very very bestest, even if it's never used."
Yes, even if it means destroying expensive clothes which were probably produced in a sweatshop or with materials gained by destroying the environment (or both!) after a single use, or depriving medical patients with the rarest type of blood of life-saving resources.
That's what really gets to me. It's one thing to engage in conspicuous consumption, but these people don't even hang onto the expensive things they buy and ply one another with beyond a single use--they just throw them away because how DARE the peasants around them even think of getting the same nice things they do!
"Surface is all there is, and the psychopaths then studied appeared outright confused by the idea that there could be anything more."
And thus we have countless narcissistic hack writers who write something creepy with no idea just how creepy it is, because the subtext that inevitably leaks into their story is not something they ever thought through. It's their story so CLEARLY their way of seeing it is the ONLY way that counts!
The really sad thing is, even some authors who aren't terrible do that every so often (JKR, here's looking at you!).
"a scene in the Draco Trilogy in which Ron basically received a gedwey ignasia on his forehead from Rowena Ravenclaw."
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Sometimes I wonder if I actually did, in fact. It's the one thing I sporked that I just can't seem to let go of, no matter how hard I try to forget it--with the bad fanfics I mostly just get out my rage at them and then forget about them, whereas this one...I can say with no irony whatsoever that I've had nightmares about it! But the fact that it's so bad means that every time I come across another work that COULD be worse I have to go back to it for comparison....
Maybe I'm subconsciously trying to turn it into a tome of eldritch lore. Twisted!: the story so bad even the SPORKING is enough to make you go mad from the revelation!
"And dimwitted narcissists are all about surface glitz and glamour."
Speaking of Twisted!, that actually lines up rather nicely with what the others on Das Sporking said about its associated artwork: they all seemed to think that it gives a very good first impression, but if you actually look beyond that first impression it's mediocre at best and an endless stream of unfortunate implications at worst.
"And therefore, the most important thing to do is to have the very very bestest, even if it's never used."
Yes, even if it means destroying expensive clothes which were probably produced in a sweatshop or with materials gained by destroying the environment (or both!) after a single use, or depriving medical patients with the rarest type of blood of life-saving resources.
That's what really gets to me. It's one thing to engage in conspicuous consumption, but these people don't even hang onto the expensive things they buy and ply one another with beyond a single use--they just throw them away because how DARE the peasants around them even think of getting the same nice things they do!
"Surface is all there is, and the psychopaths then studied appeared outright confused by the idea that there could be anything more."
And thus we have countless narcissistic hack writers who write something creepy with no idea just how creepy it is, because the subtext that inevitably leaks into their story is not something they ever thought through. It's their story so CLEARLY their way of seeing it is the ONLY way that counts!
The really sad thing is, even some authors who aren't terrible do that every so often (JKR, here's looking at you!).
"a scene in the Draco Trilogy in which Ron basically received a gedwey ignasia on his forehead from Rowena Ravenclaw."
Wait...is that a thing from Eragon, then?