@Background Pony #08AA
“There are even artists who weren’t appreciated until after they died.”
Yeah, but that’s the difference. Henry Darger never tried to publish anything and in fact, we only even know of his art and writing because his landlord recognized the value in it, and he’s now one of the most, if not the most, influential outsider artists ever.

That’s the difference between it, I have serious doubts that in three decades or so will still be remembered, while it’s very likely that Henry Darger will still be widely remembered.

I don’t buy into hype culture, I would say I’m a stoic, like Marcus Aurelius or Epictetus. That means i simply don’t get hyped or get high hopes for much of anything. I went into it, I read part of it, and I thought it was laughable. Should it be shorter I would have read it in it’s entirety, but i’m not gonna read something I don’t like if I could read Infinite Jest (or any such book) twice over. I wasn’t disappointed, i thought it was bad.

“But as I said before you can’t argue or convince someone to have a taste.”
Alright then, i’ll tell them to learn to appreciate more high brow works, or are you going to argue that it’s impossible to argue that Fo:E is not on the same literary calibre of the works of Faulkner (or any other excellent, widely acclaimed writer? I didn’t write it like that because it sounds pretentious.

About what’s on the pic, like I said, you’re probably right, I can’t even judge because i never finished it, so unless Littlepip goes full Unit 731 or something, I doubt she’s worst than the raiders. And even that is a staple of shitty genre fiction, the “raiders” are essentially just an always chaotic evil “race”, something that the heroes can butcher mercilessly without moral dilemmas. Even Tolkien himself handled the Orcs with care and nuance, showing that they did it less out of evil and more out of fear of Sauron.

@habitantunholycity

True. But then neither is MLP, but it still manage to draw a crowd.

“I have serious doubts that in three decades or so will still be remembered, while it’s very likely that Henry Darger will still be widely remembered.”

“… i’ll tell them to learn to appreciate more high brow works … Fo:E is not on the same literary calibre of the works of Faulkner …”

@Background Pony #08AA
I’m more than apathetic to our species even, my point is just that it fucks with the tone. Specially when it’s stated that earth ponies and pegasi use mouth operated triggers or something to fire guns. Tone is very important. If a scene is meant to be horrifying, it means the writer failed when i’m baffled in laughter.

@Background Pony #08AA
I don’t judge a book by the cover, my copy of War & Peace has the shitty TV show cover because it was the cheapest edition i found and i didn’t care about covers.

I did give it a chance, and though it was quite a while ago, I do believe the time where I stopped was when Kkat wrote a gunfight, which were so bad they made my lungs burst from my mouth from laughter. Plus, this was way back in the day, I approached it because people were talking about it and i wanted to see what the fuss was about.

I judged it quickly because it’s genre shit, and particularly badly written. Perhaps it’s some masterpiece of storytelling (i fucking doubt it, though), but I believe writing is far more than just story telling, some of the greatest pieces of writing of all time have little or in fact, no story telling at all.

@Background Pony #08AA

From what i see, you may be entirely correct in your reasoning, again, I haven’t read it to completion nor do I intend to, and it would be silly of me to judge a character when i haven’t even read the piece she’s in, wouldn’t it?

@Background Pony #08AA
It doesn’t matter if he believes it, it’s a meme because this kind of pictures are used half-ironically all the time in places like 4chan.
I could give less a shit about what the creator of the picture actually thinks, Fo:E is shitty genre fiction and insanely bloated in length and what people like or dislike about it is of no concern to me as i read some chapters of it, reached the before-mentioned conclusion, and i’m now laughing at how much drama this pic caused.