General Chit-Chat Thread - No Spoilers

[Deezy]

you cant continue to love one - but hate the other

You must hate most of literature then

 

[CakeWalker]

You must hate most of literature then

i generally dont look in most authors IRL goings on

 

[Deezy]

i generally dont look in most authors IRL goings on

don't....everyone has some skeletons

 

[CakeWalker]

it like Michael Jackson

 

[Lethal]

most authors don't spread their shit for all to see

 

[CakeWalker]

i wouldn't listen to his music - because that dud was 100% a pedo

 

[Bobby Barrows]

i generally dont look in most authors IRL goings on

I mean, HP Lovecraft is one of the most influential writers of all time, but he was also a massive anti-semitic racist, and yet he

 

[Bobby Barrows]

he's still my favorite author of all time.

 

[Lethal]

Jackson was abhorrent, but, his music is sensational. very tricky waters

 

[Bobby Barrows]

In the case of Lovecraft, his personal views were horrid and the man deserves condemnation in that front, but his writings helped science fiction and horror in ways never thought dreamed of. He was the next evolutionary step between Frankenstein, Edgar Allen Poe, and into stuff like Stephen King novels.

 

[Lethal]

he was also around way back when, right?

 

[CakeWalker]

i just call it selective cancellation

 

[Jobber Doink]

I mean, HP Lovecraft is one of the most influential writers of all time, but he was also a massive anti-semitic racist, and yet he

I feel like most people are giant pieces of shit if they're born before 1980s(hell I feel 90s could be in there as well)

 

[Bobby Barrows]

he was also around way back when, right?

He died before WW2, yeah. Personally, I think Lovecraft's whole worldview would have been shattered if he actually lived through it and saw the Holocaust images for himself.

 

[CakeWalker]

either people got to follow through and maintain the same standards for evetything