For those that asked, THIS was the post behind today's Twitter meme shit-show. Yep, OP got a "Dude, WTF??" modmail and by a short vacation. The entire mod team will mod this way. Sorry if the attempt at a cute meme rubbed some folks the wrong way. Just be cool and stay on mission is all we ask. Thx.
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OK Cats, thanks for answering on this. That said, are you serious? This guy told insufferable jackass/chief Elon Takeover Whiner Stephen King he "spent countless hours coming up with evil crap*" and is "the left's version of a redneck" - THAT is all they did?
Sir, with all due respect, this is exactly what I was pointing out in my detailed response in the other thread, if THIS got someone a ban, I guess none of us are safe posting anything at all on Twitter. Good grief, really?! And as I said, King Butt-hurt is probably reporting every single person that doesn't agree with him, however mildly.
*Some of King's stuff is sick enough I'm convinced he is actually sick, beyond just the leftism mental disorder.
Edit: And to elaborate on my linked response above, this is exactly the kind of thing we NEED reported here, so that we have that intel about how Twitter is still clearly being ridiculous and precisely what to avoid. Furnishing this intel should not be punished.
Stephen King is sick, imo. Stephen King was first putting out his books when I was a kid and I started reading them when I was probably in 6th grade or so. Not just a few of them--all of them: The Shining, The Stand, Firestarter, Pet Sematary, Salem's Lot, Christine, Cujo, Misery, etc., etc. I even read Different Seasons (novella collection, one of which is where the movie Stand By Me with River Phoenix came from) and King's lesser known works. Back then, King was a good writer in terms of his storytelling. Anybody who has read The Shining in my opinion cannot deny that the writing is well done.
And then It came out. I was in college by then. I was reading it on a weekend in my apartment. It's a long book, over 1000 pages. I remember it vividly because it was the last Stephen King book I read. The protagonists in this novel are children--preteen mostly boys and one girl. They're fighting evil; they each bring something to the table for the group. The book was poorly edited to say the least--obvious spelling errors and other things that had me shaking my head when I was reading it. But then the scene comes where the little girl gets to make her contribution to the group: being the recipient of essentially a train by these young boys. She "reunites the group" so to speak after a trauma by letting these young boys have sex with her one after another. These are CHILDREN. OMG was I pissed. I literally threw the book across my apartment when I got to that scene. The line had been crossed. I suddenly understood that I was not reading a book by a guy who mines his imagination to write about strange topics and writes about them well. I was reading a book by a fucked up human and he had crossed a line. I never read another Stephen King novel again and I gave away all of his books. I suddenly understood that I could not offer one cent of support going forward to the human who would write that scene. That's all I understood about it then. Now I see other facets: the normalizing of pedophilia, the Satanic agenda, the whole crazy spider thing in that book maybe not being so crazy ( https://duckduckgo.com/?q=giant+spider+sculpture&atb=v317-1&iax=images&ia=images ), clowns, etc, etc. So now my question is, "Did Stephen King start out okay and then sold his sold to the devil? Or did he sell his soul to the devil from the start of his writing career?" Either way, no thanks.
I've only read a few. Not "It" - good grief, I'd heard it was bad but not the detail there. But I did read Different Seasons and yeah the story about the kid meeting the old Nazi - seriously, at what point is someone just good at coming up with weird sick shit, vs they are actually sick (or made a deal with the devil, or both)?
The one that knocked me out was Pet Semetary. I was disturbed before Pet Semetary - there was the one with the dog, Cujo, I didn't like that. I didn't like IT. I really didn't even like Carrie. But I really really loved The Stand. I was 17. Ha! I guess that's why I'm here today! I have tried, over the years, to read him again, and other than The Stand, I just can't.
I liked The Stand as well. :)
Right? He was a brilliant writer, for a short time. I also liked his very first short story book. There's the short story of The Stand and a few others that I thought were really good.