• UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    3 days ago

    could do it without asking permission.

    There’s an Ayn Rand quote about “it’s not about who will let me, it’s about who is going to stop me” and these treatbrained manchildren have apocalyptically murderous levels of treat brain accordingly.

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        13 hours ago

        There’s a Harry Potter fanfic writer that was paid millions by billionaires because his fanfic was staggeringly in support of all the creepy and ruinous power fantasies of billionaire techbros, too. He got rich enough to start his own literal cult. big-yud

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            Do most of his fans/cultists just ignore the “dare ye enter his magical realm” (CW: kiddie creeper shit, necrophilia)

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            underage le sexy sex zombie that conveniently is reanimated but without that annoying free will issue the original character had until reanimated?

            Or do they also read that part while getting off to it?

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              I actually did not interact with the community whatsoever, I just read it because I was fascinated by how overwhelmingly cringe it was, sorry.

              A highlight of the story for me was when the self-insert character used logic and reason to teach the racist white boy that racism is bad unless you have a sound logical, rational basis for your racism.

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                Damn.

                Well, I only survived it by having some curated commentary on it all the way through. It had layers of techbro hell to it, all the way to the end with its “dae le entire universe just resource nodes to make more phones?” so-true