The handsome and hard-working Larry Correia fisks the Guardian.

[agilebrit]

Right here. Read it all.

This right here is the money quote: They were bored with dying polar bears, murderous bigoted Christians, lectures about the dangers of capitalism, and thinly veiled Dick Cheneys as bad guys. You can really only slap half of the country upside the head and tell them their beliefs are stupid and backwards so many times before they quit buying your stuff.

Because that is the precise reason I quit reading it a couple of decades ago, and I started reading it again because Jim Butcher dragged me back in with Michael Carpenter. I asked Jim about that, and he said that, yes, he wrote Michael on purpose to be the opposite of the "evil Christian" trope, because he was tired of it too.

And now I'm writing SFF myself. Heck, my 12th story was just published yesterday. I've managed to slide in a couple of good-guy Christian characters into my own fiction here and there. A couple of them have even been published.

And Larry "kept me down" (because that's what he wants, is to keep lady writers down! At least, according to Damien Walter. Oh, wait, am I allowed to say "lady writers"?) by telling an editor to put my story at the top of his stack, and by introducing me to others he was talking to by saying "This is Julie Frost. She's awesome."

THAT BASTARD.

Comments

[agilebrit.livejournal.com]

I've seen plenty of left-wingers act much worse.

Including you.

...I'm having trouble parsing your first "sentence" there. I suppose this is an example of your own stellar prose.

[yamamanama.livejournal.com]

Maybe that's a problem on your end.

[agilebrit.livejournal.com]

Or maybe you can't write clear, understandable sentences.

[yamamanama.livejournal.com]

That was clear enough.

[agilebrit.livejournal.com]

No, it really wasn't. I asked why you were stalking me, and your answer appeared to be, from what I can parse there, that some vague person is making bullshit accusations about someone in an effort to make them love you.

That makes no sense. I am fairly certain you meant "endear them to me," but you completely blew it. And I still have no idea why you're stalking me, because I have made no "bullshit accusations."

So, yeah, buddy, toddle off and work on your craft.

[yamamanama.livejournal.com]

What I'm saying is "Fuck Larry Correia with a saguaro cactus."
And there are better books by better people you could be reading.
Also, "Fuck Larry Correia with a saguaro cactus" again. For emphasis.

[agilebrit.livejournal.com]

Wow! That's so articulate! I can't imagine why publishers aren't flinging piles of cash at your head!

So why don't you say that to him instead of me? You still haven't delineated what the "bullshit accusations" are.

OH THAT'S RIGHT. YOU CAN'T. He banned you for being boring!

But see, the thing is, you were terrible to him first. He's never been anything but nice to me--and I knew him before he was a NYT bestselling author and thus before I ever had any reason to kiss his ass (which I don't; I genuinely like the guy), or he had reason to kiss mine (which he doesn't, because I'm nobody yet).

So the bullshit accusation is "Larry Correia wants to keep women writers down." Which is patently, demonstrably, laughably false.