Imagine being named after a salty incel and a deranged geriatric that used children as chess pieces in a death match against a theater major with no nose.
this post was submitted on 21 Apr 2025
510 points (97.9% liked)
The Leaky Cauldron
699 readers
2 users here now
Entrance to Diagon Lemmy and a place to chat and share memes.
Please use imgur for posting images.
(icon by Aranagraphics @flaticon.com)
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
why Theater major?
He was exceptionally dramatic in the movies, struck me as a theater kid.
Egocentric narcissist with delusions of grandeur who would crush anyone to get ahead. Either a theatre major or a politician
It's gotta be the fact that he strikes a pose and hisses every couple of minutes.
You wouldn't expect such insane ideas given who wrote HP.
spoiler
/s
Didn't notice when I was in the Goldilocks zone growing up with these books and movies. Emotionally I'm still sad she turned out rotten.
Kinda similar feelings about Orson Scott Card.
I think OSC just wrote a compelling book by accident. Lender's game was pretty good, speaker was... Readable, but xenocide is hot garbage and I gave up on children of the mind because I lost any faith that it would be good after struggling through xenocide.
I read basically everything he put out until the 2010's? Been awhile. Won't again because I know none of it will hold up lol.
I did like some of the ideas in Shadow when I read it as a teen, especially the galaxy wide internet becoming sentient with god-like powers. FTL travel by teleporting outside the universe and then back in at a different location was wild. Especially with the twist that if you think of anything while outside the universe it could become real. So, Ender accidentally poofs a version of Peter his brother as he remembers him into existence, a tormenting sociopath.
Or a worse one I guess. The real Peter is making a hegemony back on Earth in the Shadow side series following Bean another genius kid, who can't stop growing until it kills him IIRC.
I mean, poor Bean's descendants got another set of gene editing that fixed the growth issue, but tossed in the most severe form of OCD ever, and then thrown into a ~~racist~~ romanticised, version of Japanese culture to keep them from questioning things or trying to fix the OCD.
It really doesn't surprise me that the author is shitty though, it is fairly apparent from their writing/ the way they portray most worlds being governed by Catholics a good thing.
I actually liked Xenocide, it was an interesting juxtaposition of his writing arguing one ideal and his own xenophobic personally held ideals.
A Planet Called Treason was pretty good.
I'm out of the loop, what's up with Orson Scott Card?
The base Ender series didn't seem to have a lot of issues, and I was surprised when one of my friends said he had nothing to do with Card because he was Mormon.
Then I read the Shadow series (side story in the Ender universe), and whooooo-boy. There was a section with one of the most brilliant genetic scientists of the age talking about how, despite being gay, he chose to marry a woman because the most important thing, the only way to really participate in humanity, is to make babies. Beyond the homophobia, beyond the absolute what-the-fuck about life being meaningless without having kids, he had a genetic scientist in the future who lacked the imagination to figure out how a gay man could have biological children while being married to a man. Something that gay married people are completely capable of doing right now.
He's a Mormon and the church teaches him to be a bigoted homophobe basically.
Sanderson veils Mormonism better, but seems to be very progressive... hiping he doesn't fall off that train.
Whatever the balance is, my impression of Sanderson that of a stable individual. I would be surprised if he suddenly regressed, barring something like a traumatic brain injury of course.
I do think that cult holds him back creatively. He can write a truly horrific scene that I can barely get through about an enslaved man hauling war bridges on his back day after day, but no birds and the bees.
Well, he has wrote people having sex, just not the scenes themselves, in both Warbeaker and Mistborn. I think in all those cases they were married though...
He's also friends with Howard Taylor(or at least did 18 seasons of a podcast with him) who is also mormon but writes a reasonably hard scifi comic. I don't recall if there was any direct or implied bigotry that wasn't treated as a bad thing, but I don't recall any specifically lgbt characters either. Some races didn't really have sexes, or didn't have sexual dimorphism iirc, but it's been a while.
Woah Sandy Branderson is a Mormon?
Think about Mistborn, and words only being true when etched in metal...
He is, doesn't hide it, and goes about researching stuff he shouldn't religiously agree with by interviewing people of those beliefs/experiences instead of using his own perceptions, from what I've seen and read of his process for Stormlight (where iirc, a gay relationship is seen as more normal and acceptable than a woman having a hand exposed).
To be fair, they're children's books written by the female version of Andrew Tate, you can't expect them to make perfect sense.
JK is a cunt of the highest order.
This is probably my most disliked trope in media. I've been trying to find it on TV tropes, but the results I'm getting aren't this. If you have a good link, please share it!
It's definitely one of the ones that is hard to pull off and have the audience still sympathize with or like the character. In real life, there's a reason we don't ever hear about the undercover officers or the double agents. They're not well liked.
Yep, I think it's the "easily forgiven" one. Thanks!
He may not have been evil, but he was a jackass.
Snape saved him in the Quidditch game in the first movie, though? Snape also taught Harry to defend against the dark arts in private lessons.
If Harry had thanked Snape for saving his life on the quiddich pitch in the first book then maybe Snape wouldn't have been such a dick to him.
Literally victim blaming an abused child.
JK is that you?
Did Harry wear a suit?
Did he say thank you?
This is why Zero Tolerance is completely irrational, and if you don't understand that, oh well.
That was terrible writing. Just a terrible book series.
No, it’s a delightful series
She named a black guy Kingsley Shacklebolt. King, shackle. It's racist.
I don't think that name's bad. Cho Chang, however....