“Good person”

Well this post is where i find out Neil Gaiman gas been accused of SA. That’s rather unfortunate

I feel like I should point out that Lovecraft was actually starting to change and then he died really young. He would have been a much different person if he lived too old age

George lucas definitely struggles with dialogue but his writing in terms of storyline and political commentary is top notch

Who are the top two? I at least recognize the one on the left as someone I should know, the one on the right looks like someone I’ve seen a stock photo of

I know it’s easy to criticize George Lucas as a “bad writer” because of the dialogue in the Star Wars prequel trilogy, but the man wrote the original trilogy and also had a significant hand in writing the Indiana Jones trilogy. Most filmmakers are lucky if they get one bite of the apple, Lucas got two and was responsible for six of the most successful movies ever, commercially and critically.

He wrote three bad movies while writing six good ones. He’s not a GOAT but he’s also not bad.

Damn this shit in here is toxic on the comments

Nerd hate towards Lucas is unbelievable… He gave you star wars which you drool for, what else do you want from the guy?

Lucas is a good storywriter, just needs an editor that can beat him down and polish his scripts, like Marcia Lucas did with the original Star Wars and Indiana Jones.

Turns out, none of them were good people in the end

I’m still ultimately pissed about Gaiman.

I just… Fuck y’all, never meet your heroes.

george lucas is a bad writer ? i think his bank account would disagree

man they doing lovecraft dirty

Sure he was a freak, but he fucking tried. Everyone knows about the cat but his *dad* named the cat and my man HP himself was born in 1890.

He also engaged in some of the most genuine racism I’ve ever heard of. Genuine. A lot of racists won’t say, or don’t think about, what they actually believe in. “I think black people are inferior, and violent, and stupid and uncivilized.” Okay, sure, that’s you’re premise, what conclusions do you draw from that?

The ones they usually reach for are things like, “so we need to kill them all” or “so we need to separate them from white people” or whatever. Even assuming they believe their own premise, there’s very little downstream thought. Okay, *so?* They’re either too cowardly to say it and want you to just come to the right conclusion on your own, or voice the dumbest things because their real goal is being edgy and transgressive.

Lovecraft went “well I think black people are primitive and savage and have limited control of their own base instincts” *oh no HP don’t say it, don’t say the word-* “-so we need to guarantee everyone a minimum standard of living so that they don’t have any reason to chimp out and kill us all”

He ain’t perfect, but for someone born in 1890 he sure seemed to be trying.

Howie being a good writer is debatable. Good ideas? Definitely. Engaging and comprehensible prose? God no. 

As a lover of Lovecraft’s work calling him a good writer is a bit of a stretch. You read him for his ideas, not for the quality of his prose

HP Lovecraft was not a good writer lmfao. He was a revolutionary in his work as of now, but besides being the father of monsters, his writings were young adult levels at best, not bad, but definitely not good.

Anybody know how the investigation into those claims have gone? I haven’t seen anything since the accusations came out.

He’s also an unoriginal hack

I’m not saying I believe Neil Gaiman is innocent I just want to hear the accusation from somebody other than Boris Johnson’s sister.

Should be the animorphs author