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06/10/11(Fri)00:08 No.26698327
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No Sprinkles, we hate you. For the MacDash trolling,a nd most of all, Cupcakes.
Don't you dare sit there and praise yourself for your "masterpiece." It's got less plot and writing skill behind it than a sixth-grader's unwanted civil war report. When the non-torture part of the story can be fully accounted for in a two-sentence summary, it ceases to be "art" and is just "torture porn."
It's like Hostel or The Human Centipede: a shitty waste of time that was only made for shock value. If anything, those movies are more wholesome, because they actually have a lower torture-to-plot ratio.
It has effectively burned into the mind of this community a misconception of what "[Grimdark]" means. [Grimdark] stories should be used to describe stories that are more violent and darker-toned than usual. However, Cupcakes effectively expanded the scale and scope of what [Grimdark] covers to a much, much darker place than it was intended for.
So, because someone thought it would be funny to write something so graphic, people have a misconstrued conception of what [Grimdark] means. What this means is that now, needlessly, authors who want to include more mature themes in their stories have to weigh a more heavily reduced audience and remaining true to their inspiration versus being able to "tone it down" in exchange for a much larger audience.
[Grimdark] could have had a much higher esteem in this community; but someone went and fucked it all up. The worst part is that it was so horribly written, so there was no artistic merit for doing so. |
