First off -- the 12th car has just shown up for the wreck. I haven't read it yet, so I can't comment on it.
Secondly...
It's more that Skysaber has a combination of a) low impulse control as a writer, meaning that when an idea seizes him he runs with it regardless of its effect on the story he wants to tell, and b) a history and habit of writing grandiose world-changing insert stories.
Now maybe he'll surprise us -- maybe this whole thing is a setup for Gildesaber's corruption and downfall. But I doubt it. More likely it'll be abandoned when he gets tired of it, or when enough readers start saying bad things rather than good things in the reviews.
ETA: Okay, I've quickly read through a copy of chapter 12 during my lunch. Gah. The story is not only off the tracks, it's rolling cross-country through scrubland. If Skysaber is indeed a Mormon, it looks like he's gearing up for a good old-fashioned "Big Love" scenario involving Hermione's mother and Bellatrix LeStrange of all people. And I can see no reason whatsoever for having Gildesaber give the children "The Talk" except that Skysaber seems to have seen a passage on it in another story and got permission from its author to make use of it. Regardless, it came across as extremely creepy. Again I say, Gah.
-- Bob
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The Internet Is For Norns.
Secondly...
Quote:I think you're reading far too much into this, Necratoid. Many self-insert characters make mass mayhem and commit numerous acts of violence; that doesn't mean their writers are sociopaths. Otherwise, I should be locked up for Looney Toons, who's already said in a DW5 chapter that he has more blood on his hands than he can atone for.
More disturbing in the author's notes he states this is a self insert of himself... meaning by his own admission Skysaber is a sociopath that wants to eat souls and kill fictional fat children in cold blood for the sins of his parents and set the parents up for the murder... which means he should by his own words be locked up and the only reason he hasn't killed people is fear of getting caught.
It's more that Skysaber has a combination of a) low impulse control as a writer, meaning that when an idea seizes him he runs with it regardless of its effect on the story he wants to tell, and b) a history and habit of writing grandiose world-changing insert stories.
Now maybe he'll surprise us -- maybe this whole thing is a setup for Gildesaber's corruption and downfall. But I doubt it. More likely it'll be abandoned when he gets tired of it, or when enough readers start saying bad things rather than good things in the reviews.
ETA: Okay, I've quickly read through a copy of chapter 12 during my lunch. Gah. The story is not only off the tracks, it's rolling cross-country through scrubland. If Skysaber is indeed a Mormon, it looks like he's gearing up for a good old-fashioned "Big Love" scenario involving Hermione's mother and Bellatrix LeStrange of all people. And I can see no reason whatsoever for having Gildesaber give the children "The Talk" except that Skysaber seems to have seen a passage on it in another story and got permission from its author to make use of it. Regardless, it came across as extremely creepy. Again I say, Gah.
-- Bob
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The Internet Is For Norns.