Want to wade into the snowy surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid.

Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful youā€™ll near-instantly regret.

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutā€™nā€™paste it into its own post ā€” thereā€™s no quota for posting and the bar really isnā€™t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned so many ā€œesotericā€ right wing freaks, but thereā€™s no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iā€™m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged ā€œculture criticsā€ who write about everything but understand nothing. Iā€™m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyā€™re inescapable at this point, yet I donā€™t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnā€™t be surgeons because they didnā€™t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canā€™t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this. A lot of people didnā€™t survive January, but at least we did. This also ended up going up on my accountā€™s cake day, too, so thatā€™s cool.)

  • Amoeba_Girl@awful.systemsEnglish
    17Ā·
    12 days ago

    some important characters in the narrative Iā€™ve completely skipped over, mostly to do with the Nature of Art (in society) subplot, because nothing actually happens in them and itā€™s all social parties and talking

    you ā€¦ mother ā€¦ fucker ā€¦ so not only did you manage to miss the fact that this is a gay book, you completely skipped past one if not the most important theme in the novel which is language and the way people talk and write and the various ways they conduct themselves in different times and places, but oh nothing happens itā€™s just people talking aaaaaaaaaa

    also this is a funny book! itā€™s funny! itā€™s not all maudlin meditations upon time and memory! fuck you!

    • BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsOPEnglish
      7Ā·
      12 days ago

      you completely skipped past one if not the most important theme in the novel which is language and the way people talk and write and the various ways they conduct themselves in different times and places

      I donā€™t think the LWer even realised those themes were there. This whole review screams ā€œfailed high school Englishā€ to me.