I have no patience with the idea that suffering is art, or that reading about happy characters is boring. In my opinion, a work that is all suffering and no happiness is even more boring -- if not an outright insult to the reader and a waste of their time. Nothing pisses me off more than a character enduring pain without the least chance of ( Read more... )

My definition of a "Troll" is a bonafide contrarian who doesn't go looking for an actual argument, only for lulz. By which I mean that he gets you to the highest pitch of your temper, sputtering your foam-flecked viewpoint at him, at which point he responds with: "HA HA HA I wasn't even listening to your retarded f__king argument, and you WASTED ( Read more... )

Sorry, but I have to vent about this bullshit somewhere ( Read more... )

"Happy characters make for boring stories."
--Joss Whedon

"Go fuck yourself."
--me