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shilling apparently stirs up pointless drama

No one cares about your shitty book or your worthless opinions, you pompous homosexual. Stop bringing yourself up at every opportunity.

A. Zeller.

You sound like A. homosexual.

His name is GABRIEL SMITH
Lurk more next time ffs.

>go to Penguin Random House's website
>search "brat"
>second result
Was that so hard?

It's you that didn't even notice that "Penguin" means Penguin Random House lmfao.

The guy that wrote BRAT. He already had short stories published and ties to mentor (now deceased) at a publisher. He wrote the novel years ago before Penguin took it.

But keep gassing yourself up as the wiser and older oldgay, I'm sure someone will believe it.

You cared enough to reply though

His name is GABRIEL SMITH
Lurk more next time ffs.

https://i.imgur.com/UgKs3Hc.gif

>go to Penguin Random House's website
>search "brat"
>second result
Was that so hard?

He started shilling his book here last June by posting the cover, but is there any reason to think he's not just a poorly-informed normalgay hoping to cash in on the mythical IQfy market? That's how his threads read. Here's a quote from him:
>But I find self-published work generally more compelling than work from major publishers, I have read most of F Gardner's books, for example.
That an excerpt about Tao Lin give me the impression he knew about IQfy only vaguely, probably got reminded of it by the minor controversy Gardner had on Reddit, then thought it'd be easy to shill here if he played the part by bringing up meme bullshit while casually sucking off the self-pub crowd.

His posting style also makes him look like the newest of newbies.

>That an excerpt about Tao Lin give me the impression
What the frick does this mean?

>That and an excerpt about Tao Lin give me the impression
He posted an image of something about Tao Lin in one of his threads. And I meant this guy was aware of the few instances of indie-/alt-lit and IQfy intersection through people like Tao Lin, but never regularly browsed before trying his hand at shilling here.

>mfw someone brings up the namegay drama from the last thread not even thirty posts in

Go on Warosu and read the deleted posts from the last thread. That about sums it up.

Why the frick is Atlas even talking to Hartley after all of the shit that he pulled? Peak womanbrain.

can anyone translate this? i don't speak schizo

I do not suffer from schizophrenia; such a diagnosis has not been made by any medical practitioner that I have consulted with. Nevertheless, I experienced auditory hallucinations today, prompting uncertainty regarding their origin. This occurrence coincided with a protracted period of sleep deprivation due to apprehension stemming from distressing nightmares. For several hours, I heard my father's voice saying hello repeatedly and calling my name as if he was in the other room, despite the fact that he was not physically present and is in fact far away. This auditory phenomenon, though vivid, could not have been real; therefore I am perplexed about its source. It makes me suspect that I might be developing schizophrenia or some other form of psychosis, and this notion troubles me greatly. However, as I said, there is no diagnosis of schizophrenia within my clinical history.

Based schizo translator, do the schizo rants from the last thread

I haven't been in communication with Ryan since last December because I was advised not to contact him. However, I did speak to him once on Sunday. My reason for doing so was to ascertain whether he was the one posting harmful messages in a thread, encouraging self-harm. Despite my doubts, I felt compelled to find out the truth because the situation was distressing me.

After speaking with Ryan, he assured me he wasn’t the person behind these messages. Consequently, this leads me to suspect Ari might be responsible. The confusion and fear I felt stemmed from my inability to determine the true source of these messages, compounded by Ryan's past behavior where he made similar remarks.

Regarding my medication, there's no issue of losing them as I consistently place them in the same location daily. I believe the anonymous individual making claims about my medication is deliberately spreading falsehoods to mislead others.

I do not suffer from schizophrenia; such a diagnosis has not been made by any medical practitioner that I have consulted with. Nevertheless, I experienced auditory hallucinations today, prompting uncertainty regarding their origin. This occurrence coincided with a protracted period of sleep deprivation due to apprehension stemming from distressing nightmares. For several hours, I heard my father's voice saying hello repeatedly and calling my name as if he was in the other room, despite the fact that he was not physically present and is in fact far away. This auditory phenomenon, though vivid, could not have been real; therefore I am perplexed about its source. It makes me suspect that I might be developing schizophrenia or some other form of psychosis, and this notion troubles me greatly. However, as I said, there is no diagnosis of schizophrenia within my clinical history.

you are not the real one you are an AI and you aren’t real? but that’s what I meant and I keep hearing it again right now my dad’s voice he’s saying hello? hello? hello? and I can like hear it through the wall but it isn’t even real I don’t know why I keep hearing it and I can’t get calm even??? and I can’t go outside even because they’re going to be getting me and Ryan said in the thread “we’ve been monitoring you” and we means Ryan and the police???

who is they????? do you mean the police and they’re going to be getting me??? please say its not real I can’t

I assure you, there is NO ONE after you. It's far more likely that no one cares that you're even alive. "Getting" you is not worth the effort.

The mind has thoughts connected to senses like sounds, sight, smell and more. When memories are created, there is a mechanism to compress them so that the connection is there but the magnitude of the signal is faint.
This is also related to subvocalization. What we think about can be heard faintly in our minds. I experience these things and sometimes hear a voice call by name, sometimes hear explosions which are a bit loud, but it's just my mind. This is my perspective as a healthy, anonymous poster.

t. Zeller

>https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1103914
Rasputin was incredibly based.

>doing a special edition for a shitty self-published novella
your narcissism knows no bounds.

I don't care what you believe. He has a substack full of unremarkable slop. It's self-evident. There's nothing of worth there.

biased ass licked troony or homosexual tootsy himself
opinion ignored

Dammit, no point in keeping up the pretense any longer, you've got me dead to rights. I get out of bed every morning specifically to stop new writers from introducing themselves to IQfy. I do this because I myself am creatively and sexually impotent. I could never put a book on Amazon. Where would I find the material? I've never been to a bar, I drive 5 miles under the speed limit, and have always enjoyed a comfortable middle class lifestyle. Besides, I lack the fortitude to endure such blazing criticisms as "I don't want to read your book." The only time I ever feel any serious emotion is when someone challenges the status quo. You see, I live the way that I do primarily from fear. Not fear of any disease or injury, but rather the fear of being silently judged.

My worst fears have come true, someone has pierced my facade. I bow now to the might of your unimpeachable intellectual independence. Like a wienerroach suddenly exposed to the harsh light of an incandescent bulb I will scurry blindly back to my hive, bumping here and there against walls and furniture and such.

t. Ari

I used to contribute writing to &amp (pic rel in 014) before starting the best-of, and did a couple small (non-writing) things for Unreal. The list of pieces to include in the best-of was initially formed in part by going through old &amp release threads and finding the commentary on which pieces were well-liked, which incidentally led to a sort of historical picture of &amp. Then I got interested in the older IQfy magazine projects and started digging up posts about them and mirroring some of the old project archives. So, this nominally being a thread about the history of IQfy, I stick around to regurgitate whatever details I've dragged out of the archives and old PDFs and dead websites. (There's also a lot of bullshitting in the threads, which I feel marginally helpful in pointing out.)

As shitty as these threads are, they do attract the occasional anon who doesn't realise these threads are only thinly-veiled drama and shill bait. On those occasions there's a chance for actual on-topic discussion, which I think is especially interesting when it's actually people from old projects who see their work mentioned and drop in.

I also browse the IQfy archive for kicks sometimes (better than waiting for something good in the catalogue), which leads to interesting bits. Tonight I found a couple threads from August 2021 talking about what it would take to make a true IQfy cultural scene (

[...]

and

[...]

). Kinda the same stuff talked about now, but with less baggage. Second one was asking
>What is the 1920s Paris of the 2020s, in terms of literature and culture at large? Is there even such a place at all?
to which one guy said the Parisian bohemians did it out of a form of necessity while being considered weirdos at the time, and that
>IQfy is the new Paris. The modern day bohemian probably has very little choice in how he lives, is probably far out of step with modern styles and tastes, and probably spends a lot of time seething about society. Now before you get too excited, you need to understand the most critical aspect of the 1920's Paris movement: we only really remember the good ones, but most of them were stupid. Statistically speaking, if you are reading this, you are not one of the profound, insightful "IQfy bohemes" that may one day cause society to look back and wonder what exactly it was we were all doing that made us so cool. You are the greasy moron who is wasting his time before he finally grows up and comes to terms with his mediocrity.
(Other anons pointed him out as wrong in some respects, but hearing people articulate what they think is special about IQfy is interesting/amusing.)

Never went into any of these threads but I see a billion of them. I feel I must ask…why?

Thinly-veiled drama and shill bait.

(Nice timing on that one.)

>le reddit spacing
I'VE BEEN DRINKING

don't listen to them. Do it (preferrably on YT)

Jasonisms aside, I've had my writing (including that piece) criticised for going nowhere, so the "get to the point" bit is fair (except I'm pretty sure he didn't read past the third paragraph, whether you want to blame my writing for that or not).

>le plotting on discord
not necessary. people here naturally suck

Well, there is the Amazon preview but I suppose you're too mentally moronic to know that exists.

In fairness paragraphs of shards were posted and quite prolifically critiqued in one of these threads. I wish I could find it but anons who visit these threads regularly remember what I'm talking about. There was some pretty decisive conclusion that the prose in Shards was shit.

That was all Ari. He's just shitting on Shards because he's jealous of RJC and wants to tear him down.

I was the anon who went through and gave detailed and specific critique of all of the excerpts from Shards, and I’m certainly not Ari. At this point you’re clearly using this “It’s all Ari and he’s just jealous!” shtick as a weak deflection from criticism, and frankly it’s embarassing. People shouldn’t shill their books here incessantly if they can’t handle receiving feedback that isn’t positive. Anyone who can’t take constructive criticism without making a fool out of themself by seething and coping should stay out of these threads and stick to the /wg/ Discord hugbox. The fact that RJC went on and on about how he welcomed any and all criticism of his book and then proceeded to get all pissy and tell me to frick off when I gave him my honest opinion of his writing is incredibly pathetic.

Absolutely not. I read the first chapter of The Shitkickers, and it was fricking abysmal. I have zero interest in ever reading another word of your garbage. Critique is wasted on you anyway, so I’m not going to pollute my brain by subjecting myself to any more of your swill.

https://i.imgur.com/XePNzDl.png

We should have some fun with this. This post could be waaaaaay more fun if we all took turns posting chapters of our work and had "roasts" of each chapter. Maybe embrace the crabs. I'll happily post my 3rd and 9th chapters and, my 9th is my best work yet, and have you guys rip it to shreds. Let's do this!

No. Frick off.

Go ahead. Post ch. 9, with some contextual notes if necessary.

No, stupid. If you want things to happen then you need to get off your ass and do them yourself. You can go look for another book which has been advertised on IQfy, you can read it, you can try to formulate some clever little observations about the author's lack of talent or terribly misguided, ill-informed worldview. You can record and edit a voiceover and find images for a YouTube video, you can post reviews on Goodreads, you can make memes more engaging than weak-ass AI slop about bucket crabs. You can read pages of submissions from amateurs, you can format them and upload them to KDP, and you can make and finance advertising campaigns. These are all things other people are doing and have done in the interest of promoting a community of outsider artists on IQfy.

Only the problem is that you've totally tanked your reputation so even if you did do the work or put out a clever book, at this point there would be no payoff. No one would think "Hey, Jason Bryan has something interesting to say!" they would just think "Jason is making another low effort bid for niche e-celeb status."

I never told you to frick off. That was either someone pretending to be me or you misremembering or misconstruing something I said. I'm revamping the entire book currently before I get back to writing my second book. I took the criticism and I'm doing what I can to alleviate what people said. Including a cheaper color book and an <$6 Greyscale Edition. Ari was the loudest critic so I assumed a lot of it was him.

Being accused of autism on this board is a compliment, I think.

>you blame all the negative comments on me so you can dispel it as some grudge I hold against you and Ryan---it's a shallow way to preserve your ego.

He's directly admitted to that on Discord.

what business? selling 10 books by someone who can't write is not a business. get the frick over yourself

If the concern is that Lamp Standard Press is using sketchy contracts to scam people then bringing up Chicken World would be irrelevant, considering that it was written by Ryan himself. Ryan would have no reason to sign a contract about the rights to his own book, and would naturally be incapable of stealing his own royalties, so there's nothing to discuss.

Improvidence only came out a couple of weeks ago, and (besides posting a few links to book trailers) David hasn't showed up in these threads to talk about his book or discuss his arrangement with Ryan. In contrast, RJC has spent months attempting to make every thread about himself, which is why he gets the most criticism. The only reason that the Shards contract was ever discussed in these threads at all is that RJC showed up in the aftermath of the Atlas tell-all to shill his book, talk about himself endlessly, and argue with other posters, all while blindly defending Ryan from the controversy that he was embroiled in and dismissing anyone who criticized him as a liar. He bragged about how great Ryan was and promoted Lamp Standard Press as though it was a legitimate publishing business, despite abundant evidence to the contrary. Naturally, anons were annoyed by this, which incentivized them to point out that the preview of Shards was riddled with errors and that the Lamp Standard Press copyright statement within seemed dubious.

I’m not the anon who made the post saying that RJC is right, and I certainly don’t agree with it. I was trying to explain why Shards gets more criticism than the other Lamp Standard releases. It’s not because any one individual is unfairly smearing RJC for unrelated personal reasons; it’s because Lamp Standard is plainly sketchy and haphazard, and RJC has made Shards the most obvious example of the problem by bringing himself up in these threads at every opportunity and feeding the trolls.

I don't get why the wienertails shit is still going. All the threads were dead and after the first couple were dead and no one seems to care anymore. He should just start putting what's already there into a pdf.

Jason you're horribly obnoxious but you're right on this score.
Over the summer, when &amp threads were a daily occurence, I was critiquing the stories and rating them out of ten. In the following threads, the "crabs" would be regurgitating my negative criticisms ad naseum. They never actually engage with the material, they just spew generalities until they are fed something specific, then they spew that. The poorly edited Hyperborea snippet went entirely unnoticed until I mentioned it a month later, and suddenly the next 4 &amp threads were dedicated to shitting on the editor for this oversight

These people are genuinely just wicked losers. There is no value to be found in these threads or in this community. /wg/ is entirely deprecated, there's a long running worldbuilding general, you can hardly get genuine book discussion going. There's no culture here.
So
Just leave. Honestly I've been sucked back into the churn of this place, I check these repetitive threads daily. The same 10 people chirping the same 20 phrases. There's been no growth among any of you for years. For literal years on God's earth you've all been the same. Don't you understand you're wasting your life? Move on. We all should have moved on. Is this how you envisioned your life going? A recurring character in drama threads dedicated to two and a half fledgling magazines read by less than 50 people? you are men. Grown ass men. People love you. Or they did once. At some point they dreamed greatness for you.
This is the 50th edition of this psychotic riptide of a thread and there hasn't been even a slight change in its motion. They're all the same. It's psychosis inducing.

>These threads don’t revolve around you and your opinions
These threads actually revolve around the opinions of about 3-4 effort posters, which set the tones of the next however many dozen threads. It's actually a little remarkable how far forward a critique from 4 months ago can make it in time. All the thinking in these threads is done by 5 people
>>>I just went back and reread the excerpt of Mixtape Hyperborea in &amp, and it was by no means in an unreadable state. There was ONE (1) instance where a short section was accidentally pasted in twice, and a few minor typos—that’s all. It was perfectly comprehensible. It’s likely that other readers noticed the error and just didn’t bother to comment on it, or had forgotten about it by the time they finished reading.

It's actually so fricking funny that you bring up your comment because i remember it. You're literally responding to the people I'm talking about. I brought that shit up one single time multiple threads beforehand. The people that drove you to defend the piece had nothing to do with me other than the fact that they were regurgitating a critique
btw
The real point, if you're digging through archives, is that that issue(016?) was being absolutely skulldragged and SOMEHOW this incredibly obvious oversight had escaped the notice of the well meaning peanut gallery. The tenor of these threads is controlled by people who genuinely are not interfacing with the subjects. They are drawn by drama and perpetuate it forever. You cannot honestly defend the utility of this place
Consider the one constructive piece of these threads: Ari rejiggering RJC's book. That's pretty useful, right? Except that Ari/whoever has been recycling that exact same discourse, plus the contract drama, for months. any use RJC may have gotten from that discussion was rendered months ago, now it's just woven into the toxic tapestry of these threads. More flamebait for dorks. I hate, really, how this place turned out. But literature above all other artforms is a solitary endeavor.

>implying you aren't the one who made every single one of these threads

you don't know a damn thing. stop pretending you do

let me reiterate...you don't know a damn thing

no. chatty bastard, wasn't he

I’m sorry and i’ll tell you so you won’t be mad I’m not the spammer who keeps reposting the exact same threads again and I don’t know who it is but yes I made the first of these threads back in Nov and also posted not this current thread but the very 1st one that used the new OP pic I made because I figured that at least maybe the discussion would be better and less repetitive and awful if I could preempt the inevitable copypaste repost of the old one by making a new and improved thread with a fresh OP pic and better questions and i liked designing the new op it gave me something to focus on and it distracted me and helped me calm down and not feel rlly upset and out of control for a bit but those were the only IQfy a history threads that I made I didn’t make the other copypaste ones that showed up in between and the only &amp threads I made were the initial ones that started the discussions about the best of in summer 2022 because Ryan asked me to drum up submissions and it wasnt to trick Ari because at the time I had no idea he had any involvement in &amp beyond casually sending in work as any other submitter would do and I didn’t know he was going to be so active in the threads and suggest the best of or anything like that I didn’t plan it to be like that I never planned to trick him it just spiralled?? and the only other &amp threads I made were in summer 2023 when I made the new release threads for issues 016 017 & 018 because Ryan asked me to do that and also a couple of fresh submission threads that Ryan asked me to make over the summer when I was helping him edit &amp and we actually needed to get new submissions?But I wasn’t the one who kept putting up pointless copypaste fake ones all the time and also I didn’t make the first IQfy a history thread with bad intentions I did actually think the topic was interesting and it wasnt to dump on Ryan because he already makes himself look bad enough on his own? I did mostly make the first IQfy a history thread for Ari but not to cause drama or trick him only to help him and do something nice because I know he has a special interest in old IQfy projects and I thought he would probably really like to have a thread all about them since he said he was trying to make the mega and i wanted the thread to help find other anons who might have the missing content he needed for his mega and who could answer his questions about IQfy project history and I thought maybe that would make him happy because I felt really bad about making him sad before but I never used that thread to trick himinto talking to me unknowingly or did anything bad the only direct communication we had was in that thread I shared some files to help him with making the mega that’s all and i know you are probably Ari so Im telling th truth about everything because I said I would never lie to you ever again so I have to always tell the truth? please don’t be mad and hate me even more I’m so sorry

I was surprised by the issue23 cover
good choice
that one aged well

Can someone summarize this wall of text? The lack of paragraph breaks and punctuation is too much for me tbh

Can someone summarize this wall of text? The lack of paragraph breaks and punctuation is too much for me tbh

I mean, you're a nobody nothing who doesn't even write. Post your work?

there's more entertainment value in this single post than any of the loathsome heavy handed dogshit tootsy the asslicker ever put out

not even close. RJC usually annoys me. but

No one cares. Frick off.

(which I presume is you) is worse

you don't have to claim it, it's self evident from the fact you had to fall back on vignettes because you aren't capable of a novel

I think you're challenged enough as it is.

This is funnier than anything RJC has ever written hahahaha

more like community disintegration

you're focusing on some irrelevant part of this entire thing, because you have no real experience. don't bother flinging mud at me, you toad.

He's a disgusting poorgay who can't afford a car. Biking is his only means of transportation, so bikes are constantly on his mind.

You've never lived urban and been able to, in the warm summer, pack a backpack with snacks, football, and a 6-pack, gone to the not-too-busy beach, and just hung out with some women and your bros for a few hours? Then after the beers are gone and the sun sets, head to the next location and just lived spontaneously in the moment? Bikes are a ton of fun because of the culture of urban living.

Once you leave the city, bike culture barely exists because ain't nobody going to have fun riding your bike on a dirty, uneven shoulder when 18-wheelers driven by dudes with 4 hours of sleep in the last 3 days are whizzing by at 100 kph.

>shares a 6 pack of beer with friends at the beach
>drunk
Anon, I...

>Write what you know
>Bikes
>homie can't drive

Sounds like you know from experience.

Imodium AD is an anti-diarrheal medication. Imodium is an opiate. Yes, opiates literally back you up.

>G*rdner
>author

Frank’s dad literally damned an entire generation (including his own son) to a life of severe brain damage by stealing the money that was meant to replace the lead water pipes in his home district. Not skimming mind you. Funds were earmarked by the tax payers of Chicago to improve their city and enrich their home city, and Frank Gardner Sr. directed those funds into his private bank account. Now his idiot leadbrained son is using the money to sit on his greasy ass and advertise his complete nonstarter of a writing career.

Imagine your daughter had been made moronic so that someone like Frank Gardner Sr could lavish his own offspring with experiences and resources that he is unable or unwilling to actually capitalize on. Foreign trips, top-notch education, the leisure time to explore their interests and develop themselves to the fullest, these are all things that hundreds of thousands of lives were irreparably destroyed so that Frank Gardner could flush them down the toilet in favor of talking to himself through IQfy about how cool he is.

If someone spent as much time researching a topic for a book to write then they'd have written the new Ulysses. Sad.

i don't blame you...although it scans completely free of viruses, there's nothing of value in that archive