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realitydeviant (![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} realitydeviant) wrote in ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/community.gif){kind=small} unfunny_fandom, |
Ancient Drow Tales
Candlekeep was (I think officially) the main Forgotten Realms D&D fansite, and one of its main claims to fame was a bunch of the designers and official writers would pop in there. Salvatore was a regular, and had a massive fan cult of personality thing going on. This didn't help Salvatore's ego, which was already the size of the Abyss (seriously, we *get* that you're a New York Times Bestselling Author (TM), and you doing us a huge favor gracing us with your august presence, we get it, you can shut up now Bob.) Add to that the fact Salvatore doesn't take criticism well, or at all, really. I once watched him almost start a fistfight at DragonCon with a fan who said something negative about one of the mercenaries books.
Then add Winterfox and her cronies and stir. And get the hell away from ground zero.
Someone (it wasn't me and it wasn't Winterfox, that's all the years, Lyrica, and migraine meds will let me recall,) posted a bit about how Drizzt had started off as an interesting character, a basically good drow forced to the surface and made to deal with the surfacers' reactions and prejudices, and then turned into a preachy Mary Sue in later books. Ok, fair enough, I don't even read the books and I've heard all that before. Salvatore shows up in the thread in full on attack mode, with fanboy supporters. And that was waving a red flag at a bull as far as Winterfox was concerned. She posted several lengthy reviews of his books and discussion of Drizzt as a character. If you've seen her reviews, you have an idea of what they were like. (As I recall, they were a bit more scathing than her usual.) Salvatore utterly loses his shit, sics the fanboy horde on her and her buddies, which got unfunny fast( I heard that several of them stalked and harassed her online for years,) accused her of being a bitter, failed poet who was jealous of his success, which was hilarious because it came out of nowhere, and then epically flounced. And then one of the site maintainers ( who'd been getting a lot of mileage out of "Dude, I hang with BOB SALVATORE a lot!!!!11!!!") posted a pissy screed about how they'd chased Salvatore away and ruined it for everyone! OMG! And banned Winterfox and a ton of others.
Candlekeep was (I think officially) the main Forgotten Realms D&D fansite, and one of its main claims to fame was a bunch of the designers and official writers would pop in there. Salvatore was a regular, and had a massive fan cult of personality thing going on. This didn't help Salvatore's ego, which was already the size of the Abyss (seriously, we *get* that you're a New York Times Bestselling Author (TM), and you doing us a huge favor gracing us with your august presence, we get it, you can shut up now Bob.) Add to that the fact Salvatore doesn't take criticism well, or at all, really. I once watched him almost start a fistfight at DragonCon with a fan who said something negative about one of the mercenaries books.
Then add Winterfox and her cronies and stir. And get the hell away from ground zero.
Someone (it wasn't me and it wasn't Winterfox, that's all the years, Lyrica, and migraine meds will let me recall,) posted a bit about how Drizzt had started off as an interesting character, a basically good drow forced to the surface and made to deal with the surfacers' reactions and prejudices, and then turned into a preachy Mary Sue in later books. Ok, fair enough, I don't even read the books and I've heard all that before. Salvatore shows up in the thread in full on attack mode, with fanboy supporters. And that was waving a red flag at a bull as far as Winterfox was concerned. She posted several lengthy reviews of his books and discussion of Drizzt as a character. If you've seen her reviews, you have an idea of what they were like. (As I recall, they were a bit more scathing than her usual.) Salvatore utterly loses his shit, sics the fanboy horde on her and her buddies, which got unfunny fast( I heard that several of them stalked and harassed her online for years,) accused her of being a bitter, failed poet who was jealous of his success, which was hilarious because it came out of nowhere, and then epically flounced. And then one of the site maintainers ( who'd been getting a lot of mileage out of "Dude, I hang with BOB SALVATORE a lot!!!!11!!!") posted a pissy screed about how they'd chased Salvatore away and ruined it for everyone! OMG! And banned Winterfox and a ton of others.
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