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He was a better writer when he was on massive amounts of drugs and alcohol.
Sometimes. Ever read the story the movie Lawnmower Man wasn't actually based on even though it says it was?
There was definitely such a thing as Stephen King doing too much cocaine.
Yes, there’s that but most his stuff since he’s gotten sober has been pretty mediocre.
I'm over here wondering if someone is sitting on the movie right to The Mangler.
They did make a movie of The Mangler.
Hey!
Congrats on that whole "worst user on lemmy.world" nomination!
I'm honoured to stand in your shadow!
cheers
I'm really not worth anyone's energy.
You’re worth mine. You might be my favorite user on lemmy. 10/10
Thanks, that's very nice of you!
I think you're a pretty cool seafood hating squid.
I just don't want to be seafood, thank you.
Tbf, even the worst lemmy user pales in comparison to the worst users of other platforms like elon and spez.
Considering a couple of people in the thread being discussed reference a different thread where they decided I was a pedophile because I have a photo of my daughter naked when she was a newborn, I think some people here think I'm worse.
a naked newborn!
I'm spiralling, nauseous....you, you....nevermind.
But... Squids don't wear clothes... Morons.
It's such a weird slice of society that always equate nudity with sexuality, even in babies/kids. "Weird" being the kindest word I can find.
The funny thing was that none of them had kids.
Not coincidental, I'd guess. If you haven't had kids, you likely haven't realized that dealing with naked kids is just part of the job. It's not like they're self cleaning.
Right? One guy berated me for changing my kid's diaper in a park shelter rather than a disgusting park bathroom because that would traumatize the baby or something. I don't even know.
Yeah, homey hasn't founded any jailbait subs, a fatpeoplehate iteration, lolicon discussion, not even a single racial slur community modded. Downright lazy in comparison to the cream of the reddit degen crop.
I dunno, I’ve seen you around and I think you seem pretty dope
Thanks!
Thank you for contributing to this small community in a lovely way!
I am happy to do it, so thank you for enjoying it.
<3
I'd agree, but that would take energy.
I don’t have any skin in this game, but why poke the bear?
I guess people think if they hate me enough, I'll go away? Maybe it will work. We'll see.
Honestly, if they paid half attention, they’d know it’s just fuel for your fire that probably keeps you going. 🤣
I hope you stick around - seem like a significant net positive in my opinion.
…what did he do exactly? I looked through his post and comment history out of curiosity and I didn’t see anything horrible as far as I could tell.
Philip K Dick too. On drugs, whimsical, thought provoking, melancholy. Dick when sober? Unfathomably terrifying existential dread.
Do we have a timeline for that? I need to know if he was high while writing the Dark Tower novels.
He was high as a kite/drunk as hell for at least the first two, the rest he was sober/recovering since they were written from 1991-2012. He got clean in the late 80s apparently.
The Gunslinger was actually one of the first things he wrote, even before Carrie, it was a short story that he wrote in 1970, and then was submitted to and published in a Sci-Fi magazine in multiple parts in the late 70s, and then sat on it for a while. The Gunslinger as a whole wasn't published until 1982, and then re-released in 1988. The Drawing of the Three was released in 1987.
I know he blamed the weird child orgy thing in It entirely on cocaine and alcohol.
Damn, that doesn't explain why the series is getting more and more ridiculous towards the end.
He had a lot of notes from the high times!
Probably yes and no since he wrote the first line in college.
90% sure one of introductions says something like “it was the 70’s and I smoked a lot of marijuana and read a lot of Tolken.” Maybe it just said drugs…