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by mlsu 808 days ago
It's a clever bit.

It is intellectually amusing to read, and I'm sure to write, a character that the reader hates. But the detachment becomes exhausting quick. It's a dead end; you spent all of this effort being clever, with what to show for it? After reading it, I find myself questioning which side of the joke is real and which is false, and whether I'm in the real part of the joke or the false part. Which is ultimately a fruitless exercise, since the whole thing is intentionally set up to be pointless. Got me, I guess?

I do like the visuals though.

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It just sounds like an artist who is trying really hard to be an artist and forgetting that real artists don't try, they just do what they like and someone else loves it.

But also the compulsive lying, the drugs, the weird lack of self awareness is cringe inducing here.