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[–] Castor_Troy@hexbear.net 2 points 28 minutes ago

Turn that frown upside down monke-beepboop

[–] Crucible@hexbear.net 3 points 55 minutes ago

Common in people who were discouraged from smiling as children

[–] poster596@hexbear.net 36 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

he longs for his comfort pose muskolini

[–] Dort_Owl@hexbear.net 8 points 4 hours ago

I fucking snorted lmao

[–] WellTheresYourCobbler@hexbear.net 36 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I have a downwards smile too :(

[–] godlessworm@hexbear.net 33 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

wait are you happy or sad about it

You’ll never know!!!

[–] Dort_Owl@hexbear.net 28 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

Someone edit it and flip the mouth upside down hehehe please I am begging

[–] KnilAdlez@hexbear.net 43 points 8 hours ago (3 children)
[–] Salah@hexbear.net 17 points 7 hours ago

Wholesome Nole

[–] Dort_Owl@hexbear.net 21 points 8 hours ago

tenna-bow

I bow to you! ty ty ty this is so cursed I love it

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 13 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Can you also Heath Legswr Joker it up?

[–] KnilAdlez@hexbear.net 29 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (3 children)
[–] UmmmCheckPlease@hexbear.net 6 points 4 hours ago

Wow. Holy fuckin buckets. This is what it must’ve felt like to see the Mona Lisa unveiled. I’m in awe

[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 12 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

how do i delete this image from my brain

[–] KnilAdlez@hexbear.net 12 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Imagine having to watch your hands create it

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 10 points 6 hours ago

With long spindly fingers like spider legs

Or are those just mine

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 16 points 7 hours ago
[–] john_brown@hexbear.net 24 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

if you look at pictures of him in 1998 or whatever you begin to see the scope of the work he's had done, the guy probably can't move his upper lip area much

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 11 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

He’s had so much work and he looks so off putting. There’s a book called Neverwhere by a guy who is a sex criminal so fuck that but it did have something that always struck with me. It has a bit where it describes a man in a suit but it was wrong, like it had been made by a tailor who had had the idea of a suit explained to them, but had never seen a suit before. Elon is like that. He’s like a human if you made them based on a second hand description.

[–] mickey@hexbear.net 2 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

I enjoyed Neverwhere and American Gods and I've been vaguely meaning to read Anansi Boys and the Sandman graphic novels, but I haven't read up on the author's crimes. I feel like I might not be able to enjoy the work or want to take his books off the shelf. I suppose that choosing to sustain this ignorance means I'm obliged to educate myself.

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 5 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

It’s some very bad shit. He’s not a redeemable character in my eyes. Like, put him in the plastic magneto jail.

Edit: I loved his books too, it sucks kitty-cri-texas

[–] mickey@hexbear.net 4 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

That sucks, yeah like I say in my other reply I'd kind of picked that up by inference. Reading is kind of intimate in that you travel into the imagination of the author and I think it would preclude me from enjoying the work. Hard to separate the art from the artist in that kind of medium, because of the way reading is experienced.

[–] CrawlMarks@hexbear.net 1 points 2 hours ago

Everytime time you seperate thr art feom the artist you are left wondering why the mediocre middle aged guy ends up with the 20 year old manic pixie dream girl. Which describes each of the works in question.

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 2 points 3 hours ago

Yeah, that’s a good way of explaining it. On a personal note, I think I’d be too focused looking for clues of his rotten behavior inside the pages to just sink into a book. I’d be clinical. That’s not why you read contemporary fantasy.

[–] 30_to_50_Feral_PAWGs@hexbear.net 7 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

It's really bad. Good Omens was one of my all-time favorites, and it's ruined for me now. Granted, a lot of the charm in that novel was Pratchett, but you can read Pratchett without Neil's baggage. Granted, you still have to work through some of Pratchett's more problematic shit once you get deep enough into Discworld, but it's comparatively mild.

[–] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 1 points 1 hour ago

I've read everything by Pratchett but have been putting off Omens for year, even before the gaiman allegations came out mainly because I cbf with another Christian mythology based story when I could just re-read a discworld banger, now I probably never will

[–] mickey@hexbear.net 5 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah I had sort of picked that up through insinuation, and I wasn't avoiding reading about it because I didn't want my opinion of a precious 'lil author spoiled but because it's like, well I don't need to learn the details of another saga of abuse and all the people and institutions that abetted it. Thanks for the tip on Discworld, I know people have a lot of love for Pratchett but I've never read any of him. I don't do a lot of fun reading these days but I'll keep it in mind.

[–] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 1 points 1 hour ago

If you're sensitive to that kind of thing definitely avoid the descriptions of what he did they're so much worse than the(still extremely fucked) bulk of metoo cases

[–] Scarry@hexbear.net 5 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

You don't have to read up on what he did in detail, you can just trust the fact that people now refer to him as the SA guy who also happened to write some books and move on

[–] LeninWalksTheEarth@hexbear.net 13 points 8 hours ago

from getting his skin retightened over and over

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 5 points 8 hours ago (1 children)
[–] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 1 points 8 hours ago

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