badpasiqueer is mad at JIM BUTCHER
AND YOU KNOW WHAT? THIS DESCRIPTION SUCKS.
“Artemis Bock, proprietor of Chicago’s oldest occult shop, had been a fixture near Lincoln (FAFJKDSAF;FADJ;SADF) Park for years before I had ever moved to town. The neighborhood was a bizarre blend of the worst a large city had to offer marching side by side with the erudite academia of the University of Chicago. It wasn’t the kind of place I wanted to walk around after dark, […..] cheap apartments that were flying gang colors on the windows nearest the doors”
FUCK YOU, JIM BUTCHER. You have obviously never actually lived in Hyde Park. I bet you just walked around a little bit — maybe you walked along the edges of Washington Park, maybe you walked down 55th until you hit Cottage Grove. Did you walk along 53rd St and decide that this was “the worst a large city had to offer”? What made you think that?
Was it the Starbucks on the corner? Or the farmers market that happens every Thursday morning in the summer? The Aveda salon? Treasure Island, the expensive “European food market”?
Or was it the back door Latino club that sells empenadas and Latinoamericano magazines out of the back door every afternoon? The smoke shop with the cheap weaves on Styrofoam heads in the window? The crappy Mexican food shop that sells huge burritos for a buck? The 24 hour cheap grocery by the bus stop, where I bought my yogurt from because I couldn’t afford to shell out 5 dollars on fucking yogurt?
Was it the Black people, Jim Butcher? Did they make you feel unsafe?
You know, given my previous experience attempting to read Jim Butcher’s work, the above does not surprise me.
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thespitfireemporium reblogged this from jhameia and added:
Moff’s law… And re: Gaiman, considering he’s married to Amanda-Arsehole-Palmer, so not surprised.
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Dear Badparsiqueer, as a fellow Chicagoan, I fucking LOVE YOU for putting this privileged jackass in his place about...
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alierakieron reblogged this from cabell and added:
I’m impressed that you even bothered. His name alone makes me twitch.
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Speaking of racefail, I finally got around to starting Will Shetterly’s short story in the new Bordertown anthology. I...
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madamethursday reblogged this from tptigger and added:
Apologies for the lateness of this reply, but I’m mid-move from NYC to NC, so internet access is intermittent and well,...
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chloehasalotoffeelings reblogged this from roseyprosey and added:
bro, i was QUOTING you. saying you never said that is kind of hilarious when people can, like, scroll up and see that...
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karnythia reblogged this from roseyprosey and added:
This is one of those moments where an author’s fans go past not being helpful & into actively harmful. Wow.
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kvetchingyenta reblogged this from karnythia and added:
Not only reeking...privilege/racism, but arrogant and unprofessional
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armfulofbooks reblogged this from karnythia and added:
I can’t say I’ll completely give up Dresden Files but this whole thing has been a sad eye opener. Butcher’s response and...
