Incoming Toxic Fan Hate Mail – wasn’t planning on that on a Tuesday morning but, hey – that’s why I’m an author. Nothing better to do than be somebody’s punching bag, right?
Part of me says ‘ignore/block’ but another part of me is like ‘they aren’t attacking me, they’re attacking everyone – Somebody’s gotta stand up to these clowns.’ The story began with a LOL – your site sucks email – okay fine, we always try to do better. I asked ‘what do you think I can improve?’ and then I got the following word salad:
Subject: ARE YOU KIDDING ME WITH THIS WOKE SCI-FI ——-?!?!
To Whoever the —- is Listening (Probably No One),I AM ABSOLUTELY ——- LIVID about the state of scifi right now. It USED to be a ——- escape, a place for imagination and incredible stories. Now? It’s a ——- PROPAGANDA MACHINE pushing ——- down our throats and RUINING everything that made these stories worthwhile! And STAR WARS? Don’t even get me ——- STARTED on STAR WARS.
Force Awakens, Last Jedi and RoS? ——- ABOMINATIONS. Complete and utter betrayal of everything George Lucas created. Every decision was worse than the last. Did they think that expectations were subverted when we got Rey as a Mary Sue, Kylo as a whiny emo kid, and Rose Tico?!?! Don’t even get me started on that ——- Rose Tico. Worst character EVER – so fat, so ugly – she ruined all the scenes she was in! Finn shoulda just DIED.
Go ahed call me ‘toxic.’ U call anyone who complains ‘toxic.’ God forbid we’re TRUTH-TELLERS – standards doesn’t make you toxic, it makes REAL FANS. U silence ppl cuz u can’t handle different opinions.
Scifi’s about passion and adventure and ESCAPISM, too much to ask?!?!?! STOP ——- RUINING SCIENCE FICTION! Stop treating loyal fans like they don’t matter and focus on telling GOOD STORIES. If you want to tell new stories with diverse characters, FINE, but don’t ——- SABOTAGE established franchises to score woke points.
We deserve better than this soulless, agenda-driven garbage! Give us back the passion, the adventure, the ESCAPISM that made science fiction worth loving in the first place.
Or don’t. We’ll just keep laughing at u while ur woke empires collapse.—- You,
[Redacted]
A Pissed-Off Fan Who’s Ready to Abandon Science Fiction Entirely Because of Your Woke ——-
Yikes
Okay, so um … yeah. If I had a Swear Jar, I could stop writing and retire. What dressing goes with word salad – balsamic nerderette? I didn’t want to respond until I learned more so I asked: ‘okay, so who’s doing scifi *right*?’:
Seriously, who’s even bothering to make GOOD sci-fi anymore? Paramount just ditched Prodigy, selling it off to Netflix like it’s garbage. Guess they don’t care about making a decent show. Figures.
The point is, nobody cares about quality anymore. It’s all about cheap nostalgia or whatever woke garbage is trending. We’re stuck with soulless remakes and reboots instead of actual creativity. So thanks, Hollywood, for ruining everything. Guess I’ll just go back to watching the same five movies over and over again because nobody can be bothered to make anything worthwhile.
Okay, so you hate the science fiction that’s out now – any time somebody makes something new, it sucks? Got it. You just walked into my kill box. Let me get my Response together – I’ll post it for you in Part II
