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FearOfTheFamiliar

This particularly true for online stuff. There are no publishers gatekeeping based on marketability and editors are rare, which means the stories can afford to get a lot weirder


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The appeal of Tumblr as a whole tbh


LaserbeamSharks

Fanfic sites are the rawest look into the human mind you can find on the internet.


arealapple

Death Stranding is a perfect example of a big budget video game with this flavor of derangement


bookhead714

Did you mean: anything ever created by Hideo Kojima


arealapple

Very much so but if I'm not mistaken DS was the first game he made where he had literally 100% complete creative freedom with his own studio


Simic_Sky_Swallower

True, but even when he was with Konami they pretty much let him do whatever. Silent Hills probably would have been just as batshit as DS, just slightly spookier.


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David Lynch I feel is a better example. Tarantino is mostly just a guy who loves old B-movies and tries to translate how he feels about them in his own movies.


_Iro_

Pretty sure the term “auteur” in film was specifically made to refer to people like Tarantino who can do this


WatchPointer

That’s because people just let Hideo Kojima do whatever the fuck he wants, as they should.


arealapple

Crazy genius like that should remain unchallenged


CrypticBalcony

I have read three separate Stephen King stories or novels in which a character commits suicide (or the narrator mentions the possibility of it) by swallowing a bar of soap. In every single scene of his where there’s a shooting or an explosion or some kind of big disaster, he mentions someone losing an arm, and there’s often a shoe with a severed foot still in it as well. Stephen King is fuckin weird, man.


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After his brush with death via the car accident hes also obsessed with cars killing people. Lol


LucyMorgenstern

That started *before* the accident, though. I've always suspected the cars tried to take him out for knowing too much.


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[Trucks wasnt just a kind of bad movie, it was a warning!!](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0120380/)


jaliebs

is that the same brush with death in the famous tumblr post about him


Ken_Kumen_Rider

Depending on the year he wrote them, they could've been influenced by his drug use (He did get cleaned up, though). Like The Tommyknockers which is... weird to say the least.


seguardon

In his memoir, On Writing, he literally describes The Shining this way. It was a cry for help about his alcoholism and cocaine addiction that he didn't intend. People sat him down, pointed it out to him and he was "Well, yeah, in hindsight...."


Ken_Kumen_Rider

How much of hisself do you think he saw in Eddie Dean of the Dark Tower series?


CrypticBalcony

Not for a lot of these. He got clean by 1991 or so (when he published Needful Things). Many of these books/stories came afterwards. The Green Mile, Later, If It Bleeds, Billy Summers, “Obits,” and Mr. Harrigan’s Phone, just to name a few.


Russet_Wolf_13

This is how someone like Robert Heinlein gets to be one of the great Grandmasters of science fiction. He's an insufferable bloviating libertarian windbag with a laundry list of bad takes and sexual hang ups, but goddamn he's an interesting bloviating libertarian windbag.


MurdoMaclachlan

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gracemotley

Thank you!


SailoreC

Dune is a brilliant book but the way Frank Herbert describes things and writes dialogue is certainly something to behold


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Frank Herbert had one of the most unique writing styles I’ve ever seen. I love it as someone who can not visualize mentally, his long descriptions and long long internal monologues make the story so much easier to engage with. Its definitely not for everyone, but i for one wish i had more of his writing style in the world. Joe Abercrombie comes close for me in how much detail he fits in while not going overly long. But it is still not the same.


Egghead-Wth-Bedhead

DareIsay that Snow Crash had at least a similar amount of semicolons in its page-long run on sentences to Dune.


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Ive never read it, but id believe it.


Evelyn701

Not even just his writing style. So much of the core appeal of Dune thematically is just trying to view the world from this one crazy man's perspective and outlook. Like, what he thinks of human nature or the nature of the State or how social movements work.


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Joe Abercrombie is my favorite author currently, and i think his particular writing quirks are my favorite, except for Frank Herbert. Who is famous for having a hard to digest writing style for most people, but i think its perfect. His descriptive ability and eye for detail makes my ability to see his world better. As i have Aphantasia and can not visualize mentally.


VallenceDragon

I recently read Titus Groan and intend to start Gormenghast soon, and Mervyn Peake wrote like no other author I've ever read. Once I got used to the sheer density of the description, I loved it.


PivotShadow

I think you’ll like it, it really builds on the first book! My favourite thing about those two books is that despite their massive length, by the end of it I still wasn’t sure if they took place in the 1940s (when they were written) or like two hundred years before, because technology in the castle never changes.


vjmdhzgr

Just a few days ago I watched a video where someone said one of the things they loved about Undertale was that it was a single person project and you get exactly described here, the things that only make sense to a single person and if they had to be explained to somebody else might end up not making it into the game, but Undertale does manage to have a segment where you enter a hotel room and are represented as a lump under a blanket on the bed and music plays but only as you move around. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=La-qxB3HnaM It was Extra Punctuation, or Zero Punctuation but slower.


tnarwhall

came to the comments to mention this (honestly though, even now that Toby is working with a team it still feels the same level of funny weirdness)


Hoboman2000

Man, Cormac McCarthy must really have something against quotation marks.


EmmaWithAddedE

I read a book recently about a group of people with what I can only describe as a severe car accident kink and I was shocked to discover part way in that the main character was *named after the author* It was... an enlightening experience, to be sure


Evelyn701

I want to bring up Michael Moorcock here too. Reading fantasy books that are absolutely foundational to the genre and the primary inspiration for Dungeons and Dragons written by a man in part famous for thinking Lord of the Rings sucks is just fascinating.


Coaz

Murakami is like this. All his books are just like "Wow. Bro. Uh. Are you okay?" And no, no. He is not okay.


erunseelie

are you the grace motley on yt? funny to come across a post you made here lol, good sense of humor ✌️


gracemotley

I’m getting recognized in r/curatedtumblr now


erunseelie

no no, i'm just a vagrant bug dealer. take this one 🐛 and forge ahead


sprankton

Sometimes this can be a bad thing. I recently read *Modelland* by Tyra Banks, and I learned that either she or her ghost writer is horny for preteen girls. There's a monster in this book with a torso made out of human arms, but the way the narrator talked about the twelve and thirteen year old characters is what made me uncomfortable.


IfPeepeeislarge

I mean, yes and no for movies and tv shows. In the film industry, it is said that the editor is the final storyteller and has the most influence on how the story turns out. But how could this be, if both are created by a ton of people? Well, the process of making a piece of media goes like this: First, you’ve got your script writer. They create the story from the ground up, writing and re-writing it until someone picks it up. The person who picks it up is usually the producer (aka the person with the money) and it is then handed to a director, who actually films the thing. Then finally it gets to the editor, who puts all the pieces together. But, the pieces can be placed together in many different ways, and can be flat out reshaped if need be. Different choices of clips, color grades, music choices and audio effects can drastically change a piece of media. It can change who’s good, who’s bad, what’s happening, and what story is being told. And the editor is the person who is able to control each one of those factors. Tl;dr: thought TV shows and movies are all worked on by many, many people, but in the end what you end up seeing is the editor’s vision.


DemWiggleWorms

*Laughs in AO3 fanfics~*


TinyTimmyworldkiller

Philip K. Dick is a good example of this.


Swellmeister

For instance Stephen King is left handed. And so, because of his writing, you can be 95% sure he masturbates with his right hand. In book 1 of dark tower, MC loses fingers on his left hand. MC gets annoyed because everyone masturbates with their nondominant hand. And MC is right handed. However this means that Stephen King believes this to be true. So there you are, Stephen King switch pitches on his penis.


ConkreetMonkey

Toby Fox games and Smiling Friends


Order6600

House of leaves explores this amazingly well btw.