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Miscbrains:beastie::segasaturn: | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 @Parker Banks @Hoss “Cyber Jester” Delgado @Purple Cat with a PC-98 (and X68K) @rees @🌲Hidden🌲 Eh depressed perverted introverts are no strangers to fiction.  Now you may have a point that current year versions aren't far enough along one of those axes to be REALLY damaged enough to create the good stuff.
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Parker Banks | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 @542debdc @Hoss “Cyber Jester” Delgado @Purple Cat with a PC-98 (and X68K) @🌲Hidden🌲 @rees 
The people I have in mind are those like Kenzaburō Ōe, having a disabled son informed a lot of his writing (still haven't worked up the courage to read "A Personal Matter"). Or like Hoss mentioned, Monet going blind. That kind of suffering.
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Miscbrains:beastie::segasaturn: | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 @Parker Banks @Hoss “Cyber Jester” Delgado @Purple Cat with a PC-98 (and X68K) @🌲Hidden🌲 @rees Yeah that tracks with what i was saying.  A pedantic level of discomfort probably isn't gonna get you anything profound.