It’s tedious. He’s so averse to swearing like a normal human. Stupid Mormon cult. This coming from a former Mormon who actually went to his midnight launch of storm light archive book two at BYU. he’s overrated. Intensely overrated. His best work is The Emperor’s Soul.
“When it comes to macro level editing I just leave as is, im still way faster than you tho” 😂😂😂 and I love how the web fiction author’s glasses are just a little different than Brandon’s
There's a relatively big indie fantasy author called Andy Peloquin (Darkblade Assassin series) who churns out 2-4 250k+ monstrosities a year. Man writes like 80k words a month.
I've never gotten into webnovels, but I know of at least one Japanese Light novel who can probably give Brandon a run for his money. I think he's consistently higher in terms of books published, but since they are light novels they are all roughly equivalent to Brandon's novellas at best. I have no idea how close he is in terms of word count though. Name is Kazuma Kamachi, he's most well known for the Toaru franchise, but has a number of other series as well. Has the same reputation of pumping out tons of books, writing on vacation, etc.
Kazuma is a beast, sometimes he pumps out a light novel volume every month. Honestly, great heart to most of the characters and the plots of some arcs are phenomenal as well.
Lol that ending. So accurate. I know people will hate me for this but it’s one of the reasons I can never pick up something like Wandering Inn. I need something that’s been edited and refined. If half the product hasn’t been left on the cutting room floor it’s probably way too bloated still
If it helps, The Wandering Inn *does* have an edit team. But they don't HAVE to leave things on the cutting room floor, because the author's not trying to fit the words inside a publishing house's "books-can't-be-bigger-than-x" box. So we get more dialogue. We get more quiet moments of family interacting. We get to see the characters actually screw up and deal with the consequences of that, and we get to watch them grow from it. I respect the idea that you need things to be concise and pared-down. But I cannot live in a fantasy world that way. Give me all the characters. Give me all the worldbuilding. Give me *depth* and I'll give you The Wandering Inn.
First I've heard of it. But yeah usually I like stories that feel like they have a good pacing. It sounds like this wandering inn fits into a more episodic style of writing.
Has anyone heard of Walter B Gibson? He worked as a crime reporter and a true crime author, then contracted to write novels of The Shadow for 18 years, writing 283 novels of The Shadow, with a new story coming out every 2 weeks at the peak of the magazine. He also wrote scripts for the comic book adaptation of The Shadow, as well as many other characters.
@@genericallyentertainingIt is faster. It will never, ever be of similar quality because writing is human communication. Art is the communication of a theme, an idea or experience, through characterization. ChatGPT & other such software does not create any ideas nor does it understand structure or theme, it is basically a highly sophisticated auto fill which compiles a huge amount of written works & just kinda smushes them together while smearing the edges with combination words. Usually it will outright say "they overcame challenges" or something like that. It will say "there is a conflict" & that's it, because there's no real conscious decision making or abstraction. It is just a machine compiling what exists. It has no understanding of rules or structure or construction of a story. It just copy pastes combinations of established materials.
Harlan Ellison is the most prolific author I know of. He wrote thousands (yes, thousands) of short stories along with various novels, essays, and screenplays. Also, he was a very colorful person
Before watching, I thought maybe this'd be about Isaac Asimov. I've read about 80 of his books, and that's only a tiny fraction of his total output. Yes, really.
Okay but like how IS worm? Like I’m terrified to dive into these major Royal Road projects because they’ll either be amazing life changing experiences or like….literary candy. Delicious and fun but kinda lacks the quality and cohesiveness that sustains in the long term
@bross92 Parahumans (Worm and Ward) is almost definitely the best superhero story ever written, but I like WB‘s other works better. I would recommend starting with Pale, even if it is way longer, just because he’s had a decade of experience going into it instead of being something he put up in order to force himself to commit to a single story instead of starting over after a few chapters like 200 times.
I've read Worm Twice. It's amazing quality when you consider it was written on the fly. It doesn't feel like a regular novel, but it's very well written.
Great characters, character dynamics, themes and concepts/world, has billions of layers to analyze, but the prose is hard to read and the action scenes/dark scenes are sometimes so saturated they lose their emotional impact from repetition.
Here's the thing though, not only does Sanderson write fast, he writes well. His worlds and characters are always deep and three dimensional, unlike many online fiction writers.
Right, Brandon Sanderson is one of the very few writers who can output top quality at that pace. Even the other super-prolific famous authors like Isaac Asimov, Steven King, and RL Stine (in my opinion) write at a significantly lower quality (on average). Sanderson spends less than a year to write each Stormlight Archive book and he is working on other books on the side during that same period. That kind of book (highly polished, uber-long, epic fantasy installment) takes his competitors 2-5 years to write while not writing else. All this while strictly maintaining canon across the entire cosmere.
Pirateaba. I just started listening to The Wandering Inn and when I looked up how much I had to go I had that small moment of fear mixed with excitement. I'm sure its outdated now but I saw at one point The Wandering Inn was twice as long as the second longest fantasy series.
Love none edited stuff is okay everyone likes random delirious "dream" like books some stay there not wanting to admit they have wasted so much time they don't have enough of their life left to reqd stuff they would acknowledge as good but yeeeeah its okay to each their own right?...
Lol. To be fair! There are some traditional authors that put out several novels a year as well, they just tend to be in niche genres and very undermarketed.
@@genericallyentertaining It's the comparison to other fantasy authors in our generation who are considered good, but are so slow ... Rothfuss, Martin, the guy from Gentleman Bastards etc. Sanderson is the fastest of the contemporary great fantasy writers.
Have you ever heard of Japanese authorTappei Nagatsuki the author of Re:Zero this guy sounds just like the guy not the video as in he has wrote something longer then the wheel of time in ten years. For scale one of his arcs he pumped was a 1.5 million word arc for his web novel in around a year and half. He now is actually publishing them and he has alway edited them but now has gone back and made a new version for print. I don’t know how he does it and he is planning on 11 arcs and is on arc 8
Not really tbh. Kamachi makes novels fast and multiple novels a year, but the LNs themselves are like very short usually Toaru was written over like 20 years, and is about 4.5 million words long last I checked, plus he has a few other series, but even combined there is less novels then Index ones, I dont know exact wordcounts, but lets say its about 3 more million words? (sounds about right, Heavy object + bloodsign is like 30 novels + a few other novels. Probobly a huge overesitmation even, but it doesnt particularly matter for my point since it would still stand even if it was only 1 million or over 5 million or something) so that would be about 7.5 million words in 20 years. But then if we look at the people this skit is based on its just... more words in less time. Wildbow has written like almost 10 million words (Worm is 1.7, Pact is like 1, Ward is like 1.9, Twig is like 1.6, and Pale is like 3.6 and then some more in Claw) since 2011, which is like 13 years. And Pirateaba with 12.4 million words of Wandering Inn since 2016 which is like 8 years.
@@dpolaristar4634 I am counting SS lns, but not mangas. The problem with counting mangas is that they have very small wordcount anyway, conveying most things through visuals. So using "Wordcount" to measure the speed at which mangas come out is very useless, they combined would probobly add less then like 100k words, let alone a million. (and even if they did somehow get a million words which in them which is basically impossible, it still wouldnt change the stats I am talking about at all) Not to mention that while the mangas are written by Kamachi (as in its his ideas and they are based on a plot outline made by him), they cant be fully counted as his output. As mentioned by the Railgun mangaka, the outline of the plot that Kamachi gives for a certain arc gets expanded like 3 times over and changed a lot. (e.g. Railgun's version of Daihaiseisai didnt originally include Gunha or the Dragon Strike). ---- But talking about them, the release schedule for the Toaru mangas is like... very slow honestly? They are monthly releases with very small chapters going on a hiatus every few month. --- TLDR: while I didnt count the Toaru mangas in my original assessment, including them doesnt change anything. if you want you can include +100k to the wordcount for the estimations, or even +1 million (which would be absurd), and Kamachis speed would still be outpaced by far. Kamachi is a fast writer and is honestly on another level compared to most writers, but the webserial authors are just on a level even higher.
@@dpolaristar4634 I know, again, this is rough estimates and adding even a few million words to them wouldnt change anything in this situation. One novel is like 60-100k words. Item spinoff and Misaka vs Misaki non-canon story are incomparable in size to the difference we are discussing here, they are basically a rounding error at this scale. it doesnt matter, unless he has a secret 100+ novel series that I am not aware of.
Ill take BrandoSandos quality writing. It takes me long enough to read the amazing works from him and others that are already out! I dont need to add massive manuscripts that, though they may have some good ideas, are never properly edited to ensure everything makes sense XD
One contender for the web fiction author has been named twice in the comments already. I don’t want to say it too or will sound like a third vote but just saying!
The most prolific writer is a writing collective with a style guide that shares a pen name. Also names books something like Shadow Harem King 14 and Savage Survival 8. The main character (singular because it is really just one person) is just the white version of a xianxia story's MC.
And not truly readable since technically they didn't write it cause how much the community has to edit it at that point its more the community's work than the authors
Oh, my! That was kinda scary. I actually don't understand how Sanderson writes so much. I would love to see him do a Day In the Life. It doesn't seem there are enough hours in a day to do everything he does. Plus, he's married and has young kids, doesn't he? Does he like... ever see them? I need to know his secret! Maybe he's one of those people who somehow can function on 4 hours sleep a night? Can you tell I think about this too much? Because I do. LOL!
I don't remember whether it was a video on this channel or a blog post but he's talked before about how he has an unusual sleep schedule but usually takes a few hours off in the afternoon/evening to spend with wife/kids and then writes more after they're asleep
Sando doesn't edit either. He admitted that editing any of the stormlight books isn't worth it so he just pumps them out and let's his wife do line editing
Nah As mentioned someone else in the comments its based on Pirateaba (author of Wandering Inn) and Wildbow (author of a bunch of stuff, most famously Worm). And while I havent read the Wandering inn, I can say that Wildbow's stuff is amazing.
I absolutely love Man Carrying Thing. I've been watching his channel for far longer than I've had my own channel, he's been a major inspiration for me, and his humor always lands. Without taking anything away from him, however, I really appreciate this complement, and I'm glad I could provide a "cool place for cool kids" for you all, because that's really all I want. I certainly don't think this channel is better than MCT, but I'm glad I can at least provide something a little different.
I love the idea that Brandon uses his own curses
😂😂😂
It’s tedious. He’s so averse to swearing like a normal human. Stupid Mormon cult. This coming from a former Mormon who actually went to his midnight launch of storm light archive book two at BYU. he’s overrated. Intensely overrated. His best work is The Emperor’s Soul.
The authors in ao3 except they might stop after writing 54 chapters and never update the greatest literary masterpiece since 2015
HAHAHAHA! Is that place still around?
@@Yesica1993 still around? no way i loved that you asked that haha 😂
Prince of Slytherin with over 1 million words and still going strong inspires me to get out of bed and go for a jog every morning.
Yuppppp, alive and kicking.
Ikr😂
“When it comes to macro level editing I just leave as is, im still way faster than you tho” 😂😂😂 and I love how the web fiction author’s glasses are just a little different than Brandon’s
I have way too many pairs of glasses.
There's a relatively big indie fantasy author called Andy Peloquin (Darkblade Assassin series) who churns out 2-4 250k+ monstrosities a year. Man writes like 80k words a month.
Man, even though I know people like this exist, I just have such a hard time imagining being this productive. Like, how?? Do you ever sleep???
finnally a worhty opponent
@@genericallyentertaining Quality over quantity.
@@genericallyentertainingikr😂
Bruh I am jealous because I’m writing a book and still on page 676
Love "Brandon"'s face when the web author says he doesn't edit. 😂
Sanderson might not feel pain, but that made him cringe nonetheless
"Faster than anyone better than him, better than anyone faster than him."
Wildbow has actually been burnt out enough recently that he’s gone down to ~10k words a week. But I see your point.
IS THAT A MOTHER FUCKING WORM REFERENCE?!
I've never gotten into webnovels, but I know of at least one Japanese Light novel who can probably give Brandon a run for his money. I think he's consistently higher in terms of books published, but since they are light novels they are all roughly equivalent to Brandon's novellas at best. I have no idea how close he is in terms of word count though. Name is Kazuma Kamachi, he's most well known for the Toaru franchise, but has a number of other series as well. Has the same reputation of pumping out tons of books, writing on vacation, etc.
Kazuma is a beast, sometimes he pumps out a light novel volume every month. Honestly, great heart to most of the characters and the plots of some arcs are phenomenal as well.
Lol that ending. So accurate. I know people will hate me for this but it’s one of the reasons I can never pick up something like Wandering Inn. I need something that’s been edited and refined. If half the product hasn’t been left on the cutting room floor it’s probably way too bloated still
If it helps, The Wandering Inn *does* have an edit team. But they don't HAVE to leave things on the cutting room floor, because the author's not trying to fit the words inside a publishing house's "books-can't-be-bigger-than-x" box. So we get more dialogue. We get more quiet moments of family interacting. We get to see the characters actually screw up and deal with the consequences of that, and we get to watch them grow from it.
I respect the idea that you need things to be concise and pared-down. But I cannot live in a fantasy world that way. Give me all the characters. Give me all the worldbuilding. Give me *depth* and I'll give you The Wandering Inn.
First I've heard of it. But yeah usually I like stories that feel like they have a good pacing. It sounds like this wandering inn fits into a more episodic style of writing.
@@linnetmelody9251you can have all of the things you named without bloat, that's what the mark of a good story is.
I follow this guy who writes a whole chapter every 3-5 days. It's been a couple years and they just released part 1 and 2 of chapter 257
Knew you were talking about Pirateaba😂
halfway through this video and im guessing its a writer on ao3 those fic writers really be goin
Apparently, the longest work of fiction in the English language is a piece of fanfiction. So...yep.
It's a loud house fanfic 16million+ words.
@@user-vy4yd8sz4zas someone who has read part of said fic with some friends:
It hardly counts
I knew it was going to be Wildbow. Worm is definitely in my top ten favorites books.
Could've also been Pirateaba from Wandering Inn. 10+ Million words strong!
@@Katsujin2 never heard of them. I’ll look em up.
Has anyone heard of Walter B Gibson? He worked as a crime reporter and a true crime author, then contracted to write novels of The Shadow for 18 years, writing 283 novels of The Shadow, with a new story coming out every 2 weeks at the peak of the magazine. He also wrote scripts for the comic book adaptation of The Shadow, as well as many other characters.
Just wanted to say, I love your channel man. Keep up the good work! Please!
I ve expected this Sando to react like "GENIUS!!! NOW I M GONNA DO SUCH TOO!"
And then he surpasses him in a day.
I was waiting for the mystery author to reveal himself as chuck tingle the entire time lmao, but even he doesn't write that much compared to this guy
I was expecting ChatGPT
Give it a few years, and I'm sure it will be.
@@genericallyentertainingIt is faster. It will never, ever be of similar quality because writing is human communication. Art is the communication of a theme, an idea or experience, through characterization. ChatGPT & other such software does not create any ideas nor does it understand structure or theme, it is basically a highly sophisticated auto fill which compiles a huge amount of written works & just kinda smushes them together while smearing the edges with combination words. Usually it will outright say "they overcame challenges" or something like that. It will say "there is a conflict" & that's it, because there's no real conscious decision making or abstraction. It is just a machine compiling what exists. It has no understanding of rules or structure or construction of a story. It just copy pastes combinations of established materials.
@@pubcle Give it a few years. Humans will still be necessary but they will only need to do the big-picture stuff and the editing
@@Talonidas7403 I loathe that. I despise it to the bones.
@@pubcle You won't even notice unless they tell you
The ending is perfect.
Harlan Ellison is the most prolific author I know of. He wrote thousands (yes, thousands) of short stories along with various novels, essays, and screenplays. Also, he was a very colorful person
Before watching, I thought maybe this'd be about Isaac Asimov. I've read about 80 of his books, and that's only a tiny fraction of his total output. Yes, really.
The ending got me. Couldn't help bursting out in laughter.
Okay but like how IS worm? Like I’m terrified to dive into these major Royal Road projects because they’ll either be amazing life changing experiences or like….literary candy. Delicious and fun but kinda lacks the quality and cohesiveness that sustains in the long term
@bross92
Parahumans (Worm and Ward) is almost definitely the best superhero story ever written, but I like WB‘s other works better. I would recommend starting with Pale, even if it is way longer, just because he’s had a decade of experience going into it instead of being something he put up in order to force himself to commit to a single story instead of starting over after a few chapters like 200 times.
I've read Worm Twice. It's amazing quality when you consider it was written on the fly. It doesn't feel like a regular novel, but it's very well written.
Great characters, character dynamics, themes and concepts/world, has billions of layers to analyze, but the prose is hard to read and the action scenes/dark scenes are sometimes so saturated they lose their emotional impact from repetition.
Great acting dude. Your Brandon voice is so close to his!
Here's the thing though, not only does Sanderson write fast, he writes well. His worlds and characters are always deep and three dimensional, unlike many online fiction writers.
Right, Brandon Sanderson is one of the very few writers who can output top quality at that pace. Even the other super-prolific famous authors like Isaac Asimov, Steven King, and RL Stine (in my opinion) write at a significantly lower quality (on average).
Sanderson spends less than a year to write each Stormlight Archive book and he is working on other books on the side during that same period. That kind of book (highly polished, uber-long, epic fantasy installment) takes his competitors 2-5 years to write while not writing else. All this while strictly maintaining canon across the entire cosmere.
Thought it was the author of Wandering Inn
Pirateaba. I just started listening to The Wandering Inn and when I looked up how much I had to go I had that small moment of fear mixed with excitement. I'm sure its outdated now but I saw at one point The Wandering Inn was twice as long as the second longest fantasy series.
Pirateaba edits you monsters. it just requires painful work on the part of the editors!
I love Wildbow so much. I prefer his writing over Brando Sando by quite a bit personally, but to each their own.
Love none edited stuff is okay everyone likes random delirious "dream" like books some stay there not wanting to admit they have wasted so much time they don't have enough of their life left to reqd stuff they would acknowledge as good but yeeeeah its okay to each their own right?...
@@NeahMinto88.
Lol.
To be fair! There are some traditional authors that put out several novels a year as well, they just tend to be in niche genres and very undermarketed.
Yeah, there are definitely a lot of authors with a comparable output to Brandon! I do think his speed tends to be a bit overexaggerated.
@@genericallyentertaining It's the comparison to other fantasy authors in our generation who are considered good, but are so slow ... Rothfuss, Martin, the guy from Gentleman Bastards etc.
Sanderson is the fastest of the contemporary great fantasy writers.
You had me at the feet typing.
Definitely thought this was gonna be about the 'Wandering Inn' series, considering it's longer then WoT
It's Pirateaba, isn't it?
Shots fired at Pirateaba here.
Have you ever heard of Japanese authorTappei Nagatsuki the author of Re:Zero this guy sounds just like the guy not the video as in he has wrote something longer then the wheel of time in ten years. For scale one of his arcs he pumped was a 1.5 million word arc for his web novel in around a year and half. He now is actually publishing them and he has alway edited them but now has gone back and made a new version for print. I don’t know how he does it and he is planning on 11 arcs and is on arc 8
The thing is, Brandon Sanderson understands punctuation
Nooo not the zoom in on those toes!! 😅😅
I fear not the man that has 30 works outlined, drafted, annotated, compendiumized and published, but the man that has 10000 first drafts.
❤❤❤❤❤
Kamachi who writes A Certain Magical Index is a contender.
Not really tbh. Kamachi makes novels fast and multiple novels a year, but the LNs themselves are like very short usually
Toaru was written over like 20 years, and is about 4.5 million words long last I checked, plus he has a few other series, but even combined there is less novels then Index ones, I dont know exact wordcounts, but lets say its about 3 more million words? (sounds about right, Heavy object + bloodsign is like 30 novels + a few other novels. Probobly a huge overesitmation even, but it doesnt particularly matter for my point since it would still stand even if it was only 1 million or over 5 million or something)
so that would be about 7.5 million words in 20 years.
But then if we look at the people this skit is based on its just... more words in less time. Wildbow has written like almost 10 million words (Worm is 1.7, Pact is like 1, Ward is like 1.9, Twig is like 1.6, and Pale is like 3.6 and then some more in Claw) since 2011, which is like 13 years. And Pirateaba with 12.4 million words of Wandering Inn since 2016 which is like 8 years.
@@SirKotok Are you counting the many spin offs of Index not just Side Story LNs but the various Mangas as well?
@@dpolaristar4634
I am counting SS lns, but not mangas.
The problem with counting mangas is that they have very small wordcount anyway, conveying most things through visuals.
So using "Wordcount" to measure the speed at which mangas come out is very useless, they combined would probobly add less then like 100k words, let alone a million. (and even if they did somehow get a million words which in them which is basically impossible, it still wouldnt change the stats I am talking about at all)
Not to mention that while the mangas are written by Kamachi (as in its his ideas and they are based on a plot outline made by him), they cant be fully counted as his output. As mentioned by the Railgun mangaka, the outline of the plot that Kamachi gives for a certain arc gets expanded like 3 times over and changed a lot. (e.g. Railgun's version of Daihaiseisai didnt originally include Gunha or the Dragon Strike).
----
But talking about them, the release schedule for the Toaru mangas is like... very slow honestly? They are monthly releases with very small chapters going on a hiatus every few month.
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TLDR: while I didnt count the Toaru mangas in my original assessment, including them doesnt change anything.
if you want you can include +100k to the wordcount for the estimations, or even +1 million (which would be absurd), and Kamachis speed would still be outpaced by far.
Kamachi is a fast writer and is honestly on another level compared to most writers, but the webserial authors are just on a level even higher.
@@SirKotok He also recently started an Item spin off and finished a non canon web serial.
@@dpolaristar4634 I know, again, this is rough estimates and adding even a few million words to them wouldnt change anything in this situation. One novel is like 60-100k words. Item spinoff and Misaka vs Misaki non-canon story are incomparable in size to the difference we are discussing here, they are basically a rounding error at this scale.
it doesnt matter, unless he has a secret 100+ novel series that I am not aware of.
wildbow be like
Ill take BrandoSandos quality writing. It takes me long enough to read the amazing works from him and others that are already out! I dont need to add massive manuscripts that, though they may have some good ideas, are never properly edited to ensure everything makes sense XD
One contender for the web fiction author has been named twice in the comments already. I don’t want to say it too or will sound like a third vote but just saying!
I expected the guy to be a Light Novel author.
The most prolific writer is a writing collective with a style guide that shares a pen name. Also names books something like Shadow Harem King 14 and Savage Survival 8. The main character (singular because it is really just one person) is just the white version of a xianxia story's MC.
dude's just posting horror movies now, wtf
I'm entering my horror arc now, I decided. You haven't seen anything yet.
I thought it was going to be R L Stine
Ohh Pirateaba, you're writing speed is inhuman.
And not truly readable since technically they didn't write it cause how much the community has to edit it at that point its more the community's work than the authors
@@NeahMinto88 .
Oh, my! That was kinda scary.
I actually don't understand how Sanderson writes so much. I would love to see him do a Day In the Life. It doesn't seem there are enough hours in a day to do everything he does. Plus, he's married and has young kids, doesn't he? Does he like... ever see them? I need to know his secret! Maybe he's one of those people who somehow can function on 4 hours sleep a night? Can you tell I think about this too much? Because I do. LOL!
I don't remember whether it was a video on this channel or a blog post but he's talked before about how he has an unusual sleep schedule but usually takes a few hours off in the afternoon/evening to spend with wife/kids and then writes more after they're asleep
I think he basically treats writing like a job, compared to other authors. He spends 8 Hours on it every day.
Sando doesn't edit either. He admitted that editing any of the stormlight books isn't worth it so he just pumps them out and let's his wife do line editing
This is literally famous webnovel authors lmao.
Web authors are terrifying.
in short, brandon writes better than those faster than him, and faster than those better than him.
He probably types a random letter on his keyboard, copied and pasted it hundreds of thousands of times just to brag about it.
Not to bring danmei into this, but that is my boy Airplane Shooting Towards the Sky behavior ong
OK but... who is it?
xianxia writers lmao
Honestly this could be a few hundred different web fiction writers. There are a lot of people just pumping out content.
Pirateaba, author of the wandering inn
Will wight
Any prolific web fiction author over the next five-ten years
The fastest writer in history vs the fastest writer of today.
brando meets chatgpt
R.L Stine
ao3 author comes out of the closest: how quaint
That's not even his final form. . . .
I thought this was gonna be about Isaac Asimov
😂😂😂
Is it King? Asimov? Faulkner? L. RON HUBBARD?!
No...
It's some smuck on tumblr.
Giving away feet content for free, not the best financial decision
I am sorry, but speed doesn't equate to quality.
I can actually write faster than him. and have.
The fastest fantasy writer is Steven King on cocaine))
Sanderson is overrated. It’s maddening how much people blindly love his crap.
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does it count if the writing is poop? Sounds like this online guy's writing is poop
Nah
As mentioned someone else in the comments its based on Pirateaba (author of Wandering Inn) and Wildbow (author of a bunch of stuff, most famously Worm). And while I havent read the Wandering inn, I can say that Wildbow's stuff is amazing.
Generic Entertainment > Man Carrying Thing
I absolutely love Man Carrying Thing. I've been watching his channel for far longer than I've had my own channel, he's been a major inspiration for me, and his humor always lands. Without taking anything away from him, however, I really appreciate this complement, and I'm glad I could provide a "cool place for cool kids" for you all, because that's really all I want. I certainly don't think this channel is better than MCT, but I'm glad I can at least provide something a little different.
ah yes, finally a dandom rivalry?
The Deathworlders be like