Lots of swearing but hella raw, and heartbreaking.
I only barely saw any of this from the fringes, I think when I even came in touch with the 'indie community' you had already been excommunicated (for lack of a better word), I never understood what happened.
I've barely interacted with the fellowship except at the beginning when I joined in the hope to get my name out there, but then the weird thing with the anthology happened and I've just kept doing my own thing since.
I understand wanting to tell a story that your heart needs to tell. So keep doing your own thing, and I will read your books.
I am honest, I am a very slow reader, but everything you've said about your story in this piece makes me want to read it, so I will.
I know it probably doesn't meant much, but I am sorry. You also have my condolences for your loss, and I know your work will get the love it needs.
thank you, and I am happy to hear that this has not stopped you. that would have been tragic. When I am done I will write a review also, I have never done that before, but as I know it helps I will add mine too.
This guy is the lowlcow that keeps on giving. I swear, the amount of free entertainment he has provided is priceless.
For context, this is someone who seems to think being a “good writer” means stuffing every sentence with endless, convoluted sentences. The result is just sleep inducing drivel, and difficult to read at that. On top of that, he insults and blocks anyone who does anything other than praise him like -- Your work is perfect senpai
And that is barely scratching the surface. There are multiple accounts that mysteriously adore his work and give him five-star ratings, all using AI-generated avatars. One of those avatar accounts recently started posting borderline explicit “muscle mommy” AI content, the same profile that appears to be “in love” with him.
This dude is a blast to ragebait...at one point, I accidentally made him think I was his brother...just by rage-baiting him, and he immediately started spilling details about his personal life. Again I never said I was, but he just assumed it so go figure what his own family thinks of this guy... The whole thing is bizarre.
People dislike him because he comes across as arrogant, defensive, and completely unable to handle criticism. He is also (surprise, surprise) obsessed with Japan, and for some reason keeps insisting that people think he is stupid because he is Portuguese.
Anyway, Mr. Tiago, please continue. The entertainment value here is unmatched. chef's kiss
I think it’s very useful of you to come here and prove the necessity of this article.
Seriously, much appreciated.
Impeccably delivered on all points.
Now everyone who reads it and goes through the comment section can clearly see this is an ongoing problem from obsessed retarded Andys like yourself who can’t take the first hint they were given and are seething in a dark corner, planning gay ops against a Portuguese writer who built the next shonen franchise and you fucking hate it because that’s something you can’t do, because you’re dumb. 🤣
This is beyond autistic. And it’s muah, chef’s kiss, I tell ya that.
Lol seethe harder… I stg this dude’s Twitter posts go from “no one cares about my shit books” and “I’ve written the best shit books”. This obsession with the Portuguese background… which is funny because I think no one really has the guts to tell you that your English, my dude, just isn’t very good and using convoluted phrasing with expensive sounding words only comes to show that you don’t really have a great grasp on the language beyond the twitter lingo. “You got me fucked up” being written by a middle aged dude from a rural Portuguese village is just a testament to how chronically online this guy is. And the icing on the cake is the mean faced pictures with an Amazon bought Katana and the classic chud Japanese worship… please keep seething here, call on your AI friends, accuse me of being the “hater” of the week. I love this lol cow bro
Hey, here’s the red carpet, I give you this thread. Say everything you want with your chest, all the way. Spiral into shaving your fat head while you listen to Bjork in a dirty room, plotting my assassination or something fucked up like that.
The Internet of the 2010’s when everyone was trying to find the next Chris Chan, is dead, I’m afraid. Even StyxxHexenHammer completely went to shit last month… And everyone just shrugged. Nobody’s tuning in to the sort of shit you’re into. That subculture lost its steam, nobody cares about you Ebaum’s World leftover trolls. Your contributions were never appreciated, the clout never came and now you’re on your own, surely contemplating following that to its entailments which, you know, it’s very likely that you will, given the sort of psychological profile your types tend to have. When you do, make sure you don’t make a mess for anyone else to clean up, k?
Have some dignity about it, to make up for the indignity you have displayed here and surely in many other instances.
Of course, because in a narcissistic personality of this magnitude one can’t just laugh at you, one must of course be obsessed, mad with jealousy of your (self-admitted) failed writing career or some other fantasy you’ve cooked up. The truth is you are laughable, sometimes maybe even pitiful, but always laughable and seeing your predictable and well deserved failure is entertainment enough. Schadenfreude is terrific entertainment you know? Now, go on to your little cave you short bald little goblin and continue to pantomime and entertain me. Dance for me little monkey, dance!
I'm sorry, weren't you one of the people who unfollowed and started talking shit about me?
And you presume to give me advice? Oh, hohoho. I don't think you know how angry I am and how foolish this is.
Listen asshole:
This isn't a sympathy post.
This is EYE OF SAURON shit staring into your fucking soul, telling your garbage community of self-serving rats, hypocrites, gossipers and cancel pigs is OVER.
It is TOXIC for my brand, understand? It's trash, there's nothing useful about it. Not the homos at Royal Road, not the crypto feminists on X, not anything western is going to be able to say it had ANYTHING to do with SB. I promise you this.
This isn't call for last drinks, my guy. You're kicked out of the bar. Bouncer sees your mug near the front door, that's the last time you have a face. K?
Founder of Epic Indie? Same account who snubbed me early on?
Do I really have to meme you with “you sure about that?”
Tell me something, I’m really curious to know this, because I’ve been suspecting it for the longest time:
Do you anglos think that because I’m Portuguese that I’m somehow slow on the uptake? That I “don’t really get it”? Is that why?
If so, I should remind you that at some point beyond everyone’s current historical epistemology of what the West now is, the Portuguese technologically dominated most of the globe with the Caravela fleets. We’re not a low IQ people. Which means our writing is also NOT beneath you. Quite the fucking opposite.
No, your Epic Indie Account unfollowed me, along with several others when folks started spreading the lie that my books were generative, because of my initial digital covers. Hey, you probably got led by the nose by so many of these fucking shit heels, it's perfectly understandable the amount of Indies you snubbed over second-hand bullshit. I'm sure that stuff gets pretty complicated to manage. Wouldn't want to be you. That would mean I'd have no time to work on my story, which I think you probably figured out by now, it's way more important than whatever bullshit you're into.
Also, do you have some kind of difficulty in comprehension here?
What is there to fucking appease about the lot of you? For what measurable fucking benefit? Really?
Do you think I give a flying fuck about your PR guidelines after what I've seen of you lot? Do you think that for an individual's hierarchy of principles, concession is somehow situated above DIGNITY?! LMFAO
You got me fucked up if you think I'll break bread with you people. Indie is LONG dead. You killed it with your generic D&D campaigns turned into stories that put my ass to sleep with no innovation; your procession of crypto-feminist AWFUL slop writers running roughshod over your communities, running a full blown leftist-style GSR gig while you ALL TURN A BLIND fucking eye, because hey, they aren't doing it to you; your little darlings who get cancel happy when someone gives them anything below 4 stars for their absolute trite garbage. I've seen the sort of shit people are hurling at reviewers like Abigail Lakewood. It's cringe that folks would opt to do that and not actually sit their ass down to do developmental edits on their weak ass stories. This community is a bunch of fucking Millennial participation prize recipients, who quite simply ARE NOT WORKING HARD ENOUGH ON THEIR SHIT. K?
You're AFRAID of me for my absolute dedication to the craft and the fury with which I fucking defend it. That's why you came here to placate the angry Portuguese man. "Oh this is troublesome, I should probably say something in the most autistic way I can fathom, like... Giving advice. Yeah, that's a good idea. He'll think I'm a nice guy!" Pff-
Nothing to fear, my guy. I'm not the one taking Indie behind the shed with a 12 gauge. You guys have been handling that process just fine in my estimation. And I absolutely assure you it will run its course. It's called Causality and just because this looks like an extended timeline for the Internet, doesn't mean it's not happening. In a month? X Groups are gone. Your hugboxes now have to run on Discords where you can all be disgusting with each other at leisure, away from my weary fucking eyes.
I have other places to be with my work. Because I believe in it, because I KNOW it's good and because despite your concerted fucking efforts, it will handily outlive you.
Lots of swearing but hella raw, and heartbreaking.
I only barely saw any of this from the fringes, I think when I even came in touch with the 'indie community' you had already been excommunicated (for lack of a better word), I never understood what happened.
I've barely interacted with the fellowship except at the beginning when I joined in the hope to get my name out there, but then the weird thing with the anthology happened and I've just kept doing my own thing since.
I understand wanting to tell a story that your heart needs to tell. So keep doing your own thing, and I will read your books.
I am honest, I am a very slow reader, but everything you've said about your story in this piece makes me want to read it, so I will.
I know it probably doesn't meant much, but I am sorry. You also have my condolences for your loss, and I know your work will get the love it needs.
Thank you. I found my place working on this.
That's why these situations ultimately prove unable to change my current course.
The only thing that changed is that a year like 2025 will simply not happen again.
I will not allow it. For the sake of Spectral Braver and the time I have left to write the other 4 books I have outlined. That's all that matters.
I hope you enjoy it.
thank you, and I am happy to hear that this has not stopped you. that would have been tragic. When I am done I will write a review also, I have never done that before, but as I know it helps I will add mine too.
I appreciate it.
Thanks for sharing that, Tiago. It was obviously from the heart. A lot of it I didn't know about.
This guy is the lowlcow that keeps on giving. I swear, the amount of free entertainment he has provided is priceless.
For context, this is someone who seems to think being a “good writer” means stuffing every sentence with endless, convoluted sentences. The result is just sleep inducing drivel, and difficult to read at that. On top of that, he insults and blocks anyone who does anything other than praise him like -- Your work is perfect senpai
And that is barely scratching the surface. There are multiple accounts that mysteriously adore his work and give him five-star ratings, all using AI-generated avatars. One of those avatar accounts recently started posting borderline explicit “muscle mommy” AI content, the same profile that appears to be “in love” with him.
This dude is a blast to ragebait...at one point, I accidentally made him think I was his brother...just by rage-baiting him, and he immediately started spilling details about his personal life. Again I never said I was, but he just assumed it so go figure what his own family thinks of this guy... The whole thing is bizarre.
People dislike him because he comes across as arrogant, defensive, and completely unable to handle criticism. He is also (surprise, surprise) obsessed with Japan, and for some reason keeps insisting that people think he is stupid because he is Portuguese.
Anyway, Mr. Tiago, please continue. The entertainment value here is unmatched. chef's kiss
I think it’s very useful of you to come here and prove the necessity of this article.
Seriously, much appreciated.
Impeccably delivered on all points.
Now everyone who reads it and goes through the comment section can clearly see this is an ongoing problem from obsessed retarded Andys like yourself who can’t take the first hint they were given and are seething in a dark corner, planning gay ops against a Portuguese writer who built the next shonen franchise and you fucking hate it because that’s something you can’t do, because you’re dumb. 🤣
This is beyond autistic. And it’s muah, chef’s kiss, I tell ya that.
Lol seethe harder… I stg this dude’s Twitter posts go from “no one cares about my shit books” and “I’ve written the best shit books”. This obsession with the Portuguese background… which is funny because I think no one really has the guts to tell you that your English, my dude, just isn’t very good and using convoluted phrasing with expensive sounding words only comes to show that you don’t really have a great grasp on the language beyond the twitter lingo. “You got me fucked up” being written by a middle aged dude from a rural Portuguese village is just a testament to how chronically online this guy is. And the icing on the cake is the mean faced pictures with an Amazon bought Katana and the classic chud Japanese worship… please keep seething here, call on your AI friends, accuse me of being the “hater” of the week. I love this lol cow bro
Hey, here’s the red carpet, I give you this thread. Say everything you want with your chest, all the way. Spiral into shaving your fat head while you listen to Bjork in a dirty room, plotting my assassination or something fucked up like that.
The Internet of the 2010’s when everyone was trying to find the next Chris Chan, is dead, I’m afraid. Even StyxxHexenHammer completely went to shit last month… And everyone just shrugged. Nobody’s tuning in to the sort of shit you’re into. That subculture lost its steam, nobody cares about you Ebaum’s World leftover trolls. Your contributions were never appreciated, the clout never came and now you’re on your own, surely contemplating following that to its entailments which, you know, it’s very likely that you will, given the sort of psychological profile your types tend to have. When you do, make sure you don’t make a mess for anyone else to clean up, k?
Have some dignity about it, to make up for the indignity you have displayed here and surely in many other instances.
Of course, because in a narcissistic personality of this magnitude one can’t just laugh at you, one must of course be obsessed, mad with jealousy of your (self-admitted) failed writing career or some other fantasy you’ve cooked up. The truth is you are laughable, sometimes maybe even pitiful, but always laughable and seeing your predictable and well deserved failure is entertainment enough. Schadenfreude is terrific entertainment you know? Now, go on to your little cave you short bald little goblin and continue to pantomime and entertain me. Dance for me little monkey, dance!
Another huge self-report there. I don't expect you to be smart enough to figure that out, but yeah...
I'm sorry, weren't you one of the people who unfollowed and started talking shit about me?
And you presume to give me advice? Oh, hohoho. I don't think you know how angry I am and how foolish this is.
Listen asshole:
This isn't a sympathy post.
This is EYE OF SAURON shit staring into your fucking soul, telling your garbage community of self-serving rats, hypocrites, gossipers and cancel pigs is OVER.
It is TOXIC for my brand, understand? It's trash, there's nothing useful about it. Not the homos at Royal Road, not the crypto feminists on X, not anything western is going to be able to say it had ANYTHING to do with SB. I promise you this.
This isn't call for last drinks, my guy. You're kicked out of the bar. Bouncer sees your mug near the front door, that's the last time you have a face. K?
Fuck outta here with your fake shit.
Founder of Epic Indie? Same account who snubbed me early on?
Do I really have to meme you with “you sure about that?”
Tell me something, I’m really curious to know this, because I’ve been suspecting it for the longest time:
Do you anglos think that because I’m Portuguese that I’m somehow slow on the uptake? That I “don’t really get it”? Is that why?
If so, I should remind you that at some point beyond everyone’s current historical epistemology of what the West now is, the Portuguese technologically dominated most of the globe with the Caravela fleets. We’re not a low IQ people. Which means our writing is also NOT beneath you. Quite the fucking opposite.
No, your Epic Indie Account unfollowed me, along with several others when folks started spreading the lie that my books were generative, because of my initial digital covers. Hey, you probably got led by the nose by so many of these fucking shit heels, it's perfectly understandable the amount of Indies you snubbed over second-hand bullshit. I'm sure that stuff gets pretty complicated to manage. Wouldn't want to be you. That would mean I'd have no time to work on my story, which I think you probably figured out by now, it's way more important than whatever bullshit you're into.
Also, do you have some kind of difficulty in comprehension here?
What is there to fucking appease about the lot of you? For what measurable fucking benefit? Really?
Do you think I give a flying fuck about your PR guidelines after what I've seen of you lot? Do you think that for an individual's hierarchy of principles, concession is somehow situated above DIGNITY?! LMFAO
You got me fucked up if you think I'll break bread with you people. Indie is LONG dead. You killed it with your generic D&D campaigns turned into stories that put my ass to sleep with no innovation; your procession of crypto-feminist AWFUL slop writers running roughshod over your communities, running a full blown leftist-style GSR gig while you ALL TURN A BLIND fucking eye, because hey, they aren't doing it to you; your little darlings who get cancel happy when someone gives them anything below 4 stars for their absolute trite garbage. I've seen the sort of shit people are hurling at reviewers like Abigail Lakewood. It's cringe that folks would opt to do that and not actually sit their ass down to do developmental edits on their weak ass stories. This community is a bunch of fucking Millennial participation prize recipients, who quite simply ARE NOT WORKING HARD ENOUGH ON THEIR SHIT. K?
You're AFRAID of me for my absolute dedication to the craft and the fury with which I fucking defend it. That's why you came here to placate the angry Portuguese man. "Oh this is troublesome, I should probably say something in the most autistic way I can fathom, like... Giving advice. Yeah, that's a good idea. He'll think I'm a nice guy!" Pff-
Nothing to fear, my guy. I'm not the one taking Indie behind the shed with a 12 gauge. You guys have been handling that process just fine in my estimation. And I absolutely assure you it will run its course. It's called Causality and just because this looks like an extended timeline for the Internet, doesn't mean it's not happening. In a month? X Groups are gone. Your hugboxes now have to run on Discords where you can all be disgusting with each other at leisure, away from my weary fucking eyes.
I have other places to be with my work. Because I believe in it, because I KNOW it's good and because despite your concerted fucking efforts, it will handily outlive you.
This is an L for you. Now see yourself out.