I have heard the term Darwin Awards a number of times. It does strike me that no matter how careful people are, accidents and disasters can happen quickly within a short moment of inattention.
Interesting conspiracy theory. An author? Unlikely but not impossible. A lurker? Possibly.
Other authors here have admitted to having secondary accounts on LitE. So, I don't see where the "unlikely" comes from.
I said "unlikely" in the sense that I have no idea of what others are doing. I guess I wouldn't do it, so I assumed no on else would. Of course, that's not a good way to assess other people's behavior.
I feel you but these tend towards the somewhat considered yet not considered enough.
I guess I wouldn't shoot someone. But I would be easily wrong to assume no one else would do so.
Like watching the “dumb ways to die” reels on Instagram with my kids, both cringe worthy and sometimes examples of Darwin awards.
So does this qualify? After all, they were supposed to be professionals - the ship builders too. Something not mentioned here is, of course, that there was only room for 1,200 people in the lifeboats, but 2,200 on the ship. Even there, only about 705 got in the boats, partially because the passengers initially didn't want to get in, but also because the crew had confusion about loading them. Then there is the unanswered question of why the Californian, which was only about ten miles away, didn't respond to the distress rockets fired by the other ship.
Let's face it, no one is going to kill, much less eat 26thNC for his sins, even if we knew who it was.
I admit that I've only read a tiny percentage of the stories on Lit. If I'm not writing for here, I'm usually reading somewhere else.
That's the main ideological thrust of the Darwin Awards concept; the common sense stifled taking themselves out of the gene pool.
I know what it means; the idea has been around for a long time. I probably overstated the Titanic analogy for the effect it was going to have. It still reminds me of those polls that show the majority of people believe that they are better than average drivers. It's always the other guy who lacks common sense, not us.
I don't exclude the possibility that 26thNC is an author. He would probably write Burn The Bitch stories. However; he might even be so schizophrenic that he writes erotic cuckold stories. However; I think not.
I thought making the reader feel things, not always pleasant, was the point of good writing.
I'm partial to this version: Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one and no one thinks theirs stinks.
That's a separate one that exists to troll 26thNC.
That makes sense, since both profiles are there. The original one joined in 2017 and has 188 followers, while the second one joined in 2020 and has 21 followers. Their biographies are identical except that the original has one extra sentence in it. Another part of the Lit Fun House Hall of Mirrors.
I've always wanted emotional responses from my readers. Whether it is hate or love, it doesn't matter, just so it is a very strong response. What's wrong with my attitude? Isn't reading about the emotions you can experience? Romance writers want to pull on your heartstrings. Horror authors want to scare the shit out of you. That is what we do!
To follow their scathing postings on people's stories, I guess.
Neither of them has any published stories. But that doesn't mean they never had published stories.
