One point that I think many following may be missing is that writing about SJWs is actually somewhat of a side gig for Vox Day. The vast vast majority of what Castalia House publishes is science fiction and fantasy that does not contain overt political messaging at all, but the authors of which do tend to be conservative/traditionalist authors- often outspoken- who the mainstream science fiction and fantasy publication houses simply will not publish. You can guess the reasons why. Science fiction and fantasy literature is a field that is overrun by individuals who are not merely SJWs but the most extreme of the extreme. Most magazines for example openly state on their submissions pages that they are seeking stories by authors of color/trans/gay or lesbian authors and many have put out long and heartfelt essays that the field is "too white."
A few quick examples:
-John Joseph Adams, who is one of the biggest publishers working in science fiction and fantasy today, puts out yearly story collections that ONLY feature stories by women, gay people, and people of color. Straight white authors are literally not allowed to submit.
If you Google search photos of John Joseph Adams, you will also find that his once-morbidly obese face now resembles a cancer patient's testicles, and that
his wife is one of those confused women who wears her hair in a bright purple boy cut, probably to distract from the brutal angles of her facial bones that make her somewhat resemble a retarded velociraptor.
Another one:
Patrick and Theresa Nielsen Hayden, the owners of Tor Books - by far the largest genre publishing house of SF&F - proclaimed it a "victory for diversity" last year when literally 90% of the Hugo Awards were given to female or transgender authors. Convenient!
And it makes sense. Kids who gravitate toward reading science fiction and fantasy books are almost always the misfit kids who get picked on. If you grow up getting punched in the face or ran down by bullies and getting called a queer and a faggot or whatever else, and your response to that moving forward into adulthood is not to better yourself physically and mentally but to retreat the OTHER way into the world of candy rainbow gumdrop bubbles and delusion, these are the kind of people you become.
Which brings us to 2015, and the watershed moment which began the sequence of events that led to Vox Day getting banned from Amazon: a bunch conservative athors including Vox Day all decided they'd had enough of the SJW infiltration of the Hugo Awards and decided to take action to make the genre's highest honor great again. Or, at least accessible to authors other than those writing sensitive stories about robots born with "the wrong parts," or Tolstoy-length fantasy epics about fat, woke black ladies who society savagely oppresses because their magic causes too many earthquakes (
you think I'm kidding, but I'm not).
Our guys Larry Correia (the author of the Monster Hunter series) and Vox Day founded the Sad Puppies and Rabid Puppies, respectively.The goals of these growing online movements were twofold: for the Sad Puppies, it was to bring awareness to the fact the Hugo Awards had become a giant, nepotistic SJW scam where the same small group of authors and publishers were passing awards around to pat each other on the back for how progressive they all were; for the Sad Puppies, the view was more pessimistic, being that if the people holding the keys to the awards didn't relent (as was expected), they would disrupt the entire process of the Hugo awards for a few years in an attempt to burn them to the ground.
It sounds like a tall order for a tiny group of butthurt sci fi authors to disrupt or dismantle an award ceremony that is voted on by thousands and has been around since the 1960s, that has recognized many legendary works of art. But the crazy thing is, Vox Day actually succeeded. Both the Sad Puppies and Rabid Puppies gained thousands of followers, almost overnight, and a resulting backlash from the SJWs caused a firestorm of woke articles and heated discussions in book forums across the world about how science fiction was changing and was no longer a "safe space" for straight, white men (yawn, fart). At the height of all this craziness, Vox and his Rabid Puppies put together a master plan to hack the Hugo voting system and somehow managed to get a joke book called
Space Raptor Butt Invasion by a fake author named Chuck Tingle on the ballot, along with many other conservative authors and publishers who would've otherwise been snubbed by the SJW in-crowd.
The SJWs did what they do and acted like the world was ending because some conservatives wanted to organize and push back against the shit sluice. Despite the fact that neither did Beelzebub appear nor did fire spurt up from the ground, the SJWs took the Sad/Rabid Puppies' complaints as an act of war and
began organizing, too. Yes, there are individuals in the science fiction and fantasy book community who have such non-existent sex lives that they can dedicate that much of their free time to documenting literally every comment and blog post made by politically opposite people who like different books. Involuntary celibacy is one helluva drug.
The escalating cold war between woke SJW authors and conservative (or just sane) ones came to head when the First of His Name, King of the Pizzas and the Tacos and the Feminist Green Chilis himself George R.R.MotherFucking Martin chimed in and
personally went to battle with the Sad Puppies on his blog. He accurately assessed that the goal of Vox and his Rabid Puppies was not to make the Hugos better in any way but to expose them as a lost cause to conservatives and destroy them.
By now most of you are probably thinking,
man, this is the gayest shit I ever read, who the fuck cares? Do any of these people have sexual intercourse? To which the answer is a big, resounding "NO," with the exception of maybe Vox and Larry. And me. I got laid this morning. For the record, I have also never voted in or been nominated for a Hugo Award, nor would I touch any of those books this day and age with a ten foot pole.
Anywho. The "controversy" yawnfest went on for two years before the SJWS panicked and finally changed the Hugo Awards voting rules to prevent the kinds of voting slates the Sad Puppies and Rabid Puppies had used to fuck up their shit. In the years since those changes, a landslide of Woke Wahmen and tranny authors have
swept the Hugo Awards. No surprises, please.
But it doesn't matter to the SJWs that they ultimately won and kept their precious awards. Not one bit. You know what they say about
elephants: they never forget.
Ever since the Sad/Rabid Puppies controversy Vox Day, Castalia House, and its entire network of authors and fans have been on a black list. You do not speak of them in science fiction and fantasy circles unless it is in abject condemnation. You do not sympathize with or so much as dog whistle their complaints that mainstream sci fi and fantasy has become an echo chamber for increasingly extremist leftist viewpoints. You definitely do not call out or engage said leftist viewpoints in any kind of attempted rational debate, lest you be marked as a "Puppy" and your entire identity as an author, fan, or internet denizen made fair game to be destroyed by the Stalinist purge-mob.
Even though it probably went unnoticed by many of you, this shit made the
New York Times , and was to books what GamerGate was to video game culture. It was big, and the ripples are still striking. I 100% guarantee that whoever made the decision to shut down Vox Day and Castalia House has been looking for a way to stick it to Vox since he dared to put
Space Raptor Butt Invasion on their precious ballot.
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