Sometimes you read tumblr and realize that the only reason some of the people on here aren’t Kathy Bates in “Misery” is because their favorite content creator hasn’t had a car crash outside their house
If you’re wondering what the hell this reference is and you don’t wanna google it:
“Misery” was the story of an author who, just after he’d made plans for the next book in his long-running series to be his last and was driving with the manuscript in his car, ends up crashing and nearly dying.
He wakes up in a stranger’s bed in a stranger’s house and a woman who’s smiling like she’s being jabbed by a Disney employee with a cattle prod tells him she’s his biggest fan and begs to read his manuscript. He’s got a lot of broken bones and he’s going to be there a while, so sure, why not?
And she reads it.
And she finds out her favorite character dies.
And she is Not Happy.
And she forces this man to write a new version of the story, under pain of torture. Literal torture–at one point, she deliberately re-breaks his foot so he can’t leave, after politely explaining what “hobbling” is.
That story was not meant to be taken as the warning it is about insane fans who way overstep their bounds in terms of what they want out of the thing they’re a fan of, but it is now.
Most of the fans who flip their shit at content creators over how those creators steer their content will probably only stop at screaming at the creator for a while.
But which ones won’t?
