I read HPMoR back in the day, I don’t remember any grimdark shit, but he was still writing it when I stopped reading so I’m not surprised to hear it went that direction.
It was so weird to hear the author of HPMoR come up in a recent TrueAnon episode, but not at all surprising to learn that he’s an ai grifter these days.
There’s a pretty long and exhaustive comprehensive list of the grimdark shit in it, especially as it proceeds to its Randian “the entire cosmos is just a bunch of exploitable resource nodes for the taking” fever dream ending, but what I already mentioned was (CW: necrophilia, CSAM)
spoiler
the part where Herminone is killed but magically reanimated in a way where Big Yud dares the reader to enter his magical fetish realm by narratively stating how Hermione’s magic zombie lacks volition but can still responds positively to sex and his fucked up “rationalist” version of Harry Potter is cool with that and very horny for the zombie.
In this particular case, it’s because I am a jaded ex fan of much of the above.
You wanted evidence of those fandoms being receptive to edginess, so I gave it to you.
I read HPMoR back in the day, I don’t remember any grimdark shit, but he was still writing it when I stopped reading so I’m not surprised to hear it went that direction.
It was so weird to hear the author of HPMoR come up in a recent TrueAnon episode, but not at all surprising to learn that he’s an ai grifter these days.
There’s a pretty long and exhaustive comprehensive list of the grimdark shit in it, especially as it proceeds to its Randian “the entire cosmos is just a bunch of exploitable resource nodes for the taking” fever dream ending, but what I already mentioned was (CW: necrophilia, CSAM)
spoiler
the part where Herminone is killed but magically reanimated in a way where Big Yud dares the reader to enter his magical fetish realm by narratively stating how Hermione’s magic zombie lacks volition but can still responds positively to sex and his fucked up “rationalist” version of Harry Potter is cool with that and very horny for the zombie.