• LisaTrevor [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      I wish

      she released a completely libbed up political thriller called The Casual Vacancy under her own name that nobody liked. then she switched to a male pseudonym that totally coincidentally happens to be the name of the guy that created conversion therapy to start a series of bad detective novels that are all 1000+ pages long, include groundbreaking ideas like a cross dressing serial killer, and yet sell incredibly well because we live in a simulation projected out of Ayn Rand’s death hallucinations

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      Said pseudonym was “Robert Galbraith”, the name of an infamous doctor responsible for pioneering electroshock “conversion therapy” as a “cure” for queerness.

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      An entire series even and yes the first book sold like shit before she decided to come out as a woman.

      Before Rowling’s identity as the book’s author was revealed, 1,500 copies of the printed book had been sold since its release in April 2013, plus another 7,000 copies of the ebook, audiobook, and library editions. The book surged from 4,709th to the best-selling novel on Amazon after it was revealed on 14 July 2013 that the book was written by Rowling under the pseudonym “Robert Galbraith”.