The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was sort of like the Rick and Morty of the 1980s
oh right this post. it reminds me that a week ago i started up Dune II and it asked me which house I wanted to join and i just offhandedly said "ah yes house atreides, the hufflepuff of the 60s." critically i cannot remember anything about either of these books
this is the closest I've ever gotten to seeing someone cast a frenzy spell
Earlier this year had the horrid realization that if Douglas Adams hadn't died young there's a nontrivial chance, based on the track record of English funny people I grew up idolizing, that he'd have expressed opinions terrible enough to make his work leave a bad taste in my mouth by now...
I mentally categorize him more with like Terry Pratchett, but that may be wishful thinking...
dude definitely hated cops so i wouldn't put it past him to be cool
True, I'm pretty sure he literally never depicted an authority figure in a positive light
I regularly refer to the terf drivel that they would inflict on me on twitter as "vogon rupi kaur"
I have absolutely also had the 'oh god would Douglas Adams be a huge transphobe in 2023" thought
I have also but I honestly don't think so. Have you read Last Chance To See? It's a nonfiction book where he travels around learning about different critically endangered animals and it seems like he had too much curiosity and openness in him to get sucked into "well I just think men are men and women are women" thinking.
Fiction or non, one idea you do not see in his writing is "the current social order is very sensible and must not be disturbed."
and then he says "i turned myself into a bowl of petunias and a whale" funniest shit ive ever seen
I think I might be more offended by this post than the original. But its very close. Good job
