Here is what you sound like:
"But look at all this awesome fan fiction, and furthermore this 'big ego' is all your perception anyways, and furthermore I don't even mind it."
Why so defensive about EY's very common character flaws (which don't really require any exotic explanation, btw, e.g. think horses not zebras)? They don't reflect poorly on you.
EY's past stuff is evidence.
I'm defensive about digging in people's past, only to laugh that as teenagers they had the usual teenage hubris, and maybe as highly intelligent people they kept it for a few more years... and then use it to hint that even today 'deeply inside' they are 'essentially the same', i.e. not worth to be taken seriously.
What exactly are we punishing here; what exactly are we rewarding?
Ten or more years ago I also had a few weird ideas. My advantage is that I didn't publish them on visible places in English, and that I didn't become famous enough so people would n...
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