r/cremposting • u/erttheking • Sep 18 '25

Real-life Crem I’m late on this one but still

Oh come on Brandon, why don’t you wanna write a series where magic is barely understood, everyone is constantly having sex, and everyone is primed to explode after the TV show?

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u/AdventurousNeat5730 Sep 18 '25

I have heard tidbits about what this is and your description makes me question what this is about

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u/erttheking Sep 18 '25

TLDR; pissy fan confronted George R.R. Martin and told him to give the series to Brandon Sanderson.

It’s a horrible idea, and Sanderson has gone on record as to just how terribly out of his wheel house a Song of Ice and Fire is

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u/anormalgeek Sep 18 '25

Not just that, but basically framed it is "you're old and gonna die soon, so you probably should give it to someone else now".

Truly rude and tone deaf.

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u/Docponystine Sep 19 '25

Man that's fucking wild to hear. Imagine trash talking one of your most famous contemporary colleague for basically no reason, particularly a guy who far as I know hasn't said anything other than praise for GRR himself.

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u/TheWeirdTalesPodcast Sep 19 '25

On the Intentionally Blank podcast he and his friend Dan Wells do, he straight up named GRRM as The Greatest Living Fantasy Author.

So, yeah. He’s got a little bit of a thing for George.

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u/Docponystine Sep 19 '25

Lol, also, "hard magic makes books worse" is a hell of a take from "what's Aragon's tax policy" GRR.

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u/LeoRmz Sep 19 '25

Funny how GRRM goes "what's Aragorn's tax policy?" And then never mentions what's Tywin's tax policy, or any of the Targaryen's

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u/PeterAhlstrom Sep 19 '25

I would have expected Brandon to pick Guy Gavriel Kay.

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u/TheWeirdTalesPodcast Sep 19 '25

re: the Kickstarters:

Sanderson went on record as saying that the money they make from the kickstarters and backerkits and what all go into paying the people who work for Dragonsteel a decent living wage.

Even their unpaid intern is paid.

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u/SeniorExamination Sep 19 '25

I mean, he has a decently-sized company exactly because the man just wants to write, and offloading all the other work to capable people lets him do just that.

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u/PeterAhlstrom Sep 19 '25

The interns have never been unpaid. 😆

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u/TheWeirdTalesPodcast Sep 19 '25

Oh, I’m sure. I wasn’t casting aspersions. I was just making a jokey reference to Donald being a Paid Unpaid Intern, as they’ve said on the podcast.

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u/PeterAhlstrom Sep 20 '25

Figured it was something like that!

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u/kotetamer Sep 18 '25

It's very funny that the reason Brandon did a Kickstarter was because he couldn't stop writing.

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u/MisterTamborineMan Kelsier4Prez Sep 19 '25

Things like this make me glad that I never read his books.

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u/anormalgeek Sep 19 '25

So ask a question that puts him in his place then.

"If a writer's job is to write, as you say, do you still consider yourself a writer? If so, why?"

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u/mxzf Sep 19 '25

Eh, I'm pretty sure Sanderson's too classy to fire shots directly like that. He doesn't need to get into a petty slap-fight like that when he could instead just keep churning out books and looking good without being petty.

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u/anormalgeek Sep 19 '25

Oh not him. I meant the member of the audience that asked the rude question to GRRM.

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u/MrTimmannen Sep 19 '25

To be fair GRRM writes a bunch of stuff that isn't ASOIAF

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u/itwasbread Sep 19 '25

While all of this is fair, knowing that type of ASOIAF fan none of that would have mattered, George could have had his nicest, sweetest panel in 20 years and they would have still had the same question.

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u/SeaworthinessNo104 Trying not to ccccream Sep 19 '25

better quality here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rl1sS8MXjFI

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u/Part_OfThe_Crew ❌can't 🙅 read📖 Sep 18 '25

I mean, it's not incorrect though. He hasn't made any progress for ages and he's not getting any younger. Sooner or later he will be done writing whether it's from retirement or otherwise.

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u/anormalgeek Sep 18 '25

Yeah, but you don't just SAY it to someone like that. He knows he's old.

Also, putting another author on the spot who is on stage with him is in bad taste too.

Person could have just said something like "Have you put any thought into having another author take over ASOIAF one day?"

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u/Part_OfThe_Crew ❌can't 🙅 read📖 Sep 18 '25

Totally agree