F⊙P: the Hyghe Pryce of Lowered Expectations

Looks a bit like a certain formerly-popular cancelled author I used to follow casually. Still makes me upset. Thinking of whom this might be portraying in my stories, and thinking I found a character I didn't realise I needed to write about. Gonna need to name him.

Magnus McGrath.

I guess I'll need to deal with the handful of other problematic authors I have drawn heavy inspiration and stylistic guidance from; unintended consequences of growing up poor in the 70s and 80s: most of my influences were troubled, if not outright awful, but they were better than my other available options at the time: artists, cartoonists, actors, directors, rock stars, and race car drivers (my father, stepdad, maternal grandfather--who drove horses and later transport trucks occupationally and vocationally--aka Grampa, and most of my mom's siblings (all male) were autophiles and grease monkies. Let's be honest: most were white cishet males who grew up in the 1920s-to-1950s.