Kindle Cover Disasters is one of the most delightful single-serving Tumblrs to cross our screens in a while. The allure is less about taking sick pleasure in mocking the hard work of random internet people (which is pretty lame), but more focused on our own awe at the sheer diversity of the DIY fiction ecosystem. It provides some wonderful insight into how authors envision their own books when they don't have a publisher telling them how things should look, which tends to result in a rather depressing homogeneity.
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Scrolling through Kindle Cover Disasters, one author stands out: the delightfully-named Max Wood, a rather prolific author of supernatural gay erotica (which happens to be a deeply diverse and SEO-driven genre). And by far his most striking cover is that for Pounded by the Biker Rainbow Come to Life. The book would seem pretty self-explanatory, but one question remains: Is that sunglass-wearing biker rainbow chill or not? The question has become so contentious around the office that Motherboard's Sarah Emerson and Derek Mead decided to debate.
NOT CHILL
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The type of rainbow dick who slaps on some sunnies, sits back on a Harley, and watches as the world burns under the heat of an apocalyptic chill wave.I said it once, and I'll say it again: Chill people are just crazy people, deep down inside. And as we cling to them like a raft in an ocean of neuroses, we only drag them down deeper into their own insanity.Look, I'm not arguing that Chill is dying, but when rainbow dicks are leading the vanguard of good vibez, it makes you wonder if Chill hasn't already been dead for a long time.(◡ ‿ ◡ ✿)