Tchaikovsky was accused of being a nepo baby, Dickens was basically panned all the time, and Mary Shelley more often gets mentioned because her husband’s bestie/boyfriend was famous than for starting a fictional revolution.

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Handel’s Messiah got meh reviews at the time, and it itself was composed out of spite that George III started paying more attention to some other guy who almost never comes up centuries later.

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It’s okay if you have haters. Doesn’t mean they’re right. Verdi hated tubas so much he spent his own money inventing an alternative that nobody plays unless they’re doing his stuff, and even then, half the time they just use a tuba.

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this was tattooed onto my frontal lobe almost a decade ago and has sat there every time the subject of israel comes up

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Poisoned by an unrelenting stream of "god's chosen people" supremacist propaganda and emboldened by an utter refusal by the world at large to punish them for any of their mountain of crimes.

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