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gettingcrazywiththecheezewhiz:
In the winter I sleep with twelve blankets on.
In the summer I turn on a fan then sleep with twelve blankets...
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ahamletlord asked: Eliezer has said he plans to complete the whole plot within the first year. I think he also said that there are something like 2 arcs left, with some non-arc chapters in between.
Thank you! Good to know. So we’re well over halfway there. And if the first 9-10 months of story or so took 500,000 words, then the last two might...
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You probably don’t understand how much the Disney Tarzan soundtrack means to me.
I wanna know. Can you show...
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three of the best words in the universe: arranged marriage au
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Just from reading the title of this article, without even knowing what it’s about yet, one might think right away “People bash authors on the internet all the time!” True. But in this case I’m talking about how fans of certain authors will treat them like they’re this mentor figure, or like they…
if i were gail or another published creator receiving such messages, i would probably ignore them too. however, gail has said she gets 20 of these per day, and i bet that’s mega frustrating, to the point where a simple “urgh” is the mildest way to express that frustration. ignoring the question would have been better all around, but i get why every so often there’s a tipping point.
i’m on gail’s side on this one. i like her writing, i’ve embarrassed myself in front of her at a convention (…yep), and i’m also an aspiring writer/editor. i have no patience for people who claim to want to write but don’t do their homework. anyone can write these days. here is what you do if you want to be a writer: you write. if you want to know more, go buy a book on writing, thus supporting the writers you like. don’t you want your fans (when you have them) to support you?
i do think the asker should be a little embarrassed that she didn’t do research before asking the question. if you want to know anything in this world, you need to start by doing your research. if you have to be embarrassed to learn how to google things, then so be it. i gather that this event was a bigger deal to this asker than it might be to other people, but it’s not gail’s responsibility to know that. i’ve embarrassed myself in front of creators i admire more than once (…YEP) and it sucked. if this asker’s situation makes embarrassment suck even harder, then that is truly sucky and i sympathize. but that doesn’t change my opinion.
taking gail to task for her natural frustration makes you a bit of a jerk yourself. if the word “urgh” in response to a bogus question was what knocked her off a pedestal for you, then i don’t put much stock in your opinions. gail didn’t bully anyone, seek out anyone’s personal journal to argue with them, get defensive about criticism, or ignore a valid complaint about her work. she basically did the tumblr equivalent of an eyeroll. if that’s the excuse you needed to stop reading batgirl, i have to wonder what else you’re reading (even though you don’t like it) just because you haven’t found a reason to stop.
(um, the “you” in this post is largely generic, since i don’t know bruno of bruno’s geek reviews and have not read his blog or his reviews.)
Okay, this is serious, I’m not looking for affirmation, just sincere opinions.
It’s about comments like, “that person should DIAF,” meaning ‘die in a fire,’ and the like.
I am giving some pause and thought to this today because a couple posters I like took umbrage with something I said along…
i see a big difference between “go jump in a lake” and “that person should diaf.” the first is a wish for someone to do something far away from the speaker that presumably causes the person discomfort (getting wet, probably wearing wet clothes) but is ultimately harmless. the second (and similar statements like “jump off a cliff”) suggests that the speaker sees no reason for the person to exist and/or wishes for great bodily harm to come to that person. hyperbole or not, the statement that means “get away from me” is very different from the statement that means “die.”
i like hyperbole, but having known people whose family members have indeed died in a fire, i tend to stay away from “diaf” just as a matter of courtesy. having a close family member commit suicide has made me more sensitive to “i hope he jumps off a cliff” and similar sentiments. i don’t see anything wrong with “i hope he jumps in a lake” or “i hope he steps on a lego” or even “i hope he’s covered in honey and trapped in a sack of rabid weasels” or “i hope he is punished with an appropriate jail sentence and that other racist cops are called out and punished as well” etc.
family members of shitty people, unless they have publicly done shitty things themselves, are off limits. no exceptions.
I normally don’t write text pieces for this tumblr, but hey, it’s 2:45 am and I have nowhere to be.
I gave up the Azzarello/Chiang Wonder Woman with issue #3, so I can’t speak in an informed way about the revelation that has been so controversial on Tumblr this week. I have heard enough to get the gist.
In interviews before the launch and in the first months of it, Azzarello made a big deal about not taking previous incarnations of the character or her world as his model. He talked about not having read the Perez run or the Silver Age material. Though he has endorsed the Golden Age stories in interviews, he refered to it as the “bondage stuff,” which—while accurate to a point—didn’t give me hope that he took from it the same joys that actual fans of the character do.
I like continuity. I like history. Without it, none of our most prized characters would be worth a damn. If the present runs of Superman, Action Comics,and Justice League were all that “counted,” no one would care about Superman. We read these new stories in light of the old ones. (Azzarello does too, as anyone who has read his fabulous Dr. Thirteen series can attest.)
So while I applaud Azzarello for his intention to bring fresh ideas to Wonder Woman’s world, his lack of interest in her past set the alarms off in my head.
Especially since, different from Superman or Batman, Wonder Woman is one of the few characters who was originally created with a very specific ideological core. William Moulton Marston was a neo-Freudian who used his comic books to promote his idiosyncratic beliefs about “love leadership”—basically, that women were naturally more loving than men and therefore if they achieved dominance over them, they would be able to educate men in the ways of love, and therefore bring progress to the world.
i almost reblogged this post, which is full of straw-feminist garbage, but then i saw this one which is much better and does not make me want to throw things.
It’s finally announced that I will be a Spotlight Guest at one of my favorite conventions, April 13-15, C2E2 in the great city of Chicago!
Some of the nicest people and coolest stuff to see in the area, I absolutely love this city and get a warmer welcome nowhere in the world. Come say hello!
my partner literally gasped when he got the email announcement from c2e2. we are both so incredibly excited about this. we’re both volunteering so we’ll be running around in bright yellow t-shirts!
Secret Six v3 #4
okayyyyyyy just finished secret six v3 “unhinged” and it was amazing. i love that these guys just keep turning on each other. they are bad guys. they stop convenience store robberies just to critique the robbers and steal stuff themselves (just deadshot though, but i bet ragdoll would have if he’d been there).
scandal kind of annoys me in that i want to like her but she tries too hard. maybe trying to overcome her father or whatever. but i do understand where she’s coming from.
deadshot and catman are just perfect for what they are. i really was surprised that deadshot was trying to finish the job so the rest of them wouldn’t have to - i know he has a kid and all but i did expect his betrayal to be genuine. (in my defense it’s way past my bedtime and i’m reading them really quickly.)
bane is fantastic. i really loved his relationship with scandal. it was creepy in the way that she never asked for or consented to his paternalism but also cute in the way that he really was just looking out for her.
jeanette is so fun and her backstory is so fascinating. and creepy. which really is par for the course on this book. i hate horror and gore movies but for some reason secret six and hack/slash don’t bother me. (usually.)
ragdoll is my favorite.
ragdoll’s sister just might give me nightmares. she does bother me. although now that i know the characters, the “six-guns blazing” issue i read a while back makes a lot more sense.
for valentine’s day my partner is giving me a home-made gift certificate to be split between godiva and the comic shop. i’m thinking we’ll have to go to godiva first because if we get comics first there won’t be anything left.
I love to hear great stories about comic and sf conventions. Got a cool one?
i met my partner at a convention, does that count? (i love telling this story)
back in the dark ages of 1999, i was involved in farscape fandom online - these were the days when you videotaped episodes off broadcast, and if you missed one you had to wait for a chain reaction where they’d replay four in a row. much of the fandom was based on the sci-fi channel bboards and yahoo! groups mailing lists before they were yahoo! groups. i was 17 and not allowed to share my real name online.
i made lots of friends and somehow convinced my mom to take me and a friend to a small town in iowa where 6 other women were meeting to hang out and watch farscape. i still remember the episode that aired that night.
after proving to my mom that these folks weren’t dangerous, just obsessed with a tv show like i was, i convinced her to let my friend’s mom take us to st. louis to an even bigger fan-run convention. i even signed up to act in a shakespearean fan play based on the show. i played aeryn, and one of the play’s writers played crichton.
we knew each other online, and in person he was a skinny little thing with long floppy hair and crooked teeth. he was 19 but even more socially awkward than i was. he didn’t dance at the first banquet. i was more than half in love with my friend at the time and didn’t even bother to flirt with this kid, though he begged to sit with me during the episode viewing friday night (latp part 3, possibly the most romantic episode yet) and we got along wonderfully.
we saw each other annually for three more years at the fan convention, and we stayed in touch afterwards. he sent me a draft of his first novel, which i politely tore to pieces, and he forgave me.
nostalgic for the old days, i tried to organize a scaper meet-up in 2006, inviting everyone in the area. he was the only one who could make it, so we settled in for two days of stargate: atlantis and the first season of scrubs, which he had never seen. we finally started using each others’ real names rather than the online handles we’d known since we were teenagers.
before i drove him back to the bus station i confessed that i’d wanted to kiss him and he said he’d had the same feeling, but since he’d never kissed anyone, he wasn’t sure how to go about it. we went our separate ways, only to start a massive email correspondence culminating in another in-person meeting two months later in which we kissed, declared our love, and planned for me to move across two states to be with him.
we got married in 2009 and invited our farscape friends to be there. it was a hell of a shindig. he’s still a skinny little thing, but i’ve encouraged him to cut the floppy hair, and these days we’re working on our own novel.
um, spoilers and stuff, i guess
so i just read secret six and it is totally awesome (i did figure out what was going on) and yep, i still love ragdoll. even though wikipedia did spoil me for what happened above, i like how it happened. i was sort of talking it through with my partner as i was reading (comics are a spectator sport in my house) and he was like, “but wait for why he does it, wait for it…” and then i got to the line above.
which is great and all but i don’t actually think that’s why he did it. i mean partly, yeah, but think about what life must have been like for ragdoll before he joined the six. he probably didn’t have a lot of friends either. and now he’s with people who value his contributions and sure, they think he’s weird, but they do stuff like visit him at the hospital and get him help and forgive him when he gets mind-controlled so bad he has to cut his own arm off. sure scandal has her issues about people taking advantage of knockout, but obviously there was more to it, and the team really is all about backing each other up (deadshot killing the would-be assassin so scandal didn’t have to? priceless).
hatter was never going to be a member of the team. whether his dependence on the hat was a symptom or a cause of his self-centeredness, he didn’t have the capacity to put himself aside for the others, and ragdoll couldn’t risk another one of his teammates hanging off a wall begging for help.
or i could be totally wrong and ragdoll really did want to be the only nutter on the team. either way, i really like these characters and am going to read ALL the comics.
and i have no idea what’s going on.
but i like it.
wikipedia does not help because they keep wanting to tell me what happens and i’m like SHHHHHHH SPOILERS.
ragdoll creeps me right the fuck out, so is it weird that i am on page like 12 and he is my favorite?
The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is a vital and wonderful organization that fights for free speech rights for all forms of the comics industry; creators, readers, and retailers. Just this past year, we’ve seen overreaching customs agents abuse their power when people tried to bring common comics purchased legally through customs. We NEED the CBLDF and they do amazing work.
Right now, in the spirit of Christmas, they are selling books with PERSONALIZED and signed book plates, by the creators who made them. Creators like Gaiman, Azzarello, Kirkman, Spiegleman, Miller, Hickman, and many more (and me!). This is the LAST day you can order them personalized. Why not get one for a loved one or a friend or yourself for the holidays AND make a lovely contribution to one of the most important causes in this industry we all love?
Seriously, this is the LAST DAY. Check it out!
i MAY OR MAY NOT have purchased something signed by gail simone for my partner. HE WILL JUST HAVE TO WAIT TO FIND OUT.
Rolling Stone is out with its “Hot List” for 2011 and on the list is Batwoman.
The story quotes J.H. Williams, who admits he’s pretty excited about it on his blog. The piece as quotes Gail Simone about the diversity of the much missed Secret Six. Archie Comics’ Kevin Keller is also mentioned as are Apollo and Midnighter. You can read the the whole thing below.
I wonder if there is a comic fan over at Rolling Stone, that would be awesome.
The “like” button isn’t enough for this article… there needs to be a LOVE button!!!
okay i’m sorry but its sasha is pissed off at everything time, if you don’t want to read that look away now
ok seriously??? seriously??????? first off the secret six was CANCELLED MONTHS AGO and ignoring the fact that gail simone should NOT BE PRESENTED AS A CHAMPION OF DIVERSITY this whole thing is totally wrong?? batwoman is NOT a new character she’s six years old and it would be nice if DC could have actually given her the fucking book she was promised four and a half years ago at least before the reboot, lets please not display batwoman as a champion of diversity in comics when the company clearly didn’t give a shit about her for years, not to mention her ex, the one through whose eyes we got introduced to kate kane, is a queer person of color who has been out for YEARS AND YEARS AND NOBODY GAVE A SHIT?? and what is this crap about midnighter “marrying his boyfriend, apollo”? aka yet another incident of heteronormative bullshit placed on their relationship where midnighter is all that matters bc he’s the tough man’s man and apollo is just his pseudo-effeminate boyfriend? yeah no thanks. also midnighter and apollo got married years ago, too, that is not anywhere near new news, they’re not even together yet in the reboot so this is hugely misleading
also notice how not a single queer poc or trans* character is mentioned in this except for in simone’s fucking diversity rollcall
this is not fucking diversity this is the same heteronormative bullshit presentation of homosexuality we see every fucking day the end
this article sucks, but i thought that gail simone in general does as much as dc will let her with non straight white cis dudes. are there other instances of her failing at diversity?
