Pixel Scroll 3/5/16 Confessions of a Wrap Artist

(1) NOW YOU KNOW. People will get a lot of use from Camestros Felapton’s video “Why You Are Wrong”.

All purpose explanation of why you (or whoever) is very wrong.

 

(2) PLAY ALONG AT HOME. Here’s what the judges will be starting with — “The Arthur C. Clarke Award complete submissions list 2016”.

Every year before I announce the shortlist for the Arthur C. Clarke Award for science fiction literature, I first reveal the complete list of submitted books put forward for consideration.

This year we received 113 books from 41 publishers and publishing imprints, the second highest count for submissions after the record-breaking high of 121 submissions received for our 2014 prize.

To be clear, this is not a long list, but rather a complete list of eligible titles received from publishers who must actively submit titles to our judging panel for consideration. In other words, this is where our judges start from every year.

(3) TRINITY REJECTED. The Clarke longlist inspired Damien G. Walter to comment –

(4) JUMP TO HYPERSPACE STREET. Hollywood’s idea of making something new is to combine two old franchises. ScienceFiction.com explains — “What The–?! Sony Moves Forward With Merging ‘Men In Black’ With ’23 Jump Street’”

In what has to be the craziest news to come along in some time, Sony is looking to merge two of its franchises– ‘Men In Black’ and ’21 Jump Street’.  Director James Bobin (‘The Muppets’, ‘Alice Through The Looking Glass’) is being courted to direct the film, which will star Channing Tatum (Jenko) and Jonah Hill (Schmidt) who will both also produce.  Phil Lord and Christopher Miller directed ’21 Jump Street’ and ’22 Jump Street’ but are occupied directing the Han Solo movie for Disney.  The pair will serve as producers, however.

Sony has confirmed that neither Will Smith nor Tommy Lee Jones are being sought for the new film, as the studio hopes to use this installment as a springboard for a new franchise with younger stars.

(5) WHY SQUEEZING TOO HARD DOESN’T WORK. Steve Davidson draws on his intellectual property experience in “Mine! Mine! Mine! ALL Mine!” at Amazing Stories.

Delicately, you want your fans to let you know when you are getting it right and when you are getting it wrong. And if you’re smart, you figure out a way to successfully gauge that response and you use it. If you manage that most of the time, everything is almost always bigger and better and more successful than the last time.

I hear some say “the fans own it!”. Well yes and well no. The fans only own their collective response, but they can make no claim to the property itself. Suppose this P vs A thing totally blows up into open warfare and every Trekker and Trekkie on the entire planet refuses to have anything to do with Star Trek anymore. (Images of mass DVD burnings and the defenestration of action figures.) Paramount* could still create, produce and distribute anything Star Trek they wanted to (and shut down any and every other expression of Trek that isn’t approved), for as long as they wanted to spend the money. Maybe they’ll mine the Chinese audience for several years (decades). Maybe they’ll change the presentation and pick up a whole new audience of fans (Star Trek: Romance).

A few years back, Disney gutted their expanded universe for Star Wars. Part of the reason, I am sure, was to re-exert control over their property. In many respects it was a good way to create a dividing line between things that fans might be allowed to play with and things they weren’t to touch. Individual fans were upset over various decisions made, but it is pretty obvious that the collective response was of acceptance.

(6) DON ANDERSON OBIT. Don Anderson passed away on October 16, 2015. Robert Lichtman says, “In the early 1960s Don was a member of the N3F’s apa.  A search of the Eaton’s fanzine listings shows that he published titles such as Plack, Porp and Cry of the Wild Moose. He joined SAPS with its 199th mailing, April 1997, and remained a member until his death, producing 68 issues of Moose Reducks.”

Wally Weber and Robert Lichtman found the family announcement linked here which includes the information, “Donald was a United States Air Force Veteran who proudly served his country during the Korean War and was a retiree of Eastman Kodak Co.”

(7) GARY HUTZEL OBIT. TrekMovie.com reports

Gary Hutzel, Emmy Award Winning VFX artist known for his work on Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, has died at age 60.

Hailing originally from Ann Arbor Michigan, Gary Hutzel left his mechanical engineering studies behind to move to Santa Barbara, CA to pursue a career in the film industry. There he studied photography at the Brooks Institute and subsequently began his motion picture career working as a video camera operator, which sparked his interest in visual effects. His early VFX work was as a freelancer on CBS’s The Twilight Zone, a gig that got him noticed by the team putting together the then Star Trek reboot, The Next Generation.

Hired to work on Trek in 1987, Hutzel lead visual effects for The Next Generation for the first five seasons of its run. After the end of TNG’s fifth season, Hutzel and VFX colleague Robert Legato transferred to the new Star Trek show on the block, Deep Space Nine, which Hutzel worked on for its entire run. One of his most notable contributions to DS9 is his work on the episode “Trials and Tribble-ations” in which Hutzel oversaw the integration of footage from the Original Series episode “The Trouble With Tribbles” into the freshly shot DS9 footage.

(8) TODAY IN HISTORY

  • March 5, 1954 Creature from the Black Lagoon has its world premiere.

Creature from the black lagoon poster

  • March 5, 1963 — The Hoola Hoop is patented.

(9) KEN LIU’S CALENDAR. Here’s where you’ll find Ken Liu in April:

  • Waterford Public Library, 4/2/2016, Waterford, CT. Reading at 2:00 PM.
  • The Library of Congress, 4/8/2016, Washington, DC.
  • The University of Maryland, 4/8/2016.
  • Thomas Kang Lecture. I’ll be speaking with Professor Christopher Bolton of Williams College as the headliners: “Silkpunk, Technologized Bodies, and Translation: Cases in Chinese, Japanese and American Popular Culture.”
  • Arkansas Literary Festival, 4/15-4/17, Little Rock, Arkansas.

(10) BENFORD ON THE ROAD. Gregory Benford sat for a photo while in Nashville for a signing on March 3.

(11) FREE AIN’T CHEAP. Mark Lawrence crunches the numbers in “The cost of promotion!”

The bottom line is that it’s very hard to know what to do with the ‘free’ books a publisher sends you. Sending them out into the world is the natural thing to do – but it’s going to cost you 100s of $$$ and may very well not generate anything like enough sales to justify the cost.

(12) MEH POWER.

(13) WHO YA GONNA CALL LATER? At Entertainment Weekly, “The painful what-if that haunts ‘Ghostbuster’ Ernie Hudson”.

The night before filming begins, however, I get this new script and it was shocking.

The character was gone. Instead of coming in at the very beginning of the movie, like page 8, the character came in on page 68 after the Ghostbusters were established. His elaborate background was all gone, replaced by me walking in and saying, “If there’s a steady paycheck in it, I’ll believe anything you say.” So that was pretty devastating.

I’m panicked. I don’t sleep that night. It was like my worst nightmare is happening. The next morning, I rush to the set and plead my case. And Ivan basically says, “The studio felt that they had Bill Murray, so they wanted to give him more stuff to do.” I go, “Okay, I understand that, but can I even be there when they’re established?” And of course, he said no, there’s nothing to do about it. It was kind of awkward, and it became sort of the elephant in the room.

I see this differently now—and I don’t mean any kind of animosity or anything towards anyone, certainly not towards Ivan or the guys. I was a single dad, and we were struggling to kind of hold on and pay the rent. I still needed to do this job. 30 years later, I look back at the movie and it works very well the way it is. I think the character works with what he has to work with. But I’ve always felt like, “Man, if I could’ve played that original character…”

(14) STARTING TO COUNT. Brandon Kempner at Chaos Horizon dips his toe in “The 2016 SFF Awards Meta-List”.

In 2016, 4 different awards have already announced their nominees: the Philip K. Dick, the British Science Fiction Association Awards (BSFA), the Kitschies, and the Nebulas. Not a lot so far, but has anyone emerged as an early leader? Here’s the list of everyone who has gotten more than one nomination:

Europe at Midnight, Dave Hutchinson (2 nominations, Kitschies, BSFA)

The Fifth Season, N.K. Jemisin (2 nominations, Nebulas, Kistschies)

[Thanks to John King Tarpinian, Will R., JJ, and Andrew Porter for some of these stories. Title credit goes to File 770 contributing editor of the day, the stunning and versatile Will R.]

213 thoughts on “Pixel Scroll 3/5/16 Confessions of a Wrap Artist

  1. Stevie :

    I could write a book about the lives and loves of all the tube passengers who one day walked past someone wearing the t-shirt made famous by Guy Consolmagno; the fact that the Maxwell equations are on it wouldn’t turn the book into a SF novel.

    Which passenger would that be then? 121?

    Hmm – does a book count as a sff novel if it wins the Phillip K Dick Award, but still doesn’t have any actual sff in it? (Almost none, rather – technically it’s a fairy story…)

  2. @Brian Z.

    Red Wombat is right; you need to stop phoning it in. It’s not an ad hominem to say that you can do better than this.

    @ Standback

    What strikes me about Stephanie is that, like all the Puppies, her ideas about what is “abuse” or who is a “prominent person” are conveniently stretchy.

    If someone thinks I shouldn’t be able to vote or that throwing acid in my face is a small price to pay because it will improve society, that’s supposedly a sincere and well-meant difference of opinion. If I call him an authoritarian and a sexist, that’s abuse. If someone wants to invalidate my friend’s marriage or says it is natural to want to beat my friend to death with a tire iron, that’s supposedly a sincere and well-meant difference of opinion. If I call him a bigot and a homophobe, that’s abuse.

    Theodore Beale is no one of consequence, despite the Sad Puppies nominating him for a Hugo in 2014 and the allied Rabid Puppies nominating him two more times in 2015. John C. Wright is no one of consequence despite the Sad Puppies nominating him for two Hugos in 2015 and the allied Rabid Puppies nominating him for four more. Lou Antonelli, who tried to set the Spokane Police on Guest of Honor David Gerold, is no one of consequence despite the Puppies nominating him for two Hugos in 2015. Tom Kratman, who threatened to come after a commenter on Torgersen’s blog with a gun and posted subsequent comments making it plain he was trying to work out where that commenter lived, is no one of consequence despite the Puppies nominating him for a Hugo in 2015.

    Yet people who work at other publishers (don’t own them, just work at them) are somehow the secret masters of the universe.

    I can’t easily comment on either your or her blog (different failure modes but neither works well) so I’m dropping it here.

  3. @Brian Z
    I don’t think attacking RedWombat is going to win you points or friends.

    Maybe you could filk your comments on EPH to make reading them more interesting? All the regular commenters have read your thoughts numerous times and you’ve not convinced any of us to change our mind. Maybe filking would subliminally get through to us? At a minimum it would be more entertaining.

  4. Uh-oh. Brian Z. Troll has insulted RedWombat.

    I do not think this will end well for Mr. Troll…

  5. Aww, how cute – I think I’ve found next year’s Puppy Best Dramatic pick: according to its director, Gods of Egypt didn’t fail because it was obvious from the first trailer that it was going to suck (although if it really *had* been Snake Plissken vs the Goa’uld, that might’ve been fun), it failed because of the critics:

    I guess I have the knack of rubbing reviewers the wrong way – always have. This time of course they have bigger axes to grind – they can rip into my movie while trying to make their mainly pale asses look so politically correct by screaming “white-wash!!!” like the deranged idiots they all are. They fail to understand, or chose to pretend to not understand what this movie is, so as to serve some bizarre consensus of opinion which has nothing to do with the movie at all.

    (He also thinks Ebert would’ve liked it. Ha.)

  6. @RedWombat Re:Brian Z:
    “Don’t you think he looks tired?

    I tried that last year, didn’t work.

  7. Jamoche: according to its director, Gods of Egypt didn’t fail because it was obvious from the first trailer that it was going to suck… it failed because of the critics

    Wow, that Facebook post of his is quite the baby tantrum.

    I guess it’s not surprising that the director of a movie about Egypt would be standing neck-deep in de Nile.

  8. Francesca, what is The Kraken King about and who is it by? If you mention it in the same breath as The Goblin Emperor, that gets my attention…

  9. @Andrew M:

    Oh gosh, no. I didn’t mean to suggest anything as precise as that. I just meant: they think there is something to discuss, some question as to whether things are SF or not. That implies there is a penumbra which they are excluding, though the difference between it and the umbra is not well defined.

    The conversations could be going completely the other way though. You write like they take the form of publishers petitioning and Clarkies passing judgment on whether the publishers’ candidates are SFnal enough to the Clarkies. But it could just as easily be that the preponderance of conversations involve Clarkies assuring publishers that, “hey, that book you don’t think is ‘really’ eligible totally is.”

  10. Greg:

    The problem is that works don’t divide neatly into worthy and unworthy. There are plenty of works that are not obviously unworthy, but may not be among the five things that would do best in a free vote. A slate could skew the voting so that, among the possibly-worthy works, those which best fitted a certain outlook did better – or those which least fitted that outlook did worse. Such a result would not be utterly unreasonable, but would still give one group undue influence, and mean that the ballot did not accurately represent people’s real preferences.

    For instance, look at VD’s Campbell recommendations. His recommendation of Andy Weir is clearly irrelevant, because he will be nominated anyway (if he is eligible). But Pierce Brown is not an obvious nominee, yet not an obviously unreasonable one either. If he is nominated, partly due to slate votes, it will be a distortion of the result – but not one that will cause people to cry ‘How on earth did he get nominated?’ and automatically No Award him. Do similar things across the board, and you have pushed the Hugos your way.

  11. Unless Teddy is playing a secret game by email, something that wouldn’t hugely suppose me, but his dead elks having enough discipline not to blurt it out on Reddit would, then I think his victory condition this year involves nominating people that would probably have been nominated anyway and claiming all the credit.

  12. Speaking of whom, I find myself wondering if VD has grown tired of the nominating process. He started out making near-daily picks, but lately the pace has greatly slowed.

  13. In regards to Pierce Brown, since the third book in his series debuted at #1 on the NYT fiction list,and he’s done quite well in the GoodReads awards, I think that puts him into the popular author side of things.

    Since the first book was labeled YA by some people (Del Rey didn’t label it that way), his profile with the general SF readership has not been as high. He has developed a good fan following and is worthy of being nominated.

  14. Recently read books:

    Uprooted. Wow. Old school fantasy, and a fairy tale wood. I loved it. Which is odd as I’m not typically that much of a fantasy reader, but it really drew me in. And I liked the Dragon.

    Saturn Run – kind of fun, competently done, but to my mind went downhill when they got to Saturn. Biggest weakness was that it was supposed to be set 50 years in the future, but the politics was from next Thursday.

    Just started “The House of Shattered Wings.” Somewhat of an abrupt transition from Uprooted 😉

    Can anyone remember what the short story with the ice monsters coming down from the roof was called? They hunted the ice monsters…

  15. “Hic Sunt Monstra” by Brian Trent from the Sept 2015 Galaxy’s Edge?

  16. With apologies to Thomas Moore, the Irish people, the Union army, ST:TNG, and The Minstrel Boy himself:

    The trollish boy to the Net is gone,
    On Seven Seventy you’ll find him;
    Sealioning he hath focused on,
    And no words you post shall faze him;
    “Land of Pups” said the warrior bard,
    “Though all the world no-award thee,
    One voice at least your concerns shall guard,
    One faithful poster praise thee!”

  17. @Chris S: The ice monster story is “Hic Sunt Monstra” by Brian Trent.

    ETA: ninja’d byDawn Incognito.

  18. Lois Tilton: He may be waiting for the SP list before he declares his fiction picks.

    Lee Whiteside: I’m happy to call PB worthy, but presumably more than five people are worthy, so there’s still room for distortion when worthy candidates A and B are preferred to worthy candidates C and D (who would have done better in a free vote). I don’t think Brown was a foregone conclusion.

  19. Hic Sunt Monstra is on my longlist. Not sure if it will make it on my ballot or not; still checking out new stuff. But I thought it was pretty good.

    Stoic Cynic–nicely done!

    Brian Z, the Pups, the Pups are calling
    From den to den, and down the slippery slide
    The winter’s gone, and all the slates are falling
    Tis you, tis you, must go the FUD to ride…
    But come you back when Hugo season’s finished
    To talk of books and movies that you love;
    We will be here, discussing, undiminished
    The SFF, the SFF we’re dreaming of.

    (T.T.O. Danny Boy)

  20. Andrew M – but he did post his short fiction list already – two weeks ago.

    And waiting for the SP list risks running out of nomination time, at the rate Paulk is going.

  21. Finger snapping for Cat. That was groovy!

    And claps for the Stoic Cynic, too!

  22. @Andrew M

    A slate could skew the voting so that, among the possibly-worthy works, those which best fitted a certain outlook did better – or those which least fitted that outlook did worse. Such a result would not be utterly unreasonable, but would still give one group undue influence, and mean that the ballot did not accurately represent people’s real preferences.

    I would claim that you’ve lost sight of the goal. You don’t want anything that benefited from a slate to ever win a Hugo, whereas I merely want to destroy the slates. Allowing them to have a year or two in which they influence the results is, in my view, an acceptable cost. Just as long as nothing wins an award that clearly didn’t deserve one.

    The advice to voters of “vote for anything that deserves an award, ignoring anything but the content of the story” is very wholesome, very easy to defend, and very easy for people to follow. It has the great virtue of not only being the winning strategy but also being the right thing to do.

  23. @Lois Tilton

    Speaking of whom, I find myself wondering if VD has grown tired of the nominating process. He started out making near-daily picks, but lately the pace has greatly slowed.

    It’s possible that he’s finding it dull compared to the American elections. It’s quite a lot of work to read enough short SFF to actually produce a sensible list (as you certainly know), and I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that he’s tired of it.

    Remember that after Sasquan he posted a pic of a nuclear explosion and declared he was going to burn down the Hugos in 2016. To do that, all he had to do was make a list of trash, get 500 of his followers to nominate without reading, and then watch the fans give out zero Hugo awards in 2016. But that’s not what he’s doing. It’s possible that his support has collapsed since his defeat at Sasquan, but I think it’s just as likely that he’s getting tired of this.

    We’ll probably have a better idea when we see his final recommendation lists.

  24. Andrew M

    It’s late over here, I’m tired, and I’m happy to leave side issues aside, but there is a large and gaping hole in your logic when you assert that in order to nominate more works people will have to read more works. They don’t. What they have to do is remember to nominate the works which they read which they thought were worthy.

    I really don’t understand why you are having such problems with this?

    RedWombat

    I am sorry to say that, if an event were to be staged to detect the persons most likely to launch an ad hominem attack upon one of Earth’s inhabitants, you might find a spot somewhere on the edges of the Horsehead Nebula.

    Possibly.

    ETA

    I’m English. My heavens, the rows there were about the fact he got the number of Tube Stations wrong. Or right, depending who was doing the counting.

  25. @Lis (and perhaps OGH as well)

    Reporting is important; especially of a large public event. I’m familiar with the Twin Cities nerd/fan/Fest scene, and it’s got it’s share of protected creepers, sad to say. Would not be shocke did this Marscon MC was one of them.

    However, that familiarity cuts both ways. The reporter at the link provided about the Marscon Masquerade has some very public feuds with a number of people in that scene; they have threatened legal action against some local performers at least once in the last year.

    That being said, if this MC was being a jackass in front of a huge crowd, I have no doubts that there will be corroboration – and hopefully action by Marscon.

  26. On a page of the File Seven Hundred and Sev’n
    He was blathering all through the night.
    In his flailing he’d turned all his amps to elev’n
    To deliver his message of shite.

    T’was both tired and daft, spreading FUD fore and aft,
    But, oh, how he could sealion!
    And he talked out his ass ‘til the whole thread was gassed
    And they called him the Trollish Brian

  27. @Stevie: rather than “Sisyphusine”, the usual adjective is “Sisyphean”.

  28. @lis

    Hmmmn – a few messages out, and what the link said got corroborated hard. If anything, the person whose post is at the link understated the situation. General reaction of “this is why we all prefer CVG” here locally.

  29. David Goldfarb: @Stevie: rather than “Sisyphusine”, the usual adjective is “Sisyphean”.

    I’m going to have to page back and see where this originated. Seems to me it would have fit perfectly in the burrito discussion thread…

  30. And on that happy note I will leave Mike to deal with it, and go back to trying to go to sleep…

  31. @CassyB

    Francesca, what is The Kraken King about and who is it by? If you mention it in the same breath as The Goblin Emperor, that gets my attention…

    I’m not Francesca, but The Kraken King is a Steampunk novel by Meljean Brook, part of her Iron Seas series, which is set in an alternate Victorian era, where the Mongols conquered half the world, using nanotech. This sounds like standard yellow peril stuff, but is a lot more nuanced, e.g. the heroine of the first book is half Asian and the book goes quite a bit into the racism she faces. IMO, the Iron Seas books are excellent Steampunk with fine worldbuilding and such SJW goodies as characters of colour, LGBT characters, strong female characters, discussions of racism, etc… However, since the series is published as romance rather than SFF and sometimes features naked man chests on the covers, it is largely ignored by SFF readers, which is a pity IMO.

    The Kraken King is the fourth novel in the series. The novels sort of stand alone, but you’ll probably need to read the first book, The Iron Duke, and maybe the second, Heart of Steel to understand what’s going on. The third book, Riveted, is the most standalone. It’s also lovely.

    There are a couple of tie-in short stories and novellas as well.

  32. Who could beat, though, the Kraken King or the Goblin Emperor? Empires are bigger than kingdoms, so you have to figure the latter would have the advantage.

  33. Jim Henley: Who could beat, though, the Kraken King or the Goblin Emperor? Empires are bigger than kingdoms, so you have to figure the latter would have the advantage.

    Where’s Kyra? I sense an impending Literary Rulers bracket.

  34. @Jim:

    Clearly the advantage goes to the Goblin King.

    ETA: I’d explain my logic, but it’s positively labyrinthine.

  35. Well, wouldn’t a Goblin King consist of some number of goblins, joined together by a tangle of tails? If they could overcome their initial confusion, they might be very powerful.

  36. Rev. Bob: I’d explain my logic, but it’s positively labyrinthine.

    It’s the pants. The very tight pants.

  37. Jim Henley: Dudes we’re not even talking about a Goblin King!

    *snort*   We are now.

  38. Standback,

    I followed your link. Your article is good but the people you are presenting to are goofy. Just one example written to me by the poster Fail Burton:

    The mechanism by which this has occurred in SFF is self-evident: social justice do-gooders get to pretend they are Marlon Brando marching with M.L. King. The mediocre affirmative action darlings get to lay a claim to mainstream acceptance of their queer feminism and racial revenge stories which in fact exists nowhere in reality. Their literature is boring sleeping pills walking around on crutches like a special program for “gifted” youngsters. As late as the early ’80s Hugo authors earned millions in advance for single novels they sold millions of copies of. It is the general public which has said “Meh” to this whole crooked culture and passed those millions on to Harry Potter, Hunger Games and Twilight in the same way they once gave that to Haggard, Wells, and Burroughs, the people who originated the excitement for SFF with the general public.

    So one of those examples won a Hugo. But even if it didn’t, what in the world has this to do with Fans reading things, associating with others of similar interest and then passing out a few awards. Is seems to me and I could be wrong, but the problem with the rational discussion attempts are these rants don’t really have anything to do with Hugo Fans and Worldcon. It’s just goofy stuff. It’s hard to have rational debate about goofy stuff.

    BTW, it may be heresy but I read Burroughs as a kid and was not impressed.

  39. ULTRAGOTHA on March 6, 2016 at 7:42 pm said:

    I think we should have a butts in chinos bracket. Malcolm Reynolds vs James West vs The Goblin King.

    I’m sure Tina Belcher would be fascinated by such a contest.

  40. Zenu: what in the world has this to do with Fans reading things, associating with others of similar interest and then passing out a few awards.

    The Puppies’ entire argument is predicated upon their insistence that the Hugo Awards should represent the taste of all SFF fans. This is why they keep bringing up “million-sellers” and big media conventions — books that the Hugos weren’t intended to recognize, and cons that Worldcon members have never wanted their con to be.

    They refuse to accept the fact that the Hugo Awards have belonged to the Worldcon members for many decades, and that they were never intended to reflect anything other than the taste of Worldcon members. Because, see, they just want Worldcon’s awards — they don’t want anything to do with Worldcon and its horrible cadre of SJWs.

    Or, as GRRM so aptly put it: They want to decide who gets the Ditmars, but they don’t want to be Australians.

    Considering the piece of wild irrationality you quoted above, I can see where Fail Burton got their first name.

  41. @Zenu

    Fail Burton, AKA James May, is a frothing-at-the-mouth Men’s Rights Advocate who thinks Third Wave Feminism, Women’s Studies, and Social Justice Warriors are the causes of all the Bad Stuff in the universe, in the SFF world and out. He constantly accuses people of “hating white men” just because they want a leveller playing field for marginalized people. One of his more recent idiocies was complaining about Lightspeed’s POC Kickstarter because no white men will be invited to write for it. (Yeah, dude, I’m a supporter, that’s the free market of 2500+ people pooling their money to create something that didn’t exist before, and it’s none of your goddamned business what I choose to spend my money on.)

    He is, in short, batshit crazy.

  42. Successful trolls learn to accept constructive criticism, Brian. It’s how they improve. I realize that nobody likes to be told they’re phoning it in–lord knows, I bristled the first time I heard that in a drawing class!–but accepting critique is a vital step towards creative growth.

    I have faith in you. You’ve got an A-game, bring it.

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