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I miss mass-market paperbacks but everyone wants to write long books that don't fit in your interior jacket pocket anymore

kiubai

Also pulp paper for books. I miss that too.

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I miss mass-market paperbacks but everyone wants to write long books that don't fit in your interior jacket pocket anymore

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stardustings

cultivating your taste is so important. you don’t have to be particularly structured or methodical about it, but you should develop real curiosity about why you like the things you do, how they make you feel, why it matters… to put yourself around things that are considered truly great even if you don’t get it yet. and learn to listen to other people who have cultivated their own taste, not to replicate theirs but to see how they do it and share in their expansive energy… the more you interact with good taste, whatever that means to you, the more depth you carve into your own soul… and if you crave success in some capacity, it has this strange way of making you seem more “real” and significant to others around you, and in a way that is so authentic and natural and pleasurable. it just creates an energy that propels you forward in every way. so next time you worry if you’re being shallow, you’re not, that’s a lie, you’re actually bringing great depth… what you like matters because how you feel matters. a lot. like it’s the most important thing. you know?

thecollectibles

Art by Dongni Hou

sirlazz

Shit man, this orbital war is fucked. I just saw a guy grab a gun and say "Deploying seekers" or some simillar shit, and every one around him had their suit explosively decompress and their blood freeze. The camera didn't even go onto him, that's how common this shit is. My ass is firing an assault rifle and floating around in a jetpack and i just saw a 28 megawatt pulsed laser vaporise a squad two clicks over. I gotta get the fuck outta here.

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prokopetz

Reasons I have seen webcomic authors publicly cite for cancelling their comic mid-storyline:

Too busy

Lost interest

Increasing age gap between characters and author made it difficult to relate

Did the math and figured out that completing the planned arc with their current update schedule would take 150 years

Ostensible author actually a fictional persona that’s now being retired, and they didn’t want the comic linked to their real identity

Realised that the way they’d written the central relationship wasn’t emotionally genuine (note: this was a hobbit porn comic)

The comic’s readership contained too many lesbians

Converted to a religion that regards all representational art as a form of idolatry

Broke up with the person the protagonist was based on

Outed as not actually Japanese

Imprisoned for manslaughter

Aliens

prokopetz

This post bubbles back up in my notes or DMs every few months with someone insisting that the third-to-last entry must be me either misremembering or deliberately misreporting that one Marvel Comics editor as a webcomic artist, and I don’t think a lot of contemporary readers properly understand just how common it was circa 2000 for white twentysomething webcomic artists to racefake as Japanese. Like, that particular entry happened more than once!

chaotic-uncreative

And that’s the one people question? Not imprisonment, not the religion, no it’s one of the slightly more sensible sounding reasons.

prokopetz

No, I get people bugging me about the religion one too, on the grounds that they think I’m vagueing Stand Still, Stay Silent – though I suspect those are less because they believe I’m misrepresenting the situation, and more because they don’t understand what representational-art-as-idolatry means and they’re doing the “if I don’t understand it, it must not be important” thing.

arcanistlupus

I’m mostly curious about the aliens, because I assume that you’re only listing cases where the listed cause seemed serious and not a comedic deflection, and I’m fascinated at the thought process that would lead someone to conclude that they needed to pause a webcomic because of aliens.

prokopetz

An aspect of early webcomic culture that doesn’t get talked about much these days is that it wasn’t all queer furries: a surprising number of first-wave webcomic creators were right-wing conspiracy nuts. (Some were even both, which is a fascinating intersection of identities, I’m not gonna lie!) Most of them have either withdrawn from the public eye or flamed out and driven away their audiences, a handful of notable holdouts notwithstanding, so it’s easy to forget that back in the day a lot of webcomickers genuinely believed in chemtrails and shit.

prokopetz

@agoddamnedrayofsunshine replied:

…i’m sorry manslaughter?

Vehicular, if memory serves.

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apostura

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you need to be slow maxxing. you need to be reading long, fat books. you need to be making 48 chocolate chip cookies. you need to spend hours watching wild life. you need to spend 15 minutes making coffee. you need to breathe in and out. you need to be slowwwwwww

#need the time to be slow

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apostura

plain text:

you need to be slow maxxing. you need to be reading long, fat books. you need to be making 48 chocolate chip cookies. you need to spend hours watching wild life. you need to spend 15 minutes making coffee. you need to breathe in and out. you need to be slowwwwwww

#need the time to be slow

coolyo294

The shogun of sengoku-era america, Abraham Lincoln

I keep thinking about the ice war on europa, man

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jordandebney

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