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Is it a conscious decision to keep Amelia single? I personally think it’s great either way that she doesn’t fall into the whole, “If only I had a man…”funk some writers put their female characters in.

ameliacolecomic:

Now this is Adam answering and I am answering for me here, really so keep that in mind. THAT SAID: On my end it came from a place of “She doesn’t have TIME.” Just being realistic here. She’s a busy, busy woman holding down a really strange job and in a place that, while she is used to it, is still fairly new to her all told. Doesn’t mean she won’t eventually have a relationship (And wait a second! Who says it would be with a man? Or with a human? Or with any specific gender over any other? We’ve never had her in a relationship so we haven’t mentioned her preferences in that area yet. Hell, she may be asexual. Perfectly fine thing to be. We’re not telling as of now.) but if she is ever in a place to have a relationship it is something I feel we would discuss amongst ourselves a good long time before pulling the trigger on so that we could do it justice and with all the care we put into everything about Amelia.

TL;DR – Yeah – she’s kinda in a war right now, bad time to go out on dates.

I don’t know what it says about me that I have never even once thought “I wonder why Amelia doesn’t have a boy- or girlfriend” during the… two years, I guess, of me reading the series.

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Ultimately, Internet outrage is the milquetoast cousin to direct action, a way to protest by tapping and clicking rather than boycotting and marching. It is a noble endeavor to become incensed about a cause and risk arrest or toil without acclamation for one’s deeply held beliefs. Less honorable is joining a digital pile-on as a means of propping up one’s ego, even if it comes in the form of entertaining zings.

On Social Media, Some Are Susceptible to Internet Outrage – NYTimes.com

fake dichotomies will be the death of me

thinkpieces about outrage will be the other death of me

people who talk about outrage in generalized times will be the other other death of me

(via iamdavidbrothers)

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bombing:

fun drinking game: take a shot of water every couple hours to make sure you’re healthy and hydrated

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Cartoon Brew article is Bad, Stop Reblogging it.

the-full-grohac:

So yeah, I linked the Cartoon Brew article as it was the first “news/blog article” stating Page got fired for being a piece of shit. I didn’t know Cartoon brew had been abusive to Emily until after I posted it and bigbigtruck made a post saying the article was bad. . 

If a non-Cartoon Brew article hits stating the news he was fired please send it to me so that can get posted instead of linking people that are abusive toward victims. 

Thanks. 

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Nope the link to Bravo contest still don’t work, ordering it anyways. The question: I assume it is ok to use Lady Sabre &Pirates of Ineffable Aether in my Steampunk comics lecture/panel held in next september? But why steampunk especially?

ruckawriter:

1) OK, looking into why it’s working for me and not working for anyone else.

2) Absolutely. I’m honored.

3) Because I love the aesthetic, and the ability to revisit a very romanticized period with the liberty of pure-fiction to justify editing those elements of history that are, at their best, problematic. 

Said on Twitter, but the link worked for me so that’s… two of us, at least?

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As this and other circumstances forced me out of my career, I eventually quit my existing job. I founded a media company that is now one of the only independent platforms covering technology, culture and politics – and in doing so, have likely burned my last bridge with employment in the industry.

Now that I was my own boss, I felt free from the omnipresent threat of getting fired for my political speech, and it felt amazing. I started doing even more of that exact thing that women around here aren’t supposed to do: Get angry. Fight back. Speak my truth. Set boundaries. Take up digital space.

Be “visible.”

I am now one of the most hated people in the tech industry.

And rather than being an asset, visibility is itself a weapon against me.

File under: Must read.
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I feel like to be effective with the reader you need to surprise them with the formalism. You need to give them what they’re expecting and then gently introduce something that’s different, and then you can gradually blow their mind, (laughs) instead of just tossing a bunch of mysterious lines at the reader or whatever. I’ll always give the artist the benefit of the doubt that there’s probably something smart going on, but if I don’t know what’s going on, then, for me, it’s not successful, it’s not inspiring. But I don’t think it was right to call that “empty.” I am interested in a lot of formalist work. I could easily see myself making even weirder, unreadable comics, and I guess I’ve dabbled in that, but I’m really afraid of going too far down that road. I’m sure we would both get lost. For some cartoonists that’s what they want to do and I don’t think there’s anything wrong with it. Also, once I finally understand what they’re actually doing I’m usually like, “oh this is pretty brilliant.”

From this epic Kevin Huizenga interview that I need time to sit down with properly.