How do you deal with that feeling of helplessness, anxiety, and anger when you see so much evil, cruelty and hatred, but feel like even when you work with others, you can't seem to make any dent in it?
You can’t be fighting it all the time or you’ll burn out or give up hope. You take a day, a chance to breathe, separate from it, and do what you have to to recover.
Because you ain’t the first one who’s been in this fight and you’re not the first one to feel like it’s all for nothing. And yet we persevere. We eventually prevail. There’s a lot of blood and hurt along the way, but we win. If you don’t give yourself time to heal, to recover your strength, then they’ll destroy you. It’s a war of attrition - it’s why they’re constantly trying to flood you with new battles, new bullshit. They want to wear you down.
But not every battle can be won and sometimes retreat is necessary to ensure victory later. So you get away from it so that the next day you can get up, roll your shoulders, crack your knuckles, and go, “Okay, what’s next?”
To paraphrase something I saw on tumblr once, hope is not some beacon of light - an angel descending from the sky to cleanse us of all our problems. It’s a dirt-covered, battle-scarred person spitting blood and a broken tooth out of their mouth, grinning, and putting up their fists again.
Here’s the short comic I made for @pichikui’s Danny Phantom charity zine, GOING GHOST! She’s selling digital copies on her gumroad if anyone missed out! Profits are donated to RAICES 👻💀!!
Hey what if I started a podcast where I try to play through Every Mega Man Game?
I’ve already recorded like five episodes but I’m going to release them once every two weeks. Please enjoy and PLEASE let me know what you think. The only thing scarier than hearing what people think is hearing nothing at all.
This sounds like… really important? What the FUCK Disney??
They are just straight up not paying loyalties! “Disney’s argument is that they have purchased the rights but not the obligations of the contract.”
This is seriously dangerous to creators
Read the letter from Alan Dean Foster:
Dear Mickey,
We have a lot in common, you and I. We share a birthday: November 18. My dad’s nickname was Mickey. There’s more.
When you purchased Lucasfilm you acquired the rights to some books I wrote. STAR WARS, the novelization of the very first film. SPLINTER OF THE MIND’S EYE, the first sequel novel. You owe me royalties on these books. You stopped paying them.
When you purchased 20th Century Fox, you eventually acquired the rights to other books I had written. The novelizations of ALIEN, ALIENS, and ALIEN 3. You’ve never paid royalties on any of these, or even issued royalty statements for them.
All these books are all still very much in print. They still earn money. For you. When one company buys another, they acquire its liabilities as well as its assets. You’re certainly reaping the benefits of the assets. I’d very much like my miniscule (though it’s not small to me) share.
You want me to sign an NDA (Non-disclosure agreement) before even talking. I’ve signed a lot of NDAs in my 50-year career. Never once did anyone ever ask me to sign one prior to negotiations. For the obvious reason that once you sign, you can no longer talk about the matter at hand. Every one of my representatives in this matter, with many, many decades of experience in such business, echo my bewilderment.
You continue to ignore requests from my agents. You continue to ignore queries from SFWA, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. You continue to ignore my legal representatives. I know this is what gargantuan corporations often do. Ignore requests and inquiries hoping the petitioner will simply go away. Or possibly die. But I’m still here, and I am still entitled to what you owe me. Including not to be ignored, just because I’m only one lone writer. How many other writers and artists out there are you similarly ignoring?
My wife has serious medical issues and in 2016 I was diagnosed with an advanced form of cancer. We could use the money. Not charity: just what I’m owed. I’ve always loved Disney. The films, the parks, growing up with the Disneyland TV show. I don’t think Unca Walt would approve of how you are currently treating me. Maybe someone in the right position just hasn’t received the word, though after all these months of ignored requests and queries, that’s hard to countenance. Or as a guy named Bob Iger said….
“The way you do anything is the way you do everything.”
I’m not feeling it.
Alan Dean Foster
SIGNAL.
BOOST.
Because you know if Disney gets away with not paying creators, everyone else will want to see if they can get away with it.
Consider yourselves lucky that I didn’t turn this entire post into one long pun on the song title
I’ll be honest with you, folks: I may have shut down almost all of my old barrage of notifications to keep from losing my mind, but I did keep a few on, and one of those was for PassCode, which partly works because their Twitter account is about 10% as busy as most, so you the ratio of quality…
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