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Month: February 2016

  • February 17th, 2016 2:51am

    Writing my own comics [instead of writing for Marvel] has been like trying to break up with a really hot, billionaire boyfriend who also happens to be a smothering control freak. I want to walk away, I know I should walk away — and hell, I have walked away — but it’s hard to stay away. The X-Men are better than a diamond necklace. The X-Men are a beautiful, false promise. And the attention that one receives for writing the X-Men, or any Marvel property, is equally as addictive. But in the long run it leaves you with nothing: no creative ownership, no retirement fund, nothing that is yours. The experience is amazing, but in the end, I had to forge ahead and do my own thing.

    —

    Marjorie Liu (February 2016)

    I find this is also true of working for a huge technology company. After being laid off and coming back, and having my division sold off, and being invited back, people ask me why I’d consider going back. 

    I told them it’s like dating an asshole boyfriend who’s rich as hell. The experiences aren’t great but the fucker PAYS FOR EVERYTHING. 

    I’ve taken that bad boyf back so many times 🙁

    (via taterpie)

  • February 16th, 2016 2:22am

    archatlas:

    The Abandoned City Peter Zelei

    From the artist: I shot these images in the summer of 2014 – nowadays the site is not abandoned anymore, they restarted the building in this year. The location was abandoned for a few years, because the banks stopped supporting the project in 2009 due the economical crisis. The site is located in the outskirts of Budapest, Hungary.

  • February 10th, 2016 10:05pm


    just-kertwanging-you-brother:
    Mr. Gaiman, how can I get past the self-loathing I feel whenever I read something that I have written?

    Write more. And remember that everyone who writes anything good wrote a lot of bad stuff first. You are learning, be kind to yourself, just as you would be kind to anyone learning to do something hard, like juggling or ballroom dancing or surgery. Learn from your mistakes, and get better, and one day you’ll write something you won’t loathe.

    (Also, it’s fine to dislike something you’ve written. But don’t dislike yourself for having made it.)