• 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.)

  • February 10th, 2016 9:17pm

    greensealgalaxy:

    trevoredwards:

    greensealgalaxy:

    What do Rey S*lo theorists think Luke’s role in this new trilogy will be? Not to sort out his sister’s problems with her kids, I hope.

    The mentor role, similar to Obi-Wan in the original trilogy. I don’t think he’s going to end up sacrificing himself like Obi-Wan, but we’ll see. If he does end up dying, I think it’s likely it will be in a way that will facilitate Kylo’s return to the light side. 

    But Han Solo fulfilled Obi-Wan’s role in The Force Awakens. It would make more sense if Luke were to fill Yoda’s shoes as he was presented in The Empire Strikes Back, if any mentor role at all. Even then, I don’t know why we would want even more similarity to the OT and not something new or a different spin on it at least. You know? Plus, I can’t fathom Luke just being a mentor and that’s it. TFA was about finding him, after all, so it sounds anti-climactic to not only do that but also have him die for Kylo’s sake, if anyone’s.

    Something I think is important to remember, and you touched on this, is that this isn’t the original trilogy. They pulled A LOT of inspiration (basically everything about the movie) from the original trilogy because they wanted to recapture what made the series so great to begin with, but I don’t think because of that, that Luke is necessarily stuck inhabiting the archetype of either Obi-Wan or Yoda. 

    That said, I don’t really know what other role Luke could really fill at this point, in this version, of the series. 

    Plus, I can’t fathom Luke just being a mentor and that’s it. TFA was about finding him

    I think it goes a little bit deeper than him just being a mentor. He’s a catalyst for change. Remember, Snoke says that if Skywalker returns “the new Jedi will rally behind him.” I think that quote is a really important one because it shows that the First Order aren’t necessarily afraid of Luke himself, but the kind of change he could bring if he returned to training Jedi. 

    Really, all we can do is continue to speculate. There’s just too much information that we don’t have yet (i.e. the details/circumstance behind Kylo’s fall to the dark side, the details of Luke’s failed Jedi Academy, particularly how long it went on or how many he trained, ect.) to be able to paint an accurate picture of WHO Luke Skywalker is at this point in his life. Obviously, it was a very deliberate decision to make the movie so opened ended. That way fans would be stuck having the same conversation that we’re having for several years. 

    Sorry, I think I may have veered a little off the main topic here lol.