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  • 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 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 6th, 2016 5:58pm

    There’s a growing anti-intellectual strain that is growing in this country. It may be the beginning of the end of our informed democracy. In a free society, you can and should think whatever you want. If you want to think the Earth is flat, go right ahead. But if you think the Earth is flat and you have influence over others, as would successful rappers or even presidential candidates, then being wrong becomes being harmful to the health, the wealth and the security of our citizenry.

    — Neil deGrasse Tyson responding to rapper B.o.B. regarding his Flat Earth, conspiracy-theory propaganda rant via Twitter (see it via the Daily Show here)

  • October 28th, 2015 6:39pm

    I had no feeling of identity with the United States, and yet I resented the ignorant and snobbish criticism of Americans that was current at that time…most of them seemed to have a lot of bounce and liveliness and to be thoroughly enjoying themselves where the average Englishman of the same class would be stuffy or completely bored.

    — Raymond Chandler.

  • October 23rd, 2015 5:57pm

    I do not, and I hope I never shall, admit that sex is a thing to be treated as if it were of no great consequence. You can make all sorts of jokes about it, mostly lewd (I’ve made them myself) but at the bottom of his heart every decent man feels that his approach to the woman he loves is an approach to a shrine.

    — Raymond Chandler.

  • October 19th, 2015 1:04pm

    It is like a sudden scream in the night, but there is no sound. Almost always at night, because the dark hours are the hours of danger. But it has happened to me also in broad daylight ― that strange, clarified moment when I suddenly know something I have no reason for knowing. Unless out of the long years and the long tensions, and in the present case, the abrupt certainty that what bullfighters call “the moment of truth” is here.

    — Playback by Raymond Chandler.