I wasn't able to help the last chicken who came into my store...she was looking for hen-tai. I told her we only carry a couple manga series and offered her an is-egg-kai. She said something fowl and stormed out!

Immigrants do so many hard jobs in this country. Can you imagine telling some entitled American they have to climb down in the sewer to stomp out (literally) an infestation of turtles and their pay is whatever coins they can pick up while they're down there?

Fuck me, just crying over a stick figure cartoon

The Magnets Magnets Magnets screen in the background is really stealing the show

People don't get that your voice and your characters are more important anyway. The gatekeepers see a million ideas every day. But the ideas are worthless if you don't have the hooks that actually get readers invested.

Because you don't know who these people are. You don't know what these organizations are. These are just names. You don't care because no one's giving you a reason to.

You're being TOLD this is weighty and important stuff, not being SHOWN that it is.

You gotta be *Character First, Concept Second.*

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I actually think we'll see it below a certain corporate valuation. We got billionaires by impoverishing the lower and middle class. Now that we're all broke, the way we'll get trillionaires is by impoverishing millionaires.

Now that's what I call drinking responsibly!