priellan

Y’all are weird. And a bit screwed up. Even for me, and I’m weird and screwed up. Guys, it’s a TV show. I understand it’s great and it’s pretty intense, I have feels about it too, but jeez, tone it down a little, you’re beginning to scare me.

Also, to whoever started that “I feel like the show personally victimized me” post and those who reblogged it: What the hell? A TV show CANNOT VICTIMIZE YOU. Please don’t say crap like that, that ain’t right, okay?

heysawbones:

Winterbottom was a nice guy. He really didn’t deserve to die because the tank he was inside of ran over an IED. To be fair, I suppose nobody really “deserves” to die in whatever way they die. Military death in theconflictdu jourhas a certain extra-special tinge of unfairness to it. One could say, well, it’s a volunteer military. You signed a contract, it was your choice to put yourself in harm’s way. Sure, sure. For most, anyway. I mean, some were given the option of enlistment or prison and chose enlistment, but. Let’s say everyone signed a contract by choice. You have to consider what the alternatives were.

Most people are not the sorts to send themselves to war purely for the glory of it, not in this country. There were some, sure. Some people felt 9-11 was a calling to drop whatever they were doing and haul ass to the great sandbox across the ocean. Most of us, though… we were just short on options. It’s nice that you can choose college, or choose the military. Some of us had to choose the military in order to choose college, and then some of us died because we REALLY wanted to go to college; wanted to go badly enough that we’d sell 4-8 years of our lives to the government. We died in an attempt to dig our fingers into the American Dream, in a conflict created by people who were already living it.

Some died because they were single parents, and couldn’t find another job that would allow them to take care of their kids. We’ve got great health care, you know. Some died because they got a little too aspirational and saw the military as the only viable way out of their violent neighborhoods, their violent families. Some died because they were wanderers in their own lives, aimless but for the goal of finding a meaning, something to orient themselves to.

Winterbottom cared a lot about his wayward battle buddy/roommate, a guy who was always getting demoted over dumb things. He had a sense of humor about his silly last name. Once, he accidentally hit a woman with his car as she tried to cross the street to the Troop Medical Clinic. Thankfully, he was only going about 5 MPH, so it was funnier than anything else. He just wanted to go to college, really. His unit was nicer than mine and let him take a few classes at the local community college.

Sure, it’s sad that he died protecting the interests of his homeland. But - to me, in a weird way, it’s sadder that he died because he wanted to rise above his station, and was cornered by life’s circumstances into enlistment. Because there is no draft, our war would appear to kill a higher percentage of the working poor than ever.

Personally, though, it’s most bizarre to me that a person I talked to every day got blown up while inside of a multi-million dollar death machine, thousands of miles away, because he ran over a bomb.

That’s weird.

Let’s not do this again.

“We died in an attempt to dig our fingers into the American Dream, in a conflict created by people who were already living it.”

Wow. Thank you for writing this. I really enjoy seeing it on my dash, and you make me think. I appreciate that.

reavien:

I seem to have drawn the wrong frame on the wrong page and now I have two dogs on one frame and one of them might be really hard to erase and, naturally, it’s the one that I would need to erase.　

I am sorry for your situation

but that is the best of all possible gifts in the best of all possible worlds

thank you for showing me that it exists

ohmygil:

strongpieces:

complicatedtriangulated:

I once asked him about Rob Liefeld.

He just shook his head, glared, and said, “Liefeld” in a dark tone.

We never spoke of Rob Liefeld again.

LEGIT CACKLING

heh heh heh heh heh

I’m guessing you had Tom Lyle then because THE EXACT SAME THING happened when I asked him about that last quarter. XD

coelasquid:

I can’t understand why people honestly think It is cool any funny to harass artists in real life for drawing pictures they don’t like on the internet. And the people who get behind it because they don’t like that artist either? You’re just encouraging that type of behaviour and making cons worse for everyone else in the future.

These are all completely hypothetical situations because I’m not going to give any further attention to the real one that happened, but say someone runs up to someone like Buckley at a con and like, throws a drink in his face. Then they brag about it on the internet and people pat them on the back because the internet decided they don’t like Buckley based on a lot of hearsay and a comic they don’t enjoy.

If word gets around that “hey, physically messing with comic artists who draw things you don’t like is socially acceptable behaviour!”, it doesn’t take long for that kind of thing to escalate. What if people start messing with artists like Scott Ramsoomair because they don’t think they update enough? What if they go after Scott Kurtz because he has strong opinions (that he usually articulates more thoughtfully than people give him credit for)? What if Kate Beaton becomes a target because she put her site on hiatus? Andrew Hussie because he asked people to respect his copyright? If a person justifies harassment of artists by saying “they did a thing on the internet that I didn’t like” and you give them any kind of positive attention for it, you are putting a target on anyone who has ever made someone on the internet angry ever. And for the record, it’s not very hard to make someone out there in the big wide web angry.