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I’m David: ‘Johnny Wander’ Is Charming & Who Should Own The Rights To Superman?
Like most of you, I’ve got a to-read stack that kills me every time I look at it. Friends laugh at it, small children cry at it, and the police keep giving me the stink eye. I’ve also got a to-read list for those things that I want to read in digital form, but haven’t yet. There’s a lot of webcomics in there (Chris Onstad returned to Achewoodlast year, you say?) and I’ve been remarkably lax about getting caught up because I’ve got a never-ending reservoir of excuses when it comes to not doing things. But I found myself with three volumes of the webcomic Johnny Wander, an inexplicably long commute to work, and a (very rare) lack of excuses. So I read it. And I loved it.
I’m David, and I want to talk to you about Johnny Wander, a comic drawn by Yuko Ota and written by Ananth Panagariya, about Yukond Ananth. It’s autobio, it’s funny, and it’s great.David Brothers wrote a nice piece about Johnny Wander over on Comics Alliance! Check it out!
One of my long-time favorite webcomics got an article thingy. It makes me giggle, chuckle, and tempts me to make a webcomic until I realize I can’t draw. But yesyesyes, check it out, article and webcomic and everything.
Source: comicsalliance.com
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REIGN OR SHINE VIDEOS BEING UPLOADED AS WE SPEAK →
Hey everyone! Tonight was amazing, wasn’t it? Big props to all the participating teams, and congrats to Defined Movement on 2nd place, and UFPx on 1st!
If you couldn’t make it tonight, no worries - I’ve recorded all the performances. Though I’ll be posting the videos here, the link above takes you right to our youtube channel, where I’m uploading the videos as quick as I can. :)
Turns out standing in the same spot for several hours makes one’s feet go numb. Feeling is slowly returning to my feet. I can wiggle my big toe. Anyway, you people should follow NJIT FSA’s tumblr and subscribe to their channel, because they’re cool. And since I’m historian, I’m in charge of both. So yeah.
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Defining Rhythm 2012 videos being uploaded! →
Eep. Feeling guilty about a few things:
- I tried saving battery by skipping a few performances that were already done at FLASH. There’s other people who record, professionals at that, yeah, but I always feel a bit of guilt skipping.
- My HD camera is apparently only HD with very very very close things, not people on a stage, reducing their faces to blurs - early dance competition videos are just as blurry as this haha. So basically, my camera is slowly turning into a potato with fantastic frame-rate.
So yeah, apologies for those. D: Regardless of this, I just wanted to record with what I have so people have a way of looking back, video quality be damned.
Either way, the night was fun, everyones’ performances were awesome, and congrats to the Mooks on 3rd, UFP for 2nd, and Project D for first!
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"Being foreveralone has got me so down right now." →
thedeadsigh (original poster)
I feel like recently I’ve just been going through these highs and lows. Today is really low. I hate being alone. I wish I knew what it was about me that is so unattractive. I mean I’m sure it’s multiple things. I guess I just wish I was normal and happy. I’ve tried to improve my life with working out, dieting, and trying to be social. I’m still just the same old 23yo virgin who’s never had a girlfriend. Nothing I do seems to make a difference. I just seems like no matter how hard I try and no matter how nice I am, there just seems to be this invisible force repelling everyone away from me. I’m so worried that I’m going to die alone. I know I’m young but everything around us tells us that being a virgin is like the worst thing ever. Even if I managed to ever get a date, how lame am I going to sound when they find out I’ve never had a girlfriend? How does an interesting and decent looking guy manage to never be in a relationship? They are going to think something is wrong with me. That I’m faulty or something. I just feel so left out, so unloved, and so ugly.
I know I can’t force anyone to love me, or like me for that matter. I know I’ll probably never find someone for me. All I want to do is forget it. I don’t want this stuff to bother me. I want to live my life, alone or not. I just don’t want to feel anymore.
Divayth_Fyr (reply)
I would speak to you of cool breezes.
You may or may not wish to listen to me, since I am 43 years old and have never. Sex, kiss, date, cuddle, whatever a human might want from another human, slap a ‘never’ on it and that is me. Taking my advice might not be a great idea. But I have learned some things.
Sometimes on a warm day, a cool breeze will come along. It just happens. Or it doesn’t happen. There is no schedule for it, no specific reason, nothing I can do to cause it. It feels awfully nice when it does happen. I don’t deserve it, or not deserve it. I can’t earn it.
All I can do is be out there doing whatever I am doing, and enjoy it when it comes along. That is not to suggest you should be passive, not at all. Exactly the opposite. But you should allow life to happen.
You want to stop feeling. You can do that. I did. It can be done. But there is no way—none, zero, no way at all ever—to stop feeling the bad parts without also stopping feeling the good. You do not get to choose that, it cannot be done. If you numb the bad, you numb the glorious.
Have you ever met a girl you thought was pretty nice, but you just didn’t feel that way about her? I don’t think you can just decide to love her, whoever she was. You could decide to think of her as charitably as you can but you can’t feel what you don’t feel. And neither can they. Love is a cool breeze. You can’t decide whether to feel it, all you can do is decide what to do about it if you do feel it.
You know you will probably never find someone for you. Tempting, isn’t it? To have that final answer, to stop enduring the misery of hope. You are sure. It is nice to be sure. It is nice to have that out of the way and not have to wonder and hope, dream and want, need and yearn. Yearn! What a word. But there it is. Yearning. Sounds like a goddamn sonnet but that is the word for it.
You don’t know a goddamn thing. I am sorry, but the bad news is you probably will find someone. You can try being as repulsive as possible and some girl might like you anyhow, people are crazy like that. Stop trying to be sure, and learn to endure uncertainty. Being sure is like riding a flat rollercoaster. Whee.
The bad news is you have hope. Hope’s the rope that keeps you tied in knots—the torture never stops. Even when you find her, and she likes you and she can’t help it and she gets all silly and wants to have your babies and everything, you will still have to hope. It never ever ends. You will hope every day she still loves you. You will hope she isn’t bored with you. You will hope the tests come back negative. You will hope she forgives you. It never, ever ends. Well, until you are dead, and there is time enough for that later I assure you.
There is no solution to hope and uncertainty. All you can do is be who you are and hope like hell. You are not a strategy, you are not an attempt. You are you, and now let’s see what happens.
I still hope. And I will never stop. Failure has no meaning, as I am not attempting to succeed. I am that I am. Who I am does not depend on circumstance or events. I hope, I want, I dream. No matter what, I damn well hope. If I fall from the 87th floor of a building I will hope on the way down. I am hurt, I am disappointed, I am ashamed and miserable and alone. But I will never give up hope. That pain is mine, and I welcome it. I yearn.
I wish you many cool breezes.
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Pride 2011 videos on my channel! →
Not perfect, I know, but I decided to record all the groups at Pride today, kinda because it’s been a whole year since the last one, which was the last competition that I had recorded til now. Uploading the performances as we speak. Or. Uh. As I type. It should all be up by the end of tomorrow/today. I do have a moderately better camera, not so sure about seeing everything absolutely clearly since I was in the back…and I should note a few times I bumped into the tripod or had to readjust it or whatnot. Sorry about that. So for anyone who couldn’t go, look no further! Or if you think my videos suck, look further!
5 Reasons Life Actually Does Get Better →
Despite some of the crap that tends to come from Cracked every so often, once in a while they offer some sound advice.
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what 4chan basically thinks of us. (NSFW) →
before anyone clicks this (if anyone ever does), just note that that the whole site was written to troll as many people as possible. which means if you exist and fit easily into a generalization(such as most asians here. besides a whole article like everyone else, we’ve got our own little section in the tumblr article.), there’s something in the site that makes fun of you, so if you’re quick to get butthurt, don’t read any of it. besides that, any bastard with too much pride who’s gonna get hacked later today/tomorrow probably deserves it.
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Robert A. Heinlein's "All You Zombies" →
i saw a summarized version of this going around tumblr uncredited. personally i think reading the full version is better.
just so you know, it’s a somewhat bizarre and very creatively written short story about time travel, and questioning existence within a time travel paradox.
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