You know...I'd think this would be easy...

[Comicality]

 

But, apparently, it's not. So let me make something very clear, here and now...

 

Nobody OWNS me or my ability to write stories. Nobody. Every single word that I publish here or anywhere else online is a free expression of who I am, and what I'm willing to freely SHARE with the rest of you. You are not 'entitled' to anything that I create. You are not in 'control' of this. If you have control issues, or dependency issues, or have something in your life that is causing you great distress or discomfort...and you need my stories to use as a form of escape from those issues...that is NOT my problem. Nor is it my responsibility.

 

I am SO grateful for you guys who love and support and appreciate what I do. And I hope that you know that, because you've written to me personally, and I've responded to you personally to say 'thank you'. I read your comments, I read your reviews, I've made it my mission to react to every single comment that I've gotten over the past 6 months or so.  I LOVE you all!

 

But don't EVER think that you can shoot a snotty comment my way or 'humiliate' me into doing your bidding when you haven't spent a single DIME to get access to the quality entertainment that I've given you for more years than most of you have been online. STOP IT!!! I don't owe you a fucking THING! You can support me, or you can keep your mouth shut!

 

Thanks to you, everybody is on punishment. I'm not posting anything. Everybody has to wait, because you're too arrogant to wait for quality content to be posted on this site.

 

To my real friends online? Those who always leave a comment or want to see new chapters of their faves, go ahead and email me. But to those who think they can control me and choose to be nasty in order to FORCE me to do what they want? You guys have to wait an extra week now.

 

Keep it up? I'll add another week's delay.

 

All I ask is that you not be a DICK to me! And you can't seem to work that out. So let's make this a lesson in anger management. KNOCK IT OFF!!! Or you get nothing from me ever again! How's that?

 

 

Edited May 16, 2018 by Comicality

[Shadow086]

You know, one thing I'll never understand is how people can be so bossy and demanding with things they get for free, then turn around around and buy a book they end up hating and never say a word about it.  Just relax, people!

[FormerMember4]

I appreciate what you give... when you give. I’m sorry that someone has left you on defense. You publishing is reward, not a guarantee. I’m tired of entitled and disrespectful people who think they are owed something.

[Wesley8890]

You tell them Comsie! I enjoy your stories immensely, and personally agree with you. If I have to wait another week because some dick wants to be an ass then so be it! Your stories are more than worth the wait!  You've given us plenty of great stories over the past few weeks that tie in with GFD.  You are an awesome writer !!! Do what you feel like doing!

[drpaladin]

I'm sorry this happens. Do you want me to begin gathering wood for a nice crackling auto-da-fe for the errant cretin?

[VampireMystic]

This is not Comicality, inc. This is not Studio Comicality. There's one man, one keyboard, and 24 hours per day. 
 

What is your day like?
 

There's activities of daily living

There's work

There's commuting

Food

Sleep

Cleaning

Laundry 

Rest

Interruptions 

Bills

Budgeting

I could go on. 
 

How often do any of us get left alone a few hours at a time?
 

Can anyone claim they can always quiet the mind and choose what they concentrate on? Pick and choose their emotional state to resonate with a particular story, a specific scene? Find the right words at the right time, every time?
 

Mhmm. Exactly. 
 

You want <insert story> right now?
 

Lo! Behold! Let there be fanfiction!
 

Too much work?

No free time?

Nothing sounds the way you want?

Struggling to find ideas?

Be organized?

Stay focused?

Life in the way?
 

Welcome to writing. 
 

Writing gets better with practice, it doesn't get EASIER. 
 

In my opinion, the deep dark middle of a story is MORE difficult than the beginning. 
 

My challenge to all:
 

Wake up, get dressed, eat a meal you cooked, sit in a car half an hour, do something tedious, complex, and tiring, for 8 hours, sit in a car another thirty minutea, cook again, do some chores, watch the news...
 

And then try to continue that fanfic. 
 

Do that for a week.
 

Multiply it by thirty or forty stories, expand it to 21 years, season liberally with all the best and worst shit to happen to everyone you know. Because life still happens to writers. 

 

Now add hundreds, maybe thousands, of fans, needing 1000 words of attention each, every month.

 

Add all the worst ridicule you can imagine. There are people that cast stones at a 30 something guy writing about teenagers that have sex. 

 

Oh...

 

Is that fanfic done yet? I'm waiting...
 

Now, imagine that you have to keep doing all of it if you want to finish a 3000-5000 word chapter. Because if you stop any one part you could end up inflicting pain on someone whom, for whatever reason, is deeply invested in the sunbeam or whatever of seeing you replied to them. 

 

Imagine what it might be like to write about the kind of situations Com's characters go through with such depth. Imagine readers at home going "he understands" or "I didn't think it happened to anyone else." And then emailing YOU. 

 

"You don't know me but I just read <story>. And you really got it right when you wrote about <insert>."

 

* Physical abuse

* sexual abuse

* bullying 

* depression 

* suicidal ideation 

* other

 

and then: "I know you did because... 

I've never told anyone this but... <insert> happened and this is how."

 

Any email, any time, could contain someone else's deepest pain. And they deserve a reply. 

 

Could you take on that?
 

Let that all sink in.
 

Read all of this again, slowly. Picture every detail as much as you can.
 

Now: Could you do it? Would you do it?

For free?
 

Now: Aren't you grateful Comicality does?
 

I know I am. 
 

Oh and...

 

Seriously?

 

It's been 5 minutes, why isn't that fanfic done? What are you doing?

 

I'm waiting! 

 

**

 

Personally, I think being grounded ONLY ONE week is generous. 

[VampireMystic]

Also, the video is genius!

 

*kneals on the floor and bows*

 

Where's the shrine, because @Comicality, you are a god and I've got spare change. (Noragami!)

 

*cackles*

[Shinichi_mini_tiger]

HUGS

 

some people are ignorant selfish moron

 

I try to no think about them they don't deserve you or your work

 

If it wasn't for you i wouldn't have meet my Sweet "BIG HEARTED" Fiancee 😻

 

So Thank you Sensei

 

 

 

 

Edited May 17, 2018 by Shinichi_mini_tiger
typo

[VampireMystic]

7 minutes ago, Shinichi_mini_tiger said:

HUGS

 

some people are ignorant selfless moron

 

I try to no think about them they don't deserve you or your work

 

If it wasn't for you i wouldn't have meet my Sweet "BIG HEARTED" Fiancee 😻

 

So Thank you Sensei

 

 

 

 

*Ahem*

 

What he said.

[Ashi]

I love the video clip you made!  I've watched that movie and so it's extra funny when I watched your version.  In any case, Comsie.  Don't stress out.  Drink a glass of fine wine or two.  Chill and chat with us. 

[Comicality]

 

Thanks to all of you! ((Hugz)) I really do appreciate it.

 

I know that people will assume I'm being thin skinned or oversensitive, but I'm not. Every single time something like this happens, the authors are told to ignore it. We're supposed to just say 'to hell with them'. Turn the cheek, pay them no mind, don't let it bother you. Well, you know what? It DOES bother me. Because I don't treat other people like that and never felt the need to. We continue to spare the rod and spoil the child. These little passive aggressive tantrums get flung around on the internet and these people are total jerks to us with NO consequence! They never get any better. Any more patient. Any more sympathetic with the people they criticize. No. I don't agree with that. I'm going to stand up and say, "Hey jackass...knock it off!" I'm a human being with feelings like everybody else. And I work so hard on this website that I wouldn't even have the *TIME* to sit down at a keyboard and type out a snotty remark like that. Hard work that I do to entertain YOU! And that's what people have to say to me? 

 

So yeah...let THEM feel like shit for a little while. Instead of always tossing it on my shoulders and waiting for me to be the bigger person. I don't mind getting right there in the mud with you, if you want to take it there.

 

Now then, sorry for the disruption. Back to life.  

[MrM]

Alas, may they get genital warts.

 

[FormerMember4]

4 hours ago, Comicality said:

 

Thanks to all of you! ((Hugz)) I really do appreciate it.

 

I know that people will assume I'm being thin skinned or oversensitive, but I'm not. Every single time something like this happens, the authors are told to ignore it. We're supposed to just say 'to hell with them'. Turn the cheek, pay them no mind, don't let it bother you. Well, you know what? It DOES bother me. Because I don't treat other people like that and never felt the need to. We continue to spare the rod and spoil the child. These little passive aggressive tantrums get flung around on the internet and these people are total jerks to us with NO consequence! They never get any better. Any more patient. Any more sympathetic with the people they criticize. No. I don't agree with that. I'm going to stand up and say, "Hey jackass...knock it off!" I'm a human being with feelings like everybody else. And I work so hard on this website that I wouldn't even have the *TIME* to sit down at a keyboard and type out a snotty remark like that. Hard work that I do to entertain YOU! And that's what people have to say to me? 

 

So yeah...let THEM feel like shit for a little while. Instead of always tossing it on my shoulders and waiting for me to be the bigger person. I don't mind getting right there in the mud with you, if you want to take it there.

 

Now then, sorry for the disruption. Back to life.  

The feisty side of Comsi is kind of sexy. You have every right to stand up for yourself. You aren’t a doormat! 😉

[VampireMystic]

25 minutes ago, BlindAmbition said:

The feisty side of Comsi is kind of sexy. You have every right to stand up for yourself

Every side of comsie is some kind of sexy in my imagination 

[CassieQ]

16 hours ago, drpaladin said:

I'm sorry this happens. Do you want me to begin gathering wood for a nice crackling auto-da-fe for the errant cretin?

I'll help.  

 

Seriously, I'm sad and frustrated that Comsie has to deal with this.  Fuck those guys who think they are entitled to your hard work.  

[FormerMember4]

5 minutes ago, CassieQ said:

I'll help.  

 

Seriously, I'm sad and frustrated that Comsie has to deal with this.  Fuck those guys who think they are entitled to your hard work.  

You go sister!! 😉

[VampireMystic]

Why not a punishment that can be repeated. Immolation only works once. 

 

It need not be violent. 

 

Strap them down and pry their eyes open so they can't look away from bad movies. Or cover there ears from bad music. 

 

Or escape a menu of food based on reruns of "fear factor"

 

Or  the complete works of Charles Dickens, read by text to speech synthesizer. 

[MrM]

2 minutes ago, VampireMystic said:

Why not a punishment that can be repeated. Immolation only works once. 

 

It need not be violent. 

 

Strap them down and pry their eyes open so they can't look away from bad movies. Or cover there ears from bad music. 

 

Or escape a menu of food based on reruns of "fear factor"

 

Or  the complete works of Charles Dickens, read by text to speech synthesizer. 

 

Genital warts can be reoccurring if left untreated.

[Page Scrawler]

21 hours ago, VampireMystic said:

Also, the video is genius!

 

*kneals on the floor and bows*

 

Where's the shrine, because @Comicality, you are a god and I've got spare change. (Noragami!)

 

*cackles*

OMG, I love Yukine!

 

He's such a sweetheart.

 

@Comicality I'm sorry that some people can be so selfish, Sweetie. We here love you for who you are, and we always appreciate the work that you put into your stories. But, I guess some people just can't understand that it takes TIME to write quality fiction, or that one doesn't get to control another person's writing. I hope in the future, this person or persons can be more understanding.

Edited May 17, 2018 by Page Scrawler

[Page Scrawler]

13 hours ago, VampireMystic said:

Why not a punishment that can be repeated. Immolation only works once. 

 

It need not be violent. 

 

Strap them down and pry their eyes open so they can't look away from bad movies. Or cover there ears from bad music. 

 

Or escape a menu of food based on reruns of "fear factor"

 

Or  the complete works of Charles Dickens, read by text to speech synthesizer. 

That reminds me, I found a book on Goodreads recently. It was kind of like "How to Eat Fried Worms", but classier. I'll see if I can find it again.

Update: It's called "Boy Bites Bug" by Rebecca Petruck. 

Edited May 18, 2018 by Page Scrawler

[MrM]

16 hours ago, Page Scrawler said:

OMG, I love Yukine!

 

He's such a sweetheart.

 

@Comicality I'm sorry that some people can be so selfish, Sweetie. We here love you for who you are, and we always appreciate the work that you put into your stories. But, I guess some people just can't understand that it takes TIME to write quality fiction, or that one doesn't get to control another person's writing. I hope in the future, this person or persons can be more understanding.

 

 

😮

[Page Scrawler]

6 hours ago, MrM said:

 

 

😮

Yeah, that'd be my reaction, too, if a girl climbed into my bed. Only I'd be a lot worse.

[VampireMystic]

2 hours ago, Page Scrawler said:

Yeah, that'd be my reaction, too, if a girl climbed into my bed. Only I'd be a lot worse.

 

 I'd be jumping to the other side of the room. "J- j- j- just take the bed!  I'm good over here."

 

#gold star gay

[Page Scrawler]

6 hours ago, VampireMystic said:

 

 I'd be jumping to the other side of the room. "J- j- j- just take the bed!  I'm good over here."

 

#gold star gay

"Gold star gay". Sounds like a Lady Gaga album.

[VampireMystic]

1 hour ago, Page Scrawler said:

"Gold star gay". Sounds like a Lady Gaga album.

Look for it in a certain underground music store in Chicago in 2020. 

 

You may regret it in hindsight if you don't wear a C on your jack off hand.

 

 I can't tell you more than that, finding the store is part of the challenge. 

Edited May 19, 2018 by VampireMystic