I wrote a long ass post tonight but decided I didn’t have time to explain all the details in a way that wouldn’t cause a fight with audience members who fly off the handle before you get done even establishing the setup. I don’t have any peers who I can really talk to about certain things and it gets to me sometimes because no one has any understanding of what I’ve been doing for the last 20 years. It makes me feel like a crazy person sometimes because no matter how much I explain things either no one gets it, or they start arguing with me even though I haven’t even laid out a tenth of any argument I might have. Even my closest friends, of who (whom?) there are very few, just listen out of courtesy, but they don’t GET IT. It is a kind of isolation that is different for the regular kind because it’s more like standing in a room full of deaf people while you scream to be heard. They aren’t being callous, they just lack the ability to communicate. I guess there’s no point in thinking about it. I can’t fix it. This is just one of the aspects of my life that’s forever going to irritate me for lack of an outlet.

Anyway, I hope your week gets off to a good start. If you’d like to help me maintain this professional misadventure for the foreseeable future please consider becoming a supporter in whatever way suits your tastes. I will return, as always, on Wednesday with more comic. Until then, deceive your opponents art every opportunity.

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Huh.
It looks like Brigette (sp?) is taking a shine to John.
Maybe she likes his style + his interests.
I think they could make a good couple.
Hm.

At this point, John has charmed everyone from the library.

Cool!
:)

Except Evrina?

As someone who’s been in similar frustration, scream anyway. Write down all the stuff you cannot vent to someone and tear it into little pieces then light the rest on fire. Amazingly cathartic. Wreck-it-journals are also good outlets.

Tetanus getter? Bridgette, you’re thinking of Reggie.

While this won’t help with any of the frustrations, I do want to give props for how these conversations have been written – reminds me of the good natured, partially ribbing/partially conversing late night talks with friend groups in the past. Could be friendly, could be flirty, but in all it is fun. It’s put a smile on my face.

Shifting going onto different pages, on this site, is going slowly for me, today.

It might be just my old-type computer.

Is anyone else finding this?

I ran a few tests just to see what happened on my end. On my end it looks like fairly serious (by internet standards) server-side lag.

I click a navigation button and nothing appears to happen for a full second or more before the new page begins to load. Long enough to wonder if the page or server has crashed.

A side-effect is noticing how much Jackie’s drawing style has improved.

I got the same sort of delay posting the above reply too.

Ok, then. The server either just crashed and self-reset or spent a few minutes in the corner pouting. Either way it’s more responsive now.

I didn’t get a report but it seems like the server underwent some maintenance today.

Great. Thanks! :)
Thanks to Vorlonagent, too! :)
I thought maybe my computer had trashed itself, or something.
:D

Jackie, I am a recovering over-explainer.

I’ve found that those who get it, get it just fine from a comparatively short statement. Those who aren’t going to get it still aren’t going to no matter how much you expain.

The people who go off on you aren’t waiting for the full story anyway, so why write them one? Say the important things you want or need to say. Give context where you think a reader might need it. And let the asshats wear their hats because that’s exactly what they’re going to do anyway.

I enjoy reading this comic. I usually wait a little bit so it builds up a few days before I indulge. I appreciate your work.

I’m glad to know it. Thank you for reading.

Oh, right.
He might get tetanus from- trespassing in closed buildings, and: falling on some rusty fences, + falling on some rusty nails, I guess.

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