I admit it.
I am WAY out of the loop on a lot of things. I don't watch the news, local or national, and I don't read comic/sci-fi/fantasy/gaming news websites. Mostly I sit in my own little world, blissfully unaware that things are happening around me until I see a commercial for it on TV or attached to some link on something I want to see on facebook or youtube. Lately is seems like I get most of my pop culture news/references from the comics Ryan Sohmer writes. And mostly from the Gutters, but today it came from Least I could Do.
Apparently there's a Twitard fanfiction called Fifty Shades of Grey... now I wouldn't have known anything about it because I don't care for Twilight or a great many things that are fan-fictions or vampire related (hates me some Anne Rice too, childrens -- funny enough, Vampire the Masquerade is kinda okay with me, but just barely). So being confused by today's comic I decided to hit yee old Wikipedia, and LO, I doth discover that this is a Twitard fanfic and ITS GETTING ITS OWN DAMNED MOVIE!
There's a local woman who's apparently also jumped on the Twitard-style of fanfic writing style who's become somewhat wealthy off her hackneyed writing endeavor, something about fairies... Eric had to shoot pictures of the author and has nothing nice to say about her as an author or a human being. And again, I question whether I would get even half the attention of these people if I got over this growing phobia of mine that I might actually be a decent writer/artist. I've seen great artists and writers lost in oblivion, toiling endlessly out of love for their craft for the three people scattered across the globe that know about their work, while gutter trash is making some shut in fangirl enough cash to pay off all my debts 10 times over. It seriously makes me want to bang my head against a wall.
I think I need to stop reading Sohmer's comics. I have an anger at myself and the world today and it comes from learning something new. Why oh why couldn't I have read the comic, laughed and moved on? WHY!? Ah well... maybe this should be the kick in the shorts I needed... to... WRITE MY OWN FAN-FICTION! WEEE!
*face palm*
*laughs at self*
Apparently there's a Twitard fanfiction called Fifty Shades of Grey... now I wouldn't have known anything about it because I don't care for Twilight or a great many things that are fan-fictions or vampire related (hates me some Anne Rice too, childrens -- funny enough, Vampire the Masquerade is kinda okay with me, but just barely). So being confused by today's comic I decided to hit yee old Wikipedia, and LO, I doth discover that this is a Twitard fanfic and ITS GETTING ITS OWN DAMNED MOVIE!
There's a local woman who's apparently also jumped on the Twitard-style of fanfic writing style who's become somewhat wealthy off her hackneyed writing endeavor, something about fairies... Eric had to shoot pictures of the author and has nothing nice to say about her as an author or a human being. And again, I question whether I would get even half the attention of these people if I got over this growing phobia of mine that I might actually be a decent writer/artist. I've seen great artists and writers lost in oblivion, toiling endlessly out of love for their craft for the three people scattered across the globe that know about their work, while gutter trash is making some shut in fangirl enough cash to pay off all my debts 10 times over. It seriously makes me want to bang my head against a wall.
I think I need to stop reading Sohmer's comics. I have an anger at myself and the world today and it comes from learning something new. Why oh why couldn't I have read the comic, laughed and moved on? WHY!? Ah well... maybe this should be the kick in the shorts I needed... to... WRITE MY OWN FAN-FICTION! WEEE!
*face palm*
*laughs at self*