you know... i think you guys are all taking this ancient debate way too seriously... it's been going on way too long for anyone to make it into anything other than an interesting debate... i.e. mud is too valuable in these times for it to be wasted somewhere it doesn't belong... take your mud-slinging somewhere that needs it... people have been INSPIRED by other people since we started creating... you see something... it affects you... maybe even becomes a part of you... and maybe it just subconsciously shows up in what you do... or maybe you purposefully take bits and pieces of it into what you're doing to LEARN FROM IT... or many other possibilities that probably have never occurred to a lot of you... but i can't just spout them off... the post would be too long... but i can say that nobody here can tell me that they were doing the art that they were doing from the time they popped from their mother's womb...

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naked man.... naked man... come down... i'll give you some strawberry cake... just don't act like there's no tomorrow!

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exactly. you think you are a good writer, i think she is a good writer. why? because i can see the art in what she does, you obviously can't. now think about it. is that a my bad or yours? i got a paper cut in my finger today and i stared at it for like 5 minutes, because I thought it was beautiful. if i had a camera i would have taken a picture and call it art. and it would have BEEN art.

enough discussion.

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Smalltalk Stinks

im gonna be nosy now.

i think you are an idiot. i also think your conception of art is fucked up. and finally i think you shouldn't have permission to talk to writers about writing.



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Smalltalk Stinks

Beauty is in everything, and I believe it is a greater task to find it in places where others do not look.

I do not claim that there is profundity in the 'devolution of mankind' as you so eloquently put it. I do believe there is transcendence in knowing yourself.

Your morals don't ring true, not to me. Don't feel sorry for me, it is you whose horizons limit you to only the beautiful immaculate.


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a rat became the unit of currency

i do not care for apparent 'true-to-life' writing. i care about pushing people's boundaries. i don't like science fiction as a whole, but i do not suggest that others should move away from the genre. don't be so closed-minded... is there something about sex that offends you?

and yes, this is my life and there is beauty in that.

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Hey thx a lot for adding "Sleeping Railway" to your favourites... this means a lot for me

Gosh at least I'm not a total hack and a dishonest fraud. Shit you not only ripped off Hertzfeldt's art and writing style but even the way he draws borders!! It's pathetic and delusional to think that anybody would possibly be FLATTERED by being ripped off and disrespected in this way. Don is a total original in a world of bullshit art conformity and you've gone and canned his work, slapped your name on it, and turned it into something false and shitty. That pisses me off. So we both know you're a thief. But doesn't it bother you in the slightest that you're only lying to yourself by not having a single original thought in your artwork? You even use his photography in your avatar without any credit I see! What a fuckhead. You're no artist. I hope this page is shut down.

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garecub said the following:

You're an idiot. That's all there is to it. There are so many things I could say, but they'd most likely be lost on you.

Go ahead and e-mail it to him. I already did, as soon as I made it. Immitation is the highest form of flattery, sweetheart. Everybody knows that.

And how exactly have I ripped off Jhonen? There's nothing Jhonen-like in my entire gallery.

How about you think before you slander next time, okay, toots?

bitches and hos, man
bitches and hos

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