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WCDT: 6-10 Dec 2010 (1811-1815)
jwhouk:
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 09 Dec 2010, 19:04 ---I think I've just realized something.
The *squick* level Jeph feels about this forum... it comes from one very simple place.
Here we are, analysing his characters like crazy, sometimes with insight, sometimes with hindsight, sometimes with no sight at all. Hey, they're just characters, right? Not even real!
Except they are real. I had the feeling Marten was a surrogate for Jeph himself when I first started the comic, but I think to a certain extent, all his characters are. Hanners and her neroses, Faye's violent tendencies, Dora's insecurities, Marten's aimlessness - all are facets of Jeph's own character. Some of them he's overcome, some still plague him, but regardless, how would you feel watching people pick apart the bits of your soul that you bare in the name of art?
Must drive the poor guy nuts. No wonder he hates visiting in here.
Mind you, I'm not gonna stop trying to put together all the little puzzle pieces of his characters. But I think I understand where he's coming from a little better.
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Dr. ROFLPWN:
But Jeph isn't just projecting himself into the story. I really cannot agree with that, and I don't think that's what Carl-E was saying.
What he's saying is (correct me if I'm wrong, Carl-E), as a writer, Jeph puts something of his soul into each character he creates, because, well, shit, it's hard to help that if you're a fiction writer. You can create completely original people, whose lives are not yours, who have nothing to do with you, but they carry some spark of your person in their being. There's something of an author in his characters.
And watching other people get it wrong about, or, God forbid, screw around beyond the point of good taste, with your characters? That can't be easy for a dude. So, as Carl-E said, no wonder Jeph hates this place.
Wiregeek:
--- Quote from: akronnick on 09 Dec 2010, 19:27 ---Do I want to know how you know that? (I suspect I do not)
And why are you using gallons and not ounces?
How many fucking goldfish are you trying to zombify anyway?
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Experience
Gallons is the appropriate measure.
Tank population was, I believe, 7 at the time. So far the biggest goldfish on record in that tank was over a foot long, estimated 6 lbs. I am Trying to zombify zero.
akronnick:
I think we have two different pictures in our heads.
When you say "goldfish," I think little orange fish about two inches long.
What your describing I would call a "carp."
Wiregeek:
*shrug* they started less than 3/4 of an inch long. The only difference between a 'carp' and a 'goldfish' is an evolution st, I mean, about a half dozen leve, no, wait, time.
That's the ticket.
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