I hate how I immediately stop being able to like something once I find out that someone whose opinion I respect doesn’t like it. I keep deferring to other people’s judgement and it’s not even a conscious thing. I can still say I like it, and back it up, but the careless enjoyment is suddenly gone. They just need to go “meh” and then I’m just like “MEH? why do they think this is meh?? I thought it was awesome oh god I’m an uncultured swine maybe there’s something wrong with me this thing is actually awful and I am awful for liking it I’m so sorry everyone”
I have this problem, too. I’ve been working hard on allowing myself to have likes and opinions of my own. :x
SECONDED. I have most of them straight up blocked, I just, I can’t. I love my bubble. My bubble is a happy place.
I have every last one that crosses my path blocked and will happily add to that list as necessary. I don’t have time or patience for drama bullshit, and that’s literally all they are. People complaining about toxicity and negativity everywhere? If they’d just come together to ignore confession blogs, I swear like 90% of that crap would vanish overnight.
You hold an opinion about characters or situations or whatever that you feel that strongly about? Pour that energy into showing everyone else why they should feel like you do. Some won’t, and that’s fine, but some WILL, and then amazing things happen.
You don’t build anything worth anything out of negativity.
And simply adding “confessions” to your XKit blacklist is not enough, it seems! Today I added confessions*, confession*, *confessions*, and *confession* just to cover all my wildcard bases, since most blogs will have the word/s in their name and tags.
CBR recently ran a contest to identify the 100 greatest comics writers and artists. That’s 200 slots.
Guess how many were women?
Go head.
Did you guess two? Two out of 200 slots?
Gail Simone made the writer list and Fiona Staples made the artist list.
That’s 1%.
Kelly Thompson is working with Brian Cronin of Comics Should Be Good to identify the 50 best female writer and artists. She writes
It’s not really surprising that given only 200 precious slots to fill, and with all the absolutely stunning comics creators over the years that women almost never made it into people’s ballots. Women just haven’t historically had the comics credits to their name and that’s for a variety of reasons both reasonable and less reasonable. But this post is not about examining the past and the how and why we got here, it’s about celebrating what we do have, and what we have had.
We hope this raised awareness of the great work done and being done by women in comics will be one small drop in the bucket toward eventually having a Top 100 list that includes more than just two women.
