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princeanxious · 8 months

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Hi! I was wondering about your Lost Guardian au from ages ago, do you think you’ll ever plan on updating it and if not, could someone else take up the fic?

So heres the thing. If someone wants to write a fic *inspired* by The Lost Guardian, i’m not gonna stop them, and i’d probably feel super honored so long as the inspiration was correctly credited!

As for ‘taking up the fic,’ the short answer is no.

I have active drafts and the rest of the story already planned out to its finish, notes, even a branch-off fic set post-story that will likely go up on my nsfw blog if i ever get around to editing it. The Lost Guardian hasn’t been abandoned, it’s simply on hiatus. (And yes, i recognize 3 almost 4 years so far is a really fucking long hiatus. The Chapter 9 draft doc was made in december of 2020, and last edited in July 2022)

I started writing that fic whilst still in highschool, a time where I was 17 and didnt have to worry yet about getting my license or maintaining a part time job, i had an over abundance of freetime even partially to my detriment, the fandom was booming and I had plenty of feedback, and this fic was (and still *is*) a story im proud of.

But i’m 22 now, working a full time job to pay rent and account for a number of minor ‘disabilities’(best word i have for them atm) that I cant ignore or push to the side nor treat poorly, from the lasting effects on my body of stunted growth to celiac/glutent intolerance to adhere to that directly determines how easily my body functions for the week, to dealing with glasses i cannot afford to break and taking care of teeth i cannot afford to fix, taking care of my mental health and using the free time i have to do what brings me the most joy at that time.

The sanders sides fandom has heavily quieted down with the season finale hiatus and I’d like to think I did pretty well for going six long years dedicated solely to that without cracking under the silence, because *I knew* when I caved to something else it’d be a long while before I had the drive to come back with any sort of resolution to my active works. Thats just how my hyper fixations work. I cannot focus on multiple at once, it’s too much to process simultaneously and takes away my enjoyment bc I tend to watch/consume things repeatedly to catch every little detail i missed. And it doesn’t help when one loses steam because their content barely breaks 100 notes(80% of which are likes, 15% are reblogs with the occasional comment, and 5% are self-reblogs) when back in the height of it all, a few thousand notes was pretty average interaction. This blog still has about 11.5k followers, almost all of which came from the height of the fandom period. So for now i’ve moved onto the FNAF DCA fandom, bc it is fresh and new to me.

I know you didn’t mean to poke the bear here, I get it, but like.. C’mon. Any other fic of mine likely wouldn’t have gotten the same reaction in full but, still. I’ve had to answer this question a handful of times over the years at the point, which might be why this response feels so charged, and i’m sorry.

I don’t mean to come off as snippy or rude, but it *is* kind of invasive to offer to finish one’s creative work when it’s taking too long and theres very little payback for it. I’ve got adhd, delayed satisfaction isn’t a thing I experience. Just guilt that it wasn’t finished in a way for me to post it in time before I broke and lost all motivation to share it.

In my head, TLG has been long finished and held the ending for years, theres just been no energy to put in the effort of finish writing it for others to read. I’m still trying to get my life together to change that, don’t get me wrong, but the American economy is literally in shambles so who knows how or even if i’ll manage that. Call me selfish for being content with only mentally having my creative story’s ending and a collection of rambles and notes to show for it, but at the end of the day, it’s still my story, and i dont feel comfortable with people trying to ‘take up the mantle’ to finish it, when they don’t know how it ends.

I’m glad you like it enough to want to, though, I really *really* am. I’m just sorry I haven’t been able to finish it for you all. And i just don’t know when that will be, I just know that I *want* to do so, however long it takes.

#luka answers #sanders sides #tlg fic #the lost guardian au #luka’s aus #luka rambles #luka rants

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glade-constellation · 1 year

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Hey DCA fandom! There’s recently been a big boom of Welcome Home fans within the DCA and, while that’s not a bad thing, it’s starting to cause some small problems within the fandom. Some of the darker themes of Welcome Home are triggering to some DCA fans, and they are starting to have to unfollow other DCA creators to keep themselves safe. Blocking the tags can help, yes, but when several blogs you follow are all pushing out the same content, your Following page just becomes a list of blocked content.

I’m not trying to force anyone into anything, but for the consideration of everyone in the DCA fandom, I propose creating a sideblog to post your Welcome Home content. Mine can be found over at @ten-is-home ! That way you can still post your DCA stuff and your WH stuff without accidentally triggering people or losing your wonderful moots! (Once again, this is only a suggestion. I wish for my blog to be a safe place for everyone and thought I might throw the idea out there for others <3)

#ten won’t stfu #dca fandom #welcome home #welcome home arg #fnaf daycare attendant #fnaf dca #fnaf sun and moon #fnaf sun #fnaf moon

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bitcoincables · 3 months

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Bitcoin Halving Rally: Potential Path to $120K Forecasted in Crypto Markets

Many people are skeptical about technical analysis in an efficient market where prices are expected to be random. However, the author argues that crypto markets, particularly Bitcoin, are too new to be perfectly random. They predict that the upcoming "Halving" event could potentially take Bitcoin to $120,000, although they personally plan to exit the market at $80,000. While these projections are not guaranteed, they provide a roadmap for Bitcoin holders. In the author's opinion, the market feels different from previous cycles, so having a plan and following a roadmap is essential for any holder.

The author points to a chart that suggests Bitcoin is making a classic breakout as the halving approaches in April. They speculate that the market will adjust to this bullish event and begin to rally. If the breakout continues in a vertical manner, the next potential stop could be $60,000. While this may seem like a wild price movement, the author compares it to the volatility of Bitcoin and states that it is not outlandish when seen in context. They also mention a fractal analysis that supports the idea of Bitcoin reaching $60,000.

The author recommends a dollar cost averaging (DCA) strategy for investing in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. DCA helps mitigate the emotional highs and lows of building a position and avoids making impulsive decisions driven by FOMO. According to the author, the next cycle boom bubble in the crypto market has already begun, making it important to approach investments cautiously. They advise readers to live to fight another day rather than fight to live another day, as these potential rewards come with high risk.

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bitcofun · 2 years

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markets, and this is an error due to the fact that equities markets and BTC and Ether ( ETH) costs have actually revealed a strong connection in the previous 2 years. In one's charting suite of option, it would be a good idea to keep the S&P 500, Dow Jones or Nasdaq charts up along with BTC's or ETH's day-to-day chart. Bitcoin connection to equities markets. Source: TheBlock In the most current pattern turnaround, BTC's rate action was the canary in the coal mine that started to chirp louder and louder as the United States Federal Reserve enhanced its intent to raise rate of interest. It is simple to be misinformed by the tiny relocations that happen in Bitcoin's four-hour and day-to-day rate charts, and one might quickly be drawn into some significant positions based upon the belief that BTC is on the edge of a turnaround. Keeping an eye on the marketplace structure and rate action of the biggest equities indexes will supply essential insight into the strength and period of any bullish or bearish pattern that Bitcoin may display. This newsletter was composed by Big Smokey, the author of The Humble Pontificator Substack and resident newsletter author at Cointelegraph. Each Friday, Big Smokey will compose market insights, trending how-tos, analyses and early-bird research study on prospective emerging patterns within the crypto market. Disclaimer. Cointelegraph does not back any material of item on this page. While we focus on offering you very important details that we might acquire, readers need to do their own research study prior to taking any actions associated with the business and bring complete duty for their choices, nor this post can be thought about as a financial investment recommendations. Read More

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sycriptouk · 3 years

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Thinking of selling this bull run’s peak to buy back in the bear market? I made a calculator in google sheets to tell me how much I can increase my stack under different strategies. I call it the ‘What-if Machine’

Nobody knows how this bull market will play out. Will we repeat the pattern of 2013 and 2017? Is this the supercycle to end all cycles? Are we in a bear market now? Who knows. But Personally I think it is going to play out similar to the past, with a blow-off-top followed by a long bearish period.

I have a plan, and I'm sure I'm not the only one thinking about it (assuming we have a boom and bust cycle):

Sell into stablecoins as near the peak as I can.

Park those stablecoins and earn interest on them for around a year or more.

Buy back during the bear market, using DCA.

Have more crypto.

I was lying awake at night thinking about my plan too much because there are too many variables for my small brain to keep track of. I have one simple question to answer:

How much bitcoin can I buy back if I sell at <peak price> and buy back at <post-peak price>?

Which leads me to a whole host of variables, such as:

-What could the peak price be?

-How much of a drop from said peak could we see, 90% again? Only 50%?

-Based on the drop in price from the peak, what would the actual price be?

-How much of my holdings would I actually want to start selling, what if I sold all, or half? What would the difference be?

-What if I sell too early? What if I think for example I sell thinking $100k BTC is the top but the market continues to rally above $300k? Will I still be able to buy back more than I've sold?

-If I think for example BTC will reach $100k, at which price point do I start to sell? How much of a difference will that make?

In my opinion, this bull cycle is a once in a lifetime opportunity to significantly increase my holdings and I do not want to mess it up and end up with less than what I started with. This is why I made this What-if Machine, essentially to see just how badly I have to misjudge the market to make a loss (in terms of what I hold)

It was driving me a bit crazy so I made a calculator on google sheets to tell me what might happen given all the different variables. I've found it quite useful and it was fun to build, and I'd like to share it with the community:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Di14f8XLx8tAJKaMgoTdGt_V5zhePYW1k1nqa8YmEIg/edit?usp=sharing

I haven't made this editable, please make your own copy so you can try it out. Let me explain what we're looking at and how you can use it:

The Idea is that you tweak the BLUE cells (if you edit anything other than the blue ones, it won’t function properly) the blue cells on the left are the important ones, that’s where you tweak your strategy to see what effect it will have.

The calculator is divided into 4 sections, and you work from left to right. you need only edit the BLUE CELLS and all of the rest is automatic. I've included some instructions in the sheet but here I'll explain in a bit more depth.

The USER INPUTS section

CHOOSE COIN: There is a drop down menu to choose the coin you're working with. This doesn't change anything other than the dialogues throughout the sheet, so it doesn't really matter what you choose, it will work the same, just gives nice readable outputs. If the coin you're working with isn't listed, you can just type it in. I've just chosen the top 20-ish coins from coinmarketcap.

WHAT IF I SELL UP TO A PRICE OF: This is basically the price that you think the coin can and will get to, your target peak sell price, sometimes I refer to this as the ‘speculated peak’. In the example image above, I'm planning for BTC to hit $150k at its peak, and that's where I want to set my highest sell order.

BUT IT ACTUALLY PEAKS AT: Do not be fooled, you do not know, I do not know, and nobody knows what price BTC will actually peak at. This is your first real unknown variable. What if you sell your stack thinking $150k is the top but it just keeps going? $200k... $300k? This figure is what you can tweak to see just how badly you have to get it wrong before you're in danger town, and risk buying back less than what you started with. You’ll be surprised just how wrong you have to get it ;)

START SELLING % FROM PEAK: I don't know about you, but I plan on selling in increments up to my peak sell point, DCA in is important, just as it is to DCA out. This is a field that'll just make it easy to spread out your sell points based on the maximum speculated peak. For example if your maximum sell ('what if I sell up to a price of') point is $100k for simplicity, selecting 25% here will start sells at $75k, and selecting 50% will start it a $50k. Get it? If you want to just do it in one sell, you can set this to 0% or alternatively just have all the blue cells in the ‘sell calculator’ section as 0 and only fill the top cell (I cover this later).

DEFI INTEREST APY%: Once you've sold your stack into stablecoins, if you plan on parking them in some platform to earn interest, you can input the APY rate of the platform here, you'll see in the BUYBACK CALCULATOR section, the interest earned over a period of a maximum 2 years is broken down into yearly quarters. You may want to start buying back after 3 months, you may want to start buying back after 12 months, the calculator will help you see what that will mean, how much approximately in stablecoins that you'll have at that point. I need to emphasise the APPROXIMATELY here. The APY calculations are basic here. I calculate what 10% APY (for example) would earn over a year, and then divide that by 12, and then multiply by 3, 6, 9, etc. It will in no way be a true accurate prediction of earnings and you should consider this whole sheet a tool for a ballpark only, to help you sleep at night, and is absolutely not financial advice!

The SELL CALCULATOR section:

If you plan on selling only in one transaction, you can either set the aforementioned field to 0%, or you can leave all these cells as 0 and only enter a value for the top one. Personally I plan on selling in increments and weighting more towards the top end of my speculated peak. This section will show you what the price points would be for sell orders, and how much you'll bag at each price point, depending on how much coin you sell at said point.

The bottom of this section will tell you the total amount of coins sold, what your average sell price is and how much in total you'll have in stablecoins after selling.

The BUYBACK CALCULATOR section:

This is where you get the bulk of your answer, in broad terms. At the top you'll see how much interest your stablecoins will have earned you each quarter (based on your APY% figure) and it will tell you what the price of the coin will be in the event of a 60, 70, 80, or 90% drop from its peak. Adjacent to this, you'll see how much coin you could buy back at this pricepoint, based on maximum stablecoin yield or zero stablecoin yield. The cool part about this section is it will turn red when you are in danger of making back less coin than you started with, which is the whole point of me making this thing in the first place. Try it out, put in a way higher figure between your two price predictions and see how badly you have to miss the mark before you make a loss.

There is a broad range displayed at the bottom of this section to show on average how much you'll be looking at buying back.

The SUMMARY/FINETUNE section:

This was a later addition, this enables you to narrow down on some parameters to see a bit more accurately (Still very very approximate, this is not financial advice) You can tweak here how long you'll be earning interest at your defined rate, and you can enter a specific price for the coin, totally arbitrarily, and see how much you could buy at that price.

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I have tried to make this as understandable and user friendly as possible.

Make your own copy, have a play, this is in no way financial advice, I am not a mathematician and I am not a trader, I know nothing about finance, I just got a bit carried away making this and would like to share my work with the community :)

Here's the link again if you missed it:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Di14f8XLx8tAJKaMgoTdGt_V5zhePYW1k1nqa8YmEIg/edit?usp=sharing

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jackjohanblue11 · 4 years

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Where does Southwest fly direct from MKE?

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k80gage · 7 years

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Ironman 70.3 World Championships

I was not going to do a race report for this one...but in writing these I can always find some closure...so here we go.... After a rough patch May through June my fitness was finally at 100% through July. And as much as it takes awhile for it to go away I definitely felt myself start to go downhill through August...a lot of changes with Leo starting Kindergarten, mentally worn down, and then strep. Honestly I have just been having a feeling of flatness/numbness in general after a lot of stressors. I was ready for the season to be over. Parker sent me my pre-race strategy a few days before heading down to Chatty. I read it (not well enough) along with the athlete guide and all the other logistical information. Dropped my bike at Bonzai for Tri-Bike Transport (how amazing is TBT?!) and before long I was boarding a plane from DCA to CHA with about 24 other world champs...even a few that I knew! The next day plus leading up to the race was full of shehanigans with my freinds and teammates, meeting and running into new and old friends, a few shake out swims and bikes, probably not enough food :/, and of course a little wine.

This girl! Meet your Female 45-49 WORLD CHAMP! Can I have your autograph?!?! We just met 2 months ago and have talked everyday since. And we kept each other laughing throughout race weekend! LOVE YOU BENI!

***DISTANCE*** 1.2 mile Swim 56 mile Bike 13.1 mile Run ***RESULTS*** Swim: 30:33 Strava stats Bike: 3:04:54 Strava stats Run: 2:07:02 Strava stats Total: 5:48:51

***PRE-RACE***

That morning I woke up and immediately checked my phone. I knew Matias and the kids had left mid day for Chatty and should be in the vacinity. OMG they were 9min away! I knew I would see them somewhere on the course. I was nervous. I am always so freakin nervous before the GO. But today was not my same pre-race jitters of hoping to reach my self expecations. This was a whole new game. All the different transition area set ups, seriously world champions all over, people everywhere, mean lookin bikes, you name it.

Me, pretending I am cool, calm, and collected.

***RACE***

SWIM - Ha, well after arriving 90min prior to my wave start you would think I would be the first one down to the water. NOPE...realized what time it was and flew down to the water to find my wave lining up in the corrals. SHOOT! I quickly got my cap and gogs and lined up towards the front. 5 of us ran and dove off the platform together...so cool...never done that before! Wetsuits were OK. The water felt perfect...as usual. We swam across the river and then down about 850 yards against the current and into the sun. This did not feel so bad aside from not being able to see with the sun in my face. I followed the splashes. Ack towards the end of this stretch I started to fade. Felt my legs cramping a little and worried that I was feeling so tired ALREADY. And some tinges of hunger crept in (my hardy breakfast had maybe not made up for my slack eating the past few days). Finally I was turning in and on the homeward stretch.

T1 - I ran up the stairs and into the area with our bike bags, grabbed my bag and started to head to my bike. I guy stopped my and told me I had to have my helmet on and buckled. OOPS. Long transition.

BIKE - And we were off. I had not drove the bike course but knew it was going to be challenging. and 3 miles in BOOM up we went. seriously up and up and up. So glad Matias put that 12/28 on my bike. I felt like I was really able to keep a quick cadence without a lot of stress on my legs through this section. After about 20 miles the climbing somewhat ceased. Then I felt terrible. I fought the mental demons for about a minute and then they zoomed right in. Oh the things I think about and conclusions I come to on my bike. I am so done with tris for awhile...I think it is time to train for a marathon and ditch this bike for awhile. NO, Matias and I will just start having more babies...then I can just chill out. I want my Mommy. If I see Matias and the kids in T2 I am tappin out. yep done. I just want to go home. Finally the last 10 miles...which took FOREVER.

T2 - Where are they?! I NEED TO STOP!

RUN - Well I guess I would have to run to find them. OK, I did not feel so bad. Actually the past few weeks running of all 3 had definietly been feeling the best (quite strangely). So maybe this would be OK. 1 mile in and a slow climb. I still felt OK. Not great but OK. I was having an easy time holding 8:30ish pace so I was happy for that. I walked the aide stations. mile 5 and across a bridge away from the city. WHERE are we going?! I thought this course was 2 loops! And then a HUGE hill. SH$T. Yea OK if I see them going into the 2nd loop...SO DONE. Running back across the pedestrian bridge into the city I felt poor. I was struggling to hold any sort of 9min pace. And back in for the 2nd loop. NO sign of Matias and the kids. BOOHOOHOO. I guess I should FINISH this thing! OMG I CAN DO THIS. But I felt dizzy and was having a hard time breathing. THEN heading away from the city across the bridge...I saw an orange stroller...then LEO AND MATIAS AND CHLOE. I ran up to them and said to Matias, can I please stop?! PLEASE! NO, YOU WILL REGRET THIS, Matias said. OKOKOK I can do this. and off I went....finished the last 3.5 miles with a mix of walking/running/stopping at aide stations/a porta stop/stop at someones front lawan for a coke in a cooler/etc etc. I had tears in my eyes as I came under the Ironman 70.3 World Championship finish line. I give 100% thanks to Matias and Leo and Chloe for not seeing me until mile 9.5.

Not my best performance. Aside from letting the mental demons in I did not execute well. Looking back at my bike power I completely blew it up on my bike on the climb...averaging in high zone 4 when I needed to keep it around mid Z3 for the entire ride. Then I was unable to get out of Z2 for the remainder of the 30 + miles. So therefore, makes sense my run completely suffered. I smashed my GOAL of qualifying and finishing Ironman 70.3 World Championships...but it did not feel as good as I would have liked. I was missing my partner in crime all along, well until the last bit. Therefore, I will be back...next time in a better place mentally, and a smarter place physically.

What Leo was saying to me here: Mommy, you HAVE to stop doing these LONG LONG races! we drove and drove and drove and it got dark and then we stopped in a hotel and it took FOREVER to see YOU!!!

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Ed. Note: Contributor Wesley is here to tell us all about a new project coming from a group of MCA alumni – and they need our support to get this project done! Their Kickstarter is only until July 4th at 9 a.m. so time is running out. Donate here and get all kinds of fun things – including their 170-page color anthology, enamel pins, t-shirts, and more. A group of Memphis College of Art alumni are coming together to produce Paper Cuts—a comic anthology of over 170 color pages created by 16 artists living across the country. Spearheaded by Art Director Elliot Boyette and Editor Shane McDermott, both MCA alumni, the project was brought to Kickstarter to raise money for the printing and shipping of physical copies that’ll hopefully find a nice new home on your bookshelf. The comics included range from post-apocalyptic fast food chain restaurants, to cavemen on a wooly mammoth hunt and apes telling jokes, to gunslinging witches, and other stuff I can’t wait to read. I sat down with Elliot, Shane, and Paper Cuts contributors Olivia Logan and Mathis Ryan at the cafe in Crosstown Arts to talk about bringing Paper Cuts from conception to completion. Elliot Boyette is a graphic designer for the City of Memphis and Paper Cuts’ Art Director Shane McDermott is a former Memphis College of Art professor and Editor of Paper Cuts. Wesley: You were all independent working artists before deciding to collaborate. What are some of the benefits of doing an anthology versus instead of trying to release stuff individually? Elliot: I think that’s a divided approach, when you go individual. It’s hard to get attention for a new artist just starting out, and a lot of us were just coming out of college and still are. We were inspired by Kazu Kibushi’s Flight anthology, and a lot of those people are big name artists now who got their start with an anthology. So as a way to start our comics careers, we thought we’d come together and make a book with everybody in it. Mathis: It’s good to either start a new project with a one-off or just do a palate-cleanser. It’s a good excuse to just create, and a lot of people kind of needed it. I know I did. Olivia: In the unstructured life that came after the structure of school, it kind of gave us a purpose that wasn’t a vague goal that was unlikely to happen. Wesley: When did the idea of creating a comics anthology come about? Elliot: The project’s been kinda going on since 2014 or 2015 I think. We started having these meetings at Memphis Pizza Cafe where we brought in all these people that were interested in being a part of it. It was very fun and loose, no name idea, no nothing, let’s just get together, make comics, and see what happens. From there, we were breaking up into groups, making stories, come back every once in a while, have another pizza meeting, and then talk about what was going on. Olivia: The name was probably the one thing we deliberated on for the longest amount of time. For the full three years. Mathis: You would think that a big group of creative people would be able to name one thing easily. Wesley: Is there an overarching theme in the anthology between stories, or is it a collection of non-connected stories? Shane: In the beginning, we intentionally decided against having a theme. A lot of the anthologies we were looking at did have themes, but I figured since this is our first foray into this, let’s just see what we can do, put it all together, and let it be its own thing. Elliot: I guess the theme is it being a mixtape of everything we’ve wanted to write comics about. Some Paper Cuts panels from illustrator Robert Burns’ comic Wesley: I feel like comics in particular are more accessible to new career artists because you don’t necessarily have to be a master illustrator to make a good comic, since the narrative is just as important as the art. Does that make sense? Olivia: Definitely. For example, Questionable Content is a webcomic I’ve been following for about ten years at this point, and when the guy started out, he sucked. You’ve watched him grow as the years have gone by, but everyone came for the writing and jokes, basically. Elliot: Which is funny, because there are a lot of comics that are just gross to look at or neutral to look at, but the writing’s so good. There aren’t many comics that I know of that look really good, but you just hate reading them. Wesley: Are there any dedicated writers on your team? Olivia: It was all very free, choosing how we wanted to put this thing together. There were people who decided to team up on one story, but there were several of us who did it all. Elliot: I think there are three writer-artist teams. There’s Angel Bonesteel with Rory, Chris Haley with Lan Pitts, who’s actually done some work for Boom Studios. And Robert Burns has a writer buddy, Tyler. Wesley: You brought the project to Kickstarter, which as of now has raised a little over $3,700 of its $12,800 goal. How else are you getting the word out about Paper Cuts? Shane: We’re looking at other things now, like ads we’re going to take out and press releases we’re going to send. Bleeding Cool emailed me last night asking me to write something in the first person for their site basically talking about the project and linking to other work. So I cranked out this article in three hours that went up a couple hours actually. Elliot and I talked about not milking the whole “MCA is closing” thing, but as I was writing, I was feeling really connected to the school and to our friends, so I definitely turned that up a bit. Wesley: Speaking of which, how does Memphis College of Art closing up affect this process? Shane: We started talking about Paper Cuts late 2015, just under a year before the school announced it was gonna close. At the time, our connection was MCA, but we weren’t broadcasting that it was this MCA thing because we were open to bringing in other people from the community as well. But once the school announced that it was closing, there was this collective feeling of, “Oh, well we kinda want this to be a tribute to the school and the programs.” It’s definitely heartbreaking. Editor Shane McDermott is also contributing a story to the anthology—here’s a page from him. Wesley: But artists nationwide are contributing to this, right? Or is it just MCA alumni? Shane: There are 16 of us total, 3 of us aren’t MCA alums. Olivia: And there are people living all over contributing to this even though we’re centered in Memphis. Wesley: Is there another plan if the Kickstarter doesn’t reach its goal? Have you worked with any other agencies or organizations in Tennessee to get Paper Cuts out there? Shane: We’re not out to make money on this. If it made any extra money we talked about distributing it amongst the artists, but ultimately we just want Paper Cuts to exist as a physical book. We want it to be on bookshelves. There are other things we could do, like Amazon’s CreateSpace print-on-demand thing. Maybe get a grant to get it printed and then sell it in local shops or something. Part of the reason the Kickstarter goal is so high is, not only are we printing it, we have to get it shipped here from China, and then shipped to all of our backers. Mathis: Sponsors and grants are cool and everything, but the real goal we want is books in hands. So instead of people being independent contributors and just covering the cost, we want people to actually have it. We’re making something we want to give to people. Money is cool, but even if we just end up giving it to 90 people, it’s like, I hope those 90 people like it. Shane: I’m not opposed to just making .pdfs and giving it to everyone if the Kickstarter doesn’t make it. Then if people want printed copies, we could try again. Wesley: Anything else you’d like to add? Shane: I wanna throw some kudos to our contributors. I may have gotten the ball rolling in the beginning, but these guys were talking about doing this a long, long time ago, way before I said, hey, let’s finally do it. Especially after the MCA announcement, I’ve dropped the ball on this and it shifted to the backburner for me, but Elliot has kept it on track. He’s really the heart and soul behind the Kickstarter campaign. Olivia got her comic done really, really early on. It’s a 100 percent collaborative effort, we’re peers, and we’re all equal in this endeavor. Here are some very important links to check out if you’d like to support Paper Cuts: Paper Cuts Kickstarter campaign: http://kck.st/2ERLOV7 Project website: papercutscomics.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/PaperCutsComics Instagram: @papercutscomicanthology or www.instagram.com/papercutscomicanthology/ And, check out Shane’s post on Bleeding Cool here: https://www.bleedingcool.com/2019/06/15/comics-art-school-alumni-anthology/ About The Author Wesley Morgan Paraham is a Memphis native and University of Memphis graduate who spends most of his free time in his Midtown apartment playing video games with his partner. He’s currently DCA‘s PR+Social Media Coordinator. Are you a home owner in Memphis, with a broken garage door? Call ASAP garage door today at 901-461-0385 or checkout https://ift.tt/1B5z3Pc

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