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ZachWeinersmith

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The SMBC guy.
New book: A City on Mars (Nov 2)

Co-author of Soonish
Illustrator of Open Borders
Scop of Bea Wolf.

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This will be relevant for about 2 people, BUT

There's a quote from Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed that sounds amazing: "Those who trouble themselves to find a cause for any of these detailed rules, are in my eyes void of sense..."

HOWEVER, as far as I can tell it is invariably out of context. He's not talking about the Torah overall, but about narrow particulars involved in animal sacrifice.

Now, go about your morning.

ZachWeinersmith, to comics
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Moby
Comic here: http://smbc-comics.com/comic/moby
#smbc #hiveworks #comics #webcomics #books

ZachWeinersmith, to random
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Hey musicians - I was listening to a thing about Spotify being crappy in terms of rev share. This is a familiar experience for cartoonists on other platforms! SO, if I want to support musicians, what's the best way to consume? Website? YouTube? Physical media?

ZachWeinersmith, to comics
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Bracing conclusion here: http://smbc-comics.com/comic/dragons
#smbc #hiveworks #comics #webcomics #dragons

ZachWeinersmith, to random
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One of the ironies I'm learning as I write Bea Wolf 2 is that epic is really bad it back-and-forth combat. Like if you read the Iliad, there's a lot of moving between fighting pairs, and transitioning back and forth from a high level view to a particular stabbed person. But something like a complex Bruce Lee fight is almost impossible. Boasts and oaths are much more fun to write.

Working on this one:

ZachWeinersmith,
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@Rgsharpe This is how social apes work.

Ape 1: I am best ape.
Ape 2: I am best ape.
Audience: Which is best ape?!
fighting

ZachWeinersmith, to comics
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Full comic here: http://smbc-comics.com/comic/sit-down

ZachWeinersmith, to random
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He les francophones,

Comment traduire "le dieu-des-cibles-lointaines" ? (de l'Iliade traduit par Brunet.)

Literally "the god of distant targets" ? Or is it "far-shooting God" ? Or something else?

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@floby Thanks! What do the hyphens do in this context?

ZachWeinersmith,
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@floby Interesting! Is this common or mostly a literary thing?

ZachWeinersmith, to random
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This is probably just the communities I'm in, but it feels like whereas AI art had a fairly serious backlash, AI music has not? Is this your impression?

ZachWeinersmith,
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@Sqlgene Oh, interesting, so you think it's more about whether we can observe artists being replaced by corporations?

ZachWeinersmith, to comics
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Full comic here: http://smbc-comics.com/comic/foam

ZachWeinersmith, to random
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God in Heaven, why did I get my daughter the Wigs of Fire audiobook? There's literally a part where one dragon worries its bones are broken and another says they aren't because, as dragons, they have very strong bones. Like a person saying "Don't worry about ectoparasites Round-Face. As hairless creatures with opposable thumbs, we can easily remove them."

ZachWeinersmith, to comics
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Bonus panel here: http://smbc-comics.com/comic/oh-yes
#smbc #hiveworks #comics #webcomics #love

ZachWeinersmith, to random
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Yesterday I had one person say I'm too so pro-tech pro-capitalist and one person say I was trying to force a leftist ideology, and both were responding to A City on Mars. All I can say is I wish people would stop trying to find the hidden motive and just read the words as plainly written!

ZachWeinersmith,
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Why does everyone need to tie a little conspiracy bow on everything? Even if it's not strictly conspiracy theorizing, there's this deep thread now of "okay but the REAL trick is..." when the thing is that the topic is involved and complex and doesn't naturally map to a simplified ideology.

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@jenbanim Secret?

ZachWeinersmith,
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@Oggie I'm sympathetic to this, but my slightly nicer theory is that people have been saying this sort of thing forever - it's just it used to happen in private letters and conversations and not in the equivalent of public bulletin boards.

ZachWeinersmith, to random
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Holy shit, I thought my computer was just running really slowly, but it turns out it was entirely due to Chrome. Please Google, just close down.

ZachWeinersmith, to comics
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Break it down
Bonus panel here: http://smbc-comics.com/comic/break-it-down

ZachWeinersmith, to random
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So I'm closing in on Bea Wolf 2, first draft, and I've just crafted what I believe is the first four line stanza of alliterative verse that literally alliterates on every word:

ZachWeinersmith, to comics
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Parenting
Bonus panel here: http://smbc-comics.com/comic/dad-2
#smbc #hiveworks #comics #webcomics #parenting

ZachWeinersmith, to random
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I've seen a number of writers remark on the fact that it's stupid to wait around for inspiration to try to writing something good. This is of course true, because often inspired writing is, in retrospect, terrible, while lines you suffered over are quite good.

BUT, there's this other thing, which is that as a project wears on, there's inevitably less inspiration, more just carrying out the initial vision. This is where, to my mind, the real craft often comes in.

ZachWeinersmith,
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Inspiration can convince you something is interesting or worth doing, or from time to time get you some really good sentences. But by the time you're, say, 80% of the way into something, it's kind of like an old relationship. You're not going to get butterflies in your stomach anymore, and the strange thing is that while you feel less inspired you're often doing really good work!

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