Into each inbox some bizarre emails must fall.
Yesterday, it was apparently Rian Sygh and his email inbox’s turn. Sygh, an illustrator and comics artist, found himself the recipient of one of the most entertainingly bizarre proposals I’ve ever seen, from a self-professed “ally” called Red Jerry with some advice on how
you may continue pursuing yourself [???] in a manner advantageous to your self-purported goal of “becoming a cool comics guy :sunglasses emoji: (Twitter, Aug 2016)”.
As you can see, Mr. Jerry’s literary pretensions exceed his literary capabilities.
The tl:dr of the advice is that Sygh should stop “pandering” to the “feminest [sic], or colloquially known as ‘SJW’, crowd” and start producing some good old-fashioned red meat comics with the help of … the writer of the proposal.
But this is one wall-o-text it’s worth reading in full. It’s glorious.
https://twitter.com/RianSygh/status/791820745026465792
https://twitter.com/RianSygh/status/791820835069825024
https://twitter.com/RianSygh/status/791820921426350082
https://twitter.com/RianSygh/status/791821088837763073
Sorry to interrupt, but I just love love love the bit about “the yells of cuckold men and fat women.”
OTHERWISE KNOWN AS “FRIDAY NIGHT” AMIRITE FELLOW CUCKS AND FATTIES?
https://twitter.com/RianSygh/status/791821338906357760
And of course he’s got a vaguely Pepe-looking little frog in his sig and one of those (((echo))) thingies. Unless Red Jerry is literally a Jewish frog, which seems unlikely, I’m guessing he’s one of those chan-dwelling alt-right anime Nazi Trump fans.
https://twitter.com/RianSygh/status/791821651063238657
Oh, I’m pretty sure Jerry is real. It’s been that kind of year.
And in case you’ve had the phrase “fan mail from some flounder” going through your head the whole time as you read this post, here you go:
“I suggest focusing on developing your own voice and style by limiting your writing to topics of which I personally approve.”
“Come work for me for freeeeeee, after I’ve insulted you and your style.”
“I believe that you should cater to me and only me, anything is just blatant pandering.”
“Your art is ok, not brilliant but if you spruce your game up I might give you a chance”
Is he actually trying negging?!
Why do they all write like that??? (not the ESL, that’s whatever) the counterproductively complex vocabulary and sentence structures. Throw in an overuse of clunky, unnecessary metaphors (that they sometimes feel the need to state are metaphors) and it’s an obvious fingerprint.
“As a very very important anonymous internet troll, I would like to help you by continuing to talk at you after you’ve made it clear that you are not interested. You’re welcome.”
My favorite part is “thank you for your time and please respond promptly.”
Yerrsss… J. Waltham Pecksniff here, with some unsolicited advice about your “art”.
You should focus on developing your style and voice. Your style and voice should be an in-house style. Your style and voice are stupid. Replace it with mine and then you won’t be beholden to anyone. Let’s collaborate on stuff.
It sounds like something Davis Aurini would write.
It’s official, I am now calling my house the “Femi-nest”.
“Hey who wants to come over to the Femi-nest for some tea and biscuits?”
“We can watch the game after work at the Femi-nest. I have a 40″ and will be serving beer and poutine.”
“Wow that storm last night was intense, the basement of the Femi-nest is completely flooded.”
“Hey buddy! How about a courtesy flush next time after dropping those logs, you’re stinking up the Femi-nest!”
“Stop making work that appeals to other people and start making work that appeals to important people like MEEEEE! Make work for MEEEEE!!!”
Reminds me of the “HARDcore”™ gamers that threw a fit when From Soft added an Easy mode to Dark Souls or the Manbabies who think that anyone who is a Feminist in the gaming community is part of some great conspiracy to ruin video games.
*snrk* “Ever yours in the matrix” This is a work of art.
Just yesterday, I simultaneously had the wool pulled over my eyes and the rug pulled out from under me. LITERALLY.
@LindsayIrene
Sounds like some cat related incident. O.o
“It’s a petty annoyance that you have no interest in talking to me, but don’t worry. SOCKS! Now, as I was saying…”
d-does this guy really imagine someone is going to respond with “oh THANK YOU! I was getting so fucking TIRED of pretending to respect women! but I thought it was the only way to succeed in comics!”
Ugh these are the guys I can’t help thinking DC has decided to fully appeal to with the recent DC rebirth with it’s cancelling of virtually every comic with queer stars and most of the female led ones as well. Very sad.
YES!
That’s exactly who it reminds me of!
“If there’s one thing children absolutely hate, it’s seeing themselves represented in books.”
People have started doing dramatic readings. https://twitter.com/my2k/status/791883577885548544
I liked how he admitted to having several sock accounts to get around all the people blocking his trolling ass.
Ah, yes, the classic Entitlement Complex Not-So-Cleverly Disguised As Concern Trolling. Brings back memories.
Ignatius J. Reilly has gone downhill.
Telling someone their work is not suitable for “real books” is certainly the way to get them on-side.
OMFG. That is a work of art. I especially appreciated him pointing out that his advice should be taken seriously because he’s a pillar of the community.