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:
WWTH:
Right? And he made it sound like a favour. “Oops, it looks like you might have chosen not to talk to me. Not to worry, for your convenience, I have developed a technique to get around the boundaries you are very clearly trying to enforce. See, I lie, and pretend I’m other people! You’re welcome.”
Well, now I am imagining that dramatic reading as done by a guy who holds a cigarette in his hand, pretends to sip from a glass of whiskey on the rocks, and has a propensity to decorate with plastic skulls.
aaaaahahahahaha
why can’t we get any high class trolls like that? I mean come on, trolls! Get your act together! Get all toppen-hatt-monocle on it!
Obviously this message came from
Beyond The Fourth Dimension!
It is rather “fascinating” how the writer uses “scare quotes” repeatedly. It makes me imagine them repeatedly stopping typing to make air quotes.
Dramatic reading:
https://twitter.com/my2k/status/791883577885548544
EDIT: Ninja’d.
So many mixed and misplaced metaphors.
“…ways in which I feel you may continue pursuing yourself…”
“Progressive’s Grandstand”
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8175/7959543372_a60a6872f4.jpg
That email is so fascinating. It’s a glimpse into the meatspace world of one of the people who tend to come here looking for a fight. The casual willingness to insult someone’s creative work is disgusting. That’s all it is, and insult. There was no effort spent in getting specific about why the comic was a problem. The sheer presumption to be an authority on so little is amazing.
What easy mode?
@Viscaria
I thought he sounded like a cartoon villain there. “Your attempts to block me are a mere annoyance.” *pets cat*
http://media.giphy.com/media/rTbRScdagmsCc/giphy.gif
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/feminism-project/poll/
Wapo/Kaiser puts the number near 40% and growing. Funnily enough, that’s a far higher percentage than the straight, cis, white, guys this dude obviously thinks should be pandered to (~32%)
I read it as a superlative.
Bovine, boviner, bovinest
Feline, feliner, felinest
Femine, feminer, feminest ?
Beautiful, a work of art, what a great way to start the afternoon.
This is truly the email that just encapsulates the entire entitlement of anti-SJWs and anti-feminists.
“I AM SO KNOWLEDGEABLE ABOUT YOUR LINE OF WORK AND YOU ARE ADEQUATE, but perhaps if you do what I WANT YOU TO, then maybe you could be BETTER and stop being so BAD AT EVERYTHING. (Also I write and stuff, pls give me a job/collaborate/work for free for me so I can get publicity).”
The next time anyone asks me about the “Cishet white dude entitlement in the comics community”, I’m just going to send them this.
My bed was previously named Pillowopolis. It is now The Feminest.
@JoeB, re: counterproductively complex vocabulary and sentence structures
I used to write like that in my teens, and is one of the reasons I despise my younger self. That was the time I was first introduced to adult-oriented literature featuring elaborate prose and high concepts. I emulated those things as intellectual puffery with which to make myself look smart. A desperately insecure, socially stunted teenage me couldn’t get enough usage out of them in that capacity.
I’ve outgrown it… or at least I like to think I have.
I think the frog is supposed to be an avatar for the new social network Gab, which has been joined en masse by many in the alt-right crowd. It’s not acccessible by anyone who doesn’t have an account, and the line to sign up is very long, because it’s still in beta. It’s supposed to be unrestricted frozen peaches, of course, and the standard free speech quote on the main sign in page is supposedly from Salman Rushdie, who, in a wonderful twist of irony, is an atheist of Arabic descent from a Muslim family who strongly supports feminism.
Perhaps if Red Jerry had done a slightly better cursory Google search he might have noticed that that “first real project” “The Backstagers” is writen by James Tynion IV. James Tynion IV has another project he is working on right now. It’s a little title called Detective Comics.
But please internet rando, continue to explain how working in a project with you will help someone collaborating with a Batman writer advance their career in mainstream comics.
*sigh* And now I have the opening theme song from Inspector Gadget playing in my head.
If Anthony Weiner’s dick pics get Trump elected I’m fucking done with this country.
I really hope red jerry makes his blog. my feminist comicking self needs a laugh! (and then probably a cry… and then a laugh again!)
@Nidi
I hate my old writing too, though it’s better than I write now since I’m out of the habit. Luckily though the overblown prose wasn’t an issue for me. I learned the word laconic because it was how a teacher described by writing.
Wow now we know why all the other characters just wish Jerry would go away in Undertale (game featuring a monster named Jerry who is apparently very annoying).
Don’t worry, dude. I’m sure that if women don’t fall for you negging, male artists definitely will. You just have to neg harder!
I couldn’t resist doing a dramatic reading of this myself:
https://soundcloud.com/a-montreal-paul/red-jerry-warns-against-feminests-spoken-word