🎨 Artcow Iconoclast / Jonathan Mack Sweet - The Chris-Chan of Arkansas

[MrsFrizzle]

HSMOF, your response to Sweet was the business. You could have Morgan Freeman reading that over footage of a majestic ocean and you'd be halfway to an Oscar already. Bravo.

 

[Holdek]

I sincerely hope that Iconoclast is bluffing about that picture of a child blackmail thing.

Although, what if he wants to use (questionably) legal lolicon combined with photo, like how he combines photo with drawing in Belch Dimension, while claiming it's real blackmail?

There was actually a Supreme Court case about whether or not people could make "fake" child pornography, essentially cut-and-pasting ala Sweet. Not sure how they ruled on that, or if they sent it back to lower courts or whatever, but it's at least ethically dubious.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Not sure how they ruled on that

Another question is if what Sweet planned on making is actually CP according to the law. Either way, that blackmail scheme sounds downright evil, especially considering that it's revenge for an old grudge.

Who was the intended victim again? IIRC, it's someone at the Herald or other ASU staff. And does Iconoclast hatch schemes for revenge due to his old grudges a lot? And publicly post them online?

 

[Holdek]

Another question is if what Sweet planned on making is actually CP according to the law. Either way, that blackmail scheme sounds downright evil, especially considering that it's revenge for an old grudge.

Who was the intended victim again? IIRC, it's someone at the Herald or other ASU staff. And does Iconoclast hatch schemes for revenge due to his old grudges a lot? And publicly post them online?

Yeah he's always talking about the way he's going to make people from his past "pay." Either through blackmail, lawsuits, angry letters and phone calls, murder and body disposal, etc. Thankfully he's never done any of those that we know of (except some angry letters that got him banned from campus and a psych eval ordered).

 

[ToroidalBoat]

murder and body disposal

What.

I do remember reading something about that, but I think it was only him merely claiming what he could* do to "Kwicky Koalas".

*(and Kiwis pointed out just how flawed his plans were)

 

[Holdek]

What.

I do remember reading something about that, but I think it was only him merely claiming what he could* do to "Kwicky Koalas".

*(and Kiwis pointed out just how flawed his plans were)

Well that, but more often about his brother.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

about his brother

There was one comment he posted somewhere (either here or on that patriot forum) where he said he expected his brother to be cowering and begging for mercy when Sweet tried to beat him once, IIRC. That disgusts me. Also, he apparently wasn't expecting his brother to fight back, which he did.

Also, posting plans for criminal schemes online isn't exactly a smart thing to do.

 

[John Titor]

I've never used my friends here as human shields. I've discussed your antics in a public social watering hole as evidence of how vicious and evil the progressive movement is and why it needs to be stamped out. This is the same group of people who, twenty years ago, wanted to turn the American college campus into a "dumb-a** frat movie" from the 1970's.

Probably not the place to discuss this but I got rejected by a few colleges earlier today. Guess I wasn't progressive and liberal enough.

And now they want to elect Hillary Clinton next year so they can bring back good ol' Bill and do it again. This is what you consider "progress"? Sounds like you're the ones perpetually 20 years behind while screaming "forward!" At least I'm honest about living in the past. I like my landline, my "wasteful" Win 98 OS "widda toobzes", my incandescent light bulbs, VHS, analog TV, and the comedic stylings of The Diceman. You have... what? The Kardashians? Honey Boo-Boo? ObamaCable? The Prius? Pffffft.

Oh, let me count the ways: Smartphones, optical discs, graphics tablet, Photoshop, flat screen TVs, my vidya gaems, Richard Jeni and George Carlin (OK, they are technically "old" but may they rest in peace), video streaming and while my computer is less than ideal, at least it's not an OS Microsoft no longer acknowledges. So yeah, the future is awesome and 1997 can go suck it. (And lol, he seriously extolls VHS in this day and age.)

 

[Chan the Wizard]

Wait, wait, what's ObamaCable? That's a new one for me. I've heard of the ObamaPhone and Obamacare, but am I missing out on free cable?

Iconoclast, you're a welfare queen, what you can tell me about the programs that Obama has expanded and created to benefit societal leeches such as yourself? As a welfare queen, why aren't you happy with a liberal in charge? Is it the 'cism, 'tism, or a combo?

 

[John Titor]

Wait, wait, what's ObamaCable? That's a new one for me. I've heard of the ObamaPhone and Obamacare, but am I missing out on free cable?

Iconoclast, you're a welfare queen, what you can tell me about the programs that Obama has expanded and created to benefit societal leeches such as yourself? As a welfare queen, why aren't you happy with a liberal in charge? Is it the 'cism, 'tism, or a combo?

There is no ObamaCable. It's what he calls the analog-to-digital converter boxes (if you may remember, everyone was given vouchers for free boxes) because he's butthurt about how the country doesn't support analog TVs anymore. He's sour that only 2 channels work on his TV, yet he seems to be aware of what streaming is.

 

[Chan the Wizard]

But the digital conversion legislation predates the Obama administration.

I'm disappointed. You could go dumpster diving and find a TV with a digital converter.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Spoiler: TL;DR: critique of 'older is better'

I like old stuff too, but I recognize it's frequent inferiority to current stuff. For example, VHS decays relatively rapidly, while DVDs (the commercially burned ones anyway), last a lot longer. Also, I think "obamacable" is a Sweetism for DTV, and/or digital cable? (edit: yup for the former)

I wonder if Sweet prefers dialup internet over faster modern internet?

Oh, let me count the ways

Don't forget the influx of anime and manga, too (no weeaboo). Back in the 90s, it was less common in the West, and at least Americans were, in general, a lot more wary of it.

[preference for landlines and Windows 98]

Some would say that Mac OS 8 and 9, as well as Linux, were the better OSes of the 90s. They're certainly a lot safer, in that far less malware was made for them. Linux was (and still is) even free. Sweet using Windows 98 ONLINE nowadays is just asking for a nasty malware infection.

As for the landline thing, you have to pay extra to keep your name unlisted in a phone book (at least where I live). I had debt collectors constantly calling me looking for another person with the same name as me. Now, I just go with a pay-as-you go cellphone with an assigned number, and I haven't been harassed since. And it's much cheaper than my old landline was.

Mylar should meet Iconoclast. I think they may get along just fine.

 

[John Titor]

But the digital conversion legislation predates the Obama administration.

I'm disappointed. You could go dumpster diving and find a TV with a digital converter.

That was pointed out to him, it's still Obama's fault somehow.

Spoiler: TL;DR: critique of 'older is better'

Don't forget the influx of anime and manga, too (no weeaboo). Back in the 90s, it was less common in the West, and at least Americans were, in general, a lot more wary of it.

I don't remember where I read it but he apparently complained about a channel that didn't have much variety besides (presumeable Saturday morning) anime. I figured he'd be all over it for reasons I don't really want to describe.

 

[He Sets Me On Fire]

HSMOF, your response to Sweet was the business. You could have Morgan Freeman reading that over footage of a majestic ocean and you'd be halfway to an Oscar already. Bravo.

Thank you! Now whenever I read that post, it'll be in his voice.

I can see it now: "Nobody told me that it was illegal to download child pornography and use it to blackmail people!"

Just so Jon doesn't try to duck the issue with another falsehood, let me explain what he did. I'll sum it up first, then show you the original piece underneath.

So, Jon wanted revenge on the editor who blew the whistle on his plagiarism. He devised a plan wherein he'd put together a picture (a shopped photo) of the president of ASU naked, and in bed with a little girl (he never explains whether the little girl was dressed or not).
Sweet intended to send the image to the editor (in an envelope marked "From a friend"), whom he assumed would print it without a second thought. Sweet got cold feet, however, feeling that he would be found out as the sender, and claims to have burned the picture - which means that, if we take him at his word, Sweet put the photo together, then printed it out.

For all we know, it could still be on his old hard drive.

Essentially, Jon intended to frame the president of ASU in order to get back at someone he thought would be as sick and insane as he is.

The quote:

page 28. The plot to destroy a rival with a fake photograph of them in a compromising position was first used in "Eve Bade Adam Eat", which was the fourth story in Sweet's 2002 anthology Almasheol. Sweet admits that it was inspired by a "half-cocked" revenge scheme he had. "I put together a fake photograph of ASU's president naked in bed with a little girl, and planned to send it to [Scott] Mitchell with a note saying 'From a friend'," said Sweet. "Once he was stupid and greedy enough to try to publish it [in The Herald], the eds would have no choice but to bounce him out on his ass. However, I didn't want [Bonnie] Thrasher to trace the photo back to me. I knew she was hateful and insane, but not stupid. Even if I took every precaution, wore gloves, and posted the letter from another town, the old bat would still smell me on the envelope. So I scrapped the plan--call it cowardice, call it taking the moral high road, I don't know--and burned the photo.

No, Sweet, absolutely no one is going to call it the "moral high road".

 

[Holdek]

I'm disappointed. You could go dumpster diving and find a TV with a digital converter.

It's so weird. He could get a digital tuner/antenna for almost nothing at Goodwill, for example, but he'd rather have something to bitch about than all the channels he wants.

BTW, I was reading an article today about the UK election campaign of Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, and it said this:

The impression is of a political autistic, with extraordinarily little awareness of how he comes across or willingness to learn from his mistakes.

Could easily apply to Jon.

 

[He Sets Me On Fire]

It's so weird. He could get a digital tuner/antenna for almost nothing at Goodwill, for example, but he'd rather have something to bitch about than all the channels he wants.

I imagine that Jon tends to demonize anything he can't understand. Sure, getting a digital tuner would be easy - for competent people. But Jon is so oblivious about how life works that he barely comprehends the concept of asking questions about things he cannot figure out. Remember too that some of the things he has struggled with would have been easily mastered by children in a fraction of the time.

In the case of a digital tuner, Jon would have to go to the Goodwill (can't drive, no control over his money - basically Jon Sweet trying to endure the horrors of the Donner Party), figure out the best one for his TV (rocket science), get it to work with the TV (quantum physics), and then figure out at least some of the more rudimentary operations of its basic functions (particle theory), all while trying to keep from losing the remote for long periods of time (Mensa candidate).

Jon is powerless, intellectually crippled, poor, disenfranchised, and bitter. He's too lazy, scared, defeated, and comfortable to try to change his lot in life, so he'd rather pretend that everything and everyone above his level is destructive and bad.

I wouldn't be surprised if the day came where Sweet decried the evil liberal plot to brainwash everyone into living in an air conditioned home during killer heat and eating regularly. Not him, no siree! He'll be living it up in a refrigerator box behind Sun TV and eating out of garbage cans like decent people should!

 

[ToroidalBoat]

That was pointed out to him, it's still Obama's fault somehow.

Maybe he thinks it's Obama's fault because Obama did nothing to stop the DTV transition? Weren't broadcasters wanting to switch over to DTV anyway (regardless of legislation) because of the technological advantages of DTV over analog (like more channels in the same bandwidth = more advertising revenue)?

You mentioned Sweet complaining about anime once. My "rest home in 2050" scenario may not be too far off from reality - can Sweet even go one post without complaining about something or trying to insult someone?

 

[Treenbeen]

Spoiler: Potentially Triggering (Just in Case)

Treenbeen: I know you seem to think everyone is out to get you...
Dr. Belch: Because a lot of them are.
Treenbeen: Move on....
Dr. Belch: I tried that. It's a ploy.
Treenbeen: No, it's not. For god's sakes, it's freaking not! The only person still upset about your past is you. If you had the slightest chance at making things from your past better through one of your schemes, don't you think at least one person (other than you) would take you seriously? You seem to think tons of people are on your side here, but no one is, not in this. Even people from here, AJM, have said that they have told you to move on, and you won't so they're done.

Do you know what all your little hate letters will accomplish? Nothing. Nada. Zip.

Imagine that you are the boss at a company (I know, bear with me) and you have many employees, one in particular who has been working for you for some time, doing well. One day, a letter arrives from someone you have never heard of out in the boondock buttcrack of nowhere, saying "No, you must fire him! One time, at college, which I didn't finish because I was told to leave, this person did this thing, which I can't prove but... but.. FIRE HIM!" What would you do? Laugh and throw it away at best, report it as harassment and take legal action at worst. You aren't going to accomplish anything but making yourself more miserable when, yet again, your plans crumble and fail.

Moving on is the best option you have. I've said it before and I'll say it again, do you know what the best revenge is? Living well! Rising above your (supposedly terrible) odds and beating them at their own game! Making something of yourself on your own, by yourself.

Not fake child pornography scandals and hate mail.

Dr. Belch: Seriously, what happened? Once we were fabulous friends. I used to be able to make you laugh with my crass jokes and silly sketches. Now you and I, we're like this.

Treenbeen: I grew up? I don't appreciate racism and sexist comments? Lots of things happened.

Let me tell you a little story. You know why I have no patience for your attitude? You know what happened to me at college? You ready?

Someone in the department got drunk at a party and try to sexually assault me. My friends told me it was my fault, which, just to clarify, is why I have no time or patience for your brothel idea, and the idea that women are there for you to talk to and use, but why bother with a relationship? In the course of a week, I lost all of my friends, and was completely discredited through the theatre department, because a few of them went to the directors and teachers and told them I wasn't showing up for rehearsals, that I was lying about things, that I wouldn't learn my lines, etc.

That same person that tried to assault me then tried to hit me in front of our teacher. Nobody did anything.

You know what I did? I left. I made the call to remove myself from a bad situation. And yeah, for a while it sucked. I had loved that school. I fell into a deep depression for a while. But I grieved, I dealt, and I moved on. I took a year off and worked my butt off to save up and go to on to the next big thing. I worked 60+ hours a week, and in under a year I had saved up nearly $10,000. I went somewhere bigger, better, and had the time of my life. I rebuilt my life, and you know what I got out of it?

A national nomination for acting excellence, some great friends, and foundation stones to build on. And now I have a great job, and great friends, and no revenge necessary.

But the difference between us is that terrible things happened to us both, but I used them to build a better life and to better myself, and you used them to become bitter and jaded and hateful.

Everyone has cause to whine about something in their life. Lord knows I've done it enough times, but you don't move forward! You're just stuck, because it's "a ploy" to move on, and the whole world is against you!

If you put even a fraction of the effort towards achieving something that you put towards scheming and bitterness, you could do something amazing. But you won't, and you blame it on everyone else. And that's not fair. To you, or to anyone else.

I would love to see you become something great. To sell your comics in your own shop, or to build your own publishing company! WHAT A STORY THAT WOULD BE! Rising from nothing to something great! But I cannot stand it when you won't even try.

Read more: http://usaspatriot.proboards.com/thread/1437/ajm-studios-news-february-2015?page=5#ixzz3SbkbmVKY

This post gets pretty personal, so read at your own discretion. I've just had it.

 

[Bound2]

For those who haven't visited AJM, I'll repost Belchy's crying here for you to see.

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Post 1
I took college very seriously...but around my last year, I stared asking myself, "Why?" My job had dried up, my girl had left me, and I wasn't really sure where I was going at that point. A last-ditch effort to get back on the paper met with a sound rebuff, and I got angry and maybe said things I shouldn't have. That's why I had to have the mental health evaluation. Now if they'd been up front with me in the first place, much of the ugliness could have been avoided. What employer "waits" to fire a staffer? All they had to do was ask me not to come back the next semester. Instead they promoted me to columnist and further encouraged my "bad boy" behavior. Seems disingenuous, somehow.

I did return to the CWCikiKoala forums, remember, and gave an honest defense of myself. It fast degenerated into "Dere nuh Sistim! Dere nuh Sistim!" * No more. Just as in my newspaperman days, I underestimated the strength of the left and its followers. I thought you'd crumble in the face of my attacks. You didn't. Fine. But, really, when people look closely at what you're saying, it all falls apart: anecdotal evidence, huge leaps of logic, blatant misrepresentation, "blame the victim" arguments, and posts full of mindless cursing and gibbering. Eventually people will see you for what you are, and they will reject you, just like your strange and perverted progressive ideology than even those within it are starting to question.

You call me out for my plan involving pasting a few clippings together to make a fake photo of a man and a child together. A picture. Ho-ho-ho. Well, how about whoever may have actually tried to set me up with an actual, flesh-and-blood barely-legal girl, possibly to make trouble for me, possibly get me kicked out of school or even arrested? I don't know who hated me that much-- a former coworker who was still furious at me for almost (in their mind) getting the paper shut down? one of the anonymous door-pennying, poster-defacing sniggering clowns who lived on my floor?-- but someone should really look into that. Corruption of a minor, last I checked, is illegal.

So I'll tell you what: you close down the thread on me over there (archive it or kill it, whichever), and I won't mention you here or at my blog. Deal...?


*To which I say, if you're right, there was something in play back then. Dozens, perhaps hundreds of people in my immediate social circle in those days just let me run wild and roughshod over everybody and not one spoke up about it? Seems like a pretty big conspiracy of silence you people are suggesting. Or, you know, maybe people really liked my Dice act, which is why they kept requesting it, and the gifts for my columns were sincere, not pranks, and a couple of soreheads on the Herald staff don't speak for everyone else.

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Post 2
So... you get to say whatever you want, but I don't get to defend myself. How does anyone win there? You say yourself you're mad at me for resurrecting a thread with my name in it, but you have no problem building it into a 100-page-plus monster. My only real crime is posting to defend myself without first reading some dopey little date stamp.

Well, you got caught plagiarizing, that's why they kicked you off the paper.

Wrong. That's the word they used, but it's incorrect. You can't be caught at something you didn't do. I didn't see that sketch, and I'm willing to bet none of the other staffers besides ol' Scooter did either. My hearing was sloppy, hasty, incoherent, and violated a number of procedural rules. It was like they couldn't wait to get me out of there. My mentor reported second- and third-hand information about my "confession", but he wasn't there. He left two weeks before, likely over backlash from his efforts in pushing my career forward. In short, it all smells very suspicious.

I don't take responsibility for anything anymore. That's how I lived and how I was taught in college. A few days after I was served I wrote a letter to the Herald ed board apologizing for any trouble I caused and confessed, not to stealing, but to getting blinded by greed. It happens when all those gifts and letters are dancing before your eyes-- you lose all sense of perspective and you want more. They used that innocuous little turn of phrase like a truncheon in my termination papers. Now I'll admit I don't really handle fame and success well. Maybe I missed that lecture at the Wednesday night staff meetings I always blew off.

I've never used my friends here as human shields. I've discussed your antics in a public social watering hole as evidence of how vicious and evil the progressive movement is and why it needs to be stamped out. This is the same group of people who, twenty years ago, wanted to turn the American college campus into a "dumb-a** frat movie" from the 1970's.

And now they want to elect Hillary Clinton next year so they can bring back good ol' Bill and do it again. This is what you consider "progress"? Sounds like you're the ones perpetually 20 years behind while screaming "forward!" At least I'm honest about living in the past. I like my landline, my "wasteful" Win 98 OS "widda toobzes", my incandescent light bulbs, VHS, analog TV, and the comedic stylings of The Diceman. You have... what? The Kardashians? Honey Boo-Boo? ObamaCable? The Prius? Pffffft.

Write what you will, Belch. So will we. The difference is that we'll tell the truth.

No, you'll just think you do.

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Post 3

Holdek said: I just said you can write whatever you want on your blog. Defend yourself all you want.

But why not here? It seems very suspicious that you'd want say as to where I can post about you. DA and AJM are, after all, two very different communities. What is it you're afraid of, Holly? Hm?

I suppose you were just too got-dang special to attend the same meetings as all those plebes, huh?

Uh, no, stupid, I had an evening class on Wednesdays. Rule #1 of working for the school paper: classes come first. I actually got told by my mentor to stop writing a note apologizing for missing the meeting each week because he got it, I had a class. Most of my "disruptive" behaviors weren't really that bad; I just tended to be a little too helpful and obliging at times and it made other staffers nervous. These weren't warm, friendly people. I really had to modify my whole office personae for them. And then they got mad about that. Some folks are never happy.

If we're just a pack of gibbering idiots spewing lies about you, why are you so frantic to "defend yourself" against us?

It's a theory from my newspaperman days I came to dub "The Seven Little Morons". One little idiot spouts off something in ignorance, and the half-dozen idiots in his immediate vicinity take it up and repeat the lie. Pretty soon it spreads like a cancer, and you have The Magic Phantom Sketcher Movement. Why can't you seem to grasp that (A) not everyone watches the same party-approved TV shows* (B) two people can independently have the same idea? I can't have a bunch of nattering morons discrediting me with half-truths and wrecking my plans to rebuild my life.

You keep thinking I'm altering my story and lying, but you never offer specific examples (save some blah blah about "dealt with" being used instead of the whole song-and-dance about the metal bar). I'm sorry I can't tell the story exactly the same, word-for word, each time. Who does? Sometimes I bullet-point to avoid a "duh, tl;dr" rating. If the story changes, it's because I've learned something new that makes the facts not add up-- like my ex was acting like a rich snob, but not actually rich (data which your Koala pals supposedly nosed up, so that's on you, bub), or that my brother had borrowed money from my mother and Dale was upset about his profits going to someone who wasn't even working for him (though his own son barely put in any time at the shop and didn't seen to be starving any).

So, tl;dr-- bite me.

*Though with the advent of ObamaCable and its bluescreened and Forbidden channels, this may change.

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Post 4

You stared at a female staffer to the point where it made her uncomfortable...

I stared at everyone. I'm an artist. It's what I do. Years later I still recall their faces well enough to sketch them without the aid of old photos. The Red, Yellow, and Blue trade paperback I'm releasing soon will show this, as I am including photos of the actual people the story is based on.

cussed out a photographer because his flash was apparently too bright for you...

Her flash. And that was a mistake, I admit it. I was up too early trying to figure out what happened to my favorite show (this wouldn't happen today, with the advent of online TV schedules and sites like YouTube and Hulu), and suffering from a lack of sleep. I tried explaining this to that old bat of a faculty advisor, but it wouldn't wash.

and didn't have the basic mental functionality to operate a photocopier.

You can be helpful and still not familiar with office equipment. They taught me how to use the office computers. Why not simply say, "Hey, why not show you how to work the photocopy machine, while we're at it?"

How was that helpful and obliging?

One one occasion I passed by two staffers having a discussion, and one of them was fumbling for a piece of information. I obligingly provided the name he was blanking on. It seems this was seen not as a helpful act, but butting in on a private conversation. (In the middle of a small office, where anyone walking by can hear it. Right.) After being taken to task for this, I decided to cut back my hours, so as not to be this "nuisance" I was deemed as, and change my image. That worked for a while, but then when I started getting more mail and goodies than other staffers, that resentment flooded back.

We can't have you spreading demonstrable untruths about us.

Untruths... in your own words. How does that work? Have you since recanted from these opinions in light of new data? For the record, I'm not proud of the whole "photobomb" plot; I talk about it to show how the journalism lifestyle really brings out the worst in people. You write a good column, they lavish you with money and gifts. It can turn your head around, and you lose perspective fast. And I was just there 6 month. I can't begin to image someone doing it for 20, 30, or 40 years, how twisted up they must be.

What is "blim-blim"? Like, ebonics? That you think I'm mocking black people with my "duhh" and "Them's our perks, you is not has that" tells me that there must be some subtle racism in you. It's supposed to be based on the speech patterns of a mentally-challenged person.


I'm calling you stupid...stupid.

What is your endgame in harassing me, insulting my appearance with names like "Thumbhead" and "Tanglepubes", and essentually cyberstalking me? Are you trying to "help" me, like you did Chris-Chan? Well, I definitely don't want that. Are you trying to teach me that my old life was a lie/ a misunderstanding/ fine for a time almost 20 years ago but best left behind in the past blah blah blah yab yab yab move on ploy? Well, how about I change my tack and instead of trying to rebuild my own ASU in Aug of 1997, I just wipe the whole lying nest of vipers out now and save other poor kids from the constant trolling, pranks, lies, and bulldookey they will endure for four years by a whole system of people pretending to love and respect them and care about their well-being? Oh, let's just watch you gibberheads do a 180 now.

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Post 5: Most Recent

I'm an actor. It's my job to MIMIC people, and I don't stare at people until they are uncomfortable.

Not the same. Drawing is a visual medium; acting is a physical one. Putting a scar on with makeup isn't the same as drawing one.

...you blatantly said that it was just "how they talked"...

Again, you have it wrong. Mocking a pinhead on a message board isn't like writing dialogue in a story. A lot of my characters are modeled on actual people, including the street thugs I've encountered. They do casually drop the F-bomb every other word, listen to loud, unpleasant music, and throw rocks through people's windows.

I find it amusing that you are so upset all of a sudden by their treatment of Chris-Chan, when you joined their website to do exactly the same thing.

I never talked to the guy. I did not insult his appearance, even during his outrageous "Tomgirl" phase. I never put on a pickle suit and followed him to a mall he was at to troll him IRL. I drew a character, loosely based on him, committing a bizzare criminal act. Shortly after, the real-life Chris committed a criminal act, and, while bizarre, not a terribly good or well-planned one. I actually gave him quite a bit of credit-- it takes some cunning (and a good bit of artistic license) to waylay someone with a cattle prod, kidnap them, take them to your lair, and tie them up to several crates of TNT and a malfunctioning laptop battery.* Real Chris maced a game store employee over a blue cartoon hedgehog. Yeesh.

Trying to get you to see sense... and realize that your revenge schemes and petty arguments are nonsense.

I want to stop some very dangerous people before they hurt and exploit others the way they did me. I had no one in my corner back then to help me out. I can't stand the thought of some other poor kid's life torn apart because no one stepped up.

I know you seem to think everyone is out to get you...

Because a lot of them are.

Move on....

I tried that. It's a ploy.

Seriously, what happened? Once we were fabulous friends. I used to be able to make you laugh with my crass jokes and silly sketches. Now you and I, we're like this.

And then things changed. It's become my life's new mantra.

*Attributed in-universe to Calliope Cal in one ep of "The McKimsons" . The scheme wasn't terribly original, perhaps, but very nearly effective.[/quote]

 

[The I Scream Man]

Jesus Christ.

e: god damn what a complete buffoon, an pedantic boob! I'm continually blown away by everything that is Jon Sweet.

e2: honestly I have never ever seen someone fight so hard to stay so wrong.