I am tired of thinking and worrying about Donald Trump.

I am sick of every part of my life and worries being about Trump. I never asked for this or wanted this. He's inserted himself into my entire life unasked and it feels like a total violation. I have other things I have and want to do, and this is sucking the will to live right out of me. I want my life back.

Sandra Day O'Connor just died

Because people have been pushing back against Kissinger obits being anything but "Good riddance to a mass-murdering war criminal" the media is salivating at the bit to do respectful remembrances of a "moderate" conservative and the legacy they left behind.

Don't fall for it. Her true legacy is Bush Vs Gore. And everything else bad in the nation since then followed from that.

Buh-Bye, George Santos.

Good to know where the bar for some Republican Congresscritters is. But it's still too fucking low.

I'm planning on seeing Candice next week!

First time in 20 years! I am so nervous and excited!

Fun Fact: Although I haven't written my will yet (although I need to soon) I plan to make Candice the "Steward" of The Un-Iverse after I am gone, and give the rights to her. I love and trust her that much.

Going to sleep early tonight.

No scripting tonight for me. Sorry, Jasper. The jag HITS when it does, and when it does it hits hard and fast. I fully expect when I DO get stimmed enough to write scripts again, I'll do all three I need to get through in a single night. That's how it usually works. And then I'll get to work putting the next issue to paper a few days later. But despite the jag poking in and out of my thoughts over the past week, it hasn't hit me just yet. Soon though, I think.

Fun Un-Iverse scripting fact.

I almost NEVER do second drafts. The last one was F.I.S.H. "The Society Of The Broken Egg", and that was less a second draft, and more me ditching what I wrote halfway through and starting over. I almost never cut scenes I've written to tighten things up. Stephen King is ADAMANT writers need to cut cut cut to help their pacing. What do you guys think? How's my pacing?

To my credit I DO put each script through a spell-checker these days, and when I'm putting the script to paper I usually come up with not just last minute visual gags, but scripted gags too. But I don't overthink what I've written or cut down my writing because I don't second-guess it.

Other interesting facts. King talks about how it's not good to reread and admire you work, and advises to sit on it for a few weeks, and then look at it with fresh clinical eyes. I reread the scripts over and over again before I put them to paper. Not just the day after I've written. But repeatedly, between the year I've written them, and the 6-12 month lagtime in which I draw them and put them on the site.

Yes, scripts are usually written a year ahead of time. The last issue Lace Doilies #9 "Bad Timing" (Un-Iverse #9) was written December 25, 2022 and finished and put on the site October 27, 2023. And yeah, I fucking wrote it ON CHRISTMAS DAY! The Jag does not take Holiday breaks. It hits when it hits.

Also, I reread the entire saga (currently at 63 issues) every couple of months or so just to keep the story straight and upcoming things in flow, both pacing and continuity-wise. Usually I reread it after I've finished writing the latest scripts or after I've drawn the latest issues.

Am I sick of it yet? Am I a narcissistic bastard to admit I'm not? I LIKE my story and enjoy rereading it every time. Authors taking a clinical approach to their work the way King advises is outside of my experience. I don't get that mindset. At all.