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auto immune disorders happen when the immune system ignores regulatory factors and begins attacking healthy bodily tissues, due to what scientists refer to as "sheer love of the game"

Some of you may think this is a joke, but no, that's pretty much how it goes. Most immune system cells are born as rabid dogs, and then sent through a corridor of various body cells. If it attacks ANY of them the entire cell line is destroyed. <-- Immune system disorders usually start here.

It's interesting to compare this with French-language comics where often the rights to the series are tied to a publisher who will have different authors work on it over the years, but the rights for secondary characters created by that author remain with the author, which if no agreement is reached can result in an entire roster of secondary characters dropping out of existence with no explanation between two stories as the previous author leaves and takes their characters with them. Thus the series Spirou and Fantasio's most iconic run was that of Franquin (from 1948 to 1968) (the character of Spirou was first created in 1938), who created most of the series's iconic secondary characters, including the marsupilami, their weird monkey-marsupial-like animal companion. Then when Franquin was succeeded by Fournier, none of the secondary characters created by the former could be used, so they just stopped appearing. There was no explanation or even mention of them, the comic was now effectively taking place in a different reality with an entirely new cast of secondary characters that everyone acted as if they were already established. Then after Fournier left in 1980, this happened again with his characters, and so the new authors Nic & Cauvin had to create again a set of secondary characters from scratch and act as if they had been there all along with no acknowledgement of previous characters. However, when Nic & Cauvin left in 1984 and Tome & Janry took over, Dupuis managed to negotiate with Franquin (who was still alive and doing his own stuff) for the right to re-use most of his secondary characters, so at that point the comic reverted, again with no explanation, to the "classic" cast — except for the marsupilami who Franquin wanted to keep the rights of because he had his own standalone series, and would not appear in another Spirou story again except for a one-off in 2016.

#google translate does not capture the tone switch so i have to say. first two sentences are like. normal maybe kind of feminine posting tone #& the last is like. shounen manga protagonist. action movie hero. jojo's bizarre adventure character. #the tone you would use if you were holding a gun with the safety off (– @chadlesbianjasontodd)

finally starting to write my book again,,,

the worst part of burnout is that, at least for me, you dont really recover from it, you just get sick of not creating anything so you throw yourself back into it

Personally i feel that longer sequences of snappy dialogue work better in some mediums than others - and that writing is not one of the mediums where it works well. As proof, i submit: the subjective experience of reading the script for Some Like It Hot

Agreed, Gilmore Girls would make a HORRIBLE book.

sitting here. unkissed. when will it end

Happy Smallpox Eradication Day

aw shit, sorry guys, i forgot to add one little detail: instead of just "not pressing the blue button", you have to press a second red button to indicate that you're declining to press the blue button. so just replace "not pressing the blue button" with "pressing a red button" in this scenario and everything else about it is unchanged. that shouldn't have any influence on your decision to press the blue suicide button or not so just treat it as window dressing :)