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Every time you go in a public place and something ISN’T disgusting it’s because somebody cleaned it. Every time you feel comfortable using a public bathroom or sitting at a restaurant table or setting something on a gas station counter or playing on a playground it’s because somebody cleaned it.
Thank you to everyone who cleans the world, especially those who are underpaid and under appreciated.
I worked in a supermarket for 7 years and I don't think I can understate just how much cleaning you had to do for it to look clean (it very often where not in the places you aren't supposed to see)
True for food service, retail establishments, gyms, outdoor areas, schools, religious buildings, office buildings, etc. People usually only notice when a space is NOT clean, meanwhile every time a space is clean it’s only because of the diligent work of janitors, maintenance staff, custodians, parks workers, or volunteers.
It seemed no matter where he went, he was never safe.
Breaking through Amity's block, finally getting the attention of older actual heroes, who jumped to help them, the Ecto-Acts proving to be false claims upheld by the now debunk and dismantled G.I.W.
Danny should have been safe now, should have been able to continue with his life a little easier now…
Instead he found himself snatched up and placed with a family that were pure strangers, far from his home and the now shut-downed portal, his parents arrested and waiting a trial, and Jazz barred from seeing or knowing his whereabouts and health.
He was trapped in a mansion with rich fruitloops, an anklet bracelet that monitored his health and would trigger an alarm if he went passed the gates.
House arrest with the excuse of it being for his benefit, the Justice League saying that there was still Agents out there looking for him, families from Amity realizing that most of the damage to their town was his own family’s fault and they couldn’t get to his parents as easy as they could get to him, then they threw in concerns of his health.
With the portal closed, he would have to rely on environmental ecto, so low ecto meant low power usage, he was practical malnourished, overstressed, overworked, underweight, a list that was more like a novel by the time the doctor got through with his examination.
It all came together in one big warm shit pie.
He just needed to wait this out…wait for his parents verdict…wait for his health to get better…wait till Jazz was allowed to get in touch with him…wait…all he can do is wait…
For now, he was going to get breakfast and hide away from the rest of the residents of the Manor.
Gotham was blessed and cursed with an abundance of ecto just floating around, enough to aid his healing and health…not enough to restore the levels he needed to regain his full strength and powers though.
Even with the filter he created to concentrate the ambient ecto into a pick me up drink, he wasn’t gaining health as fast has he liked to.
Speaking of his filter, the contraption sat next to Tim’s near worshiped coffee pot, granted it was built out of refurbished carbonated soda stream, so it didn’t look too out of place in the kitchen. And luckily it seemed the only person up right now was Alfred, the older man smiling gently at him as Danny grabbed his thermos to fill it up for the day.
“It’s good to see you up and about.”
“Just filling up for the day before heading back to my room.”
“Of course, as usual, rest is good for your health but so is social interaction.”
Ah...that was a…hint…wasn’t it…he guessed he has to fill the social quota himself before the others decided to do it themselves.
I like this. question is is it a case of Danny not realizing how bad his life had been? Or things weren't so bad and the Justice League overacted? could be both.
Actually Let's look at this from the Justice League's perspective. There had been multiple world ending level Entities that were coming through a portal made by Mad scientists. Said scientist opened the portal for the purpose of studying, torturing, and killing those entities that otherwise would have left earth alone. The only ones that were trying to stop those entities was the son of Those scientists that nearly died (in their perspective half alive equals alive) from the parents lab and had been exposed to the dangerous chemicals and weapons in that lab for years. The older sister knew of all of it. There is a god father the kid has already testified that has tried to kill his family, tried to kidnap him, elegaly rigged an election and has hired infinate realms entities to attack the kid.
the list goes on, but for the league members this is a horror situation. Those who are parents especially are horrified.
anyway there are better writers then me I can tagg. @arzuera @bianca-hooks123 @bloggerspam @bluerosefox @clockwayswrites @confusedshades @chaos-bringer-13 @dragonsrequiem @emacrow @evilminji @flamingpudding @fightmebissh @ghostbsuter @hypewinter @help-itrappedmyself @hdgnj @hello-eden @im-totally-not-an-alien-2 @jedipirateking @kizzer55555 @menolly5600 @myreputatioooon @ourrechte-blog @phantom-0-writer @puppetmaster13u @rboooks @raynewolferune @radiance1 @starlightcat04 @sistertotheknowitall @starwrighter @stormikitty @virgamsysxvolumes @woodland-gremlin @zylev-blog @zeestarfishalien
The batfam is now convinced that Danny is planning to kill himself (not the case) and has suddenly become extremely insistent on having someone in the room with him at all times. This only annoys Danny even more as he attempts to escape social interaction with a bunch of rich fruit loops.
Maybe he isn’t planning to kill himself, per se, but it’s likely that suddenly going from an ecto rich environment to a severe drought would have some pretty bad health ramifications. It could be that Danny is now dying all the way now, and he’s just accepted the fact. Kinda hard to fear death when you already know exactly what’s in store for you. A lifetime in the Zone. It’s a little earlier than he planned, but that just means he has more time to prepare a space for when Jazz and his partners join him later.
Even worse the more he uses energy the harder it is to get back so now instead of like a sled ride down a hill it's a full on nose dive to death, which just annoys him more.
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It seemed no matter where he went, he was never safe.
Breaking through Amity's block, finally getting the attention of older actual heroes, who jumped to help them, the Ecto-Acts proving to be false claims upheld by the now debunk and dismantled G.I.W.
Danny should have been safe now, should have been able to continue with his life a little easier now…
Instead he found himself snatched up and placed with a family that were pure strangers, far from his home and the now shut-downed portal, his parents arrested and waiting a trial, and Jazz barred from seeing or knowing his whereabouts and health.
He was trapped in a mansion with rich fruitloops, an anklet bracelet that monitored his health and would trigger an alarm if he went passed the gates.
House arrest with the excuse of it being for his benefit, the Justice League saying that there was still Agents out there looking for him, families from Amity realizing that most of the damage to their town was his own family’s fault and they couldn’t get to his parents as easy as they could get to him, then they threw in concerns of his health.
With the portal closed, he would have to rely on environmental ecto, so low ecto meant low power usage, he was practical malnourished, overstressed, overworked, underweight, a list that was more like a novel by the time the doctor got through with his examination.
It all came together in one big warm shit pie.
He just needed to wait this out…wait for his parents verdict…wait for his health to get better…wait till Jazz was allowed to get in touch with him…wait…all he can do is wait…
For now, he was going to get breakfast and hide away from the rest of the residents of the Manor.
Gotham was blessed and cursed with an abundance of ecto just floating around, enough to aid his healing and health…not enough to restore the levels he needed to regain his full strength and powers though.
Even with the filter he created to concentrate the ambient ecto into a pick me up drink, he wasn’t gaining health as fast has he liked to.
Speaking of his filter, the contraption sat next to Tim’s near worshiped coffee pot, granted it was built out of refurbished carbonated soda stream, so it didn’t look too out of place in the kitchen. And luckily it seemed the only person up right now was Alfred, the older man smiling gently at him as Danny grabbed his thermos to fill it up for the day.
“It’s good to see you up and about.”
“Just filling up for the day before heading back to my room.”
“Of course, as usual, rest is good for your health but so is social interaction.”
Ah...that was a…hint…wasn’t it…he guessed he has to fill the social quota himself before the others decided to do it themselves.
I like this. question is is it a case of Danny not realizing how bad his life had been? Or things weren't so bad and the Justice League overacted? could be both.
Actually Let's look at this from the Justice League's perspective. There had been multiple world ending level Entities that were coming through a portal made by Mad scientists. Said scientist opened the portal for the purpose of studying, torturing, and killing those entities that otherwise would have left earth alone. The only ones that were trying to stop those entities was the son of Those scientists that nearly died (in their perspective half alive equals alive) from the parents lab and had been exposed to the dangerous chemicals and weapons in that lab for years. The older sister knew of all of it. There is a god father the kid has already testified that has tried to kill his family, tried to kidnap him, elegaly rigged an election and has hired infinate realms entities to attack the kid.
the list goes on, but for the league members this is a horror situation. Those who are parents especially are horrified.
anyway there are better writers then me I can tagg. @arzuera @bianca-hooks123 @bloggerspam @bluerosefox @clockwayswrites @confusedshades @chaos-bringer-13 @dragonsrequiem @emacrow @evilminji @flamingpudding @fightmebissh @ghostbsuter @hypewinter @help-itrappedmyself @hdgnj @hello-eden @im-totally-not-an-alien-2 @jedipirateking @kizzer55555 @menolly5600 @myreputatioooon @ourrechte-blog @phantom-0-writer @puppetmaster13u @rboooks @raynewolferune @radiance1 @starlightcat04 @sistertotheknowitall @starwrighter @stormikitty @virgamsysxvolumes @woodland-gremlin @zylev-blog @zeestarfishalien
The batfam is now convinced that Danny is planning to kill himself (not the case) and has suddenly become extremely insistent on having someone in the room with him at all times. This only annoys Danny even more as he attempts to escape social interaction with a bunch of rich fruit loops.
I wanna know when the batfam learns Danny's perspective, how they learn it, and how they react. And is this a "no reveal" or an identify revealed" fic? Assuming the default identities outed, are they outed before or after they discover Danny considers himself a prisoner and doesn't trust them because they're rich? And will he be mad? Resigned?
I know if anyone else does anything else for this they'll probably use the miscommunication trope in spades since it's popular but personally it just frustrates me so I'll skip that.
How do they react to the news that their efforts are basically accomplishing the opposite of their intentions? Are they trying to help a new brother settle in or trying to protect and look after what they see as a victim?
What happens after everyone is on the same page? Do they help him see or at least talk to his sister?
It seemed no matter where he went, he was never safe.
Breaking through Amity's block, finally getting the attention of older actual heroes, who jumped to help them, the Ecto-Acts proving to be false claims upheld by the now debunk and dismantled G.I.W.
Danny should have been safe now, should have been able to continue with his life a little easier now…
Instead he found himself snatched up and placed with a family that were pure strangers, far from his home and the now shut-downed portal, his parents arrested and waiting a trial, and Jazz barred from seeing or knowing his whereabouts and health.
He was trapped in a mansion with rich fruitloops, an anklet bracelet that monitored his health and would trigger an alarm if he went passed the gates.
House arrest with the excuse of it being for his benefit, the Justice League saying that there was still Agents out there looking for him, families from Amity realizing that most of the damage to their town was his own family’s fault and they couldn’t get to his parents as easy as they could get to him, then they threw in concerns of his health.
With the portal closed, he would have to rely on environmental ecto, so low ecto meant low power usage, he was practical malnourished, overstressed, overworked, underweight, a list that was more like a novel by the time the doctor got through with his examination.
It all came together in one big warm shit pie.
He just needed to wait this out…wait for his parents verdict…wait for his health to get better…wait till Jazz was allowed to get in touch with him…wait…all he can do is wait…
For now, he was going to get breakfast and hide away from the rest of the residents of the Manor.
Gotham was blessed and cursed with an abundance of ecto just floating around, enough to aid his healing and health…not enough to restore the levels he needed to regain his full strength and powers though.
Even with the filter he created to concentrate the ambient ecto into a pick me up drink, he wasn’t gaining health as fast has he liked to.
Speaking of his filter, the contraption sat next to Tim’s near worshiped coffee pot, granted it was built out of refurbished carbonated soda stream, so it didn’t look too out of place in the kitchen. And luckily it seemed the only person up right now was Alfred, the older man smiling gently at him as Danny grabbed his thermos to fill it up for the day.
“It’s good to see you up and about.”
“Just filling up for the day before heading back to my room.”
“Of course, as usual, rest is good for your health but so is social interaction.”
Ah...that was a…hint…wasn’t it…he guessed he has to fill the social quota himself before the others decided to do it themselves.
I like this. question is is it a case of Danny not realizing how bad his life had been? Or things weren't so bad and the Justice League overacted? could be both.
Actually Let's look at this from the Justice League's perspective. There had been multiple world ending level Entities that were coming through a portal made by Mad scientists. Said scientist opened the portal for the purpose of studying, torturing, and killing those entities that otherwise would have left earth alone. The only ones that were trying to stop those entities was the son of Those scientists that nearly died (in their perspective half alive equals alive) from the parents lab and had been exposed to the dangerous chemicals and weapons in that lab for years. The older sister knew of all of it. There is a god father the kid has already testified that has tried to kill his family, tried to kidnap him, elegaly rigged an election and has hired infinate realms entities to attack the kid.
the list goes on, but for the league members this is a horror situation. Those who are parents especially are horrified.
anyway there are better writers then me I can tagg. @arzuera @bianca-hooks123 @bloggerspam @bluerosefox @clockwayswrites @confusedshades @chaos-bringer-13 @dragonsrequiem @emacrow @evilminji @flamingpudding @fightmebissh @ghostbsuter @hypewinter @help-itrappedmyself @hdgnj @hello-eden @im-totally-not-an-alien-2 @jedipirateking @kizzer55555 @menolly5600 @myreputatioooon @ourrechte-blog @phantom-0-writer @puppetmaster13u @rboooks @raynewolferune @radiance1 @starlightcat04 @sistertotheknowitall @starwrighter @stormikitty @virgamsysxvolumes @woodland-gremlin @zylev-blog @zeestarfishalien
The batfam is now convinced that Danny is planning to kill himself (not the case) and has suddenly become extremely insistent on having someone in the room with him at all times. This only annoys Danny even more as he attempts to escape social interaction with a bunch of rich fruit loops.
the amendment that "ended" slavery specifically left permission for slave labor as punishment for convinced criminals and our inmates have been legally exploited ever since, yes
thhis polll is nuts to me bc in 2020 during the portland wildfires and the pre vaccine era of the pandemic, i tried to sign up for a "mutual aid n95 giveaway" list, via my twitter account, and they banned me for having an anime girl pfp (it was rakka from haibane renmei) and having a locked account (i had a job and was closeted). i messaged them like "is there any way i can appeal this?" and they said "no" because apparently my anime girl icon and locked account meant i was either "fash or a creep or both." anyway they approved my roommates so they both got n95s but didn't share them with me. because i had an anime girl icon on twitter and didn't want my boss to find out i was trans.
anyway you all are going to get people killed (mostly trans women, bc we all know who suffers the most from pedojacketing). fuck off if you voted either of the top two options
Danny, while experimenting with his shapeshifting (ecto changes form depending on intent and he's half alive so), got stuck in a form.
Then he got caught by a sleezy freakshow/circus owner.
The form he's stuck in is a merman form. But it's not, like, a typical merman form.
He'd been trying to see if he could reshape his ecto while he was in human form, and he had! But he'd also gotten overenthusiastic in experimenting, added too many features unique to his ghost form, and now he can't shift into either form.
Human or ghost.
He's stuck.
He's stuck as a merman with his human features, his ghost-form eye color (it glows), his human form hair (tinted with glowing green-ish white), deep blue scales on his tail that fade into that seem glowing greenish white, and fully functional gills.
He also cannot use his ghost powers. He knows that they're there, but for some reason his current form will not allow their usage. Maybe...maybe he's using too much ghost energy to keep up the transformation?
Regardless, he got captured by some sleezeball and thrown into a traveling freakshow. Highly illegal, and he's slowly losing hope that he'll be able to escape, because he just. Can't. Shift. Back!
Then the sleezeball makes a stupid mistake; he puts the freakshow up in Metropolis.
Danny goes to sleep one day closer to a mental breakdown.
Danny wakes up to Superman floating in front of his tank, in the process of restraining Aquaman from quite literally murdering the sleezeball.
After a moment, Superman took over "restraining" the circus sleezeball, much to Danny's disappointment, and Aquaman came over to see Danny. Danny wasn't in the worst shape, but he certainly wasn't in good shape either. He was literally the only thing in the tank, it was too much of a hassle for the sleezeball to clean, and he clearly had no idea what kind of food to feed a merman. Really, it was the few kinder more human members of the circus that prevented Danny from going septic or starving.
Aquaman's mouth was opening and closing like he was trying to speak, but Danny actually couldn't hear anything through the glass. He tried to signal that, even tried to talk himself to get the point across, and it seemed to work. He seemed to get it and found the opening at the top of the tank.
Danny came up to him so he wouldn't try to get into the water, and sure enough, Aquaman frowned in disgust at the state of Danny's water. He looked at Danny and said something in a language Danny didn't recognize.
"Sorry, I don't know what that means?"
"I see." Aquaman's face fell in utter devastation. "That's alright. We'll get you out of here and back to the ocean in no time."
Danny tilted his head to the side. "I'm not from the ocean?"
Aquaman looked Danny up and down, from his hair to his tail and seemed to notice something off. "No?"
"Pulled him out of Lake Eerie." Slzeeze personified shouted from where Superman had him. "That means he ain't yours, king of the ocean, so you can't take him!"
Superman twisted the guy's arm to shut him up, which Danny appreciated.
"Ah of course! The Great Lake Tribes." Aquaman nodded, "That's why you didn't understand Atlantean. I was worried you'd been captive your whole life."
Danny kinda shrugged and maybe cringed, because that was kinda debatable. He wasn't part of some merfolk lake tribe, and he had technically been captive almost the entire time he's been stuck as a merman.
Danny didn't want to ask for their help with ghost stuff -he's pretty sure being a ghost is at least a little illegal and the Justice League was at least partially under government control- but if they took him to Lake Erie and he didn't know whatever underwater language they spoke, he might have to come clean about being a ghost anyway. But, it'll probably take them a while to get him over the the Great Lakes, so if he can figure out how to transform again before then, he'll be fine! What's the worst that could happen?
Arthur watched the boy swim around one of the pools at the Hall of Justice specifically designed for Atlantean guests. He was grateful that horrible circus stopped in Matropolis so they could get Danny into a better place almost immediately. A few days and he was already doing much better with clean water, real Atlantean food that doesn't fall apart in water, plenty of space to swim freely, and a small artificial reef to play, hide, and sleep in. Danny was gaining weight, his skin looked less sick, his scales became more vibrant, and his clumsy swimming was getting better. But that was the thing wasn't it? Little details that confirmed Arthur's worst suspicions: Danny has spent his entire life on land.
Danny never confirmed he was from the lake-folk, he simply never said otherwise and Arthur could see the look on his face at the assumption. So, he sent Kaldur to the Great Lakes ahead of them to ask around. Arthur doesn't expect there to be a missing person matching Danny in the least; he questioned it the moment it was even implied. Bioluminescence is a rare trait, less than a fraction of a percent in the ocean people, and he's personally never heard of it manifesting in a lake-folk. Erie is the smallest and shallowest of the Great Lakes therefore having the smallest population and it would be easy to notice someone missing, bioluminescent or not, there would be public record of it. That bastard Benedict Showenhower lied about where he got Danny, likely to hide that he actually got the adolescent from, uhg, "fish" trafficking.
Danny doesn't talk much about anything before being "caught" by Showenhower. He mentioned that his parents were scientists, but didn't say what kind. What names he gave for his friends and family were all human names. even Arthur recognized they're not lake-folk. Arthur doesn't point any of it out, he wants to wait for the right moment, when Danny's strong enough to talk about a life he's trying so hard to hide.
And when Kaldur came with his report, of course it confirmed their suspicions. He and Arthur sat on the lip of Danny's pool with the boy bobbing in the water, a courtesy so he can hear them. ...Danny knows no underwater language.
"No one has been bioluminescent in the Great Lakes for eight generations." Kaldur simply stated. "And there are no other missing person reports that match Danny's age."
Danny sank slightly in the water, the action of a child caught in a lie.
Arthur spoke softly, "Danny, do you know for certain where you came from?"
"We're not upset or angry at being lied to." Kaldur added, "You won't be in any trouble, we just want to help get you home."
Danny flinched for some reason, he looked like he was bout to dive. Yes, they were faster than him, but this isn't something they could chase him down and make him talk about.
"I can't." Danny's voice was so quiet, they wouldn't have heard it if not for the echo surface water causes.
"Can't?" Arthur prompted and Danny started sobbing.
"I'm not- I was human-" His words were hard to make out, but Arthur got enough of them. "parent's big experiment" "illegal but fun" "stuck like this" "can't go home or they'll kill me".
Arthur knew it would be bad, but he didn't think it was this bad. Many humans have tried to make artificial merfolk for their own selfish desires. It is as illegal as illegal gets, both on land and in water and almost always ended in death. Arthur dropped into the water and pulled Danny into a tight hug and promised no one was ever going to hurt him again.
What Danny actually said, but he's been stressed out for the past couple years months so it doesn't come out quite right: I messed with my parents’ big experiment, and died, and being a ghost is illegal but kinda fun, so I was experimenting with shape shifting and got stuck like this, I can’t go home or they’ll know I’m a ghost and hate me, and there's this whole thing with a government-ish agency who will kill me if given the chance
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look. I never questioned the admonition "don't write a disabled character that gets suddenly cured by the end," but didn't truly understand it either.
Then I watched an episode of a popular '70s show where a woman suffers an accident that leaves her blind. By the end of the episode—and abstractly through the power of love—she can see again! No ongoing medical treatment, no miracle, just love! And that was normal writing, on TV, for adults. Disabilities existed for plot and then magically went away to get a happy ending. Because, of course, being disabled means you can't have a happy ending, and gee wouldn't it just be so hard on the abled character who loves you if you were blind all the time? unbelievable
So for anyone else who isn't sure if this is a hard and fast rule or if there's nuance, maybe knowing how not to write it will help.
according to An Immense World, apparently giant squid eyes are, like, UNREASONABLY large, even for something their size living at those depths. the next largest eyes on earth, blue whale eyes, are less than half the size, and swordfish, who live at similar depths as giant squid and have the largest eyes of any fish, have eyes that could fit inside a giant squid's pupil.
eyes hit serious diminishing returns wrt resource costs vs vision quality as they get bigger, so the question became: what the FUCK do giant (and colossal) squid need to see so badly that they couldn't see with swordfish-sized eyes that's justifying that massive energy cost? that nothing else in the deep ocean needs to see so fucking badly??
turns out the one strength eyes that big really have over much smaller eyes is: seeing large glowing objects in water deeper than 500 meters from an appreciable distance.
sperm whales are the primary predator of giant squid. sperm whales don't glow. BUT! water that deep is full of bioluminescent creatures-- these creatures light up when bumped into. something a sperm whale's size is continuously bumping into those critters, it's just surrounded by a glowing field all the time when it's swimming at those depths, visible from a distance-- if you have the right eyes-- as a massive glowing shape. so basically the only reason to have eyes the size of soccer balls is if you live in the deep ocean and your life depends on having a heads up when a hungry sperm whale lurking around
and also I gotta say, the imagery... the huge lurking threat betrayed only by the ambiguous glowing shape of its movements through the water, is really evocative, if spooky deep-sea games aren't already using that to make things extremely ominous then they should really start
Had a friend express worry that Eliot Spencer gets injured so often in leverage and I had to reassure them: no no. U dont get it his old job was "getting the shit beat out of you constantly for the sake of people who dont care if u live or die," and then afterward he had to drag himself home, patch himself up, and do it all over again tomorrow. NOW he gets minor cuts and bruises (usually), and the moment the job is done his whole clingy crime family gets to go "oh that looks like it hurts let's get you some bacitracin and bruise cream!! Do you wanna cook dinner to feel better?" And then they all make sure he is never in any true mortal danger and he always gets a say in what he does for the job. This is like a working dog who got house privileges and now enjoys fat naps in front of the fire and fancy wet food after his long day guarding the flock. Hes doing great actually.
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Was about to fall asleep and apropos of nothing was struck out of nowhere by a horrible future vision of a brightly-lit and saccharine 3D-AI Calvin and Hobbes movie with Scarlet Johanssen voicing the mom and Chris Pratt voicing Hobbes and experienced an emotional haptic jerk so chilling I feel like I just foresaw my own death
"I don't want some animation studio giving Hobbes an actor's voice, and I don't want some greeting card company using Calvin to wish people a happy anniversary, and I don't want the issue of Hobbes's reality settled by a doll manufacturer. When everything fun and magical is turned into something for sale, the strip's world is diminished. 'Calvin and Hobbes' was designed to be a comic strip and that's all I want it to be. It's the one place where everything works the way I intend it to"
This was in the 1990's, pre-AI, pre- Chris Pratt, pre- Cinematic Universes, and if he was opposed to it then, he sure as hell wouldn't be okay with it now.
I think he probably experienced the same nightmare dystopian vision of the future you saw, but fortunately he had it like 40 years earlier.
For anyone who's curious about the source of the above quote, it's from the beginning section of the Tenth Anniversary book.
It's not only a fascinating look into the creative process, but also details just how hard Watterson fought for the freedom to do more within the limitations of newspaper layouts, why the earlier Sunday strips had to have throwaway jokes on the top line, how he kept pushing to change that, and the way some of those fights ended up being mirrored in the strips themselves sometimes out of frustration. Just a really great read.
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