#icthyosapien

If you're tagged in this, it's because I follow you and think you might be able to help! If I haven't tagged you, feel free to offer advice anyway!

So, I've been wanting to get into comic books for ages, but every time I go into a comic shop I get totally overwhelmed by the selection. There are so many different comics and they're all different issues and I never have any idea where to start. Thus, I leave empty-handed.

I just wondered if any of the more experienced comic-readers out there have any advice? I mean, where do you start? Which comics are good and easy to get into? Do I need to look for older issues or just pick up with the latest? How does anyone ever get started?

Any help from anyone would be so appreciated that you can't even imagine! I feel kinda silly for asking but hopefully someone will take pity on my hungry soul.

Thank you, everyone. ; ; I'm just going to...stash it all under a cut so I don't overrun people's dashboards.

(Also the formatting might be terrible, apologies in advance.)

icthyosapien said: Vent away, bb! *HUG*

tidbitsandthingamajigs said: aww I’m sorry to hear that. I made cookies :<

  elleblr asked you:  2011-08-02 12:53 Either cry, or get angry. Both work. Failing that, I'm here for venting at. :)

ofminorstature said: sorry you’ve had such a rough day ;A; good luck feeding the rage into your drawings~ <3 <3 <3

allthechantry replied:

(+ more beautiful gifs from Jen and Shy) You guys are awesome, and I love you all. <3 For the sake of just getting it out, I'll go ahead and...vent as to what just happened. (with lack of grammar because I pretty much typed this out in a furious rage in a message window)

there are a lot of factors into this, including that I've been kind of on edge lately and my temper gauge seems to be lower than ever

but my stepdad is very much of the dudebro mentality and he seems to especially enjoy continuing on specific actions he knows are pissing me off right up until the moment I explode and freak out a little, then I look like the bad guy

okay, let me...let me try to explain because this has been going on for a while

he keeps using 'that's gay' in a negative context, and while I understand that a lot of people do this and I hear it all the time, I have told him countless times that I'm not okay with it and could he knock that shit off at least when he's around me

and he says yeah sure whatever but then he keeps doing it

and he has the tendency to go 'WHAT, <THAT THING YOU MENTIONED YOU HATED THAT YOU WISH I DIDN'T SAY>?' whenever I tell him to stop talking or doing something

like YES, YOU HEARD ME, YOU SHOULD NOT HAVE TO REPEAT IT FOR THE SAKE OF DOING IT AGAIN

and on some occasions he will keep doing it because he thinks it's funny, not 'that's gay' specifically, but other stuff

but today he did it again and I just...my voice rose with 'QUIT IT' until I literally screamed at him

and Mom came in and there was this really stupid moment of her telling me it's cool I have convictions and all that, but I don't need to be so violent about my point? And I said NO, I DO, because he NEVER EVER LISTENS TO ME and I am goddamn tired of trying to be polite in reminders

and then she countered with "well you know Joel (one of her coworkers who is gay) says that kind of thing all the time, and he doesn't mind it when others do it, so that's not the same for everyone"

except I REALLY MIND IT and I didn't say that much because I was already feeling kind of strung out about it

then there was that really sick moment I had where I felt like the next thing one of them was going to say was, "why are you so bothered? are YOU gay?"

(for the record I am pansexual, but neither of them know this)

and I just had to get up and leave, so I went to my room

except Mom followed after me and said, "You're not mad at us, are you? You don't have to leave, you know, come out and be a family--"

NO. I'M NOT MAD. I'M FINE. REALLY. I'M FINE.

I love my mom and she's a lot more openminded than a lot of parents I know but FUCK.

it just feels like it's along the same guidelines as when they've accused me of being too sensitive about shit before, which I'll agree that I've lost my temper on some pretty small and inconsequential things

and they've said they'll work on not saying such things around me, "but it's hard, you know?"

yes I get that it's hard

but it doesn't change the fact that I still feel like shit when people look at me like I'm being weird/too loud/crazy for asking that to STOP

So I chilled out in my room for about an hour, maybe a little longer, and when I finally meandered back out, my stepdad was off...doing whatever, and Mom stopped me in the kitchen to tell me she wasn't upset because of my telling him to stop, she was upset that I felt the need to yell.

Because I'm smarter than that, and people who don't have my kind of intelligence try to win arguments by being louder than the other person, which is apparently what I tried to do.

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