Tomato pie: what am I? Not good enough to dis?

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Global warming has ruined the harvest

Yeah, sorry, that’s a fake. The image doesn’t fit the actual shirt

It varies between publishers. The big three have their contact info on their sites somewhere, though I’ve never submitted anything to them at all, so that’s as far as I can help in that regard.

But, in general, you do what you did here. You give a synopsis of your concept, be it a character or story for a specific character, then you polish it a bit for grammar, get it down to as short a length as possible without losing the “vibe”. Most publishers of anything want it a few paragraphs, but any less tends to not really carry enough info to matter.

You’ll have to submit in writing via the process of the company because you won’t make a good impression trying to pitch anyone anything by walking up to them at a con. The times I’ve seen that happen, you can visibly see people tense up and put on their “business” smile. They get it a lot, and they have tight schedules at those events, so if they’re relaxing and having a casual conversation, they need to unwind for a bit. So follow the process to give yourself a realistic chance.

Now, if you’re an established writer with an agent, you let them do the hard part of getting the idea in front of someone that can make it happen. But I suspect that’s not the case here. And you wouldn’t really want to try and get an agent without more than just an idea. Hell, they’re harder to get on board than a publisher in some ways. It’s why I self publish.

Expect rejection. Even a great idea has to fit the plans of what the head person has planned. Like, if a publisher is doing a big event line-wide, you aren’t likely to get a new idea in their heads until the busiest work of that is done.

Also expect that you aren’t getting paid much, if anything. You almost certainly won’t get hired as a writer at a big publisher. So you’ll be handing the idea off to a pro if there’s interest. Comic writing is actually pretty specialized, and collaborative. I’ve only ever done it with one-off stuff at an amateur level as a hobby thing, and it’s a challenge. Never saw print, it was just some exchanges online with an artist that wanted to, essentially, practice. Fan-fic level stuff.

There’s resources that can help at writer’s guilds/associations, so it might be worth looking that kind of thing up as well.

Fwiw, I think it would be worth trying. The idea really is excellent overall, and has aspects that similar concepts that have seen print lack. There’s been some sorta-kinda similar Hulk stories, as an example. And there’s an X-Men character that has to wear a containment suit that I think had a kidnapping to be weaponized story back decades ago. But the way you set it up, as a victim being used is brilliant. It’s something I would absolutely want to pick up if I saw it in a comic shop

Sorry, but you’ve obviously not read the discworld stuff, or at least not enough, nor things about the author.

In this case, what you’re seeing is a humorous take that is one of many tidbits about various animals, and is no more or less inaccurate than some of the dogs in the stories. Everything in discworld is a little rough around the edges because of the society he’s mimicking. The two main cats in his books, Maurice and Greebo (pictured in the post) both save the day quite capably.

Death, a major character in the series, is a known cat lover that takes a dim view of anyone harming cats. Which is more indicative of the author’s real views than an out of context quote from a work of fiction.

Greebo looking terrifying

Totally ;)

It’s not a literal trap, it just looks similar to a deadfall trap, well baited with beer and wood

You know, if you don’t specify that you’re wanting help on restaurant food, you’re going to keep getting generalized answers focused on food safety you can directly control

My wife. She ratchet as fuck, and I love her socket.

That’s there to get a snort from her if she comes across this :)

Legit, my grandmother and grandfather got me a damn good craftsman set back before craftsman turned to shit. That was in the early nineties, and shit is still shiny and everything works perfectly.

Except that damn 10mm, which has been replaced a dozen times.

I’m tempted to pass this one by because it’s so damn self congratulating.

But it isn’t an unpopular opinion, it’s too common for that.

And it’s not really accurate in the way you present it.

It’s a numbers game. If 90% of people are assholes (and that’s a low estimate), then the more people in a given group, the more assholes are present.

But, if the group is started by people that fled to avoid assholes that also weren’t mostly assholes, you get a period of leeway where assholery is very low. That period passed maybe a year and a half ago, +/- six months.

Since then. The numbers have gone up and the game is shifting towards the usual assholery.

Ngl, I’m not sure I want to lean against walls either. Public toilets rarely have lids, and even less often are they used when they do have them. So you’ve got the usual aerosolized poo water landing everywhere.

But I agree that good hand washing fixes half of the problem. The half being trying to aim a penis one handed, then zip up one handed too. I can aim one handed, not so much the zipping lol.

Truth be told though, the types of pathogens involved are fairly low, and they don’t all survive well on hard surfaces. But they aren’t non existent, and the ones that will transfer that way tend to be the worse ones. Enough so that I don’t blame anyone for being upset at a pissy seat, much less a crappy crapper.

Early on, I had to learn that the traditional idea of masculinity was not only not the only one, but that we’re all free to pick and choose who we are, and then pick our own labels too.

For real, weeding out the toxic crap from the good parts of traditional masculinity that work for me has been the work of a lifetime, even though I had the realization that masculinity and femininity weren’t polar opposites, just notches on a radial spectrum beginning in my tweens (such revelations can be slow in blooming).

For me? The first step was owning my own body via hair. First by ridding myself of it, going with a crew cut because I liked how it looked. Then growing it out because I liked the way it looked more. Two extremes, and they served as parentheses for the essence of my journey into adulthood and manhood.

Hell, in my damn forties, after not only years of fighting over my hair, but accepting that I had to keep my beard a certain way, then becoming disabled in my thirties, I realized I could do whatever the fuck I want with my hair, my body, and my self. So I went full Grizzly Adams, then full Alan Moore lol.

And it’s all back to that essence of rooting out the idea that my masculinity isn’t my own to define. That my body is mine, and not subject to the arbitrary ideals of others.

That’s actually a great idea.

Two flaws for putting it into practice, one of which widdershins already brought up. Fifty miles is way bigger than you’d think. Manhattan is only 13ish miles long. So, like widdershins said, he doesn’t need to go to jail you sicken everyone inside it, just be in the general vicinity.

Secondly, in terms of actually writing the story for a comic, it being a universe ending spell isn’t really going to fly. Not enough room to work, based on stuff the editors and writers have said over the years about threat scaling. Not that universal scale threats aren’t a thing, just that it’s hard to reuse the character in any meaningful way. It becomes a one-off trick. Not that that’s a bad thing overall, but it terms of convincing someone to write it for a major publisher like Marvel, they’d likely want it to be a bit smaller scale, where it “just” unleashes a wave of disease that spreads across earth.

Mind you, I haven’t gone to a con and bullshitted with anyone in the industry in ages now, so maybe that’s off. I know that Didio in specific would have a similar objection based on stuff he said in conversation.

Legit though, it’s a brilliant idea. It’s worth maybe plotting out and pitching, if you have the patience for that kind of thing

Yo! Bif Naked ftw!

Been a fan since the Buffy appearance lol.

It supposedly has an edge in terms of pulling out oils in particular.

My problem is that, as you said, it’s harder to find, and I have a limitation in what I can use to begin with.

I can’t say, when I have used a powder vs a liquid in the past that the difference is so significant that I would bother to hunt down a powder that also fits my niche needs. But if you’re not limited, I would say it’s worth it on average

You know the one-onehundred counting thing that approximates a second? Just say/think the word one, it approximates a quarter second.

As a reminder to passersby, there are actually people that can’t balance on one foot at all. Or even lift it that far.

For them what have need to cope with this and no choice about needing to sit.

A small baggie with some surface wipes and some gloves will fit in most pockets with ease. Ideal, no. But it’ll get you by for a non optional visit to a public (or badly kept private) toilet

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