Comics Workbook is the kind of blog that makes me feel awkward every time I see it on my dash, but I keep forgetting to unfollow it. Reasons it makes me feel uncomfortable:

• it makes comic work look like a trust fund hipster lifestyle choice and not a craft requiring a broad skillset and a truckload of effort
• 90% of what they post (scientific deduction!!!) is hideous
• It’s hideous and it makes me feel bad, for some reason.
• It’s weird knowing that a lot of these people making stuff for that blog look like me, and if I ran across them we’d have a nice conversation. They’d show me their work and it would be incredibly fucking awkward, because their work is an unintentional mockery of everything that matters to me.
• The blog contents are an unintentional mockery of everything that matters to me. Hard work. Effort. Skill. Learning. Storytelling.
• I wish looking at it didn’t make me frown so fucking hard.
• They probably think what I do is as dumb as what they do, which both makes me feel better and worse.
• I don’t want to care about this at all.

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2. tyuran said: I’m just going to tell myself everyone involved is twelve to fourteen years old.
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6. braidcut said: oh-oh no, I actually went to find it and now I feel immense regret
7. polks said: I don’t believe I put half the effort into these things as you do, and that blog /still/ manages to evoke the same feelings from me. It’s not even laughable half the time, just uncomfortable. I find it insulting on a few levels.
8. oxgall said: Wow yeah. I just looked at that tumblr and just— fuckdamn
9. pepperonideluxe said: You need to be big big biggest ever ever seen.
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