Chrissy

Fangirl, librarian, mommy - not always in that order. I like a lot of things. I will probably mention them all eventually. Co-host of @fiveishfangirls.

[Chrissy @wildcat_media]

My brothers and sisters in Christ, I write five-page essays for FUNSIES. No technopunk dystopian overlord required.

And I'm well past the days of being graded on my written output. I do it for the love of the game.

[Dudes Posting Their W’s @DudespostingWs]

The kids today have no idea

[Kristen @KristenstucknMA]

@TRHLofficial

[Chrissy @wildcat_media]

@BradRTorgersen I played sports in high school. I was never going to be scouted for an athletic college scholarship, but I loved the competition and camaraderie of being on a team.

Protecting girls' and women's sports is a hill I am willing to die on.

[Chrissy @wildcat_media]

@monsterhunter45 For an ideological club that sneers at traditional religion, they sure are committed to their own religious purity and doggedly persecuting their heretics.

Nah, religion is too nice a word for the left. Cult is more like it.

[Chrissy @wildcat_media]

@japan_nobunaga My family and I got to meet Lt. Halvorsen when he spoke at our church’s Christmas party some years ago. He was such a wonderful man - he was especially sweet to our then-2yo son.

Highly recommend the book “The Candy Bomber” by Michael Tunnel about Lt. Halvorsen and the airlift

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Activist: "Farmers are millionaires sitting on land worth a fortune. They can afford the inheritance tax."

Farmer: "How much did I earn last year?"

Activist: "I don't know. A lot, surely."

Farmer: "Twenty-two thousand. Before the tractor broke."

Activist: "But the land's worth millions."

Farmer: "On paper. I can't eat the field or spend it. The only way to turn it into money is to sell it, and then I'm not a farmer, I'm a bloke who used to have a farm."

Activist: "So sell a corner of it."

Farmer: "A corner doesn't work as a farm. You can't run a suckler herd on the bit that's left after the taxman's had his slice. You sell one field, then the next bill comes, then another field. It ends one way."

Activist: "The land only costs that much because you won't sell it."

Farmer: "It costs that much because a hedge fund three counties over wants it for carbon credits and a footballer wants it for the view. Neither of them has ever calved a cow at three in the morning. They set the price. I get the bill."

Activist: "It's still an asset."

Farmer: "It's a workplace that happens to be expensive. You've decided the value of the shop is the same as the wage of the shopkeeper. Come back in February and watch me not be a millionaire in the rain."

[Chrissy @wildcat_media]

My grandpa raised sheep pretty much his whole life.

He often said that sheep are so stupid that they die for fun.

When you’ve actually raised the damn things, the parables about sheep in the Bible take on a very different tone.

[Chrissy @wildcat_media]

@desert_starr_57 Dammit, who let the onion-cutting ninjas in here? 🥲

[Chrissy @wildcat_media]

Such a cool display from Tokyo!

If we could have Japan instead of California, the world would be a much better place.

[Open Source Intel @Osint613]

Tokyo fireworks mark 250 years of U.S. independence.

[Larry Correia @monsterhunter45]

So Great White RINO Senator John Curtis has been doing some Walk Across Utah where he’s crossing 250 miles of Utah roads for some reason. Beats me. He even has billboards for it. I don’t know. I can’t stand the guy.
I live off one of these scenic curvy mountain roads on the way to a state park. At dinner last night my wife told me she saw some weird dude walking down our road with a golf cart following him, while she was down getting the mail, and she asks the guy in the cart if they had a fight so you’re making him walk?
Then my son says he saw the same dork with the golf cart following him when he was on his way home from work in a blind corner and had to go around to not run him over.
I said that was a good thing he was paying attention because if he had run him over, that’s our senator, and as much shit as I’ve talked about him the FBI would assume I sent you. :D

[Chrissy @wildcat_media]

Never owned a PlayStation in my life. I have no dog in this particular fight.

This is still a shit move.

Allow me to tap the sign:

[PlayStation @PlayStation]

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[Chrissy @wildcat_media]

#StillMySuperman

[Washingtons ghost @washghost1]

Bros just a normal guy

[Chrissy @wildcat_media]

Saving this for when I next hear someone insist that George is totally gonna finish that series and it’ll be epic!

I’d rather hear it from someone who knows the industry and doesn’t mince words.

[Larry Correia @monsterhunter45]

I’ve been telling people this for years.
GRRM pissed off millions of customers but he don’t give a shit. He got his bag. But his legacy is being such an epic bum ass bum that he crippled an entire genre, ruined consumer sentiment, and killed off an entire generation of epic fantasy authors.

Romantasy and LitRPG grew as a direct result of filling the smoking crater George left in the industry. New writers could no longer get deals to write epic fantasy unless the entire series was in the bag, and nobody can afford to gamble that much time to write that many books they may never sell.

Publishers no longer took chances on new series because customers had got burned by lazy shirkers like George and Pat. Agents wouldn’t represent new epic fantasy unless the whole thing was done. It hurt Indy because dudes had to convince customers that they weren’t bums too. Except when book one makes $50 total, because customers said Im not starting a new series until it’s done! they sure as shit ain’t writing book two. So it’s a self fulfilling prophesy of suck.

In the comments Dunning-Krugerands are saying this isn’t true. Look at guys like Brandon Sanderson. Wrong. Guys like him, or me, who already had established names, reputations, and fan bases were fine. We had enough customers who trusted us we could still do new things and people would come along to make it economically viable.

For example, the only reason my epic fantasy series got picked up is because I was already successful and could guarantee a viable level of sales off my existing fans. Newbs don’t have that. And over the ten years it took for me to write the six books to finish it, the entire time I heard from potential customers, nope, not gonna start a new series that might not finish because of George.

I am fine during this because I’m still gonna make a couple hundred grand off each of those just off my existing fans. Newbs make two bucks an hour, say to hell with being a writer I’m going back to my day job, and you all missed out on the next great author and his absolutely brilliant series, because you were too mad at billionaire George shoving twinkies in his mouth instead of writing.

Nope. Guys like me and Brandon are fine. George’s profound laziness screwed over the new guys. Customers and the industry quit taking chances on new guys. We will never know how many excellent fantasy series we missed out on, robbed by George’s laziness burning so many customers.

Some writers gave up, but others moved into different genres. Which is good. But it sure does suck if epic fantasy is your jam. LitRPG is close but different enough it blew up during this time frame because that’s where the talented went.

Being such a pretentious, bloviating bum that you damage an entire industry and strangle a generation of aspiring artists is quite the legacy.

Kal (who is a good writer btw, check out his books) asks what can we do about this? For me personally I’m just gonna continue mocking George’s work ethic in the hopes more normies realize what an outlier he is, and how they should expand their horizons to read other authors who aren’t stuck up, know it all, dickheads.

And before anybody starts barking at me that I’m such a hypocrite because I’ve not finished all my series, sorry I’ve only finished three of eight so far, and have only written THIRTY books since George’s last one, the next MHI comes out in December, and the last two books are next year, and I’m not planning on retiring anytime soon (if ever).

[Chrissy @wildcat_media]

@japan_nobunaga There has been a concerted effort to emphasize everything bad in our history. We have to apologize for being American because our country isn’t completely perfect 100% of the time. Suggesting America has done anything positive is stupid, and probably bigoted. It’s exhausting.

[Chrissy @wildcat_media]

Reposting, just so I can look at this awesome character art.

Rarely does a mobile game come along that basically consumes my soul, but dammit, this one’s done it.

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[Josh Daws @JoshDaws]

Mary Sue doesn’t need a man to protect her.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

Citizenship is not a coupon.
Belonging is not a download.
A nation is something you are born into,
or something you slowly earn
by becoming it.
It is never something a politician
hands out for votes.

[Chrissy @wildcat_media]

Oh, it bothers me greatly. That's why I drive my own car to get around.

Though I work in a public library and people still do this. Even after I remind them they shouldn't have very loud and very personal conversations where everyone else can hear them.

[めねぎ |Menegi 🇯🇵 @sakebu_cheese_]

アメリカのみなさんこんにちは🌎🇺🇸

日本では電車の中で電話したり大声で話していると、周りから冷たい目で見られることが多いです。

一方、アメリカは通話している人や配信をしている人、踊っている人など、本当にいろいろな人を見かけます。

みんなは、これらに迷惑と感じることはないですか？

[Chrissy @wildcat_media]

That's not a bad comparison.

[That's My Michelle @JamelleMyBelle]

Somebody said that World Cup is just the US having a giant sleepover with the cousins we never see because our parents hate each other. 😂