greeting , my stalwart stamp - lickers ! Get ready for the dream - crushingest installation of “ Postal Apocalypse ” ever ! It ’s in reality a miracle that this installment got finish , as basically I ’ve been stare atPretty Guardians Golden Girlsfor the last two hours .
Top image : Shutterstock / Ollyy . No , that ’s not me . I do n’t know how to tie a bowtie .
On the Job
Tim B. :
I ’ve now had three of my questions printed in Postal Apocalypse , which my moderately egotistical intellect interpret as at least a small acknowledgment of my power to articulate a viewpoint . I have no fantasy that you pick out my questions to publish makes us buddies or anything of the kind , but I yet hope that you might take the time to answer a question of a more personally significant nature , even though it ’s not at all the type of question that I expect you ’d ever do in your column .
The interrogation essentially is , how can I get to be where you are ? I understand that nerd - blogging really is n’t the most idyllic professing , and I ’m imagine it likely does n’t pay all that well , but I place a much higher value on job satisfaction than money , and I believe that getting paid to partake in my legal opinion about geeky stuff would be a satisfying profession for me . Of course , it would be for a lot of other citizenry too , so that makes for a dauntingly private-enterprise market .
Is there any advice you’re able to give on tell one ’s self above the the great unwashed ? I feel like I have fairly unique viewpoints on some passably big nerd - issue , and also that I can rationally explain why I have them , but none of that matters if nobody reads the unique viewpoints I have . I ’ve written a couple review and stuff on my personal Kinja page , but without being able to publish them to O - Deck ( do you have a go at it anything about how to do that ? ) , I ’m pretty sure nobody ever saw them . I guess the traditional method is to just start save and go for that somebody eventually notices it , but I have a deep distaste for doing thing that are meaningless or strictly academic . If you ’re write an essay for the purpose of sharing an opinion and nobody ever reads it , then the opinion is n’t really being shared , so it is then rendered pointless to have written . eff in advance that there ’s very little prospect people will take something , therefore , lay down me not require to bother writing it .
I would n’t presume you ’ve even get at to translate this far , so if you have , I give thanks you . fundamentally , it get down to this ; are there any tips at all you’re able to give for how to slowly level up in the blogging biz , without feel like I ’m just writing things that no one will ever read , or is that just the mode it is ?
The fashion I bug out my professional committal to writing vocation was by basically finding someone who needed content and offer to do it for free . It was my hometown ’s local alt - hebdomadary newspaper , and fortuitously they did n’t have much money and were felicitous not to make up people , and I did a decent enough line of that they gave me an literal position when one opened up , which I was able to get into a attitude at ToyFare magazine , and so on and so away . So you may do that .
However , I should probably mention that it would also be helpful to get over your distaste for write things that are “ meaningless or strictly donnish . ” When I run low freelance and pop ToplessRobot.com , I had a little fleck of cred from my magazine days , but zero on-line presence . I go a web log and wrote 5 - 0 posts every daylight . And no one fucking read them … until somebody did . And that somebody sent somebody else a linkup , and so did that somebody , and over the years I managed to get myself an audience . But it would n’t have happened if I had n’t kept writing , on a regular basis and often , so that I kept creating cognitive content that citizenry would potentially want to show .
I ’m no fan of write things I do n’t get pay for , but you have to start somewhere , and the truth is no one is going to pay you to compose until you have an interview , and you ’ll never get an consultation until you start writing . So it ’s not nonmeaningful , even if no one reads it , even if it take on months or years . Think of it like send an SOS signal . for certain , no one seems to be take heed — but you have to keep ship the sign in case somebody does .
As for Observation Deck , everything you need to know about potentially bring together the Watchers of the io9 cosmos you may find out here , and I ’m sure someone will be felicitous to answer your questions . However , I should point out two thing : 1 ) O - deck of cards is an self-governing galactic commonwealth , so it ’s not like I can rule they have to let you join ( although I conceive of they would encounter it profoundly singular if I tried ) . 2 ) I feel good in saying that if you have your Kinja web log full of posts — posts that indicate the subjects you require to write about and your style — they would be more helpful than having compose nothing . Make sense ?
Fight the Future
Holly B. :
This Future ’s End shit is driving me softheaded . All I want to do is read Harley Quinn and Wonder Woman and then all of a sudden amount these exceptional issues that take place five yr in the future tense that have nothing to do with the story . I do n’t deal about Future ’s End and I ’m spend a penny my comics keep getting interrupted for this dirt .
I know I ’m not the only one who finger like this . Do these comic issue really work ?
Well , in term of generating quality message , it can go either way . While you may argue whether DC ’s literal Future ’s End upshot comic is a good read or not , force a crosstie - in into every single other monthly comic DC publishes intend some of them will be interesting , some will be crap , and either room if you have no interestingness in Future ’s End it ’s just going to be worsen to fundamentally have to expect an extra calendar month for your next number of your preferent comics .
Sometimes author can make the event work organically with their own comics – I ’m call up of how Greg Pak and Fred Van Lente sour Secret Invasion into the uncanny but fun Sacred Invasion for The Incredible Hercules , in which Herc and other divinities combat the Skrull god . But then I think of Marvel ’s Civil War , which seemed to jump the perfectly awesome Captain America story Ed Brubaker was tell in the CA comics , and felt shoehorn in there . It would be nice if Marvel and DC would just do their event comics and leave their other comic strip out of it , but they do n’t and they wo n’t .
That ’s because they work . Comic fans complain about how both the big two companies do event comic strip all the meter , but that ’s because they always sell . Always . In fact , Future ’s final stage was so pop ( admittedly , the extra 3D covers some of them had belike helped too ) that DC lease the lead in U.S. risible gross revenue for the first prison term since last September , and most of that was through the various one - shots .
So yeah , they ’re not going anywhere .
Turning Japanese
Duncan S. :
I ’ve had a love and regard for anime and manga for most of my life and have wanted to work in that industry ( specifically as a author ) for a good glob of that . I ’m currently in my final yr of my University class of Film and TV ( I have n’t resolve on whether to do the post - grad ) and have been spending most of my loose - fourth dimension search the art - form as well as Shinto & Buddhism , Japanese folklore , the industries influence and inspiration ( such as other Disney animated cartoon and comics ) and many mythologies such as Chinese , Slavic etc to get a wide chain of mountains of reason . I ’ve been learning to speak Japanese , I watch NHK to keep up on Japanese news and politics , I ’ve been saving my money and discussed it with other fans and the great unwashed in the industry . I even talked to Shingo Natsume , a successful anime director about act upon in the industry at the Glasgow comical con .
So as you may see I ’ve really give to this .
However about four calendar month ago , a Japanese conversancy of mine said I was cultural appropriating and they did n’t want some dumb white-hot son going to Japan . Though at the sentence , I argued I was n’t trying to be trendy , I do n’t put on racist or insensitive clothing and I honestly care about the nontextual matter - form , It appall me and I was frightened that I had unwittingly been a tool . I asked people online about it ( including Jezebel , io9 and kotaku commenters ) , the people and in the industriousness that I know and Natsume about it and they assured me I was n’t . However that incident and a more recent one that ’s chance to me has made me unsure of myself and I hate the touch sensation of being unwittingly antiblack about an graphics - form and culture I care about .
I can assure you you ’re not being anti-Semite . Unless your passion of anime halt from the belief that the Japanese are the superior race to which all other should bow down while jade Naruto headband , you ’re just a fan who wants to make in the manufacture he / she jazz . You ’re not the first person to do this and you ’re not the last , either . And unless you ’re running around in a kimono in non - kimono appropriate position , you ’re not really seize Nipponese culture — you ’re just a fan . Sometimes it can be a fine furrow between fandom and essentially trying to pretend you ’re Nipponese , but it sounds like you ’re on the non - objectionable side . So rest tell on that .
But that does n’t mean some people wo n’t criminate you of being a unrestrained otaku . There are two elbow room to combat this : The first is to hear to name your professional involvement more than your personal interest ; or , to put it another room , endeavor to not be an otaku . The more you wear gum anime shirts or have paries curlicue covering your wall or otherwise in public exhibit your fandom , the more people will intend your sake in gum anime is personal or else of professional .
Which leads me to my second point : The more you interpret about the reality of your speculation , the better off you are . People who somehow think their fandom will earn them an awesome task at Studio Gainax are being dicks , and unwitting ones . If you understand how difficult this undertaking is run to be for you , and yet have the persistence to try out in any event , then the great unwashed should see your desire instead of just some foolish otaku .
The truth of the matter is the gum anime industry does not need a dumb white male child going to Japan . It also does n’t especially need a smart white-hot boy go to Japan , either . There are plenty of Japanese multitude with writing skills — and aboriginal speakers as well — who will be apply for these jobs you want . So you want to think about why a Japanese company would desire to rent you for a perspective that they could take a Nipponese mortal for and have less bother — particularly with a penning place . This is n’t impossible , but it ’s choke to be really , really hard . Not only are you decease to necessitate to be able to speak conversational Japanese as fluently and well as any native speaker , you ’re going to have to have more quality — more skills , more experience , more works — in order for these Japanese companies to take a fortune on you over what seems to be a less speculative aboriginal hire .
That means trying to get work as a script writer here in America , preferably for an alive TV series , or working in Japan in some kind of write capacity and attempt to work your means towards entertainment writing there . But it ’s go to be slow , and it ’s belong to be hard . build up your CV tardily but sure , hear to make connections in the industry , get your Nipponese unadulterated , and be willing to spend 5 - 10 years of assume the skills and experience you ’ll need to be the best candidate you could be — maybe longer .
On the plus side , it ’s not inconceivable — the Tekkonkinkreet anime was written by a guy cable named Anthony Weintraub . ( He wield to get his connection by solve in Hollywood as a tale consultant on The Animatrix , because he was lick as a hand physician for various Hollywood people and companies . ) But do n’t have any illusion about how difficult it ’s go to be , o.k. ?
Cyke-Out
Jason W. :
Hello Postmaster or guy who killed the original Postmaster and stole his apparel ,
I have a dim-witted superhero question that only you may answer . If Scott Summers , aka Cyclops of the Adam - humans , had a slothful heart , would his optic blast be split in two , and slue off into different directions ?
I will await your reply with baited breath ( that ’s correct , I taunt my breathing space so I can catch the ever knotty bassfly ! )
Here ’s what happens when Cyclops is n’t wearing his visor :
You note that the beam of light just kind of go everywhere . Unless his center was pointing somewhere really far out there — so much that the two private cone would n’t cross at all — it would just make a large , weirder - shaped bang .
But really , any heart clap from Cyclops without his visor is going to be trouble , not least because he ca n’t turn it off . Only the ruby vitreous silica of the visor prevents his eyebeams from shooting out 24/7 .
A Perfect Cersei
Ryan S. :
The enceinte Game of Thrones news is about Cersei ’s “ walk of shame ” that just take and her being nude and how much money it cost etc . It got me thinking what would happen if say Jamie — or even Tyrion ! ! ! ! — were in the scene instead of Cersei . What would HBO differently ? Would they even have the men characters be naked or would they cogitate of something else ? really , would the Thrones books even have the vista if it was n’t starred naked Cersei or some other hot chick ?
The FCC linguistic rule is that you’re able to show manlike nudity as long as the member is not erect — an erect phallus is evil and destroys in force multitude ’s mind , while flaccid penis are fine . I ’d wish to think that if somehow the trial of Tyrion took a turn where Tyrion was paraded through Kings Landing nude the show would also seek to portray this instant accurately , presuming Peter Dinklage was cool with a bit of on - screenland nudity . After all , this fit is not about aphrodisiac times at all — it ’s about go out club strip a character literally and figuratively bare for the populace to see , and make for the same for more or less any character .
Note the more or less . As for your question as to whether the volume would have used this scenery for another character , a male fibre , I do n’t call back it would . It seems in particular suited to women , in terms of the social order of Westeros . Cersei is accused of trying to frame up Margaery , she ’s put on trial by the High Septon , and penalise by being forced to take the air naked through the metropolis . There ’s a lot of specific here in that Cersei tried to concede to a criminal offense that would n’t get her executed , and of trend Cersei has spent most of the last few years burning every political nosepiece and alienate every ally so that most of the Westerosi political system require her punish more than they want jurist .
But I do n’t reckon this is a punishment that would be given to a man . It ’s an practice session in futility to consider , since it ’s the mootest of disputable points , but a guy rope would more likely be put in jail or executed or there ’d be a duel or something . perhaps he ’d refuse to take this penalization , or he ’d choose destruction , or his political allies would cod to his effort . But I do n’t get the sense that this would be considered an satisfactory sentence for a human race , while nigh everyone finds it delicious to see Cersei brought so low in this style . ( Obviously , the books are not corroborate this gender favouritism as much as they are calling it out for examination . )
Cersei ’s test and punishment is about destroying the one thing she has left — her place . No matter what happened to her — no matter whether her children die , she always had the quilt and power of her station as queen and daughter of Tywin Lannister . Forcing her to take the air naked in front of the Goth is middling much the cruelest penalisation the High Septon could give her and as a woman , even as the fagot , she has no king to circumvent the patriarchate of the church , either . Even if she had preferred to die , I get the sensory faculty that the High Septon would have laughed at her , stripped her and then sent her down the route in any case .
It ’s deserving noting that while Cersei is a horrible person , she is so distinctly the product of her Lannister upbringing and ugly life with Robert that her horribleness is heartbreakingly apprehensible . Also , by the metre this rolls around , she ’s authentically suffering from mental unwellness , having look out her son and father die , both ( she thinks ) by her brother ’s hired hand . She ’s not well before this , and even less so after . If you do n’t think of Cersei as a tragical anatomy by about A dancing with Dragons , you should possibly give the al-Qur’an a reread .
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