They're Doing it Again

Okay, now the insults flying from SomethingAwful.com are just getting silly.

Apparently, Lady Analemma is me ripping off Raven (I presume they mean the one from Teen Titans), even though:
1. I didn't create Lady Analemma, she was part of the villain contest.
2. Her powers are nothing like Raven's.
3. Her backstory is nothing like Raven's.
4. The only thing relatively close to Raven is the fact that she wears a cape, a hood, and has black hair (which even then is a wig).

And once again I'm getting flamed for using a pseudonym for the artwork. Get over it already, I say right in the FAQ that it's me and I admit all the time that it's me.

I wouldn't care as much about this if not for the fact that yesterday I boasted 551 visits, a new record high. Of course, more than half of these are probably from the SomethingAwful.com thread that, once again, they don't even bother to try to address any of their criticisms to me directly. For those who are here and trying to support me and help me improve, thanks. I really do appreciate it.

So, I think I figured out Why

(Something special for the 50th Blog Post)

All of the stuff about the original plans for the White Death arc got me thinking about why I would want to do a storyline related to it. When someone brought up the fact that I had kind of already dealt with rape with the creation of the Slavers, it also got me thinking about why I would create the Slavers to begin with. Oh, sure, I listed off in the original notes about that one Battlestar Galactica episode that really cheesed me off, but even then, why would the episode make me so mad?

But then a while back I was reading the Lurker's Guide, a Babylon 5 site that had detailed commentary from J. Michael Straczynski on each episode. And once he was asked on a particular episode called "Passing Through Gethsemane" why he'd write a story on forgiving a criminal for their past deeds and why he wrote so respectively of religious figures when he was an Atheist. And he had quite possibly one of the best quotes I've ever seen:

"Which makes the notion of writing a character who CAN forgive momentarily attractive...because it allows me to explore in great detail something of which I am utterly incapable. I cannot fly, so I would write of birds and starships and kites; I cannot play an instrument, so I would write of composers and dancers; and I cannot forgive, so I would write of priests and monks and minbari..."

There you have it. I can't stop real-life human traffickers. So I write a story where they are stopped.