But yeah, I do focus on the negative too much. I need to remind myself that a few people peeing in the people don’t spoil everything. That’s why we have chlorine.

And then we can all go back in the pool.

I mean, heck, we swim in the ocean and that’s one big fish toilet.

I was trying to be profound and went off the rails, didn’t I?

You can’t help it that you’ve been subjected to this annoying behavior: it happened, it was annoying, and sometimes it gets repeated. Saying so doesn’t make for a whine. Especially when you obviously did the work of sending the problem children on their way. Whining would be complaining about it all, but never having done a thing about it. And complaining endlessly, which YOU. DO. NOT. DO.

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(This message was brought to you by the Colleen Doran Cheering Section.)

Almost everybody is pretty nice.

90% of your problems will come from the same few people. They seem like a big crowd because they leave a big mess.

Ignoring them will usually make them go away. Sometimes not, but with any luck, they move on to more entertaining targets. Eventually.

Almost every guy who ever sent me weird-o-grams was A) trying to get me to be his girlfriend or B) trying to use me to get a job or C) all of the above.

This one guy was obsessed with my “purity” and used to compare me to a “little English schoolgirl” and one thing’s for damn sure, he was way too old for me and the little English schoolgirls.

Another guy, after I would not forward him Curt Swan’s private contact information, spent a couple of years on a bitter campaign writing me about how evil my work was and how I was going to hell. But by golly, when he thought I could get him some pro connections, he didn’t care about how evil my work was.

While I’ve also had some odd problems with women, they take a very different approach that is a lot more “WAAAAHHHH, Colleen is like the popular girl in high school who was mean to me! I bet she had plastic surgery and lies about her age! She won’t help my career and nurture me and validate me, so she hates ALL OTHER WOMEN!”

I wish I was joking about that, but no. I’ve only had a few problems, and nothing recently, but oddly enough, almost always from people I don’t really know or have never even met.

In the end, men and women alike then regress into victim mode when they don’t get what they want. This usually devolves into a whisper campaign about how I use my connections in the Sekrit Cabal to destroy their careers.

That said, I know that several times when my books were the subject of library complaints, the complaints came from women. But no woman has ever confronted me directly by sending me letters about my Teh Evil.

Looks like my content had nothing to do with it.

He’s canceled all the current bids because they weren’t getting enough money. He now has a very high minimum bid on his ads. Now Project Wonderful requires that you bid on the SAME ad for different regions of the world. So when you bid on one space,your ad only shows in the USA.

But the foreign ads were going cheap, so I bid on those and got the spots.

However, he decided they were going TOO cheap, and raised all his minimums to about 5 times what that ad space is worth, in my humble opinion.

When he raised his minimums, that canceled all my ads.

So, NEKKID BUTT had nothing to do with it.

Crow is delicious.

So, I am very glad I did not publicly diss the dude’s comic by name, but by God, it really is pretty bad.

But I would kill for his traffic.

But his comic really does suck with the sucking suckness of black hole suck.

Thank goodness for that comic that there are no more “gatekeepers” because that thing would never have been published by a rational adult with money to invest.

I’ve been dissed by a comic of epic suckness.

How shall I bear it?

Sob.

Oh, yeah, I’ll draw more NEKKID BUTT! And I shall TAUNT YOU A SECOND TIME!!!!