When Social Network Stuff Is Fricking Awesome
For some goofy reason, I was sick as a dog last night and still haven’t recovered. Don’t know if I ate something that disagreed with me, or what. But I went to bed feeling rotten.
Woke up this morning and remembered why I love social networks, sometimes, holy cats.
First, last night, some of you may have seen this…Twitter has an account, a real douchecandle, called #lgbtfacts, who posts horrible, awful bullshit about the ‘abhorrent gay lifestyle.’ Because it’s called @lgbtfacts, some people might stumble onto it thinking it’s a positive account, at first, in the same way that some religious adoption services pretend to be Planned Parenthood-style clinics.
It’s gross, full of the usual lies and bigotry.
So, some people decided to ‘borrow’ the #lgbtfacts hashtag and fill it with fricking HILARIOUS ‘facts’ about lgbt people, along with some REAL facts and some heartfelt positive sentiments. I was invited to participate, some other comics writers did as well, like Rucka, Fraction, Doran, and Busiek. It was really, REALLY funny, but the best thing was once again seeing bigots outclassed, outwitted, outfunnied, and out-truthed by the very people they were trying to insult. It was absolutely hysterical, some of the tweets people posted, and you couldn’t help but love that this guy’s hashtag was absolutely flooded with positive messages, saying, basically, “You lose. You so completely lose.”
Huge fun, just a pleasure to watch take place.
Second, wow!
I posted here about book I really want to see published, the true experiences of an artist named Al Davison, and what happened to him when he experienced six months of complete blindness a while back. The book is called the Alchemist’s Easel, and you can read my post about his efforts here:
