{"id":218,"date":"2017-04-11T14:30:54","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T14:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.solitairerose.com\/?p=218"},"modified":"2017-04-11T14:32:10","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T14:32:10","slug":"218","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.solitairerose.com\/?p=218","title":{"rendered":"I told you not to be stupid, you moron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What can we learn from Ardian Syaf\u2019s mistake putting in anti-Christian and anti-Semitic messages in his X-Men comic art? A lot, really:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Getting there is only part of the battle. Once you get to where you want to be, treat it the same as you did on your way up.<\/li>\n<li>As Aretha Franklin sang in \u201cThe Blues Brothers\u201d: Think! Make sure that you are willing to answer for what you put in EVERYTHING to you. In the zombie novel I am writing now, a child is going to die in a pretty horrify way, and I didn\u2019t just DO it, I thought about how it fit into the story, WHY I am doing it, and what is the best way to write it. Is that \u201cinside joke\u201d worth it if the meaning gets out?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>People walking around everyday, playing games, taking scores<\/p>\n<p>Trying to make other people lose their minds.<\/p>\n<p>Well be careful, you&#8217;re gonna lose yours.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Don\u2019t lie about what you\u2019ve done. Mr. Syaf said that he didn\u2019t do it, then that it didn\u2019t mean what it meant. In doing so, he made it so his employer can\u2019t trust him. If you have a franchise you are trying to rebuild, you want people on your team you can trust.<\/li>\n<li>Do NOT cost your employer more money than they can make off of you. A hard, cold fact fo life in the capitalist world is that your employer needs to make money off of you. If you cost more than you possibly bring in, you\u2019ll be gone in a gnat\u2019s heartbeat.<\/li>\n<li>THINK!<\/li>\n<li>Are your political beliefs worth losing your job over? Social Media, interviews and the like are powerful promotional tools, but putting out controversial statements will alienate parts of your audience. Just ask the Dixie Chicks, Bill Maher, the ghost of Bill Hicks, various comics creators and others who put their politics front and center and saw audiences turn on them. 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