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241.The Fire Never Goes Out by Noelle Stevenson - This is an interesting insight into one of the most exciting cartoonists of the 2010s. She made She Ra Princess of Power into the THE show to watch on Netflix (and unlike other Netflix cartoons it didn't wear out its welcome) and Nimona is the current Netflix show that you should watch. Seriously, without Noelle Stevenson, Netflix would be interchangeable Ryan Reynolds movies and Big Mouth.
This is a series of cartoons written every year since 2011 until 2019 that encapsulated her 20s. And damn that's a hard and crazy time for anyone, but she was a highly successful cartoonist (started out on Tumblr - her style is a lot like Kate Beaton but she had a different perspective than Beaton who was for the classic literature nerds - although a lot of her Tumblr cartoons feel like the Kate Beaton cartoons but with fantasy movies).
So in essence, she got VERY famous, got an agent, realized that she was gay and that dating boys was not going to happen, fell in love, got all the confusion from it. Still married the love of her life. Wrote LumberJanes, show ran She Ra, still made Nimona cartoons (that was her early Tumblr success) and found out that her family was totally cool with her being gay. Also her church wasn't so that's that.
Also she admitted that she had a problem with depression and actually got therapy.
In other words, she did her 20s way better than I did. I had a neurotypical girlfriend for 4 years and then I couldn't get over her after she left me because she was constantly annoyed by my ADHD ways, got really religious like rightwing for a bit there, wrote a shitty novel that will never see the light of day, wrote a bunch of short stories that were never published (and were unpublishable. I don't think I've even managed to revise any into a shape that would be publishable) and failed to convert to Judaism.
My 30s were way better. But what would have been really great was if I had gotten therapy. But my issues were external and setting healthy boundaries with a bipolar mother who didn't believe in them was going to probably - well she eventually died so that was cool. Then I dealt with it. Way later.
Anyhow, we shouldn't compare ourselves to others, especially when it comes to the messy crazy decade that is supposed to be awesome but can be even more nerve wracking than the teen years.
Also she had a supportive family and not a family that expected her to support them.
This is a series of cartoons written every year since 2011 until 2019 that encapsulated her 20s. And damn that's a hard and crazy time for anyone, but she was a highly successful cartoonist (started out on Tumblr - her style is a lot like Kate Beaton but she had a different perspective than Beaton who was for the classic literature nerds - although a lot of her Tumblr cartoons feel like the Kate Beaton cartoons but with fantasy movies).
So in essence, she got VERY famous, got an agent, realized that she was gay and that dating boys was not going to happen, fell in love, got all the confusion from it. Still married the love of her life. Wrote LumberJanes, show ran She Ra, still made Nimona cartoons (that was her early Tumblr success) and found out that her family was totally cool with her being gay. Also her church wasn't so that's that.
Also she admitted that she had a problem with depression and actually got therapy.
In other words, she did her 20s way better than I did. I had a neurotypical girlfriend for 4 years and then I couldn't get over her after she left me because she was constantly annoyed by my ADHD ways, got really religious like rightwing for a bit there, wrote a shitty novel that will never see the light of day, wrote a bunch of short stories that were never published (and were unpublishable. I don't think I've even managed to revise any into a shape that would be publishable) and failed to convert to Judaism.
My 30s were way better. But what would have been really great was if I had gotten therapy. But my issues were external and setting healthy boundaries with a bipolar mother who didn't believe in them was going to probably - well she eventually died so that was cool. Then I dealt with it. Way later.
Anyhow, we shouldn't compare ourselves to others, especially when it comes to the messy crazy decade that is supposed to be awesome but can be even more nerve wracking than the teen years.
Also she had a supportive family and not a family that expected her to support them.
