Sexual Misconduct: The next phase of feminism

If you've been watching the news lately, you'll see that a lot of voices in Hollywood and plenty other outlets in celebrity circles have come out and exposed the dark secrets that lie within, all starting with Harvey Weinstein's scandal. The sudden influx of women coming out after he was exposed made sense, with Weinstein being the forefront of the misconduct and harassment no longer able to compress the dirty laundry. Paul Mooney warned us about Hollywood and its hidden layers.

Now ignoring the biblical/spiritual nonsense, with the recent secrets exposed about Weinstein and his conclave of individuals who were in on it, it all comes to circle. Now then, with the other women coming out on other people in Hollywood with sexual misconduct, it was a slow start to exposing the nasty truth on fame and success and the means to obtain it.

But as of late, it seems that so many other women are 'coming out' and making claims of sexual misconduct. Sounds familiar. Almost like...

Nah.

I'm wondering if these recent claims of misconduct are actual misconduct or if it's just women who may have fooled around with these men with consent and no drugs looking for a piece of money. Even if they don't get it from their supposed rapists, they'll get some spotlight on a television show hosted by a sickly wo-man with fake tits and a blonde wig. The attention alone is enough for them.

Now, what does that say about the normal, everyday man that works with women? Will simply saying something like "You look nice today." or "I like your hair." counts as sexual misconduct? I didn't know a compliment was considered harassment. At my first job, I had my share of encounters with my female coworkers, nothing sexual, just the usual conversation and I admit to trying to get with a few of them, but now in this age of hurt feminists who are still bitter over Hillary's loss, will those advancements come back to bite me in the ass? What about the men who got further than the first date? You don't date your coworkers, that's a fact. Perhaps I dodged a bullet by not being able to go further than a simple cup of coffee or slice of pizza. I don't regret what I tried. Any guy will try to get a date or a pretty girl's attention. It's normal.

However, what Charlemagne tha God said on The Breakfast Club said in this particular Donkey of the Day triggered me to make this post and also re-examine these claims of sexual misconduct.

Are you kidding me? Men were raised on rape culture? Women dressing seductively and putting themselves out there is promoting rape culture? How about the women dressing like that NOT dress like that? You dress sexy and complain that men are looking at you in a sexy way? You're dressing sexy and provocative for yourself? Never. Women want the attention, but from a particular elite group of men, the ones they pick. The ones that actually reject them and they simply suck it up, still in awe over him. You on the other hand, will be looked at funny if you so much reject the so-called top-class women.

It's easier than it looks, just walk away. Maybe that's why the accusations are pouring out: The groupies and alpha bitches of yesterday are being phased out and ignored today. I reiterate: While there are some legitimate claims, I feel a chunk of them are in this for the money. One look at Cosby, and I believe it. The women need something to gossip about.

"I fucked X at a party, really!"

"I'm gonna be on "The Y Show as a cast member!"

"I'm going to be a singer!"

And the second and third examples are legitimate. Having to suck off some ugly executive to get a bite of fame isn't worth it, and you really don't need to do it. So it goes both ways. You could have backed down and kept your diginity, but the taste for success was damning it seems. You were okay with it as long as you won an Academy Award in the long run, right? Now, the first example is not a legitimate complaint. Consensual sex is not rape. You were likely taking drugs anyway to loosen up and if you weren't, you should have backed off and said something the very moment it happened instead of waiting twenty plus years to come out. Cosby would have been busted and arrested in a heartbeat. Instead, you're mad your good looks have faded and your womb is inert, unable to produce eggs. I don't have any sympathy for most of these women. The wave of feminism in the last few years have made it near impossible for some guys to get attention from women or even date. Even the ugly slobs have been emboldened by this push for sloppy freebleeders, but that is another can of worms.

I'm all for equality, and equality doesn't stop at pay, positions and respect. You wanna work this job, you better do the same work I do. You wanna be represented more in the video game/comic/etc. industry? Get to work. No one's stopping you from doing these things, you have to be able to do it. Here's a big one, one I don't think most women will be able to do.

You wanna work in a warehouse? Pull this load with a pallet jack. No forklift, grab that jack and get to work. You never see any woman trying to get into a position where she needs to work her body and if she tries to infiltrate, it's as the boss, not the associate. Always at a position where she can control or have some control. And for the record, catcalling isn't sexual misconduct. If it is a problem, you grabbing that musclehead's ass and running away like a schoolgirl is a problem, too. I remember a co-worker grabbing our asses in the past. Let one of us do that to them. I'd love to see a woman get charged with sexual misconduct.

Matter of fact, that's a means of getting even. Fight fire with fire.

Things that make you feel uncomfortable

I wasn't going to do another blogpost, but I felt inspired.

They're trying to get To Kill a Mockingbird 'dollied' up in the same way Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was edited a few years back. In a school in Mississippi (The irony), the former was removed from the facility for the use of the word nigger, though they didn't specify what words were used, you can put two and two together.

Some of the students said they felt uncomfortable reading the literature with the word present. To be honest, it's not meant to be comfortable. It's a story dealing with heavy elements such as rape, racism, and sex. Stories like that are not meant to be comforting, they're supposed to put a mirror to real world events at the time. To Kill a Mockingbird is a vital book in the history of this sorry-ass country in how it exposed the behaviors, social structure and state of America in the south. The book has always had controversy over its subject matter, this isn't really anything new. In a county in Virginia in the 60's, the book was banned for the plot centering around rape.

But let's talk about another subject: Why are you banning books for uncomfortable reading? If you feel unsettled reading a book, why not just put it down and read another? Same with a television show with 'questionable' material. If you don't like it, don't watch it. Turn the channel. I never understood that. These groups and individuals don't like something, so it has to be banned? I can imagine how many books were destroyed and burned over someone's comfort zone being invaded because they didn't like it. It's not just television and literature, music too has been hit by these watchdog groups.

Hip-hop and Rock n' Roll are two genres that have been attacked, but the former especially with its material around the turn of the 90's. I remember that reverend that ran over Snoop Dogg's CD with a steamroller. For what purpose? Because he's talking about situations that are represented in his environment? That's what Hip-hop does (or did): It talked about the state of the environment the Master of Ceremony in particular was in. The push of gangsta rap must have made all of America and the book banners/burners shit themselves. NWA, 2pac, etc., all of those groups shifting to a violent tone in their music wasn't because they were glorifying it, it was a literal reflection of their lives, the same as To Kill a Mockingbird and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, to an extent. Real life inspires writers, even with fictional stories. To ban books and music because they dare try to put real-life elements in their stories is foolish and it shows how sheltered these people are, willfully or not.

As a writer myself, I try to incorporate real-life elements in Mission, not directly but taking a few pages and cues and molding it in my vision. I don't hold back and do not intend on holding back as the story goes on. It may make people feel uncomfortable, and I say to them: read another book. If you want some safe, comforting book you can always read a picture book. There are no harmful words and happy colorful illustrations that encourage positivity and hope.

Back to Hip-hop, with many artists having their work criticized and even censored via 'clean' versions, one artist comes to mind with how many people he pissed off and ran up the wall.

I guess when a white guy says the things blacks have been saying for around two decades, then it's a problem. Another artist comes to mind, or more or less the outro of the track I'm referring to (3:42). You can't get angry when you shelter your kids from books with the word nigger and other obscenities and they suddenly stumble upon an Eminem or Wu-Tang album and learn about things they never heard about. Is it the artist's fault for talking about killing people and beating their girlfriends or is it it the other way around?

Hmm.

I still can't wrap my head around the actions of some people. Today, we have social justice warriors attacking video games and other media for depicting women in a sexualized manner, like that hasn't been done before.

The worst part is, it's working. Too many companies and developers are buckling down and pandering to their demands and when games outside the west are translated, they censor them. Do these women know the difference between reality and fiction? I don't think seeing Ayane from Dead or Alive is going to make me think of women as objects, when she's been getting the dicks of pre-teens and teens hard for almost twenty years. You're only now complaining about it?

On that note, the oh-so controversial topic of lolicon is in the same circle. It's simply fiction. Some people are attracted to little girls. The countless doujins and erotica with lolicon is simply a reflection of that topic. If you don't like it, simply tab out or if you have a doujin in hand, put it away. Don't burn or destroy it. Just put it away. They even put the R18 on the front page for a reason. Not everything with a colorful character is for kids, bringing me to my next point: censoring of anime and manga. Not the same as banning books, but why not jump into this one, too.

In Japan, standards are different from North America. It's why you'll see manga and anime touch upon death or violence commonly. Those two elements are a natural occurrence in real life. As of today, standards and practices are different but back in the 70-90's, you had a lot of violent matter in anime, blood, gore, you name it. When these works came to the western audience, they were toned down with the notion that being animated means it's for kids.

Well, to an extent that IS true. Most shows like Dragon Ball and the second half of the manga adapted as Dragon Ball Z had a lot of violence being a shonen series, targeted towards boys but in general targeted towards children.

Image courtesy of Chris Psaros

The image there shows Muten Roshi about to grab Bulma's chest. Notice the top left corner? That's the equivalent of shows like Batman: The Animated Series, Spider-Man and so on. Those shows barely touch upon the level of blood and violence that both adaptions of the Dragon Ball manga show regularly. Even then, the adaption was toned down compared to the manga. But in Japan, that's considered normal for children.

Yet in America, uncut series will warrant a TV-PG rating. When Cartoon Network showed Dragon Ball Z uncut back in 2005, the PG rating was consistent, even with some of the more brutal scenes. It helped that it was on cable and aired around 10:30, so maybe they could get away with that rating. I remember Princess Mononoke aired uncut on Toonami with a TV-14 rating and no one complained. Just throwing that out there as well.

Wouldn't the standards for Japan not be akin to America? Why not simply have the increased rating in the states? Sure, you may not get a big audience as you'd like, but you wouldn't have to put with dancing around death with bullshit analogies or wasting time painting blood over with a scene that requires the characters to be bloody. And on that same note, Kids WB! had Batman for one season and there was blood on the character's mouths when the scene called for it, yet Dragon Ball Z, Sailor Moon and a personal example, One Piece couldn't get that same privilege. Hell, some old cartoons that are classics with kids have cigar smoking and guns. Why aren't those edited?

I'm getting off-topic here, but my point stands with the original message: If it makes you feel uncomfortable, move away from it. If you feel you have to shield people from subject matter that makes YOU feel uncomfortable, it says more about you than the material in question. Censorship, no matter what form or what media it targets stifles creativity and progress. Those children you seek to protect grow up eventually.

Eventually, they'll have to get a taste of reality.

Mental illness is to blame for the Vegas shooter.

I remember waking up this past Monday around five-ish and seeing the news of the Las Vegas Massacre that claimed around fifty-nine people and wounding over 300. I remember the massive headline MSN used so that we would know it was important. As if the words fifty-nine, killed and gunman weren't enough to go by.

Anyway, to the meat of this post. I read up on the entire situation from the beginning, and I could not give less of a fuck. Not that I don't care about the people dying, but rather I really just didn't care that it happened. Let's face it: people die all over the world, attacks happen commonplace. Just because America is a supposed first-world country doesn't make it exempt from actions like this. When someone goes and kills dozens of people, don't act surprised by it. Just because you live in the land of the McRib and The Big Bang Theory doesn't mean shit can't go down.

Mental health is an issue in American society, one I don't think we really try to address. I consider Dylan Roof and Mr. Paddock terrorists the same way the marathon bomber and the Florida nightclub shooter were considered terrorists. Not acknowledging that white men can be terrorists and do fucked up acts like killing a group of people is a sign of mental illness.

Not that it really matters, but Mr. Paddock was in affiliation with Islam. Yet, he's not being called a terrorist?  I reiterate: That doesn't matter, it seems. Is it the religion that's the issue or is it the person that fits the religion? Hmm.

But let's go in another direction with this. You have this American society that tries to sweep things under the rug and act surprised when a smell develops. Pay attention to what's been going on with America. There have been more outspoken voices concerning various social issues and the clashing viewpoints that followed. The mere thought of Barack Obama being in the White House made people go insane. These eight years of a black man running the country (if you can call it that) created an ideal and a lingering hatred that finally peaked with the Trayvon/Zimmerman fiasco, which is where I finally discovered what my role is in this American society when the verdict was given, but I already realized that the year before working my first job, but anyway, with Zimmerman, the Ferguson riots, the Charleston shooting and the idiocy of the confederate flag and its defenders and with this entire idiotic election and the general routine of cops killing black men at a disproportionate rate, it's come to a point where I don't care anymore, in the sense that it's just business as usual.

So nine people got killed in that church. Big deal. Yeah, they were black like me. So what? People get killed all the time outside America. Why does it take death for this society to finally do something? That alone can be its own topic. It's all the same to me. I'm numb and apathetic to all the killings. Yeah, I get angry when I see another cop gunning down another black man, but from there on, the emotions melt away. And that I feel is a mental illness when you can't even react anymore to something as sinister as that. The same with the people in that nightclub that were gunned down, and also the amount of support that came from them. It made me roll my eyes. We can't show compassion and love in times of peace, only when someone dies. And the media always covers this shit for a full week, case in point with the Vegas shooting. Another event that everyone's getting squeamish over. Another wake-up call for the supposed greatest country in the world.

We don't need stricter gun laws, we need stricter people laws. How is someone with a blatant mental illness able to buy a gun, but a well-adjusted man can't purchase one due to increased melanin in his skin? How many cops in this country are unstable and you're giving them guns and ammunition and you wonder why so many black men are dying. Moreso, people protesting at the NFL (Which I never watched a day in my life) is generating such a vitriolic response the commander in chief himself is butthurt over it and ready to make a law punishing them for following that constitution. Yet if they were raping and beating up women, no response would have been given. The rug is beyond saving and it's time to burn it. Just like some players can stand and 'respect' the flag, players are allowed to take a knee and 'disrespect' it. Meanwhile, actual veterans are being ignored while you waste time, money and energy burning jerseys.

Whoops.

And just like that, they try to sweep this matter under the rug for the next hot topic: Weinstein's scandal. There was at least four new articles on Paddock every day last week, and suddenly it's gone. No more coverage.

But, that's probably for the best. Yeah, we'll still get a piece on it from time to time, all the way up to the end of the year, no doubt. But for me, it's just another attack by the product of America's mental illness, and I say bring on the next one. If this is what it takes to get America to wise the fuck up, then so be it.

It all started with a peanut butter sandwich...

When I was a kid in school, if someone hurt your feelings or did something to you, you were expected to fight back. Admittedly, I was never one to fight back. And that regret lingers to this day. But, I'd suck it up and eventually, I took a stand. You either fight back or you don't. Your parents weren't going to get angry, and most of the time, you'd be in the clear if you were the victim.

Somewhere along 2004 or so, it seems kids in other states had this issue where if they fought their bullies, the bully would be the victim and the victim, charged with aggression. In an urban setting, this was never the case.

Lemme be more accurate - In a non-white school, this wasn't the case. Someone acting up? They're the ones in trouble. The kid who fought back? Good job. In the case of Casey Haynes, that showed me there was still some common sense in the world. But this world we live in isn't common, now is it? For every Casey, there was a John and Billy that got in trouble because they stood up for themselves and the school had a zero-tolerance policy. The zero-tolerance policy was made to detract bullies, not support them. What the hell happened?

Now we'll dive into another topic: The safe space. Where does the safe space come into play? There were another group of kids that were frail and sickly. These kids couldn't play with the other children, and their lives were overall...shitty. We made fun of those kids back in the 90's. During the turn of the century and The Worst Attack on American Soil ™, these kids got a boost in confidence thanks to their parents who couldn't deal with the fact that they were dealt a shitty hand and decided to make it bad for everyone who was born without a peanut allergy or osteoporosis.

All of the above were targeted. Metallic jungle gyms were replaced by plastic foam gyms that weren't satisfying to grab or didn't burn you on a hot day (We had contests to see who could touch the slide the longest or who was crazy enough to slide down it, something kids today will never know about), peanut butter of all things were banned because some pussified kid with a peanut allergy died for eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Know what those parents did? Told them to stay away from peanuts and all products with nuts. I had a nickel allergy and broke out in hives. The highlight of 4th grade. What did I do, tell mommy to ban everything with nickel from school? No, she changed my glasses. Simple as that.

And the one thing I was neck deep in during 2007: The banning of Santa Claus and his trademark attire and laugh. Ho ho ho! was a No no no!, along with his red suit, because red is threatening and invokes violence and to top it off, Santa was to be slimmed down, because Santa is the cause for childhood obesity.

Absurd, ain't it?

And that also brings me to my next point. The fat kids who were teased? More accurately, the fat girls who were teased and shamed for being fat, as they should? Well...

Due to the resurgence of the internet, there were many a people who could make themselves known. YouTube being a very common source, or blogsites like this one. Around the time, it seems the girls who were shamed for being fat decided to make a movement that pushed for their gross bodies to be accepted and acknowledged. One site in particular that likes to push these 'flaws' if you can call them that is Tumblr. A good site for erotic images of cartoon characters and gifs of dancing girls with or without asses. On the other hand, the latter is more appealing compared to what I posted. These girls loved to eat a little too much, and it shows. No boy in their right mind would want these types of women unless they were into that type of thing. Any guy I see with a fat woman, unless she has something to play with, regrets being with her.

At least if the butt and chest had something you could slap or grab. None of the images above show that.

And anyone with a brain knows that Barbie isn't a realistic body-type. Anytime you see a barbie-type, she's told to eat something. There's a difference. And the real-life barbie-dolls are freaks of nature.

Then again...

 But my point stands - most men aren't picky about their women. We don't want barbie-types, but we don't want fat slobs with triple-layered rolls of fat on their waists, either. And the worst part is, that's my only chance to get with a woman. She's gotta be fat, passing herself off as 'thick' or some type of misshapen goblin with low standards. And that sadly accounts for around...90% of all black women.

No company is better than bad company.

Now, to conclude this piece for you, and send off July with something informative, I'm going to tell you where this all comes into place: The kids who had the peanut allergies and hurt feelings are now the adults who push for safe spaces for grade schools and colleges. They somehow got into power and ruined everything. They are also the ones pushing for inclusiveness in every form of media, video games included. They have teamed up with the fat girls to make every character an ugly, blotchy mess with more layers than an ogre and onion. They have come into hobbies they never cared about to dictate to others what it should be about. They have succeeded in making everything about them and flaunting the fact that they're fat, ugly or gay/lesbian/trans/queer/dragon/fairykin/etc.

And I don't have to say, "I don't have a problem with gays, but..." I'm just gonna say it: No one cares. In the sense that you can do what you wanna do. It's flaunting that you're whatever you are that's the issue. I'm black. You can see that clear as day. I don't have to flaunt it. You're so starved for attention that you demand it from everyone and when you don't get your way, you scream prejudice and hate and you go into your safe space or internet hugbox to garner support. I really hate how these people infiltrated a hobby I've grown up with for twenty plus years. So you suck dick. So you eat pussy. So what? Want a medal?

But let's go back to the peanut allergy-inflicted pussies that sport their hipster glasses and full beards. These guys are the ones who failed to realize the reason why those other boys bullied girls was because they liked them. They also are confused as to why said girl is now with that guy while he has no girlfriend at all. So what does he do to fix his flaws or work on what he didn't have to sweep that girl off her feet?

Become a feminist and yes-man for all women. That'll get him laid!

"Women aren't represented enough in the workforce! Get them in those positions even if they don't qualify for the position!"

"That poster of Pamela Anderson you have objectifies women! Take it down!"

"You're a man! You are already the enemy by default!"

Suddenly, there's an insurgence of women in the workforce and a deficit of men. Now, these women will want a nice job with high pay, but men still have to do the manual labor. Evolution and biology giving women and weak men a slap in the face. I was the one guy that had to lift everything. But I can safely say that I wasn't around that environment mentioned above, so it was a matter of one man to six women. That still says a lot, mind you. The push for women in the workforce is still alarming to say the least. Even one of my female co-workers admitted we needed another guy when I wasn't around.

But these frail men may get lucky somewhere, somehow and end up with offspring who are doomed to their genes or way of thinking, and the cycle will continue onward. On the other hand, their 'girlfriend' may choose an open relationship, which translates to "I'm fucking that guy that bullied you in high school, but please keep giving me money and gifts! Maybe I'll give you a piece when my value goes down!". Now that's pathetic. This is the state of the first world. Non-issues are national epidemics, and to think that it all started with a peanut butter sandwich...

Money-saving Advice from a Frugal Fuckhead

I'm very stingy with money. It's been a very long time since I've started picking up pennies and change off the streets. Even in puddles, I found money. If only I had this mindset much earlier on. But, better later than never. Here are some tips from yours truly on how to save some money.

• If a hip-hop artist, celebrity, actor or all of the above who's past their prime is flaunting or promoting something, you don't need it. 
• If it's not something that relates to necessity items, you don't need it. 
• If white people can buy it casually, you don't need it. 
• If it makes you a target for robbery, you don't need it.
• If someone is telling you to live it up and enjoy the moment, do not live it up and enjoy the moment. 
• If it costs the same amount as four month's rent, turn the other way. 
• If you see it on TV, turn it off.
• If you can put it in a microwave, avoid it. It's cheaper to buy raw materials and prepare them than it is to eat out.
• On that note: Don't eat out. Meals cost $60 and up at a subpar restaurant. Plus, I got stories to tell with a brief period working with food.
• No joyrides. You can walk to your designated bar and get shitfaced instead of wasting gas money.
• Don't get shitfaced. You don't need that beer, do you? And your lady friend you desperately want to fuck doesn't need that cosmo, right? I know, this could the be night. You never know. But, she doesn't need it (or you).
• If you're going somewhere and it requires a fee for each person, turn back and leave the premises. You can find many things to do for free. Look for them. 
• Buy your stuff fresh, or in cans. It's no different. Go for vegetables in water, and canned meat in water. Oil is a messy, messy lady. With fruits, go for fruit juice. Heavy syrup is a no-no.
• Drink tap. 
• Buy a filter if you're too pussy to drink tap.
• Emulate old games instead of buying them online. Christmas never goes away when you snag an old-school JRPG from your local search engine.
• Shopping for clothes? Goodwill. Goodwill, Goodwill, Goodwill. You can find a $500 shirt for only $6. It's only as valuable as you make it.
• Shopping in general? Goodwill.
• Anything that's not food-related, Goodwill. Go on a daily basis. First come, first serve.
• Learn how to cook. You'll be saving a lot of money. A bag of rice and some seasoning can last you a week. Pay attention to the directions on the box or bag. The keyword is 'learn'.
• Shop at dollar stores. Compare prices from there to say, your local grocer. Alternate between stores.
• Grow your own food. Just a small pot will do. Learn how to do it online, there's plenty of sites to look at and it's as easy as smacking dat dislike on my videos and typing lol on a Facebook post. 

Did you get all that? Good.

I wrote a book.

No, really. I wrote a book.

What is Mission about? Well, as the cover says, it is a series where adventures, dreams and journeys await. Four kids travel around, and find an interesting sight in a large sea. From there on, the adventures, dreams and journeys come to pass. One of the main recurring themes of Mission is friendship. Making friends comes easy with our cast, and said relationships excel to other ventures and opportunities. The general idea came to me around 2012, but the name goes as far back as 1999, when I was seven and played with my friends in the park. One made up a game called Mission and we would make up worlds and scenes all around our jungle gym. It was a simple game made by kids that made me want to write about a group of kids going around the world and seeing various places like the ones we thought up.

On the note of the cast, there isn't a sole main character, but a cast of main characters. Currently ten in the first volume. I felt this was a better way to structure the story. One of the inspirations I took from was One Piece, not in the setting, but how it treats its characters. A character can show up much later after they're introduced and play a major part in the story. I think that a book can flourish when you focus on the characters and develop them. This is why I don't do a main character, though if I had to pick a character to lead the cast, it'd have to be Lee, the oldest of the four kids. He is prominent through the general draft/plans I have with the series, but I make sure to give the other characters more exposure. Juggling characters can keep things from getting stale, but mixing up too many characters can stifle creativity as well.

On that note, let's talk the characters. We have Lee, the main kid coming of age. Then you have Red, a plucky kid with a goofy smile. Next is Tara, a young girl that gives her support to her friends and last but not least, we have Ingred, whose actual name is Red, but to avoid confusion with the other Red, was nicknamed Ingred. It's around when the moment when they find out more about him and what he can do is where the general story picks up. So, he's more or less the source of everyone's eventual status and discovers.

Another element that can build a strong story is the world your characters live in. The setting, basically. Building your world can draw in readers, moreso if you develop the world with great detail and a format that almost makes it seem like the world could exist somewhere in real life. One Piece again has a very interesting world, one with a lot of undertones and layers and we don't even know about it in its entirely. Twenty years and Eiichiro Oda has still kept people interested. I've been invested in One Piece a decade this year, and the payoff has been superb. And on that note, it's only been ten months, but Hunter x Hunter has stayed fresh in my mind, as much as One Piece with how well-written and developed the story, world and characters are. A shame Yoshihiro Togashi's health problems and family (His wife is the author of Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon, another series I took some pages from with two of the main characters featured) keep the manga from frequent updates, but what is there to read is fantastic.

I admit I try to keep it simple, but a bit of complexity can go a long way. However, too much complexity can stall a story and harm it, and too many unresolved plotlines makes things messy. As it stands, Mission will have continuity, and keep things simple enough to keep things fresh in the reader's mind. On that note, continuity is key, too. One thing that I like is seeing previous elements return, especially if they drive the story. Characters growing, aging and developing makes you invested in them and it almost feels like you grew up alongside them, if not vice versa. I understand that format may not work with all works, and there is a plus with keeping a character the same for worldwide appeal (Mario, Mickey Mouse, etc). but it does work when handled correctly.

This is my first self-published book, and it does show. It's not perfect, that I know. It's not the greatest story, that I also know. And of course it's not going to be everyone's cup of tea. That is certain. But, I know this much: It's gotta be better than Twilight (Whoops) and various other amounts of cringeworthy erotica (Not that Mission is intended to be an erotica series, period).

So, with that said, why not give Mission a read? If you like it, great. If not, that's fine as well. This is my first book, so I'll have to learn somehow. I think you'll like it if you're into adventure, fiction and fantasy.

Click here to buy the book.