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*Warning, some readers may find offensive. Feel free to keep scrolling past this post. Not necessarily OL related. Just MHO.
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So Sam’s driver, David Stewart, appears to have made a slight error in judgement yesterday… 😬
I’m quite surprised and disappointed by the number of people online who have been very very quick to judge this man based on a tweet he made in his own colloquial tongue. He’s now apparently scum of the earth and most certainly a sexist misogynist who hates women. Apparently everyone has just jumped on the #MeToo and #TimesUp wagon and we is gonna burn ourselves a witch!
As usual in this fandom, people forget one very important thing, CONTEXT. I’m from the North East of Scotland and I can tell you for a fact that many people use the ‘C’ word to simply replace ‘people’ or ‘persons’ in a sentence. It’s daft I know and it’s not everyday language, but it’s certainly used down the pub when your away for a pint. Which is the very context in which David was using it. (I don’t use the C word, but that’s only because my parents are very against swearing in general. I didn’t say fuck until I was like 18!’)
Anyway… Let’s revisit his tweet. He’s just arrived in New York and is going for a drink at a bar… Translation:
‘Where is everyone in New York? Come meet us in Blooms Tavern for drinks’ 😁👍🏼🍺
See that this has absolutely nothing to do with women. Dinna Fash, I ken exactly fit David meant and the intent was not malicious at all. He obviously just didn’t understand how offensive the word was in the USA. But the fact that people are so quick to judge and are responding with things like ‘You’re not in Scotland anymore’ or ‘How dare you speak to women like that’ or ‘When in Rome, do as the Romans do’ is just people wanting to see evil when there is none to be seen.
Also, wasn’t it just this year that fans around the world were being told that their behaviour at Culloden was offensive to us Scots? 🏴❤️
It’s a national grave site and folk are hosting picnics and taking selfies. Alasdair MacNeill, of the Circle of Gentlemen, spoke to the Scotsman newspaper earlier this year. He said that-
They probably weren’t even aware of what they were doing because they are in another country and don’t know our heritage, our history. It doesn’t make it okay but you can correct someone’s behaviour without making them out to be something their not. Fans were simply told that where Jamie Fraser might be fictional in terms of DG’s OL novels, the Jacobites buried at Culloden are not and to be respectful when visiting.
So all I’m saying is, a little understanding would be lovely, his comment was lost in translation. It was silly to post on a SM platform where you don’t know who is reading but he really meant no harm. He was inviting folk down for a drink. Slainte! 🥃
People will most likely disagree but please be kind. I don’t mean any offence, I simply think that in a world where such terrible things are being said and done every second, persecuting David for saying something online which wasn’t actually meant in the way that some people are making it out, just seems a little trivial to me to be honest. IMO. Controversial for a Sunday morning, I know. 🤭
Frank Miller’s ex-wife, Lynn Varley was a pivotal component in the creation of Batman: The Dark Knight Returns. First and foremost, she was the colorist for the graphic novel (as well as many of Miller’s other works, e.g. Ronin and 300). Using watercolors to produce the rich hues evident in The Dark Knight Returns, she adds quite a lot of visual depth to the piece as a whole. As Scott McCloud says in Chapter 8 of Understanding Comics, “Color can be a formidable ally in any visual medium” (185). It’s also fascinating to see how well Varley’s work holds up over twenty years later, even despite the limitations of commerce and technology that all comic book artists face. It should come as no surprise, then, that she was a 1999 Eisner Award winner.
Varley is notoriously reclusive and it’s difficult to find out much about her. Here’s an interview with the LA Times circa 1990 where she briefly discusses her own process.
This interview with Dave Stewart is also worth a read for anyone interested in the techniques/process of other colorists.
In addition to being a brilliant and underrated artist, she was fundamental to the development of the slang used throughout The Dark Knight Returns.
“In the other books, it’s just stuff I overheard or made up. But in Dark Knight, it all has to do with the town where [wife and colorist Lynn Varley] grew up. Her brothers—Don and Rob, by the way—were part of a bunch of kids who talked in this very peculiar manner. Whenever I heard it, I’d just go nuts, because I loved it. It was this very sarcastic mode of speech. One time I was in Michigan visiting the family, and I sat the two of them down and had them do it into a tape recorder, and I went back and studied it. Then I wrote my stories, and I would always show those parts to Lynn before I got it lettered, and she’d tell me where I got it wrong.”