Hello everybody! And today we are going to have a little talk about metaphor. Metaphor. Okay, so anyway, how this is gonna go is as follows. A little while ago, I did the like, like, what do you call it? When I pitch my shit, not my tent, my shit, when I tell you guys, oh, the new blood rags out, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I got a funny comment. It was kind of, uh, what's the word I'm looking for here? Could be slightly offensive to some people. So why is this called the blood rag? Because what I was hoping to get from the people who submit to this, okay? What I was hoping to get was people writing so real and so raw that it was like they cut themselves and then use the paper as like a gauze or a rag to just bleed into the gauze or the rag. Okay, I wanted this to be a thing that captures that blood, that spirit, that soul. Alright? And then the rag side of it is that a rag is an old, tiny name for like a throwaway, periodical, like a newspaper, a tabloid, what have you. Okay? So, and I think a lot of that has to do with maybe the fact that for a long time people use, and I think they still do, use newspaper to clean windows to like, so there's no streaks and stuff like that. So that was the idea behind this, okay? And then I got this comment where this guy said, I'm gonna misquote it because I, whatever. He said something like, yeah, my wife has a blood rag once a month or something like that. Now, he was joking, he said it in a harmless manner, it is slightly offensive to, at least half the population to say something like that. And then I said, yeah, that's the idea. Meaning this too happens once a month. And that metaphor was not an intentional metaphor, meaning I did not start this with that in mind. But used his metaphor of something into my metaphor of something. Do you guys see how metaphors work? Isn't this just fucking fascinating shit? So anyway, the whole purpose of me talking about this and talking about metaphor and the whole deal. Because as you've heard me say numerous times in the past, I would rather have a simile. And since I said like about 1,500 times, maybe we should be talking simile here more than metaphor. But then some say, simile is just a type of metaphor. So let's just say words, words, words. So if you feel like you can write something raw, you could write something visceral. You feel like when you write, it's like slicing your wrist and pouring it on the page. Send it to me. I'm interested. I would love to put it in this. So anyhow, that is that. If you have any comments or questions about this, please let me know down below. And you can pick up the first two issues while supplies last of the blood rag at my Etsy shop, located down below. And honestly, to the guy who sent me the comment, I appreciate the comment. This wasn't to throw you under the bus or anything like that. But it might be offensive. So you might want to pop that shit a little bit. So until next time everybody, I will talk to you later. Bye bye.