We’d crossed our fingers and prayed for the best, walking blindly into a shrouded future. Ben sold the tees to local stores-a few hundred shirts per delivery. The Hundreds started back in 2003 with some drawings that I’d put on T-shirts, then blogged about. Yet when my partner, Ben, and I first formed the idea of a fun storytelling project, it never occurred to us that The Hundreds would become a globally recognized streetwear label, grow this big, and be sustained for this long. Indonesia, Norway, Mexico City, and-Derek was right-even Ohio. Cool, fashionable kids from around the world were checking in. We’d been hyping up a big collaboration with adidas, and I watched my comments sizzle with positive emojis and friends tagging each other-the digital equivalent of a high five. I logged on to The Hundreds’ Instagram account. All these bandwagoners don’t even get what it’s about and it pisses me off. And it’s not just your brand, it’s streetwear in general. But now it’s sold everywhere, and everybody in my school is wearing it. I used to feel like it was really special. “So, what’s bothering you about The Hundreds?”
This eventually segued into a discussion about streetwear and fashion. For the next twenty or thirty minutes, Derek and I volleyed our daily frustrations back and forth. “You’re so weird,” she said, smiling, then retired upstairs for the night as Netflix droned into the background.
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She teased, “Who are you talking to? Another one of your internet fans?” She’d noticed that I’d stopped paying attention to the TV and was hunched over my phone. My wife, Misa, walked into the room and plopped down next to me. I can’t even find a job that I like in my town. “Yeah? Well, I think I’m gonna fail school and my mom is threatening to kick me out. Took six of our guys twelve hours, cutting and sewing … such a nightmare.” I got a production order of pants back from our factory today, but all the tags were mislabeled. Near midnight, a red notification blipped across my screen, the echo of a star’s explosion that took hours traveling from a distant galaxy.
Occasionally, I’d check my mentions to see if Derek had rebutted with a goofy meme or let loose a tirade against me. I got home, ate dinner, and worked from the couch. It was as if somebody had turned off the faucet. I fired back: “Even a small dog can piss on a big building.” Then I hit select all, deleted, and rethought my approach. I typically let abuse like this wash over me and dissipate they’re just thoughts, really. And here was this snot-nosed teenager burrowing into my scalp. It had been a long day, the sort that mercilessly takes and takes. Why don’t u just die already?”īy the time I saw Derek’s spew bubble up on my feed, I was sitting in traffic on my commute home from Vernon to Venice. He’d started off tweeting about how The Hundreds “used to be cool” and eventually sank to cheap taunts and lazy expletives. I caught him in my Twitter replies, fastening together a chain of insults against my brand. But according to his bio, Derek is landlocked in northern Ohio. He looks as if he could be a stony surfer from Topanga, a portly Spicoli. From what I can see in his profile pic, he’s not quite twenty with mangy blond curls and a sharp nose. In real life, you can usually find her hanging upside down from the ceiling or stabbing people with swords.His name is Derek. SL Huang justifies her MIT degree by using it to write eccentric mathematical superhero fiction. " starts with a bang and never lets up." ― Booklist a sf thriller that fans will truly enjoy." ― Library Journal "High-stakes action and emotional velocity. clever plotting and thrilling action." ― Publishers Weekly Math-genius mercenary Cas Russell has stopped a shadow organization from brainwashing the world and discovered her past was deliberately erased and her superhuman abilities deliberately created.Īnd that's just the start: when a demolitions expert targets Cas and her friends, and the hidden conspiracy behind Cas's past starts to reappear, the past, present, and future collide in a race to save one of her dearest friends. Huang's Critical Point is a breakout SF thriller for fans of John Scalzi and Greg Rucka. Join us August 19th at 7pm EST, to talk about Huang's new book, Critical Point the third book in her in the Cas Russell Series. Read It Again Bookstore is excited to welcome SL Huang to our online author series.
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