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Probably lettered that one comic you really like. And that other one.

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Carla Speed McNeil's avatar Carla Speed McNeil @carlaspeedmcneil.bsky.social
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We lost Michael Zulli today. Beautiful, lyrical, mystical storyteller, he was part of the BW Boom of the 80s with his PUMA BLUES, he drew some gorgeous stuff for SANDMAN, and a startlingly fun book about Alice Cooper. All that’s just for starters. Some people, you think will always be out there.

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It took me a while to get into I SAW THE TV GLOW – a movie about stasis, I felt, didn’t need to be so static, and it lacked the unbearable tension animating WORLD’S FAIR, but then the first song hit, and I *got* what it was doing, and where it was going. Not as good as WORLD’S FAIR, but still great.

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WildGorillaMan's avatar WildGorillaMan @wildgorillaman.bsky.social
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Least sociopathic LinkedIn post ever Like infinite monkeys with typewriters eventually you get a LinkedIn post that makes sense

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Sean T. Collins's avatar Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.bsky.social
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The new Boiled Leather Audio Hour episode is out! Guest co-host @scumbelievable.bsky.social and I talk about the big dragon battle episode of House of the Dragon, available here or wherever free podcasts are sold!

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Every once in a while I’ll tell K something random and she’ll go “why the fuck do you know that”. Today it was the fact that “Entrance of the Clowns” was originally written to be a military march and was called “Entry of the Gladiators”.

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Steve Lieber's avatar Steve Lieber @stevelieberart.bsky.social
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Speaking of Albert Dorne, look at these pencil sketch of his. It's probably a preparatory sketch for an illustration. The solidity! Those gestures! That drapery!

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Rosie Flick's avatar Rosie Flick @rosieflick.bsky.social
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Gotta celebrate those good lip-bites 😅

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Aditya Bidikar's avatar Aditya Bidikar @adityab.net
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Oooooh.

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Aditya Bidikar's avatar Aditya Bidikar @adityab.net
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Oh, I didn't realise that! (I haven't read the whole thing). I thought it was more of an unreliable narrator thing.

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Nevertheless, there is a semiotic energy to a document, a frisson. It’s something exported from the universe of the fiction into our world. Some kind of play with immersion and belief, a paradoxical closeness caused by added distance.

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I know I’m biased here. Some of my earliest readings were Dracula and several British diary novels, and one of favourite sf novels is an in-universe encyclopaedia (The Book of the War, of course). But also, I can tell you I didn’t give a flying fuck about Game of Thrones till I read Fire & Blood.

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There should be more popular novels written like in-universe documents. (I know I mostly mean “epistolary” here, but I’m also including books that are single documents – in-universe histories, encyclopaedias, textbooks, “notes towards” and suchlike.)

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Aditya Bidikar's avatar Aditya Bidikar @adityab.net
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Oh, that sounds absolutely lovely (and totally the kind of thing FP readers would enjoy).

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Aditya Bidikar's avatar Aditya Bidikar @adityab.net
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Desert Island Discworld is/was one of my favourite podcasts, and not just because I was on it once! Check out the guest list on that thing.

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That's marvellous! I'll look forward to it.

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Philip Purser-Hallard's avatar Philip Purser-Hallard @purserhallard.bsky.social
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I wrote about one of my favourite Jodie Whitaker episodes (yes, I have several) for Jim's newsletter.

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Aditya Bidikar's avatar Aditya Bidikar @adityab.net
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Oh, that sounds marvellous! I have a copy but haven’t read it yet. This might be the ticket!

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Tom Ewing's avatar Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social
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This was one of the things I loved most about My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, the document having a presence in the story, the action impacting on the document

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Bernard O'Leary 's avatar Bernard O'Leary @bleary.bsky.social
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JG Ballard did some fun experiments like this. One of his short stories is entirely structured as the index of a biography.

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Aditya Bidikar's avatar Aditya Bidikar @adityab.net
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That was “The Index”, right? I remember that!

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I have not read that! Adding it to the list.

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Al Kennedy's avatar Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social
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The Gravity Falls book is a perfect example of this

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By the time “Alasdair Gray” is “fact-checking” Victoria/Bella’s own account of things, I was reading it with my jaw hanging open. Its sheer audacity made me laugh multiple times!

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That was such a fun book! Adored it.

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Jodie Troutman's avatar Jodie Troutman @longtalljodie.com
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"The Secret History of Twin Peaks" is definitely up there in this category for me.

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I haven’t read it yet, but it’s sitting on my shelf. They go the extra mile of actually reproducing the look and feel of the document, like an artefact acquired from within the fiction. Good stuff!

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Ted & Ro's avatar Ted & Ro @brandtandstein.com
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I was admittedly was quite high on hospital morphine when I read it, but I seem to remember the Doug Dorst/JJ Abrams S. novel being interesting in that regard?

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wishda's avatar wishda @wishda.bsky.social
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House of Leaves is my favorite example of this.

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Oliver Gerlach's avatar Oliver Gerlach @olliegerlach.bsky.social
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Have you read POOR THINGS? Because that's one hell of a fictional document.

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Aditya Bidikar's avatar Aditya Bidikar @adityab.net
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Oh, I adored it. Fine, fine movie, but GREAT novel.

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Nevertheless, there is a semiotic energy to a document, a frisson. It’s something exported from the universe of the fiction into our world. Some kind of play with immersion and belief, a paradoxical closeness caused by added distance.

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I know I’m biased here. Some of my earliest readings were Dracula and several British diary novels, and one of favourite sf novels is an in-universe encyclopaedia (The Book of the War, of course). But also, I can tell you I didn’t give a flying fuck about Game of Thrones till I read Fire & Blood.

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Aditya Bidikar's avatar Aditya Bidikar @adityab.net
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There should be more popular novels written like in-universe documents. (I know I mostly mean “epistolary” here, but I’m also including books that are single documents – in-universe histories, encyclopaedias, textbooks, “notes towards” and suchlike.)

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Al Kennedy's avatar Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social
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If we really want to know how to separate the art from the artist, we should ask whoever at Marvel dealt with Kirby's original pages between the 1960s and 1990s

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Last year the doctor told me I had a hemorrhoid and to stop straining when I poop. I made a conscious effort to stop straining for a year and now it's gone. Can't brag about it. I didn't even tell wife of 30 years. She would just be grossed out. The doctor wasn't even impressed.

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Some days I really *feel* how much I have to be grateful for.

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Jaunty Art's avatar Jaunty Art @jauntyart.bsky.social
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Saw this on mastodon and it is fantastic. AI in medicine

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Yell In a War's avatar Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social
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gotdamn if this isn’t EXACTLY what destroys relationships of every kind between men and women—family, platonic, workplace, romantic no amount of love can withstand being shot down every single time she opens her mouth

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Kurt Busiek's avatar Kurt Busiek @kurtbusiek.bsky.social
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—by Marv Wolfman, Marie Severin and John Costanza, 1974

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