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Dominic Mah aka 12 Valentines

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Screenwriter, songwriter, uncle, karaoke nerd, superhero analyst.
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Youtoob: Melancholyball and Nerds Of Color. IG: @dommah If there's a kid in the picture, it's my nephew.
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I started a Kindle Vella, mainly for the pure hella of it. It's a sci-fi/fantasy rom-com, with kaiju. I'll get that 3rd episode up soon.

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Here's the lyric video for our latest release from 12 VALENTINES, a song called SOMEONE? as sung by Joey Slater and Victoria Ess. For fans of looking out of train windows, this is the lyric video for you!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGzh...

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You ever have one of those, "Let's just go 100% AFFLECK this streaming night, yah?" No? No one? It's just me? Okay. Never mind.

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Here's a song from 12 Valentines we're tryna get out the on ye olde TikTok. "Someone?" by Gaby Alter and I, sung by Joey Slater and Vic Ess. Lyric video with the view from a train between stops in the East Bay Area.
www.tiktok.com/@dommah1/vid...

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I feel like a hacker hero or rogue custodian will free it from the vault eventually. Got to assume whatever tax chicanery they used to justify shelving it would bite them in butt if they then intentionally released it.

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I root for that hacker hero, wherever in the Southland or the Russian Federation they may dwell

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It's sort of tricky to find good Batgirl content in the animated and live-action spaces cos a certain portion of it is superfluously gross. Anyone have any recommendations?

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How's that Release The Batgirl Movie movement going, fandoms? Or Release A Batgirl Movie? Would love to feel some energy there.

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This is obviously trivial, but does anyone think this year's Olympics could get a bit weird with at least two major wars going on in the world?

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If your argument climaxes with, "there's this youtube video..." It's not really an argument. C'mon everybody. PLEASE GET IT TOGETHER.

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I wrote a draft of a novel, titled "JQK." A crime thriller with a serial killer, about Asian Americans, casinos, sports, + a superspy fanfiction subplot. In a pitch I'd say it's a mishmash of Silence of the Lambs, Netflix's BEEF, and No Country For Old Men. 114K words, if anyone wantsta take a look.

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I'm just joining this thread in the middle but I like that idea. It's always kinda bothered me that in movies hitmen are as ubiquitous as lawyers. It just sorta spoils it as a niche specialized profession

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Oh yah, Paladin, awesome. Bold purple costume scheme. Maybe similar to a lot of other characters, OK.

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It's May 25, so here's Ani DiFranco's version of Pete Seeger's "My Name Is Lisa Kalvelage." On May 25, 1966, Lisa was arrested for trying to block a shipment of napalm to Vietnam. She was protesting a cruel and senseless war, like the ones we've got going on now.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIqN...

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What are some numbers in your field that anyone else in it would identify without even thinking about it, but folk outside may have no idea. Just the numbers, no explanations. Yet. 105 148 210 297 420 594 841 1189

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On this week's Hard NOC Life podcast, we make all the tricky segues: Pearl Jam => NBA Playoffs => Indie Asian American film => self promotion of personal projects => X-Men 97. I don't even know anymore. thenerdsofcolor.org/2024/05/20/h...

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Here's the lyric video for our latest release from 12 VALENTINES, a song called SOMEONE? as sung by Joey Slater and Victoria Ess. For fans of looking out of train windows, this is the lyric video for you!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGzh...

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I dunno exactly what my Substack is about, but if there's a space for "Getting Off Your Chest A Thing You've Been Carrying Around," this is that. dommah.substack.com/p/on-artisti...

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Keith and I rant about Star Wars vis a vis Asian American definitional problems. and also Superman's boots on this week's Hard NOC Life, for Nerds of Color.
thenerdsofcolor.org/2024/05/06/h...

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It's #BandcampFriday, and Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month, and Dr. QQQ wants U to get a 12 Valentines song for $1 or pay-what-u-like! Or preorder our album, which will be made by many folks incl Asian American pop music nerds like me + @mzmo.bsky.social.
12valentines.bandcamp.com

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Hey, it's Bandcamp Friday, so pls patronize our indie pop project 12 VALENTINES. We just have the 2 songs out right now, but we're working on more. Pretty, catchy, partially comic-book-related.
12valentines.bandcamp.com

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12 Valentines has a catchy new song out! Should you check out our music cos it's Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month and me and @mzmo.bsky.social worked hard on these tunes? Yah you should! Joey Slater and Victoria Ess do a lovely job singing it.
12valentines.bandcamp.com/track/someon...

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If you've ever wanted to listen to me rant generally about the X-Men and make totalizing claims about their impact on GenX and Millennials, well, here's that one. thenerdsofcolor.org/2024/04/29/h...

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Wondercon 2024 was awesome.
Jessika repped 12 Valentines in cosplay as Spider-Gwen, Carol Danvers in mufti, Black Canary, and red-dress Harley Quinn from the @jamesgunn.bsky.social Suicide Squad film.
Just the one song out rn, but more cool comics-adjacent tunes are otw! 12valentines.bandcamp.com

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Oh great, thank you

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A snippet from our next song, SOMEONE? April 14 is Black Day, aka Korean Eat Black Sauce Noodles in Solitude / Single People Valentines' Day. The 8-year anniversary of Prince's passing is next Sunday. Indeed, things have been weird since then. Hopefully this whole song is done by Saturday.

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Was really happy to talk with Djimon Hounsou and to wish him an imminent happy 60th birthday (4/24/24!). He spoke on his particular experience with birthdays, informed by his upbringing. Plus, their favorite karaoke songs! And it all sorta relates to REBEL MOON 2's Songs of the Rebellion.

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@bsky.app Is there a way here to find my own posts? :) I sometimes want to do that. "Xorn @dommah" returns no evidence of my post about Xorn the X-Person, which I want to find but....? Is there a Feed setting?

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I've not heard of this film but as a regularly-reviving artistic failure in the East Bay, clearly I wanna watch it.

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At the moment yes, thx for connecting in any case

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#Prince4Ever
April 21, 2016
Ever since Prince died, shit's been weird.

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Was really happy to talk with Djimon Hounsou and to wish him an imminent happy 60th birthday (4/24/24!). He spoke on his particular experience with birthdays, informed by his upbringing. Plus, their favorite karaoke songs! And it all sorta relates to REBEL MOON 2's Songs of the Rebellion.

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No, but here's my #StarWarsOutlaws question tho.
If Kay Vess is from Canto Bite
and Canto Bite is on the planet Cantonica (ikr)
does that mean Kay Vess is....CANTONESE?
Cos that'd be the AWESOMEST.

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THE BATMAN was cool but I feel it'd've been cooler if titled THE BATMAN BUT IT'S MORE ABOUT IF YOUR RACIAL IDENTITY OR GENDER NONCONFORMITY SITUATION BECAME AN AWESOME COSTUME WHICH GUIDES YOU TOWARDS REALIZATION EXCEPT THERE'S ALWAYS SOMETHING IN THE WAY LIKE THAT KURT COBAIN SONG SO YOU PUNCH IT.

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On this weeks Hard NOC Life podcast: CinemaCon, Joker 2, Rebel Moon Part Two, Lady Gaga, and Spurious Internet Authorities on musicals, Kurosawa films, and DC Comics. Plus, support #12Valentines, speaking of fresh music.

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A snippet from our next song, SOMEONE? April 14 is Black Day, aka Korean Eat Black Sauce Noodles in Solitude / Single People Valentines' Day. The 8-year anniversary of Prince's passing is next Sunday. Indeed, things have been weird since then. Hopefully this whole song is done by Saturday.

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Is this still a safe place to love on the Suicide Squad game? Season of Joker raised questions for me, but they're mainly about what Seasons 2-13 might bring, cos I'm all in.
#SSKTJL @madpierrot.bsky.social

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My group 12 Valentines will post a bit of a new song, "Someone?" on April 14, Black Day, the Korean Singles Day when single ppl eat Black Sauce Noodles (jajangmyeon), one of the 12 Korean Valentine's Days. Yes, as per some much more famous K-Pop groups, we release previews of teasers of snippets.

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IS the MCU the most important Medium Close Up in the history of cinema?

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No, but here's my #StarWarsOutlaws question tho.
If Kay Vess is from Canto Bite
and Canto Bite is on the planet Cantonica (ikr)
does that mean Kay Vess is....CANTONESE?
Cos that'd be the AWESOMEST.

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I really appreciate Gail for reposting these things, and Harley seems to get a kick out of it too

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Anthony Mackie

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