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it's already in stores?
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I mostly about comics & international tv. It costs nothing to read, and it's worth the price.
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it's already in stores?
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dunno if it's exactly what you're thinking, but my gothling has a lot of Halloween stuff and it's less to do with the holiday and more to do with the fact that she likes spooky stuff and I like buying stuff on clearance. Year round spooky isn't 70% off on Nov. 1.
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So, even if the UK exit polls are off by a lot, we're in for a large Labour majority. Surely we'll be getting lots of think pieces about "what the landslide in the UK means for the US elections" like all those ones we got about far right parties managing a plurality in European elections? Right?
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Has anyone joked that July 4th is the day Britain declared independence from the Tories yet?
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one of the show runners has a comic out now, I Heart Skull-Crusher, that my gothling and I absolutely love. (Which you may already know but, hey, I'm happy to be all "read this book" for anyone who hasn't seen it.)
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sometimes I play the NYT Connections game and I say to myself "what's the stupidest possible category today" and it ends up being the blue or purple category. Today was one of those days.
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The first vol. was hilarious and I'm sure I missed plenty of jokes. Looking forward to getting the chance to read vol. 2 (which will hopefully be available through hoopla like book 1).
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Make a movie milder: I Shrug Emoji Huckabees
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whenever I capture a spider and release it outside, I assure it that it will like it better out there.
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Happy Canada Day
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Forget this Ulf character. I want to know who Samson Kayo is playing.
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Why-a no chicken?
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More thoughts on stuff the gothling is watching: While I've been pleasantly surprised with all of the G3 Monster High media, Disney's Descendants has really exceeded my expectations... in that it's far worse than expected.
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just signed up for Discord w/the username H4113r15 and was at first surprised it was available, but then quickly realized how old I am.
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so many of my parent's friends went from "recently widowed" to "just married someone else who was recently widowed". Although this wasn't usually via a grief group
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yr thinking Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich
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I shoulda never saved ya from those seals
youtu.be/jFhvmCgs_L4?...
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This is available on hoopla if your library subscribes and it's great.
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you might think there's a crown in this for you, but for most folks it's a bridge too far
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it'd be nice if the people telling me to take a break/take care of myself were helping create the conditions where that's possible rather than where that's necessary
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hey @wendyxu.bsky.social, did you see this:
www.graphicmedicine.org/medical-mentions-book-reviews-ix/
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"First mate, you have the bridge" often proceeded by "okay, what _____ said"
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"First mate, you have the bridge"
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... I described your use (aesthetically and narratively) of it in Sunflowers and caused a couple of purchases. I'm looking forward to everything next.
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The moment has passed, but I'm going to compliment anyway. I loved Taproot and I Only Have Eyes. Sunflowers is superlative. I really like the background details in the latter two. The other day I was chatting w/folks at a comic shop and the subject of full black pages came up. I described...
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...because, like I said, I cannot draw, but that doesn't make me unable to appreciate art, develop ways of seeing, or appreciate artists. Quite the opposite on the last one: I recognize and appreciate the skill involved even more because it's so far beyond me.
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I have motor dysgraphia. I literally cannot draw. I find the "AI makes it possible for everyone to art" argument annoying, because it's generally not people like me making it. I'm just being used to justify garbage. I also find the "we need to teach ppl to draw" argument just as frustrating...
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not that the left is an improvement on Klimt, but...
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Most people are not idiots. However, most of the people who feel their opinion is very important and should be shared widely are. This is what crowdsourcing runs on. GIGO for all the technological utopianists still out there.
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once read a webstore review of a GN where reviewer said they read on their phone while walking thr dog, & complained that the drawings were hard to read and it didn't hold their attention. Maybe reading it on a better device while not distracted would help? Yet another reason crowdsourcing is dumb.
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Anyone asking for multiple sigs w/no names to make things out to will be charged double.
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… anyway, in the highly unlikely event that I'm ever in a position where people will be lining up to pay for my signature. I plan to offer free signatures for dog-eared, shelf-worn and highlighted copies of whatever I'm signing. …
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… Hodder shrugged and said five bucks, phrased as a question. It struck me that he was happily giving my friends a discount because they were obviously fans enjoying the things being signed, not someone looking to sell things on at a profit. …
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… My friends had a VHS of Jason Takes Manhattan with a severely beaten cover and a loose action figure. Hodder cracked a couple of jokes when one of my friends called it a doll and answered their questions. After that they asked what they owed. …
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…My friends were on the line for Kane Hodder's autograph, I was meeting them near the exit. The guy before them had a stack of boxed figures and pristine DVDs. Hodder dutifully signed them and added up the total cost of close to $300 for the sigs. …
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I don't understand collector culture and probably never will. I recently learned about slabbing, which makes a weird sense for baseball cards, but renders comics unreadable. What's the point in owning something to not be used? This reminded me of the time I went to a horror con nearly 25 years ago…
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I need to find out which of my local acquaintances is going to SDCC:
www.youloveit.com/dolls/3948-m...
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They aren't on bsky, but the world needs to know that Kay O'Neill has a new book coming out next spring:
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/646211...
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and, yes, if this happens, I'll be in the theater with my gothling
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If it wasn't the easiest prediction to make, I'd crow about it.
variety.com/2024/film/ne...!
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If the Energon Universe comics really want my attention, they'll bring in @christafaust.bsky.social to write a Baroness series.
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Why say something once, clearly & concisely, when you can say it three ever more muddled times? This isn't to say that I'm necessarily repeating the point, or belaboring it, just that there is a tendency to circle back over and over. It's a marked difference from 20 years ago, when I was better at 🧵
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this was my first time seeing a live gator, but "get close and turn your back to it" was pretty much the exact opposite of what I figured was appropriate
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eventually a park volunteer walked up and was like "uhh, so you guys know. If he decides you look tasty when you're that close, you won't be able to get away. Maybe get photos from a bit more distance."
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this reminds me of the time I was visiting my mother in Florida and we took a day trip into the everglades. At this one park there was an alligator half-emerged from the edge of a pond. People were squatting down next to it, taking selfies. (It did NOT look like a statue.)
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I feel like every UK election at least one (usually more) news source I follow does the "those wacky Brits only have a six week election cycle! Can you believe it‽‽‽" story. Just stop.
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Just updated my American's/Newcomer's guide to Inside No. 9 for the last time. This anthology series has been consistently high quality and I wanted to help people decide where they might want to dive in according to their own taste. The show is on BritBox in the US.
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… I have a fascination w/ voices & accents, but I also prefer non-verbal communication when I'm with people where that's possible. I'm pondering if all this is weird and contradictory or somehow interconnected. Like maybe I'm just taking in too much aural info & my brain is like "STOPPIT ALREADY!"
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...at the same time, I have severe sound sensitivity and misphonia. Given how much I prefer to watch even English television with captions, and how I seem to miss occasional words from even American accents I sometimes wonder if I have a bit of an auditory processing deficit....
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