The Untamed.

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Hot take: Watchmen and Dark Knight only resonate when you understand the tropes they are breaking. Otherwise they are just brutal. Their big claim to fame was “ comics have grown up” Using them as examples of what will “get a kid into comics” is exactly what they are not made for.

Yes.

"If you saw someone stealing food, no you didn't" Poster spotted in Cronulla, Sydney

The Krasheninnikov Volcano: erupts in Kamchatka, sending shitton of ash in the air My Mom two days ago: this might affect your flight, you know Finnair while ppl are boarding in Haneda: 🤫 Also Finnair, minutes after everyone goes phone mode: sooo... this flight is gonna take 15 hours oopsie

I think I accidentally introduced myself as a comics creator instead of scholar (A: I'm a researcher - S: Oh cool what's your field - A: I'm doing comics) while on Tokyo subway. 20+ minutes of VIP treatment and starry eyes can't be cause of comic research, right O_O #academicsky

I most definitely remember packing waterproof plasters and yet they disappeared. Stolen from plane cargo, I'm telling you!! (Or, way more probable: sitting on my bed one continent to the left, chilling alone in the empty apartment)

#ChildrensLit #UK I know what I will be writing over the next decade, and I have full book cases, so I am purging the children's fiction lit crit. If you are interested in any book on this list, DM. Price: £5 per book + £2 p&p. First come, first served. Pls Share docs.google.com/.../1_m5qz9Q....

Seul, today. My comics research senses (and machine translation) tell me Trump is not a superhero on these posters (third photo or Alt text for the 1st one include the MT) (Haven't checked the QR) #CantEscapeUSPolitics

Dear people with smelly food on public transport, You are my personal enemies. My thoughts are with you. A lot. All the worst, Miserable Human Being

Me meeting sb for the 3rd time: "Nice to meet you!" Conference season is on so basically, sorry in advance! I’m neurodivergent and faces/names don’t stick unless I ACTIVELY learn them (flashcards style). So if I haven’t seen you 3+ times at increasing intervals, I will blank. #AuADHD #AcademicSky

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If this is accurate, WeTransfer is unusable for professional creative work. Would violate most work-for-hire contracts to share copyrighted material with a third party like this.

I wrote this yesterday - a little piece about how games model individuals, and the inherent politics therein.

I’m not attending Worldcon this year & everything seems to be a mess but this is so mind-bendingly bad on so many levels that I think it’s worth unpacking while I’m in the no-space of airports

A brand new (and possibly the only one in this town) games & comics store is opening abt 200 meters from my apt and I'm gonna take it as a sign from the universe that the powers that lurk intend to reshape my neighborhood so that it fits me better (next stop: queer library?)

This looks fun.

Brussels, why?! I'm so not made for this kind of heat and apparently, neither is this city. This might be the first time in my conferencing history that I drink max 1 cup of coffee per day and eat ice cream for all meals xD (Watch with outside temp at 31C, thermostat inside my room temp at 30C).

It's my first time doing conference that uses 3rd day (out of 5) for the conference-adjacent library visit with no presentations planned. I was skeptical at first but by gods it feels amazing to know I can spend most of tmr recharging (and cooling down cause heat wave in a non-AC city)

probably a good time to bring this back

if you're in Europe PLEASE consider signing the Stop Destroying Games initiative. the deadline is July 31st 2025. it aims to create legislation for publishers to stop killing the games you pay for and to provide an end-of-life plan for live-service products. thanks! eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#...

You’re going to hear as much about “reproductive extremism” as you did “trans rights activism” in the same places, from the same people, with the same backers, with the same goal.

You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who is coming to save you? There is a non-zero chance I don't make it. (Fangs of Fortune)

Jonathan Joss was MURDERED. Words matter here. He was MURDERED. it was a HATE CRIME because he is a gay Indigenous man. Say those words. Do not dance around it. He wasn't "killed in a shooting." He was murdered in a hate crime.

The fact that my brain makes me feel(?) I'm smelling cigarette smoke when I'm tired and then more and more smoke if I don't take a break is both bonkers and wow. The fact that I was in my late 30s when I realized I'm not unlucky enough to always live in the smokers infested buildings? Also both xD

And yet another example that centrist politicians who try to win elections by pandering to the populist right eventually fail.

14) In 2025, it's better to buy and support Twilight than Harry Potter

It's Bigger Than Alex Graham's Comic: An Instagram post has stirred up a hornet's next of controversy by suggesting that comics by marginalized groups are overrated

Alex Graham made a comic where a nonwhite creator is depicted as a pig swarming with flies/awards, being applauded by a crowd. When a man labeled "white guilt" is taken aside/questioned, he furtively admits he doesn't like the work, quivering in fear, glancing at the pig/crowd. That's what she did.

"The associations also issued new guidelines for the use of AI in publishing, stating that “Post-editing of machine-translated books should not be labeled as translation,” and that AI editors should not be credited as translators in any part of a book or its metadata." slator.com/denmark-says...

Had a nap dream that I was walking through some postapo desert and Gandalf was trying to feed me weird bright green grain after Merry and Pippin refused to eat it (in Chinese) and then everything went dark and background voice chanted "It was made by those who are Dead." Woke up angry at Gandalf 🙈

NEXT TUESDAY!!! Are you a comic reader who wants to learn more about comics history and how comics are made? Sign up for my Comics Literacy 101 class, a virtual session sponsored by the Durham County Library! durhamcountylibrary.libcal.com/event/14317983

Your regular reminder that even if a Supreme Court says you must do a things the Nuremberg court ruled that 'just obeying orders' isn't a defence.

Sooo many layers of nostalgia in this (brilliant!!) thread 💜

This will sound weird but love yourself enough to write your own term papers.

Sandra Duffy responds to the #ForWomenScotland decision of the UK Supreme Court, which creates the category of legally-female-but-not-a-woman for the purposes of equality law! criticallegalthinking.com/2025/04/24/s...

Last couple of days I've been thinking (whining, really) how I used to be better (less akward, less prone to be read as lacking ppl skills) in personal communication. Until I realized, quite suddenly. I wasn't better. I just didn't know.

usually cool leftish people falling for new AI image generator trends: come on bro. why

Call for papers, due end of April. Queer ecology and the Temporal Imagination #academicsky

Butler: "I think we have to be mindful of the importance of translation. Working w/ my translators I saw that the theoretical work in queer or feminist or trans theory has to be multilingual&depends on translation; translation is the condition of possibility of the future of the field."

The autistic urge to respond to ‘what did you do at the weekend?’ with a long commentary that extensively details your weekend’s itinerary, including the highs, lows and nondescript parts of it that nobody really wants to know.

It's one of these days 🙈 Or, how to make sure you're not late for your train when your brain is no doing so hot #MentalHealth #ADHDlife

Happy international women's day. 👇

gotta watch all the way through for the great twist ending

anytime someone starts talking about clashing "civilizations," it's good to recall Balibar and Wallerstein on cultural racism

In the meantime, please keep donating! Every donation shows that you stand defiant against the threats on women's rights, LGBT+ rights, reproductive rights, and threats to the culture sector. www.gofundme.com/f/btscc2

reading introduction to an article I'm writing: wow this is crap, totally can't be salvaged *cue in dooming* reading the analytical part: ... ok that's actually very good wth me, why that shitty introduction Guess who teaches their students never to start writing from intro and still does so 🙈

I know the world is on fire, but can you help a girl graduate? She needs way more people to fill out her dissertation survey. You can fill it out if you're Black/AA and have ever been in grad school! If not, you can help by sharing! #BlackSky #AcademicSky #PhDLife #Blackademics #MedSky #Academia