Today's Marvel holiday panels come from Spider-Man: Holiday Spectacular 2025. #xmen #xmas #spiderman #marvel #comics

Our Marvel holiday panel for today comes from the wordily titled Mighty Marvel Holiday Special - Happy Holidays, Mr. Howlett from 2021. #nightcrawler #xmas #xmen #marvel #comics

On my latest “Looking Back on Genre History” segment on the #StarShipSofa podcast (Episode 772), I discuss early #Feminist #ScienceFiction utopias and focus on A Few Hours in a Far-Off Age (1883) by #HenriettaDugdale. #Utopia #AustralianLit #Books […] [Original post on universeodon.com]

I remembered that Zombie Dice has an expansion with Santa, so I taught Celestine the game and we had a festive, brain-eating rolling session.

I received a belated birthday present from my sister Ilea today and was delighted to get an Astro Boy shirt (I now happily have three), vegan nut butter cups, and a stack of vintage sci fi and fantasy. I guess those need to factor into my 2026 reading plans.

We're having a morning crossing the harbour and at the ferry terminal Celestine sat down at the piano. I noticed the theme to Howl's Moving Castle was open.

Today's Marvel holiday panel comes from Merry X-Men Holiday Special 2019. #xmas #jubilee #marvel #comics

This mural by DCM Art Creations, titled "Ancestral Frequencies", is a bright part of walking down Maitland Street. His making of video gives a quick look at its creation. https://www.tiktok.com/@dcm_art/video/7526944607209295110 #murals #mural

This eldritch balloon Santa was a weird delight when visiting E-Joy. #xmas #santa

Today's Marvel holiday panel comes from Spider-Man Holiday Special 1995. #marvel #xmas #comics #spiderman #humantorch

We visited the Public Gardens today and encountered this brave squirrel.

In What The--?! #10 from 1990, Lobdell and Byrne brought together Marvel's greatest villain with Santa in the story "I'll Be Doom For Christmas". So today it's time for two Marvel holiday panels. #xmas #comics #doctordoom #marvel #santa #santadoom

Today's Marvel holiday panel comes from Marvel Holiday Special 1993, and has The Punisher taking a punch while dressed as Santa and wearing a metal armour beneath the suit. #marvel #comics #xmas #thepunisher

Thursday night I gathered with old friends for another D&D session. I put on another of my pairs of D&D socks and our four adventurers set out to battle zombies and cultists.

Today's Marvel holiday panel comes from Marvel Holiday Special 2011. Earlier in the comic Thing had the festive line, "It may be Christmas-time for the gentiles...but for you...IT'S CLOBBERIN' TIME!" #xmas #comics #thing

I was stuck in traffic on the bus last night so I read Archie's Christmas Spectacular. It's just classic Archie, boring bits and all, but it was fun to spend some time with these characters. The story set at the North Pole was definitely the highlight. I wasn't […] [Original post on cozymech.com]

Today's Marvel holiday panel is from Generation X Holiday Special from 1998. #xmen #xmas #marvel #comics

Here's your dorky Marvel holiday panel of the day, featuring Beast and Iceman. From Marvel Holiday Special 1994 #xmen #xmas #marvel #comics

Celestine and I made this pathetic, slushy snow person yesterday.

The Creature just picked up some new friends at Federation Drive! 🫐🍓 #plushtodon #longbeach #losangeles #california #merchtodon #photo #photography

We didn't have a full quorum for D&D tonight, but I put on my Dungeons & Dragons socks and we played Betrayal at Baldur's Gate for a taste of the game. We returned some eggs to a red dragon and then played some Smash Up. It wasn't the birthday D&D I had been […] [Original post on cozymech.com]

Since it's my birthday, I have to listen to The Crüxshadows' "Birthday" for that silly dark wave earnestness. https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=8HMPMKl-CLU&si=xlB8MgKPm_3sJYZv

The tenth and final flower has opened on our office orchid. #orchids #bloomscrolling

Saturday night my work's Christmas event included a trip to black-lit mini golf and time in the arcade. It was definitely the most fun I've had at any of these events.

In 2009 I moved from Halifax to Waterloo in Ontario. My mother had just been diagnosed with cancer. The relationship I had with the person I moved to stay with fell apart. It became a liminal time for me. That same year Bike for Three! released More Heart Than Brains and it became the […]

#ArtAdventCalendar, Day 3. Rainbow mitochondria in watercolor, 2025 #sciart

This week's episode of It's Storytime with Wil Wheaton is a reading of "The Sort" by Thomas Ha. It's a touching, poignant short science fiction story that Wil delivered so well. https://pca.st/episode/4e498d93-2911-48da-b673-7cea1679114f

This week I've been indulging in the shoegaze and dream pop of The Midnight Greetings' album Drench. https://themidnightgreetings.bandcamp.com/album/drench

Big, fat snowflakes are falling here, so I have this Hawksley Workman track on. https://youtu.be/chhn29-Rvkc?si=p4U3XmGg0DDEEr6U

9 flowers are open now on our office orchid. One more is preparing to open. #orchids #bloomscrolling

8 flowers are now open on our office orchid. #bloomscrolling #orchid

This weekend I caught up on Emma Newman ( @emmanewman ) and Adrian Tchaikovsky's wonderful speculative fiction recommendation and discussion podcast, Starship Alexandria. The Mythago Wood, The Lathe of Heaven, and The Ministry for the Future episodes were particularly rewarding for me. Emma […]

Pocket Casts has released their 2025 recap report. I know I listen to a lot of podcasts, but the quantification of that listening still feels jarring. 215,847 minutes listening? 3984 episodes finished? https://pocketcasts.com/ #podcasts

On my latest “Looking Back on Genre History” segment on the #StarShipSofa podcast (Episode 770), I discuss some #ScienceFiction works that describe #YoungAdult protagonists being "played" by "the game," works that set the stage for #TheHungerGames. (This […] [Original post on universeodon.com]

We now have 7 open flowers on our office orchid. #bloomscrolling #orchids

Six flowers are open on our office orchid. #bloomscrolling #orchids

Speculative fiction writer Naomi Alderman has purchased her co-creation Zombies, Run! from the cryptodorks who had been mismanaging it for years. I was thrilled by this news when I saw it this morning. https://zombiesrungame.com/ She wrote about the meaning of her writing and owning the game […]

At the waterfront we found Anne, Archie, and my favorite nudibranchs woman.

Sunset at the waterfront looked particularly nice today.

This afternoon Celestine and I visited the Evergreen Festival at the waterfront and soaked up the Christmasy atmosphere.

I reached level 100 in Pikmin Bloom yesterday. I've played the game for 4 years and right now it's the only mobile game I'm playing regularly.

It was D&D night again, so I put on one of my pairs of D&D socks. It was such a joy to get together with this bunch of lovable weirdos and play.

Our office orchid now has 5 flowers open. #bloomscrolling #orchids

We now have 4 flowers open on the office orchid. #bloomscrolling #orchids

Our office orchid now has 3 flowers open and another looks like it will pop open before the week is over. #bloomscrolling #orchids

This morning I am thinking of the Spider Robinson quote, "Shared pain is lessened. Shared joy is increased. Thus we refute entropy."

Today's episode of the Atlas Obscura podcast is about the art piece Moving Monuments in Toronto by Shad and Danny Shaddick. It's a nice little meditation on cities, their people, and the soundscapes they create. https://pca.st/episode/a3d21dbd-0ef2-4938-9faf-899df5217b10 […]

Our office orchid now has two open blossoms and a third is ready to join them. #bloomscrolling

I decided to take it easier on myself this year with reading goals after finishing 110 books last year. I just met my 52 book goal for the year. https://bookwyrm.social/user/apollo/goal/2025 I've been leaning into cozier, lighter works this year.

Our first proper D&D session last night with my D&D group was a combatless one where we introduced our wacky characters and helped a ghost remember her former life, including dying in combat back-to-back with her wife.