I've been reading a lot of Marvel/DC comics and I've found that the ability to weave character development and drama into a medium that expects a constant deluge of punch 'em up stories is a rare one. Anthony Oliveira's Avengers Academy handled this superbly. Marvel shouldn't have canceled it.

Hey guys got raptured in the first group(!) and Im in heaven right now and I wanted to just prep you that everyone is naked here. Like everyone. God included. There's not even robes. I asked and they said there's no robes.

love boarding in zone 6 for a flight, wriggling my leprous face tentacles and frightening the children and elderly with my sublime horrible poverty. “no carry-on for me! my master beelzebub shall provision me!!” i wail at the fainting ladies

Pretty much only Weird Al. What a way to get a cross section of culture via a simulacrum

This is another reason why I love Toronto. It's still filled with payphones

Returning to the past is impossible, but I want to try to make the internet a place in my apartment that I go to, so I'm removing my social media apps from my phone. Doomscrolling bluesky and tiktok eats up all of my attention and fills the interstitial parts of life, which sucks

The idea of these politicians being like 80 years old or more and still unable to stop wanting to make all the money in the world For your coffin?

new castle rat rips, btw

moments ago, ice agents again came out of the broadview detention/“professing” facility to escort a silver suv out of the lot. one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.

Oh man, me too.

seeing another rash of voter blaming and i wonder how people reconcile this with all the times dem senators - in deep blue states, even - that people voted for and put into office decided to give unanimous consent to GOP shit so they could go on vacation. they voted 'correctly', and yet, get nothing

great news! you're not actually seeing karl rove, john yoo, and david frum criticize the administration's lawlessness more stridently than dem leadership. you, reader, were infected with rabies by a brown bat 36 hours ago and this is all just the virus working its way through your nervous system

I grew up in the evangelical church, and when I tried to say, "Hey, I'm a girl," they had me exorcised. Now, I'm a lot more eloquent a speaker now, but they might still have to try me exorcised.

You threaten to conquer a country a whole bunch of times and all of a sudden people get all mad bsky.app/profile/step...

I did not expect to be crying my face off today #AvengersAcademy #Marvel #Escapade #Bloodline #Avengers @meakoopa.bsky.social #PabloCollar

"In the span of three days, Disney won five Emmys for Andor (a show about resisting fascism) and then suspended Jimmy Kimmel (for resisting fascism)." – @case.murphy #uspoli #fascism

Idk I don’t think cops should be able to arrest elected officials just casually

I know a lot of people are down on the iOS 26 update, but I like the new lock screen styles. Also castle rat’s new album is out tomorrow!

We stopped being a democracy when Elon’s goons seized control of the treasury payments system on behalf of Trump. The crushing of dissent is an action to consolidate that establishment of tyranny.

One thing I'll say about DC not only canceling Red Hood, but recalling the first issue and refunding stores for buying it, is that you can still get Neil Gaiman's work through them. They still work with Otto Schmidt. Eddie Berganza worked there for years AFTER the formation of a policy that no women

We don’t want AI slop. Stop sending us AI slop. Stop wasting our time with AI slop. It doesn’t sound good. It’s antithetical to our core values. You didn’t even make it. Knock it off.

Kinda wanna rewatch Adventure Time to feel something

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris told us to go fuck ourselves and what other choice did we have then they lost, hard

A rare L from teen vogue. Those polled were given definitions that have nothing to do with either capitalism or socialism

"I asked chatgpt" "I asked grok" well I asked Achenar from the best-selling point&click adventure game Myst and he told me to bring him the blue pages and NOT to touch the red ones

Sometimes I think about ditching my phone - especially social media and getting a print newspaper, an Insta camera, and a ham radio

Medical researchers proudly confess to straight up data fraud

This is the way you gotta do it. Like Leto the god emperor sharing rule of his inner collective with Harum the mesopotamian autocrat

A little MTU thing I've been working on for #TravellerRPG. For a thing that you'll hopefully hear more about soon.

One thing I want to do is bring some of my understanding of OSR procedures into designing prep for my Mage ‘93 chronicle. I want to discard the scene based adventure design of wod. Faction play is common to both styles. Designing the city as a sort of point crawl was emphasized in Damnation City.

3.5e dnd cos i fuckin hated it and rewrote a bunch of shit

Watching Strange New Worlds s3 is a lot like watching Rings of Power season 1, when every lackluster episode would get phenomenally outclassed by House of the Dragon. Hard to pay attention to the barely considered technobabble and half-written characters when Alien Earth is killing it every week

The problem with every post-Millennial generation is they got to go straight to high speed internet. Of course you'll get computer madness that way. Make them start with those old screeching modems and work their way up

It's just so good man. Shooting the xenomorph's body like a car commercial as the letters form out of nothing in classic style, then cutting in little glitchy clips of people getting devoured by way of a "previously on" as the music crescendoes from high-pitched and creepy to THE TRIUMPH OF DEATH

Also man, that brief theme is the best thing Jeff Russo has ever done, better even than the Fargo theme

They're trying to do with Charlie Kirk what U2 tried to do with that album they put on everyone's iPhones without asking, with approximately the same level of success

Film soundtracks and game soundtracks were my gateway out of 90s homeschool era Christian music. Currently I’m listening to all the needle drops on Alien Earth

Gretchen Felker-Martin’s fearlessness is such a stark example of what we need right now. The moment is extraordinary and it’ll demand writers rise to meet it - either we’re saying something worth saying or we’re not. I know which I’d rather be.

Experiencing democracy vicariously makes me want the real thing even more

Gender

I bet my old youth pastor is using this line unironically

I agree with Yudkowski that superintelligent AI is a big risk to humanity, but it's an order of magnitude less dangerous than the risks of time travel, which could easily enable the undoing of our preventative AI efforts. Proud to announce that I've formed the Time Travel Safety Foundation. send $$$

Kind of annoyed that DC doesn’t want the money I was gonna spend on BatFraction.

Read gretchen felker martin’s once issue over at dc infinite before i cancel it today. It’s about poison ivy wasting right-wing bigots she finds on an alien planet. Dc knew who she was before they canceled her. They’re just cowards who think the winds have shifted permanently against trans people

DC canceling Gretchen Felker Martin’s comic because she was unkind to a dead persecutor is truly disgusting.

theyve got a big button at blueski hq that says 'ban gretchen' and everyday someone new gets to press it

Hey if you get the chance to see Castle Rat, take it.

it's incredible that apparently the only british actors left with any integrity at all are the original three kids

Felt like doing a little fan cover