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Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
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This is a little speculation about cultural cycles of revival and neglect. This is about how the present feels about particular parts of the culture of the past. Have a look at the diagram below: That's a model of how I see cultural attention being paid. Let's work backwards down the timeline. Weā¦
An article I loose and rediscover about 3 times a year. Just giving it an easy anchor for future reference. Oh, and itās great reading, as is the entire ClickOpera livejournal.
I absolutely adore Percy. I only recently started watching Critical Role, I'm on ep 33. The questions I have are: 1- how much of Percy's childhood is 'written'? and 2- would you ever think of writing a series of short stories about him?
Thanks! I have a lot of Percy in my head, because I like to give Matt room to play. Maybe when his story comes to an end Iāll back up and fill some gaps in :-)
Refueling the Engine of our Exhaustion
Tonight Iām apparently the sort of person who sits down and thinks about what April Fools day means to me.
Iām not a traditional prankster, although I love talking out of my ass, and while I find the waves of bullshit facebook engagements and pregnancy scares exhausting, I wasnāt quite ready to take the John Oliver āNo Prankā Pledge either (https://youtu.be/kXYXuXX48m8). Iāve been on the edge of sharing it all day.
I think John made the wrong call on this one. Hear me out.
We are living in a time of what can only be described as āintense information pollutionā. Fact and truth choke in an atmosphere of opinion, fabrication, vested interest and hucksterism. Even the most skeptical and diligent of us are capable of being taken in and manipulated by the conflicting signals we receive every day. And itās only going to get worse. So much worse.
So as we navigate our way though this fog of bullshit, Let us take at least one day a year to acknowledge the mess.Ā One day to be vigilant as everyone we know feeds us little lies. Maybe today will inoculate us, and help us recognise those lies when they come on any other day.
And maybe, most importantly, maybe we will buy into some the April 1st bullshit today. Maybe weāll get duped.
Itās okay. I know itās hard to admit, but there are worse things than admitting you were tricked. Like refusing to admit it. Like being horrified of being wrong. Of being a sucker. Each of us is made a sucker every day in this brave new world and we have to get better at dealing with it.
We ALL have to get better at acknowledging the fact that ALL of us put our faith in bullshit. That youāre going to have to create a baseline in your head of what it takes for you to accept something as truth. And you have to be prepared to change your views when evidence contradicts it. This is not going to be easy. Everyoneās a fool. But today is an opportunity to accept an uncomfortable truth. To dismiss a comfortable lie. To fact check. To allow an issue to be complex. To humanize your opposition. To not allow your rage to make you malleable. To not be the fish that bites the click bait.
Happy April Fools. Every day is April Fools. Not an April Fools joke.
Super obscure question here, but does anyone have any idea where I can get the glorious and jacket and shirt talison was wearing for the thumbnail of episode 34?
Critters, anyone know?
The 60ā²s. Ā :-9
Who would win Percy or Walter from Hellsing?
Theyāre both far too polite. Theyād settle it with bridge.
I was just curious if 1. there is an in-universe explanation as to why Percy is named after his father/grandfather (as is indicated by the "the third), instead of that name going to his oldest brother. 2. all of the de Rolo's have crazy long names.
Yes! Percival's naming was actually meant as an appeasement to a series of unhappy distant relatives who felt put out the first time around. And no, The boys have impressive names (Some more than others) but Cassandra and Vesper keep it short.
Okay, re: the de Rolos in age order, Percy mentioned that it was Julius and Vespa who handled matters of state, and he was left to his own devices because he was the third child. When he started interrogating the carriage driver, he asked about Frederick and Johanna (his parents), then Julius, then Vespa. So I assume he named them in age order, which would make it: Julius, Vespa, Percy, Oliver, Whitney, Ludwig, and Cassandra as the youngest.
Here you go, Critters! :)
Vesper :-)
I just want to give a huge thanks to the staff, guests, and people who came to Senshi Con 2015. It was an amazing time and Iām glad I was able to be a part of it.Ā
This morning warm-up is actually a tribute to one of our guests, Taliesin Jaffe! An absolutely awesome voice actor to chat with; between BSing about old anime and getting a behind-the-voice look into show-biz, I got really inspired. So thank you, Taliesin. Hope you like the fanart!
!!!!!! Holy cow thank you!!!!
The internet is a great and invaluable tool for promoting my work and staying in touch with readers.
It is also a perpetual rage machine and a time sink. Whenever I think I donāt have time to exercise, I just look at the time I spent reading some godawful argument on the...
The artistās name is Chiara Bautista! Sheās awesome and deserves the credit
*cracks neck* my time has come
Okay, first? Pay off all your debts. Take out a small loan and pay it off right away.
Buy several hundred vacant houses. Schedule repairs for said houses with reputable contractors and make sizable down payments in advance. Get everything in writing and hang onto those deeds.
Buy a large open parcel of land that is being auctioned for development. And when I say large, I mean LARGE.
Sink millions into paying off peopleās Kickstarters / college loans / medical bills / mortgages, and give generously charity organizations. That alone will carry off a lot of money.
Once youāve got things down to a reasonable level, say $1m, buy yourself a house, furnishings, appliances, and a dependable car. Pay everything off so that you own it free and clear. Purchase about $200k worth of something easy to liquidate (i.e. gold, gems, bonds, stocks). Put the rest onto prepaid credit cards and wait for Monday to roll around.
NOW THE FUN BEGINS.
You now have commendable credit and a shining public reputation.
Fix up and flip those houses, sell them for fair market value or below to families who need them, or create non-profit homeless shelters. (After all, itās not like you need to āmakeā money, this is all running on the proceeds from the property sales.)
Sell the parcel of land to developers, or donate it to public works as a park or open space. Have them name it after you.
Retire to your fully furnished home. Liquidate your extra assets, or leave them to appreciate in value for a later date. Make Christmas epic with those gift cards. Keep the extra money in the bank and keep your day job.
And donāt worry about taxes when return time rolls around, because youāll be able to write off several millionsā worth of charitable donations.
Basically this
This is someone who paid attention in finance class.Ā
COMICS ALLIANCE PRESENTS āKATE OR DIEā IN āHOLIDAY WISHESā
Read more āKate Or Dieā by Kate Leth at ComicsAlliance.
Wheeeee!
I was wondering is Laura bi/pan or somewhere along the the queer spectrum? (I have been reading her as such.) (sorry if this is a duplicate I couldn't tell if it sent before)
Okay - Iām going to go through this one in a pretty thorough way, before coming back to actually give an answer to your question.
I know some of this is going to sound patronising to some people, but I suspect thereās no way to avoid that. Iām describing various sorts of books here, and just because one sort of book does it in one way and one sort of book does it in another doesnāt imply that just because Iām doing a certain sort of book means I hold the other sort of book and its approaches in contempt.
Thereās a certain sort of fiction which does a lot of hand-holding.Ā The Wicked + the Divine will not do any of that, for anything.
Iām aware that for some readers, this may be tricky. Even on Young Avengers, where I was trying to marry my more allusive tendencies in writing to something with a little more superhero certainty, thereās still Young Avengers readers that claim there is nothing in the book that suggests America is a Lesbian.
(There are readings you can take to make America Bi, of course - but the implication of all her words is that sheās predominantly into girls and has no interest in boys presently. Thatās why she says the things she does, and you have to ignore all of that to make the reading.)
The Wicked + The Divine isnāt going to even be that easy. Ā
It doesnāt have to be. The main problem with not naming labels in mainstream books is that they can get annihilated by the next writer. There is no next writer here. There is just us, as such, I can present people and explore them as more complicated entities.
This is a book where a character may mislabel themselves, at least according to the current dominant theories. Itās a book where a character may learn they prefer one label to another as they progress. Itās a book where a character may take on a label, before realising that their initial label was more right than wrong. Itās the sort of book where a character may identify as straight even if they fuck people of the same gender. This is about people rather than moral lessons. This is a book about discovery and fucking up and flux.
Most of all, me writing it doesnāt imply an endorsement or agreement. I am not trying to educate anyone here. Iām assuming the readerās ability to wrestle with this big serious stuff without me. This is a book designed as a gateway, not a terminus.
So to answer your question, no, Iām not giving a Word Of God answer to Lauraās sexuality, and youāre on your own until the characters choose to tell you one way or another, and even then, be aware that they may not know either.Ā Put it like this: Iām 39 years old and even now Iām not sure about my own labels, yāknow? I have to give the characters the space to find themselves.
So, my friend is stage managing Macbeth and made this status today...
Iām quite pleased with this.
Rapping this out loud in my empty classroom like swag.
WALK INTO THE CLUB LIKE WADDUP I AM A BIG SCOT
IāM SO PUMPED ABOUT SOME VISION THAT THE WITCHES GOT
I WILL BE THANE, SO SAYS THE PROPHECY
THAT PEOPLE LIKE āDAMN, MACBETH DESERVES GLORYā
I reblogged this so fast guys
Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth page by Dave McKean
"You fellas think of comics in terms of comic books, but you're wrong. I think you fellas should think of comics in terms of drugs, in terms of war, in terms of journalism, in terms of selling, in terms of business. And if you have a viewpoint on drugs, or if you have a viewpoint on war, or if you have a viewpoint on the economy, I think you can tell it more effectively in comics than you can in words. I think nobody is doing it. Comics is journalism."
ā Jack Kirby
Stan Lee, 1968: ā ā¦ And we talk it out. Lately, Iāve had Roy Thomas come in, and he sits and makes notes while we discuss it. Then he types them up which gives us a written synopsis. Originally-I have a little tape recorder-I had tried taping it, but then I found no one on staff has time to listen to the tape again later. But this way he makes notes, types it quickly, I get a carbon, the artist gets a carbonā¦so we donāt have to worry that weāll forget what weāve said. Then the artist goes homeā¦or wherever he goesā¦and he draws the thing out, brings it back, and I put the copy in after heās drawn the story based on the plot Iāve given him. Now this varies with the different artists. Some artists, of course, need a more detailed plot than others. Some artists, such as Jack Kirby, need no plot at all. I mean Iāll just say to Jack, āLetās make the next villain be Dr. Doomāā¦ or I may not even say that. He may tell me. And then he goes home and does it. Heās good at plots. Iām sure heās a thousand times better than I. He just about makes up the plots for these stories. All I do is a little editingā¦ I may tell him heās gone too far in one direction or another. Of course, occasionally Iāll give him a plot, but weāre practically both the writers on the things. ā
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