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Show Notes 8/4/25
Our longtime pal Elle Collins drops by the show this week for a super-sized chat about "Superman," "Fantastic Four: First Steps," and how superhero movies seem to be changing at this particular moment.
The rundown:
Chris' check and rec: Another sword, CZYY
Matt's check and rec: Improvised Star Trek, Silent Hill 2 remake
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I Know There's a Lot Going On, But Consider Checking Out My Book!
(This is a rejected McSweeney's submission. Been a while since I posted one of those!)
@Love2WriteBooks - Jan 18, 2025
Hey everyone! Just learned that my new book, Overlooked History, a look at some of the lesser-known figures that made America what it is today, goes on sale September 20! There's a lot of really difficult stuff going on right now, I know, but I'm certain it can offer a little hope! Pre-orders have begun, so get yours soon!
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@Love2WriteBooks.starrynight.post
Even though I can't post anymore on that other place because I used the word "overlooked," I'm already building quite the following here! Pre-orders for Overlooked History are going great, and you should definitely get on it! Lock in your price before the cost of paper doubles again!
March 5, 2025 at 9:38 PM - Anyone can reply
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luv2writebooks Here it is! The cover mock-up of my new book, Overlooked History! Unfortunately it's just plain blue with black text because the Library of Congress refused let Bowker give us an ISBN for anything that included photos of the people discussed inside. But look at that beautiful sky blue! Hope everyone is doing well out there!
April 3, 2025
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r/historicalbooks - May 12, 2025
Love2WriteBooks
Hey everyone. First time posting here, so be gentle. Wondering where you might know of that I can promote a book about some forgotten historical figures that really helped shape society today? There don't seem to be many options where I am not immediately told "books are for cucks." Thank you in advance!
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love.2.write 6.9.2025
Dropping back in here after a long break to let everyone know that my book's title has changed! It's now called Forgotten For a Reason?, and the publisher has made some changes! Still a lot of good material in there, I'm told, and it's still set for release September 20! Pre-orders still open!
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Callahan Burns
July 14, 2025
Just checking here to see if anyone -- family, friends, classmates, anybody -- can see this. If you can, please let me know if you pre-ordered my book and it's still showing as still being published on any of the sites. Thanks so much! Love y'all!
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8/20/25
Great new book coming out in one month! Definitely more important things happening right now, but maybe you could learn some stuff! Title pending approval. Historical nonfiction. Email [email protected] for more information, please!
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Back here because I have been shut out of all my other accounts. The book is indefinitely delayed until it undergoes "personal review" by the head of the Cultural Openness Bureau (COB), Elon. Have been told a 14-year-old is reading it and making notes. Will let you know more once I know more.
September 4, 2025 at 10:06 AM - Anyone can reply
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@Love2WriteBooks - November 10, 2025
Great news, everyone! My account here has been reinstated, and I'm happy to announce that my book is back on track, though it will be published here in the form of individual posts. Also, it's no longer about unknown historical figures, but very well known historical figures! You've definitely heard of these guys! So let's get started... 1/23,446
CABARET (1972) dir. Bob Fosse
Neil Gaiman is a bully.
He's been a bully for decades.
His classist treatment of people is well-documented.
No, not *everybody* heard the rumors about SA, but his entitled behavior with women and girls was known by lots of folks who aren't talking.
Namely, because Neil Gaiman is a bully.
Well… to be fair, some folks aren't talking because they're complicit.
They didn't just look the other way. They actively participated in harming others who asked for their help.
They dehumanized victims and advocates alike in order to center their own careers and status. They dismissed distraught survivors who loved and trusted them as “haters" and “mentally ill dicks” when all we were doing was telling the fucking truth with hurt and pain in our voices.
Not ONE of em has told their adoring public:
"I'm sorry, I was wrong. How can I make amends?"
or
"I owe Neil a lot, he's been a good friend, but I stand in solidarity with all survivors of violent SA."
not even
"I'm scared NG will sic his infamous law team on me."
Cowardice? Contempt? Classism?
No idea.
But it’s not too late to embrace deeper levels of compassion and solidarity.
It’s never too late.
Accountability is for everyone.
All of us. Together.
Lord of the Rings Portfolio by Frank Frazetta
Ramon Villalobos Wonder Woman.
Via Project Rooftop.
My Halloween costume this year ! I was a Xenomarge
Vampire: the Masquerade - Player's Guide Cover Art by Clyde Caldwell
Iconic
Animated scrap metal figures by Guillermo Galetti
These are puppets. That's not an insult, but they clearly are, and it's weird that people are coming up with stuff like "animated sculptures" rather than just calling them that.
Public Service Announcement: There Is No "CalArts Style".
Can't believe I still have to say this!
Despite everything you might have heard, there is no "CalArts Style." It doesn't exist. CalArts isn't an art-style or animation studio, it's actually a university for art and animation founded by the Disney brothers. (Yes, THOSE Disney brothers)
I know there's this image going around of these cartoon characters sharing the same head, eyes and smile...
but that's deliberate, misleading exaggeration. In reality..
They're actually very different from one another. Sure, they share a few faint similarities but overall each character and their respective series have their own style and identity.
Animation with those similarities? (Round eyes, mouthes and bendy limbs) There're actual names for that style of animation: Rubber-Hose, Bean-Mouth, Noodle-Arm, Fleischerian. take your pick.
But to call all animation with those little similarities "CalArts"? It's stupid, lazy and dishonest. CalArts didn't create or popularize the Bean-Mouth. Like all art-styles, it became trendy following the major success of shows like Adventure Time, Steven Universe, ect. And most importantly, there is no uniform style at CalArts. In fact, here, let me show you the work of noticeable CalArts Alumni:
Just look at the diverse art-styles and animation, all from former CalArts students!
On a side-note:
Rebbeca Sugar (Steven Universe) never went to CalArts.
Ben Bocquelet (Gumball) never went to CalArts.
Nate Stevenson (She-Ra) never went to CalArts either! (Something I find hilarious since She-Ra doesn't look anything like the aforementioned Bean-Mouth cartoons but rather a bold, modernized version of Sailor Moon)
Another reason why people must stop using the term "CalArts"/"CalArts Style"? It was coined by none other than disgusting predator John K. Yes, John K, the co-creator of Ren & Stimpy who used his influence to prey on teenage girls. (TW: sexual exploitation, grooming, gaslighting.) He coined the term "CalArts"/"CalArts Style" to bash works like The Iron Giant, Animaniacs, Gargoyles, Les Triplettes De Belleville (which is also ridiculous since Sylvain Chomet didn't go to CalArts) along with the works of Disney, Warner Bros., Dreamworks, Richard Williams and Don Bluth. In simple terms, he was a toxic piece of work who loved tearing anything that didn't meet his standards of zany, off-model grotesqueness.
Here, a friend of mine on social media explains better than I can:
Thanks for listening. Hope I helped.
Azhdar
One of the things that always drives me insane is seeing people try to work out coherent chronology and continuity of the Mad Max series, and the thing that makes me crazier is when people push back on this by being like "it's a dumb movie about crazy driving and explosions! it doesn't NEED to make sense!" because in reality the lack of a defined chronology or continuity is a feature, not a bug, and the reason for it is not that the movies are too dumb to be held to that standard, it's that the movies are much smarter than anyone trying to Figure Them Out give them credit for
The short version of my explanation is that, in the Mad Max series, "Max Rockatansky" does not exist any more than "Jack" is a single boy who slew a giant, jumped over a candlestick, and went up the hill with his sister Jill
The long version is that the Mad Max series is a narrative within a narrative, with the movies being legends and campfire stories, an oral tradition of the storytellers of the wasteland, all of whom are, to some degrees, unreliable narrators because they're telling stories of things that happened a long time ago from their point of view, if they happened at all. The events of the movies are likely either exaggerated or outright invented whole-cloth in the same way that the myths and legends of antiquity were. "Mad Max Fury Road" is the founding myth of the Citadel, and if the Citadel is Rome, then Furiosa is their Romulus.
At some point, someone founded Rome, and the character in that legend may have been based on a real man, but how that man aligns with the myth is almost immaterial. The myths and legends of antiquity, crucially, all took place in what the ancient world would consider "the ancient world," in a mysterious far-off time period when the gods still mingled with mortals. Whether Max or Furiosa or Immortan Joe or any of the characters we see in the movie "actually existed" within the movie's world is as irrelevant as whether The Real Herakles at the root of the legend was actually the son of Zeus. In the story, he is.
"Max" as a character exists on the screen because a lot of the real stories in that world involve mentally unstable loners with obvious PTSD showing up, helping people out of a situation, and then leaving without telling anybody anyone about himself, and the oral histories and myths reflect that. "Max Rockatansky" is a stock character whose general identity and loose backstory is retroactively ascribed to any characters in any legend who fit that basic description.
To try to figure out the chronology and continuity of the Mad Max movies or the associated protagonist is like trying to figure out how it's possible that The Big Bad Wolf is killed in both "The Three Little Pigs" and "Little Red Riding Hood," or determine in what order Prince Charming married so many different fairytale heroines or why he never mentioned any of his past wives.
And, for the record, just to be clear so it doesn't seem like I'm overthinking this-- this is shown explicitly in the narrative, the second movie uses The Campfire Stories as an unambiguous framing device. The filmmaker behind the series has outright stated this is an intentional choice he made. This isn't just me taking the car explosion movie too seriously, this is the explicit text of the series
I'm going to go see Furiosa today so I'll take these thoughts with me.
Blorbo it is.
You’re right and you should say it
Hurricane Helene Relief Funds
Brother Wolf Animal Rescue operates out of Asheville, which has been hit aggressively by storm and flood damage
The Asheville Survival Program is reaching out. They appear to actually be the ones who use the Cashapp $Streets1de, and they just got put with Appalachian Med for convenience.
Beloved Asheville is reaching out. www.PayPal.me/belovedasheville and venmo.com/beloved-asheville
Homeward Bound helps the homeless in the Asheville/Buncombe area
Theres a fund for smaller rural communities around Asheville. It's close to its goal, but I really wish they'd set it higher considering what people are gonna need. Someone make sure they surpass it!
Charlotte NC is reaching out. Charlotte Mutual Aid: Helene Disaster Relief. CashApp: MutualAid704. Venmo: MutualAid704. Open Collective: Helene.cltfnb.com
Olive Branch Ministry is reaching out from West NC
Josh Griffith is fundraising for his efforts to deliver food in WNC
Breathitt County in Kentucky is fundraising to help NC through the Rousseau Volunteer Fire Department, as well as asking for physical supply donations. Their paypal is jrousseauvfd, put "for NC flood". Jaxon Flower shop in Jackson KY will also take physical donations. They aren't looking for clothes, moreso cleaning supplies and other items.
North Durham Mutual Aid is reaching out.
Eastern Kentucky Mutual Aid is also reaching out for funds. There looks like there might be two orgs with similar names, but if so both are helping. There's PayPal.me/ekymutualaid, Venmo - @ekymutualaid, or Cashapp - $ekymutualaid. There's also a Facebook group where individuals are posting requests for aid.
There's a fund for relief in Erwin, Tennessee
Helbender Harm Reduction is collecting physical supplies in Knoxville alongside First Aid Collective Knoxille, whose Cashapp/Venmo is: $firstaidcollectknox. If you're nearby they're looking for clothes, blankets, shelf stable food, rain gear, flashlights, and batteries, which is what most other groups asking for supplies are looking at too.
The TriCities Mutual Aid group is mostly asking for volunteers and supplies in the Tennessee/Virginia area. However, they may shift to donations, and you can reach out to them to see if they would be welcome either way.
Food Not Bombs Tallahassee has a cashapp: $fnbtally2022. They and Mutual Aid Athens are also boosting any community calls for funds, labor, or supplies in various states on their Instagram pages
Taylor County FL is reaching out. Paypal: [email protected] and Venmo @Mskatonic138
The Footprint project's Florida team is asking for people to support their response by texting HELENE to 44-321
Since I don't know if the post I made late last night will get traction I'll reiterate that Mutual Aid Disaster Relief is a trusted org. You can send funds at the linked site, or via Paypal: [email protected] Or Venmo: @MutualAidDisasterRelief
Appalachian Med is another trusted org I shared last night. They have Venmo: @AppMedSolid. Put Flood Support in the description
Animal Disaster Relief Coalition is helping people make sure their animals are fed.
A list of Mutual Aid groups can be found here
A friend of mine, Vyn, is asking for help since he'll be out of power for around a week in Southeast GA
Other physical supplies people will be looking for in flood impacted areas include:
bottled water, potentially water filters
personal hygiene items: wipes, camping showers, tampons/pads/other menstrual products, handsanitizer, mosquito spray, laundry detergent, washboards, toilet paper, diapers, and especially any products safe for sensitive skin
medications- ibuprofen, monistat and other meds for yeast infections, cold and cough meds, any diabetic meds that can be safely shared, etc
individually wrapped low or no prep food items, baby formula, and Gatorade
duffel bags, backpacks, heavy duty storage totes and trash bags, 5 gallon buckets, coolers
Fans, dehumidifiers, moisture sensors, generators, gas and gas cans, solar charging items and battery banks, first aid kits
chainsaws, crowbars, hammers, air filters, respirators, 2×4 planks, bleach, roofing nails, heavy duty gloves, and potentially waders.
and board games or other non electric activities for children
Double check if you can before you donate these items to make sure whatever local drive you're headed to wants them and can distribute the more specialized ones where they're needed
And please! Add any funds you know of, especially for South Carolina and North Georgia since I wasn't seeing many funds for those areas! I know South Carolina is in desperate need and there's definitely parts of North Georgia in need too. Atlanta saw some bad flooding so keep an eye for them too!
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