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Stranger Things
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
Claire Keane
TVSTRANGERTHINGS
AnasAbdin
taylor price
trying on a metaphor

Janaina Medeiros

shark vs the universe
hello vonnie
Sade Olutola
Game of Thrones Daily
Peter Solarz
One Nice Bug Per Day
$LAYYYTER

@theartofmadeline
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let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open

祝日 / Permanent Vacation
Monterey Bay Aquarium

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@thelongbox2
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... Well I thought it was funny.
there’s a Squeaky in his head!
BlackCanariesOnTheBookshelfByTheLightswich
Who watches over you!
How do you feel about the humble snowshoe hare? (They have different coat colours depending on if its snowy or not)
They have very powerful paws
well any kind of bunny is a beautiful sweetie but a bigpaw bunny is very very nice....
@donuts-multifandom-hellhole The Great God Pan (and the Cosmic Owl) by Sean Phillips, from Fatale #12:
Shrevvy, The Shadow's driver, from "Hitler's Astrologer" graphic novel. Art by Mike Kaluta.
Pansexuals when there’s a goat-legged flute player
"So. Fat Cobra, do they call you that because you're fat and strike fast like a cobra?"
"Naw, THAT'S not why..."
> looking at a new popular collectible
> ask the people if it's objects or gambling
> they don't understand
> pull out illustrated diagram explaining what is objects and what is gambling
> they laugh and say "it's a good collectible sir"
> look up how to buy a collectible
> its gambling
> #wait are labubu's blind bags?!
Labubus are blind bags but they're also blind bags with some of the most insane dark patterns stacked on top. The online store for them has a thing where they tell you what you got the second you order it online so that you can immediately try again if you didn't get the thing you wanted.
There's also a shake feature that is designed to encourage you to buy more than one by narrowing down the possibility space on a crate of options so that if you're hunting a specific model you can verify that it's guaranteed to be in one of these three IF you buy all three right now!!!!!
I vaguely remember a friend of mine trying to get me into Pokemon at some point, I bought a deck and some packs, then I went to hang out with him at his home and he pulled out a crate of Pokemon cards. And I was like ah I see the scam. I'm not buying that shit.
Yeah, I sold blind boxes and booster packs for DECADES. regardless of I don't feel great about it, but it was the job. Regardless of what Schwartz vs. Upper Deck getting thrown out of court might mean legally, blind buys are Definitely gambling.
Curly fries and two of every sauce packet you can give me, thanks. I think my “type” of trans girls are really small and femme, with a big fuckin’ wrecker of a cock that she could and would split me in half with.
From Batgirl Adventures Special
“Trans dib?”
NO TRANS PROF. MEMBRANE
(I still love trans Dib)
Origins of The Death-Ray
Since it began appearing in works like H. G. Well’s 1898 novel The War of the Worlds, the ray gun has been a sci-fi fixture. Clowes’s superhero comic The Death-Ray (2011) features a special kind of ray gun, a weird home-made, blow-dryer-looking device that disintegrates its victim, leaving behind no traces. The ideal weapon for Clowes’s disturbing exploration of adolescent power fantasies, it’s the kind of gun many of us fantasized about using after we’d been bullied. Not a loud and messy “BLAM!” but a quick and clean “POP!” and the deed is done, the bully eliminated from our life forever. The perfect weapon for the perfect murder.
As Clowes has discussed, The Death-Ray owes a debt to Steve Ditko’s Spider-Man comics; Ditko drew and plotted the first few dozen issues, which were released in the early 1960s. Reading these comics while a teenager in the 70s, Clowes strongly identified with the home life and exploits of the teenaged Peter Parker.
But Spider-man didn’t carry a gun, let alone a death-ray. Perhaps the young Clowes, who loved comic books, read a comic that did: “The Secret Story of Ray-Gun 64.” Set in space in the 24th century, this sci-fi tale appeared in Mystery in Space #5 (1951) and then in DC Super-Stars #9. Subtitled “The Man Behind the Gun,” this DC anthology was released in 1976, around the time that Clowes came up with the original idea for The Death-Ray, which he would eventually set in America in 2004.
[Pulpy titles by Clowes and Broome.]
Written by John Broome and elegantly drawn by Frank Giacoia, “The Secret Story of Ray-Gun 64” features a POP!-delivering gun that anticipates the weapon Andy’s father makes for his son, a ray gun that works only when Andy holds it. I‘m not saying that Clowes knew this story, only that he draws on classic comic-book ways of representing a disintegrating death-ray in action: POP! in red, a shower of black lines, and a yellow background.
[Two Clowes panels above two from Broome and Giacoia]
For more on The Death-Ray, see our last post. Also, I talk about Clowes, Ditko, and superheroes in two essays and one story introduction in The Daniel Clowes Reader.