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i can’t believe a good thing happened we should do this more often

That motherfucker was canvassing at gay clubs at 2am on Halloween, man was on the streets talking to new Yorkers, running on a common sense platform folks could get behind. There's a lot Democrats could learn here, make better tiktoks isn't it

The crowd has gone silent at Cuomo's party.

roses are red
big laughs are hearty

Illustration of incoming Mayor Mamdani riding a crowded subway car surrounded by New Yorkers of various races, genders, ages, and ethnic identities. Again EAT SHIT EVERY LAST ONE OF YOU RACIST HOWLING ISLAMOPHOBIC GHOULS

Next Week's New Yorker cover, illustration by Edel Rodriguez.

Don't forget that Zohran Mamdani spent his entire campaign standing proudly beside the trans community. He went to trans rights rallies just to show support. He proudly waved trans rights flags without hesitation. He refused to back down in support of trans rights. That makes me happy.

It’s his day.

A cat is seen riding a bus. They are standing up and have their front paws on the back of the front seat.

this is what will happen if mamdani makes bus rides free

It's so mind boggling when someone is this confidently wrong and showing their whole ass by using no research. But what I REALLY love are the ppl dropping all the names of all the women who were BNF! I can't even be mad because he's so bad at this lmaoooo how embarrassing

The only truly ethical response that a self-described artist can make. Anything else is a betrayal of one's colleagues.

I loooooove this series!!!

If you've enjoyed my Star Trek fandom history threads, I suggest you keep an eye out for my panel at Citrus Con next year~

I've heard that about Lucas Films though I've also seen fanzines around. I feel like trying to control it like that never works out well and is even detrimental. I have no recs for that bc I don't follow Star Wars myself but I'm sure there might be something floating around on fanlore(dot)org

I think the only fanzines I own issues of that the book references are Galactic Discourse and Interstat. I've put it on my desk to remind me to get to it.

It's fun to know it'll be referenced when I get to it! Yes the 3 writers were heavily involved in early fandom, including helping create the 1st Star Trek con in NYC and officially publishing fanfic in the New Voyages anthologies via Bantam that also helped inform people that fic exists!

reading a book called Boldly Writing, which is a sort of chronicle of the early Star Trek fandom's fanzines and fanfiction, and it's really interesting. It's a fairly plain chronological retelling but it still speaks to me all these years later, mainly because of how it makes me feel about fandom 🧵

Hehe yes!!!! I own this book!! It's still in my to read pile but you just reminded me to move it up in case I get to do a panel in relation to it. Still so much to learn... I'm still working my way through Star Trek Lives which is also very entertaining

Flier for talk. Here are the full details. I'll be giving an online lecture next week about my monograph, Transfiguring Women in Late Twentieth-Century Japan: Feminists, Lesbians, and Girls' Comics Artists and Fans (2024), hosted by Rutgers University Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Global Asias. Thursday, October 16 at 7 pm New York/Toronto time (or Friday, October 17 at 8 am Tokyo time) The lecture is open to the public. Please join if you missed one of my in-person talks over the past year. (It will not be recorded.) Zoom Meeting ID: 9181599714 Password: 446539 (Or DM me for the link.) ---- Abstract: In the early 1970s, Japan saw the emergence of three dynamic and overlapping communities of women and adolescent girls who challenged Japanese gender and sexual norms: the women’s liberation (ūman ribu) movement, the lesbian community, and a sphere comprised of artists and fans of queer shōjo manga (girls’ comics). In this talk, James Welker will discuss Transfiguring Women in Late Twentieth-Century Japan: Feminists, Lesbians, and Girls’ Comics Artists and Fans, which examines these communities and their cultural import. As he shows, individually and collectively, they found the normative understanding of the category “women” untenable and worked to redefine and expand its meaning by transfiguring ideas, images, and practices selectively appropriated from the “West.” They did so, however, while remaining primarily focused on the local. Welker argues that their transfiguration of Western culture into something locally meaningful had tangible effects far beyond these communities.

Online lecture (book talk):

James Welker
Reimaginging “Women” in 1970s–1980s Japan: Feminists, Lesbians, and Queer Manga Artists and Fans

Thurs, Oct 16, 7 pm New York/Toronto (8 am Friday in Tokyo)

Open to the public. (It will not be recorded.)
Zoom info is in the attached flier.

I used to do this in the dorms at J.O.'s and only just realized I, a whole adult, had the power to do it again

A picture of cinnamon toast crunch on top of a cup of Costco's soft serve ice cream. Aka the ultimate decadence in these trying times.

Brought my own cinnamon toast crunch to the Costco izakaya to put on the soft serve. Don't dream it, be it.

all mammals share an instinct to destroy their ancient enemy, the loathsome gourd

A package of assorted cheese with a cracker in a plastic container, from Westside Market, New York City on 77 Seventh Ave The label reads: Assorted cheese hell.....yes THE SKY IS DARK THE WIND IS COLD THE NIGHT IS YOUNG BEFORE IT'S OLD AND GREY. WE WILL KNOW THE THRILL OF IT ALL--BRYAN FREEY there is a barcode and it says 1 PCS Packed on: & Sell by: OCT 01 Total price $5.99

It's officially October 1st so that means you all have to repost Assorted cheese
hell.....yes

Great news!
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#ranma

The Posts Genius @abigbagofkeys.sickonedude... You alright man? I keep seeing small damage numbers coming off you July 8, 2024 at 4:00 AM 83

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Happened to find this - it's a useful little website if you A) want to know why you should drop Substack and B) want a list of alternatives.

A couple also have tools to import your old SS posts over.

leavesubstack.com

#kidlit

Yeah!! And we both have cats to meet.

I have 2 Iron Chef doujinshi I got online from Japan I should share on here at some point. They are my treasures.

(Jonathan Frakes voice) None of my characters consent because they're imaginary. Theyre fake. Drawings. Not real.

Artwork by @pigsbliss on twitter its a very unusual art piece of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully from the tv show the X files xfiles it features both agents standing at someone's doorway she is holding her fbi badge and he has his hands in his pockets their eyes are unusually placed its amazing art