"I made it all up, and it came true anyway. That's the funny part."
The year is 1113. A Benedictine monk in Canterbury has just invented novelty New Year spectacles. It will be centuries before anybody can practically look through them. His brothers ridicule him until he destroys the invention, ashamed
kinda weird to do the haha they’re gay for each other when their whole thing was raping girls
There are a lot of interesting parallels between From Hell and Providence. Both are about magical workings by a secret society that reshape the world, focused on the culture of a specific locale at a specific time.
huh, i thought if we sacrificed HRT and sports and told trans people they were valid, that the conservatives would stop there and stop erasing us from public life? /s
Some folks treated me like a naive child for believing we had the money to cancel a portion of student loan debt
Impressive that US democracy has managed to replicate the "king so bad in a medieval chronicle you wonder if they're real or a symbolic trope for misrule" effect
this puts the clamps down on possibly making mars even somewhat habitable more than anyone believes. that planet is even more inhospitable than expected if its soil can kill tardigrades www.discovermagazine.com/water-bears-...
Note: the phrase "700,000 people" refers to 700,000 actual human beings who have been forced to abandon their homes, flee, live in fear and worse.
There's an alternate universe out there where Len Wein kept writing X-Men and it was significantly weirder, with characters like Alpha the Ultimate Mutant and Krakoa (THE ISLAND THAT WALKS LIKE A MAN), and I'll always be a little sad we never got to see it.
The two greatest and most important writing hires in comic history—Alan Moore to write Swamp Thing and Chris Claremont to write X-Men—were both made by the same guy: Len Wein
We tend to think of Wein as a writer and creator (and he was very good at both), but his real legacy is as an editor.
everything Alan Moore has said about the industry is correct
The medium and genre deserve better than to be IP farms for film studios.
Art by • Marta Dias
angel playing the lute
The Communist Party USA's "Health & Hygiene" magazine (May 1937)
The higher levels of NHS England have been entirely captured by idealogues and bigots. They cannot be trusted to design this research in an appropriate manner.
GET HIS ASS, GRACE #re9
WWLKD #re9
(bonus panel below)
i can’t play re9 for a few more days, so here’s a thread of some re2 and re4 Leon comics
i think i had the most fun making comics for 4 and PW when i did my MGS playthru, so i'm super excited for those to become more accessible!! 🐍
me and scugy
I DO think a great deal of societal dysfunction around books is tied to bizarre notions that you have to finish them if you start them, else... i don't know? You go to jail? Demons whip you as many times as there are letters and spaces left unread? You've been a tease and the book is unsatisfied?
"if you don't make the money we start laying people off as punishment" is some like Batman villain shit
the former, useful idiots, naïve as newborns, roll the pitch for people who absolutely despise them, consider their work a sign of their journalistic integrity, the importance of showing neither fear nor favour, not a matter of choices and effects, no matter where it takes us all.
The latter, appropriately cynical, of course understands that what they are doing is nakedly partisan, groundwork for the society they want to live in, smiting their enemies, comforting their friends, exerting pressure on potentially flaky allies to conform to their demands.
the format is that every nominally left/liberal journalist joins their conservative comrades in forensically raking through the bins of every leftist who briefly becomes popular, in return every right-wing journalist will ... "not do that to our side, god no, why would we, are you stupid?"
a lot like being told you'd be great in the role of Shylock
