Benjamin Birdie’s Bible Bonkers

*adjusts glasses*
actually, if you smoosh the absolute batman breaking a racist's arm sequence into an illusion of a single page of comics, you rob it of its intended impact

YouTube video by Service95 Dua Lipa In Conversation With George Saunders, Author of Lincoln In The Bardo

wait what the fuck

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUEd...

this is REALLY great

god can we just ban any post about politics using the word "should"?

oh has something happened that isn't aligning with the established expectations of something similar happening because this time it's a conservative? should we throw a party? should we invite the husband from the diplomat?

i suspected, from the linework! thanks!

lmao what IS this

Actually, seeing a man of color, getting scared, and calling The Police, is pretty typical racist behavior

the most prescient political thing i've ever heard was john oliver paraphrasing the average american's thought process: "yes, the system is rigged. that's why it's going to feel SO good when i beat it!!"

came here to post this. that and bake off.

it feels very much like an individual human being writing down his most harrowing personal fear in as much detail as he can for 500 pages

i think the visceral detail available to prose makes it much more unmistakably and authentically about living with an alcoholic abuser, an aspect that kubrick can't really get as close to in the grand guignol of it all, imho

"the last tree" is simultaneously so unexpected in this bit and yet so perfect and appropriate. a truly remarkable run of posts.

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Hello, people of bluesky, if you are just joining us—here is an old comic I made about Dracula

Dragons, Cults, and Vampires: Horror Highlights for October 2025 - Reactor Emily Hughes recommends seven new horror releases for your Spooky Season TBR stack!

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lol it was!!

11 iced coffees

between dept q and the residence i was really craving some high qual mystery solvin' and wow, stephen spotwood's pentecost and parker series is T R E M E N D O U S stuff. 40s NYC, the best detective in america finds herself a new assistant from...the circus???? it happens!

i laughed so incredibly hard at this, out loud

New prints? New prints!

www.brianna-ashby.com/new-products

charging by the minute

so Having The Chocobo is this concept i've developed to talk about universes beyond and what works/doesn't for it. the thing is that for 99% of crossover IP promotion, all you need is iconic characters. you wanna get your shit into fortnite, mortal kombat, so on, all you need is a handful of beloved recognizable characters. but for an mtg set, you need way more than that: you need iconography, creatures and places and objects that fans will recognize and be excited about. one of the reasons for all god-awful cards in spiderman was that wotc were worried about players opening packs and not seeing spiderman. this is because spiderman doesn't Have The Chocobo: there's no franchise specific place or object or concept that holds the same iconic and beloved status as its ~6 most prominent characters. you have to make a bunch god-awful generic filler cards with peter parker or miles morales randomly slapped onto them if you want to get something recognizable to fans into most packs.

final fantasy on the other hand--final fantasy Has The Chocobo, which here means the literal actual chocobo but when i use it means 'the breadth and depth of non-named-character iconography to fill out all the needs of an mtg set with cards fans of the original property actually want to see'. nobody was worried about final fantasy fans opening packs and not seeing cloud strife, because they would see a moogle, or a black mage, or a summon, or a town, or a mother fucking Chocobo, and that would be exciting and cool for them. so when evaluating UB sets i have found it really useful to think about the property its adapting and ask, does it Have The Chocobo?

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The Goon Squad, by Daniel Kolitz Loneliness, porn’s next frontier, and the dream of endless masturbation

this is an incredible read

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ugh can't believe i forgot katia off stath

If you see this, post 4 female characters you love

wait that would be a land wouldn’t it

literally filled to the brim with stories and possibilities. just because the spidey set stunk doesn’t mean we don’t need a card for Terminal 5 that costs seven black

wow turns out im pretty sure the residence is a masterpiece?

ME: well and that’s the problem, right? that’s what so many people just can’t grasp

CHOTINER: you’re saying…

ME: yeah; that Heat hinges on romance. it’s a romance movie

CHOTINER: interesting. and you… endorse… the way these romances play out for the women in the movie?

ME: now wait a minute

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wow there are a LOT of department q novels

welp, better get started