Susannah Erwin

Does the story have potential? Sure. But IMO - having read the ASM and ANV issues - Marvel has not earned any benefit of the doubt when it comes to their treatment of Mary Jane these last three years.

In the four issues to date of New Venom, MJ has appeared on only four pages. She’s reduced to being a foster mom yet again (the other kids magically disappeared 🙄) & although the mystery was easily guessed from the start, so far the symbiote is clearly in charge; MJ is just a voiceless passenger.

The assumption of the Jackpot identity reduces MJ to a passive passenger in her own story even further. She uses tech not originally made for her, her costume wasn’t chosen by her, even the idea of being a hero is suggested by others and not her active choice. The Jackpot mini died on the vine.

Absolutely No One Is Happy With Spider-Man's Latest Fridging Unsurprisingly, there’s a lot of fully justified anger about this comic right now, because it treats its female characters terribly.

It’s a continuation of a highly misogynist story - Kamala got the lion’s share of attention but the Mary Sue calls out some of how the story reduced MJ to a “scarlet woman” “chained” into being a mother to two kids not her own (MJ’s canonical fate worse than death) www.themarysue.com/absolutely-n...

This story stems from a highly misogynistic status quo in which MJ was kidnapped, her agency removed, “chained” into being a trad wife mommy raising fake kids, lied to, decisions taken away from her - I could go on. Anyone who cares about women characters in comic books needs to boycott instead.

A screenshot from a legal complaint with contact information for the plaintiffs' attorneys that states, "Joseph R. Saveri (State Bar No. 130064) Cadio Zirpoli (State Bar No. 179108) Christopher K.L. Young (State Bar No. 318371) Kathleen J. McMahon (State Bar No. 340007) JOSEPH SAVERI LAW FIRM, LLP 601 California Street, Suite 1000 San Francisco, California 94108 Telephone: (415) 500-6800 Facsimile: (415) 395-9940 Email: jsaveri@saverilawfirm.com czirpoli@saverilawfirm.com cyoung@saverilawfirm.com kmcmahon@saverilawfirm.com Matthew Butterick (State Bar No. 250953) 1920 Hillhurst Avenue, #406 Los Angeles, CA 90027 Telephone: (323) 968-2632 Facsimile: (415) 395-9940 Email: mb@buttericklaw.com Counsel for Individual and Representative Plaintiffs and the Proposed Class"

A screenshot from a legal complaint that states, "UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION Richard Kadrey, an individual; Sarah Silverman, an individual; Christopher Golden, an individual; Individual and Representative Plaintiffs, v. Meta Platforms, Inc., a Delaware corporation; Case No. Complaint Class Action Demand for Jury Trial Defendant."

IF YOU FOUND YOUR NOVEL IN THE LIBGEN DATABASE, YOU MAY BE A CLASS MEMBER FOR THE KADREY ET AL V. META PLATFORMS CLASS ACTION

Law firms you can contact if you're a potential class member:

Joseph Saveri Law Firm, LLP (415) 500-6800
Mathew Butterick (323) 968-2632 mb@buttericklaw.com

It’s even worse - Meta knowingly chose to use pirated books instead of licensing content.

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

Hey Booksky 💙📚 - if you’re an author you might to check to see if Meta stole your book to train its AI. Six of my books plus a Spanish translation are in this database.

No peace.

This is a great contest for contemporary romance authors - highly recommend submitting if you have a qualifying manuscript!

That’s being mean to pistachio ice cream. Current ASM is a pint of artificially flavored non-dairy frozen dessert left out on the counter too long, put back in the freezer, and now is a clump of discolored ice crystals that only vaguely resemble its original state.

None of this had to be this way.

at Christian camps and I do not recognize these people and their hateful, antiChrist need to dominate others at all. I was recruited by Evangelicals as a teen and ran as far as I could in the other direction after a few meetings - even then I knew it was an authoritarian cult, not a true church.

I’m gong to point out a hard truth: people whining about being persecuted are not actual Christians who follow Christ’s teachings to turn the other cheek, suffer the meek and do unto others as you would have done unto you. I grew up with perfect Sunday School attendance and spent part of my summers

"You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’ But I tell you not to resist an evil person. But whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn the other to him also." -- some lib, now owned

Also? Today’s New York Times would make Goebbels proud with the way it stans for fascism.

They don’t want to be treated with respect 🙄🙄🙄

They want to be obeyed as the sole arbiter of social mores.

Funny how this “respect” goes only one way. Because they certainly don’t respect anyone who doesn’t march in lockstep with their white supremacist xtian homophobic misogynist views.

Sane.

To celebrate A Winsome Kind of Love release...

ON SALE TODAY 99c ~ A Heart of Doctor Steele (Book 1)

"A gem" ~ NetGalley

💜 Grumpy/sunshine
💜 Competence pOrn
💜 Refreshing setting: 1840s America

Both FREE in KU

#romancelandia 🌶️📚💙 #historicalromance

So excited Colette’s latest book is now out!

Thank you so much!

It’s good to consider the unintended consequences! But we thought Tesla’s software was irresponsible - you can set the auto follow distance at much too close a distance for safety IMO & the one time we used the lane change assist, it cut off the car next to us - so I’m not too sad.

Also, the Tesla supercharger network was Tesla’s one great competitive advantage over other EVs. Now that the network is open, there’s no real reason to prefer Tesla over another EV brand IMO.

The biggest mindset switch - & lifestyle, as now one must factor in how/where/length of time to charge & possibly investing in home charger - is from gas engine to EV. Once you’ve made that switch, why would you go back to a gas car as 2nd choice? Esp since there are a plethora of great EV choices.

Since theTesla supercharger network opened to other car manufacturers, there is no reason to prefer Tesla if you’re in the market for an EV. Other EVs have surpassed Tesla in comfort and styling & we, for one, never trusted Tesla’s software. Very happy to be rid of our Tesla & love our Rivian.

😍🥰😘💖

Every former Tesla owner I know, including us - so anecdotal, but still better data than just making something up like this skeet does - replaced their vehicle with another EV brand. We have a Rivian, but also seriously considered Polestar, Hyundai Ioniq, Ford Mustang Mach-E and Kia EV6.

This is what competitive authoritarianism looks like www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/u...

This is exactly what we need to call it.