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Maker of comics, stories and podcasts. http://phantasictales.com . He/Him. Portfolio: http://adamprosser.ca Patreon: http://patreon.com/phantasmictales
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And arguably what I am enjoying most is that this is not the hero theory of history. We’re not seeing a charismatic leader carry the election through rhetoric and force of personality. We’re seeing populations say: nope. I like the power of nope.
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The reason the Pacific Northwest is so fascinating and eerie to Americans is because it functions as a gateway to an uncanny realm of magic and terror (Canada)
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Something I noticed a lot during Trump is that the news read like a fantasy novel where Trump was the protagonist and everything that happened mattered only as story beats in his ultimately sympathetic and triumphant character arc.
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The perception of an inevitable fascist victory in Europe is largely just the wishcasting of mainstream media publications saying that fascist victory is inevitable. See how the BBC spins National Rally's loss.
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I got curious about the data here. I found the map on this reddit post. Excluding 2-year degrees skews the numbers, as does lumping jails in with prisons. This is just some thing some weirdo on reddit made to show "which states are good and which are bad" www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/co...
this is so fucked
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If you read any American media in the last couple of weeks, it sounded like France to the far right was a foregone conclusion. (A few days ago I shared some english language news from Europe that painted a different picture).
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Man i have been saying for a minute that voters everywhere are rejecting fascist shit and it’s only the media that makes us think otherwise, but it’s nice to see that in play right now
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Thinking today about how Star Trek: Voyager never really figured out how to use Kes, and my minority view that her best episode was easily “Warlord,” the one where the mind of an alien tyrant takes over her body and she has to fight to free herself of him and oh. Right. That’s why I liked that one
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This is exactly why I try to openly recommend new books/comics and boost fellow authors and artists as often as I can. The algorithm won’t help us share our own stories. So we must help share each other’s stories instead, and raise that tide for all of us.
We’ve returned to the olden days, when word-of-mouth was the only real way to advertise. As an author, if you enjoy a book, please: tell your friends. Your group chat, your sewing circle, your family WhatsApp, your work Slack, the voice channel of your MMORPG guild, anything.
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It's not over until you're dead and even then wait to see if they choke on your bones
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far right beliefs are deeply unpopular, which is why one of their main beliefs is making sure a popular vote doesn't get to decide anything
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if there is one thing I want to come out of this election, regardless of result, it is Dems - and the left more generally - finally understanding that they need to make their own media ecosystem and stop relying on folks who want them to lose to get their message out
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part of why I want to push back against full Doomerism is that last month it looked like the EU was going to be plunged into a fascist revival and mass torment of immigrants was unavoidable. Now we have the UK stopping their foreign concentration camp idea and France knee capping the right.
In France, the left coalition comes in first, Macron second, the far-right third. The best way to defeat fascism is not centrism, it’s a strong left.
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Here's some fashy tears for your Sunday.
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This is probably the undefeated champion of the genre. bsky.app/profile/fhp....
This is *chef's kiss*
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there are many reasons we need to win in the fall, but one of them is that i simply am not going to abide by letting both the brits and the french lecture us
*MACRON'S GROUP PROJECTED TO WIN MORE SEATS THAN FAR RIGHT *LEFT ALLIANCE SET FOR 170-215 SEATS IN FRENCH VOTE: ESTIMATES *LE PEN'S GROUP SET FOR 110-158 SEATS IN FRENCH VOTE: ESTIMATES *FRENCH LEFT SET FOR SHOCK ELECTION VICTORY, PROJECTIONS SHOW
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Sal, for better or worse, was THE Marvel house style in the 1970s. Dude cranked out 3 books a month! Of course, they were all stock poses and the same 5 facial expressions, but hey they were easy to read. Makes Kirby's output in the 1960s even more astounding, because Jack never relied on formula.
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[dying in my hospital bed, struggling to say my last words] s… sl… sleep country canada [my loving family between sobs] why buy a mattress anywhere else
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Faster, Pussycat! Eat! Pray! Love!
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Why does this one guy make a 300M salary? His job is tough he has to run the whole company! So it’s his fault when the company fails? No!
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Today Tegan looks at Spanner’s Galaxy #6, from 1985 and DC Comics, by Nicola Cuti and Tom Mandrake.
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#StarTrek “But you fuck ONE GHOST….”
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It drives me nuts when people say we need to make sure poor people have access to AI. The entire schtick is focused on providing AI slop to the masses while ensuring the elites get real human professionals. Having a human teacher or doctor or lawyer cannot become a bespoke luxury for the wealthy.
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Sometimes conservatism flourishes, sometimes it withers, but it never, ever learns. Its answer is always the same: more force, more violence, more control, more isolation, more repression -- even when those strategies manifestly don't work. Because ideology trumps empiricism.
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The LotR appendices talking about Gondor: the king conquered the entire known world and renamed himself Conquerer Of The Entire Known World The appendices talking about Rohan: the king flipped off a troll who promptly beat his ass
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Authors making a website for their webcomic for the very first time: I am begging you to add an about page. You GOTTA be able to pitch your work to someone visiting for the first time, even if you only have 25 pages up