Orion Kidder

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Iain M. Banks' "Culture" books have amazing ship names:

Prosthetic Conscience
The Ends Of Invention
Of Course I Still Love You
Very Little Gravitas Indeed
Frank Exchange Of Views
It'll Be Over By Christmas

It goes on like that.

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Iain M. Banks Culture Universe Spaceship Names

Main article: Ship types of the Culture Most of the Culture ship names in this collection come from the titles of the chapters in the titular novella; the narrator explains that he has chosen ship nam...

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Yes. Especially paw patrol.

Fuckin' Chase.

This is good. I like this. Hang in, finding my MP and MLA's email addresses...

Managing snot is like 20% of parenting.

This is where anarchist conceptualizations of "authority" is really useful. People are trained to ignore what's in front of their own eyes and *defer* to people who have power. That's why it takes a child, who hasn't been trained in it as badly, to yell, "The emperor has no clothes."

I resent that remark.

Anyway, these thoughts are still in flux! New evidence = new interpretation.

more like guest stars in network TV than what the DC and Marvel universes turned into, which was only ever the illusion of coherence anyway, parenting they had coherence because it had become branding by them. Universes/multiverses are brands. That's how you get a "Marvel fan" as we know it.

I'm going to do the same, essentially say: it's a mess, the details are less important than the fact that they had no coherent universe, just a bunch of messy ownership relationship that meant sometimes X and Y characters showed up in the same stories and sometimes they didn't...

Happy to send you a copy when it's done! Do you have my email? If not, Orion@fdu.edu is my work mailbox. Send me a message, and I'll send you the MS.

Oh that is SO much weirder than I thought it would be. Okay. I need to do some rewriting!

Honestly, Venom. It's not *good*, but he's so into it, and so game for the goofy superhero stuff but also the extremely queer performance. I mean, he plays both characters. It's high-quality trash.

Eat Raw GIF

Alt: Venom's face half opens to reveal Eddie (Hardy) underneath, and then his jaw opens to eat the camera. Caption reads, "We are Venom."

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That line is so charming and effortless and badass and delicate all at once. I don't know that nobody else *could* deliver it, but only he could deliver it that way.

That mine is so charming and effortless and badass and delicate all at once. I don't know that nobody else *could* deliver it, but only he could deliver it that way.

It's the 2000s all over again. (Sniff.)

Indeed. Or a malicious D&D player: "How can I bully everyone into letting me behave like this rule is the opposite of what it clearly says but then snap back to what it does clearly say when it benefits me?" The bullying part is key. It's not about having a good faith, or even just *good*, argument.

Well, I'm out. I'm not watching acting those two do ever again.

That's an odd position to put them in. (Rim shot!)

That's why I said "at least."

Wikipedia gives the date as 1946, but I'm seeing another wiki that says 1944, and I also saw an image allegedly from 1941 that includes Superman, Batman, and the original Flash, which shouldn't exist, so now I really need to be sure!

I ask because I'm writing a paper about how DC's acquisitions of rival publishers contributed to their multiverse, which crosses over with your interest in Flash/Gardiner Fox.

Okay. This is obscure. Do you know how to verify when DC (né National) bought All-Star Comics?

Shit. Yes. I meant to reference this, but I lost it in the thread. Thank you! Bc while it's not the case that Trump/Biden would be literally the same, if someone one of those groups says that sincerely, the rest of us should *listen*.

Hey, @jenniferdeross.bsky.social, can I pick your brain about a golden age comics thing?

But I mean, sweet baby Superman, we are all in an anxiety inducing state and have been at least since that racist sack of shit came down that escalator, so if some are in a screaming place, I just move on at this point. Easier said than done, but here we all are.

That's what I *think* is going on.

Two, anymore who says "they're equally bad" is either getting carried away in the moment or probably was never going to vote, so it's a pointless conversation.

Two codas. One, in less charged conversations, I've also heard Black Americans say, yes of course it'll be miles worse under Trump, but it'll be fucking awful under Biden, too, so they're less panicky(?) about it than us white men and more focused on how to get through it.

And I think they have a point. It is white men who will give Trump a second term, if that happens, so I think it's legitimately on us white men to direct our comments at the real villains: Trump voters.

What I have read Black Americans say is: stop telling them, Black people, that they have to vote for Biden and start telling it to your racist white cousins (and such). Now, I know that's not what you said, but it's what a lot of people are *hearing* bc of those decades of taking them for granted.

Democrats have been taking the Black and other POC votes for granted for decades, and then the party has been either doing nothing, breaking its promises, or since Clinton, sliding to the right. Biden's support of genocide and the police are evidence of that, but there's so much more, too.

I just had this happen to me last week, and while it's likely that some of the responses were in bad faith, I did learn something that gave me some context, specifically as a white man. I hope I can do it justice. Read on if you're interested....

Good pull.

"Dear NYU,

I would like to offer my sincere condolences on the deaths of your scholarly ethics and human decency..."

Love it. Babies keep people honest.

So got mad and got honest and put up a symbol of how he really feels. Got it.

I have heard similar descriptions of the CBC's unwillingness to offend the sensibilities of conservatives for fear of being labeled "biased." This story is all too believable.

Resurrected moose has to be a flying couch. W. T. F?!

Spy. He pokes deadpan fun at his own persona.

Weird. I'm so sorry. This country is openly monarchical in ways that are very embarrassing.

So. This is so sad. But. Long-view, as someone who's read a lot of history, it is absolutely possible to lose not just the tolerance but the hard-fought, only-just-achieved social embrace of what we today call queerness. It can be done and has been done. Sexual freedom still has to be defended.

I'm 47, and two members of my writing group are in their mid-20s. I *aspire* to their total absence of queerphobia. It was never laid in for them to have to unlearn, as far as I can tell.

Useless, intrusive, and gobsmackingly expensive. Sounds like cops.

Okay I'm in and feel dumb for putting it off.

Right there with you.

Can confirm.

Of course. Obviously. This is the solidarity between the owner class and oppressive state apparatus.

If it makes you feel any better, and it probably won't, the only people I've ever met who treat it like anything other than a generic Monday off are Ontarians who celebrate by drinking a "two-four."