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I think if a democratic pac designed the perfect intentionally bad mayoral campaign as part of a scheme to divide the field and guarantee a Zohran Mamdani victory, they would end up doing basically everything Andrew Cuomo has done.

Only Cuomo is no scheme! He is a real candidate, running a real campaign. And he really thinks getting Trump to endorse him and promising to make rent less affordable for middle income NYers is going to play well with liberal voters.

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Creating a comic book is a difficult endeavor, with lengthy, complicated workflows. You have multiple revisions of a single issue being passed around between the writer and a handful of different artists, multiple rounds of editing, sometimes script specialists and interpreters, with most of the people involved not even sharing an office, for months or even years at a time, without even getting into the process of actually printing and shipping the things. And I'm sure that with a massive project with the X-Men, with tens of individual serialized books shipping every month, and more often than not needing to reach the retail market in a specific order, the complexity of keeping all of those plates spinning all year long must scale exponentially with each additional title.

You can quickly see that it's not really reasonable to expect close fidelity between something like scene layout across panels of different comics books, drawn by artists who have probably only heard the original details secondhand; or to hold it against writers getting a few details wrong when they only had a rough outline a year ago to work from and haven't actually seen the final draft of the issue they're writing the follow-up to. And I think it's probably unfair sometimes how much polish fans expect from a product that's this difficult to put together, that's the result of so much labor, and still ultimately very cheap for the relatively tiny number of people who will actually read these things.

Okay, and now that I've got that out of the way:

I've got to be honest, if you're running some kind of massive shared universe group story, and you can't even get everyone to agree on what century it's going to take place in, I think it's probably all hopeless.

This is not a case where audience expectation can comfortably fail to line up with reality: it is an enormous breach of immersion. There are very few cases where you can take people by surprise with something so key to the basic setting of the story and get away with it. The very next page of the story needs to be someone waking up from a dream, if you take my meaning.

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Do we know if Cheetah and Cheshire Rob the Justice League takes place within current DCU continuity? Because Jade's daughter is actually a pretty good confidence thief at present, and it would at least be really funny if she brought her along.

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We live in the dumbest, lamest cyberpunk dystopia possible.

So LA has been — and continues to — protest against ICE. These protests haven’t gotten any smaller or lost any momentum, but social media wasn’t reflecting it.

TikTok users, realizing that the platform/other social media are censoring/deleting/shadowbanning these protest videos, decided to find a workaround.

They’re calling it the LA Music Festival. Ice detention centers and other protest locations are “stages.” The hottest band is Rage Against the Machine. “Here’s what gear you should be bringing to stay safe at the LA Music Festival.”

And it fucking worked.

TikTok has become a proving ground for a lot of new music, meaning lots of labels and organizations have lucrative deals with TikTok to promote their new artists and music festivals. So they absolutely cannot censor the words “music festival” or train the algorithm to ignore it, or they risk endangering that very important revenue.

So now protest videos are flooding feeds again, but it’s the LA 24/7 Music Festival. Truly an incredible timeline we’ve landed in.

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something awful happening on this blog where i post arguments that historian is a proper profession and not a glorified hobby and then post news that a major us university has halted all language studies admissions (including classics and other historical languages) and is revising its entire undergrad curriculum because they deem anything not english and not ''''american'''' superfluous and not beneficent.

your anti-intellectualism does not exist in a vacuum. the humanities is not a hobby. scholars are not the enemy. administrations working with and bowing down to a fascist regime are, and this is what kills diversity and critical thought. this is another form of censorship.

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I can't believe we've gotten to 6 years after House of X and Moira has still never interacted with a single Excalibur member. Not even her daughter

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do you ever start writing a comment on the internet and then think “oh what the fuck am i going on about” and delete it

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Mozilla, in its finite wisdom, embedded LLM bots into recent versions of Firefox for the vitally-important purpose of… naming tab groups. Now, some users are noticing CPU and power usage spikes caused by a background process called Inference.

Ugh. Reminder again for Firefox users to visit your about:config page, search for the browser.ml.chat.enabled key, and set that to false:

If yours says true then double-click it until it reads false.

Doing that turns off the AI chatbot features in Firefox, but also the stupid new LLM tab-naming feature that's rolling out.

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This takes place maybe a month after Rogue nearly killed Carol, who was their very close friend, and afflicted her with lifelong memory impairment. Carol essentially convalesced at the school while she was in recovery, and at this time she'd been operating as a member of the team throughout all of their adventures fighting the Brood. Everyone in that room feels like they are being asked to betray Carol, who has saved their lives many times, by siding with her attacker.

No one wanted Rogue around.

It doesn't start to turn around until she saves the team from Viper.

Uncanny Avengers (2015) #18

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It's crazy how many people use Death of the Author to mean "separating the art from the artist" when it's actually not supposed to have anything to do with who the author is as a person and is supposed to be about the idea that the author's interpretation of their own work should not be seen as the definitive, correct opinion on that work. Like you're not supposed to invoke Death of the Author when JK Rowling devotes her entire life and fortune to transphobia, you're supposed to invoke it when Trent Reznor says Closer by Nine Inch Nails isn't a sex song.

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fandom spaces were better when the media creators didn't know we existed and we didn't want them to find out.

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Sunset in Arizona

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I wasn't reassured that this had all been well-thought-out when he couldn't explain how it came to be that they're running an AoA anniversary miniseries concurrently with Age of Revelation (an AoA anniversary event)

Or that they seem to have cancelled their highest selling book because someone else wanted to use the protagonist as a villain.

you’re laughing. my fav is the heir of the apocalypse and you’re laughing.

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I am not trying to be disrespectful but sometimes you use big/sophisticated words in your cowboy fic (it's the first one I have read of yours and I am enjoying it a lot!) and it makes me think you use AI or something similar. Again, I do not mean this to be rude but I'm curious if you do.

i use 'big words' because i have a law degree.

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First thing you see after you zoom in is how you die

How you dying 👀

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I love rocks that look extremely like someone just tested the demon blade on them

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