#Nation Publishing

[demonicseries]

*deadpool (2022) comic spoilers*

So you’re telling me, that the top notch secret hit man organization, hunting down Deadpool and his accomplices, needs to get Wade to tell them the whereabouts of his team, and they way they’re trying to get they information out of him is— (you’re not gonna believe this)

to set up an illusion where Spiderman pins Deadpool down with a bunch of webs and then says he’ll have sex with him if Wade tells him where his friends are hiding (INSANE!!!)

[ask2ps]

2P! LIECHTENSTEIN AND SWITZERLAND! (Feat. a heavily altered screencap redraw.)

Info about my interpretation of them under the cut!

The two representatives are inseparably close, and have adopted the human relationship status of "siblings." Just as the nations share an open border, the representatives themselves share a home.

VOSS ZWINGLI: The representative for Switzerland. He views the world as a truly dark place, where the best way to keep yourself safe is to simply not participate. Hence, despite his outwardly-courteous people-pleaser nature, he internally wants nothing more than to isolate himself from his vile, power-hungry neighbors. He makes a fair effort to better the world, working with charity and medical institutions across the globe, but it's caused him to grow even more hopelessly paranoid about contamination, sabotage, and war. His main solace is his younger sister Elise, who is often the only person willing to patiently endure his anxiety and absurd "precautionary measures." Of the whole rotten world, nations and humans like, Elise might be the only one he thinks highly of. Even if he wishes she'd be a little less reckless.

ELISE VOGEL: After a lifesaving intervention, Liechtenstein promised Switzerland a life debt, despite his protests. Unfortunately for her, Switzerland (as a nation) is notoriously neutral, and Voss (as a representative) is generally isolated and unimposing, so she doesn't have much to do. So until the fateful day comes where she will repay her life debt, she has taken the role of a little sister, doing her best to ease her brother's concerns, help him with his work, and protect him from... well, whatever she can get her hands on, really. Her scrappiness and somewhat accusatory tone tends to land her in hot water with others, though. This behavior likely stems from the fact that she never left the "verge-of-life-and-death" state of mind. She's terrified of any slip-ups leading to her dissolution: after all, that would leave her as nothing more than a waste of Voss' time and effort.

[alaynestcnes]

have to remind myself this isn’t an edit sometimes like they really just did that. freaks

[hdslibrary]

National Book Lovers Day 2024!

From our stacks to your eyeballs: A small selection of gorgeous 19th century publisher's bindings.

[garadinervi]

«BLK», Vol. 1, No. 9, Edited by Alan Bell, BLK Publishing Company, Los Angeles, CA, August 1989 [front cover: photograph of James Baldwin] [Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.]

[awaitingrain]

Okay, I got a bit carried away. This wasn't planned, so it's a bit messy (and I'm late…don't blame me for the ugly dress…)

Day 2: Romance

[bitterrobin]

I loooove expanding on the al Ghuls. IDK in both canon and fanon they're always exclusively villains with little nuance to them unless its the sole focus of a story arc. Even then, its pretty much only Ras and Talia that get their (deserved) due.

*pushing up my nerd glasses* which is why I have fun writing GRAVEYARD because I can yap about my al Ghuls headcanons left and right. For example, Melisande is primarily a French name. But since Talia's mother is often described as mixed Arab/Chinese, I figured I would look for why she would have a French name (other than the writer's decision, maybe they thought it was just pretty). I came up with this: Algeria has history of French usage through its colonization, so Melisande has a French first name but an Arabic middle name (Fadhma). Since she met Ras in Woodstock, she'd have to have been a teenager/young adult by then, and thus been raised in the 1950s/60s. I figured the connotations of Woodstock, her mixed heritage, the then-current state of Algeria etc, the 1969 oil spill in the US, she would have visited America with curiosity about the counter-culture. (how? idk that's why this still in the works) In my au,

Melisande already held views on nature and environmental protection before meeting Ras. Her views were fierce, but probably a little naive compared to Ras' own views. Nonetheless, they clicked intellectually, with Melisande debating theories and politics, which eventually led to their marriage. I don't think Melisande would've liked America (and obviously neither did Ras) so they did not stay there. I considered writing Melisande having Kayble Amazigh heritage to further fuel her desire for change and revolution and because Ras is implied to have Bedouin/Berber origins, but since I don't know much about those cultures beyond some research - I figured I shouldn't include it. Also, because Melisande died when Talia was young, so I don't think she'd have the time to impart a lot of her specific culture onto her daughter, adding to Talia's isolation/loneliness. Melisande is a mother who's killed in both of her iterations, I just wanted to add more significance to her connection with Talia. Something about meeting an intellectual and then being doomed, one way or another, to be absorbed into his mythos. She's a blip in Ras's history, not even his first wife or his first lover - but she's important to Talia.

Same kinda applied to Dusan. He's only in several comics as the White Ghost because Ras needed a new body. He's albino. He's extremely devoted to his father despite not receiving the same attention, and he was born to connect Ras to some lost culture or people. Dusan, to my knowledge is not an Arab name. From research, in some areas, its a Czech/Slovak/Serbian name. This is interesting to me since, besides Nyssa, it implies he's the only other non-Arabic member of the family. Nyssa (depends on translation, is either Greek or Hebrew, which makes sense considering she is Jewish) is of Russian descent. So in my hc, Dusan is of Slovak descent, connected to some fictional peoples. Considering Ras' history, Dusan's mother was probably connected to some type of specific science or magic culture that Ras wanted his hands on. He seems detached to Talia, despite being her brother, so my hc is that he's much older than her and so they don't have a connection in the way that Nyssa created between them. Because Ras was successfully able to transfer his mind/soul to Dusan's body in Resurrection, we can glean that Dusan might've had this magical connection too. Bringing Mara into this, we don't get a lot of content surrounding what her relationship w her father was. Still, my hc is that her red hair streak is actually dyed, and she has inherited her father's albinism but has yet to show it outside of her hair. Mara is also not an Arabic name. In Hebrew it means bitter, but my hc is that she nicknamed herself Mara. Besides Nyssa, I don't think any other member of the al Ghuls are Jewish - so Mara just took the meaning as a way to symbolize her bitterness over her father. Her full name was Maram, which means "wish" or "desire" in Arabic. Whether it was Dusan or her mother that named her this, I'm not fully sure yet but I think it'd be more heartbreaking if it was Dusan. Despite spending so long attached to his father's crusade, I think it'd be sad if for a moment - he had independence and happiness w Mara. Maybe he wanted a son, just as Ras wanted a son, but he once loved her just as fiercely as Talia loves Damian. But again, the al Ghuls are Ouroboros. They cannot ever break the family curse, so in the end, Dusan was once again driven to his father's side w fervor, his lover or wife left him, and Mara was left (as many in the family) alone.

[newyorkthegoldenage]

On May 20, 1944, the American Academy of Arts & Letters and the National Institute of Arts & Letters honored four distinguished Americans: editor and publisher Samuel S. McClure (McClure's magazine), novelists Willa Cather and Theodore Dreiser, and actor, singer, and social activist Paul Robeson.

Photo: NY Times via Getty Images

[lawofcollage]

Happy Coming Out Day! Whether in or out, I hope you find happiness and acceptance in your identity.

This book was a huge part in finding confidence in my own identity and then learning more about other people's queerness. I didn't start it with the idea of making a book, I started the project with the idea of seeing myself (an ace) represented in a time when asexuality wasn't broadly shown anywhere. It's still not broadly recognized, but it's getting there. And then I went about making almost every pride flag I learned about.

Only recently did I think to put them together in this manner for others to enjoy. I started this project to feel seen, and I hope other people find that same moment within it's pages.

Where it is for sale: Bookshop (Where I would suggest you ordering from because it supports small bookshops across the country that aren't Amazon), Amazon, Barnes & Noble

[luimnigh]

If I had a massive internet following I would absolutely be hesitant about even rightfully criticising anyone with a smaller internet presence than mine.

You cannot control your audience, you cannot control how far or fast your message spreads, and you cannot control how it's going to change in transmission.

Internet hate mobs can spring up over the smallest things. They are no joke.

And if that person was making a career from their internet presence... you can effectively cost them their job, and their ability to make a career in their field. This is on top of nuking their reputation, and making them a public laughingstock and punchline for literal years.

We know what that sort of thing can push people towards.

You have to be very fucking careful over what power you wield over others, because bringing you influence down on someone can be massively disproportionate to the sins a person has committed. And you ultimately do not have full control over the consequences.

So you have to be very aware of the potential for harm in your actions. Or you can end up with blood on your hands.

[saym0-0]

i cant find the post now but a while back i made a post about how the hc recap crew are watchers that technically do their jobs by reporting back to the main watchers or whatever whats going on on hermitcraft, but they exclusively do it through recap episodes. which the watchers deem immature and never actually. you know. watch.

so anyways i just want to say that this is canon to my mcyteu, and also that they also post this to youtube (an in-universe youtube equivalent?) where the general public regardless of world/server can see it, which is the main reason the general public even knows about hermitcraft, because the recap got just so massively popular. i reckon a few hermits also post or stream? but i dont have that super figured out yet i just know that its not many. maybe its content more geared towards building or redstone tutorials rather than smp content? idk

[borealopelta]

first publication of my academic career dropped yesterday btw. and i? am so fucked up about it

[wildflowergirlie]

Happy National Authors day to all those who write!

Shoutout to fanfiction authors who write for free and for fun!

Shoutout to poets who always end up being poetical in some way or another!

Shoutout to published authors!

Shoutout to those who do writing prompts!

Shoutout to literally anyone who writes. Happy National Authors Day!

[smashpages]

Out this week: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Nation #1 (IDW, $5.99): 

This new anthology series will feature two stories in each issue, with this first one including a Raphael story by Tom Waltz and Vincenzo Federici, and a Casey Jones/Karai story by Erik Burnham.

See what else is arriving at your local comic shop this week.

[garadinervi]

«BLK», Vol. 1, No. 5, Edited by Alan Bell, BLK Publishing Company, Los Angeles, CA, April 1989 [front cover: photograph of Audre Lorde] [Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.]

[deadpresidents]

Are there any books you’d recommend on Jerry Brown?

Jim Newton's 2020 biography, Man of Tomorrow: The Relentless Life of Jerry Brown (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) is excellent. I highly recommend it.

And Miriam Pawel, one of the best chroniclers of California's history and the state's most influential figures (her books on Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers movement are must reads), wrote a really good book a few years ago about the Brown political family: The Browns of California: The Family Dynasty that Transformed a State and Shaped a Nation (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO).