#The Shadowed Circle 3

[esonetwork]

'The Shadowed Circle #3' Book Review By Ron Fortier

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'The Shadowed Circle #3' Book Review By Ron Fortier

THE SHADOWED CIRCLE # 3 Editor/Publisher Steve Donoso A Renaissance Arts Press Publication 66 pages

Once again, Editor Steve Donoso and his crew of enthusiastic Shadow devotees have put together another stellar issue cram-packed with informative and fun articles. All behind a terrific cover by Steve Rude.

Albert J. Emery’s query as to could the Shadow have ended World War II by taking out Hitler is thought-provoking. Todd Severin and Keith Holt’s second part of the character’s history was professionally put forth. Will Murray always entertains, whether when writing his own exciting pulp tales or in this case, recounting his personal experiences covering the 1994 Shadow movie starring Alec Baldwin. His peek behind the glamour and glitter is fascinating.

Our favorite article was easily the story behind “The Shadow’s Guy in the Chair.” As writer Tim King points out, in most series where the hero leads a team, there is always someone at the center of the web cleverly doing the boss’ bidding. With the Shadow, it was the loyal and mysterious Burbank. A fun piece exploring the possible origins of the character as created by Walter Gibson.

Part one of the Michael Uslan interview, “The Boy Who Loved The Shadow” by Darby Kern was enjoyable and we’re eager for the second half coming next issue. Likewise, Steve Novak’s piece on the Shadow’s New York was a nice follow-up from the period photo essay on display in Issue # 2. 

Finally, “The Puzzling Adventures of The Shadow Magazine in Canada was really strange to say the least. Kudos to Tim Hewitt for his research and exploration of a little facet of publishing history before and during the years of World War II. Very little is ever written about Canadian pulps and this feature was most welcome.

Once again, “The Shadowed Circle” offers up a truly complete package with entertaining articles all beautifully laid out with clever compositions throughout. No Shadow fan should be without this wonderful mag.

[coffeekoon]

"Faker? I think you're the fake hedgehog around here. You're comparing yourself to me? Ha! You're not even good enough to be my fake."

shadow for my bestie of TEN WHOLE YEARS, @consumerofstarz!! he's a real one!!!

[prophecyofgray]

club penguin was a transgender website for transgender people & every motherfucker in that game had something lgbt going on. dot she/he/they bisexual. aunt arctic she/he lesbian. PH she/they lesbian trans woman. gary the gadget guy he/him gay trans man. rookie he/they gnc af gay transmasc. jpg he/him gay trans man. idk what the fuck cadence has going on and i don’t think they would want me to figure it out but either way i respect it. klutzy any pronouns bisexual. Any questions

[prettyboysdontlookatexplosions]

i am, as we all know, not an mcu hater. in the end i like to like things and one of my very favorite kind of things to like is a movie that uses some silly genre concepts to express something real or even just resonant and evocative and it would be nice for me if the mcu would go back to doing that because every time they have managed it it has brought me only joy. and ultimately people can like what they like and it’s fine. but it is funny when like mcu people react to complaints about the quality of mcu movies by assuming everyone wants them to become lars von trier stans or whatever. me personally i would cry tears of joy if the mcu made one film as expertly crafted as die hard

[elizabethrobertajones]

I stan Alphy's character development. Me too, lil buddy.

[redjukebox]

New obsession: drawing low quality Sonic and Shadow with jumbo crayons

[thunderon]

*looks around and observes the smoking wreckage of my sleep schedule* yeah not good

[harperbrynne]

They better not be being mean to her…

[gilliontidestriderchampionoftheu]

the suckening is literally all flesh and hunt its about vampires man. BUT if we ignore all that. emizel (+the dangs generally) is slaughter. shilo is web. arthur is the dark.

[steakout-05]

eeuuaghh i would like everyone to know that i apologise if i have not responded to your reblogs/mentions/posts on tumblr, i have really terrible social anxiety and for some reason people talking to me makes my nervous system think i'm being hunted for sport by a resident evil boss. sorry if i havent responded i'm not being rude i'm just having a panic attack :P

additionally: social anxiety is actually the reason why a lot of my old posts from late 2022 had weird spacing and spelling mistakes. i was too anxious to type properly

[sparrowmoth]

Wesper Internet friends to lovers au

@waterloou ask and six months later you shall receive lmao

i feel like i've known you (but we've never met) • [AO3]

A/N: For the sake of the reading experience, I've formatted the dialogue into clean prose, but let me just say that I do imagine Wylan switching between voice memos and STT (speech to text), with Jesper peppering in an occasional voice memo of his own to make Wylan feel less self-conscious about it. In this modern AU, Wylan is open about his dyslexia online, so Jesper has known about it from the beginning while being completely unaware of the trauma around it imposed by Wylan's father.

Anyway, this might become a small drabble series, but we'll see! Just this for now.

ONLINE — 2

nearlyfashion (he/they) Listening to Spotify ♫

softgaypiano (he/him) I love a good place to hide in plain sight

>> Message softgaypiano (he/him)

nearlyfashion (he/they)

You know, Wylie, I’ve decided… it’s not enough to hear your voice. Not that I don’t like it. I like it very much, I think you know, but it’s been years—well, months, at least, but it feels like years, like I’ve known you forever—and I’ve been thinking… I don’t know what you look like except that you’re beautiful, and I can’t even prove it! Kaz still thinks you’re 85. Nina says you’re probably married, and—

softgaypiano (he/him)

I’m definitely not married, and probably not 85, but… Jes, you can’t just say I’m “beautiful” from hearing my voice. If I didn’t know you better, I’d think you hacked my webcam or Googled me, at least…

nearlyfashion (he/they)

And what you’re saying is, if I did, you’re not denying what I’d find.

softgaypiano (he/him)

Pictures of me behind my father? Half a face, a clump of hair…

nearlyfashion (he/they)

What colour hair?

softgaypiano (he/him)

Jes...

nearlyfashion (he/they)

Only teasing! It’s alright, love, really. You’re not ready, it’s okay.

softgaypiano (he/him) is typing…

It’s not— I want to. I want to tell you everything. I want to tell you who I am, I want to see your face in front of mine, I want to ask if you’ll be mine and hold your hand and taste your lips, but I just…

softgaypiano (he/him)

Thank you—for understanding. I have to go. Talk more tonight?

nearlyfashion (he/they)

Sure, of course, you know where to find me.

[divinefeline28]

give me a shot to remember 🖤

[arcturustarlight]

House of Flame and Shadow.

Ruhn.

And.

Lidia.

-screams her throat bleed and rolls around the house while her parents are rolling their eyes and asking themselves what have they done in life to have me as their child-

[absent-o-minded]

I've fallen back into my SAB obsession, I need it to come out in the next hour or I am going to chew my leg off

[stranger2time]

I found Halsin's pipe in his stuff at the grove on one of my play-throughs and have been wanting to draw this since.

Just the throuple chillin' after a stressful day. I may write a ficlet of this scene once I finish the piece.

[risingsunresistance]

i lied so hard on that old post of ppl saying they'd never been through this before and asking if it gets better and i talked about edd and said it does get better. i was 11 and did not process what happened and moved on and thought that i had "accepted it," now im 21 and actually realize what's going on and it is NOT getting better