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Fitzbattleaxe @fitzbattleaxe.bsky.social · Jul 14

I've never done an appreciation/lore thread but I'll try one for #FantasyJudy. Give her backstory and do artshare? At first, she was a way to get a commission of a version of Judy from @crosscrescent.bsky.social that made sense in his size range and with Clarissa. @koboldium.bsky.social on colors.

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🔞MisterSpooky🔞 @misterstupid.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes around Halloween Drii and Ika tell each others spooky stories. Drii is much better at coming up with them than Ika.

That's not the end of the story, btw. It's the entire thing.

A woman with long messy purple and blonde streaked hair sits upon a breasts many times larger than herself, which is attached to a woman who is many times larger than herself. The larger woman has pink and blue streaked hair. The purple haired woman looks confident and the pink haired won looks pretty scared. The purple haired lady is saying "And then suddenly... there was a skeleton!" The pink haired woman responds "Noooooooo.....!"

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Fitzbattleaxe @fitzbattleaxe.bsky.social · 6h

In the first few minutes, 2016 has the joke about an anti-Irish fence and that just tells me we aren't in the "real world" (albeit with supernatural elements) but we're in a silly, goofy comedy movie world. Entirely subjectively, that's just not what I want from a Ghostbusters franchise flick.

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Fitzbattleaxe @fitzbattleaxe.bsky.social · 6h

Every time I rewatch GHOSTBUSTERS (2016), I get swayed further to the point of view that its good but just not my taste in comedy. I like the silly, improvy stuff less than the more structured jokes from the original.

a movie poster for ghostbusters shows a group of people

ALT: a movie poster for ghostbusters shows a group of people

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Fitzbattleaxe @fitzbattleaxe.bsky.social · 12h

For a sec, I thought this was Neil Gaiman and *shudders*

Dr Pop Culture USA @drpopcultureusa.bsky.social · 12h

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Fitzbattleaxe @fitzbattleaxe.bsky.social · 15h

Yeah. There's a need to have some sort of verifiability when you're trying to nail down historical "truth" but sometimes the truth isn't captured in paperwork or happens upstream or downstream from the moment of ink to paper

Fitzbattleaxe @fitzbattleaxe.bsky.social · 16h

They cite some articles that suggest the paperwork doesn't demonstrate name changes but again it seems like if you broaden the scope of the process it still happened.

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Fitzbattleaxe @fitzbattleaxe.bsky.social · 16h

Whether Joe American actually made a call on the island itself and wrote "Smith" instead of "Smitcowitz" there in a ledger, it seems like at some point between deciding to leave home in Eurpose, Asia, or etc. and getting a residence in the U.S. names were changed, required or strongly suggested.

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Fitzbattleaxe @fitzbattleaxe.bsky.social · 16h

The point they seem to be making is that there was no actual transcribing of names at Ellis Island or procedural/legal step that would have even given the opportunity for a change. That said, if you broaden it to "immigration process through Ellis Island" it SEEMS like name change is captured.

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Ted (& technically Ro) @brandtandstein.com · 16h

Hi #PortfolioDay! I’m Ted, one half of Brandt&Stein. We make comics, very good ones. Currently making the #WorstManOGN, you should check it out.

We’re not looking for work (thanks to aforementioned OGN) but are delighted to meet you anyway!

Ted (& technically Ro) @brandtandstein.com · Jul 8

What up #PortfolioDay!

We’re Brandt&Stein, and together we make comics. Marvel, DC, Power Rangers, some Darkwing Duck, and a lot more besides!

We co-created Marvel’s first trans mutant (Escapade), made Green Arrow’s son asexual, and drew the multi-award nominated CROWDED.

Nice to meet you!

A page from Great Petspectations, printed in Harley Quinn: Black & White +Redder issue 2.

Panel 1: a header says “fourth event, extraordinary talent” as we see Haley, the three-legged Bitewing riding a unicycle while balancing a ball on her nose.

Panel 2: Haley is yelping in shock as paintballs hit her, knocking her off the unicycle.

Panel 3: Robin looks pissed, snatching Harley’s paintball gun away from her. Harley looks more smug though, as she is looking at…

Panel 4: the pet show’s judges are melting down as The Squiddler does his mind-reading trick and is writing their bank account numbers on a whiteboard.

Panel 5: Harley is giving a serious pep talk to Bud and Lou, her hyenas.

Panel 6: Harley’s going full pageant mom, putting the fear of god into Bud and Lou.

A double page spread from “Morgonna the Crimson,” first printed in Red Sonja: Black, White & Red 5.

Panel 1: Sonja’s kicking an evil wizard out of a small village.

Panel 2: Sonja’s running away, overwhelmed by the unnecessarily fervent gratitude of the villagers.

Panel 3: Sonja is stood, fuming, as a cardboard standee advertising someone who is clearly biting her style in terms of outfit.

Panel 4: Having defeated a monster and tied it up, Sonja is running and yelling at the people loading unwanted rewards onto her horse.

Panel 5: Sonja is walking through a forest, tearing down every poster put up by her imitator.

Panel 6: Sonja is leaping, sword swinging, at a giant inflatable standee of her imitator outside a wagon dealer.

Panel 7: an extremely grouchy Sonja is riding her terminally-overburdened horse. There is a goose sat on her head.

A double page spread from CROWDED issue 3.

Panel 1: wide across the top of both pages, showing an airport drop-off point and Trotter, the celebrity Reapr killer, standing out the sun roof of his limo, talking to his adoring fans.

Panel 2: inside the airport, Circe the assassin has noticed a bright-looking suitcase on the baggage claim that clearly isn’t hers.

Panel 3: outside the airport, now with the suitcase, Circe is walking towards another limousine.

Panel 4: at the limousine, Circe places her hand on the fingerprint scanner, her technological gloves hacking it, causing it to accept her as its intended guest, Mr Hufnagle.

Panel 5: full page width, split panel. On the left half, Trotter is in his limo, talking to his assistant Cameron. On the right half, Circe is in her limo rooting through her stolen suitcase.

Panel 6: Trotter is walking up to a hotel, posing for paparazzi.

Panel 7: Circe is climbing out of the sunroof of her limo.

Panel 8: Circe is jumping off her limo in the middle of the street, letting it continue to its destination.

A comics splash page. We’re looking out over a vibrant night scene at a food market filled with an eclectic and weird mix of people milling through it. Above the market a sci-fi city stretches into the distance, each area having its own architectural style and gravitational direction. Nearby a hover-bus is pulling into its stop.

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Fitzbattleaxe @fitzbattleaxe.bsky.social · 16h

No worries and sorry. I might be trying to over-generalize the point.

Fitzbattleaxe @fitzbattleaxe.bsky.social · 17h

I dunno. When he wasn't being terrible, I think Lovecraft was occasionally both at once.

Fitzbattleaxe @fitzbattleaxe.bsky.social · 17h

What is the Venn Diagram of "Beautiful Writing" and "Purple Prose?"

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Fitzbattleaxe @fitzbattleaxe.bsky.social · 17h

I'm a pedant who enjoys splitting hairs as much as the next guy but maybe make allowances for linguistic shorthand and pick a better hill to die on.

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Fitzbattleaxe @fitzbattleaxe.bsky.social · 17h

Yeah... The ongoing reply war seems to acknowledge that name changes happened as part of the official and overall process of migrating to the U.S. but because they didn't occur as part of the technical official duties of the specific human being at Ellis Island that discounts the larger point.

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Geoff Klock @geoffklock.bsky.social · 18h

Apocalypse is stupid -- a big purple Frankenstein monster whose origins are Egyptian, whose name is Greek, whose belt buckle is Latin, and who uses Christian Imagery in the form of the four horseman to spout Victorian era Darwinism. PICK A LANE

X-Men Don't Need Britches 💙💛 @rphutch1975.bsky.social · 1d

What's an opinion about X-Men that'll get you sent to jail? Is Jean really interesting or really boring? Should Logan have stayed dead? Do you think a certain x-mens outfit is positively horrendous even though people seem to love it?

The Brood Saga is better than Dark Phoenix imo 🤷

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Fitzbattleaxe @fitzbattleaxe.bsky.social · 18h

If the issue here is that it didn't technically happen at Ellis Island while it did more often occur at ports accepting more folks with names originally rendered in non-Roman/Latin characters, then that's its own issue.

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Fitzbattleaxe @fitzbattleaxe.bsky.social · 18h

This is interesting. I think it may be wrong for the right reasons based on some of the comments I'm seeing around it. It might be one of those "technically true but in practice false" things. I have relatives with a wonky last name due to Ellis Island or similar jiggery-pokery as I understand it.

Robyn Pennacchia @robynelyse.bsky.social · 1d

Now, more than ever, it's important to understand why so many the myths we tell ourselves about immigration are actually very harmful.

First of all, your great-great-grandparents names *were not changed* at Ellis Island. No one there had the authority to do that.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 1d

Lots of us have great-grandparents names who were absolutely changed when they came here, and when people say otherwise, they're assuming your great-grandparents name was in the Roman alphabet.

Robyn Pennacchia @robynelyse.bsky.social · 1d

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Fitzbattleaxe @fitzbattleaxe.bsky.social · 19h

Paleobotanist, you say?

a woman wearing sunglasses is sitting in the back seat of a car with a man .

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Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 1d

Dr. Maxine “Max” Abbott (née Langford) is an oft-forgotten paleontologist of early 20th century Texas. Born in the 1920s, this pint-sized paleobotanical powerhouse worked on the Carboniferous swamps of North America and the Cretaceous jungles of Texas.

(All photos from her papers at Sul Ross.)

A dark-haired woman with an upturned nose, a white shirt, a ribbon and a plaid skirt holds up a piece of carboniferous plant material from her work desk, where she's been painting it with clear varnish to preserve it

A 1950s news article about Maxine Abbott's NSF grant, which notes that she was previously conducting her paleobotany research as a volunteer while at Cincinnati and working in a local department store office three days a week to pay research costs.

A black and white photo of a young Maxine Langford in the 1930s at Texas Tech, smiling at the camera from a bench. She's wearing a knee-length dress, a plaid short sleeved shirt, and glasses. She's clearly very small.

A photo of undergraduate Maxine Langford posing climbing in through the window of an abandoned stone building new Mexico, wearing field pants, boots, and a short sleeve shirt. It's a great look, honestly.

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MonsieurRobot @monsieurrobot.bsky.social · 20h

Inktober 2025 - Trunk

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Fitzbattleaxe @fitzbattleaxe.bsky.social · 22h

Von Doom, Frankenstein, Zsasz, and Fries?

Fitzbattleaxe @fitzbattleaxe.bsky.social · 1d

Watching CritRole Campaign 4, Episode 1 and hear the line "you wear a veil of mourning, an article of religious, perhaps even ecclesiastical garb..." and I'm a pretty vocabulary-rich dude and I can't wrap my head around what that distinction is trying to parse. 🤷‍♂️

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Fitzbattleaxe @fitzbattleaxe.bsky.social · 1d

With Fantasy High, every PC fit into a recognizable high school comedy/coming of age niche so that even if you didn't know them, you knew where they were drawn from.

Fitzbattleaxe @fitzbattleaxe.bsky.social · 1d

I dunno. Kicking off with a major NPC death with no context to it and expecting some level of anything beyond the most basic empathy with their friends, associates, and loved ones when we have literally no context for ANYTHING? I don't even grasp the archetypes we're working with.