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JD, you can’t eat comics. @lostcity.bsky.social · 3h

Anyways, I need to finish watching Utena, to see if that’s actually what’s going on, and then maybe I’ll flesh this theory out some more and make it my essay for the month. “The Revolutionary’s Journey.” Zettai unmei, mokushiroku.

JD, you can’t eat comics. @lostcity.bsky.social · 3h

episode she gets tricked into fighting another stupid, pointless duel, and the dramatic tension seems to be, “when will they decide this whole duelling to bring about the end of the world thing is stupid, and this is actually a story about a revolution.” I want more stories where this is the plot.

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JD, you can’t eat comics. @lostcity.bsky.social · 3h

Like, you know how in a hero’s journey the main dramatic tension is “how will the hero defeat this much-stronger evil,” and in a romance story, the characters don’t KNOW they’re in a romance story, so the dramatic tension is “when will they figure it out?” Well, at least so far in Utena, every…

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JD, you can’t eat comics. @lostcity.bsky.social · 3h

But not many stories, at least not the majority of stories with femme protagonists, really fit that structure well. Of course not every story needs to fit the hero’s journey, but adding the heroine’s journey doesn’t cover a lot of additional ground. I want to ponder more on the revolutionary journey

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JD, you can’t eat comics. @lostcity.bsky.social · 3h

Like the surface level story is daily challenges in this system, but the subtext is “this system is fake and stupid.” Anyways, I’m into it. I see merit in this story structure. There’s writing that I’ve read before about the “heroine’s journey,” as an alternative to the hero’s journey.

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JD, you can’t eat comics. @lostcity.bsky.social · 3h

I’m still slowly working my way through Revolutionary Girl Utena, and it’s got me thinking about themes and story structure. I’ve seen a few stories lately (recent to me at least) that seem to have a structure of “femme character living in a messed up system, you hope they will rebel.”

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 8h

Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.

Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 13h

NEW: Israel informed the UN it will permit only 300 aid trucks into Gaza daily, not the 600 mandated by the ceasefire it just signed.

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JD, you can’t eat comics. @lostcity.bsky.social · 6h

One of the stories is a whole, elaborate battle between a Plains warrior & a cowboy, and I don’t think he’s negatively portrayed, but without any lines or given any context, it would be like having a story about a Jewish marxist assassin VS a Berlin cop with no context about who he’s fighting or why

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JD, you can’t eat comics. @lostcity.bsky.social · 6h

And I don’t think it would have been hard to fix! Especially given the format of being an anthology. One semi-positive, non-stereotypical role would have made a world of difference. I stand by the metaphor that it’s like telling a dozen stories about the nazis and never mentioning the holocaust.

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Antonieta Muñoz Estrada @mariadrawss.bsky.social · 1d

If you disable this on Pinterest, all AI content will not appear when you search. 😉✨️ #kidlit

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 21h

“Israeli” ceasefires only ever apply to the other party. They’ll continue to kill whomever they want, whenever they want until they are stopped. They see themselves as occupying an altogether different moral plane than their enemies, like any colonizer.

Tweet from Quds News Network @QudsNen
BREAKING: Three Palestinians were killed after Israeli quadcopter drones opened fire on residents inspecting their homes in the Shujaiyya neighborhood, east of Gaza City.

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JD, you can’t eat comics. @lostcity.bsky.social · 1d

…So my recast would be to replace Tom Waits’ character with an Indigenous actor. I know everyone loves what Tom Waits did with the part, but too bad. You need a character who is progagonisty enough (with slim pickings, it’s a movie full of doomed figures), non-stereotypical, and a juicy part.

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JD, you can’t eat comics. @lostcity.bsky.social · 1d

Pick a movie that could have been great. Recast ONE role to fix it.

Another Cohen Bros movie: THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS.

Indigenous people were done dirty by this movie. Mostly, IMO, by omission. You don’t write a movie set in Weimar Germany and have no Jewish characters with speaking parts.

Chris Schweizer @ NYCC A-28 @schweizercomics.bsky.social · 1d

Pick a movie that could have been great. Recast ONE role to fix it.

TRUE GRIT (2010)
Recast: John Goodman as Rooster Cogburn

Bridges did a good job, but frequent Coens collaborator Goodman was born to play the "one-eyed fat man." With his comedic timing, the role would've had a bit more humor.

Kimber Johnson @kimberjohnson.bsky.social · 1d

Pick a movie that could have been great. Recast ONE role to fix it.

The Snowman (2017)
Recast: Detective Harry Hole with Michael Shannon
How it's fixed: Shannon’s unhinged intensity turns this icy mess into a psychological horror. You feel the frostbite and existential dread.

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june 🧛‍♀️ @juneever.green · 1d

Marisa Tomei as Mona Lisa Vito in My Cousin Vinny (1992).

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Megan Kearney @spookymeggie.bsky.social · 1d

Some yokai thoughts from my Japan trip this summer

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🪦"Pushing Up" Daisy 🥀 @daisyfm.net · 1d

What if corporations talked about other things we don't want the same way they talk about AI?

"Poisonous mushrooms are here to stay, so here's 10 delicious poisonous mushroom recipes!"

"Mosquitoes are here to stay, so our new line of laptops are filled with live mosquitoes!"

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JD, you can’t eat comics. @lostcity.bsky.social · 1d

Any nation or region in history that either didn’t have slavery, or had it rarely (which, to be fair, currently includes the US, where prisoners can be forced to work), got that way because some people decided “we’re not doing that.” Because the “I want to exploit others” people exist everywhere.

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JD, you can’t eat comics. @lostcity.bsky.social · 1d

I finished colouring my Animorphs covers and I like them a lot. I probably won’t finish running them through Photoshop today, though.

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JD, you can’t eat comics. @lostcity.bsky.social · 1d

Some Indigenous regions had slavery, others found it anathema. I think (?) California and the Plains/Prairies never allowed it. There must be other examples. But for some reason the people who don’t write about Haitian history are also not writing books about abolition in other parts of the world.

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JD, you can’t eat comics. @lostcity.bsky.social · 1d

In Han Dynasty China, one of the emperors outlawed slavery. It didn’t stick, slavery had to be outlawed in China several more times, including in the 20th century, but China never became the kind of slave-dependant states you found in other parts of Eurasia because people fought against it.

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JD, you can’t eat comics. @lostcity.bsky.social · 1d

Not quote tweeting the original because yes, Haitians ABSOLUTELY deserve the credit for being the first and most important domino in the abolition of slavery in the modern world. BUT ALSO, there have been people trying to ban slavery for as long as there’s been slavery, and sometimes they succeeded.

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The Erinaceous Ghost 🦔 👻 @erinaceousphd.bsky.social · 1d

*Haiti enters the chat*

truthseeker5734.bsk...

Europeans were the first group to ban slavery. Fact. Prove me wrong.

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Sam Logan @samandfuzzy.com · 1d

Was trying to do some inking when Hilde grabbed the pen

Photo of a black and white illustration on a sheet of paper, sitting on a wood desk.

The illustration is formatted like a four panel comic, two rows of two. Dipper the corgi is in the top left, looking down at Hilde the wizard cat in the bottom right. The top right panel features Poppy, and the bottom left features a pile of bones. Hilde has grabbed the actual real life pen that is sitting on top of the piece of paper they are drawn on, and is using it to draw a closed panel border around Dipper.

Dipper is brandishing his sword as he glares at Hilde. The sword extends outside of the panel he is in, and into the neighbouring panel, in which Poppy the dog leans to the side to avoid the sword tip.

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JD, you can’t eat comics. @lostcity.bsky.social · 1d

Yes they did. Even the other racist, pro-slavery crusader-types were writing letters to the crown complaining about how Columbus was taking his racism and slavery too far.

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JD, you can’t eat comics. @lostcity.bsky.social · 1d

“WhY are CanAdIans BeinG so MEAN and Not TrAvELling to the US to sPenD thEiR MONEY”

Anna Mehler Paperny @mehlerpaperny.bsky.social · 1d

Canadian authorities have been warning Canadians for the past few months to have papers on them when in the US.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

Wow, wow, wow. This has always been legally possible but the law has virtually never been enforced — and now this is the SECOND case I've heard of in the last month (first involving a person with a green card) of a noncitizen being charged for failure to carry their papers.

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