one example. the three main characters are reflections on a trans girl's sense of self: id [destruction; nihilism; dysphoria; the Real] + ego [creation; negotiation; affirmation; the Imaginary] + superego [preservation; idealization; surveillance; the Symbolic]

'Over the last 10 or so years, I have been slowly worldbuilding, creating magic systems, God structures, and storyline. I have an entire storyline planned out, but it was unoptimized... at first, it was going to be around 90 books long at the minimum.'

This government suffers from severe loser stench. Everything they say and do is a barely veiled form of "I'm the BOSS and you have to RESPECT ME!" and nobody does. Millions of people are going outside tomorrow just to say so

Lo scippatore misericordioso
Claudio Nizzi e Rodolfo Torti
Tratto dal Giornalino nº 15 del 15 aprile 1987

Everyone wants to streamline bureaucracy, but maybe we'd get better results by making it *harder* for university admins to chase fads. Imagine the money we'd save with a mandatory cooling-off period before launching a "Center for Blockchain Studies" or dumping millions into the latest edtech toy.

in which we strap on our snorkel and dive to the heady depths of Continuity Comics circa 1987, as our artistic spotlight shines on Mark Beachum: an idiosyncratic figure of no small talent who found a unique creative berth in this tale of an ostensibly teenage samurai named Darryl -

Jenrick casting 1980s British football hooliganism as something that was easily dealt with by police and not an era defining issue which we're still living with the consequences of today... He's genuinely the most unserious person in British politics rn