Arthur Wyatt (festive)
@arthurwyatt.bsky.social
Based in Seattle. Writes comics (Judge Dredd is the one you’ve heard of), makes web stuff for a living. I am being folk horror for Halloween.
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Lecturing on Watergate this morning and trying to decide how to communicate "no, Congress used to care when presidents did crimes!" without derailing the lecture and/or sobbing
December 1, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Lecturing on Watergate this morning and trying to decide how to communicate "no, Congress used to care when presidents did crimes!" without derailing the lecture and/or sobbing
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Naming my fists Les and Mis because my beating of your face echoes the beating of the drums
I named my fists Monty and Python because I'm about to tappa-tap-tap your coconut in a manner simulating the sound of a horse's trot.
I named my fists Common and Sense because I'm about to bring the Paine
December 1, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Naming my fists Les and Mis because my beating of your face echoes the beating of the drums
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every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades
December 1, 2025 at 12:04 AM
every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades
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if there's one thing I've learned from Sephiroth, it's to not listen to literally everyone telling you to stop
December 1, 2025 at 3:49 PM
if there's one thing I've learned from Sephiroth, it's to not listen to literally everyone telling you to stop
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Bam! It’s official: no Angoulême comics festival in 2026. And the future is clouded after that.
What a huge and avoidable mess.
What a huge and avoidable mess.
BREAKING: ANGOULÊME 2026 cancelled, Bondoux defiant
Angoulême 2026 cannot go ahead. In a message from his lawyers, Franck Bondoux places the blame for the festival’s cancellation entirely on public funders, and demands to have his company 9e Art+ remain as festival organiser for the 2027 event
Angoulême 2026 cannot go ahead. In a message from his lawyers, Franck Bondoux places the blame for the festival’s cancellation entirely on public funders, and demands to have his company 9e Art+ remain as festival organiser for the 2027 event
BREAKING: ANGOULÊME 2026 cancelled, Bondoux defiant
Angoulême 2026 cannot go ahead. In a message from his lawyers, Franck Bondoux places the blame for the festival’s cancellation entirely on public funders, and demands to have his company 9e Art+ remain as festival organiser for the 2027 event
www.comicsbeat.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Bam! It’s official: no Angoulême comics festival in 2026. And the future is clouded after that.
What a huge and avoidable mess.
What a huge and avoidable mess.
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"I don't want AI to affect MY job... but I'm quite happy for it to gut the FX departments that make my films."
Avatar creator James Cameron has issued strong words on the potential for entire characters to be created with generative AI, saying it’s “horrifying to me.” https://bit.ly/4pbPqWc
December 1, 2025 at 1:41 PM
"I don't want AI to affect MY job... but I'm quite happy for it to gut the FX departments that make my films."
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Everyone is getting upset about the data centers. They pollute a lot and use a lot of energy and will eventually be very ugly/huge vacant buildings. And I understand being mad about that. Until you consider the state of the lazer tag industry at this moment, and how much help that sector needs.
December 1, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Everyone is getting upset about the data centers. They pollute a lot and use a lot of energy and will eventually be very ugly/huge vacant buildings. And I understand being mad about that. Until you consider the state of the lazer tag industry at this moment, and how much help that sector needs.
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The thing about getting a bigger, more urgent problem is that it doesn't actually make the original problem go away, it just hides it again.
here's my take on Woke 2. the thing about Woke 1 is that it's born from the end of history era, when it was important to re-discover forms of oppression that had been denied or hidden. but this led to a [clears throat] hermeneutics of suscpicion, and ultimately paranoia and internecine factionalism
December 1, 2025 at 1:44 PM
The thing about getting a bigger, more urgent problem is that it doesn't actually make the original problem go away, it just hides it again.
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I named my fists NIER GESTALT and UNDERTALE because by participating in violence I become the monster
I named my fists DUNGEONS and DRAGONS because there are many other fists, most of which are more suitable for whatever you want them to do.
I named my fists Master and Commander, because together they’re gonna send you to the far side of the world.
December 1, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I named my fists NIER GESTALT and UNDERTALE because by participating in violence I become the monster
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I named my fists DUNGEONS and DRAGONS because there are many other fists, most of which are more suitable for whatever you want them to do.
I named my fists Master and Commander, because together they’re gonna send you to the far side of the world.
I named my fists Pride and Prejudice, because it is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of two fists must be in want of whupping ass
December 1, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I named my fists DUNGEONS and DRAGONS because there are many other fists, most of which are more suitable for whatever you want them to do.
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As we celebrate Cyber Monday today, please save a thought for everyone responsible for bringing it to us.
December 1, 2025 at 2:36 PM
As we celebrate Cyber Monday today, please save a thought for everyone responsible for bringing it to us.
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WELCOME TO CYBER MONDAY MEATBAGS
December 1, 2025 at 2:43 PM
WELCOME TO CYBER MONDAY MEATBAGS
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JACK INTO THE MATRIX
December 1, 2025 at 3:02 PM
JACK INTO THE MATRIX
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You can't blame him for picking such a transparent and obvious pseudonym.
He was, after all, the first American to ever go under an assumed-name.
He was, after all, the first American to ever go under an assumed-name.
December 1, 2025 at 8:52 AM
You can't blame him for picking such a transparent and obvious pseudonym.
He was, after all, the first American to ever go under an assumed-name.
He was, after all, the first American to ever go under an assumed-name.
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find someone who loves you like Peach Momoko loves Psylocke
December 1, 2025 at 2:45 PM
find someone who loves you like Peach Momoko loves Psylocke
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Yeah being a prick is a sacrament to these ppl
These kids are a dime a dozen, they grew up in sheltered families watching God’s Not Dead and start shit no matter how much it derails class, with flimsy, memorized arguments.
They have a dogma they’re not going to abandon, and they use class as an opportunity to proselytize to a captive audience.
They have a dogma they’re not going to abandon, and they use class as an opportunity to proselytize to a captive audience.
December 1, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Yeah being a prick is a sacrament to these ppl
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'Tis the season once again!
Around this time of year, people who strung their Christmas lights the wrong way start wandering into hardware stores looking for what they later find out is often called a "suicide cable."
Around this time of year, people who strung their Christmas lights the wrong way start wandering into hardware stores looking for what they later find out is often called a "suicide cable."
December 1, 2025 at 3:58 AM
'Tis the season once again!
Around this time of year, people who strung their Christmas lights the wrong way start wandering into hardware stores looking for what they later find out is often called a "suicide cable."
Around this time of year, people who strung their Christmas lights the wrong way start wandering into hardware stores looking for what they later find out is often called a "suicide cable."
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"Why is there grade inflation? Why do our courses lack rigor?'
"Also we will immediately throw any graduate student TA or instructor who upsets an influential constituency under the bus, no matter how obviously manufactured their outrage is." 🤷♂️
"Also we will immediately throw any graduate student TA or instructor who upsets an influential constituency under the bus, no matter how obviously manufactured their outrage is." 🤷♂️
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 10:32 PM
"Why is there grade inflation? Why do our courses lack rigor?'
"Also we will immediately throw any graduate student TA or instructor who upsets an influential constituency under the bus, no matter how obviously manufactured their outrage is." 🤷♂️
"Also we will immediately throw any graduate student TA or instructor who upsets an influential constituency under the bus, no matter how obviously manufactured their outrage is." 🤷♂️
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Comics writers and artists — please request your favorite colorists and letterers when working on a new project with a publisher. Can’t hurt to ask. (And if you don’t really care who letters/colors your work…that’s disappointing on a lot of levels.)
November 29, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Comics writers and artists — please request your favorite colorists and letterers when working on a new project with a publisher. Can’t hurt to ask. (And if you don’t really care who letters/colors your work…that’s disappointing on a lot of levels.)
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The "campus free speech types are hypocrites" line of commentary is very well-worn, so I won't belabor the point much further. But it feels worth noting that *unions* are the organizations actually fighting for freedom of speech on many college campuses...
December 1, 2025 at 12:00 AM
The "campus free speech types are hypocrites" line of commentary is very well-worn, so I won't belabor the point much further. But it feels worth noting that *unions* are the organizations actually fighting for freedom of speech on many college campuses...
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And that’s how Calvin got a degree in physics at OU
November 30, 2025 at 11:18 PM
And that’s how Calvin got a degree in physics at OU
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the primary thing that TPUSA provides to young conservatives is a blueprint for weaponizing the abject cowardice of university administrators against individual teachers and instructors, and university admins should take a long look in the mirror and think about what that says about them
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 8:51 PM
the primary thing that TPUSA provides to young conservatives is a blueprint for weaponizing the abject cowardice of university administrators against individual teachers and instructors, and university admins should take a long look in the mirror and think about what that says about them
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fig. 1: by jingo, it's us chaps
November 30, 2025 at 10:51 PM
fig. 1: by jingo, it's us chaps
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A fun fact about me is that for years I thought that Flowers in the Attic was Flowers for Algernon. So when people talked about their sexually charged experiences reading it, I was like "The book where the guy gets smart? Whatever turns your crank, I guess."
November 30, 2025 at 10:53 PM
A fun fact about me is that for years I thought that Flowers in the Attic was Flowers for Algernon. So when people talked about their sexually charged experiences reading it, I was like "The book where the guy gets smart? Whatever turns your crank, I guess."
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Well this is wonderful. Just surfaced from my pneumonia hibernation to find Someone You Can Build A Nest In was honored twice here!
Many thanks, TFF. Congratulations to @aijiang.bsky.social and @marthawells.com, as well!
Many thanks, TFF. Congratulations to @aijiang.bsky.social and @marthawells.com, as well!
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Congrats to the authors! @wiswell.bsky.social @marthawells.com @aijiang.bsky.social
Congrats to the authors! @wiswell.bsky.social @marthawells.com @aijiang.bsky.social
Best Books of 2025 TFF To-Read Festivus Guide - The Forgotten Fiction Magazine Book Reviews
Best Books of 2025 TFF To-Read Festivus Guide: Thanksgiving food coma, I thought I would get y’all reading my favorite books from 2025*.
theforgottenfiction.com
November 30, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Well this is wonderful. Just surfaced from my pneumonia hibernation to find Someone You Can Build A Nest In was honored twice here!
Many thanks, TFF. Congratulations to @aijiang.bsky.social and @marthawells.com, as well!
Many thanks, TFF. Congratulations to @aijiang.bsky.social and @marthawells.com, as well!