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Avery Kaplan, Lady Skeleton

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Writer 📚 Bylines @ Star Trek, Geek Girl Authority, TCJ, Popverse, Prism Comics, PanelxPanel, The Comics Courier & MORE ♏️ Eisner Award winning Features Editor @ Comics Beat (she/her) IDIC 🖖🏻 Cali class ✨ Spousey: @rebeccaoliver.bsky.social

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Avery Kaplan, Lady Skeleton @averykaplan.bsky.social · Aug 20

What Would Kira Do? Today’s @geekgirlauthority.bsky.social Crush of the Week goes to Kira Nerys from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine!

Geek Girl Authority @geekgirlauthority.bsky.social · Aug 20

Today's Geek Girl Authority Crush of the Week goes to #StarTrekDeepSpaceNine's Kira Nerys, the Bajoran major who abides by a strict moral code:
www.geekgirlauthority.com/k...

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Avery Kaplan, Lady Skeleton @averykaplan.bsky.social · 1h

This is excellent 💕

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Avery Kaplan, Lady Skeleton @averykaplan.bsky.social · 1h

Hell yeah pizza

a little girl is eating a slice of pizza and wearing a lol surprise shirt

Alt: Kid eating 2 slices of pizza at one time

media.tenor.com

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Ollie Kaplan @rebeccaoliver.bsky.social · 3h

Sometimes you get to interview an icon, this is one of those times

Comicsbeat @comicsbeat.bsky.social · 4h

Interview: Patrick McDonnell answers, ‘What is the most important critical question in comics?’

Patrick McDonnell's newest book, "The Gift of Everything," hit stores on October 7, 2025. He caught up with The Beat to discuss his new work, life, and stories.

Interview: Patrick McDonnell answers, ‘What is the most important critical question in comics?’

Patrick McDonnell's newest book, "The Gift of Everything," hit stores on October 7, 2025. He caught up with The Beat to discuss his new work, life, and stories.

www.comicsbeat.com

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Avery Kaplan, Lady Skeleton @averykaplan.bsky.social · 5h

As a Lebowski fan, I like this one:

Picture of Donny. Text: “Shut the fuck up Donny, you’re out of your element.” It’s a t-short but it could be a sign.

Avery Kaplan, Lady Skeleton @averykaplan.bsky.social · 5h

If you are even slightly interested in Star Wars (including its influence on movies as a whole), I can’t recommend this graphic novel enough. Informative, entertaining and occasionally revelatory

Comicsbeat @comicsbeat.bsky.social · 10h

Everything to know about LUCAS WARS, an artful history of STAR WARS

Here's everything to know about Lucas Wars, written by Laurent Hopman with art by Renaud Roche and translated by Jeremy Melloul.

Everything to know about LUCAS WARS, an artful history of STAR WARS

Here's everything to know about Lucas Wars, written by Laurent Hopman with art by Renaud Roche and translated by Jeremy Melloul.

www.comicsbeat.com

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Avery Kaplan, Lady Skeleton @averykaplan.bsky.social · 5h

I heard a rumor that this is streaming on Apple TV but I’ve yet to confirm it for myself

Avery Kaplan, Lady Skeleton @averykaplan.bsky.social · 11d

A few years ago they did a streaming movie where the deputies have to serve Q a subpoena and it was hilarious. Unfortunately Paramount+ vanished it and now there’s no (legal) way to watch it…

Hana Michels (Personal Account) @hanamichels.bsky.social · 11d

Been watching Reno 911 a very old comedy about cops who really suck and they do more WAY charity work than LAPD

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Avery Kaplan, Lady Skeleton @averykaplan.bsky.social · 7d

I’m extremely proud of the timely article @rebeccaoliver.bsky.social & I wrote for Final Gravity Issue 10, and extremely grateful to be involved in this awesome zine! Beer is about community, but the Bud Light boycott over trans people complicated things. Please consider preordering the issue today:

David Nilsen @davidnilsenbeer.bsky.social · 7d

Hey, guess what? Final Gravity Issue 10 is now available for preorder! Tons of great articles in this one, including stories by @rebeccaoliver.bsky.social, @averykaplan.bsky.social, @jdharlock.bsky.social, @melindag.bsky.social, & others. Details here: www.beantobarstool.com/shop/p/final...

Final Gravity, A Beer Zine Issue 10 — Bean to Barstool

Final Gravity, A Beer Zine Issue 10, with articles about Our Culture Brewing, Almaza Lager, Cusqueña lager, queer beer boycotts, the Hasta La Raiz benefit beer, and much more.

www.beantobarstool.com

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Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 1d

Still from the television show Reno 911 showing Trudy doing a talking head with text that reads "I became a cop because my doctors thought it would be a good idea for me to get out of the house"

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ScottCulkin 🇺🇸/🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿/🚒🚑(ret.)/🚴/🥁/⚽ @scottculkin.bsky.social · 6h

From Parker Molloy:

A Politician Actually Defended Trans People. It Shouldn't Be This Rare.

Many Democrats are treating trans people as politically toxic. NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani released a two-minute video proving there's another way.

open.substack.com

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Avery Kaplan, Lady Skeleton @averykaplan.bsky.social · 6h

I maintain that King will eventually be recognized as one of the most relevant and socially perceptive American authors, comparable to how we view Dickens now. His detailed descriptions of everyday life for certain US citizens will be invaluable when future historians are wondering wtf was going on

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Archie Comics @archiecomics.bsky.social · 4d

That costume is a real chick magnet. #BiteSizedArchie

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Avery Kaplan, Lady Skeleton @averykaplan.bsky.social · 17h

People underestimate how much spaceship battles cost… especially ones with that many spaceships

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Ollie Kaplan @rebeccaoliver.bsky.social · 1d

I want to see all that post-traumatic growth onscreen in Season 4!

Comicsbeat @comicsbeat.bsky.social · 1d

NYCC '25: Fans get M'Ortegas in STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS season 4 first-look

NYCC ’25: Fans get M’Ortegas in STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS season 4 first-look

#MOrtegas fans will love the "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" season 4 first-look clip!

www.comicsbeat.com

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Ollie Kaplan @rebeccaoliver.bsky.social · 1d

This interview is long but worth the read, especially if you’re a Dracula fan.

Comicsbeat @comicsbeat.bsky.social · 1d

Interview: Matt Wagner on DRACULA: BOOK III and ‘living in an age of vampires’

"Kelley [Jones] claims that these scripts are the best he’s ever gotten, and I contend that these books will one day be considered Kelley’s magnum opus." - Matt Wagner

Interview: Matt Wagner on DRACULA: BOOK III and ‘living in an age of vampires’

"Kelley [Jones] claims that these scripts are the best he’s ever gotten, and I contend that these books will one day be considered Kelley’s magnum opus." - Matt Wagner

www.comicsbeat.com

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Avery Kaplan, Lady Skeleton @averykaplan.bsky.social · 23h

Congratulations!

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Avery Kaplan, Lady Skeleton @averykaplan.bsky.social · 1d

Over @geekgirlauthority.bsky.social I recapped Solar Opposites Season 6.
Renew @mikemcmahan.bsky.social’s shows, you cowards!

Solar Opposites recaps Archives

Geek Girl Authority provides a fun, welcoming space for genre news and features within the Geek Culture and Popular Culture Universes.

www.geekgirlauthority.com

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Kelly Fitzpatrick @wastedwings.bsky.social · 2d

Looking for coloring work with a Dec/ Jan start! #comics Here's a list of my previous publications:

Published Works

Published Works of Comic Book Color Artist Kelly Fitzpatrick

www.kellyfempire.com

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Avery Kaplan, Lady Skeleton @averykaplan.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks autofill… that last skeet was supposed to end after “week” 🙄

Avery Kaplan, Lady Skeleton @averykaplan.bsky.social · 2d

Laaaaaaaame 😔 I’m really bummed out I can’t participate this week's watch along

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Avery Kaplan, Lady Skeleton @averykaplan.bsky.social · 2d

I really was looking forward to participating in this week’s watch along but apparently I’ve been shadow banned? My posts don’t seem to be showing up in the #TOSSatNight feed. @support.bsky.team? Little help?

Avery Kaplan, Lady Skeleton @averykaplan.bsky.social · 2d

Who invited this guy? #TOSSatNight

NOMAD at a party in the Cerritos bar in the Star Trek: Lower Decks mobile game. It’s sitting apart from the other guests, which include a cadre of Starfeet Captains down and to the right, Charlie X to the far right, and Data and The Doctor on the left. Above NOMAD is the text, “They don’t know I did multiple genocides.”

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Avery Kaplan, Lady Skeleton @averykaplan.bsky.social · 2d

This could be a commercial for a new sponge #TOSSatNight

Avery Kaplan, Lady Skeleton @averykaplan.bsky.social · 2d

Who invited this guy? #TOSSatNight

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Chris Burris @burriscj.bsky.social · 2d

"That's me in the spot-light!"
#TOSSatNight in one hour...

A still image from "The Changeling" (TOS).

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Avery Kaplan, Lady Skeleton @averykaplan.bsky.social · 3d

Including Colbert in the cast makes me a little more hopeful for this show, tbqh… especially if they cast him after CBS fired him

Comicsbeat @comicsbeat.bsky.social · 3d

NYCC ’25: Stephen Colbert announces STAR TREK: STARFLEET ACADEMY casting with a ‘Mugato’ joke

"Live long, and do your thing." Stephen Colbert's "Star Trek: Starfleet Academy" announcement calms this Trekkie's nerves.

NYCC ’25: Stephen Colbert announces STAR TREK: STARFLEET ACADEMY casting with a ‘Mugato’ joke

"Live long, and do your thing." Stephen Colbert's "Star Trek: Starfleet Academy" announcement calms this Trekkie's nerves.

www.comicsbeat.com

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Aaron Bossig @aaronbossig.bsky.social · 3d

Trek cosplayers looking for a deep cut—
You’re welcome.

Go for it.

Picture of terry farrell dressed as napoleon from an old cigarette ad

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