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Magna Tolvan

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The “official” Bluesky account of Magna Tolvan from the Doctor Aphra comics 🦾 • She/Her Cis • Anti-capitalist Anti-imperial • ACAB • FREE PALESTINE🔻• Abolish ICE • No gen AI • Communist ☭

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Magna Tolvan @magnatolvan.bsky.social · Mar 25

MFW I #MagnaTolvan get a HoloCall from #DoctorAphra and I *think* it’s going to be about meeting up today, the 10th anniversary of Chelli’s 1st appearance!

But then it turns out to be #Aphra asking me to rescue her — AGAIN. Sloppy!

Happy birthday, Doctor Aphra! 🎂

Alt-text 2: Me on a Zoom Call, mouth open almost yelling, gah! Am wearing a burgundy mock turtleneck longsleeve, leaf earrings and airpods. Karl Marx looks on sagely from a picture on the wall behind me, and there is a bookshelf to my left

Alt-text 3: Me on a Zoom Call looking straight ahead gesturing out AT YOU. Am wearing a burgundy mock turtleneck longsleeve, leaf earrings — which in this shot look like the tail of mullet behind me — and airpods. Karl Marx looks on sagely from a picture on the wall behind me, and there is a bookshelf next to me

Alt-text 4: Me on a Zoom Call looking out AT YOU, all Popeye-eyed, gritting my teeth. IIRC, I was saying something like OH COME ON FOR REAL before grimacing. Am holding my hands out to the side for emphasis. This feels very New York to me tbh lol. Am wearing a burgundy mock turtleneck longsleeve, leaf earrings — which in this shot look like the tail of mullet behind me — and airpods. Karl Marx looks on sagely from a picture on the wall behind me, and there is a bookshelf next to me

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Magna Tolvan @magnatolvan.bsky.social · 4h

!Muchas gracias, DS!

Magna Tolvan @magnatolvan.bsky.social · 9h

Thank you very much! See you on the other side!

Magna Tolvan @magnatolvan.bsky.social · 9h

Thank you, Rafa! 🫡 And I’m trusting you to keep everything in order and to keep everyone in line!

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Magna Tolvan @magnatolvan.bsky.social · 9h

Statement: Thank you very much, HK-36! 🫡

Magna Tolvan @magnatolvan.bsky.social · 9h

That I shall, Res! Now you and Boolio need to win the war! 🫡

Magna Tolvan @magnatolvan.bsky.social · 9h

🫡 Aye, Pengauani! 🐧

Magna Tolvan @magnatolvan.bsky.social · 10h

In a few short hours, I shall be off to the Unknown (to me) Regions for one standard week, on a secret mission (ie: vacation)

I expect you all to maintain the utmost discipline while I am away — don’t get sloppy!

Alt-text: Cropped comicbook panel: medium close-up of a smiling Magna Tolvan at the flight controls of her team's starship, the Hawk's End. Image is cropped in such a way that it looks like Tolvan is looking and smiling at YOU the reader! Artwork by Jethro Morales (lines) and Rachelle Rosenberg (colors): Doctor Aphra (2020) #36.

Cropped comicbook panel: The starship "Hawk's End" flying through space (that is artfully textured in a finger-print like blue/black), seemingly having just come out of hyperspace. The ship has a lambda-shuttle -esque cockpit, with a single angular wing "bent" around its trapezoidal body, a wing tipped by a laser cannon at each forward-facing end. Artwork by Jethro Morales (lines) and Rachelle Rosenberg (colors): Doctor Aphra (2020) #36.

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dribbon (Art Requests Open) @dribbon.bsky.social · 11h

Fun to see an aphra story outside of the comics. I like to see her psychological development over time.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 11h

So the "next frontier" is that they will keep kidnapping our neighbors, terrorizing our communities, and pulling guns on us in the street, but Dems will fight for them to be unmasked while doing it? I bet they'll just put those gas masks on a little more often. They love gassing our neighborhoods.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 12h

This is good: Rep Eric Swalwell tells me House Dems are now discussing making an end to mask-wearing a precondition for ICE funding.

"When we are in the majority, the masks are coming off," he says.

This is the next frontier in anti-Trump resistance.

New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2018...

Trump ICE Raids Take Horrific Turn in Chicago, Handing Dems an Opening

There’s one simple pledge Democrats can make to voters about ICE that’s easy to understand and will have broad support.

newrepublic.com

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 12h

If you identify the genesis of US fascism as Trump’s entrance into politics, your analysis will fail every time. Fascism didn’t come to the US—it was born here! In the garrison-colonies of the British and Spanish, in the genocidal westward expansion, in the slave ships bringing misery and wealth.

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 11h

The US reservation system was credited as inspiration by Hitler—Manifest Destiny in the US was Lebensraum (“living space”) to him, to be carved out of conquered Soviet lands filled with people he saw as subhuman. Nazi Germany and the US were both quintessentially anticommunist, the core of fascism.

Wikipedia map of “Greater Germanic Reich” borders reaching far beyond Germany’s

Map of US expansion in the 19th century.

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Magna Tolvan @magnatolvan.bsky.social · 10h

Bigot Head? Another group they think you’re in charge of! And they‘re asking Elon to open the Twitter files!

But seriously ugh. I don’t know how you manage to keep your wits about you so well!

Magna Tolvan @magnatolvan.bsky.social · 10h

Great rendition of one of my favorite molds from that era! The use of solid blocks of black really give weight / depth!

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Magna Tolvan @magnatolvan.bsky.social · 10h

💯% agreed!

Magna Tolvan @magnatolvan.bsky.social · 13h

Right? There wasn't even a stop-sign until recently (and even then, not a 4-way stop)

Magna Tolvan @magnatolvan.bsky.social · 13h

Good riddance is right. And good on you for taking the correct and moral, ethical, principled stand! ✊

Magna Tolvan @magnatolvan.bsky.social · 13h

Oh hey! Patrolling the Mid Rim! Am glad to be in such good company (I say, belatedly)

Magna Tolvan @magnatolvan.bsky.social · 15h

They finally FINALLY put a traffic light at a dangerous intersection I pass every day on the way to work. It’s right underneath a commuter train overpass & there are freq accidents due to blindspots & bad driving. Searched my phone photos & I personally have seen 5 accidents or their aftermaths

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 1d

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

Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 1d

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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Magna Tolvan @magnatolvan.bsky.social · 16h

Thank for the shout-out, Steve! Happy WPW all and MTFBWY! 🦾

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Dead-vid Kill-iams @davidw1457.bsky.social · 1d

He had to be laughing when he wrote this.

From Doctor Aphra #1. Words by Kieron Gillen, art by Kev Walker, color by Antonio Fabela, letters by VC's Joe Caramagna

Doctor Aphra attempts to distract some thugs by pointing and shouting "Oh no, it's the Death Star!" When this fails she says "Sorry, my mistake. Trick of the light. It was the moo--" but is cut off by a blow from one of the thugs

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rafa dj @rafa-silver.bsky.social · 2d

just imagine this dudes discover doctor aphra....who literal fall in love with a member the empire and at the same time a member of the rebel aliance,fake shes death to FUCKING DARTH VADER and have luke skywalker like a friend

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rowan kaiser @rowan.monster · 4d

read a bunch of Doc Aphra lately and pulled up some Useful Lesbian Reactions

doc aphra's girlfriend is in love with an evil idiot

Darth Vader feels an infuriating presence

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Magna Tolvan @magnatolvan.bsky.social · 1d

Ooo heck yeah, I will have to seek out their other covers then. And yes! Why cover something if you aren't going to make it specifically yours in some way, no?

Magna Tolvan @magnatolvan.bsky.social · 1d

Love the long-nosed McQuarrie concept mask here!

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