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Josh Spiegel @mousterpiece.bsky.social · 1h

RIP to the best who ever did it. A legend among humans.

Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 1h

Heartbroken that, per his social media accounts, Drew Struzan has left us. His poster and album art was quite simply shorthand for imagination for countless young people.

E.T. Adventure poster, 1990. I still have one of these hanging in my childhood bedroom.

Star Wars Special edition triptych, 1997. I remember seeing all of these in the paper as each film was re-released and just felt a burst of energy those mornings.

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Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 1h

Just saw on IG that Drew Struzan has died. RIP to the man who painted my childhood.

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom by Struzan

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 6h

If you don’t want a book anymore and there’s nowhere to donate it to, you can just stick it in the bin. It’s fine. You won’t go to hell.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Michael J Dolan @michaeljdolan.bsky.social · 6h

Reading doesn't automatically make you a better person, loads of books are bad actually.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Michael J Dolan @michaeljdolan.bsky.social · 1d

"Armageddon. Budget compromised."

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50 Jenna Ipcar Fans Can’t Be Wrong! @ipcar.bsky.social · Nov 26

At the bank I was told "pick your four digit pincode but it can't be a year." "Aren't they all years?" I asked. We sat in silence for a bit.

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Michael J Dolan @michaeljdolan.bsky.social · 2d

It's probably not his "best" whatever that means but my favourite is Swamp Thing

BJ Colangelo @bjcolangelo.bsky.social · 2d

What do you think is Wes Craven’s best film that isn’t part of the A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET or SCREAM franchises?

I feel like everyone will have a different answer and that’s really interesting to me.

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Billy @billyidles.bsky.social · 2d

This is a powerful image

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Michael J Dolan @michaeljdolan.bsky.social · 2d

Why'd you have to come after Fire Emblem dorks tho

sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 2d

I have a theory www.theverge.com/policy/79849...

American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming

The Frog is owning the president.

www.theverge.com

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Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 3d

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

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Jack Lewis Evans @jacklewisevanz.bsky.social · 3d

The government must step in to regulate the size of bread so it fits in my toaster.

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Michael J Dolan @michaeljdolan.bsky.social · 3d

Damn.

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Tom McH @tommchenry.bsky.social · 3d

Recurring peg for reviews of the new Tommy Pinecone novel goes something like, "He spent his entire literary career warning us the United States was a fascist empire of cruelty and we all rolled our eyes. Turns out he was proven right, but how come the new book doesn't tell us how to fix it?"

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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 4d

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Michael J Dolan @michaeljdolan.bsky.social · 4d

I enjoyed it but probably only because I watched it with my kid and she LOVED it which always makes things more fun.

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Michael J Dolan @michaeljdolan.bsky.social · 4d

Some of the kids were trying to guess what was behind a locked door when we were out today and it was all expected shit, "a tiger", "a dinosaur", "a sweet shop" and then my kid went "maybe there's a rotten dead body in there" and they stopped playing after that and I'm very proud of her.

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Michael J Dolan @michaeljdolan.bsky.social · 5d

I did not get on with the other book of hers I tried. How dare she have more than one type of thing.

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Michael J Dolan @michaeljdolan.bsky.social · 5d

THERE HAS TO BE A LINE

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Michael J Dolan @michaeljdolan.bsky.social · 5d

No, I will not allow you to attempt to rehabilitate the Flintstones movie. I'm not having it.

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Michael J Dolan @michaeljdolan.bsky.social · 5d

This happened to me with Olga Tokarczuk's Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead but then I tried to read something by Jon Fosse and I did not get through it so they're 50/50 imo.

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Tamper Proof Lid @readuction.bsky.social · 5d

Around this time of year, brits will wear ‘poppies’ out of deep respect for the international heroin trade

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Glasgow Smiley @neokefka99.bsky.social · 5d

"Lorraine Warren specificaly stipulated in the contract with New Line that the Conjuring films should never portray the Warrens participating in sex crimes..."

Bart Simpson: "What an odd thing to say."

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Mathraptor @mathraptor.bsky.social · 6d

"LET HIM SPEAK!"

9" x 12" ink and watercolor on watercolor paper.

Somewhere, in the Deep reaches of space, an assembly has gathered on a space station. During a heated discussion on the design and capabilities of mecha, Isamu Kurogane (Lance) stands tall and dares to speak the truth. "Every Gundam is worse than Voltron because his hands are lion mouths!!!" he declares without shame. His bravado has impressed the Red Comet, Char Aznable, while confusing and insulting Amuro Ray. The delaration is heard to mixed reactions by many other mecha pilots (not by Shinji Ikari, he is doing his best to ignore him).

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Michael J Dolan @michaeljdolan.bsky.social · 7d

REALLY HAPPY FOR YOU GUYS, THAT'S GREAT. NICE. NO, NO I'M FINE OVER HERE IN MY SQUALID LITTLE RIGHT WING HOLE WITH OUR FOREVER AUSTERITY AND OUR CRUMBLING SOCIETY.

Little Deer Comics @littledeercomics.bsky.social · 7d

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Budget 2026: State’s basic income scheme for artists made permanent

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Budget 2026: State’s basic income scheme for artists made permanent

Negotiations down to the wire, with five big-spending departments yet to agree their budget allocations

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Henry Widdicombe @henrywiddicombe.bsky.social · 8d

Hi comics people. Let’s say you were a little known debut comics person tabling @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social with one comic… how much stock of that comic might you take? I want to be optimistic but I don’t want to be foolish and I need to work out if I need a reprint.

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