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Writer/editor/reader/gamer/comics/TTRPG. ADHD. Let's be creative and inclusive together. He/Him

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Love the aesthetic. The combat menu reminds me of Atlus' ability to put style into even the most mundane elements of a game, and the FIT system seems interesting. I'm weirdly most interested in unlocking new color palettes despite my love and nostalgia for the gameboy filter.

Very cool, can't wait!
FEATURES The "F.I.T." System - "Dress for the stats you want!" Equip clothing of similar brands to unlock game-changing effects! The FamilyTech Network - Log in to FamilyTech's in-house (in-game) network to exchange tokens, shop online and pick up orders! Stealing - "That weapon looks a little too pricey?" Work up that courage and give it the ol' five finger discount! Swappable Palettes - "As if four colors weren't enough!" Acquire new color palettes for completing various feats to stylize your very own descent into madness! Minigames! - "Nothing is ever easy." Need to access information? Capcha minigame! Need to open a door? Biometric PIN minigame! Whatever your needs, the technology of the future has a way to make it a whole thing.
November 19, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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When I lived abroad in China, slow cooked jerk chicken and is what I missed the most.

After coming back, Liangpi was what I missed the most here in the US (and now must search desperately for it in every city I go).

As I get older, I'll miss both, because wooo, spicy food is hard on the body now
Jerk chicken Liangpi
November 19, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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#TheRunningMan has many opinions. Here's mine:

1) the "what if the tech bros & fascists win?" feels timely.

2) Powell's Richard = our rage against this world, which punishes good people

3) plot conveniences do abound

4) "let's stop the greedy people who control us" really hits hard by the end
Poster of the Running Man movie, 2025, with Glen Powell, Josh Brolin, and others.
November 19, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Really enjoyed playing the #Dispatch demo from @adhocstudio.com . I was looking forward to a great Telltale narrative game but found myself enjoying the Dispatching even more (esp. managing a team of misfits and their quirks). I definitely recommend it! (I just hope they add more gamepad support!)
The logo for the upcoming game, Dispatch, which has three men at a urinal, and the title of the game and a cape hanging off of the bathroom toilet doors).
June 16, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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In honor of No Kings Day and the immense rebelliousness of the Andor Subreddit: #NoKings #NoKingsDay #Andor #IHaveFriendsEverywhere
A protest sign for No Kings Day that alters the original text from the rebels in the show Andor. Original quote: "The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear." -Karis Nemik E12 This is changed on the sign to: "The Republican need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. The day will come when all of these moments of defiance will have flooded the banks of republican authority and there will be one too many. Remember this: try." A purple protest sign that says "I have friends everywhere," a spy phrase used by the a spy network of rebels in the show Andor A screenshot of a post saying that leftists, historians and even the Star Wars franchise (through the show, Andor) have all shown that we're seeing and naming fascism happening in realtime, but news media outlets are pretending like the protestors are crazy, not this impending regime. A protest sign for No Kings Day that alters the original text from the rebels in the show Andor. Original quote: "The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear." -Karis Nemik E12 This is changed on the sign to: "Remember this: freedom is a pure idea. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear."
June 14, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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A) 50th anniversary attention of any kind for Storm: yes.

B) she's taking on actual thunder gods

C) love the diversity, designs, Kirby influence, and usage of these lesser known thunder gods! By @lucianovecchio.bsky.social

#comics #comicsky #marvel #marvelcomics

www.marvel.com/articles/com...
Luciano Vecchio "I approached the Thunder Gods designs in a two-steps process," Vecchio explained. "First, by designing each God based on Murewa’s description and inspiration references, and reflecting the culture and real-world iconography each belongs to. "But this is the Marvel Universe, so the second stage was injecting some Kirby-like fantasy vibes, and incorporating design elements from the original Thor and Storm designs for a cohesive feel while keeping individuality. The goal is to make sure that, keeping the Marvel tradition, these are versions of the Thunder Gods that can only exist in the Marvel Universe." Designs of thunder gods by Luciano Vecchio. Chac, Shango, Susanoo, and Mamaragan
January 16, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Next: Storyteller's Weekly Journal. Not usually a fan of such books. There's no foolproof way to success. But I really love the attention to mentally healthy routines and researching your genre/medium to increase chance of creative, critical & commercial success.

#booksky #writing #writingcommunity
Storyteller's Weekly Journal by Mary Weber and CJ Redwine
January 15, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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#booksky #reading #books
"All I've ever wanted is a modest little home, nothing fancy. A usable kitchen, a yard for the dog, a secret bookshelf door that hides a sprawling, candlelit Victorian library with rolling ladders on every wall and a cantankerous ghost librarian. I don't ask for much."
December 23, 2024 at 1:32 PM
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And the hilarious comic fan reactions to that #GuyGardner meme

We're true fans!

#comics #movies #comicsky #filmsky #SupermanTrailer #dccomics
Fans showing support for having the annoying bowl cut haircut Guy in order to grow into the mature and beloved version of now
December 21, 2024 at 6:03 PM
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Loving these #SupermanTrailer trailer memes

#comics #movies #comicsky #filmsky #dccomics #krypto
A meme of the Superman trailer. Panel 1: a hurt Superman calling for his super pet. Panel 2: Instead of Krypto the Super Dog coming to save Superman, it's a cat that just stares at him until Panel 3: he's a skeleton Parody of the Superman trailer. Panel 1, James Gunn: Krypto the Super Dog comes innocently to save Superman Panel 2, Zack Synder: Krypto is a buff Bipedal dog pointing a gun at Superman A shot of Nicholas Hoult's bald Lex Luthor holding a gun and in a tux with the logo of Hitman in the corner Panel 1: the modern version of comics Guy Gardner, looking cool. A woman fawns over him. Panel 2: the Superman movie trailer version of Guy, with his terrible bowl cut, and the woman is repulsed by him
December 21, 2024 at 6:03 PM
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"Using an image, show a movie you have watched more than ten times."

How about four movies and how about more than twenty times (probably)

#movies #filmsky #tgif
From the movie Ferngully: Robin Williams' character Batty, an escaped animal testing lab bat who has gone a little... batty From the Matrix: Laurence Fishburne's Morpheus saying "Free Your Mind" From Howl's Moving Castle: the fire demon Calcifer being used to cook breakfast. He says "Here's a curse for you: may all your bacon burn." From Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust. Young woman Charlotte is dressed in a white gown and ascending a staircase leading to a shadowed end place with hundreds of candles all around, burning a red flame
December 20, 2024 at 5:13 PM
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Don't know how to solve this but I find it funny that it quoted you while doing exactly the same thing. You have been proven correct, it's definitely a bot.
Example of bot
December 12, 2024 at 9:26 PM
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Age yourself with a movie you saw in the theater as a kid

I watched these in the theater and then every day on VHS

#blacksky #filmsky #movies
The movie poster for Bebe's Kids, which shows an overwhelmed man sitting on a sidewalk next to 3 kids crossing their arms with fierce confidence Movie tagline: power to the [little] people The movie cover to FernGully, which shows a fairy woman in red with big wings, a shrunken human man with blonde hair, a smiling bat, and a bearded man creature riding on a flying bug, in the middle of a bright and colorful rainforest
December 12, 2024 at 3:39 PM
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Definitely my life right now as a parent
Two skeletons talking. S1: my goal is to become a successful adult S2: what do you consider to be a "successful adult?" S3: (dramatically) having an the laundry filled and put away! S4: maybe aim lower.
December 9, 2024 at 4:50 PM
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If you see this, post something green…
Green Lantern Earth One cover, which shows an astronaut auth a glowing green ring in the midst of darkness
December 6, 2024 at 10:08 PM
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Recommending the Sculptor also makes me want to recommend Anne Lamott's Bird by Bird. Another great book for creatives to re-evaluate what success and happiness looks like and take a step back from preconceptions. Puts me in a very Daoist mindset!

#booksky
Anne Lamott's Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, whose cover shows a bird carrying a quill
December 6, 2024 at 2:07 PM
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A man makes a deal with death: magically sculpt anything with his hands, but only 200 days to live. What does he do with his time?

If you're a creative who beats yourself up about what success and happiness look like, please read McCloud's The Sculptor. It just really hit in so many ways.

#Booksky
The cover of Scott McCloud's The Sculptor, which shows the man character, David, a man in a black shirt with black hair, leaning backwards into the embrace of a brick wall that has the body of a woman presenting figure emerging from it, kissing David on the cheek and hugging him lovingly.
December 6, 2024 at 2:04 PM
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Some humor for the morning from pbfcomics.com
A humor comic that has four panels. P1: a teacher looking sadly at a picture frame. A student comes up and says "Mister Morris?" P2: the student asks "What color is this?" P3: a close up of the crayon reads "the color of her hair." P4: Mister Morris is on the floor wrapped up in his own arms while the student looks alarmed.
December 3, 2024 at 3:08 PM
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A great single page that includes both catharsis and humor all at once. Peter David writing Mystique trying to get over Destiny, from X-Factor Annual (Vol 1) #6 and retold in the X-Men Wedding Special (2024)
X-Factor Annual (Vol 1) 6, by Peter David, Guang Yap and their team. Mystique, the mutant shapeshifter, is in a dark haired and pink skinned form looking out over the edge of a cruise ship railing X-Factor Annual (Vol 1) 6, by Peter David, Guang Yap and their team. Mystique, the mutant shapeshifter, is reflecting on how she has to let go of the then deceased Destiny, in her hand as ashes in an urn. Destiny never made her truly laugh and Mystique implies that she felt like she was just a pawn of Destiny's plans. She then says Destiny "will never get in her hair again." Mystique throws the ashes in into the air, only for the wind to blow the ashes back into Mystique's face and hair. This is important because Destiny can predict the future, and implies that, finally in death, Destiny got to do something to make Mystique laugh.
November 20, 2024 at 10:53 PM
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Saw this on reddit earlier. Love when comic companies make playful jabs at each other.

Also, these designs just work? Can we see a What If of them?

#comics #ComicSky
Text: what if Wonder Man were a woman and Power Man were a girl? Image: a woman version of Power Man/Luke Cage and Wonder Man/Simon Williams, from Marvel Comics. There is also a paper in the foreground that reads: "Dear Marvel: Our lawyers advise you not to print this gag. With love, your Distinguished Competition." The joke is that the characters would be Wonder Woman and Power Girl, two characters owned by DC Comics-- or Distinguished Competition as a joke. The two companies have often had little battles over character names.
November 20, 2024 at 10:35 PM
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What's the horror movie that got you into horror?

Mine was:

(Terrifying movie to see a a wee boy. But then my dad put on the original movie, which was a lot sillier at the end)
The movie poster for The Fly from the 80s. Shows a hideous monster of a man inside of a big metal chamber with a glass door with the caption "be afraid, be very afraid."
November 20, 2024 at 10:24 PM
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Trying Skircle. I deleted the last part because it felt spammy to have all the names shared. But I appreciate everyone in my rings! You've brought me great energy over tiring and frustrating weeks.
Skircle, which shows your interactions with other users by way of concentric rings of others' profile pictures surrounding your own
November 19, 2024 at 3:29 AM
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Show me your comics taste in four different comics.

(I HATE when I can only pick 4! There's so much to choose from!)
The cover of Scott Pilgrim 5-6, by Brian Lee O'Malley, which shows a brown haired smiling young man with a turquoise colored haired young woman, the eponymous Scout Pilgrim and Ramona Flowers Kamandi, the last boy on Earth, by Jack Kirby, showing a blonde haired young man in a raft sailing in a flooded NYC with a leaning statue of liberty and leaning empire state building Akira, by Otomo Katsuhiro, which shows a teenaged boy with a gun and young woman under red light in a giant sewage tunnel next to a fallen and damaged vehicle and a hurt authority. Something is Killing the Children by James Tynion, Werther Dell'edera, and Miguel Muerto, which shows a woman with a sword looking into a dark forest of many pairs of red eyes
November 19, 2024 at 1:06 AM
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If you see this, post something blue
A picture of Superman, staring angrily or determinedly, set in front of a blue early evening sky. The cover of Superman: For All Seasons by Jeoh Lieb and Tim Sale
November 19, 2024 at 12:10 AM
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Day 15: Rising Stars by J. Michael Stracynski

Choose 20 comics that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One comic per day for 20 days, in no particular order
no explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#ComicSky
#Comics
#ComicChallenge
#Day15
The cover of Rising Stars 24, by J. Michael Stracynski and Brent Anderson, showing the main character, Poet, flying away from what seems to be planet Earth surrounded by a glowing energy net
October 17, 2024 at 12:42 AM