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we read As The Crow Flies!

For this episode on As the Crow Flies, by Mel Gillman, Jam, Jeff, and JD are joined by Ryan Estrada. We talk about one of Ryan’s favourite banned books. Is this a thoughtful story of alienation, doubt, microaggressions, and faith? Or is it, as one book banner summed it up, just “gender chaos?” We’ll talk about the power of traditional media (by which I mean pencil crayons), libraries, and how not to be uncomfortable in nature.

Also mentioned in this episode: Stage Dreams by Mel Gillman Banned Book Club by Kim Hyun Sook, Ko Hyung-Ju, and Ryan Estrada No Rules Tonight by Kim Hyun Sook and Ryan Estrada Occulted by Amy Rose, Ryan Estrada, and Jeongmin Lee Student Ambassador and Broken Telephone, also written or edited by Ryan Estrada Travellers created by Brad Wright Can I Get a Witness directed by Ann Marie Fleming Witchlight by Jessi Zabarsky Zen Shorts by John J. Muth and The Inscrutable Doctor Baer and the Case of the Two-Faced Statue by Jerzy Drozd

Music by Sleuth

You can find us at: Ryan Estrada J Dalton Jam Jeff Ellis

Our next episode will be on O Human Star by Blue Delliquanti.

You can also follow the TradeWaiters on Soundcloud, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, and Ko-Fi.

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I'm really proud of myself for completing a whole year of this watercolour series for Postcards From a Better Future!

They were all 4x6" except for the biiiiig one I did for December (currently in the mail to supporters!)

I'll start a whole new series for next year and if you want to get in on the ground floor for that, make sure you sign up for the postcards tier before December. I'm offering 50% off the first month with the coupon code POST

You can also gift it to someone else if you know someone who could use a little cheer in their mailbox every month :)

On the back of each postcard you get a little letter from a character in the webcomic I'm developing (Skuttleboat Cove).

They print and ship from the USA so it takes a little bit longer for it to arrive to international destinations but it does ship worldwide :)

Thanks so much to everyone who has joined me on this journey so far! 🤗

[jammyness]

I'm really proud of myself for completing a whole year of this watercolour series for Postcards From a Better Future!

They were all 4x6" except for the biiiiig one I did for December (currently in the mail to supporters!)

I'll start a whole new series for next year and if you want to get in on the ground floor for that, make sure you sign up for the postcards tier before December. I'm offering 50% off the first month with the coupon code POST

You can also gift it to someone else if you know someone who could use a little cheer in their mailbox every month :)

On the back of each postcard you get a little letter from a character in the webcomic I'm developing (Skuttleboat Cove).

They print and ship from the USA so it takes a little bit longer for it to arrive to international destinations but it does ship worldwide :)

Thanks so much to everyone who has joined me on this journey so far! 🤗

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I am cursed to never feel fully comfortable in any given outfit :(

(Patrons got this one a month early!)

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Away

I was experimenting a lot with vaporwave colours and glitch effects in 2021-2022 and then I forgot to post any of it. Ultimately I didn't want to go in this direction but I still rather like it :>

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Desert Wanderings

(WP resolution free on my Patreon)

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Harvest time!

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This is so cool!

One last talent show to save the rec center

Ok everybody here's the deal.

My science education nonprofit, Skype a Scientist (you might know her, creator of the squid facts hotline and matcher of classrooms + scientists) has secured absolutely no grants to support general operations for 2025. But! We're selling advent calendars to fund our program! They absolutely rule. They can save our nonprofit asses. If we sell 5000, which I realize, is so many, we can fund our program for 2025. Then I can offer a bunch of programming for free. Running a nonprofit is a weird job.

Every day, counting down to frankly whatever you want (it's usually Christmas, but man, maybe you want to count down to Halloween, that's fine by me) scratch off the sparkly sparkly iridescence and reveal a fact about frogs! We have 24 top-notch frog facts here.

You should get one for every kid in your life, then get one for all the adults who still let themselves access joy in critters.

Get 'em here: https://squidfacts.bigcartel.com/

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I wouldn't have guessed that I'd be leading support groups during the apocalypse, but honestly now that I'm here it tracks.

(Patrons got this comic a few months ago, and you can follow for free!)

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"Solarpunk will never happen!"

As if it's not already coming, already here and starting to bloom before our eyes.

Neighborhood cooking clubs and libraries lending out more then just books, it's the art club that the community garden started, it's the funky gardens my neighbors have.

It's the DIY projects ppl wear with pride and ones that hide in the back of their dresser drawer. It's in the magazines and podcasts and in passing hope forward.

Like gruella gardening alone is enough for proof of concept for me, but the rise in community events and potlucks and fighting for rent caps and UBI and decentalizing energy and gardening is happening now.

And yea I gotta fight nazis and dickwards daily for it, and I gotta spend the time to educate and build up as I take down, but they can't say this future isn't coming. I'm here with you right now in it.

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all about the Thunderbolts!

This week we return to Thunderbolts Volume 1: Justice, Like Lightning, by Kurt Busiek, Mark Bagley, Sal Buscema, Peter David, Mike Deodato Jr., Steve Epting, and others. We look deeper into the main cast of the series, and propose a wish list of changes (thirty years too late). We’ll see henchmen doing hench things, learn about incels and doxxing before those terms existed, talk about mall gothery, and discuss the importance of metaphors for six year olds.

Also mentioned in this episode: Marvels by Kurt Busiek and Alex Ross Amazing Spider-Man also drawn by Mark Bagley Naruto by Masashi Kitimoto Trigun by Yasuhiro Nightow, and the Trigun Book Club Generation X by Scott Lobdell and Chris Bachalo Excalibur by Alan Davis and Chris Claremont Invincible by Robert Kirkman, Cory Walker, & Ryan Ottley Garfield by Jim Davis Spawn by Todd McFarlane Suicide Squad directed by either David Ayer or James Gunn, depending on which movie it is The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate Stone Soup by Marcia Brown and the Thunderbolts movie directed by Jake Schreier

Music by Sleuth

You can find us at: J Dalton Jam Jeff Ellis

Our next episode will be on As the Crow Flies by Mel Gillman.

You can also follow the TradeWaiters on Soundcloud, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, and Ko-Fi.

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Since I participated in this meme the phrase "This is me in paradise" will pop into my head whenever I'm feeling particularly content.

So here is a more jam-accurate variation

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my own paradise

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apologies to Toriyama

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My days end with MeiMei's nightly biscuit-n'-purr session 💜

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I just posted 8 pages of bonus hourlies to Patreon! I went apple picking 🍎

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My days end with MeiMei's nightly biscuit-n'-purr session 💜

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I just posted 8 pages of bonus hourlies to Patreon! I went apple picking 🍎

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Keep your paws off the sauce!

September's Patron Postcard :)

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Taking it all in from the peak...

August's Patreon Postcard