#barbars

[barbaric-yap]

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Legendary U Washington bookseller Duane Wilkins is drowning in medical debt

Nearly every sf writer who's ever toured the west coast knows Duane - he's the encyclopedically knowledgeable sf buyer for the U Washington Bookseller, who has organized some of the best sf signings in Seattle history. He's a force of nature.

He's also broke. A two-week hospital stay left him drowning in medical debt - despite being insured! - and now he's being threatened by a collection agency.

Now, Duane is forced into participating in one of the most barbaric of contemporary American rituals, fundraising to cover his medical debt. He's raised $6k of the $10k he needs (I just pitched in $100).

If you can afford to help out someone who's done so much for our community, please kick Duane whatever you can spare.

[demaparbat-hp]

Golden Boy (and Silver Girl) for the Kintsugi AU.

[impishglee]

i think in like a few centuries or so people are going to look back at american football the way we look back on roman bloodsports

[barbarous]

Hope you got everything you wanted this year! 🌟

BARBAROUS is always free to read at johnnywander.com!

[taehyunghobi]

241122 AP Flagship Store Opening

[yurischolar]

as a black dungeon meshi fan, it's really interesting to me how quickly some reactors immediately take marcille's side in the argument against the orc chief. like i understand why, considering the way we meet them, but it feels so highly intentional. like cheering on marcille for standing up against the orc chief "because the orcs probably started it in the first place!" but ignoring how quickly chilchuck and laios balk once it's brought up? that wasn't fear of their captors, that was very blatantly guilt.

even when marcille, an elf (a proud people, according to world building and general dnd consensus), talks back, she says "I remember your people doing your fair share of killing too". not "first", "too". if the orcs started it, im POSITIVE she would have said as much then. And I can't really blame the reactors because most of them are anime-onlys, so they don't know the reputation elves have in canon, but its just wild to me, considering all thats going on rn and frankly historically, to see a very blatant racial allegory and immediately side with the fair skinned blonde woman without even pausing to consider why the orcs are in this position. even AFTER they've explained that theyre desperate and being pushed to the edge.

[warcriminalpastry]

martin brundle saying that it’s nice to see domination in f1 after a long time. BROTHER WAS MAX COSPLAYING AS A CHOPPED LIVER IN 2023????

[sarroora]

[chaiaurchaandni]

just in case some of you forget: israel is bombing innocent civilians, not 'cockraoches,' not 'human animals'

[captain-jale]

La chaine Tiktok de FranceInfo, elle a pas notre Time

[sroloc--elbisivni]

there are some headcanons where it's like. 'i would enjoy this as a light seasoning in fic but certain chunks of the fandom have become more committed to this than the actual canon and made it load-bearing in scenarios where it simply doesn't make sense'.

[barbaric-yap]

how do I explain to my friend that in the last ten pages of tsh, the alcoholic shoots the druggy, we find out that the incestuous sister of the alcoholic was hooking up with the homicidal sociopath, and that homicidal sociopath shoots himself in the head partly because his narcissistic father figure ran off to the Middle East unexpectedly, and the druggy survives the gunshot wound but hallucinates the paranoid victim of a murder that this group commited a few months prior along with a bunch of other dead people while he’s in the hospital, and then somehow everyone brushes this whole ordeal off as if it were completely normal

[melody-magic]

at the end of the day, despite all the posturing and scolding the truth of the matter remains thus: no matter what happens tonight, bombs will keep falling on Palestine, immigrants will keep being placed in concentration camps, record amounts will keep flowing to cops and the military, trans rights will continue to be eroded, and the environment will continue to be destroyed.

there is no stopping the fascist, genocidal machine we call the USA without the rest of the world banding together and stopping them, with overwhelming amounts of force. no amount of liberal posturing or identity policing will change any of these facts.

plan for the future accordingly.

[barbarous]

✨ BARBAROUS ½

@ananthhirsh and I are running some cute BARBAROUS comics while I finish up chapter 9!

You can read them over at http://johnnywander.com!

[aidosaur]

🔥It's here it's here!👯‍♂️🔥

We've finally collected my Elden Ring journal comics about Percy the Tarnished into a pay-what-you-want PDF!

Over 130-pages long! 12 new pages of comics! Lots of fanged imps!

https://johnnywander.itch.io/third-imp

If you're curious about Percy's regular dayjob, I also updated the itchio shop with some new BARBAROUS PDFs! Browse around!