#we're almost free!!!!!

[monsieuroverlord]

Finally! We have preview pages for Wolverine #50

Main Story by Victor LaValle and Ben Percy, art by Geoff Shaw and Cory Smith

Side Story written by Larry Hama, art by Daniel Picciotto

Send-Off Story written by Ben Percy, art by Javi Fernandez

Main Cover by Leinil Francis Yu

Source here

[fixtheaxel]

terfs: How dare you use those extremely-rare barely even existent pathetic little disordered freaks as a cudgel for your idealogy!!!

tme/tma binarists: How dare you use those extremely-rare barely even existent intersex people as a cudgel for you ideology!!! (see, I'm not interphobic, i didn't call them disordered!!)

Me (an intersex person): So, hi, I don't actually view myself as cudge-

Both: SHUT UP AND STOP SELF-TOKENISING YOURSELF. I BET YOU'RE NOT EVEN INTERSEX!

Me: ...

[ratcandy]

i haven't been monch posting I apologize . here's that moth again

[ninja-knox-ur-sox-off]

Re-reading jttw after so many years is wild because my reading comprehension has improved so much. I didn't realize how many gods just straight up lied to the jade emperor and others about swk like bro those peach maiden gals fr said he beat the crap outta them when the mans never laid a hand on them-

[fellamarsh]

another thing i've been trying to do recently is read more self-published stuff. "but fell," you say, "you're a self-published author. surely you've been reading self-published stuff all along" and then i laugh for so long in response we both become uncomfortable.

see, the fear (which has for a long time been killing my mind) that i'll read other self-published stuff and find out that it's so much better than mine that i might as well stop writing forever kept me from doing that basically ever. i have a hard time not unfavorably comparing my work to others and had convinced myself i was being smart by withholding an avenue of de-motivation (reader: i was not being smart). it also doesn't help that i'm pretty low income and have a hard time spending money on books i haven't already read, and that self-published stuff isn't always available at the library---but really a lot of it was just me being a coward. which i'm working on. i could talk about how this particular cowardice is Very Silly, but i think enough has been said about it on writeblr and in the Writing Space in general that i don't feel the need to (though i will if anyone wants me to).

instead, i wanna talk about the self-published things i have read in the past few months and ask about the self-published things you love!

so: what happened was i got real sick, and while i was real sick i (naturally) read over 200,000 words of ace attorney fan fiction in the span of a few days. eventually i got bored of it (and also maybe annoyed at how people were characterizing some of my guys), but i still wanted to read something gay and romantic and nice, something i knew was gonna end happily, which isn't my typical fare.

now you may be saying (having gotten over all the uncomfortable laughter from earlier) "fell, you write gay romance. what do you mean that's not your typical fare?" listen. until a couple months ago i hadn't read a cut and dry romance novel since before i finished college. for context: i graduated in 2015. i know it doesn't make sense. i'm a guy who doesn't make sense.

but in this case it worked to my advantage. not the not making sense thing, but the not having read Published Romance in 1000 years thing. I didn't know where to start. I was very skeptical of everything the library had Available Now in the Gay Fantasy Romance category. what if it was all bad and also not good?

and then i scrolled past the familiar cover of our very own @ashen-crest's A Rival Most Vial.

now this was comfortable territory! this was a novel by a very nice writeblr person whose posts i enjoy! i already loosely knew the plot, i was familiar with the characters, i knew the names of things like rosemond street and the griffin's claw and that ambrose had blue hair and that at the end of it all there would definitely be Boyfriends. i didn't have to worry that this would be bad! i only had to worry that it would be really good!

but i wasn't worried about that, because i was officially Not Writing at the time, and because why the hell hadn't i read this book yet Ash literally emailed me some very kind words last year when my cat died??

Y'all, I devoured ARMV. If you haven't read it yet---especially if cozy fantasy is more your thing than it is mine---you should check it out Immediately. It was fun! It was heartwarming! It was sweet and earnest and confident! I was delighted to find it was occasionally hot! Ambrose and Eli snuggled up into my sick exhausted heart and found a permanent little place there. (Especially Ambrose. I have such a thing for Stiff Guys who Kind of Suck for Tragic Backstory Reasons and are So So Lonely They Don't Even Realize It. gawd)

(And a very small part of my brain spent the whole time wondering why I had been so afraid to really engage with the work my community is doing. The community that I'm in. The one I'm a part of. Why?! Maybe more on that later.)

But from there the curse was broken! I immediately devoured @stjohnstarling's What Manner of Man in a similar sort of frenzy (and hooooly shit guys am I excited for the expanded, finalized version to come out at the end of next month!) and started digging into @lurinatftbn's The Flower that Bloomed Nowhere (which I can already tell is going to be an All Time Favorite).

And now I want to ask you what your favorite self-published books are so that I can read them, too, but I think I will in another post that doesn't dedicate so much space to talking about my various and sundry Issues and isn't Terminally Long

[drinkingdeadpeopletea]

does anybody else ever think about how moc weepe sold saskia out by name and with a completely casual tone but also screamed her name for no apparent reason while he was being functionally tortured. anyone else just sort of rotating that around in their mind.

[queerplatonicdiaries]

long!!! distance!!!! sucks!!!!!!

[golyadkin]

I'm still alive there's just been so much going on and last week another responsibility arrived screaming at me from the hedges in front of my building

Meet Tatum

[shattered-earth]

I am OBSSESSED with GIRL MATH

I just realized this is what me and my friends have been doing when we need help making a purchase that we deserve but have too much of a money lizard to do. I love that we can chant GIRL MATH GIRL MATH GIRL MATH before doing it now. (it's basically FREE!)

Sources: x x x

[midnight-mourning]

I need y'all to know I chose violence with this next chapter, and by violence I mean I had a rare spark of brilliance while writing the secondary outline today and it's SO GOOD I am SO excited for this next chapter fr fr

[twilight-deviant]

Telling content creators it's wrong to explore artistic freedom and be independently funded by fans, and they should instead continue taking advertisement revenue from google* is

NOT

the anti-capitalism stance actually.

*(Yes, google owns youtube.)

[mango-fizz]

it finally happened we did it guys 🍀🍀

[decayeria]

HELLHOUND FINISHED!

Baby boy is done!! Hope I did it justice!

This was a super fun project, so much so I'll be working on the axe next at some point! (Dual wielding Michelle????)

Game: Sorry We're Closed by @cbedfordart (sorry for the @)

Read more for silly additional info!

Materials: - Neon Guache paint - Matte Guache and Fabric paint - Clear Varnish - White spray paint and wood glue as primer

Time Spent: About 4-5 hours, including drying times

This was somewhat challenging, as I honestly am not a fancy cosplayer and just use whatever is available to me, so i didn't have many good brushes for this. So at some point i might redo the small details... but i like it!

Also hey small spoiler for the pink coat hah-

[burins]

I am not caught up on Nightwing enough to have context for the 116 panels and they are still panels out of context but god I miss when there were non hero characters in Blüdhaven. bc I think there's a very easy story to tell that fits in with Tom Taylor's ostensible narrative, where the citizens of Blüdhaven that Dick has formed friendships with band together to watch out for each other while he's injured. it's a little corny but I think you could do a lot with community care! but unlike in the first Nightwing run we don't actually HAVE any of those recurring characters to make a meaningful story with. and also despite taylors ostensible restorative justice beliefs this is still a story about superheroes saving everyone from themselves. so instead we get Bruce putting on the costume his son first made for himself in order to get away from Bruce. (I know that isn't what it means now! but that was DICK'S hard-fought independence and identity. dick came back, but Nightwing was him striking out on his own! and instead of him passing it on to Tim or Cass it's Bruce???) god I'm sorry. Not For Me! Not For Me!

[sparksflys]

what's up with the first post on the taylor tag being a hate post lol

[itz-pandora]

Huh. If my life was a quote, it'd be "one of those sad ones with a deceptively happy tune"