If a dictator, in the midst of committing horrific and brutal war crimes on the world stage, took a moment to publicly defend me and what I stood for, I'd really start having second thoughts about what I stood for.
But that's just me.
Seriously, if your perspective on life is "if I had to suffer for this, everyone else should too", you might want to rethink things. Because at the end of the day, you're pushing for other humans to suffer so you can feel better about your own life. And that's pretty awful.
USAGI SLASH SAILOR MOON IS ACTUALLY THE REINCARNATION OF PRINCESS SERENITY WHO LIVED ON THE MOON DURING THE SILVER MILLENNIUM. HER MOTHER WAS QUEEN SERENITY, NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH NEO QUEEN SERENITY, WHICH IS USAGI IN THE FUTURE WHEN SHE RULES ALL OF EARTH FROM CRYSTAL TOKYO.
I just saw a 56-year-old man crying in an interview after getting his son out of Borderline in Thousand Oaks. Apologizing over and over for surviving when kids were shot and killed.
How many times are we going to let this happen?
The treatment for an ectopic pregnancy is abortion.
The treatment for an incomplete miscarriage is abortion.
People pretending that they're somehow something else, a "prettier" word, and not at all impacted by abortion laws are very very wrong.
Abortion is healthcare.
“In the past week, an Ohio abortion clinic received calls from two women with ectopic pregnancies — when an embryo grows outside the uterus and can’t be saved — who said their doctors wouldn’t treat them.”
I saw
#DnDHonorAmongThieves
today and...
**VERY MINOR SPOILERS**
...the choice to make the central relationship in the movie a platonic one was both incredibly smart and surprisingly impactful.
How many of us have forged or strengthened friendships at the gaming table?
I saw someone comment "It'll be interesting to see how she can carry the show without Mark Ruffalo" about an actress who won an Emmy for a show where she was literally all the main characters.
And many of the current generation of comic creators started reading comics because of Batman the Animated Series and X-Men. What's your point?
Monthly comics are a niche product almost exclusively sold in specialty stores. You have to give folks a REASON to seek them out.
U.S. mail deliveries slow down starting Friday under a 10-year cost-cutting plan by USPS Chief DeJoy — a Trump appointee with no prior USPS experience.
▪️ 40% first-class mail affected
▪️ Delays up to 5 days
▪️ Post office hours cut
▪️ Package shipping prices hiked for holidays
It was really, really important for me to write this moment in Amazing Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows, because it's something we don't see touched on enough in fiction OR real life. And I was glad we could follow that thread into Spider-Girls.
Some news on what I've been working on: A
@CriticalRole
Mighty Nein one-shot featuring the origin of one Caleb Widogast!
Doing a deep dive on a character and working with
@VoiceOfOBrien
&
@matthewmercer
on the details of his backstory has been a blast. Critters are gonna dig it!
Too many people seem to think:
1) Vaccines make you completely immune, eliminating the need for masking/distancing/other precautions.
2) If the vaccine DOESN'T make you completely immune (e.g. breakthrough infections) then it doesn't work at all.
Both are dangerously wrong.
Social anxiety feels a lot like all of your relationships with other people are conditional/contractual, but you aren't allowed to read or even know anything about the Terms of Service.
Yup! "John Cena officially hold the record for most wishes granted with the Make-A-Wish charity. Granting his first wish in 2004, Cena has gone on to grant over 650 wishes to children battling life threatening illnesses."
Source:
You can say a lot about John Cena . But he is the largest grantor of Make a wish wishes .. I think ever
Like homie made it his 5th job . And to this day just refuses to make hay about it
Since I'm allowed to talk about it now, tonight I'm working on
@CRITICALROLE
COMICS!
I may have just written "dagger, dagger, dagger" into the script. 🤓
"I must admit, I am not an expert on
transgenderism. I struggle to understand so much of it and the science is conflicting. When in
doubt however, I always try to err on the side of kindness, mercy and compassion."
He took time to meet with the (4!) kids targeted by the bill...
Sigourney Weaver visiting the NBHS cast and crew at their encore performance of Alien after national media recognition was unbelievable!!
#alien
#Alien40th
The worst part about the
#ComicsBrokeMe
posts is that so many people didn't feel comfortable talking about the issues they've had until a friend and colleague died.
We make comics because we love comics. No one should ever have to sacrifice their well-being for that.
"Four kids who are just trying to find some friends and feel like they are a part of something... Rarely has so much fear and anger been directed at so few. I don’t understand what they are going through or why they feel the way they do. But I want them to live."
It's not just that they understand/admit how evil this is.
It's that they understand that most WGA writers fighting for better pay have less than 5-6 months of savings.
And they want to punish that desire for better pay by exploiting the financial insecurity THAT THEY CAUSED.
IDK man I just think admittedly and purposefully planning to drive people in our city to bankruptcy/homelessness/poverty should be illegal and deserves a strong amount of outside intervention if I'm being real.
Chewbacca pointed to the pins on my jacket and told me (via translator) that I must be very brave to have so many medals, and I almost cried because Chewie called me brave. 💖😭💖
#StarWars
He talked to the community, read the statistics, and tried to truly understand the impact that this law and laws like it can have.
"And all the research shows that even a little acceptance and connection can reduce suicidality significantly."
And that's what we're missing...
I was raised in a Christian household with the belief that the separation of church and state is one of the most important rights we have as Americans.
Legislating human rights based on one interpretation of one (fairly diverse) religion is anti-American.
#AbortionIsAWomansRight
In politics and the larger public conversation, there are so many people focused on winning and not preventing harm. Learning what is actually helpful/life-saving for people who are different than you.
You don't have to fully understand people to care about and support them...
So excited to finally be able to talk about The Mighty Nein Origins: Mollymauk Tealeaf!
I've been working on this with
@executivegoth
,
@matthewmercer
and the gang at
@CriticalRole
for a while now. This is going to be such a gorgeous book.
Out in Sept from
@DarkHorseComics
!
An all-new
@CriticalRole
graphic novel will be released this September by
@DarkHorseComics
. Check out an exclusive first look at Critical Role: The Mighty Nein Origins - Mollymauk Tealeaf, the latest in a series spotlighting the members of the Mighty Nein.
What do you MEAN I have to be bad at things before I'm good at things, and I'll need time and effort to get from one to the other?!
What a stupid process. 😡
For those not in the know, Twitter user Bigolas Dickolas Wolfwood tweeted their love for the sublime sci-fi novel This Is How You Lose the Time War, tweet went viral, book is now
#3
in sales of ALL books on Amazon.
This is the beautiful chaos energy that makes Twitter special 💖
The lesson here is you should let creators be fucking weird and creative, even/especially with historic properties you might be tempted to be precious with.
(Also, you know, pay your writers and actors a living wage instead of trying to crush the unions.)
And for today's big announcement, I'M GOING TO BE WRITING DOCTOR WHO!!! More specifically, the adventures of the Thirteenth Doctor for
@ComicsTitan
! Very excited to work with
@RachaelAtWork
and
@ErenAngiolini
! IT'S DOCTOR WHO, GUYS!!!
#DoctorWho
via
@thr
Name a moment where Wonder Woman was awesome for you. It can be a cosplay, comic, movie or tv scene, mercy, whatever.
Just Wonder Woman being a wonder.
Please use hashtag
#WonderWomanBeingAwesome
I was lucky enough to meet Kelly Marie Tran briefly, and she was incredibly nice to a comics writer who may have been geeking out a bit too much. It's fine to not like fictional characters. It's not fine to harass actual human people.
Comics are for everyone.
There's no excuse for harassment.
There's no place for homophobia, transphobia, racism or misogyny in comics.
The existence of comics that don't appeal/aren't marketed to you isn't a personal attack or inherently political.
But you have to take the time to study and verify facts. There's so much misinformation preying on fear and hatred, which leads to acting out of fear and hatred instead of caring and compassion.
At the end of the day, Gov Cox says he wants kids to live. That's what's at stake...
When I was younger, I made the decision that, if my faith ever made me feel conflicted, I would always err on the side of love. Which is at the core of my faith anyway, so not a big stretch.
I just wish we saw more people who felt that way, especially in positions of power...
The main thing Marie Kondo ACTUALLY told us was if something in our possession no longer brought us joy, we should thank it and let it go.
If spending time with her kids now brings her more joy than tidying does, she's really just living by the same ethos she always has.
Related, I've been thinking a lot about the letter Governor Cox of Utah wrote about the reasoning behind his veto of the anti-trans sports bill.
He's a Republican, and there are things in the letter I disagree with. But one part really jumped out to me...
Absolutely gutted to hear about John Paul Leon's passing. Possibly the very best artist I've ever worked with (and I doubt any other artists would be offended by my saying that). Didn't know him well, but had been meaning to drop him a line. Fuck.
Anxiety and depression lie. They make you second-guess every relationship, every achievement, everything good in your life. No matter how good life is.
Never feel guilty for seeking help. Never feel like you don't deserve it. Mental health issues affect all kinds of people.
I hope that we'll see more people like Gov Cox across the aisle. People who we may not agree with on a lot of issues, but whom we can trust to make decisions and policy based on a compassionate view of the facts.
In an ideal world, that would be everyone on BOTH sides.
Unless you wrote AND drew it, you're ALWAYS a co-creator of a comic book character. Sequential storytelling depends on the interplay of writing and art. And Jack Kirby will always and forever be the king of comic art.
My father Neal Kirby (Jack Kirby’s son) has asked me to post this written statement in response to the Stan Lee documentary released yesterday on Disney+.
Yeah, no. I stayed at my day job and built up my comics career until I could afford to leave the day job and still pay for food/shelter/healthcare. Writing full-time was my dream, and I achieved it! While still being a fiscally-responsible adult.
As someone who (wrongly) spent two years of my childhood thinking I gave my grandfather the pneumonia that killed him, I feel like I should write up something about the experience of thinking you were the disease vector that killed a loved one. Folks need to take this seriously.
So... this is 40.
I spent my 20s finishing college, getting my Masters, and moving across the country to LA. I spent my 30s starting my comics writing career, getting back into playing RPGs, and meeting some of the best friends I've ever had...
CONTACT YOUR REPS. The US Postal Service is how many people get paid, get their medications, and ship items as a small business. And, of course, VOTING. It's essential that we prevent the collapse of the USPS.
Can we get rid of this "must pre-fund 75 years of pensions" crap?
I spoke with the Postmaster General again today. She could not have been more clear:
The Postal Service will collapse without urgent intervention, and it will happen soon.
We’ve pleaded with the White House to help.
@realDonaldTrump
personally directed his staff not to do so.
After 2 weeks of multiple health screens and asking everyone to quarantine, I surprised my closest inner circle with a trip to a private island where we could pretend things were normal just for a brief moment in time.
There's a misconception that actors doing ANY work right now is scabbing. That is false, and SAG-AFTRA is in fact encouraging its members to take work that falls under other contracts.
Similarly, WGA members can still write comics, as that work isn't covered by a union contract.
The strike’s in regards to the TV/Theatrical SAG contract. We’ve ceased all work covered by this contract.
TTRPGs aren’t under TV/Theatrical contract. Asking folks not to do them is like asking stage theatre to shut down when their agreement is not under negotiation here at all.
The adventure begins!
The first issue of Vox Machina: Origins Series II from
@DarkHorseComics
is coming THIS Wednesday (7/10) to a local comic book store near you:
The thing that stresses me out about the potential collapse of Twitter (besides that it's my main professional outlet online and I've spent 1/3 of my life active here) is ADHD and object impermanence.
There are SO many folks I ONLY talk to here. I worry I'll just... forget them.