thinking about someone I should not bother thinking about
Jul. 3rd, 2025 12:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Once upon a time, I was friends with a guy named Jim. A very, very few of you might know him. Almost all of you won’t.
I walked away some years ago, blocked him on the socials over his support for the fascist, because I said that the fascist’s promises absolutely, positively, literally required American concentration camps, and that’s what he was supporting by supporting the fascist, and I could not abide that…
…and yet, he carried on, saying I was a fool, and that none of it would ever happen.
(I asked him then why did he support someone he insisted was lying to him. I do not remember getting an answer, before I quit.)
So now that we have American concentration camps…
…and now that people with direct access to the fascist are talking about sending literally every American citizen of Latino heritage there to die…

(it will require more concentration camps than that, of course, but that’s a detail which makes no difference)
I wonder…
…has he yet been moved to repentance?
Or is he still a good and solid member of that wretched cult?
It’s immaterial now, of course. We are long past the point where the pebbles’ opinions matter, and crimes already done cannot be undone.
But once in a while, I think of it.
And for a moment – a pointless, irrelevant moment – I still wonder.
Posted via Solarbird{y|z|yz}, Collected.
Amazing Spider-Man #102
Jul. 3rd, 2025 05:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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Writer: Roy Thomas
Pencils: Gil Kane
Inks: Frank Giacoia
Spider-Man teams-up with the Lizard to take on Morbius.
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Immortal Thor #25 this week is #24's aftermath.
Jul. 3rd, 2025 10:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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There's Thor after the fact as was solicited -
" .. [meeting] the Serpent who wore his own face and held his own hammer. "
( It's a little more bitter than their meeting in #17. )
Uncanny X-Men #221
Jul. 3rd, 2025 02:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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Writer: Chris Claremont
Pencils: Marc Silvestri
Inks: Dan Green
The X-Men finally get their rematch with the Marauders.
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Thor #277
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Writer: Roy Thomas
Pencils: John Buscema
Inks: Tom Palmer
Loki is punished for his part in the death of Balder.
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JR Dawson launch party!
Jul. 2nd, 2025 04:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
My friend J.R. Dawson is launching their second book, The Lighthouse at the End of the World, and I get to be part of the festivities! We'll be at Moon Palace Books at 6:00 p.m. on July 29, having a lovely conversation about this book and the previous book and other stories and life in general, and you can come join in the fun!

Stories I've liked, 2nd quarter 2025
Jul. 2nd, 2025 03:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
As Safe As Fear, Beth Cato (Daikajuzine)
In the Shells of Broken Things, A.T. Greenblatt (Clarkesworld)
The Name Ziya, Wen-yi Lee (Reactor)
Barbershops of the Floating City, Angela Liu (Uncanny)
Everyone Keeps Saying Probably, Premee Mohamed (Psychopomp)
Lies From a Roadside Vagabond, Aaron Perry (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
The Girl That My Mother Is Leaving Me For, Cameron Reed (Reactor)
Laser Eyes Ain't Everything, Effie Seiberg (Diabolical Plots)
Unbeaten, Grace Seybold (Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
Unfinished Architectures of the Human-Fae War, Caroline Yoachim (Uncanny)
Adventures of Superman #453
Jul. 2nd, 2025 06:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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Words and art: Jerry Ordway
Superman: Exile.
Oxygen deprivation is making Superman hallucinate ghosts of his past.
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Starman #9
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Writer: Roger Stern
Pencils: Tom Lyle
Inks: Bob Smith
Batman guest-stars as Starman takes on the new Blockbuster.
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Spoiler Origins: Part 2
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Writer: Chuck Dixon
Pencils: Tom Lyle
Inks: Scott Hanna
Detective Comics #648.
When Tim met Stephanie.
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Rom: Spaceknight #19
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Writer: Bill Mantlo
Pencils and inks: Sal Buscema
Trapped in Limbo, Rom is reunited with a dear friend.
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...well, hardly ever...
Jul. 1st, 2025 05:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
and one character mentioned the "why and wherefore" of something
which *immediately* got "Never Mind the Why and Wherefore" from HMS Pinafore going through my head [https://youtu.be/fz00Ru9RXA8?si=_iW2jYRH-8RW_w49]
which of course meant I had no choice but to listen to the whole of HMS Pinafore [https://youtu.be/N6iNGprcxFI?si=B-vFtrypguIKurHv for example]
and now various of those songs keep popping up ... for at least week now ... only the lyrics are starting to scramble, which tends to happen when something is stuck in my head long enough.
("I am the captain of the minotaur~~" wait no)
Anyway my plan for dealing with this is to watch the 1983 film version of Pirates of Penzance, which is an extremely solid plan with no possible down sides.