- @steevbishop My friend – I name you Tshiluba. From now on until I forget that I ever did. I give it till… wow, 750gig for £55.21? Bargain! #
- Everyone else has left for the week. I sit here, trying to write a report about something that I could just TELL about in ten or so minutes. #
- It’s pissing it down outside, Girl One is visiting family for the weekend. The pub beckons invitingly, but part of me just longs for bed. #
- It has been a long & busy stretch – one of the few where I can genuinely say there was more work (home & work) than there was week. #
- & my teeth ache. Still, got promising hopeful for EW this session, poss. ‘nother on way & maybe even, touch wood, an artist for THE SCRIPT! #
- What we are is either meat or a joke. Those are our choices. They are good choices. #
- Either accept them for how beautiful & funny they are, or shut the fuck up… #
- … Because at least for tonight, either you are on board with this shit, or I am cancelling you in my area. #
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Found Objects
MOMBcast #137 is recording tonight! Get involved!
MOMBcast #137 is recording tonight!
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Peach for godsgirls
Illustration by Victo Ngai for the fiction “Sweet Dreams” by Peter Stamm
“She went to the bathroom, filled the tub, and got undressed. The mirror misted over with condensation, and the smell of pine needles filled the air. She turned off the water, and the apartment suddenly seemed very quiet. Then she heard footsteps, and Simon’s voice through the half-open door. He said, I’ll just go downstairs for the bottle of wine. I thought you’d gone already, said Lara, and she poked her head through the crack, and he kissed her on the lips and tried to barge the door open, but she held it shut. They kissed again. See you soon, said Lara. It was odd, she still felt a little ashamed in front of him.”
This scene is one of my earliest comic memories. It was the first point at which I saw a comic character making a mistake, which meant it was probably the first time I really processed them properly as characters and human.
Spider-man has webbed up a doorway to stop a criminal escaping, but then realises that the criminal is escaping out of the window instead, and in his hurry to catch them he forgets his own webbing.
It seems gloriously ridiculous out of context, but if memory serves it was part of a pretty intense and dramatic story featuring Alex Summers (Havok).
(This was me, by the way.)
Bella Heathcote
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