- @steevbishop Birds are assholes. #
- Southern Water are trying to charge me for a bill that they failed to raise IN 2005! Also, finding it hard to find a complaint line. #
- After having teh “C” word’s etymology explained to me by a g-friend, I feel like I should be using it MORE, in defiance of Christian silly. #
- … Girl One will probably not agree. She is proper fire’n'brimstone atheist, but also gets the squiggles when she hears that one word… #
- @steevbishop Doubleplus ungood assholes. Pigeon bastards! #
- @budgie Interestingly, as a nation we are considered more prudish & yet we are so much better at using the bad swears… #
- @budgie … Though it is still the one word that I only use very sparingly over at Elephant Words & hardly ever on Nixsight. Not sure why! #
- Only 5 posts at EW use the “C” word & 3 of those were me. Tons of “Fuck”. Against nil “C” words @ Nixsight. Huh. Thought I was more profane! #
- Is porn terminology context sensitive? For example, does someone still count as a MILF if the observer is half a decade older than them? #
- @budgie I find that it’s handy to hold a few words back for when I REALLY need them. Oddly, the one word I really struggle with is “flange”. #
- @budgie … And I’m not even sure what it means… #
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Found Objects
Another Way To Breathe: On The Disir
HEAVY SPOILERS FOR JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY 638
I was asked on my Formspring “Was that always the real origin of your Disir, or something that evolved for EXILED?”. To which I responded….
When I created the Disir back in SIEGE: LOKI and NEW MUTANTS 11, I knew the origin I gave wasn’t the…
Kieron Gillen is killing it on Journey Into Mystery. It’s process like this that’s the reason why. Inspiring.
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.)
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