#Author Panels

[bookgeekgrrl]

My media this week (13-19 Aug 2023)

📚 STUFF I READ 📚

😍 the rest of the Hat Trick Hearts series (SomewheresSword) - 250K Check, Please! - 15 years of PBJ domestic fluff

😍 Red, White & Royal Blue (Casey McQuiston, author; Ramón de Ocampo, narrator) - so annoyed by the movie I had to reread

🥰 The Fool in the Mirror (thepinupchemist) - 111K, shrunkyclunks omegaverse - Steve's Cap, an alpha with severe PTSD, Bucky's a vet/former SHIELD agent & support omega [reread, forever fave]

😊 An Act of Foul Play (Lady Hardcastle Mysteries #9) (T.E. Kinsey, author; Elizabeth Knowelden, narrator) - Emily & Flo & Flo's twin sister figure out who killed an actor during intermission. Breezy, silly fun like always.

💖💖 +238K of shorter fic so shout out to these I really loved 💖💖

Memory (orphan_account) - MCU: stucky, 23K - great WS recovery fic

Extra Whip (Door) - TW: sterek, 3K - one of the best outsider POV fics, absolutely delightful

📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺

What We Do In The Shadows - s5, e4-7

Only Murders In The Building - s3, e1-3

Timothy Janovsky in conversation with TJ Alexander

Harley Quinn - s4, e6

Just the Two of Us: Celebrating Child-free HEAs (with Mary Robinette Kowal, Ann Aguirre, Beverly Jenkins, Gwenda Bond, Adele Buck)

D20: Mentopolis - "The Scattered Mind" (s19, e2)

D20: Adventuring Party - "In Space No One Can Hear You Cream" (s14, e2)

🎧 PODCASTS 🎧

Re: Dracula - August 13: Between Me and the Moonlight

Re: Dracula - August 14: They are Just the Same

Re: Dracula - August 15: Glad and Sorry

What Next: TBD - Tech's Mask Off Moment

Pop Culture Happy Hour - The Hip-Hop Verse That Changed My Life

Vibe Check - Your Favorite Armchair Therapists

Re: Dracula - August 17: Fading Away

99% Invisible #549 - Trail Mix: Track Two

Welcome to Night Vale #232 - A Car Crash on Buellton Avenue

⭐ Song Exploder - Siddhartha Khosla "Only Murders in the Building (Main Title Theme)"

Re: Dracula - August 18: Very Sweet and Very Bitter

Re: Dracula - August 19: Rejoice the Eyes That Wait

🎶 MUSIC 🎶

my Liked Music playlist

Margaritaville

Rivers of London playlist

Relaxing '80s

#sunday reading recap #bookgeekgrrl's reading habits #bookgeekgrrl's soundtracks #fanfic ftw #hat trick hearts #lady hardcastle mysteries #dimension 20 #omitb #wwdits #harley quinn #song exploder #re: dracula #welcome to night vale #vibe check podcast #99% invisible podcast #pop culture happy hour podcast #what next: tbd podcast #i'm in that mellow late summer mood for music #author panels #d20: mentopolis

[cupofteajones]

Jane Austen, Dramatized Recording Now Online

Jane Austen, Dramatized Recording Now Online

If you want something to do to close out this saddest day for beloved Janeites, let me put a little pep in your step. If you could not attend the last week’s event, Jane Austen, Dramatized, I have good news! The talk is now available to watch online! Click on the Zoom link below, register and type in the password, and you are on your way for an exciting conversation full of insight and laughs…

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#Austen 200 #Author Events #Author Panels #Book lovers #Books #Classics #Devoney Looser #Drama #Emma #Female Novelists #Jane Austen #Jane Austen 200 #Janeite #Kate Hamill #Persuasion #Play Adaptations #Playwrights #The Holy Theatre #Theatre

[bixels]

I watched Starship Troopers tonight.

#personal #dumb #my art #immediately after finishing i was pumped to watch some analysis vids on it #cuz i heard a lot of the drama about the original author being a pro military fascist and the director going “fuck that” and making a satir #scrolling through youtube search results was not promising. lots of male film buffs i would Not trust even on a first glance. #“The Critical Drinker” (pfp of a bearded man drinking alcohol) lol. #and then I saw cinemawins did a video on it and was like oh nice i haven't seen his stuff in a while but he's a pretty leftist creator #scrolled through the comments #second panel face #this sucks i'm outta here. #just leagues and leagues and leagues of anime pfps and right leaning people dogpiling on him for “not understanding what fascism is” #idk it's pretty alien and weird to me watching this movie and going “wow yeah that was pretty obvious huh” like literally the from opening #to the teacher preaching militance and only giving voting rights to “those who serve their nation first and earn it” #and then seeing droves of people online going #WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? It's not anti-fascist and even if it was it's #the director's fault for desecrating heinlein's incredible sci-fi epic vision. ermm media literacy is dead.

[rosekasa]

ladybug makes the observation at some point that chat noir, at the ripe age of fifteen, acts like such a dad sometimes. like he'll comment about how she should really sit up straight while theyre chilling out after patrol, and he'll start bringing a pair of binoculars so he can birdwatch from their rooftop, and he'll do that thing where after she casually mentions she's been craving strawberies lately he starts bringing industrial amounts of strawberries for her every time they meet. and she just thinks, wow, this boy must come from such a wonderful family for him to be so cute.

so when he quietly admits to her one day that he hasn't hugged his own dad in years, in fact he's not even sure if his own dad really likes him very much, her heart shatters

#i went to an author panel today and the book was about a father son relationship ajdkajsk #miraculous ladybug #ladynoir #chat noir #tagged:ladynoir #♡alizeh talks♡

[lilac-vode]

huge win for aromantics

they actually used the actual word in a canon source 🥹

#star wars #the high republic #vernestra rwoh #aromantic #yall im elated...correct me if im wrong but this must be the first instance of the actual word being used in a canon star wars source #and not like an author's twitter or someone saying it on a panel or something #photo is from dk's thr character encyclopedia!

[thecruellestmonth]

Does the mass-murdering criminal Jason "Red Hood" Todd canonically support the death penalty?

No, I can't find evidence that Red Hood supports the death penalty.

There is a difference between murder (illegal) and state-sanctioned killing (legal). Red Hood commits unlawful homicide. The death penalty is lawful homicide. Jason is a murderer. The death penalty is not legally considered murder. Commissioner Jim Gordon is a decorated military veteran, not a murderer.

Committing violence ≠ wanting the government to have the right to commit that violence. Batman and his allies brutalize criminals; they don't necessarily support the state brutalizing criminals. Red Hood kills some criminals; Red Hood doesn't necessarily support the state killing criminals. Catwoman doesn't necessarily support the state committing burglary. Et cetera.

The death penalty is administered by the criminal legal system. Jason does not like the criminal legal system (see some of his run-ins with the police). He grew up as an impoverished child who didn't believe in the system, he was raised by Batman to believe that vigilantes can make a difference that the system can't, and he became an adult criminal who still doesn't believe in the system. He's not interested in using the criminal legal system. He isn't interested in giving more powers and privileges to an abusive system that has wronged him and the people he cares about.

When Jason started up his villain business, the death penalty was legal in Gotham City. (See Detective Comics #644, The Joker: Devil's Advocate, Batgirl 2000 #19, Punchline #1.) The death penalty was also in place during his Robin run. Jason didn't argue in favor of the state having the right to kill prisoners, and the death penalty never addressed his complaints about the status quo.

Jason has rescued people from wrongful* imprisonment and the death penalty. Again, based on his own firsthand experiences, he has many reasons to believe that the system is broken. *Some of us would argue that locking any people in prisons tends to be wrongful and inhumane by default, but we could choose to accept the standard premises of crime fiction as without endorsing it as moral instruction.

Jason Todd is a criminal: a mass murderer, a terrorist, a villain. He does evil. He doesn't represent or support the legal system. He probably has the least political capital out of all the Batfamily-associated characters. He doesn't promote the death penalty. He commits murder—illegally, as a criminal, state-unapproved.

Some recent comics related to the topic:

Gotham Nights (2020) #11 "One Minute After Midnight", written by Marc Guggenheim

Red Hood and Nightwing team up to investigate the case of a man wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to be executed. Both of them disapprove of how the broken criminal legal system botched this case.

Joker: The Man Who Stopped Laughing #8 (2023), written by Matthew Rosenberg

"You familiar with Hannah Arendt's concept of Schreibtischtäter? Desk murderers? It's people who use the state to kill for them, so they don't have to get their hands dirty."

#Jason Todd #Jason Todd meta #Batfam meta #Batfamily meta #Batfam #Batfamily #Robin II #Batkids #Batman Gotham Nights #DC Robin #Red Hood #Joker The Man Who Stopped Laughing #Matt Rosenberg #canon vs fanon #fanon vs canon #panels #RHATO 2011 opens with Red Hood saving somebody from being unjustly executed. Don't read it. It is bad. Just trust me. #Jason Todd is legally dead and not registered to vote. #I could make a much longer post about Jason's general contempt for authorities but let's limit it today. #thecruellestmonth #I know the 1992-2010 comics purists are going to come after me for using recent comics. #I could make a much longer post about Post-Crisis Jason Todd's attitudes about the police and the state. #But that longer post still wouldn't have much to say about the death penalty-- #--because--AGAIN--there is NO evidence that Jason supports the death penalty! But there is plenty of indirect evidence that he doesn't. #Do the words ''system''‚ ''state''‚ ''criminal''‚ and ''legal'' look like real words anymore? #ID in alt text #described #image described #ID in alt #image description

[cranity]

feeling totally normal about that sanji food wars panel

#sanji #one piece #the author is in love w him i can tell #My art #this is a panel redraw btw the comp is not my idea lol

[cecexoxo]

Batman meeting Midnighter is so funny to me

(Batman Superman: Authority Special)

#batman #bruce wayne #comic panels #midnighter #the authority #superman #kal el #clark kent #superbat #dc universe

[snailasleep]

why does vash carry cigarettes if he never smokes?

extra comic

if it makes anyone feel better heres what i named some of the layers for this comic

also panels i liked!

see you, vash! until next time!

#sorry im not that good at writing dialogue i just needed to get vash grieving out of my system. #the irregular amount of smoke from the cigarette is wolfwood trying to hug vash /hj #also author's note the panel where vash has the cig near his mouth in the first page is supposed to be a fakeout. #dont think i executed it that clearly but its supposed to be like he's about to put it in but instead he's just smelling it and lookingat i #you can tell i got crazier with each panel of this comic. #trigun spoilers #trigun maximum spoilers #trimax spoilers #vashwood #implied vashwood #angst #this is like my second angst comic for any fandom ever #vash the stampede #trigun #trimax #post trimax #post trimax vash #black hair vash #digital #art #illustration #fanart #comic #cw grief #also for anyone confused about what vash is doing with the cigarette #placing a lit cig on someone's grave is a gesture of giving them a smoke in the afterlife #not sure what cultures/religions do it but my family members have done it b4 and thats what inspired this comic #post trimax vash saves cigarettes not to smoke but to do this (and smell them occasionally) #also mfw i get the motivation to draw but its poorly timed and right b4 college starts #spoilers

[thejasontoddarchives]

This is the core of Jason’s character.

Again they try to hammer in that Jason is brash, arrogant, and reckless; that he jumps before thinking. However you can’t really attribute reckless behavior to arrogance or carelessness when he only ever becomes instinctive during very specific instances. The few times he’s “stepped out of line” or just threw himself into an unknown/dangerous situation it was always to protect someone from predators and sickos. Otherwise, keep in mind the number of times he’s been praised for his intelligence and judgment; for being meticulous, calm, and cooperative.

Batman #424 (1988)

#besides. even when he ‘took things too far' it was never without thinking it through first and understanding why his actions were warranted #not to mention familiarity was a predominant theme in utrh #(aka how clever he was. his timing. improvisation skills.) #jason todd #robin jason #batman 424 #dc #comic panels #‘​people only say Jason cares about women and children because of lost days’ somebody didn’t read the robin run I see #also how the fuck is that bodyguard not dead #you see that window to the right of him? that’s a solid brick wall on the other side. not dry wall #if Batman threw him so hard he shot head-first through the building like a bullet there’s no way he could have survived that come on now #no amount of plot armor or the author said he didn't die can make it make sense lol #contrary to popular belief batfleck didn’t actually come out of left field

[s-aprua]

stray cats - erzi

#paradox live #paralive #iori suiseki #yohei kanbayashi #hello yoio/iohei fans i come bearing food #read a fanfic so good i thought abt it for months and then reread this today and drew this #the pining! the averted gazes! the things left unsaid!!!! absolutely incredible #also used the wrong brush size bc my program crashed and i forgot to change it before the bottom panel oops #also idk if the author will see this but im sorry if this isnt what you envisioned #i have like 0 literacy skills 😔 #my art

[cupofteajones]

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[waspgrave]

i'm not gonna liveblog it but i decided to read dungeon meshi and these are quite literally some of the funniest characters i've ever seen lmao

#the author has THE FUNNIEST comedic timing with panels #doing it while partaking in a plant was funny tho....it makes me so hungry #even tho i empathize with marcille like 99% of the time #i see people bitching about marcille but im like...sHES VALID. I LOVE HERRRR #prawn posts #reading dungeon meshi #the one time the tag is used

[kawarikisaki]

While the fandom is a mess because of The Spoiler, can I just take a moment to fixate wildly on something that changes nothing? I can? Cool. So...... Kaito is left-handed.

Hear me out-

I understand that this is meant to be a show of Midoriko's keen observational skills however;

It's so amazingly specific.

The fact that it includes other people that come to this house means that other common guests are being considered in her data set, so we can exclude the possibility that there's some kind of household rule against leaving a torn bit.

But even then Kaito is supposedly the only one that it rips on the right edge for, so there's got to be a fundamental difference in how he's tearing it compared to everyone else. And so being left-handed is less common than being right handed so that fits actually.

Also just overthinking it but if the tp is gonna rip it's gonna do it on the far side from where you started tearing.

But anyway that impacts nothing really, since he's a magician he's probably trained to the point of being functionally ambidextrous, but maybe he favors his left a little in situations where there's no need to calculate his movements.

#dcmk #kuroba kaito #rambling #this is truely a nonsense post #but I saw this panel and immeadietly had a new head-cannon #just gonna send this out into the chaos that is the current state of this fandom #Kaito is left handed now. I Obviously have the authority to decide that. #Also if I may say; #Hakuba drinking tea in his holmes cosplay while his lady butler follows him with a little trolly with a teapot on it? #dude is one-upping himself on britishing. He is winning at British.

[yuriwarrior]

The fact that a comic from 1940s refers to Roy as Ollie's son, whereas a comic from 2023 doesn't (despite connor being referred to as his son on the same page). Wild

#the fact that authors still dance around this wild #the 40s panel is either from more fun comics with the issue being in the 70s range or its leading comics #i cant remember #roy harper #oliver queen #ollie queen #green arrow #red arrow #speedy #dc

[shoolb]

"At least she’d still be warm."

check out through the valley to life by @mayybirds

[start id:

a digitally drawn comic made up of ten panels, featuring an abstracted scene from the resident evil fanfic "through the valley to life" by @mayybirds, where ethan breaks through to eveline in chapters 3 and 4.

the first panel is entirely in black and white, featuring a dilapidated room, an upturned wheelchair in the background. the dark gray background turns to white further down the panel, where ethan and eveline stand off, eveline with her hands straight out and exuding black mold, while ethan's hand reaches up to cover his face, standing his ground.

the second image fades into an image of eveline hiding in a vent, with a pair of legs walking past it in search of her. the image fades into black mold.

the third image is a snapshot in time surrounded by dark mold. eveline is younger, with a capital 'E' pinned to her chest and an unknown scientist in a lab coat injecting a needle into her arm.

the fourth image is a snapshot in time surrounded by dark mold. it simply depicts a larger hand harshly gripping a smaller person's wrist, assumed to be eveline. this image is accented by a burst of red-tinged black mold.

the fifth image is a snapshot in time surrounded by dark mold. a hazy white light surrounds mia winters as she bandages the wrist of someone off-screen, assumed to be eveline. behind mia floats the annabelle tanker in the water.

the sixth image is a pitch black canvas with a textured red tinge at the bottom.

the seventh image depicts a large reaching hand in inverted black and white on a spill of textured red and black, obscuring half of a face outlined in white.

the eighth image depicts eveline outlined in white on a black background, her one visible eye wide in shock. the canvas fades to a red-tinged white. an inverted black and white portrayal of ethan hugging a person that is partly obscured.

the ninth image depicts a background of eveline's stick figures in white on a black background. in a starker white, a stick figure of a woman is on the far left while a stick figure of a man is on the far right. in the middle, a stick figure of a little girl. the image fades to white.

the tenth image depicts ethan hugging an old woman, eveline. they are both in black and white except for eveline's red scarf. they are surrounded by a burst of protective black mold.

end id.]

#mayybirds #resident evil #ethan winters #eveline winters #accessible #id in alt as well as under read more #i've had this in the works for a while but after i posted my last ttvtl fanart i realized there's no like. ACTUAL canon fanart for this fic #i debated waiting until the next chapter came out so as not to overwhelm the illustrious author but i don't have the strength forgive me #you ever read a fic that is everything you ever wanted and more? my forehead chakra forcibly activated while reading this fic #anyway also some fun symbolism notes: Ethan's face is always obscured in some way until the last panel #also the red tinge implies fear until the last panel where the red is merely a scarf—a ''red herring'' if u will. still around her neck tho