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strangelittlestories · 3 months

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On the colony world of Lir, where water covered most of the planet and resources were scarce, a new age of sail came about.

Many wondrous features of the planet made this possible. Consider the ferrous algae that could be spun into sails with incredible tensile strength. Gaze in awe at the floating forests like lily pads grown gargantuan, provided a sustainable source of timber and a platform for mobile fortresses.

But the occurrence that provoked the most awe (and horror) was when the jellyfish rocked up to the colony, squatting in the craniums of bleached bone skeletons with bloody hearts glowing in their chest cavities.

#weird worlds #flash fiction #microfiction #stories #writing #love me a strange creature #part 1/3

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k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9 · 1 year

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Weird Worlds 5 (Apr-May 1973)

#Weird Worlds 5 #Weird Worlds #5 #1973 #70's #70s #comics #vintage comics #cover art #magazine #vintage #tarzan #battle #gladiador #gladiator #art #artwork #painting #vintage pulp art

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cgbcomics · 7 months

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#weird worlds #john carter #David innes #edgar rice burroughs #pellucidar #dc comics #70s comics

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weirdlookindog · 9 months

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Weird Worlds Vol.2 #2 - Eerie Publications, April 1971. Cover art by Johnny Bruck.

#weird worlds #johnny bruck #eerie publications #sci fi art #horror comics #sci fi horror #horror art

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chernobog13 · 3 months

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Splash page for the John Carter of Mars feature in Weird Worlds (vol. 1) #1 (September, 1972). Written by Marv Wolfman, art by Murphy Anderson.

DC Comics attained the license to many of Edgar Rice Burroughs' characters in 1972. The company immediately took over the long-running Tarzan and Korak, Son of Tarzan comics books from Gold Key Comics, and kept the numbering.

The John Carter serial began in Tarzan #207, the first DC issue. Because DC's deal with ERB Inc. called for additional comic books featuring Burroughs' characters, Weird Worlds was created. John Carter was imported into the new book, along with a David Innes/Pellucidar serial that had run as a back-up feature in Korak.

That's why Weird Worlds #1 did not feature the first chapter of either serial.

#John Carter of Mars #Dejah Thoris #Thark #green man of Mars #Barsoom #Mars #Edgar Rice Burroughs #Weird Worlds #DC Comics #Marv Wolfman #Murphy Anderson

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browsethestacks · 1 year

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5 Random Comics

#Comics #5 Random #5 Random Comics #Whiz Comics #Strange Adventures #Weird Worlds #Swing With Scooter #Samurai Squirrel #DC Comics #DC #Fawcett Comics #Fawcett #Vintage #Art

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fandomsandfeminism · 11 months

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Yall wanna hear a kinda funny, kinda sad story about my grandmother and hetero-normativity?

Ok, so... when my grandmother was in her 50s (I was an infant), she met a woman at the Unitarian Church. And, as can happen when you meet your soul mate, this event made it impossible for her to deny parts of herself that she had fiercely hidden her whole life.

All the drama- their affair being found out, the divorce with my grandfather, the court battle over who got the house, happened while I was a baby. Even in my earliest memories, it's just Mama Jo and Oma, and my grandfather lived elsewhere (first his own apartment, then a nursing home, then with us.)

But here's the thing- no one ever explained any of this to me. No one ever sat down and was like "hey, Rosie, so do you know what a lesbian is?" It was the 90s. It was Texas. I think my mom was still kinda processing all this, and just assumed that like... I was gonna figure it out. Don't mention it, let it just be normal. Like I think my mom thought that if she explained the situation, she would be making it weird? I dunno.

But like. In the 90s, in all the movies I had seen and books I had read, do you know how many same sex couples I had seen? Like. 0. Do you know how many "platonic best friend/roommates" I had seen? A lot. I had no context, is what I'm saying.

I literally thought this was a Golden Girls, roommates, besties situation until I was like...I dunno, 11? 12?

It was actually their parrot, an African Grey named Spike, imitating my grandmothers voice saying "Johanna, honey, it's getting late", that triggered the MIND BLOWN moment as I realized that *there's only one master bedroom and it only has 1 waterbed* when all the pieces finally clicked.

Anyway. I think it's a real important thing for kids to know queer people exist, for a lot of reasons, but also because kids can be clueless and it's embarrassing to have your grandmother be outted by a parrot because everyone just thought you'd figure it out on your own.

Anyway, here is my grandma and her wife, my Oma, after they moved to Albuquerque to be artsy gay cowboys and live their best life. They helped run a "Lesbian Dude Ranch" out there (basically just with funding and financial support. As Oma has explained "traditionally, most lesbians don't have a lot of money" so they wrote the checks and let the younger ladies actually run the ranch.)

#this is the grandmother who passed away unexpectedly earlier this month #she was so cool yall #and so weird #they got married twice by the way once when Massachusetts legalized it and once when New Mexico did #they hiked the grand canyon together #they had a european river cruise planned for this fall #she was 89 and she wanted to see the whole world with her wife #and they were working on it #literally i thought they were roommates #and there was only one bed

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davidlundesanchez · 6 months

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repostober day 27: under the weather comics from may 2018.

read more at http://undertheweathercomics.tumblr.com

#repostober #creatures #weird worlds #comics #comix #weird comix

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tomoleary · 7 months

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Michael Kaluta and Joe Orlando - Weird Worlds #4

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“Jubal the Ugly One (DC, 1973). Fan-favorite writer Denny O'Neil turned out some fantastic scripts for DC comics and was instrumental in the switch from Silver Age to Bronze Age for the company with his revitalization of Wonder Woman, and Green Lantern/Green Arrow. This series was presented by Tarzan on the cover to bring those readers to these works adapted from other Edgar Rice Burroughs stories. This O'Neil penned story is adapted from the Pellucidar story "At the Earth's Core" by ERB.”

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Added: the scripted page, as pencilled and inked by Kaluta.

#michael kaluta #joe orlando #Weird Worlds #edgar rice burroughs #David innes

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stuckinapril · 4 months

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friend wanted to see my tumblr, and when i told him i can’t show it to him bc it’s basically my personal diary he went “oh so I can’t see it but a bunch of strangers on tumblr can??” he literally does not get me. no one will get me like the people in my phone get me

#It’s just so different #even though it’s public it still feels secret and safe. i feel comfy sharing a lot more on here than I do in my actual day to day life lol #in my head I’m also just speaking to myself 90% of the time which helps #if a friend off tumblr saw my thoughts I’d feel so weird ab it #esp bc they might get the vagueposting about certain situations and tell mutual friends #no thank u. this is for me. I’m not about to start censoring my thoughts bc someone I know knows my tumblr #u guys literally saw me have LIVE BREAKDOWNS #meanwhile I’ll have the worst fucking day in history and tell no one about it. I’m already cripplingly private but way more so in real life #this is basically a low stress journaling outlet for me. it’s so important for me to maintain the separation #like this is actually my diary & has been so handy for letting out emotions / articulating thoughts / staying on track !!#& I’ve met so many kind people on here who actually get me. which is so hard to find irl bc I’m surrounded by pre-med gunners/overachievers #who are by standard not very good w emotion & can be competitive/judgmental. or at least it’s hard for me to be vulnerable in front of them #and I’m part of that crowd so I reserve my emotions only to a handful of very close friends #it’s nice to hop on here and express negative emotions!! or positive emotions!! just whatever I want and it’s low stress and people get me #I don’t have to worry about judgment or competitiveness etc etc #like everyone on here is so kind & nice & understanding. & just a breath of fresh air from the types I run w. it’s just nice to have this #so idk that’s why I think I’ll always be strict about keeping the worlds separate. it just works #p

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mxcrayon · 4 months

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losing my actual mind rn

i had this interaction in the dropout discord (i am the first and third person). short. simple. i only got the first year bc of a discount + a gift card i had, so i was planning on using this person's suggestion.

then, i got this.

oh my god!! how nice!! how sweet!!! how thoughtful!! i gave them my email and they sent over a subscription, i thanked them profusely. i was very grateful, very touched.

hours and hours later i was still thinking about it and i recalled how, in the email id gotten about it, it said "tao yang sent you a subscription" and id seen that and thought "oh haha like the tao yang" and then moved on

but now, thinking back, i was like.... theres no way, so i googled tao yang.