Oh, so that's what that knob is for on the sewing machine
New blog post just dropped! If you wanna know more about the São Paulo's Pride Parade - the biggest of the world - check my last post:
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WashU and Vanderbilt AAUP chapters have issued a *joint* statement on the "State of Scholarship in the Humanities" report commissioned by our university leadership. bpb-us-e2.wpmucdn.com/sites.wustl....
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In the first issue of Small Planet: The #SFinTranslation Magazine, @jess6k.bsky.social offers us three upcoming books to get excited about, translated from the Japanese, German, and French:
My state senator said trans rights are a losing issue. And her voters had no choice but to accept her stance.
Months of bad optics later, she didn’t run for reelection after all. My state rep is up for her seat.
So Bentley will probably be my state rep in 2027.
Trans rights can win.
Visible skill: writing good dialogue for a comic
Invisible skill: writing good dialogue that’s 1) succinct & uses words short enough to fit inside speech bubbles, 2) in few enough bubbles that won’t cover up the art too much, 3) leads the eye thru the art and 4) still makes complete narrative sense
Phillip Maciak
Both versions of the untranslated action RPG based on Pili's beautiful puppet-acted movie Legend of the Sacred Stone are covered here: mechanics, changes, comparison screenshots, general enthusiasm, and even a few cheats! Cheats! Remember those?
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New on Patreon: 🌈 We're celebrating Pride Season with William Haines! 🌈
This post takes a long look at the queerness of William Haines's films and celebrates a man refused to play the straight game, even when he was in straight movies.
FREE for everyone to read!!
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Rachel Cordasco
really enjoyed getting to soapbox about criticism and chat with some cool folks here:
Alison Fincher
I am delighted to announce the launch of Arcane Oblong Editorial and Design ✨
We are a small group of freelance book editors and designers who can work on your manuscript from the first page to galley proof stage—and now we're open for business! For more, please see our website:
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This 2000 PC game sticks close to the look, feel, and plot of the Taiwanese movie of the same name—so much so that it opens with an action sequence pulled directly from the film. Even though the te…
I've been thinking a lot about visible vs invisible skill layers. i.e every craft has outer layers of skills that laypeople can recognise, and inner layers that you need expertise and experience to perceive at all. Could y'all think of examples of visible vs invisible skills in your own discipline?
