Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 31mBut the thing is, like much of why EP has a weirdly good community, that’s achievable, and on an individual level. It’s not social media or tech companies creating the toxic spaces Davies describes. It’s small to medium fan communities that could decide to be better, healthier places. 0120
Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 31mMy main take is about the leaking, because the EP server had a very active spoilers channel. And I don’t think it harmed any of our enjoyments. But we also had a strong ethos, which came from the top (hi) that you couldn’t tell if something would work from a leak. 170
Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 23hI do not think Digger was ever going to work at its apparent budget, no. 000
Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 02/10/2026Suppose I ought to link my contribution to redressing the balance. www.amazon.com/Last-War-Alb... 0190
Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 02/10/2026Yeah, I’m a little bit counting comics writers who learned the wrong lessons from it as bad criticism. 2230
Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 02/10/2026Yeah, I think what’s key is that literally everyone involved in the medium took the wrong lessons from it. 270
Reposted by Elizabeth SandiferFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 01/10/2026I just got Neoreaction a Basilisk in the mail (by @eruditorumpress.com ) - also looking forward to reading this! 1353
Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 01/10/2026It’s banal and useless to point out the hypocrisy of American conservatism. Nevertheless, every justification I have ever been given for capital punishment is predicated on the firm commitment that things like this won’t happen. Monstrous. Shameful. Raze the prisons to the ground. 0286
Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 01/10/2026Yeah. Oates is not the only person to underestimate the genre. 000
Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 01/10/2026I don’t think that equates to AI being satisfying to readers in those genres. 120
Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 01/10/2026Fucking art. n.b. Art can be completely wrong about everything and still be art. 5322
Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 30/09/2026I reckon it’s the one that spawned multiple sequel ads. 5191
Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 30/09/2026Gods I hate when my town is in the news. Literally always awful. 0181
Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 28/09/2026Last War in Albion is about comics in much the same way The Wire is about policing. Which is to say it uses comics as a panopticon through which a far larger thing can be seen with clarity: the terrible birth of the 21st century. 04013
Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 28/09/2026You are, on the whole, lucky. Though tbh, I can’t really imagine the circumstances that would have me rewatching his two episodes either at this point. 050
Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 28/09/2026Replacing an actress I’ll watch in basically anything so long as she gets to play it in her native accent with an actor I basically won’t watch unless he’s in Doctor Who and I have to. 2392
Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 28/09/2026I accidentally looked at the snail so am reposting this. 092
Reposted by Elizabeth Sandifernn @abigailnicole.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I’m really enjoying Neoreaction a Basilisk by @eruditorumpress.com, which is extremely funny when I was prepared to be just in despair, and also about this set of horrible people 2389
Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 27/09/2026My favorite is when I had 2000 words on Usenet-era trans erotica, and cut the cliffhangers so that the post had literally not a single mention of comics. 010
Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 26/09/2026Last War in Albion is very much a festival of ADHD, at once ludicrously hyperfocused and comically distractable. An inversion of the old Fitzgerald quote, it never lets itself be bored and trusts that it will thus never be boring. www.amazon.com/Last-War-Alb... 1198
Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 26/09/2026Thank you. The digressions are, for me, an absolutely core part of the project. I couldn’t do it if I were just writing about comics. Like the War, the project is about the world those comics exist in. 120
Reposted by Elizabeth SandiferPaul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This terrific piece about Gillian Welch & David Rawlings' masterwork Time (The Revelator) by @eruditorumpress.com is well worth your attention: www.patreon.com/elizabethsan... 1161
Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 25/09/2026New career goal: get condemned by name at the UN. 0377
Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 24/09/2026It's an absolutely incredible piece of work, and getting to really dive into it has long been my planned reward for finishing Last War in Albion v4. 010
Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 24/09/2026I've been promising an essay nobody was asking for, and I'm pleased to announce that Patrons now have nearly 10,000 words on Gillian Welch and David Rawling's classic album Time (The Revelator), just like they didn't especially want. www.patreon.com/elizabethsan...patreon.comThe Revelation of Gillian Welch and David Rawlings | Elizabeth Sandifer and PennAs promised, an essay absolutely nobody was asking for. This'll be Patreon exclusive at least to November—I'm thinking a Thanksgiving drop o 1201
Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 24/09/2026If you're a big fan of epilogues, btw, this is the book for you. Good luck finding another one where the epilogue is nearly 30% of the whole book. 0221
Reposted by Elizabeth Sandifernina splendorr 🌻🏳️⚧️ @splendorr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I have received both volumes, and 30 pages into the first, I can only say that I’m positively vibrating with enjoyment! Already followed several tangents out of enflamed curiosity. THIS IS VERY GOOD WRITING 121
Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 22/09/2026I wouldn't describe it as shock so much as anger. I'm quite used to their shit on this front. The main reason it doesn't come up in that essay is that I'd already dealt with it in my earlier book Neoreaction a Basilisk. 030
Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 22/09/2026I think a lot of it is whether we’re considering Fleetwood Mac as just Rumours and “Landslide,” or their whole discography. Like, how much you factor Tusk in changes your sense of the band a lot. 050
Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 22/09/2026Less obvious things covered in The Watchmen Bomb: *The life and career of Deborah Delano, a lesbian novelist from Northampton *The influence of Scientology on the magic of William S. Burroughs *A brief history of weird horniness in superhero comics *William Blake. So much William Blake. 1255
Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 21/09/2026Oh, yeah, cause Harris would have magically succeeded where Biden failed despite the fact that she cared so little about the issue she blocked any Palestinian speakers from the convention. 🙄 000
Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 21/09/2026It's not frustrating. He sold us out in the face of an active genocide campaign for votes he's not even going to get. The fact that the value of denying Rs a red state Senate seat for 6 years is high enough to make voting for him still worth considering does not detract from just how bad that is. 110
Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 21/09/2026This strikes where I roughly am in practice on Talarico. Probably, when push comes to shove, trans people who are voting should vote for him. But we shouldn't lift a finger to campaign for him, and should use our voices to highlight that he sucks, then quietly and invisibly pull the lever anyway. 2262
Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 21/09/2026That feels more last day of spring, lyrically. 110