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jcw3 (John)

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Leftist. Comic geek. Superhero movies should all be animated. 26. He/Him.

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jcw3 (John) @jcw3.bsky.social · 2h
Hippolyta is, when not written by rabid misogynists, normally one who rules with the enthusiastic consent of her subjects and speaks on functionally equal terms with almost all of them. She exerts considerable authority, sure. (I also saw someone saying Diana would be transphobic - go to hell lmfao)
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Lee Kelly @leepkelly.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
God. Just rewatching the end of “Sleeping In Light” again and it occurs to me, only one person in this elevator is still with us. 😢 #Babylon5
L to R: Jeff Conaway (1950-2011) as Zack Allen; Mira Furlan (1955-2011); Claudia Christian (1965-) as Susan Ivanova; Stephen Furst (1954-2017) as Vir; Richard Biggs (1960-2004) as Stephen Franklin; Jerry Doyle (1956-2016) as Michael Garibaldi.
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jcw3 (John) @jcw3.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Dude I listen to the country station on my way to work all the time and *I've* never heard this song before.
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jcw3 (John) @jcw3.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Google removed their quick temperature widget and replaced it with the AI search thing. I hate modernity.
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Polls are so cool I wish they were real.
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jcw3 (John) @jcw3.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A tokusatsu Claymore adaptation with the ethos of Garo's Saejimaverse would go so hard.
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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.
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🎃 Agent Pumpkin 🎃 @agentpumpkin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Shadow. #ukb5Watch
3d Shadow from Babylon 5 by MathiaArkoniel
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jcw3 (John) @jcw3.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Man I picked a good time to get into B5.
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J. Michael Straczynski @straczynski.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A while ago I mentioned that Bruce Boxleitner and I were helping Warners with the launch of their Babylon 5 YouTube channel. As part of that, the first of three brand new half-hour-plus interviews/discussions between me and Bruce will go online on Monday. www.youtube.com/@Babylon5
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Babylon 5
You’ve arrived at Babylon 5, the last, best hope for peace. A neutral station standing at the crossroads of galactic powers, where ambassadors, soldiers, traders, and dreamers all have a stake in the ...
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Micah @rincewind.run · 17/09/2026
this is a stupid decision by Hasan if he actually cares about getting the people he supports elected you can think this is true and you can still consider optics enough not to go on “the Axios show” and make sure AES gets to spend the whole next week being asked about it at every event
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jcw3 (John) @jcw3.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The Absolute Cassandra Cain one-shot kicked so much ass. Wish we could get a whole series about the League.
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Lots of people think Taylor Lorenz is paid off by social media but I think the relationship is closer to a Chaos cultist: she worships Phone, works tirelessly to spread the influence of Phone and weaken the veil between the real world and it’s domain, and in exchange she is given boons by it.
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Ian Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Me: so these crates are a bit heavy. Can you, you know, do your thing? Bruce Boxleitner: what
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jcw3 (John) @jcw3.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Marjorie Monaghan might have made a pretty good Samus in a live action 90s Metroid adaptation. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjori...
Screenshot from television show, tall blonde woman speaking to two men who are shorter than her. Subtitled dialogue reads 'She's okay', followed directly by 'All right.'
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jcw3 (John) @jcw3.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Whoa, I didn't know Punch and Jewelee were Charlton originals!
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jcw3 (John) @jcw3.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Reading the new Witchblade/Vampirella crossover really reinforces for me how important it is that Vampirella be a very weird vampire-adjacent thing rather than a traditional vampire herself. She needs to be a vampire-ish alien to work.
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Doc Benway @docbenway.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Does this mean I should buy or sell?
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jcw3 (John) @jcw3.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Had never seen this before - I'd recognize Cory Walker's stars anywhere!
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Charlatanposting @questionposting.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I want to give tribute to Will Murray, pulp writer and historian. His contributions to the preservation and analysis of pulp characters cannot be overstated. He helped with the efforts to reprint Doc Savage for decades. He extensively interviewed Walter B. Gibson, creator of The Shadow.
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dave wagner @davewagner.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
pacific rim is a really good movie and i'm tired of people pretending it isn't
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I like how in the Devil Goes Down to Georgia there isn't even a judge, the Devil is just like 'well absolutely fair kid you are a better fiddle player than me, don't know what I was thinking'
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Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
RIP to a legend
rob dubbin @robdubbin

MY MAN: (comes home)
ME: (nervous) how was the store
MY MAN: fine
ME: oh thank g-
MY MAN: ran into jolene
ME: oh no
MY MAN: she mentioned you left kind of an intense voicemail

12:50 AM • Jul 29, 2019
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Guy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
I concede that on one level the ‘Gulf of America’ idiocy is just a toddler screaming in his sandbox. On another, I wrote a novel 35 years ago, TIGANA, about how tyrants erase (or try to) names, history, art to consolidate their control of people. So, it matters. Symbols do. So does acquiescence.
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Katie West @katiewest.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
My thoughts on Image publishing a new Warren Ellis book.
I have spent the day re-reading the entirety of SoManyOfUs.com, including every testimonial. I’ve also re-read dozens of documents and communications from the transformative justice action SMOU-TJ and Warren Ellis started. I wanted to remember the hope I held at that time. I also wanted to see if I could approach this moment with gratitude instead of anger. 
To believe in transformative justice is to believe people capable of change. But, as our mediator said during the process, “transformation is heartbreak.” It is crushing and painful, but it is also our right as human beings. I haven’t spoken to Warren Ellis in over 6 years. I don’t know who he is now. I don’t know how he’s changed, but I’m sure he has. I know Warren read all of SoManyOfUs.com and I can’t imagine an outcome where doing so doesn’t change you. But, as Kai Cheng Thom says, “Change is inevitable, growth is optional.” I was often sad that Warren, when confronted with the consequences of his actions, didn’t react in the way I expected him to. But I am grateful it led to me untangling 15 years of complicated feelings and hurtful actions.
I’m grateful that I believe we can change and hold ourselves accountable in this world. But, quoting our mediator again, “being called to accountability feels like being reminded that your shit stinks. and coming clean is hard to do.” It can feel impossible to look in the mirror and confront the worst version of ourselves. Without having the necessary support systems in place to make it possible, I don’t blame or fault anyone for not being able to do it.
We all tried our best. When our attempt at a community accountability action failed, I was disappointed, but grateful that we tried.  And grateful to know that Warren had tried, too.
I currently work as an editor in comics, with books I work on being published by Image. I love comics. I love the comics community and how we all keep making them despite it being so hard, with no financial security, and no safety nets. I see groups within the community doing so much good and fighting hard to make the industry more sustainable and safer for everyone involved. 
But there is no set process for anyone in the comics community to account for our actions and change our behaviour after harm or abuse has happened. This has led many people to be forced out of the industry – victims, perpetrators, and witnesses. My heart hurts for all the people who were bullied, ostracized, shunned, or threatened out of this community, particularly those I spoke to back in June and July of 2020, impacted by Warren’s actions. I hope one day this changes. 
I’m grateful to everyone who was wondered if Warren has “made amends to the satisfaction of all involved.” It shows me solidarity and care are widespread within comics. I wouldn’t say I’m satisfied, but I also would say I am no longer personally invested in Warren’s transformation. 
I am personally invested in the books I work on that come out with Image, and I really hope you don’t take any disappointment you feel in Image’s actions out on the creators whose work they publish. Seeing people boycotting Image comics feels a cruel joke when that directly affects my livelihood and that of the people who respect and support me. But I get it – this seems like a financial decision from Image, so respond in a financial fashion. I hope we can all keep ourselves open to change in the future. 
My resolve to expand my capacity to hope for change – after a night of anger and crying and shouting – is renewed. Thanks for hearing me out and for reading all of this.
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Is there another war we can start or something? I need to get Natalie Harp out of the news before I see any more of this
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Daryl Surat @darylsurat.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Asian action genres like tokusatsu, kaiju, martial arts are seen as "cheap" "low budget" genres (they are)! But even a multibillion company falters at "doing it themselves" because what enables these productions isn't a quantifiable resource you can put on an Excel spreadsheet, but "skill" & "craft"
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jcw3 (John) @jcw3.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
One of my crank opinions that I've begun holding with more and more conviction as I age is: Child actors should be completely banned. If you want to use kids in your media, you have to do an animated product with adult VAs. Tough shit otherwise.
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
We're still three months away from the elections and we've already given up on winning them and moved onto the important work of sabotaging our factional rivals and blaming them for the results.
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jcw3 (John) @jcw3.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
SHE GOT OUTWOKED BY JOHN MCCAIN
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jcw3 (John) @jcw3.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I can't believe Trump couldn't even make us vassals to the Narn or the Centauri or the Minbari. We have to settle for the Vree.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 28/07/2026
only donald trump could deliver the eulogy graham deserves
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Fio Fiorello @fiofiorello.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
We were poor growing up so we had to buy abridged manga. I only got to read The Gist of The North Star
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jcw3 (John) @jcw3.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Since bluesky has an age verification thing going on now, I'll be using it less now - I have a VPN but don't really want to have to use it, if that makes sense.
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jcw3 (John) @jcw3.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
ANNO №189 94🎯 94🎯 76⭐ 83⭐ 91🎯 Total: 438/500 anno-game.netlify.app
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ANNO — A Daily History Game
A daily history game: guess the year of five historical events. New puzzle every day.
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finrodsauronverynsfwprivatefolderdonotlook @yungdreyfusard.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
learning the guy in this video is an anti-corruption activist doing a bit has made it kinda perfect to me. like. hes in on the joke. what more could you ask for
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chelsea bridge @secretaboutbox.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
"surely the only thing we're gonna find out about the nazi tattoo guy is the nazi tattoo," said every abject dipshit in the party
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 07/07/2026
I’m sorry but it is truly divine that the pedophile president touched the winning national team and they immediately lost
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Kurt Busiek @kurtbusiek.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
If Platner quits the race, I hope the Maine Democratic Party, which can replace him on the ballot, understands that the voters of Maine aren't looking for another Janet Mills. They want a fighter from the left wing of the party. Just not a Nazis-are-cool rapist.
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Platner Will Take Time to ‘Reflect’ on Campaign After Sexual Assault Accusation
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Djinn & Tonic @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
there's a noosphere, and it's deeply degraded and disturbed. strange and vicious thoughtforms are manifesting in the world.
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jcw3 (John) @jcw3.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
You are his political adversaries. Stop making him look likable and relatable
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Oh excellent, American children these days are far too coddled and cosseted, some traumatization will do well to prepare them for the coming century.
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Kotu @kingoftheu.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
This is a boomer complaint I have about the internet. The entire works of Shakespeare are available for free. You can read Moby Dick on Wikipedia. Even more is available if you’re willing to pirate. But no, we don’t do this.
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jcw3 (John) @jcw3.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
They didn't sacrifice him, the NRSC very quietly went back to funding him the second nobody was paying attention.
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jcw3 (John) @jcw3.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
If TV Tropes wants to run ads on their site, the least they could do is pick ones that don't make the page massively laggy.
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jcw3 (John) @jcw3.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
I watched Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (2001). Godzilla as a metaphor for both the nuclear bomb and the wartime atrocities of the Japanese Empire coming home to roost is one of the most Dark Woke concepts ever created
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Thunder @thunderafterdark.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
whenever i see people gloat about how they "don't use references" for art i just think about this bit from sam and max
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Ela Bambust 🏳️‍⚧️ (alleged transsexual) @ela-bambust.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
“Why doesn’t Batman just fund Gotham welfare programs instead of beating up the poor” Because Gotham has • corpse of an elder god • living elder god • Is built onto a cursed Native burial ground • portal to hell that’s a little open • portal to the afterlife that’s a little open • over 100 gangs
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jcw3 (John) @jcw3.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
unfortunately, talarico talked once about how god is beyond gender or something, so he will be losing by 18%
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Robert Heinze @rheinze.myatproto.social · 24/05/2026
Someone hasn’t watched the Juliette Lewis classic „Strange Days“
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