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Jennifer M. Smith

@jenmargretsmith.bsky.social
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Freelance comic book editor (MONSTRESS, TWO GRAVES, MOTOR CRUSH). Formerly: Marvel X-Men office, UW-Madison Media and Cultural Studies program. NJ girl in a WI world. She/her.

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Jennifer M. Smith @jenmargretsmith.bsky.social · 6h
My brother visited his late wife's grave for her birthday today and found 10 years of decorations gone, as a result of a policy they came up with in the past year and didn't enforce until now.
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Jennifer M. Smith @jenmargretsmith.bsky.social · 8h
The target of my rage today: cemeteries that behave like an HOA, policing the visual expression of people's grief with rules that change years after a person was buried. Let mourners decorate!
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Jodie Troutman @longtalljodie.com · 03/10/2026
Okay. So here's what I know - I lost my day job. - I hated my day job. - I liked having a lot of money and health insurance. - But a lot of money never made me happier, I just owned more stuff. - I do still need health insurance. - I'm really fucking good at lettering comic books.
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Jennifer M. Smith @jenmargretsmith.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Welp, I guess there ISN'T hope for us all.
A yellow sticker with a burgundy sketch of Catherine Parr in front of roses. It reads "If Catherine Parr can survive Henry the XIII there is hope for us all." That 13 is their typo, not mine.
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Jennifer M. Smith @jenmargretsmith.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I'm at a Pennsylvania brewery that makes a Czech amber lager called Jaromir Lagr.
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Jennifer M. Smith @jenmargretsmith.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Boarding a plane to head to my BFF's bachelorette weekend at the Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire!
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Jennifer M. Smith @jenmargretsmith.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Listening to the new Taylor Swift songs. Patient Zero is my favorite so far; it's her Tango: Maureen.
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Jennifer M. Smith @jenmargretsmith.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
You probably won't like today's episode!
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Jennifer M. Smith @jenmargretsmith.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I've really liked everything with Alice and the new team -- and even Ted himself -- but I'm officially at the point of pretend everything else in this season of Ted Lasso is not canon.
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Jennifer M. Smith @jenmargretsmith.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Honestly this is the #1 reason I stopped using Facebook, because that's how my mom posts. Daily. And I just...can't bear seeing it.
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Jennifer M. Smith @jenmargretsmith.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
For what it's worth, I found your podcast incredibly valuable as a piece of TV historiography and analysis. If I was still teaching college-level classes about TV, I absolutely would have put an episode or two on my syllabus. Your hard work did not go unnoticed!
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Jennifer M. Smith @jenmargretsmith.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I understand the EU wants Canada to be an associate member, but no one is answering the real question: are they a Logan or a Shannon?
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Jennifer M. Smith @jenmargretsmith.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Shout out to Wisconsin for making it EXTREMELY easy for me to look up every vaccine I've ever gotten in this state so I can remember when I had my last doses.
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Jennifer M. Smith @jenmargretsmith.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I liked it! The 90s-typical sexism wasn't ideal but I felt it held up otherwise.
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Jennifer M. Smith @jenmargretsmith.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
General vibes of the setup -- lawyer who always settles realizes a case is actually important and he has to get into the courtroom and face another lawyer he knows.
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Jennifer M. Smith @jenmargretsmith.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Also I discovered my roommate is faceblind enough that she thought John Cena was Jon Hamm.
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Jennifer M. Smith @jenmargretsmith.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I saw A Few Good Men for the first time recently while flipping channels at a hotel. I did not expect it to be useful homework for Coyote vs. Acme.
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Jennifer M. Smith @jenmargretsmith.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If anyone can help my friend Julia -- either monetarily or with leads for housing or employment in Baltimore -- I would really appreciate it.
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Jennifer M. Smith @jenmargretsmith.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I've seen it go wrong more often than not. Best to avoid if at all possible.
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Jennifer M. Smith @jenmargretsmith.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Yesss, all of this.
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Jennifer M. Smith @jenmargretsmith.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This one (which I think I've taken before) gave me Newark, NJ as the closest city, which is fair enough! It's about a half hour away from my hometown and probably the smallest close city on their list.
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Jennifer M. Smith @jenmargretsmith.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Mischief Night is always the biggest giveaway but the flat "ah" in Florida(/orange) comes close. (However, the fact that I match 57% Philly and 57% New York is yet more evidence that Central Jersey is, indeed, its own thing.)
A map of the US showing that my dialect is very clearly New Jersey -- with 63% similar responses.
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Jennifer M. Smith @jenmargretsmith.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I love the appearances of all of the older queer characters of various levels of obscurity, some of whom I only know about because of @jessplummerwrites.bsky.social's Queer Superhero History newsletter series.
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Jennifer M. Smith @jenmargretsmith.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I'm going to spend my evening finally reading the Dream Girls DC Pride special.
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Jennifer M. Smith @jenmargretsmith.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
It's been a few years and everyone is still kind of bewildered about it.
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Jennifer M. Smith @jenmargretsmith.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Unfortunately...
hollywoodreporter.com
‘Criminal’ Showrunner Ed Brubaker, Amazon MGM Sued for Hostile Work Environment by Production Assistant
Ijaaz Noohu accuses the comic book powerhouse of sexual and racial harassment and assault, among several other claims.
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Jennifer M. Smith @jenmargretsmith.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Kayaking on the lake on a gorgeous Wisconsin evening.
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Jennifer M. Smith @jenmargretsmith.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
It's very annoying!
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Jennifer M. Smith @jenmargretsmith.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I'm not conspiratorial but I am frustrated at so much thoughtlessness. This reference in particular just relies on lazy cultural shorthand when even I'm the context of its own scene it's made clear it could be substituted with something else. (Avoiding spoilers.)
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Jennifer M. Smith @jenmargretsmith.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Really, Ted Lasso? An extended Harry Potter metaphor in 2026? On a show with several non-binary cast members?
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Jennifer M. Smith @jenmargretsmith.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Counterpoint.
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Jennifer M. Smith @jenmargretsmith.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Polish chickens are just the best.
A black chicken in a cage with an Einstein-evoking mop of white feathers on its head.
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Jennifer M. Smith @jenmargretsmith.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Longer than William Henry Harrison!
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Jennifer M. Smith @jenmargretsmith.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Tomatillo Demogorgon is my new band name.
Tomatillos tucked into the tops of beer bottles on a state fair table. Their papery casings are hoping up in such a way that they look exactly like the Stranger Things demogorgon.
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Jennifer M. Smith @jenmargretsmith.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Each car is a president. We could have gotten a better one but we were so relieved it wasn't worse.
The America 250 Ferris Wheel, rising high above the Wisconsin State Fair.
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Jennifer M. Smith @jenmargretsmith.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I am, for some reason, riding the America 250 wheel at the Wisconsin State Fair. We got the Gerald Ford car. But I was promised 10 minutes of presidential facts, and it was 3 sentences!
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
👇🎯 I don't think folks outside of Wisconsin fully grasp how monumental this would be as the culmination of 16 years of slow, hard work to reverse the Fidesz-on-Mendota Party's total control of the state government & the massive damage of the Scott Walker years.
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ribbonknight @ribbonknight.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Crowley is pretty “Left” himself, and the suggestion that he was vastly more moderate than Hong is inaccurate, imo. Hong winning this many votes in fucking Wisconsin is impressive. It’s ALL impressive, though!! A Black gubernatorial Democratic candidate in Wisconsin? That is exciting, period.
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Jennifer M. Smith @jenmargretsmith.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I'll admit, it does feel a little weird that both leading Dem candidates for WI governor are younger than me (one by just a couple weeks, but still).
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Jennifer M. Smith @jenmargretsmith.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Honestly I wasn't 100% sure about my vote (my heart, or "electability"?), but then I read Crowley's answer in a Q&A where he supported teaching AI to kids, and that sealed the deal for me voting for Hong.
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Jennifer M. Smith @jenmargretsmith.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Heading to the polls to vote in the Wisconsin primary!
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Jennifer M. Smith @jenmargretsmith.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
That scene is actually WHY no one else has been allowed to do it since!
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Jennifer M. Smith @jenmargretsmith.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Caught up on both X-Men 97 and the new Ted Lasso. The former was a strong episode in a very uneven season. The latter I tentatively liked enough to continue, even though I'm among the few who genuinely liked how the series originally ended, especially for Ted himself.
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Jennifer M. Smith @jenmargretsmith.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
In that same era, in Wolverine: MAX (the line that allowed extreme violence), we weren't even allowed to imply that a (heterosexual!) couple was having anal intercourse.
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Jennifer M. Smith @jenmargretsmith.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I think Girl Scouts is an amazing and vital organization and great for most girls, even though I despised camping and always hated 50% or more of my troop (before I reached Seniors and the mean girls quit and it was finally just me and my friends).
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Jennifer M. Smith @jenmargretsmith.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I'm reading the new "fan edition" BSC book (and loving it to bits), and I truly appreciate that whoever is writing Stacey just had her say "let's get on line" about a line at a carnival, like a true NYC kid.
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Jennifer M. Smith @jenmargretsmith.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Lolol, yes, amazing.
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Jennifer M. Smith @jenmargretsmith.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Am I the only one who, when that guy showed up at the party in #brandnewday, immediately assumed he was Ned's boyfriend?
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Jennifer M. Smith @jenmargretsmith.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
It's today! We braved the rain!
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Jennifer M. Smith @jenmargretsmith.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Did I go to the National Mustard Day festival and blow money on mustard-themed carnival games while getting absolutely soaked by rain? Absolutely.
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