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ASH& @ashandpod.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

NAIL CLUB! @alsopurp.bsky.social back with brand new guest @blackgaycomicgeek.bsky.social and we're talking Healing Factors, hated colleagues, adamantium closets, and why you never go DOWN when you're trapped in a facility with body-snatching aliens. pod.fo/e/565dfe

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ASH& @ashandpod.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

And the fact she picks up on Horse Girl as the lazy moniker that needs correcting and not Manga Kid kinda feels like the dynamic I didn't want to engage with, that misogyny (particularly aimed at white women) would be confronted while ignoring quite obvious racial insensitivity

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ASH& @ashandpod.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

After those very damning pages the step-change is too quick, they fall into this weird unearned deference, which is egregious after the last pages. And ofc Ransom coulda Gone Bad 🙄 the whole Rogue so HOT feels cheapest here. The X-Men are very weird to Ransom and idk why

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ASH& @ashandpod.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

This is still v bad. These pages are a playbook in justifying violence against Black men. Within 5 panels of his intro Ransom's been intimidated, mis-framed as a threat, shot, attacked most and most graphically then everyone moves on cos harming him's not important. USA indeed

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ASH& @ashandpod.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I need them to explain why they turn up fully costumed, lmaooo. I may be 16 in the middle of Miami, on the run and fearing for my life but I DON'T have to be chopped in these woods. Where did Jitter get the olympic bobsled gear?

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ASH& @ashandpod.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

This is very very sad. Another WOC, narratively condemned in a diff way. Even if you plead you're One Of The Good Ones, death comes anyway. Even when it falls on deaf ears because the appeals assume a human attacker, which clearly isn't the case. Interesting set-up + I love CLAWS

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ASH& @ashandpod.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I'll wait until I get further in the book before I give thoughts on Warden Ellis and making the face of mutant hatred a WOC. I'd like to know why Gail chose that now, given the v right-wing moment. It joins Brand New Day in that respect and as Yaya says...optics.

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ASH& @ashandpod.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Feels intuitive, why would an evil creature not go for the lowest blows? The idea that a dragon would call you slurs is crazy, but it does make it conspicuous that Jubilee's harassment (implied to be misogyny AND sinophobia) aren't called out with similar clarity.

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ASH& @ashandpod.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

There's a constant hum of misogyny: Warden Ellis not being titled, Jubilee heckled, Uva (the mutant in the cafe) attacked for her looks. Then the dragon, who calls the men Dog and Thief (relevant) but generates multiple sexual insults for Rogue.

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ASH& @ashandpod.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I LOVE the way Jubilee's powers are being developed visually, and the moment she's having generally atm (if you're not reading her solo, do, it's one of the highlights of this era). Between 97, this and her solo it's really her season, and I love her position with new gens.

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ASH& @ashandpod.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

This is a beautiful little exchange about apologia, and about how assimilation isn't a neutral thing. It's shouldering contempt, and it's harder for some than others.

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ASH& @ashandpod.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Doing a big re-read of Gail's Uncanny because I missed some middle issues and now Monet is in the mix fr I'd like to involve. Coming back with more comic-agnostic eyes, interested to see whether/how much post-Krakoa coloured my vision on this one.

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ASH& @ashandpod.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Akasha listening to that white man blame her for everything

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ASH& @ashandpod.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

24hrs later and I love it still. Never dropped below an 8/10. Managed to have a LOT of elements and balanced them perfectly.

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ASH& @ashandpod.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I’m putting together a team 🥚

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ASH& @ashandpod.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

If I send you this I did it anyway. #xmen97

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ASH& @ashandpod.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Despite initial apathy I'm really taking to Bailey Briggs. That's a funny little kid (Spider-versity).

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ASH& @ashandpod.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Raising the petition to make it permanent brb

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ASH& @ashandpod.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I think she should to do it, personally.

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ASH& @ashandpod.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

The part of my brain that made me obsessed with Shark girl has been triggered at this image FUCK I’m gonna have to read the main-line FUCK.

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ASH& @ashandpod.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

PATREON UNCUT! We used to gather round the X-Men, now we need a new model to find shared passions, so here the fuck it is! Guests have 10 mins to convince ME to watch/read/love what they do. No edits, no mixed company! Will he do it??? www.patreon.com/ashandpod

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ASH& @ashandpod.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Chop or cop. Help me find some good merch ideas!

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ASH& @ashandpod.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Send this in between job applications. Tell me if I missed any.

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ASH& @ashandpod.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Send this in between job applications. Tell me if I missed any.

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ASH& @ashandpod.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Angstrom’s critiques are everything racists lecture Black people about. Get over genocide, it didn’t happen to you I was just following orders when I maimed u How dare u not accept I’m a Good One Why didn’t you just comply That gathering of Black ppl was a threat Read at Patreon.com/ashandpod

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ASH& @ashandpod.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

LMAAAOO she said "we don't have time for the white woman tears, get it together" and it worked. Got her right together. (Kill Six Billion Demons)

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ASH& @ashandpod.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Reading Six Billion Demons, and love this little detail of extra eyes opening up as the angel gets faster and more violent. Yes I have been brainwashed by Naruto's ocular fixation but if you show me a cool eye trick I will bark.

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ASH& @ashandpod.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

I've started reading House of El, and I want to find out who Thao La is, but I'm wary of reading a storey about a Black woman in chains who's empowered and freed by Superman and white energy. Is it better in the story of should I skip it?

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ASH& @ashandpod.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

BEST DEBUT EVER? From bingo books and wanted posters to real life revolutions. New guest Jade pitches how marketing defines your fave anime. We whisper-thirst over Orca teachers, rotate buns, build the Pokémon ethics board, and shout our fave animated creators. pod.fo/e/3fa8f9

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ASH& @ashandpod.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Patreon Exclusive: We're going retro, come check out this big, fun, sometimes ridiculous roundtable talk with @authorwinifred.blacksky.app and Sommu about Storm, the Mohawk, and Black hair in comics.

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ASH& @ashandpod.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

I’m doing my best work over on insta! www.instagram.com/ashandpod?ig...

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ASH& @ashandpod.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Loooool why’s her posture like that call a grown up these kids are just doing anything. 😂😂😂

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ASH& @ashandpod.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Imagine the silent walk home after a kid in your 9th grade math class tells you your mum’s an alien then turns into a snake.

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ASH& @ashandpod.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Ryan Coogler’s making animorphs and I’m back to the covers to laugh again. Stopping a vicious advanced alien species by being 14 in Wisconsin and sometimes a rat LMAOOOO. Outside looking a fool like tf am I meant to do with this??? Look at her expression bro she knows 😂😂

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ASH& @ashandpod.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Quiet as it's kept, no-one put that Sentinel shit on like Karima. Cunt.exe.

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ASH& @ashandpod.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

The final half of the first interview from @connorgoldsmith.bsky.social of @cerebrocast.bsky.social + @joshcornillon.bsky.social on Mimi Green: Diva Dread, horse knee physics, fucked up syntax, drawing fatness with love and thinness ppl can detect, ALL your questions and more! pod.fo/e/3ea173

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ASH& @ashandpod.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

YAPTAX!! How do you go from pod to panel? How do you make gore ✨give✨? What real parts of the creators live in this story about being fake? Will @connorgoldsmith.bsky.social help edit? Who’s @joshcornillon.bsky.social hate-mailing? Did you hear about Mimi Green? It’s all in part 1: pod.fo/e/3c3298

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ASH& @ashandpod.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Rise and shine (your scalp)

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ASH& @ashandpod.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Twice in two weeks I’ve baked an orange and olive oil cake and, Jesus Christ of Nazareth, the third is calling me.

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ASH& @ashandpod.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

I’ve been sitting here looking at the copy of LUTHER STRODE I got as a gift, trying to hold off reading it cos - once I do - I’ll remember it all and wont be able to reread it for a while.

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ASH& @ashandpod.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Heated Rivalry is everywhere for those with eyes to see.

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ASH& @ashandpod.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

IMPERIALISM! You ever notice how many Black comic characters are soldiers, or cops, or Mayors, or royalty? Come check @septumpapibells.bsky.social @metroai.co and I talk MUFASA, science guys, bitchslaps, and Blackness as an agent of the state in this breakout episode. pod.fo/e/3a6883

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ASH& @ashandpod.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Incoming eps!! Shoot your questions to ashandpodcast@gmail.com! Connor and Josh return 8th Casper debuts on the 9th Kieron is back on the 15th

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ASH& @ashandpod.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

I sit with DJ, podcaster, comic critic/creator @djbenhameen.bsky.social for backstory, bad bitch boots, nephew's nephews, and the psychedelic panels of Jimi Hendrix: Purple Haze. What does it mean to be a legit Space Opera? What’s triplehippo? Why was Kieron Gillen scared? podfollow.com/ashandpod

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ASH& @ashandpod.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

"Everything done in the dark will come to the light" applies to hard work, too. Merch Drop /01. Two designs for a comic that changed the game then, and one changing the game now. Check the link in bio to get yours. #instacomics #marvelcomics #imagecomics #xmen #thepowerfantasy

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ASH& @ashandpod.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

OK this is all I'd like to talk about today, thank you!

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