Sean Dillon
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Let us assume that we are fucked.
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a sequel:
cis people on the skyline are genuinely more distressed by the trump-kennedy center than the fact that congress said a second time in 2 days, “no, really this kind of child’s healthcare should be banned & criminalized” & 46/47 non-GOP senators won’t commit to “i will oppose this.”
cis people on the skyline are genuinely more distressed by the trump-kennedy center than the fact that congress said a second time in 2 days, “no, really this kind of child’s healthcare should be banned & criminalized” & 46/47 non-GOP senators won’t commit to “i will oppose this.”
December 19, 2025 at 8:01 PM
a sequel:
cis people on the skyline are genuinely more distressed by the trump-kennedy center than the fact that congress said a second time in 2 days, “no, really this kind of child’s healthcare should be banned & criminalized” & 46/47 non-GOP senators won’t commit to “i will oppose this.”
cis people on the skyline are genuinely more distressed by the trump-kennedy center than the fact that congress said a second time in 2 days, “no, really this kind of child’s healthcare should be banned & criminalized” & 46/47 non-GOP senators won’t commit to “i will oppose this.”
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I think about this line from THE YOUNG POPE every time I want to quit reading a challenging book or turn off a movie that's taxing my attention span. Greatness is worth inconvenience.
December 19, 2025 at 7:02 PM
I think about this line from THE YOUNG POPE every time I want to quit reading a challenging book or turn off a movie that's taxing my attention span. Greatness is worth inconvenience.
Well, tonight’s Avatar night with the brother.
December 19, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Well, tonight’s Avatar night with the brother.
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Nothing fills me with more optimism than the major journal of publishing signing up for the "steal from authors in order to put all the book people out of work" industry.
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December 19, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Nothing fills me with more optimism than the major journal of publishing signing up for the "steal from authors in order to put all the book people out of work" industry.
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Yeah happy holidays to you too, you chickenshit jags
December 18, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Yeah happy holidays to you too, you chickenshit jags
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Adobe users: it’s the most beautiful time of the year, where you can threaten to cancel your plan and get the price cut down from $59.99 to $29.99 for the next 12 months ✨
Manage plan-> cancel my plan -> continue and then you get this offer: (more)
Manage plan-> cancel my plan -> continue and then you get this offer: (more)
December 10, 2024 at 3:14 PM
Adobe users: it’s the most beautiful time of the year, where you can threaten to cancel your plan and get the price cut down from $59.99 to $29.99 for the next 12 months ✨
Manage plan-> cancel my plan -> continue and then you get this offer: (more)
Manage plan-> cancel my plan -> continue and then you get this offer: (more)
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Back in 2015,a wonderful artist named Aud Koch was working at Helioscope in our mentorship program. As an exercise, she re-worked Wally Wood's 22 Panels in her own style, just to see how Wood's ideas might work for her.
(Aud's left commercial art, so all of those URLs at the bottom are kaput.)
(Aud's left commercial art, so all of those URLs at the bottom are kaput.)
December 19, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Back in 2015,a wonderful artist named Aud Koch was working at Helioscope in our mentorship program. As an exercise, she re-worked Wally Wood's 22 Panels in her own style, just to see how Wood's ideas might work for her.
(Aud's left commercial art, so all of those URLs at the bottom are kaput.)
(Aud's left commercial art, so all of those URLs at the bottom are kaput.)
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there’s a quote I love which I believe is originally from Paul Tillich, though I first heard it from a book by Ann Lamott: “The opposite of faith is not doubt; it is certainty.”
I used to talk about that all the time with my Confirmation kids who weren’t sure how they felt about God
I used to talk about that all the time with my Confirmation kids who weren’t sure how they felt about God
December 17, 2025 at 12:33 AM
there’s a quote I love which I believe is originally from Paul Tillich, though I first heard it from a book by Ann Lamott: “The opposite of faith is not doubt; it is certainty.”
I used to talk about that all the time with my Confirmation kids who weren’t sure how they felt about God
I used to talk about that all the time with my Confirmation kids who weren’t sure how they felt about God
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Look, if you seriously think that these people have any sort of coherent master plan, little yet one based on relatively nuanced understandings of transition outcomes for differing populations, you’re delusional. This is the “inject bleach” crowd. They don’t really do master plans.
The reason they're so focused on trans teens is that people who transition younger typically blend into society better. To the extent that they're willing to tolerate our existence in society at all, they'd rather we be easily identified by our appearance/voices/etc.
Cis people really have no idea how it feels to watch a regime hold a press conference to admit, on camera, the pogrom against trans people they've been waging for 11 months is not only real, but they're going to double down on genocide and try to wipe out all the children first.
December 18, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Look, if you seriously think that these people have any sort of coherent master plan, little yet one based on relatively nuanced understandings of transition outcomes for differing populations, you’re delusional. This is the “inject bleach” crowd. They don’t really do master plans.
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Nothing ever makes me feel as curmudgeonly as when the Alleyman “tarot” gets mentioned, universally with awe and praise when in reality its whole thing is preying on the wallets and insecurities of new readers.
December 17, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Nothing ever makes me feel as curmudgeonly as when the Alleyman “tarot” gets mentioned, universally with awe and praise when in reality its whole thing is preying on the wallets and insecurities of new readers.
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Mick Foley continues to be just several orders of magnitude better than it is remotely reasonable to expect of him.
Mick Foley has parted ways from the WWE because of their close ties with Trump.
December 16, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Mick Foley continues to be just several orders of magnitude better than it is remotely reasonable to expect of him.
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will every NFL game have a moment of silence or is that only for white supremacists who were presenting a racist rationale for our unfettered gun massacre culture when shot
I'm having trouble finding the "America Mourns Rob and Michelle Reiner" piece from the NY Times Editorial Board.
December 16, 2025 at 10:58 AM
will every NFL game have a moment of silence or is that only for white supremacists who were presenting a racist rationale for our unfettered gun massacre culture when shot
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Disney never got the rights to Wicked and they've been moaning for two decades about it
I do not want Gaston backstory, I do not need Gaston backstory, I reject Gaston backstory
he is a fully formed oaf, consuming eggs by the dozen in one of the greatest villain songs ever written, and that is all we need of him
he is a fully formed oaf, consuming eggs by the dozen in one of the greatest villain songs ever written, and that is all we need of him
Disney Developing Live-Action ‘Gaston’ Movie From Writer Dave Callaham And Producer Michelle Rejwan
Disney is in early development on a new live-action pic centered on the Beauty and the Beast character Gaston.
deadline.com
December 15, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Disney never got the rights to Wicked and they've been moaning for two decades about it
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I invite you to ask yourself why the language of protestors has been a terrifying daily concern, but e.g. successive governments giving the US unlimited use of our airbases to fly a gajillion dollars of weapons of destruction into Israel for use on huge numbers of civilians is not concerning at all.
December 16, 2025 at 12:26 PM
I invite you to ask yourself why the language of protestors has been a terrifying daily concern, but e.g. successive governments giving the US unlimited use of our airbases to fly a gajillion dollars of weapons of destruction into Israel for use on huge numbers of civilians is not concerning at all.
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I just don't think a movie review is fatal. I don't do any great damage to a movie by not liking it, particularly if it's a big movie. If it's a small innovative movie or a small-budget movie, if I don't like it, I generally don't say so anyway. I just don't review the movie.
December 15, 2025 at 11:44 PM
I just don't think a movie review is fatal. I don't do any great damage to a movie by not liking it, particularly if it's a big movie. If it's a small innovative movie or a small-budget movie, if I don't like it, I generally don't say so anyway. I just don't review the movie.
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He was buddies with a pedo but in a tasteful, honorable way
Noam Chomsky’s emails to Jeffrey Epstein display none of the fawning chatter found from, say, Larry Summers. And he does not appear to have been co-opted by whatever access Epstein provided.
https://bit.ly/4s3vx5A
https://bit.ly/4s3vx5A
What the Noam Chomsky–Jeffrey Epstein E-mails Tell Us
Chomsky has often suffered fools, knaves, and criminals too lightly. Epstein was one of them. But that doesn’t mean Chomsky was part of the “Epstein class.”
bit.ly
December 15, 2025 at 5:20 PM
He was buddies with a pedo but in a tasteful, honorable way
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Been editing a whole raft of new essays for Shelfdust in 2026. Lots of great, unpredictable things coming in the New Year!
I have a random request though: female/non-binary writers - do you fancy taking on an issue from the Top 100? Let me know: shelfdust.com/the-top-100-...
I have a random request though: female/non-binary writers - do you fancy taking on an issue from the Top 100? Let me know: shelfdust.com/the-top-100-...
The Top 100 Comics Issues
In 2018 Shelfdust published the results of the first-ever (and biggest-ever) critic-chosen list of the Top 100 Comic Book Issues of all time. Almost 100 comic critics for publications including Ent…
shelfdust.com
December 14, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Been editing a whole raft of new essays for Shelfdust in 2026. Lots of great, unpredictable things coming in the New Year!
I have a random request though: female/non-binary writers - do you fancy taking on an issue from the Top 100? Let me know: shelfdust.com/the-top-100-...
I have a random request though: female/non-binary writers - do you fancy taking on an issue from the Top 100? Let me know: shelfdust.com/the-top-100-...
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For those of us worried AI is gonna end creative jobs, I heard a funny story this weekend from a parent of one of my kids classmates who happens to be a production designer. He builds sets and things like that. He's worked on Ray Donovan, Always Sunny, and a bunch of FX shows.
I have grown to believe that excessive wealth does something to your brain that is analogous to a serious head injury
December 15, 2025 at 7:18 PM
For those of us worried AI is gonna end creative jobs, I heard a funny story this weekend from a parent of one of my kids classmates who happens to be a production designer. He builds sets and things like that. He's worked on Ray Donovan, Always Sunny, and a bunch of FX shows.
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Rob Reiner was one of the key people behind the effort to go to court to overturn California's anti-marriage equality Proposition 8 when it passed in 2008.
Working with Chad Griffin, they founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights and got Ted Olson and David Boies to team up to fight Prop 8.
Working with Chad Griffin, they founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights and got Ted Olson and David Boies to team up to fight Prop 8.
December 15, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Rob Reiner was one of the key people behind the effort to go to court to overturn California's anti-marriage equality Proposition 8 when it passed in 2008.
Working with Chad Griffin, they founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights and got Ted Olson and David Boies to team up to fight Prop 8.
Working with Chad Griffin, they founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights and got Ted Olson and David Boies to team up to fight Prop 8.
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Penda's Fen (1974, dir. Alan Clarke) youtu.be/Ghu0ITA8aSE?...
December 15, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Penda's Fen (1974, dir. Alan Clarke) youtu.be/Ghu0ITA8aSE?...
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The thing about comics criticism is that most places don't actually pay for your contributions. For a lot of us, we purely do it for the love of writing. Tiffany doing this over the last couple years is huge for people who want to write while everything gets more and more expensive
Are you a comics critic? Have you published two pieces over the past year? If so, please apply to this year's Comics Criticism Mini Grant! The application takes only minutes to fill out!
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2026 Comics Criticism Mini Grant
This project will be awarding four mini grants of $250 to comics critics.
To apply, please provide 2 links to comics criticism work of at least 500 words published within the last year (blogs and YouT...
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December 12, 2025 at 2:02 PM
The thing about comics criticism is that most places don't actually pay for your contributions. For a lot of us, we purely do it for the love of writing. Tiffany doing this over the last couple years is huge for people who want to write while everything gets more and more expensive
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Speaking as the world’s greatest comics critic, IMO it’s time some of you stepped up to try and knock me off my throne
Are you a comics critic? Have you published two pieces over the past year? If so, please apply to this year's Comics Criticism Mini Grant! The application takes only minutes to fill out!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
2026 Comics Criticism Mini Grant
This project will be awarding four mini grants of $250 to comics critics.
To apply, please provide 2 links to comics criticism work of at least 500 words published within the last year (blogs and YouT...
docs.google.com
December 12, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Speaking as the world’s greatest comics critic, IMO it’s time some of you stepped up to try and knock me off my throne