Angie Wang
@okchickadee.bsky.social
I draw, teach at USC, and run Comic Arts LA. I won a James Beard Award and an ASME National Magazine Award, and was a Pulitzer finalist. “Is My Toddler A Stochastic Parrot?” in the New Yorker.
Okay, here’s what I think Piranesi looks like as a 2010s indie game. Some perfunctory survival elements (fishing, crafting, using the tides table to predict the next tides), a very minimal UI, and you go around exploring this massive empty place with different biomes looking for clues etc.
March 2, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Okay, here’s what I think Piranesi looks like as a 2010s indie game. Some perfunctory survival elements (fishing, crafting, using the tides table to predict the next tides), a very minimal UI, and you go around exploring this massive empty place with different biomes looking for clues etc.
tw CSA, Neil Gaiman
If your immediate reaction when hearing a five year old experienced child sexual abuse is expressing disgust and concern that they’ll be a future perpetrator… that sucks, y’all. Sorry to be a social media scold and all, but that really sucks.
If your immediate reaction when hearing a five year old experienced child sexual abuse is expressing disgust and concern that they’ll be a future perpetrator… that sucks, y’all. Sorry to be a social media scold and all, but that really sucks.
January 13, 2025 at 10:04 PM
tw CSA, Neil Gaiman
If your immediate reaction when hearing a five year old experienced child sexual abuse is expressing disgust and concern that they’ll be a future perpetrator… that sucks, y’all. Sorry to be a social media scold and all, but that really sucks.
If your immediate reaction when hearing a five year old experienced child sexual abuse is expressing disgust and concern that they’ll be a future perpetrator… that sucks, y’all. Sorry to be a social media scold and all, but that really sucks.
Part of what makes poetry worth decrypting is the knowledge that someone encoded their experience into it, in a way that allows for multivalence in meaning and interpretations, which gives it dimension and body and life. I liked this by John Ashbery, even though it was a lot of decrypting on my end:
November 22, 2024 at 5:53 PM
Part of what makes poetry worth decrypting is the knowledge that someone encoded their experience into it, in a way that allows for multivalence in meaning and interpretations, which gives it dimension and body and life. I liked this by John Ashbery, even though it was a lot of decrypting on my end:
The discourse about that paper on highly-rated AI poetry especially misses the point—because one of the greatest strengths of poetry is that it’s a person speaking to you intimately, illuminating a real experience you may have never seen anyone put words to before. Some pieces I’ve liked lately:
November 22, 2024 at 5:42 PM
The discourse about that paper on highly-rated AI poetry especially misses the point—because one of the greatest strengths of poetry is that it’s a person speaking to you intimately, illuminating a real experience you may have never seen anyone put words to before. Some pieces I’ve liked lately:
Oh I guess Bluesky has videos now and I didn’t even notice! Here’s my animation about eating my baby’s toes from a couple years back:
November 15, 2024 at 5:20 PM
Oh I guess Bluesky has videos now and I didn’t even notice! Here’s my animation about eating my baby’s toes from a couple years back:
Screencaps below of the post. I’m also seeing Redditors who were MLs (municipal liaisons) say that they were mistreated and fired en masse by Kilby Blades, which led to camp events being run by sponsors, and that NaNo is a skeleton crew of just one person (the interim ED) and two part-timers.
September 2, 2024 at 3:44 PM
Screencaps below of the post. I’m also seeing Redditors who were MLs (municipal liaisons) say that they were mistreated and fired en masse by Kilby Blades, which led to camp events being run by sponsors, and that NaNo is a skeleton crew of just one person (the interim ED) and two part-timers.
Sorry to be an internet shitpig again, but I dug a little to find out who’s running NaNoWriMo right now because that FAQ is full of grammatical errors, so it was clearly written with no oversight. It looks like the interim director Kilby Blades is pretty much the only person left at the office? 🧵
September 2, 2024 at 3:37 PM
Sorry to be an internet shitpig again, but I dug a little to find out who’s running NaNoWriMo right now because that FAQ is full of grammatical errors, so it was clearly written with no oversight. It looks like the interim director Kilby Blades is pretty much the only person left at the office? 🧵
Yes, it’s literally in the transcript of the podcast. She hadn’t met Neil before that point. If the point you’re making is that Neil didn’t *directly* hire her, that seems like bizarre hair-splitting to me. She’s hired to care for their shared child and be an au pair for the family.
July 5, 2024 at 11:11 PM
Yes, it’s literally in the transcript of the podcast. She hadn’t met Neil before that point. If the point you’re making is that Neil didn’t *directly* hire her, that seems like bizarre hair-splitting to me. She’s hired to care for their shared child and be an au pair for the family.
I did some layout analysis for different comics, and then I figured they’d probably be helpful for other people too. It’s really interesting how cartoonists can use different methods to create a sense of subjectivity or wrongness or slow time.
June 4, 2024 at 1:19 AM
I did some layout analysis for different comics, and then I figured they’d probably be helpful for other people too. It’s really interesting how cartoonists can use different methods to create a sense of subjectivity or wrongness or slow time.
Whoops, a lot of cartoonists have probably moved over to Bluesky. Just FYI, CALA is back and accepting applications!
June 1, 2024 at 3:08 PM
Whoops, a lot of cartoonists have probably moved over to Bluesky. Just FYI, CALA is back and accepting applications!
Someone else reproducing the PTSD emoji thing got a particularly spicy ending: twitter.com/sirbughunter...
February 27, 2024 at 5:41 AM
Someone else reproducing the PTSD emoji thing got a particularly spicy ending: twitter.com/sirbughunter...
From @venturetwins on X, this screenshot from Copilot… Sydney’s back. I love this lol
February 27, 2024 at 5:35 AM
From @venturetwins on X, this screenshot from Copilot… Sydney’s back. I love this lol
The passages about human worth and machine “superintelligence” struck me as interesting the first time I played it a decade ago, but this time they moved me to tears—they’re prescient of this conversation we’re urgently having right now. Also, I didn’t understand this part REALLY until Ori:
February 22, 2024 at 11:12 PM
The passages about human worth and machine “superintelligence” struck me as interesting the first time I played it a decade ago, but this time they moved me to tears—they’re prescient of this conversation we’re urgently having right now. Also, I didn’t understand this part REALLY until Ori:
From the Other Site, this thread by Corey Brickley: x.com/coreybrickle...
February 17, 2024 at 4:45 PM
From the Other Site, this thread by Corey Brickley: x.com/coreybrickle...
I believe that’s Adao Lee, who also shows up in this exchange with Dave McCarty (John Smith is Ersatz Culture who’s done a lot of the collating of Chinese fan reactions to this debacle):
January 25, 2024 at 10:52 PM
I believe that’s Adao Lee, who also shows up in this exchange with Dave McCarty (John Smith is Ersatz Culture who’s done a lot of the collating of Chinese fan reactions to this debacle):
He was the one who said this, and he’s been really active in reblogging and keeping up with English language news on the Hugo controversy on Weibo. I see his posts all over the place.
January 25, 2024 at 8:31 PM
He was the one who said this, and he’s been really active in reblogging and keeping up with English language news on the Hugo controversy on Weibo. I see his posts all over the place.
I followed the weibo link and this Adao Lee is this guy?? The one who’s been posting about the Hugo’s controversy on Weibo???
January 25, 2024 at 7:34 PM
I followed the weibo link and this Adao Lee is this guy?? The one who’s been posting about the Hugo’s controversy on Weibo???
Here, I’ve got you!
January 25, 2024 at 7:15 PM
Here, I’ve got you!
Were you at Chengdu Worldcon? I think there’s an Esquire reporter who wants to talk to people who attended.
January 25, 2024 at 7:13 PM
Were you at Chengdu Worldcon? I think there’s an Esquire reporter who wants to talk to people who attended.
So the remark here that the organizers aren’t familiar with this scene and dared to block a popular book like Babel without fear of gossip makes sense if there’s a divide between SFF fans and the people there to secure sponsorships and handle the con. Just speculation—please LMK if I’m mistaken!
January 25, 2024 at 4:00 PM
So the remark here that the organizers aren’t familiar with this scene and dared to block a popular book like Babel without fear of gossip makes sense if there’s a divide between SFF fans and the people there to secure sponsorships and handle the con. Just speculation—please LMK if I’m mistaken!
For anyone reading this thread, here’s pomelo’s much better translation of the cryptic post by La Zi, one of the vice chairs of Chengdu Worldcon:
January 25, 2024 at 4:10 AM
For anyone reading this thread, here’s pomelo’s much better translation of the cryptic post by La Zi, one of the vice chairs of Chengdu Worldcon:
(These are all machine translated btw. The second one is especially cryptic.)
January 23, 2024 at 10:46 PM
(These are all machine translated btw. The second one is especially cryptic.)
Some of the conversation happening there:
January 23, 2024 at 10:37 PM
Some of the conversation happening there:
