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Brandon Schatz
@soupytoasterson.bsky.social
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Owner of Variant Edition Graphic Novels + Comics. Columnist at The Beat. Writer behind The Indirect Market. Shuster Award Winner for Best Comic Shop in Canada, and Eisner nominated comics journalist. The French Fries Player.
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Passion Pit, I just wanted to listen to a banger and y’all got this AI slop on here like it’s gonna help you.
I mean… but everyone’s fingers are fucked up. There’s like a kid in the foreground and that’s fine but one of her hands is kinda OK and one of them is not OK like something happened. Like there was a tragedy. Anyways in the background there’s folks with weird fingers and they’re sharing a meal, but it’s not real. None of it’s real.
November 17, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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I listen to this song a lot, and did not realize the CD cover was a deer threatening to crop dust a rabbit.
The CD cover to the bran van 3000 album that drinking in LA is on and it straight up a cartoon picture of a deer about to crop dust a rabbit
November 16, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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Aaaahhhhh I just love learning this wildness. Folks out in the streets side eyeing the kids saying “six-seven” when we’ve been doing this shit for as long as we’ve existed.
Text that reads “for example in the mid 19th century, there was an American slang fad to give incorrect abbreviations like ‘O.K.’ For “all correct”. That was then printed in a Boston newspaper helping it reach mainstream usage, which is now how we have the word “okay” today.
November 14, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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Language just continually evolves through circumstance and necessity.
Text that reads “upon finishing his 1948 book the naked and the dead the American novelist Norman Mailer was famously told by his publishers that he used the word fuck too many times for the book to be published. In response, Norman went through and replaced every fuck with the minced oath “fug” and the publication process went forward. I love explaining seggs through this anecdote because creators using it instead of sex are doing the exact same thing. By switching out a K sound for a G sound they skirt the media censorship even if we all fully understand what they really mean.”
November 13, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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Holy heck god damn is this book a fascinating read. The prologue hits the term “unalive” hard and compares it to so many ways we’ve softened words around death - including “deceased”.

Just a little ways through and fascinated.
Just a bud holding a book in front of his camera phone. The book is called ALGOSPEAK by Adam Aleksic and it is fascinating as heck.
November 13, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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I don't get this. Why does Spider-Man have his jeans and sneaks on but superhero top?? Why is Gwen looking straight at camera? Why is Harry's hand... under his laptop? Why is MJ reading like if the book touches her bare skin, she'll die. Who free balls a book and sits like that.
Just this... weird picture of Gwen Stacy inside, looking at camera, on a laptop, Mary Jane hanging out on a bed reading a book, and Harry Osborn grinning like a weirdo at his computer, and Peter is dressed as Spider-Man outside the window, mask pulled up to show his mouth that is... clenched? Weirdly? HE'S ALSO WEARING JEANS AND SNEAKERS, just full clenched, like maybe he needs to poop?
November 3, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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It’s a pandemic
A tux cat curled up on a lap
October 31, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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Good lord, @scaachi.bsky.social reading Canada’s banks for filth.

open.substack.com/pub/scaachi/...
Text that reads I don’t really know why Will Arnett is doing ads for RBC but it feels like RBC is the Will Arnett of Canadian banks (Scotiabank is Jason Bateman and you all /immediately/ know I’m right)
October 24, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Done a tasty. Eggs needed to be cooked and other things were on sale.
Four Little egg cups, wrapped in prosciutto topped with smoked salmon
October 23, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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“Hey boy, what that pee pee do!”
Just some succulent painted angel boys doing a cat call on the cover of one of those weird “find Jesus” pamphlets.
October 15, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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WARNING: do not talk about this character in Italy, they’ll just hit you with a “deez nuts” joke. 😡😡🇮🇹🍝
Poster for Ahsoka, featuring Ahsoka doing a thing with a lightsaber
September 25, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Ah , okay. KYLE STARKS, the man behind such amazing books like KARATE PROM and SEXCASTLE (and so many more) is doing a book called WRESTLE HEIST - and folks, I am on board just by name alone.
The cover for the first issue of Wrestle Heist by Kyle Starks, stylized like an old wrestling magazine with a 80s style logo and magazine headlines Features a big picture of a wrestler wearing a jacket with big dollar sings on it, and then below, there are smaller boxes of more info and wrestlers.
September 18, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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That time my bag was replaced with a mimic.
A carrying bag on a couch that is lying in such a way where the buckles look like eyes and the bag's opening looks like it is grinning with ill intent.
September 16, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Missing this girlie.
A gray and white maine coon mix catto, close up to the camera, with my goofy ass face photobombing the background.
September 16, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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My guy: enjoy this for the second before I block you. Bluesky thinks you suck.
Straight up Bluesky warning me this guy is garbage, for each of his posts, by posting a warning that just says “rude” on everything he’s put on his main profile.
September 11, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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It was this. That said, I’m still on her side for this.
Gretchen Felker-Martin saying “thoughts and prayers you Nazi bitch” to a post of Charlie Kirk getting shot, followed up by her stating “Hope the bullet’s okay after touching Charlie Kirk”. To be clear: I am on her side.
September 11, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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DC's current spine design is heavy on the sarifs, and I... I don't know what I think. What are your thoughts?
Several graphic novels with a sarif as hell font on the sides.
September 2, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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I visited my nieces last week.
A dude wearing glasses, who's balding hair has been styles up into a mohawk style, while many hair ties are stuck between his glasses and his face, and a hair clip in his beard.
September 2, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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ASSORTED CRISIS EVENTS has been my series of the year. A future where a time crisis is bleeding into everyone's lives. Stories about folks just trying to live as the fantastic bleeds into their lives - time sliding around them. The first five issues are out - and the first collection is on its way.
August 26, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Out this Wednesday: Marvel All-On-One, a book that is wall to wall splash pages of The Thing fighting.

I read one page of @ryannorth.ca writing Iron Man and went "oh, this guy would be PERFECT for an Iron Man book".
The cover to Marvel All-On-One, where The Thing fights, just like... a whole lot of other heroes.
August 19, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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My sister, who teaches at a Catholic School, wore this shirt for brunch and babies, I have no notes.
A black and white t-shirt of Jesus about to go full “he’s on fire” on a basketball dunk, with the words “he is rizzin’” above
August 8, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Wrestling is very straight and manly.
August 6, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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Got a chance to read this last night as I was placing final orders. This is an incredible opening salvo for @ignitionpress.bsky.social.

Quick pitch: a new season of a defunct podcast pops on the feed, and anyone who listens to it is overtaken with the need to murder.
The cover to Murder Podcast #1 - art by Jeremy Haun. Features a wman in her house, wearing an apron, and listening to a podcast. Her head is tilted slightly to the side, her eyes vacant, the room splashed with blood, a knife held lazily in her right hand - her phone in the other.
August 4, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Current conspiracy board
Screenshot from Some More News of host Cody with a corkboard with pictures of Trump and Epstein and a single string connecting them.
August 1, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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The folks from @magpiebooks.bsky.social remain undefeated in recommendations. Not a book I would have picked for myself but my goodness is it resonating.
A bright pink cover on a book with a wild cat’s open maw, stating “Open Throat” by Henry Holt The description of the book: “ a queer, dangerously hungry mountain lion lives in the drought devastated land under the Hollywood sign, lonely, and fascinated by humanities foibles. The lion spends their days protecting a nearby, homeless encampment, observing hikers complain about their trauma, and in quiet moments grappling with the complexities of their gender identity, memories of a vicious, father, and the indignities of sentience. When a man-made fire engulfs the encampment, the lion is forced from the hills down into the city the hikers called “ellay”. But even when salvation finally seems within reach, they are forced to face down the ultimate question. Do they want to eat a person or become one?” Text from the book that reads: it’s okay old is fine I’m old because I’m not dead
July 25, 2025 at 3:27 AM