Brandon Schatz
@soupytoasterson.bsky.social
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.
This stuff is so fascinating, isn’t it? I’m barely into this book itself and I am peeling back layers of my own modern ideas of “the kids making goofy words up” as it is all plied to just… human existence, and ideas and people we often think of as formative.
November 13, 2025 at 7:29 AM
This stuff is so fascinating, isn’t it? I’m barely into this book itself and I am peeling back layers of my own modern ideas of “the kids making goofy words up” as it is all plied to just… human existence, and ideas and people we often think of as formative.
Learning that the Jesus fish sort of came about because the Greek spelling of “fish” doubled as an acronym alluding to “Christ”. It was used as a secret symbol due to censorship in ye olden days, and FOLKS, so many new words form because of censorship.
November 13, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Learning that the Jesus fish sort of came about because the Greek spelling of “fish” doubled as an acronym alluding to “Christ”. It was used as a secret symbol due to censorship in ye olden days, and FOLKS, so many new words form because of censorship.
Language just continually evolves through circumstance and necessity.
November 13, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Language just continually evolves through circumstance and necessity.
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In a significantly weirder case, "Sleeping Lady with Black Vase" is a 1928 oil painting by Róbert Berény. It was lost in WWII, and considered looted by the Nazis and likely destroyed afterwards in the chaos... until someone recognized it as set dressing in the movie "Stuart Little."
Yes, really.
Yes, really.
November 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
In a significantly weirder case, "Sleeping Lady with Black Vase" is a 1928 oil painting by Róbert Berény. It was lost in WWII, and considered looted by the Nazis and likely destroyed afterwards in the chaos... until someone recognized it as set dressing in the movie "Stuart Little."
Yes, really.
Yes, really.