Sween McDervish
@sweenmcdervish.bsky.social
Pseudonymously writing erotic fiction about tough guys and their admirers. 🏳️🌈 Also long threads on Marvel #Comics #AlphaFlight! Profile art: A commission by @GrahamGroans.bsky.social
Toronto 🇨🇦
Toronto 🇨🇦
A movie that takes place where you’re from.
November 24, 2025 at 4:01 AM
A movie that takes place where you’re from.
There are bunch of hunks on the Blue Jays but Nathan Lukes… woah
November 2, 2025 at 12:30 AM
There are bunch of hunks on the Blue Jays but Nathan Lukes… woah
I am absolutely convinced that Mantlo (who was a lawyer) wrote this scene with at least some understanding of the trouble trans people have when their identification doesn’t match their gender expression.
October 30, 2025 at 10:03 PM
I am absolutely convinced that Mantlo (who was a lawyer) wrote this scene with at least some understanding of the trouble trans people have when their identification doesn’t match their gender expression.
Third, he gave Madison Jefferies his well deserved star turn, with a compelling Cain and Abel backstory (that I so wish current authors using him as their fixit tech guy would reference more) and a blue collar charm that is probably as close as we get to a comment on class in the book 4/4
October 14, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Third, he gave Madison Jefferies his well deserved star turn, with a compelling Cain and Abel backstory (that I so wish current authors using him as their fixit tech guy would reference more) and a blue collar charm that is probably as close as we get to a comment on class in the book 4/4
Secondly, Mantlo queered the book in a way that no one has had the courage to do since, when his famous Northstar AIDS plot was nixed, he was like fine: “I’m going to make sure everybody knows Jim S blocked it, AND I’m gonna make the most hypermasculine character on the team transgender.” 3/4
October 14, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Secondly, Mantlo queered the book in a way that no one has had the courage to do since, when his famous Northstar AIDS plot was nixed, he was like fine: “I’m going to make sure everybody knows Jim S blocked it, AND I’m gonna make the most hypermasculine character on the team transgender.” 3/4
Mantlo still is to this day the only Alpha Flight writer to make a significant comment on the history of colonization of Indigenous people in Canada, by crafting a disease-causing villain who was a literal white colonist, Pestilence, who devastates the Indigenous characters on the team. 2/4
October 14, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Mantlo still is to this day the only Alpha Flight writer to make a significant comment on the history of colonization of Indigenous people in Canada, by crafting a disease-causing villain who was a literal white colonist, Pestilence, who devastates the Indigenous characters on the team. 2/4
@whynotpodcast.bsky.social I enjoyed your episode about issue 50 of Alpha Flight. This is an obvious inflection point in the Mantlo run and as such I thought I’d bring up 3 things that are neat about those first 21 issues that can get lost in all the talk about the rough parts: 1/4
October 14, 2025 at 10:59 PM
@whynotpodcast.bsky.social I enjoyed your episode about issue 50 of Alpha Flight. This is an obvious inflection point in the Mantlo run and as such I thought I’d bring up 3 things that are neat about those first 21 issues that can get lost in all the talk about the rough parts: 1/4
And so few people remember Alpha Flight had a Conan analogue once: Yukon Jack, co-created by the awesome Clayton Henry!
October 7, 2025 at 2:19 AM
And so few people remember Alpha Flight had a Conan analogue once: Yukon Jack, co-created by the awesome Clayton Henry!
Thank Rick Leonardi lol
September 26, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Thank Rick Leonardi lol
Y'all ever go through your saved reaction photos? When would I ever have used this...
September 26, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Y'all ever go through your saved reaction photos? When would I ever have used this...
New X-Men 151 for reference
September 19, 2025 at 12:04 PM
New X-Men 151 for reference
The new The Expanse comic is wonderful and check out this Here Comes Tomorrow homage cover from @justineflorentino.bsky.social starring my man Amos.
September 19, 2025 at 12:01 PM
The new The Expanse comic is wonderful and check out this Here Comes Tomorrow homage cover from @justineflorentino.bsky.social starring my man Amos.
Kids today: why do I have to use punctuation its annoying
The moon today: STFU
The moon today: STFU
September 19, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Kids today: why do I have to use punctuation its annoying
The moon today: STFU
The moon today: STFU
Loved your art on this issue! Sorry the series is coming to an end but maybe Charles the sweaty, shirtless lawn-mowing hunk with the pager will get his own spin-off?
September 12, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Loved your art on this issue! Sorry the series is coming to an end but maybe Charles the sweaty, shirtless lawn-mowing hunk with the pager will get his own spin-off?
Wait, wait, wait! There's going to be a HIghlander reboot?
September 12, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Wait, wait, wait! There's going to be a HIghlander reboot?
So Little Lorraine was not good but I’d be fine with mustachioed Stephen Amell roughing me up for that opinion 🥵
September 6, 2025 at 2:16 AM
So Little Lorraine was not good but I’d be fine with mustachioed Stephen Amell roughing me up for that opinion 🥵
I wonder if BF Skinner was alluding to Nietsche with the title of this (also awful) book.
August 9, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I wonder if BF Skinner was alluding to Nietsche with the title of this (also awful) book.
Daddy issues started here 🩶
July 26, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Daddy issues started here 🩶
My Fantastic Four
July 21, 2025 at 2:10 AM
My Fantastic Four
Crazy excited to dig into @maconfleetwood.bsky.social ‘s new book on my favourite Marvel super-team Alpha Flight! I know Daryl picked Barnes & Noble specifically because they shipped to Canada and here is your proof! Gorgeous cover!
July 16, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Crazy excited to dig into @maconfleetwood.bsky.social ‘s new book on my favourite Marvel super-team Alpha Flight! I know Daryl picked Barnes & Noble specifically because they shipped to Canada and here is your proof! Gorgeous cover!
But given the character’s long history, distinct appearance and multilayered influences, that’s not exactly a satisfying answer. I don’t know what the answer is but it’s time we had some Indigenous writers and artists on AF so let’s see what stories they could tell with her!
June 14, 2025 at 8:54 PM
But given the character’s long history, distinct appearance and multilayered influences, that’s not exactly a satisfying answer. I don’t know what the answer is but it’s time we had some Indigenous writers and artists on AF so let’s see what stories they could tell with her!
So what to do about these problems with the character now? In one sense they could be easily solved. Snowbird’s powers are, after all, metamorphic. You can’t argue that she couldn’t present herself as more Indigenous-looking if she wanted to.
June 14, 2025 at 8:51 PM
So what to do about these problems with the character now? In one sense they could be easily solved. Snowbird’s powers are, after all, metamorphic. You can’t argue that she couldn’t present herself as more Indigenous-looking if she wanted to.