Teen Titans (1996) #8
Sep. 1st, 2025 05:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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Words and pencils: Dan Jurgens
Inks: George Perez
It turns out that the Teen Titans going off to fight super-villains without adult supervision was a bad idea.
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Superman #34
Sep. 1st, 2025 12:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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Writer: Jerry Ordway
Pencils: Kerry Gammill
Finishes: Dennis Janke
Superman assists Maggie Sawyer in the search for her missing daughter.
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Starman (1988) #14
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Writer: Roger Stern
Pencils: Tom Lyle
Inks: Bob Smith
A sparring session with Superman leads to a rematch with the Parasite.
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another five things make a post
Aug. 31st, 2025 11:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
2. Like the rest of the Internet, I have seen K-Pop Demon Hunters and the soundtrack has been on repeat ever since.
3. I do need to booklog a recent reading experience, which went from "hmm, this YA book could explore its themes better if it were written for adults" to "if this YA book had been id-tastic, balls to the wall, OT3 incest-y space fantasy for adults, I could have ignored the numerous plot holes in favor of Vibes."
4. Keeping up with a mature fruit tree is a part-time job! Thank goodness everyone in my family likes peaches. Fun fact: applesauce muffins made with peach sauce = delicious.
5. I have been doing a bad job at going to bed at actual teacher bedtime, so I should... do that.
Code deploy happening shortly
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Per the dw_news post regarding the MS/TN blocks, we are doing a small code push shortly in order to get the code live. As per usual, please let us know if you see anything wonky.
There is some code cleanup we've been doing that is going out with this push but I don't think there is any new/reworked functionality, so it should be pretty invisible if all goes well.
they've turned aside our stories of the gentle fall
Aug. 31st, 2025 10:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Anyway, there were a lot of desserts, but the strawberry cake was enjoyed. It smelled fantastic and tasted good too.
In other news, I did the August recs update earlier:
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* 11 Batfamily and 1 Batfamily/Spider-Man crossover
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Beneath the sun.
Aug. 31st, 2025 08:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Going from MASH to Top Gun to Friday Night Lights is something where I could easily pull out a through-line beyond that it's a trio of ensemble casts working within and against the rigid structures they're living in, whether or not it's by choice. Something about maintaining a sense of self and self-worth both externally and internally, but I'm only about halfway through the first season. I know that it ends well, but not how it ends, or how it gets there, and I'm enjoying the process quite a bit.
There's no word for the feeling of watching something and being hit with the thought, "So that's where that icon comes from!" Sometimes it's reading and getting to a quote, sometimes it's a fraction of a moment caught up in a 100x100 square. But since the experience isn't unique, simply highly specific, I might a well just call it "fandom."
Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man #66
Aug. 31st, 2025 09:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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Writer: Bill Mantlo
Pencils: Ed Hannigan
Inks: Jim Mooney
If a rampaging Electro wasn’t worse enough, Spidey must put up with Jonah incorrectly publishing stories that he has just died.
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Mississippi site block, plus a small restriction on Tennessee new accounts
Aug. 31st, 2025 12:28 pm![[staff profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user_staff.png)
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A reminder to everyone that starting tomorrow, we are being forced to block access to any IP address that geolocates to the state of Mississippi for legal reasons while we and Netchoice continue fighting the law in court. People whose IP addresses geolocate to Mississippi will only be able to access a page that explains the issue and lets them know that we'll be back to offer them service as soon as the legal risk to us is less existential.
The block page will include the apology but I'll repeat it here: we don't do geolocation ourselves, so we're limited to the geolocation ability of our network provider. Our anti-spam geolocation blocks have shown us that their geolocation database has a number of mistakes in it. If one of your friends who doesn't live in Mississippi gets the block message, there is nothing we can do on our end to adjust the block, because we don't control it. The only way to fix a mistaken block is to change your IP address to one that doesn't register as being in Mississippi, either by disconnecting your internet connection and reconnecting it (if you don't have a static IP address) or using a VPN.
In related news, the judge in our challenge to Tennessee's social media age verification, parental consent, and parental surveillance law (which we are also part of the fight against!) ruled last month that we had not met the threshold for a temporary injunction preventing the state from enforcing the law while the court case proceeds.
The Tennesee law is less onerous than the Mississippi law and the fines for violating it are slightly less ruinous (slightly), but it's still a risk to us. While the fight goes on, we've decided to prevent any new account signups from anyone under 18 in Tennessee to protect ourselves against risk. We do not need to block access from the whole state: this only applies to new account creation.
Because we don't do any geolocation on our users and our network provider's geolocation services only apply to blocking access to the site entirely, the way we're implementing this is a new mandatory question on the account creation form asking if you live in Tennessee. If you do, you'll be unable to register an account if you're under 18, not just the under 13 restriction mandated by COPPA. Like the restrictions on the state of Mississippi, we absolutely hate having to do this, we're sorry, and we hope we'll be able to undo it as soon as possible.
Finally, I'd like to thank every one of you who's commented with a message of support for this fight or who's bought paid time to help keep us running. The fact we're entirely user-supported and you all genuinely understand why this fight is so important for everyone is a huge part of why we can continue to do this work. I've also sent a lot of your comments to the lawyers who are fighting the actual battles in court, and they find your wholehearted support just as encouraging and motivating as I do. Thank you all once again for being the best users any social media site could ever hope for. You make me proud and even more determined to yell at state attorneys general on your behalf.
Rom: Spaceknight #27
Aug. 31st, 2025 05:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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Writer: Bill Mantlo
Pencils: Sal Buscema
Inks: Joe Sinnott
Rom leads Galactus to the Dark Nebula, in the hope he will devour the Dire Wraith homeworld.
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Robin III: Cry of the Huntress #4
Aug. 31st, 2025 02:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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Writer: Chuck Dixon
Pencils: Tom Lyle
Inks: Bob Smith
Robin and the Huntress take on the KGBeast.
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Richard Dragon: Kung Fu Fighter #15
Aug. 31st, 2025 08:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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Writer: Dennis O’Neil
Pencils and inks: Ric Estrada
Hanging around Richard Dragon is bad luck for women in this book, unless they are called Shiva.
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New Mutants #34
Aug. 30th, 2025 10:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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Writer: Chris Claremont
Pencils and inks: Steve Leialoha
I can’t tell you how close I was to dropping this series. Thankfully, this is the end of the Shadow King story.
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Mister Miracle (1989) #4
Aug. 30th, 2025 08:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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Writer: J.M. DeMatteis
Pencils and inks: Ian Gibson
Now that the Forever People are here, how long will it be before Darkseid turns up to crash on the couch?
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