Bevan Thomas
@bevanthomas.bsky.social
Author, editor, and teacher of creative writing, speculative fiction, and comics. Thinker of strange thoughts. Member of Cloudscape Comics. MFA in Creative Writing from UBC.
A figure of English and Scottish folk songs (starting in 1624), John Barleycorn is the personification of barley and its resulting beer. He suffers a series of indignities, attacks, and death that correspond to the various stages of barley cultivation, such as reaping and malting. #WyrdWednesday
One of the more inhumane incidents in Norse mythology (which is saying something) is when Odin manipulates a bunch of slaves into killing each other with their scythes while out harvesting the hay for their master (an evil giant, as if there were any doubts about that). #wyrdwednesday 1/2
In honor of ToughPigs' 25th anniversary, our team got together to vote on our top 25 Muppet characters who were introduced in the past 25 years. That's a lot of "25"s!! www.toughpigs.com/toughpigs25-...
The ToughPigs 25: Characters - ToughPigs
We're counting down the 25 best characters of the last 25 years! (Thank goodness it's our 25th anniversary, or that would be weird.)
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Corn dollies or corn mothers are a form of traditional European straw work made as a harvest custom. Various scholars have theorized that they began as a pagan ritual to give the spirit of the grain a place to live for the winter after the harvest made it temporarily homeless. #WyrdWednesday
104 - Fall of the Mutants Probably out of necessity, Phillips focuses on just one of the three stories & while it makes sense to go with the X-Men-specific storyline, it does mean we were robbed of getting Bird-Brain on a card. #TradingCardADay #XMen #FUXM1 #JoePhillips #XOvers
Dinosaur court is in session, with the honorable Judge Colossus presiding, in my review of the latest X-Men '97 episode! #XMen #XMen97 #XMen97Season2
ComicsXF@comicsxf.com · yesterdayCourt is in session as Nightcrawler mounts a defense of his bigoted half-brother in “Strange Land, Savage Heart,” X-Men ’97 Season 2 Episode 7.
I asked chatgpt and it said it isn't, but then I told it that it is and it said sorry yes it is.
Greg Pak@gregpak.net · 22h ago"A.i." is bullshit and literally everyone knows it.
TODAY: @milesklee.bsky.social celebrates a high point of cinema, that Orson Welles frozen peas commercial. Welles has "no cause to give even a microscopic fraction of a fuck about how the finished product will turn out. He insists on integrity anyway." flaminghydra.com/a-celebratio...
A Celebration of Orson Welles’s Frozen Pea Commercial Outtakes
I never let a July pass me by without revisiting the infamous 1970 bootleg audio of Orson Welles attempting to record voiceover narration for advertisements for various foods, beginning with frozen pe...
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In all of this, Moira breaks down perceptual barriers. Male scientist heroes were plentiful at the time (especially at Marvel), and allowed to be both heroic and desirable. Women were not welcome in this portrayal, or in STEM at the time, but Moira isn’t moving. 6/6
At the approximate time of her debut, “women represented only 7.5% of the faculty in physical sciences and less than 1% in engineering” (Dearman & Plisko, 1979). In this sense, Moira was an anomaly just as a female scientist. 3/6
In her portrayal of a female scientist, Moira MacTaggert operates against the grain of media norms of the time that have been said to restrict women’s access to the STEM fields by perpetuating perceptual barriers about femininity and the hard sciences. #xmen 1/6
New Evidence Suggests Dinosaurs Had Quinceañeras https://theonion.com/new-evidence-suggests-dinosaurs-had-quinceaneras/
Btw, I'm running a giveaway for a copy of my latest release, The Intrigue, open worldwide. Enter here: gleam.io/308LA/the-in...
THE INTRIGUE giveaway
Win a hardcover copy of THE INTRIGUE Shipped anywhere in the world *** From the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic and Velvet Was the Night comes a sizzling noir about desire, danger...
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Olaniyi Omotayo, Nigerian (1995- ), Empowered Unity 4, 2025, oil and acrylic on canvas, 36 x 48 in, private collection
Guys will listen to male influencer bullshit about needing to have a six pack and manipulate everyone and meanwhile women will go “you know who is the sexiest fucking guy I’ve ever seen?” and post this
this is now officially the best Animal Crackers media in existence 👇
Brian Bear@beapeabear.bsky.social · 21h agoI remember on a flight to France in 2000 I watched some cartoon of a lion and a bird adventuring through the jungle. It had a very comic strip art style and was only vaguely memorable. I thought I had imagined it until @bitterkarella.bsky.social ‘s podcast episode about it and then my mind melted.
It's currently Bowser Day and I notice there are many people very thirsty for Bowser 🔥🔥🔥
Back with another man who PLUGS HIS OWN PODCAST HE DOES WITH HIS MOTHER IN HIS BIO??? MY GOD
Zoe Tunnell ➡️ FlameCon E-09@zoewithasword.bsky.social · 2mo agoSorry everyone, I am dead and dying after getting liked by a man on Tinder whose profile opens with POET/PHOTOGRAPHER. TOP 1% OF LISTENERS OF WOMEN. The first two words of my profile are "Trans lesbian"
One Regular Sized Gambit for my late night freaks.
The Three Billy Goats Gruff won my fairy tales threes poll. Didn’t have time to do the whole comic but I did whip up a design for the guys. (They’re fauns because of course they are, I have reputation to maintain.)
I remember when I was a child and I was told that if we didn't reduce our carbon emissions, we would see essentially everything that is currently happening. Truly infuriating. And our government continues to quadruple down on oil. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Estimated 230 homes destroyed by fire near Vernon, Okanagan Indian Band chief says | CBC
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It’s Smaugust! I did a bunch of dragon commissions last year, so get ready for a month of lovely, lovely wyrms~ #smaugust #smaugust2026 #dragons #dragonart #illustration #mythicalcreatures #fantasyart #coloredpencils #drawing #flowers
I have, with my own eyes, watched my tax dollars in the form of missiles as they hit buildings inhabited by civilians. I'd much prefer subsidizing a grocery story I don't use.
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
Aldeburgh is a lovely place wish I could have spent more time there first here is the church, it contains John Piper glass for Benjamin Britten, A plaque to MR James' mum I think! A cat carving alas not a nod to James but a cat called Samson
From Pulp Literature Issue 50, contemplate a way out with ‘Almost Ready’ by Alex Kitt. Read an excerpt of this story today on the Pulp Lit blog: pulpliterature.com/almost-ready...
‘Almost Ready’ by Alex Kitt - PULP Literature
Stuck From Pulp Literature Issue 50, contemplate a way out with ‘Almost Ready’ by Alex Kitt. Read an excerpt of this story below, then be [...]
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