Robin III: Cry of the Huntress #5
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scans_dailyWriter: Chuck Dixon
Pencils: Tom Lyle
Inks: Bob Smith
Now the Huntress has gotten herself captured.
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thinking
Sep. 7th, 2025 04:10 pmpaperghostAs much as I say that I'm (theoretically) not opposed to using AI to assist art and for thumbnails as a reference point and you do the rest, I'm not sure how I feel about it in practice. I think that might fall into a similar sphere as students using AI for college. Yes, theoretically you can use it to grab sources or as a springboard for whatever the fuck people do in college, but at what part do you actually learn from the process of trying?
Not to mention most time spent using AI, even "thoughtfully" is just training. So the minutes trying to command it to do X, avoid Y, to get to Z... Could've easily been spent just finding the references and resources yourself. Jesus. I try to be nuanced but so much motivation behind "AI addiction" as a shortcut is just being babybrained.
Not to mention most time spent using AI, even "thoughtfully" is just training. So the minutes trying to command it to do X, avoid Y, to get to Z... Could've easily been spent just finding the references and resources yourself. Jesus. I try to be nuanced but so much motivation behind "AI addiction" as a shortcut is just being babybrained.
Superglue
Sep. 7th, 2025 10:00 amsusandennisI learned a while back that when you reach for the superglue, also reach for the acetone. It scares the superglue into not glueing everything in a 1 foot radius of your target. Science. I promise.
I have a big toe with a problem nail. It's been a problem for a lot of years and I think it's about 6-9 months away from growing back to no problem. But, it takes some babying. There's a vertical split half way down. What I'm shooting for now is keeping it from snagging on my pants or the sheets or my socks and encouraging to grow out perfectly. This morning, I cut, filed and could not get it totally unsnaggy so superglue. gel.
Application 1 was a success. Later on, I'll get a piece of teabag and glue it to the whole nail. With the acetone within reach.
My swim was really good. It's really helping my back/leg issues. And I'm enjoying it.
The pool is reserved today from 2-5. Butch (who lives with his wife in the other wing) is turning 90. They have invited all their children, grandchildren and great grandchildren to a pool birthday party! I love that. If I were a little kid forced to come to an old folks home for a yawn-adult party, I'd be instantly perked by the idea of the pool. With no lifeguard!!
Laundry is laundrying. The Mariners are up 9-0 over the Braves in the 3th. And I have meatloaf for a sandwich for lunch.
My food money has to be used up by Wednesday and I got a bright idea yesterday. Every night, as an option, they have plain grilled chicken, plain grilled salmon and meatloaf. You can add sides or just get the cooked meat/fish. Last night I ordered the meatloaf and for $10 I got enough for four sandwiches. SCORE!! This is an idea that will be repeated, probably monthly.
The Mariners game is on Roku. So they have some low rent non-denominational broadcaster with a Mariners broadcaster (the one I like the least) and it is painful to listen to. So I'm doing the radio/TV combo. They are also doing to the 'interview the player out in the field WHILE HE IS SUPPOSED TO BE PLAYING THE GAME' SOOOOOOO stupid. I have Closed captions on. The game is going on and these two broadcasting yahoos are talking to this Braves outfielder about his fucking tropical fish. OMG. Time to turn on the Phillies game.
I have a big toe with a problem nail. It's been a problem for a lot of years and I think it's about 6-9 months away from growing back to no problem. But, it takes some babying. There's a vertical split half way down. What I'm shooting for now is keeping it from snagging on my pants or the sheets or my socks and encouraging to grow out perfectly. This morning, I cut, filed and could not get it totally unsnaggy so superglue. gel.
Application 1 was a success. Later on, I'll get a piece of teabag and glue it to the whole nail. With the acetone within reach.
My swim was really good. It's really helping my back/leg issues. And I'm enjoying it.
The pool is reserved today from 2-5. Butch (who lives with his wife in the other wing) is turning 90. They have invited all their children, grandchildren and great grandchildren to a pool birthday party! I love that. If I were a little kid forced to come to an old folks home for a yawn-adult party, I'd be instantly perked by the idea of the pool. With no lifeguard!!
Laundry is laundrying. The Mariners are up 9-0 over the Braves in the 3th. And I have meatloaf for a sandwich for lunch.
My food money has to be used up by Wednesday and I got a bright idea yesterday. Every night, as an option, they have plain grilled chicken, plain grilled salmon and meatloaf. You can add sides or just get the cooked meat/fish. Last night I ordered the meatloaf and for $10 I got enough for four sandwiches. SCORE!! This is an idea that will be repeated, probably monthly.
The Mariners game is on Roku. So they have some low rent non-denominational broadcaster with a Mariners broadcaster (the one I like the least) and it is painful to listen to. So I'm doing the radio/TV combo. They are also doing to the 'interview the player out in the field WHILE HE IS SUPPOSED TO BE PLAYING THE GAME' SOOOOOOO stupid. I have Closed captions on. The game is going on and these two broadcasting yahoos are talking to this Braves outfielder about his fucking tropical fish. OMG. Time to turn on the Phillies game.
Richard Dragon: Kung Fu Fighter #16
Sep. 7th, 2025 05:23 pmiamrman posting in scans_dailyWriter: Dennis OβNeil
Pencils and inks: Ric Estrada
Richard Dragon must thwart the plans of a madman with a silly hat.
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Shocking Breaking News That You Won't Believe!!!!!!
Sep. 7th, 2025 07:49 amsusandennisIf I were a programmer, I would write a program that disabled any opening of any link that used the words in this headline - together or separably. Once in a while, mostly on my phone, I click by accident and then RUSH to clear my cache. I don't want to be any part of any reward or payoff to the assholes who perpetrate.
There's my morning rant for you :)
Other than that, I don't got much.
The Mariner game starts at 9. The Phillies game starts closer to 11. It's now 8. But, there's no sun out. So I think I'll just hop into my suit and go swim before all the action.
There's my morning rant for you :)
Other than that, I don't got much.
The Mariner game starts at 9. The Phillies game starts closer to 11. It's now 8. But, there's no sun out. So I think I'll just hop into my suit and go swim before all the action.
The Power of Shazam (1995) #1
Sep. 7th, 2025 02:39 pmiamrman posting in scans_dailyWriter: Jerry Ordway
Pencils: Peter Krause
Inks: Mike Manley
All of Billyβs other appearances Post-Crisis are supposed to have happened in-between the graphic novel and this issue.
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Ladies Bingo 2025-2026
Sep. 7th, 2025 02:42 pmpurplecat posting in ![[site community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/comm_staff.png){kind=small}
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Proximal Causes
Sep. 7th, 2025 09:18 ammallorys_cameraDreamed I was in magic school, taking an exam.
The first question on the exam was absolutely incomprehensible: You were supposed to figure out the nature of a quality floating around a girl from the absence of other qualities floating around her sister. A very strange mathematical equation with odd coefficients floating in space, & I could not solve it!
Go on to the next question, I told myself. Forget the math! Do the language problems! You'll get all the language problems right!
But I would not let that first question go! I kept trying & trying to solve it!
Two girls who were also taking the test began talking & laughing in loud voices.
Stop talking! I yelled at them. You're breaking my concentration!
One of the girls began to cry. She was kind of an amalgamation of the two girls who represent careless youth at its prettiest to me right now, A________ & H_____ (though A________ must be close to 40 these days, come to think of it.)
I finished the exam an hour early, sniffed the crying girl. And it's unfair to just make me sit here doing nothingβ
Fine, I said. Don't.
And slammed my exam book shut. Hurled it at the proctor.
I'm not doing this shit anymore, I announced.
And began to stalk off.
Knowing full well the proctor would come after me!
Because everyone thought I was so immensely talented.
###
In other news, did 1,500 words of Remuneration and 2,000 words on the Work in Progress (when it flows, it flows), and somehow managed to fuck up my left knee. Who knows how? I did trompβin between rain stormsβand tromping was effortless. But my left knee and my left soleus are sore todayβ
This is the worst thing about being old. Things hurt without proximal cause!
###
Also, Ichabod texted me just after I went to bed. Venting! he said. We'd talked on the phone earlier in the day as he was driving up to San Francisco on the way to judge some local law schools' Battle of the Mock Court.
So, I locked my keys in my car!
Triple A had had to open his car for him.
I was seized with anxiety: When you're in the type of mood where you lock your keys in your car, you're also in the mood when you get into an automobile accident, and I kept picturing Ichabod lying in a ditch somewhere near Morgan Hill.
Maternity!
Not for the faint of heart.
The first question on the exam was absolutely incomprehensible: You were supposed to figure out the nature of a quality floating around a girl from the absence of other qualities floating around her sister. A very strange mathematical equation with odd coefficients floating in space, & I could not solve it!
Go on to the next question, I told myself. Forget the math! Do the language problems! You'll get all the language problems right!
But I would not let that first question go! I kept trying & trying to solve it!
Two girls who were also taking the test began talking & laughing in loud voices.
Stop talking! I yelled at them. You're breaking my concentration!
One of the girls began to cry. She was kind of an amalgamation of the two girls who represent careless youth at its prettiest to me right now, A________ & H_____ (though A________ must be close to 40 these days, come to think of it.)
I finished the exam an hour early, sniffed the crying girl. And it's unfair to just make me sit here doing nothingβ
Fine, I said. Don't.
And slammed my exam book shut. Hurled it at the proctor.
I'm not doing this shit anymore, I announced.
And began to stalk off.
Knowing full well the proctor would come after me!
Because everyone thought I was so immensely talented.
###
In other news, did 1,500 words of Remuneration and 2,000 words on the Work in Progress (when it flows, it flows), and somehow managed to fuck up my left knee. Who knows how? I did trompβin between rain stormsβand tromping was effortless. But my left knee and my left soleus are sore todayβ
This is the worst thing about being old. Things hurt without proximal cause!
###
Also, Ichabod texted me just after I went to bed. Venting! he said. We'd talked on the phone earlier in the day as he was driving up to San Francisco on the way to judge some local law schools' Battle of the Mock Court.
So, I locked my keys in my car!
Triple A had had to open his car for him.
I was seized with anxiety: When you're in the type of mood where you lock your keys in your car, you're also in the mood when you get into an automobile accident, and I kept picturing Ichabod lying in a ditch somewhere near Morgan Hill.
Maternity!
Not for the faint of heart.
Justice League #2-3 (JLI 2 of ?): Nukes, Some Popcorn
Sep. 6th, 2025 09:16 amtcampbell1000 posting in scans_dailyThe cover for JUSTICE LEAGUE #2 isn't nearly as iconic as the #1 cover, but it spells out the central conflict clearly enough.
Who the heck are these guys flying in to electrozap our heroes? Don't they care that Guy's spent an hour getting his hair just so? Well, they're basically the Avengers, but NOT.
( Not shown: the un-Shazammed Billy Batson falling out of frame and muttering, 'I hate it when this happens.' )
Who the heck are these guys flying in to electrozap our heroes? Don't they care that Guy's spent an hour getting his hair just so? Well, they're basically the Avengers, but NOT.
( Not shown: the un-Shazammed Billy Batson falling out of frame and muttering, 'I hate it when this happens.' )
Book 46 - David Barber "When the Fat Lady Sings"
Sep. 7th, 2025 09:57 amjazzy_daveDavid Barber "When the Fat Lady Sings: Opera History As It Ought To Be Taught" (Sound And Vision)
The subtitle says it all: Opera History as it ought to be taught. (Although it's really about the composers rather than their operas.)
As with his other books, it is a humorously engrossing book. You don't have to be a big opera buff to enjoy this exhilarating and entertaining book. If you feel down, this will definitely perk you up.
The subtitle says it all: Opera History as it ought to be taught. (Although it's really about the composers rather than their operas.)
As with his other books, it is a humorously engrossing book. You don't have to be a big opera buff to enjoy this exhilarating and entertaining book. If you feel down, this will definitely perk you up.
Nightwing #5
Sep. 7th, 2025 09:48 amiamrman posting in scans_dailyWriter: Chuck Dixon
Pencils: Scott McDaniel
Inks: Karl Story
Nightwing dukes it out with Lady Vic on board an out of control yacht.
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Book 45 - Iain Banks "Transition"
Sep. 7th, 2025 09:41 amjazzy_daveIain Banks "Transition" (Abacus)
Banks usually splits his novels between contemporary fiction and science fiction, but here he publishes what is obviously a science fiction story under his 'contemporary' nom de plume. I'm unsure of the reasons for this, but it is certainly his most enjoyable novel in quite some time, an improvement on The Steep Approach to Garbadale, which was just The Crow Road reheated.
The story, told from the point of view of several characters, but mainly that of a man called Temudjin Oh, is about an organisation called The Concern, which intervenes in the affairs of alternate realities for supposedly benign reasons. They do this using the talents of 'Transitionaries', people who can flit between realities with the aid of a drug called Septus. With me so far? Good.
But the head of the Concern's central council, Madame d'Ortolan, has her own agenda, and Oh finds himself a hunted man. A renegade called Mrs Mulverhill comes to his aid, and he finds himself caught in a power struggle for control of The Concern. It's an ambitious storyline and thankfully free, for the most part, of Banks's recent penchant for making his characters mouthpieces for his political rhetoric.
Banks is no stranger to mixing genres; his earlier novels, such as Walking on Glass and The Bridge, featured fantasy elements, but here the whole story is fantastical.
However, I do have reservations. The structure is fragmented to say the least, and the start of the book is very confusing. You're not sure what's going on, and it takes perseverance to get a grip on the story. As ever, Banks can tell a good tale, but what I'd really like is for him to return to the form of Espedair Street or The Crow Road - brilliantly told contemporary fiction. However, well worth reading.
Banks usually splits his novels between contemporary fiction and science fiction, but here he publishes what is obviously a science fiction story under his 'contemporary' nom de plume. I'm unsure of the reasons for this, but it is certainly his most enjoyable novel in quite some time, an improvement on The Steep Approach to Garbadale, which was just The Crow Road reheated.
The story, told from the point of view of several characters, but mainly that of a man called Temudjin Oh, is about an organisation called The Concern, which intervenes in the affairs of alternate realities for supposedly benign reasons. They do this using the talents of 'Transitionaries', people who can flit between realities with the aid of a drug called Septus. With me so far? Good.
But the head of the Concern's central council, Madame d'Ortolan, has her own agenda, and Oh finds himself a hunted man. A renegade called Mrs Mulverhill comes to his aid, and he finds himself caught in a power struggle for control of The Concern. It's an ambitious storyline and thankfully free, for the most part, of Banks's recent penchant for making his characters mouthpieces for his political rhetoric.
Banks is no stranger to mixing genres; his earlier novels, such as Walking on Glass and The Bridge, featured fantasy elements, but here the whole story is fantastical.
However, I do have reservations. The structure is fragmented to say the least, and the start of the book is very confusing. You're not sure what's going on, and it takes perseverance to get a grip on the story. As ever, Banks can tell a good tale, but what I'd really like is for him to return to the form of Espedair Street or The Crow Road - brilliantly told contemporary fiction. However, well worth reading.
Book 44 - Billy Bragg "The Progressive Patriot: A Search For Belonging"
Sep. 7th, 2025 09:28 amjazzy_daveBilly Bragg "The Progressive Patriot: A Search For Belonging" (Black Swan)
Billy Bragg is a well-known singer-songwriter and activist, and this is a very personal account of English identity. He examines both the history of dissent in England and his own family history as a way of examining how he came to his own views, and rounds it off with a passionate plea for a proper, modern Bill of Rights in this country as a way of countering the rise of fascist organisations like the BNP (British National Party), who have been particulalry succesful, until recently, in his own East End of London. It's an interesting account of Englishness (rather than what it is to be British, for the Welsh and Scots seem more secure in their own identity), but it is rather uneven in the way it is written. At times, the account becomes too personal, almost autobiographical, with long sections on the rise of Punk music and his part in the music scene of the time. Interesting in itself, but too much detail compared to the more measured historical analysis of English identity.
Perhaps I was expecting more of the latter and not expecting the depth of autobiography; I certainly enjoyed that part more and became restless when the focus switched back to his own family. Probably this should be two books, not one, each one a little more focused.
Billy Bragg is a well-known singer-songwriter and activist, and this is a very personal account of English identity. He examines both the history of dissent in England and his own family history as a way of examining how he came to his own views, and rounds it off with a passionate plea for a proper, modern Bill of Rights in this country as a way of countering the rise of fascist organisations like the BNP (British National Party), who have been particulalry succesful, until recently, in his own East End of London. It's an interesting account of Englishness (rather than what it is to be British, for the Welsh and Scots seem more secure in their own identity), but it is rather uneven in the way it is written. At times, the account becomes too personal, almost autobiographical, with long sections on the rise of Punk music and his part in the music scene of the time. Interesting in itself, but too much detail compared to the more measured historical analysis of English identity.
Perhaps I was expecting more of the latter and not expecting the depth of autobiography; I certainly enjoyed that part more and became restless when the focus switched back to his own family. Probably this should be two books, not one, each one a little more focused.
Book 43 - A. K. Blakemore "The Manningtree Witches"
Sep. 7th, 2025 09:27 amjazzy_daveA. K. Blakemore "The Manningtree Witches" (Granta Books)
Sadly, I could not get into this novel about witchfinder Matthew Hopkins and his investigation of witches in Manningtree during the English Civil War. It was doubtless quite beautifully written, but most of that beauty was expended on place and visuals, rather than on trying to understand the characters. It felt emotionally detached and a little boring. Unfortunately I think I have recently responded this way to several novels by contemporary poets. It is probably a "me problem" not a "them problem," but I have found that several poets approach novel writing in ways that just don't gel with me as a reader.
Sadly, I could not get into this novel about witchfinder Matthew Hopkins and his investigation of witches in Manningtree during the English Civil War. It was doubtless quite beautifully written, but most of that beauty was expended on place and visuals, rather than on trying to understand the characters. It felt emotionally detached and a little boring. Unfortunately I think I have recently responded this way to several novels by contemporary poets. It is probably a "me problem" not a "them problem," but I have found that several poets approach novel writing in ways that just don't gel with me as a reader.
New Mutants Special Edition #1
Sep. 7th, 2025 07:50 amiamrman posting in scans_dailyWriter: Chris Claremont
Pencils: Arthur Adams
Inks: Terry Austin
I bet you were expecting me to post Rahne and her handsome wolf prince, werenβt you? For once Iβm not pandering to my own interests.
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Tags:
- char: cannonball/sam guthrie,
- char: cypher/doug ramsey,
- char: enchantress/amora,
- char: karma/xian coy manh,
- char: magik/illyana rasputin,
- char: mirage/danielle moonstar,
- char: s'ym,
- char: storm/ororo munroe,
- char: sunspot/roberto da costa,
- char: warlock,
- char: wolfsbane/rahne sinclair,
- creator: art adams,
- creator: chris claremont,
- creator: terry austin
Sunday Word: Oneiric
Sep. 7th, 2025 12:47 pmsallymn posting in 1word1dayoneiric [oh-nahy-rik]
adjective:
of, relating to, or characteristic of dreams
Examples:
Then there's Jake Messing's selection as Best Artist, whose dense and powerful images seem to peer into the oneiric heart of Healdsburg, that dream state between what we think we know and what we can barely imagine. (Best of Arts and Entertainment 2024, The Healdsburg Tribune, November 2024)
Set to a haunting score by the director's brother Giorgi, this melancholic mystery presents Georgia's open plains and mountain regions in alien, oneiric contexts. (Christian Zilko, NYFF Reveals 2025 Currents Lineup, Including New Films by Tsai Ming-liang and Radu Jude, The Guardian, August 2025)
In 'A Boy Named Isamu,' James Yang imagines an ideal, almost oneiric day in the life of the sculptor Isamu Noguchi as a young child. (Sergio Ruzzier, Portraits of Three Artists as Young Children, New York Times, November 2021)
More practically, and from a totally different point of view, M Chabaneix, having studied the continuous subconscious, divides it into nocturnal and waking subconsciousness. If the former be a question of sleep or of the moments preceding sleep, it is oneiric or pre-oneiric. (Remy de Gourmont, Decadence, and Other Essays on the Culture of Ideas)
I prefer to write first drafts as soon as possible after waking, so that the oneiric inscape is still present to me. (Will Self, How I Write)
He is at once a stratum of the earth and a streamer in the air, no painted dragon but a figure of real oneiric power. (Seamus Heaney, Beowulf)
As George Orr slipped into another oneiric state, the fabric of reality trembled. His dreams, potent and uncontrolled, reshaped the world with each passing thought, blurring the lines between imagination and actuality. (Ursula K Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven)
Origin:
'of or pertaining to dreams', 1859, from Greek oneiros 'a dream' + -ic. (Online Etymology Dictionary)
The notion of using the Greek noun oneiros (meaning 'dream') to form the English adjective oneiric wasn't dreamed up until the mid-19th century. But back in the late 1500s and early 1600s, linguistic dreamers came up with a few oneiros spin-offs, giving English oneirocriticism, oneirocritical, and oneirocritic (each having to do with dream interpreters or dream interpretation). The surge in oneiros derivatives at that time may have been fueled by the interest then among English-speaking scholars in Oneirocritica, a book about dream interpretation by 2nd-century Greek soothsayer Artemidorus Daldianus. In the 17th century, English speakers also melded Greek oneiros with the combining form -mancy ('divination') to create oneiromancy, meaning 'divination by means of dreams'. (Merriam-Webster)
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Sep. 6th, 2025 06:25 pmdaryl_wor Getting shows mixed up, I kept thinking someone at Nevermore had simian flu and and expecting Enid to hang out with Rory, what else? Or Caesar will hang out with Wednesday or annoy Luke, stuff like that…. I think it’s the school outfits in two shows that is throwing me, but hey, at least my brain will do it and that part still works!
Mister Miracle (1989) #5
Sep. 6th, 2025 10:03 pmiamrman posting in scans_dailyWriter: J.M. DeMatteis
Pencils and inks: Ian Gibson
Barda teams-up with her father-in-law to save her husband.
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