Brain Sprain
Heyo, everyone, took me a well-deserved weeklong break, and now I’m all ready to go, batteries recharged, et cetera!
No, let’s be honest, I got good and lazy and didn’t feel like writing anything for way longer than I should. That and trying to catch up on cool TV shows. Y’all should be watching “What We Do in the Shadows” and “Doom Patrol,” y’all realize that, right?
It’s a difficult time to be focused on writing, largely due to high stress. It’s not easy living in a borderline fascist dictatorship — especially one that’s working extra hard to kill as many people as it can because it’s either that or, quelle horreur, wear a facemask — and worrying about that all the time keeps you exhausted and unproductive, more eager to engage in low-effort hobbies like video games than chores like writing that require you to actually use your brain…
As always, I struggle with what kind of content to drop here. I can dig up the occasional review, but I really don’t know whether anyone cares for reviews. Comics news is vanishingly hard to find nowadays. I could post more of my photos, but I suspect that’s more for my own ego and self-aggrandizement.
Rants are easy as pie to come up with nowadays — I did mention the borderline fascist dictatorship, right? — but I’m trying to control my entirely understandable rage issues, mostly to keep me from showing up in your newsfeed at some point for tearing a governor’s throat out with my fangs.
So in the absence of anything else, let’s check out a few interesting links.
- A lengthy summary of the long-standing culture of abuse permeating the comics industry.
- Closely related: a long review and analysis of the abuse conducted at the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (which, IMO, needs to be completely disbanded yesterday).
- Writers, producers, and showrunners, writing anonymously, talk about what it’s like to make cop shows in an age where we know there are no heroes on police forces.
- Seriously, I’d feel safer surrounded by a thousand armed Black Panthers than I would being with any unarmed Nazis. (Also, never forget: The only good Nazi is a dead Nazi.)
- Diversity in gaming is a big topic right now, and I really enjoyed the R’lyeh Reviews essay on a book that focuses on playing games that are less reliant on stereotypes about fantasy races.
- A very entertaining history of the Slip ‘N Slide.
- You guys need to watch every single Bigtop Burger video.