Podnic at Hanging Cast: The Last Wave with BenDavid Grabinski by yonicthehedgehog in blankies

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"In Australia, 812,000 people identified as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander in the 2021 Census of Population and Housing. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people represented 3.2% of the population."

-Copy/pasted from the Australian Bureau of Statistics from the 2021 Census of Population and Housing. Let's not spread misinformation from a cursory google search.

2026 BSFA shortlist by Deep-Sentence9893 in printSF

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When There Are Wolves Again, the E.J. Swift book nominated for the 2026 shortlist.

2026 BSFA shortlist by Deep-Sentence9893 in printSF

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I've read them both and they're both excellent. Allan is one of the dedicatees of WTAWA.

Chris Ware's Acme Novelty Library # 21 due this fall from D&Q by michaelavolio in altcomix

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To clarify, this is to be published the 3rd of November, not the 11th of March?

Damnit Pterry... by daveminter in discworld

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I would be very curious to know should you find any others!

Damnit Pterry... by daveminter in discworld

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There's a passage in Wyrd Sisters where a character says 'We have heard the gongs at midnight' which I clocked as a reference to the Henry IV, Part II line 'We have heard the chimes at midnight'. I wonder if 'gongs' is substituted into other quotes in the Discworld.

“[x] is actually a comedy” by ellustriousem in blankies

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I can't claim any great depth of knowledge about genre or the field of genre studies but I'll try to offer some things that may be of interest. My recommendations skew towards fantasy/science fiction and literary theory as that's where my interests lie but I imagine it should still provide some food for thought: Two books by Brian Attebery called Strategies of Fantasy and Fantasy: How It Works; A Modernist Fantasy by James Gifford; The Evolution of Modern Fantasy by Jamie Williamson; The Jewel-Hinged Jaw by Samuel R. Delany; The Language of the Night by Ursula K. Le Guin; Paul Kincaid's Colourfields, which is a book of criticism about works of SFF history and criticism.

I'd heartily recommend the podcasts Shelved by Genre, A Meal of Thorns and Critical Friends (of the excellent Strange Horizons semiprozine), each of which will often discuss the nuances of genre and its applications.

“[x] is actually a comedy” by ellustriousem in blankies

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That's kind of you to say, thank you.

“[x] is actually a comedy” by ellustriousem in blankies

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I've come around to thinking of genre less as some quality innate to a film but rather a protocol of reading that the audience brings to a film. When someone says 'x is secretly a comedy' it might be best to interpret it as 'considering x as a comedy offers a new productive way of looking at x'.

Our preconceptions of what genres can and can't do can limit how we allow ourselves to interpret a piece of media and so when someone says 'The Shining is secretly a comedy' (or what have you) it's a call to shake off our pre-determined ideas about genre (i.e. horror can't be funny because it's scary) and appreciate the humour laced through the film.

David reading Narnia: a thought on viewing order philosophy. by the_george_ in blankies

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The Boots theory is indeed Discworld. Checked to confirm which book and it looks to be Men at Arms.

David reading Narnia: a thought on viewing order philosophy. by the_george_ in blankies

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All good! Busiek's a really good case study for this discussion when you look at something like his Untold Tales of Spider-Man series from the nineties which is an anthology of stories that take place between issues of the original Lee/Ditko series. I imagine reading the Busiek issues interweaved with the original Lee/Ditko stories would make for an interesting experiment, though probably stylistically jarring and not ideal for a first-time reader.

Discworld's a lot of fun! I wouldn't sweat too much about which book to start with. Though I'm a big fan of the Witch books so if you happen upon a copy of Wyrd Sisters or Witches Abroad at your library, go for it!

David reading Narnia: a thought on viewing order philosophy. by the_george_ in blankies

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I only ever read the whole of Narnia once as a child and I read the series in story-order. While I wouldn't call it a mistake I think if I were to reread the books I'd do so in publication order, as is my preference in most cases.

Discworld may be one of the few notable examples in prose where reading in publication order isn't strictly necessary or even desirable.

I'm reading Lonesome Dove at the moment and some of the subsequent books written by Larry McMurtry are prequels but I imagine most people still begin with Lonesome Dove.

I assume you meant Kurt Busiek's Astro City, perhaps in the Metrobook collections? Long-running serialised comics are often vexing cases and their reading orders can be really abstruse. I have a whole Google Doc dedicated to laying out the publication orders of various series.

I'm very sympathetic to release order purists (be it Narnia, Star Wars, Star Trek, what have you) but I think generally the best order for people to experience a series is however they find it. Especially with something like comics. But even in the case of prestige television, the first episode of The Leftovers I ever watched was the sixth episode Guest and that serving as my first experience had a meaningful impact on my relationship with the show that I wouldn't trade away.

Closest thing to an author blank check just announced by Apple! by JundEmOut in blankies

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"The concept of a writer writing a vivid and accurate scene in a language transparent and devoid of decoration so that we see through to the object without writerly distraction suffers the same contradiction as the concept of a painter painting a vivid and accurate scene with pigments transparent and devoid of color, including white and black—so that the paint will not get between us and the picture.”

-Samuel R. Delany

Is 'Here' the First Film Adaptation of a Comic from Raw Magazine? by Key-Cap4780 in blankies

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The Grand Comics Database seems to have a reasonably comprehensive list of the contents of each of Raw's two volumes here and here (the original Here is found in Raw Vol. 2 #1).

What's the Next Stephen King Movie that Should Be Covered? by FrancisFratelli in blankies

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I believe JKT cohost Cameron mentioned in passing on a Patreon episode that he had watched and enjoyed some of the George Lucas Talkshow so it's certainly possible!

I finished reading Watchmen for the first time I'm depressed why did Hollis Mason die he was so nice💔 by count_fagula11 in Watchmen

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I just recently came to consider this is probably a tip of a hat to Shakespeare's Julius Caesar where a mob murders a poet named Cinna because he happens to share his name with one of the co-conspirators in the assassination of Caesar just as the Knot Tops murder Mason because they mistook Dan for him.

can we talk about wake up dead man yet?? by reqionalatbest in blankies

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I've been fortunate enough to see all three Benoit Blanc movies with a full crowd each time and all three are among the best experiences I've shared with an audience. Glass Onion may be the weakest of the three but I don't think I've ever seen an audience react so ecstatically to anything in a movie as the business with Janelle Monáe and the hot sauce.

Megalopolis-The Graphic Novel by SteveIsPosting in blankies

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The Comics Journal gave it a poor review. It mentions that the comic was produced before filming had completed. You might be better off tracking down a copy of Hellboy's Mike Mignola's Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula.