Buy books! Buy *my* books! <https://ko-fi.com/travishedgecoke/shop> Mixed disabled intersex enby from North Carolina. So many spectrums. Pronouns your polite preference. <https://linktr.ee/travishedgecoke>https://bsky.app/profile/travishedgecoke.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/travishedgecoke.bsky.social/post/3mlcwcmbrhs2cWe went from the Spot Reducer, which would come in the mail, to "lifesize" John Travolta dolls which did not. That's the history of comics, which my increasingly un-nimble fingers first typed as shitory.08 May 2026 04:45 +0000at://did:plc:7ldka23pwomld2ef4564nxc5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlcwcmbrhs2chttps://bsky.app/profile/travishedgecoke.bsky.social/post/3mlctvz2zgk2cBeing staunchly harsh on AIPT in something and amused to finally understand it stands for Adventures in Poor Taste.08 May 2026 04:02 +0000at://did:plc:7ldka23pwomld2ef4564nxc5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlctvz2zgk2chttps://bsky.app/profile/travishedgecoke.bsky.social/post/3mlcinc6z5226"Late stage capitalism is the scar, not the knife." This is from an essay about reading a superhero comic, the infectiousness of ideas, "schizophrenics can't parse metaphor" as an infectious idea, and speculation as to why Richard Dawkins thinks a generative-AI app is sentient and hot for him.08 May 2026 00:40 +0000at://did:plc:7ldka23pwomld2ef4564nxc5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlcinc6z5226https://bsky.app/profile/travishedgecoke.bsky.social/post/3mlcala3me224Blocked someone I was trying hard to be civil with for insisting that erasure of Black characters in fiction, as well as Saudi and Korean of all things, is not the same as erasure of Jewish and Israeli characters because "There's an entire category of Black Romance novels." That's not ignorance. https://static.klipy.com/ii/4e7bea9f7a3371424e6c16ebc93252fe/67/6e/Ah23SuED35McWZmA7HF.gif?hh=498&ww=498&mp4=P2yu4iUhEChJnowvW5&webm=hmQkbVZZ5PMBTIabLB4s07 May 2026 22:16 +0000at://did:plc:7ldka23pwomld2ef4564nxc5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlcala3me224https://bsky.app/profile/travishedgecoke.bsky.social/post/3mlcaey4yik24The moment "cult movie" became a thing is the moment that "box office" stopped mattering. The only reason we still talk of box office in the streaming and home media era of today is that it's the easiest way to set false projections, skate on taxes, and to launder money.07 May 2026 22:13 +0000at://did:plc:7ldka23pwomld2ef4564nxc5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlcaey4yik24https://bsky.app/profile/travishedgecoke.bsky.social/post/3mlc5aiezqc2eThree free songs and a poem. Lady Vampire The Three Minute Ballad in Gliph Your Cousin Lewis Isn’t There Jeux des atout cruelles travishedgecoke.substack.com/p/joy07 May 2026 21:16 +0000at://did:plc:7ldka23pwomld2ef4564nxc5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlc5aiezqc2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/travishedgecoke.bsky.social/post/3mlbzycggzs24Recent Juliana post semi-related to the astonishing number of artists I'm encountering right now who think erasure and ghettoization in entertainment and art is new and invented solely to affect their demographic how dare. Also, because of John Lennon using anti-Black slurs like Quentin Tarantino.07 May 2026 20:18 +0000at://did:plc:7ldka23pwomld2ef4564nxc5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlbzycggzs24https://bsky.app/profile/travishedgecoke.bsky.social/post/3mlbzllwf7s24Juliana has artists making well-intentioned but wrong attempts to represent, satirize, humanize or desensitize race, racism, gender, sexuality & sexism, from magazine editors to punk musicians and military leaders. I deliberately didn't do "we make fun of everyone equally" as too obviously nonsense. https://ko-fi.com/travishedgecoke/shop07 May 2026 20:11 +0000at://did:plc:7ldka23pwomld2ef4564nxc5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlbzllwf7s24https://bsky.app/profile/travishedgecoke.bsky.social/post/3mlbx5ziemk23My hate of fatsuits is sometimes at war with my love of things which have used fatsuits. [contains quote post or other embedded content]07 May 2026 19:28 +0000at://did:plc:7ldka23pwomld2ef4564nxc5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlbx5ziemk23https://bsky.app/profile/travishedgecoke.bsky.social/post/3mlbkdnyr2s2uLester Dent had a theory that authors didn't need to be experts they just needed to know around three accurate things and state them with authority. Next time you think a writer is an expert in astrophysics or relationships, keep that one in mind. Or, when Michael Crichton annoys you with ignorance.07 May 2026 15:38 +0000at://did:plc:7ldka23pwomld2ef4564nxc5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlbkdnyr2s2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/travishedgecoke.bsky.social/post/3mlbjuyypas2uBringing back The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes but in each episode he tries to solve the same mystery as another famous fictional investigator and it's neck and neck who does or if they come to different conclusions.07 May 2026 15:30 +0000at://did:plc:7ldka23pwomld2ef4564nxc5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlbjuyypas2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/travishedgecoke.bsky.social/post/3mlbiqg3mj22cWe all need to be saying, "That's horses!"07 May 2026 15:10 +0000at://did:plc:7ldka23pwomld2ef4564nxc5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlbiqg3mj22chttps://bsky.app/profile/travishedgecoke.bsky.social/post/3mlamubjca22sTwo films about mental illness *disguised* as feel-good second chances. Absolutely upsetting pictures, both entirely within the bounds of fair and accurate portrayal and no magic cures.07 May 2026 06:51 +0000at://did:plc:7ldka23pwomld2ef4564nxc5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlamubjca22shttps://bsky.app/profile/travishedgecoke.bsky.social/post/3mlamubjca22sTwo films about mental illness *disguised* as feel-good second chances. Absolutely upsetting pictures, both entirely within the bounds of fair and accurate portrayal and no magic cures.07 May 2026 06:51 +0000at://did:plc:7ldka23pwomld2ef4564nxc5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlamubjca22shttps://bsky.app/profile/travishedgecoke.bsky.social/post/3mlacdqznmc2xThanks to everyone who buys my work, solicits new work, promotes my work, shares or recommends, drops by a wishlist and sends an item, and folks who donate large incentives even once. I know it's a struggle and we're all broke. I don't need everything I do to thrill you, but I hope something does.07 May 2026 03:42 +0000at://did:plc:7ldka23pwomld2ef4564nxc5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlacdqznmc2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/travishedgecoke.bsky.social/post/3ml7r2ursac2yWait til they find out I think the greatest Hulk writer ever is James Kochalka.06 May 2026 22:33 +0000at://did:plc:7ldka23pwomld2ef4564nxc5/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml7r2ursac2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/travishedgecoke.bsky.social/post/3ml7pjenwlk2yThis got a different kind of traction in an FB group where they're sure KSD does not count or was purely a "fill-in." Natch, I think if you wrote one short Avengers comic and it was the best ever you'd be the best, but I suspect there are other reasons maybe we'll never know. [contains quote post or other embedded content]06 May 2026 22:06 +0000at://did:plc:7ldka23pwomld2ef4564nxc5/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml7pjenwlk2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/travishedgecoke.bsky.social/post/3ml5qbmnwe22oDe-stress. "Marriage (Song)"06 May 2026 03:14 +0000at://did:plc:7ldka23pwomld2ef4564nxc5/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml5qbmnwe22ohttps://bsky.app/profile/travishedgecoke.bsky.social/post/3ml7pexbxyc2yThe difference between VHS Lost Highway and Blu-ray is bizarre to the point it really is a different movie when you can clearly see it.06 May 2026 22:03 +0000at://did:plc:7ldka23pwomld2ef4564nxc5/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml7pexbxyc2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/travishedgecoke.bsky.social/post/3ml7ot7wpac2yI don't know who owns or runs the Economic Times, but an article in 2026 straightwashing Oscar Wilde is absolutely a decision and not something which just happened.06 May 2026 21:53 +0000at://did:plc:7ldka23pwomld2ef4564nxc5/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml7ot7wpac2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/travishedgecoke.bsky.social/post/3ml7kvapnj22iMy Shadow Kingdom essay may never happen but the reason a single sound or word can make a foreign nonhuman disguised as one of us reveal themselves to do with Kull realizing, across the story, that his own racism & internalized-racism obscure his ability to see that we're all humans and individuals.06 May 2026 20:43 +0000at://did:plc:7ldka23pwomld2ef4564nxc5/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml7kvapnj22ihttps://bsky.app/profile/travishedgecoke.bsky.social/post/3ml7kow4y722iI am sympathetic here, but I also find it amusing how many nationalities and ethnicities I can think off top of my head that this happens to. Covers, alone, routinely change Nonwhite characters to white blondies, for marketing. Muslim characters are wiped out for film adaptations. This is common.06 May 2026 20:39 +0000at://did:plc:7ldka23pwomld2ef4564nxc5/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml7kow4y722i