Happy Thanksgiving Everyone! 🦃

Neat.

Starting soon I will begin a new (very off and on) project of checking out the ‘Untold Tales of Spider-Man’ anthology book from 1997 and providing my thoughts on each of the prose stories contained within. The book was inspired by the comic book series of the same name back when it was a hot property and was even edited by its author, Kurt Busiek. In fact a few stories in the book were written by comic book alumni.

The agenda reads:

Untold Tales of Spider-Man 01: Side by Side with the Astonishing Ant-Man – by Will Murray

Untold Tales of Spider-Man 02: After the First Death… – by Tom DeFalco

Untold Tales of Spider-Man 03: Celebrity – by Christopher Golden and Jose R. Nieto

Untold Tales of Spider-Man 04: Better Looting Through Modern Chemistry – by John Garcia and Pierce Askegren

Untold Tales of Spider-Man 05: Identity Crisis – by Michael Jan Friedman

Untold Tales of Spider-Man 06: The Doctor’s Dilemma – by Danny Fingeroth

Untold Tales of Spider-Man 07: Moving Day – by John S. Drew

Untold Tales of Spider-Man 08: The Liar – by Ann Nocenti

Untold Tales of Spider-Man 09: Deadly Force – by Richard Lee Byers

Untold Tales of Spider-Man 10: The Ballad of Fancy Dan – by Ken Grobe and Steven A. Roman

Untold Tales of Spider-Man 11: Poison in the Soul – by Glenn Greenberg

Untold Tales of Spider-Man 12: Livewires – by Steve Lyons

Untold Tales of Spider-Man 13: Arms and the Man – by Keith R.A. DeCandido

Untold Tales of Spider-Man 14: My Enemy, My Savior – by Eric Fein

Untold Tales of Spider-Man 15: The Stalking of John Doe – by Adam-Troy Castro

I will be covering the stories from the audiobook put out by Dreamscape and Audible and copying over the plot synopses from Spiderfan.org to save myself some time.

Hope you enjoy!

Aaah! I love these books so much! The illustrations are just gorgeous 😍.

Suntup Editions presents the 'Hannibal Lecter' Art Portfolio. 

8" x 11.5" 18pt cardstock portfolio which is foil stamped and embossed and includes all of the interior illustrations, dust jacket and endpaper art from the four 'Hannibal Lecter' books published through Suntup Editions ('Red Dragon', 'The Silence Of The Lambs', 'Hannibal' and 'Hannibal Rising'), as well as two never-before-seen bonus illustrations from Jason Mowry, for a total of 37 prints, plus a letterpress printed signature page signed by Jason Mowry and Tom Bagshaw.

On sale for pre-order until Friday December 23 2022 through Suntup Editions.

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“Men have had their say for a thousand years!” So take a ticket and get to the back of the queue.

A thousand years? Well, as a thirty something year old, that doesn’t mean much to me.

So now what?

Am I supposed to stand here holding a ticket, watching men and boys sink into the ground around me; to be neglected, mistreated, and killed?

Am I to sit patiently in the waiting room of life, as boys continue to fall behind, and drop out of school?

How far are we supposed to swing the pendulum - before enough is enough?

And when does ‘equality’, really become revenge?

If it is true, that “men have always had their say”, then why can’t we talk about these issues?

Why does discussion in this space, so often result in brittle rebukes of ‘misogyny’?

Why do academics researching male victims of domestic abuse, so often get death threats?

Why do attempts to open centres for men and boys often lead to picketing, and shrill cries for cancellation?

Why do well meaning attempts to post about these things result in shadow bans, deletion, and silliness in the dms?

Why do so many question, or hypothesise about my sexual history, with whines of ‘you sound like an Incel’ and ‘virgin!’

And It’s not just me.

So many of my followers message me about losing friends or family as a result of sharing my content, many more say they have been subjected to needless abuse and bullying too.

When we talk about ‘power and control’, the image many paint is a shady monolith of rich white men atop a high table, tightening a gag onto society.

But really, who is in the dm’s harassing you?

Who is standing, arms crossed, disapprovingly?

Who is whining, crying, and stomping their feet, hogging the lime light and holding the microphone?

Who is really controlling the conversation?

Is it time we talked about the cry bully playbook?

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CDC / NISVS: https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/pdf/nisvs/NISVSReportonIPV_2022.pdf

UNESCO Boys in School: https://www.unesco.org/en/gender-equality/education/boys

Mens Health: https://tinyurl.com/yutz3wwv

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If you get to shout down and silence everybody else into focusing only on your stuff, or even make them self-censor out of wariness of saying anything at all, you're not marginalized or "oppressed," you're the ruling overclass. Who really has the privilege and power?

The people who have normalized silencing others, with no fear and no repercussions, are the privileged class.

Connecting to the element of spirit

There plenty of post on the other elements but I noticed there’s little to none for spirit so here’s some information on the 5th element.

The spirit element is the most transcendent of the elements: It in encompasses, animates, interweaves, and invisibly underlies all things including the other elements. It includes things like storms, deities, outer space, and energy. You may have expected ghosts or human spirits but the element of spirit is much more. It’s inside of us all things.

Additionally, it includes what lies outside our atmosphere: space, planets, stars, galaxies, and the unknown.

Symbols:

lightning bolts, spirals, circles, planets, spider webs, stars and sacred geometry

Altar items:

Symbols of deities you believe in, symbols of birds, symbols of our galaxy or solar system, spiral symbolism, sacred geometry symbolsim

Ways to connect:

🌟gaze at the sky, contemplate it’s size and what is beyond it

🌟examine and contemplate the placement of the planet’s and constellations

🌟use an app like Skyveiw

🌟study astrology and current aspects

🌟look at satalite photos of other planets and celestial objects

🌟be conscious of the weather and weather patterns

🌟stay quiet for at least 5 minutes, connect with the silence and open space

🌟meditating or gazing at sacred geometry patterns

🌟make/color mandalas

🌟go star gazing

Source- Holistic Energy Magic by Tess Whitehurst

horror → where they take place

Boredom a Haiku

Silly thoughts

Where do supervillains buy cloths

That is all for now

Honey buzzards are hard as fuck! I did not know they rolled like this. Here we have one indulging in some sweet honey, not giving a single fuck about the swarm of bees attacking it. Apparently it's because they have tightly packed, scale-like feathers that acts as armor. - 🎥Credit to ©Rahul's Wildscape on YouTube.

This actually is really nice to see. I've met a lot of people who fall for the homeopathic trap, you've got to be mega careful with this stuff.

“Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.”

– Democritus (c. 460 - c. 370 BC)