Notices by G. Willow Wilson (gwillow@mastodon.social)

Okay! Since we're doing #introduction : I write superhero #comics for DC and Marvel (currently Poison Ivy, previously Wonder Woman, , Ms Marvel (now a Disney+ show!), X-Men, Superman) and various non-superhero comics (Invisible Kingdom, Air, The Dreaming (Sandman Universe)). I've also written 2 novels, Alif the Unseen and The Bird King. I post about books/comics, #soccer and #watchmaking. And #religion. And food. And life. I enjoy a lot of different things and I like pretty much everybody.

It's a Poison Ivy week, #comics fans! This is issue 2 of the Knight Terrors tie in (everybody in the Batverse is having a bad time...) and the brilliant Jessica Fong's cover this month is so unsettling that I've actually CW'ed it, bc it even triggers MY trypophobia. Pick up your copy from your local comics shop this week.

It's beginning to get annoying that so many people who've talked a big game about antifascism over the years refuse to leave a nazi bar platform bc it would be mildly injurious to their vibe

Twitter somehow gets worse week by week--right now it is an unusable swamp of right wing conspiracy theory, wave after wave of racism (there is currently an "invasion" underway at the southern border that must be stopped by lethal force) crypto bros, and bots selling high-follower accounts. Amazing really.

The vibe on Bluesky is classically leftist/socialist, so the bootstrappy libertarian message of federation (don't like the rules in this house? Go build your own house) is reaaaaallly rubbing people the wrong way. I'm glad those conversations are happening, frankly, bc that's an ideological barrier I don't think the apostles of federation anticipated.

I've been play-testing absolutely every twitter "replacement" (including Bluesky) and the general vibe I get is this: most former power-users want something exactly like Twitter but w/o the nazis and grifters. Bluesky is attempting to start conversations about federation now and users are not having it. They want a centralized platform w/a clear and consistently enforced TOS. Federation remains a very hard sell to the average person.

Always nice to wake up to good news: POISON IVY has been nominated for a GLAAD Award! Couldn't be prouder of the whole team.

https://deadline.com/2023/01/2023-glaad-media-awards-nominations-film-tv-journalism-nominees-34th-edition-1235224677/

@emilylhauser mastodon has an edit feature. ? one need never delete and repost ever again…

CRISTIAN ROLDAN AND JORDAN MORRIS ARE BOTH GOING TO THE WORLD CUP AAAAH #sounders #soccer #seattle