Aram Zucker-Scharff

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“The problem with winners self-identifying as losers: once you’ve cast yourself as a victim in your own mind, there’s no need to interrogate your own behavior.

There is an alternative: solidarity. […]

I fear too that we have come to so thoroughly associate fandom with grievance that the two are now inextricable. That, I suspect, is the long-term consequence of the rise of the geeks: that we no longer know how to enjoy art without enjoying it against others. “

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– A really fascinating debate unit over at the New York Times. All the articles are really interesting, but this one hit a chord. Some of the phrasing (that headline…) is more meant to incite, but the underlying point… has a point.

luisgpiercing:

thechastitygeek:

bagofb0nes:

isfuckingfun:

Futurama 3D 

Zoidberg is fucking terrifying! 

These are awesome. But yes, zoidberg is terrifying here.

Awesome

Sales of tabletop games (including cards, board games, and role-playing games) at hobby stores have jumped 15 to 20 percent for the last three years in a row, according to a recent report from ICv2. In New York City, a few business owners are hoping to get gamers to their brick-and-mortar stores where people can play hundreds of games.

Forget Scrabble and Monopoly (though yes, they have those too); we’re talking Cards Against Humanity and Settlers of Catan.

dcwomenkickingass:

The arrival of the new Ms. Marvel, Kamala Khan resonated with many readers who were happy to have a character in comics that resembled themselves. One of those of a long time reader MayaK. I asked Maya who has been reading comics for four decades the impact that having a character like Kamala means to her and how much it would have meant when she was a young reader. Her thoughts follow.

When Sue approached me about this piece I envisioned a review of Ms. Marvel and how it resonated with me as a woman of South Asian descent.  My parents emigrated from India to the United States in the late 1950s and I was born a day before the Civil Rights Act was enacted. However, the more I tried to write the review the more the larger issue of diversity in general in the genre nagged at me.  Why does diversity matter? What does diversity mean?  Why are some in the community so resistant to the idea?  Why is diversity in comics, really media, such a divisive issue?  

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Important, sweet and a feel-good read for the day. Reading this gives me hope for comics as a medium.