Paul Loves Comics

twelve episodes, twelve contestants - a mix of annoying middle aged sci fi authors, fan fic authors and random people off the street

a variety of against the clock writing tasks, big finish scripts, ability to interact with actors without shouting at them and challenges where you have no budget or doctor for an episode

judged by solely by christopher eccleston

Let them know why you're cancelling, too.

I'd personally suggest sending money to the Democratic Senate races in Alaska, North Carolina, Ohio, Iowa, and Georgia.

I work at a library. We do this thing where, every so often, we weed the collection. It hurts to see books go, but it's necessary to make sure there's room in the library for new materials.

I have seen so much support for the library in text, and I've seen folks pass around those beautiful "queer your library" flyers. Keep doing that. That's great. Nothing wrong with that. But you HAVE to turn your words into action. We MUST remember to actually go to our local organizations and libraries and actually, with our own fucking hands, interact with these materials we want to see more of.

My branch is medium-sized for a library, maybe a little small. We don't have as many materials as I'd like, but we have fundamentals. Tell me why, even with all the verbal support I've gotten from my local community for the library as a resource for our LGBT+ community, every single trans biography and a good chunk of our vaguely queer theory books were on the list. This isn't a scheme to take the books off the shelves, it isn't another bigoted American governmental push. The only thing we look at when we weed is how long it's been since the last time the item was checked out.

Three years.

No one in my community interacted in any meaningful way with the few books on trans life and history we physically had on the shelves for three fucking years.

I promise you the materials you want and need are there, but this isn't a horde. This isn't a static safety net. You have to use them. You MUST use them or, in the future, maybe in three years, they *won't* be there anymore.

I'm also a librarian and queer books are almost always cut first when we have to weed for space or prioritize new releases over old items because no one reads them

I will say, when I worked at a large downtown location, we had a "browsing card" that we would check out items we found taken off the shelf and left on a table, as an example of a book that had clearly been read, just not checked out by anyone

it's possible queer books do actually get a bit of unfair treatment in this regard because people may be nervous or outright scared to check them out onto an account with their name on it. so they get browsed at a much higher rate, but if a library doesn't have a specific system in place (or need for it) to count browsed items, then it looks like they aren't being used and they get weeded

for other librarians, a browsing card is a great idea if you have enough staff for the extra work / enough items left out to justify it

for patrons, check out queer books even if you don't read them! you're not lying or committing any type of fraud. you're keeping books on the shelf long enough for pride season when people are interested in checking them out again and for people scared to use their own accounts or who don't have library cards

for anyone nervous about using their library card, libraries do not keep search histories of what you check out!! this means even if the government does come back with a warrant, *wet farting noise* too bad! it doesn't exist!

It feels like such a small thing, but all movements are made up of small things! We have this mindset that in order to get everything done, everyone must be doing their (or *the*) absolute best at all times. But not everyone can do the same things, to the same degree, with the same amount of productivity or success. Not everyone can; sometimes, they're the ones that need help. Sometimes people just need help.

This post is very much so intended for the people who can. I've seen a lot of replies from folks who say they don't have to (or don't think about) checking out or requesting queer books from the library specifically because they *can* buy them, can pirate them, or already have them in their house or on their computers or phones. But in instances like that, keeping these books in circulation is less for you and more for the people who can't. The folks who come to the library, who don't have access to internet--or even electricity--at home and would never--have never--been able to interact with this "ubiquitous queer community" we have here online who has made so many of these. materials so avaliable to the rest of us.

And... if I can be a little frank. Sometimes the hyperaccessibility of these materials online (through pirating, cheap e-book copies, etc) gives people a false sense of security. It implies that these things are an infinate resource, good for "When I get around to it".

And often, you won't. There's so much to read and so much to do. So much to download and so much to sit down and stare at for hours. That kind of mental scope puts books in people's hands (or phones), but never in their heads.

I live in a province that is currently trying to ban queer books from libraries, and as a library patron, this is terrifying. 95% of the books I read are from the library and a lot of them are way out of my budget to buy personally.

Making Queer History would not exist without the school library I skipped class in to write articles. It would not exist without my friends with library cards for their universities sharing them and getting me access to rare texts. I would not be able to read as much as I do without Libby and Hoopla. If I have ever given you a book recommendation, know that I likely got it from the library first.

I cannot overstate the importance of protecting libraries and checking out queer books. And I want to say thank you to everyone above for being as passionate as I am about queer books in libraries.

Rest in peace to the incredible Anthony Stewart Head (20th February 1954 - 1st June 2026)

And the point that the vocal "Touch Grass" contingent is missing is the same thing all those HR Consultants are bringing in to try and tell you about: unconscious biases.

I've not really seen Bluey, heard good things from the kids and parents I know. From what I understand, its creators are kind and pleasant people. But there is an inherently political angle to depicting a soldier that you kinda can't escape. Soldiers fight other soldiers to solve political disputes. They kill on behalf of a country.

Yeah, we're not gonna tell that to the kids in fucking Bluey. But for the adults watching along, especially those with Certain Ideas about who's allowed to kill whom and why, you can't really pretend that it's not there.

Unconscious biases.

My last two doctors have been women, but I still sometimes find myself assuming an un-gendered doctor in media is going to be a guy. Likely because a lot of the media I grew up with had male doctors and female nurses.

Then I hear Peele's pirate voice chastising me for the assumption, and I remember my unconscious biases--and how the media I grew up with shaped my assumptions.

I hate that people are using "touch grass" against OP here. That phrase is supposed to mean "get away from your screen and into the real world" because the screen is encouraging you to obsess over things that don't really matter. But here, people are telling OP to stop worrying about real things because it somehow harms their ability to look at their screens and escape into things that don't matter. What OP is doing here is not the same as someone who won't shut up about the continuity problems of a background character from the Cantina Scene, or someone who's raging about how a fantasy story doesn't accurately reflect historical medieval society.

Also, if you don't want to think about politics when you watch your shows, why are you going out of your way to engage with OP's post about politics? Why did you even finish reading it? Why would you not just scroll past the thing that annoys you so much? Are you following someone you find annoying? Why?

Of course I, like the other eight billion people on Earth, enjoy escapism. I watch pro wrestling for escapism: what a visual spectacle, wow at the moves, laugh at all the funny things, boo, cheer, gasp. It's great. Because i like it for escapism, I don't read reviews, I don't follow the dirt sheets (behind-the-scenes gossip), and I'm very particular about which podcasts i listen to (currently one) and which social media accounts i follow (generally the ones that just post clips from the show and in-character stuff). When I do happen to run across something that can ruin the escapism, I scroll past. Replying to it to say "you are ruining my escapism" would just give it more space in my mind and detract from my escapism even more.

Having said that, of course i can't, and don't really want to, *completely* ignore how wrestling reflects and interacts with the real world. If I hear that a performer has done horrible things, or supports harmful things, I don't want to see them any more. When the crowd boos a real-life thing that I think is bad, I take heart. When the women only get one match, or the trans woman isn't on the show anymore, I notice the problem. When the heel berates opponents and the crowd for being poor, i'm aware that works because classism is a very real thing in the real world.

You know, given how C. lupus, C. lupus familiaris, and C. latrans can all create perfectly viable hybrids, and that the proto-dogs that domestic dogs descended from much more resembled coyotes than wolves, it's not really a surprise that some yotes are experimenting with domestication.

Goddamn that lady must be fucking shredded to be able to chase down a coyote through a swamp.

"Don't let wild animals into your house, you are not going to make Dogs 2.0, you're going to get injured and the animal killed." is probably obvious enough advice that I don't need to put it in the tags as a reminder.

...I know more than four people on this site that have poisoned themselves trying out 'foraging guides' they found online, two people IRL who tried to keep raccoons at pets, and have a family member who got hospitalized for Cat Scratch Fever after grabbing a feral cat bare-handed. This is apparently, not obvious enough.