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In the comments to these weekly posts (and only these posts), it's your chance to go as off topic as you like.

Talk about non-comics stuff, thread derail, and just generally chat among yourselves.

The intent of these posts is to chat and have some fun and, sure, vent a little as required. Reasoned debate is fine, as always, but if you have to ask if something is going over the line, think carefully before posting please.

Normal board rules about conduct and behaviour still apply, of course.

It's been suggested that, if discussing spoilers for recent media events, it might be advisable to consider using the rot13 method to prevent other members seeing spoilers in passing.

The world situation is the world situation. If you're following the news, you know it as much as I do, if you're not, then there are better sources than scans_daily. But please, no doomscrolling, for your own sake.

I hope that those who celebrated Thanksgiving did so in as harmonious a manner as possible.

In the UK, our own Right Wing extremist wannabe cult leader, Nigel Farage countered claims of Anti-Semitism and racist behaviour in his school days by saying that he had "never directly racially abused anybody"... which managed to make the word "directly" do more heavy lifting than an Olympic shot-put team.

However bad your workday was, the odds are that it was better than whoever at the Office for Budget Responsibility pushed the button which accidentally released a detailed response to, the UK Government's Budget report, several hours before the UK Government actually announced it's Budget report.

The Terry Pratchett Estate has announced that in Discworld terms, following 2025 being "The Year of the Luminous Lemur", 2026 will be "The Year of the Curious Squid".

Stranger Things, Season 5 Pt1 dropped. Having forgotten to actually watch most of Season 4, I made do with the recap and don't think I missed too much. I suspect a lot of shippers will be unhappy with some choices being made but, whilst sympathising with them of course, never having been that invested in it myself, I think I actually liked the realisation at the end of the last episode of this part. I've also seen these episodes described as being "A lot of build up, but not much actually happens", which is probably fair but that's what happens when you split a season in two for marketing purposes)

Hey look, they've made a sequel to the weird by excellent (IMHO) 2022 Norwegian monster movie "Troll" and it's on Netflix!

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Posted by Seanan McGuire

https://seananmcguire.com/blog/2025/12/01/on-the-first-day-of-hogswatch-your-seanan-gave-away-9/

https://seananmcguire.com/blog/?p=649

…a hand selected, unmatched dice set drawn from the cauldrons!

Hello, readers, writers, and terrifying couch gremlins, and welcome to the Thirteen Days of Hogswatch, the game where the points are made up but the rules really do matter. This is our first giveaway for 2025! I hope you’re all excited! Here are a few things you should know:

1. Every post will have its own prize, and its own rules. This is to filter out people linked here from the “hey, free stuff!” blogs, who are less interested in our prizes than they are in the fact that they don’t cost anything.
2. There will be one redistribution draw for unclaimed prizes. Any remaining after that will be returned to my office to think about what they did. If you fail to claim a prize, you cannot win another.
3. I cannot afford international postage. If you are outside the US/Canada, you must state so in your entry. Someone else has volunteered to cover these costs, but I still need to know.
4. All posts automatically mirror to Dreamwidth. For RNG reasons, comments left on Dreamwidth do not count as entries; you must enter via the root post on my blog (seananmcguire.com/blog) if you want to be eligible to win.
5. If you haven’t commented here before, your first comment will go into moderation, and be approved as soon as I see it. So if your comment does not appear, please don’t comment again. It still won’t work, until I manually approve you. I promise to approve before prizes are drawn.

So here. We. GO!

Our first prize this year is a repeat from the last three years: a set of dice that I will select from my cauldrons of random dice. It will come with a dice bag. It will definitely not match. It will also come with a signed bookplate, so you can identify where the dice came from.

1. Comment on this post.
2. Tell me your favorite color, and also what color you absolutely do not want me to include in your bag.
3. If you are outside the US/Canada, tell me so.

All winners will be selected at 12PT on December 15th. So now, as the sages say…

…GAME ON!

https://seananmcguire.com/blog/2025/12/01/on-the-first-day-of-hogswatch-your-seanan-gave-away-9/

https://seananmcguire.com/blog/?p=649

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https://xkcd.com/3175/

Tired of waiting on hold? Use our website to chat with one of our live agents, who are available to produce words at you 24/7!

https://xkcd.com/3175/

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The cover’s a spoiler of sorts: by the end of the issue, this will be the official membership of the Justice League International--America and Europe.

But the most important character in this issue isn’t on the cover. All three of its stories are a showcase for the JLI-est of JLI characters...( G’Nort? )

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https://www.wildelifecomic.com/comic/1545

New comic!
Today's News:

https://www.wildelifecomic.com/comic/1545

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Everyone in town is pointing fingers and naming names.

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Original episode art by Jessica Hayworth

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Music: Disparition

Logo: Rob Wilson

Written by Joseph Fink, Jeffrey Cranor & Brie Williams

Narrated by Cecil Baldwin

A production of Night Vale Presents

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Hello, friends! It's about to be December again, and you know what that means: the fact I am posting this actually before December 1 means

karzilla reminded me about the existence of linear time again. Wait, no -- well, yes, but also -- okay, look, let me back up and start again: it's almost December, and that means it's time for our annual December holiday points bonus.

The standard explanation: For the entire month of December, all orders made in the Shop of points and paid time, either for you or as a gift for a friend, will have 10% of your completed cart total sent to you in points when you finish the transaction. For instance, if you buy an order of 12 months of paid time for $35 (350 points), you'll get 35 points when the order is complete, to use on a future purchase.

( The fine print and much more behind this cut! )

Thank you, in short, for being the best possible users any social media site could possibly ever hope for. I'm probably in danger of crossing the Sappiness Line if I haven't already, but you all make everything worth it.

On behalf of Mark, Jen, Robby, and our team of awesome volunteers, and to each and every one of you, whether you've been with us on this wild ride since the beginning or just signed up last week, I'm wishing you all a very happy set of end-of-year holidays, whichever ones you celebrate, and hoping for all of you that your 2026 is full of kindness, determination, empathy, and a hell of a lot more luck than we've all had lately. Let's go.

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Elsewhere, I’ve covered the many identities of Reagan in superhero comics. Gorbachev’s portrayals are fewer but no less fascinating. In GREEN LANTERN CORPS #209, 1986, he is intelligent and charming…far more so than Reagan in the same issue (one of the few portrayals I missed). But he is also, at the end of the day, a two-faced bad guy.

( Not Two-Face, though. His scar isn’t THAT pronounced. )

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https://xkcd.com/3174/

A lot of the highway department's budget goes to adjusting the sign whenever the moon passes directly overhead.

https://xkcd.com/3174/

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Posted by Seanan McGuire

https://seananmcguire.com/blog/2025/11/28/hogswatch-prep/

https://seananmcguire.com/blog/?p=647

So it’s almost time for Hogswatch again! And by community request, we’re doing things a little differently this year. So:

From December 1st through December 13th, I will post giveaways. Please only enter if you intend to claim a prize if you win. On December 15th, I will select winners, and post them here. You will not be contacted directly if you win: you must return to this blog and see your name.

Winners who do not follow all the rules of a specific day will not be eligible to receive their prizes; I will draw another name, and they will never know they could have won. The rules are generally something like “comment directly on the post, tell me your favorite poem, tell me whether you’re in the US or not.” The first enters you, the second tells me you’re not a bot, the third determines postage estimates.

All winners will have until December 20th to claim their prizes; any unclaimed prizes will have new winners drawn on December 21st. They will probably not be mailed out before Christmas. There will not be a third drawing; the second is an experiment to see if it cuts down on unclaimed prizes.

And that is all.

https://seananmcguire.com/blog/2025/11/28/hogswatch-prep/

https://seananmcguire.com/blog/?p=647

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This year saw the publication of the greatest mini series of all time. Not DC KO, not One World Under Doom, not Age of Revelation…

No, I’m talking about the one, the only, MOONSHINE BIGFOOT!

Featuring Bigfoot, hippie chicks, moonshine, car races, Bigfoot Hunters, ghosts, degraded kids' show hosts, and the Cobra Commander you get on Wish!