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arpad okay @arpadokay.bsky.social · Jan 2

"the saviors have become settlers; the iconography of protecting the innocent is rewritten as the pioneer guarding his stake... as comics attempt to set batman in the same world as his readers, the role of violence to perpetuate the state demands to be addressed"

i do not write like the others

Critical Thinking: The World’s Greatest Detective vs. the Ghetto

This installment of Critical Thinking examines why the cultural inheritance of the World's Greatest Detective makes him the ideal pioneer.

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arpad okay @arpadokay.bsky.social · 53m

computers are dumb. they only know what you tell them.

arpad okay @arpadokay.bsky.social · 58m

"i look and sound like a grown-up toilet"

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Comicsbeat @comicsbeat.bsky.social · 4h

Angels. Chimeras. Ghosts. Witches. The Worm King. Within THE WITCH'S EGG, Donya Todd's modern medieval murals go incredibly hard. @averyhill.bsky.social

Graphic Novel Review: Cute apocalypse within THE WITCH’S EGG

The Witch’s Egg Cartoonist: Donya Todd Publisher: Avery Hill Publishing / $19.99 October 2025 Lightning and rainbows. The Witch’s Egg is a story of love and demons, having sex with an angel, making a deal with a toad (and a snake, a hare, a crow…), hiding an egg from the prophecy of a worm. It is modern and it is ancient.

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arpad okay @arpadokay.bsky.social · 2h

Campana Sonans, by Jake Muir

2 track album

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arpad okay @arpadokay.bsky.social · 2h

Sonic In-Betweenness. Acts of Devotion in Public Spaces, Egypt, by Valentina Ciniglio

7 track album

valentinaciniglio.bandcamp.com

arpad okay @arpadokay.bsky.social · 3h

folkloric and fucked up

Graphic Novel Review: Cute apocalypse within THE WITCH’S EGG

Angels. Chimeras. Ghosts. Witches. The Worm King. Within THE WITCH'S EGG, Donya Todd's modern medieval murals go incredibly hard.

www.comicsbeat.com

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adam @kumerish.bsky.social · 4h

what made the cows laydown

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arpad okay @arpadokay.bsky.social · 4h

détournement is making spectacle into culture. recuperation is making culture into spectacle. is an anti-capitalist message undermined by serving capital? none of the activity stolen through work can be regained by submitting to what that work has produced

arpad okay @arpadokay.bsky.social · 4h

i think this carries over culturally in the distinction debord makes between culture and the spectacle. the spectacle removes art from its context and tells the audience what it means. culture is art in the context of its creation with meaning that is collectively defined by what its audience thinks

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arpad okay @arpadokay.bsky.social · 5h

you shape your life around work. the only free time you have is what work's schedule affords you. these are related and intentional. as long as you treat life this way, to pursue meaning outside of your time in the labor system you've been forced into, that labor system will be perpetuated

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arpad okay @arpadokay.bsky.social · 5h

i have not, i don't think i've seen anything by burns actually. rick sebak otoh

arpad okay @arpadokay.bsky.social · 6h

attn @vor-bokor.bsky.social

arpad okay @arpadokay.bsky.social · 6h

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arpad okay @arpadokay.bsky.social · 23d

in the eighteenth century the frontier moved from anything west of pittsburgh to anything west of the mississippi. they started calling it the midwest during nineteenth century expansion bc the american heartland was "civilized," now the west was on the other side of the missouri

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arpad okay @arpadokay.bsky.social · 7h

sickos haha yes

toe - CHIAROSCURO / THE FIRST TAKE

YouTube video by THE FIRST TAKE

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arpad okay @arpadokay.bsky.social · 17h

as for your second question, debord posits that none of the activity stolen through work can be regained by submitting to what that work has produced

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arpad okay @arpadokay.bsky.social · 17h

to your first question, i think there's a difference between trickle-down economics where eva's abundance of prestige is carried over to less successful anime and thus elevates the genre- a fantasy- and how successful "midlist" properties allow production companies to take risks on niche ventures

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arpad okay @arpadokay.bsky.social · 17h

yeah but coming to the conclusion that all art is revolutionary/no art is revolutionary bc of capitalism's absolute nature doesn't really help anything? why not make an argument and hope it stands on the strength of your evidence and acumen

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arpad okay @arpadokay.bsky.social · 17h

gotta figure out a way to shoehorn it into comics so i don't have to pitch it anywhere

arpad okay @arpadokay.bsky.social · 18h

lol guess what my current pet project is

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arpad okay @arpadokay.bsky.social · 18h

reception is one thing to consider, long-term effectiveness is another, on balance against who profits from it. there's a million metrics for discerning impact. honestly it's a framework that makes answering the question of whether it's blowing minds or politically defanged an essay not a post

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Marty Tina G. ⚢ @geezmarty.bsky.social · 2d

Starting a little Shortbox comics fair reading thread! I don't know how many I will be able to rec/draw fanart for (lots of work to get done this month) but I want to try!

Check out the fair here www.shortboxcomicsfair.com, I also have a lesbian vampire comic in it (Laura) :^)

little chibi drawing of me reading comics and smiling :)

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arpad okay @arpadokay.bsky.social · 18h

well debord and benjamin before him both wrote that you have to place the message within the context of its delivery to figure out whether it is revolutionary art or the aestheticization of politics. not so much a way to measure "can this do it" as "did this do it"

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arpad okay @arpadokay.bsky.social · 19h

détournement vs recuperation

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arpad okay @arpadokay.bsky.social · 19h

it's something else, isn't it?

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Boston Comic Arts Foundation @bostoncomicarts.bsky.social · 20h

It's Banned Books Week and BCAF is proudly partnered with Mass Freedom to Read, which is working on passing legislation so that MA librarians, educators, authors, and publishers have protects against bans and censorship. We support An Act Regarding Free Expression (H.3594/S.2328)!

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