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See y’all on April 1st

Okay I’ve now picked up and read every single DC All In book this month that was advertised as a Fresh Start. Think I’m gonna do a tier list of which ones are the best jumping on points.

He going to be recognizing PnR Reads by 18 months

In honor of Twitter’s 20th birthday what’s the worst tweet you’ve ever seen

Believe what you will about Tom Taylor but personally I’m not trusting the word of a writer who, in relation to Bruce, consistently writes like the average mainstream audience’s perception of Batman.

That analogy sounds clever until you actually think about it for more than five seconds. If moves are the words, then what are pacing, psychology, crowd reactions, selling, character work, and emotion? Because that’s the actual story. You can have all the “words” in the world, but if they don’t form a coherent narrative, it’s just noise. A match full of moves with no structure is like a book with great vocabulary but no plot; technically impressive, but completely forgettable. Meanwhile, a simple match with basic offense, done with the right timing, stakes, and emotion, can have people hanging on every second. Moves are a tool to tell the story, not the story itself. Otherwise every highlight reel would be a five-star classic, and we both know that’s not how this works

this is how fantasy should operate. the physical/temporal feel unreal but are grounded by the humanity. I think too often fantasy authors opt for the reverse