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scans_daily2025-09-13 09:32 pm
Writer: Steve Englehart
Pencils: Tom Derenick
Inks: Mark Farmer
Aquaman continues to be absolutely bloody useless.
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iamrman) wrote in scans_daily2025-09-13 06:00 pmWriters: Steve Englehart and Gerry Conway
Pencils: Herb Trimpe
Inks: Jack Abel
The Hulk and Betty return to Hulkbuster Base, only to be immediately set upon by the Abomination and the Rhino.
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dancing_serpent) wrote in c_ent2025-09-13 01:55 pmiamrman) wrote in scans_daily2025-09-13 12:40 pmWriter: John Ostrander
Pencils and inks: Tom Mandrake
Katar's promotional tour for the Thanagarian Museum takes him to New York, where he encounters the heroine Firehawk.
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iamrman) wrote in scans_daily2025-09-13 09:29 amWriters: Karl and Barbara Kesel
Pencils: Greg Guler
Inks: Scott Hanna
Hawk and Dove fight an old-timey rampaging robot.
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sholio) wrote2025-09-13 12:23 amtrickortreatex. This is the first time in at least 3 years that I'm not requesting Biggles, because greerwatson (of "Unrequested Nazis Are Awesome, Actually" fame) usually does this exchange and I don't want to accidentally summon her. :P However, it's early yet and I'm still adding fandoms, so I'll see if I feel like it's worth the risk later on. (I don't really mind so much being assigned to her as a writer; I can always write the minimum and leave it anon. But ugh.) Also, while my motivation is - let's be real - mostly avoiding Greer, it made me realize that I've requested Biggles in every exchange since spring 2022 and it might be fun to cast my net wider this time, and request some fandoms I haven't asked for in a while.spook_me, the annual Halloween/horror challenge with art prompts that I've been doing every year, or at least most years, since their very first round back on LJ in the late 2000s.* True, my years of finishing anything for it are relatively rare, but it's genuinely one of my favorite events of the year, and I will be very sad whenever they stop doing it.viridian5) wrote2025-09-13 03:02 am
china_shop) wrote2025-09-13 06:41 pmtinny made some gorgeous icons, yay!)fan_flashworks project went live yesterday with a Community Report, a Creator Report, and a comprehensive spreadsheet. We're so proud of this! A million thanks to treonb for working so tirelessly on it!!guardian_wishlist is underway (sign-ups close soon! come join the fun!), the Slo-Mo Rewatch started last week (jump in anytime!), and I'm still doing Guardian polls, apparently. On top of that, things are hopping on fan_writers (if you're posting meta about the craft or process of writing, please link it there!!). *collapses*How do you generally make/take phone calls, posturely speaking?
hold phone to ear
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put call on speaker
18 (41.9%)
wear an earpiece/headphones
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other
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I don't make phone calls
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ticky-box full of beret-wearing bumblebees performing buzz poetry
17 (39.5%)
ticky-box full of cats with resting blep face
28 (65.1%)
ticky-box full of snacks, yes please
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ticky-box full of magic tricks with real magic
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ticky-box full of hugs
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viridian5) wrote2025-09-12 11:59 pm schneefink) wrote2025-09-12 11:35 pmmusesfool) wrote2025-09-12 04:56 pm
white_aster) wrote2025-09-12 01:35 pm:head in hands: This is the exact opposite of the way that current peer review works. Yes, science agencies have always had priorities and shifted funding toward initiatives that might be priorities of the current administration, but not at this nitty gritty grant level. Before, you might fund, say, the BRAIN initiative because it's something the president backs. But you would then let the peer review process (ie, actual brain experts) figure out who should get the funding. Now? Now a political appointee could decide they don't like a project for apparently literally any reason, and even though it's actual, non-sarcastic "gold-standard science", it could be passed over.
This opens up all kinds of corruption influences. Who is going to be watching the watchers? What criteria are appointees allowed to use to thumbs-down these grants...or can they do it for any reason at all? Are they just looking for a keyword? Are they looking at the PI's internet history? The Institution, to see who the administration is fighting with now? Are they relying on their unscientific opinion of what "sounds important"? Are they open to bumping up funding for PIs or institutions that are friendly to them or their higher-ups. regardless of the science involved?
And the anecdotes at the end from how all this is affecting the peer review process--how scientists are starting to nope out of this onerous and increasingly apparently thankless task--are the predictable signs of a scientific funding process in absolute crisis. Scientific review runs on volunteers, and people stop wanting to volunteer if they feel they're just going to be ignored, jerked around, and wronged.
cimorene) wrote2025-09-12 08:27 pmiamrman) wrote in scans_daily2025-09-12 05:53 pmWriter: Beau Smith
Pencils: Mitch Byrd
Inks: Dan Davis
Dementor is back and he is making the guest stars relive their worst nightmares.
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