Do this for any company that asks you to review their employees always.
You wouldn’t believe the number of times I swear I get 4/5 star ratings at my job just because the way people think is “well 5/5 means perfect and nobody’s perfect, 4/5 is good!” The company I work for doesn’t understand this common mentality at all, and will let people go over not having consistent enough 5/5 ratings. Obviously they don’t inform the customers of that.
what-may-be-perceived asked: Hello, I hope your day is going well. I heard one of your books has an autistic lesbian in it? That true? Which one is it? I'd love to read that.
Yup, that’s true. You want to read Into the Drowning Deep.
Content warnings: death, disaster, mermaids, murdermaids, lots of drowning, lots of oceanic horror, a few assholes, a bunch of people get eaten. On the whole, a good, if somewhat damp, time.
after I read this the kindle recommendation algorithms sent me nothing but books about both lesbians and sea monsters for a month and honestly I did not expect that literary niche to be as big as it is but I am not complaining.
BEHOLD THE POWER OF TARGETED ADVERTISING.
READ MY BOOK TO UNLOCK THE SEA OF LESBIAN MONSTERS.
In which we are beset by festivity; Scott Summers still can’t take a vacation; the Daysprings are a really good family; “G’journey” is a really good greeting; Stryfe is his own namesake; retcons have served Cable well; illustrator David Wynne makes his X-Plain podcast debut; and you should probably go ahead and get a shelf for all these awards.
X-PLAINED:
The Hayes family
The Grey-Summers Family circa 1993
The Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix #1-4
Summers/Sommers disambiguation
Gene Ha
Time travel
Earth-4935
Mother Askani
Prelate Ch’vayre
What “Askani” means
When and whether Cable sleeps
The passage of time
Slym and Redd Dayspring
A biblical allusion
A very good greeting
Prior Turrin
“Old” English
Li’l Stryfe
Some constraints of superhero comics
Parenting
Rachel Summers’s self-image
The origin of Cable’s codename
David Wynne and his art
“Strontium Dogs”
The X-Fandom starter pack
The Fifth Annual Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau Awards for Excellence at X-Cellence
D&D with the Blue Team
All-New staying power
Fictional intersectionality
Change, in general
NEXT EPISODE: Bring kleenex.
CORRECTION: In this episode, Miles states that Scott and Jean are cool. They are, in fact, categorically uncool. We regret the error.
Special thanks to carolers Tina Carleton, Matt Gardner, Peter Gresser, Erin Pence, and Steve Pence!
Check out the visual companion to this episode–along with all the song lyrics and the complete Corbeau awards–on our blog!
Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men is 100% ad-free and listener supported. If you want to help support the podcast–and unlock more cool stuff–you can do that right here!
We’re in the process of migrating our official shop to TeePublic! Click over to check it out! (You can still find the designs we haven’t moved yet at Redbubble.)
INTERNET! WE MADE YOU A PODCAST! THIS WEEK IT IS MORE THAN TWICE THE USUAL LENGTH, AND SUSPICIOUSLY FESTIVE!
In which Cowboy Poet Wolverine is the best Wolverine; the Masters of the Universe basically had Internet Cat names; Miles has an Early Metallica moment; Wolverine: Killing is just ludicrously excellent; and the hawk joke somehow keeps going.
X-PLAINED:
An eccentric approach to ecoterrorism
Wolverine: Inner Fury
Wolverine: Killing
The narrative limits of Bill Sienkiewicz
Various Terrors
The Whale and/or Shark
Microminibots
A trap
Mr. Big
A sexy coffee cup
Literary allusions
Atmospheric narration
Urban despair
A peculiar community
Cowboy Poet Wolverine
A thematic meditation
Depressingly exceptional representation of a lady in peril
King Hiss
The world according to Logan
The theoretical microbrewery scene of an imaginary enclave
Regional differences in IPAs
Feelings and their various sources
The symbolism of Wolverine’s costume
Home
How Archangel sleeps
Adamantium vs. Vibranium
NEXT EPISODE: This ‘n’ that ‘n’ Rusty ‘n’ Skids!
Check out the visual companion to this episode on our blog!
Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men is 100% ad-free and listener supported. If you want to help support the podcast–and unlock more cool stuff–you can do that right here!
We’re in the process of migrating our official shop to TeePublic! Click over to check it out! (You can still find the designs we haven’t moved yet at Redbubble.)
INTERNET! WE MADE YOU A PODCAST! THIS WEEK IT IS FULL OF WOLVERINES OF VARYING QUALITY!
I knitted this moogle hat for a friend’s impending small human, and I’m pretty pleased with how it came out. A number of folks I’ve showed it to asked after a tutorial, so I threw one together, which you can see above.
The things I make are generally not the sorts of things reviewers take seriously enough to cover; so I was somewhat taken aback to find Ruby Quartz Panic Room on this list; and even more to click through and read the long, glowing review.
(If you want your own digital copy of Ruby Quartz Panic Room, you can pick one up here.)
