We're at 8ļøā£7ļøā£% FUNDING for Perfect Crime Party this morning ā¼ Thank you so much to all who have already backed! ššššØ Just getting to the station? With just 7 days left, you KNOW you want to be part of this! Get on board the Backerkit train here š www.backerkit.com/c/projects/i...
Let's goooo!! We've crossed the big 400! We're teetering toward 75% now, and every dollar you pledge pushes us closer to 100%! Keep in mind once we reach this goal, for every $5000 over, artists receive a tasty $5 page rate bump!
We can finally post a preview of our mischievous crime otter comic in the Perfect Crime Party anthology from @ironcircuscomics.bsky.social@cattifer.bsky.socialwww.backerkit.com/c/projects/i...
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PANEL 1 [big]
A big establishing shot of an early 1900s aquarium/museum type building. Thereās a big banner across the front reading āTHE SWINEVALD PEARLā and a red carpet leading out the front, with a scattering of fancy people milling around.
CAPTION 1: Donāt tell me youāre actually here to see the pearl.
CAPTION 2: Everyoneās here to see the pearl. Thereās a banner.
CAPTION 1: Thatās assuming thereāll be a pearl to see.
PANEL 2 [small]
An alleyway behind the building with a small sign reading [CATERING ENTRANCE] and another reading [NO TRESPASSING] and a couple of wanted posters with the vague silhouette of an otter on them. The door is ajar.
CAP 2: He wouldnāt dare. With this security? Impossible.
CAP 1: They said that about Deweyās Diamond Bathysphere.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:byvqqu5whrxey5az6qmpkmgp/bafkreifnjhpcyvmbg2fhwvnnjltgalumbk7eo2xfz5wdzxld5ac7p6epty@jpeg)
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PANEL 1 [big]
Establishing shot inside the gala. Itās a large open space with a couple of large fish tanks built into each wall. These can either be stylized or thereās just one really large fish in each or a fish tank castle, gags like that. Thereās a smattering of fancy guests and cater waiters milling about aimlessly. Importantly, thereās a large buffet table somewhere in the room. The buffet table can just have metal chafing dishes or geometric appetizers, nothing too specific. Maybe thereās a sign or large food item to suggest whatās going on there.
There is also a heavy metal [STAFF ONLY] door in one of the visible walls.
Conspicuously, two waiters are bringing out a comically large punchbowl on wheels.
GUEST 1: And Admiral Ottovordemgentās prize fly rod.
GUEST 2: No!
GUEST 1: Hook line and sinker
GUEST 2: I can never tell when youāre joking.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:byvqqu5whrxey5az6qmpkmgp/bafkreicmmyhtpcnbxzcve5viejbu4o5ev7a6bun4urhh32v72qn5zsdwgy@jpeg)
Shelley: now if some cosmic void tried to make me go insane Shelley: [brandishing shiv] i'd just stab it Shelley: right in its unknowable mystery!
..if this next wave of the internet can bring one positive thing, it could be a shift away from having super-dominant cultures that everyone else feels obliged to anthropologically explain themselves to as people become more connected with more distant parts of the world. lithub.com/to-americani...
Ten years ago now, when I was teaching English in a German high school, I was checking an eighth grade studentās work and underlined an error. The assignment was to write a profile introducing yourā¦
Our newest anthology, Perfect Crime Party, is about pulling off the perfect crime. It's just a little over half-funded on Backerkit! Please pitch in and help us get some artists paid! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/i...
What do YOU think you could get away with? Get your hands on Iron Circus' latest anthology project, where we ask the immortal question: What's the PERFECT CRIME?
Speaking as someone who knows a little bit about copyright, and has been a proud member of the "edgy internet"* since the early 90s, I'd like to talk about why letting the AI companies freely scrape content is a bad thing for open content, and a threat to everything the commons movement worked for.
A federal judge has granted native title rights to the Ngemba, Ngiyampaa, Wangaaypuwan, and Wayilwan peoples over 95,000 square kilometres of land in New South Wales, one of the largest native title claims in Australian history. https://buff.ly/3TbS7sO#ShareGoodNewsToo
In an open-air courtroom set up in a nature reserve at Cobar, families from the Ngemba, Ngiyampaa, Wangaaypuwan and Wayilwan peoples secure one of the largest native title claims in the region'sā¦
Woohoo!
Can confirm, in Australia we now have this option. It's like doing a RAT, same kind of swab on a stick. You do it yourself.