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The Book Dragon's Lair

@i-am-a-book-dragon

This blog is a hodgepodge of what I enjoy. I will focus on living a zero waste lifestyle, but will include geek stuff (star wars, star trek, Harry Potter, Marvel...), dragons, and stuff that makes me smile. Enjoy!

Pundemic 2020

I am going to use this time to spread puns faster then the corona virus.

Instead of spreading misery, we spread Puns, groaners, dad jokes, and all sorts of word play

use the #Pundemic 2020 

Spread the word my Pun People

Lets make it go VIRAL

Can't wait to see this SPREAD

Re-posting this because I finally got to scan it in high-res.

Betty Bates is a goddamn hero.

—“Betty Bates, Lady-at-Law” in Hit Comics #47 (1947)

I… gotta admit, I was waiting for the story to turn on her and make her out to be unreasonable, but damn.

It would be interesting to discover the history of this. Anyone care to wager it was quashed by some macho editor?

Shockingly…. no.  I looked it up, and apparently she had her own title for like a decade, and got lost in the shuffle when DC bought Quality comics so they could get Plastic Man. Apparently, she was also a consistent badass.

Apparently she’s public domain now, so if any of y’all want to write a revival series of her, you can!

i’m all for peter being portrayed as a teenager bc that’s just classic spidey, and if you prefer him being portrayed as a teenager that’s fine we all have preferences. my only issue with it is that people who only watch the spidey films and don’t read the comics are really missing out on some good adult peter moments. like right now in the comics peter parker is around 30 years old and watching him interact with younger superheroes is really heart-warming, because he’s been there and he gets how hard it can be, he feels responsible for these kids

and then there’s the renew your vows comic where he’s an actual dad married to mary jane, and they have a daughter who’s named annie may. and that series is full of really fun stories, plus it’s interesting to see how peter juggles being spidey and being a dad/husband and how those two things intertwine, also the dad jokes are endless

teenage peter parker is a timeless version, but that version is shown so much (especially in film) that it seems like a lot of spidey fans feel like adult peter wouldn’t be as good or true to his character which just isn’t true, so if you’re ignoring the adult version of peter parker then you’re seriously missing out on great character development/stories that show peter’s journey and his character more than anything

I’M SORRY SPIDER-MAN HAS A KID NAMED ANIME??

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you may be dyslexic and thats okay

Annie May = Anime

“Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.” -Walt Whitman

This has 200k notes but none of you know the truth of the I Hate Rubber Boots Guy. This man lives in my city. He wears this outfit constantly. The Weird Toronto photo group has a ban on posting him because he’s always like this.  He has done this for years. Every so often he buys a taller pair of rubber boots.

I found a more current picture

i really hate coming out but still want my extended family to know, so my mother took it upon herself to invent the game “guess which one of my kids is gay.”

the rules are simple.

  • sit down with uncle so-and-so
  • he says something about gay people in passing
  • my mom says “there’s a gay person at this table right now. guess which of my kids it is!
  • he looks frantically between the three of us trying to figure out if she’s joking or not and trying desperately not to offend anyone but also she won’t continue with the conversation unless he makes a guess so he has to make a guess
  • we all enjoy his discomfort immensely
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This isnt coming out of the closet. This is coughing loudly from within the closet to scare the people outside of it, which is immensely more entertaining.

Etsy is somehow being even worse, do not click etsy ads

Etsy is now forcing shop owners to be part of their ads. We can not opt out.

To anyone who buys from etsy: DO NOT EVER CLICK THEIR ADS

They are rolling out a program where if you get a sale from an ad they put out, they’re taking 12-15% of the profit(probably on top of the like, 5%ish+ they already take). Even worse, if you have clicked an Etsy ad in the last 30 days ANYONE YOU BUY FROM ON ETSY IN THAT PERIOD WILL BE BILLED THAT FEE. 

So please, if you see an ad for something you like off etsy, do not click it. Just go on etsy and search for it.

This is somehow worse than what storenvy used to pull. 

Please go directly through an artist or see if they have their own storefront (I use bigcartel) instead of purchasing off etsy. And if you must, just please, please, never click an etsy ad.

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👆This is from another take for shops that made 10,000 and can’t opt out

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Oh for fuck’s sake.

Yeah, this is gross. Especially how it’s mandatory if you make over $10k in any 1 year period then you’re locked in for the life of your shop.

Bonus, the fee is calculated to include shipping. Which isn’t income. Which is fucked up.

Also, if you click over from an ad and buy a bunch of things not advertised, the 12-15% is taken from the total and not just the advertised item.

BUNJY did you know that the post office has HOLOGRAPHIC T-REX STAMPS that change from dinosaur to BONES or STICK OUT THEIR TONGUES? Because I just learned this fact today and am now cackling madly as I tilt them back and forth.

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Apparently I needed pictures to see that it doesn't actually stick out its tongue, but turns its head!

And they gave the baby feathers!

ATTAAAAAAAAACK!

well shit, I guess I need to go to the post office tomorrow