4 things make a post (Powerpuffs, HP, Quipping, Oz)
2-hour video breakdown of that “what if the CW did gritty adult Powerpuff Girls” pilot that everyone was making fun of a while back. Apparently the script leaked! This guy talks through it all, and adds so many good takes.
It’s mostly as terrible as you expect, but there were some genuine “this could’ve been good, if it was in a better show” moments. There’s a point where the Youtuber says “admit it, if you watched that scene on TV, it would’ve gotten you,” right after reading a description that did in fact have me thinking “okay, if that was on TV, it would’ve gotten me.”
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Extremely long unrolled Xitter thread with a “how to fix the Harry Potter books” proposal. Starts with a reveal that could’ve happened in the Chamber of Secrets, builds on it with a major turning point in Goblet of Fire, then tracks the way those changes could spiral through all the rest of the series.
This guy does have a few iffy takes. (There was at least one really stark example of “when the characters do X, it’s wishy-washy liberalism that JKR should feel bad for writing; when the characters don’t do X, it’s utopian socialism that JKR should’ve written.”)
But the meat of the premise is good, and the sheer scale of the HP problems he fixes along the way — worldbuilding problems, plot-hole problems, setups-that-never-went-anywhere problems — is kind of amazing. I teared up IRL when I got to the ending.
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Patreon introduced a new Twitter-esque microblogging feed. How’s that working out so far?
Welp, they’re actively promoting “you don’t even have to write anything new for this! You can repost stuff you’ve already posted on other sites!” So, I can only assume it’s super popular and going just as well as they hoped.
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I have low-key wanted to print an Oz treasury for years now. The upcoming Printopia 2026 event on BackerKit has finally kicked me into gear.
(This is replacing the usual yearly Leif & Thorn campaign. The strips for Volume 9 will not, for the first time, all be fully-drawn before the campaign would start. And I don’t want to mess up my perfect stable “books start shipping by the next March” track record with “books start shipping by, idk, whenever I’m finished.”)
Here’s the pre-launch page for Dorothy And Her Princess In Oz. Like with all my print comic collections, it’s a mix of “stuff that’s been freely shared online” (the stories) and “special book-exclusive bonus stuff” (new art) (seriously, this thing will have a ton of new art).
If that sounds like something you’d buy, click through and sign up. If it doesn’t, but you’re willing to give me an ego boost from the follower count going up, sign up anyway.
#BackerKit #filthyLucre #HarryPotter #LandOfOz #PowerpuffGirls
