It's Thursday, this is Dora Reads, so we should probably get some comics-y superhero-y goodness!
Thursday, 25 May 2023
Sunday, 21 May 2023
Nerd Church - Is 1.5 Still Alive?
Warning: this post may have a negative affect on people who experience Climate Anxiety
As part of the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement, the world made a commitment to stopping the rate at which the world was warming at 1.5C by the end of the Century.
...Which was always going to be a big ask, because, sadly: people.
People and capitalism and governments and big oil and all of that.
Thursday, 18 May 2023
Comics Wrap-Up - Yes, The One With George Clooney
It's Thursday, I'm tired, this is Dora Reads - let's get some comics-y superhero-y goodness!
Sunday, 14 May 2023
Nerd Church - Short Story: Crystal Clarity
This story was originally published in the Promptly Written publication on Medium by yours truly, in response to the prompt 'Either dream or reality' from editor Ravyne Hawke.
Crystal Clarity
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It seemed so fantastical. A miracle of modern craftsmanship and engineering, they called it. He hated it.
Layers of quartz and glass melded into one another to create this sturdy viewing platform, over the crater. It didn’t seem real. And yet… it was strong beneath him. Physical.
He wouldn’t look down, through the surface, the prism, the light. Instead he looked across at the crater itself, ragged, raw, a bleeding wound on the landscape.
They told him the platform was very beautiful — stark contrast, they said, with the catastrophe it looked out upon. But he kept his eyes resolutely ahead, away from the glimpses of sublime achievement beneath him.
Beauty had no place here — not like this. No matter how much the tourists clicked and clacked across the quartz and crystal, oohing and ahing, he would not look down.
He wondered how many of them had even taken a videogram or a panoramiograph of the real attraction — the reason the platform was even here: the ugly crater which once held so many hopes, dreams, lives. None of them seemed to care.
They’ll tell people they visited this place. Not quite the truth.
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Friday, 12 May 2023
Month In Review(s) - April 2023
Have I mentioned that 2023 hates me?
Because 2023 hates me.
I'm having the worst year. And that's saying something.
Thursday, 11 May 2023
Comics Wrap-Up - Giving Off Original Power Rangers Vibes All Around
It's Thursday, this is Dora Reads, let's get some comics-y and/or superhero-y goodness!
Sunday, 7 May 2023
Nerd Church - The Writer Diaries: I Just Wanna Write Something Beautiful
'Well I wanted something better manI wished for something new
And I wanted something beautiful
And wish for something true'
- The Foo Fighters, Wheels
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