#Letter from the Editor

[beneaththetangles]

Letter: Why We Won’t Be Covering the Rurouni Kenshin Reboot (And Why You Maybe Shouldn’t Watch It, Either)

Dear Friends,

The new anime season is just around the corner! And one that stands above the rest for fans of a certain generation. Running for two consecutive cours and premiering July 7th, the new Rurouni Kenshin anime is the latest classic series from c. 2000 to receive a reboot. The original was a precious show to me (as was the original manga), which made it all the harder when I decided that I wouldn’t be tuning in. Neither will Beneath the Tangles be generating any content related to the series beyond this letter as we seek to best live out the principles we espouse and encourage you to deeply consider the entertainment you consume.

But before I explain further, let me take you back to 2002. Though I’d grown up in the church and in a Christian family, I’d only recently come to understand the weight of what Christ did for me on the cross and how truly amazing his grace is. I was learning about Christ as the living Savior and not just the wonderful teacher I’d grown up reading about. He had come alive to me.

I was reading the Bible voraciously, but I was also learning about Christ from others, namely, writers like Philip Yancey, C.S. Lewis, and John Piper. And though I didn’t realize until I started Beneath the Tangles, I was also forming my conception of Christ from non-Christian media that helped illustrate biblical principles in ways that were imaginative and unexpected. Two characters from anime illuminated Christlike actions to me in particular. Yep, you guessed it—they were from the two recent reboots, Vash the Stampede (Trigun) and Kenshin Himura (Rurouni Kenshin).

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#Anime #Christianity #Rurouni Kenshin #Rurouni Kenshin (2023) #Samurai X #Beneath the Tangles #Letter from the Editor #Summer Anime 2023 #Anime Article #Anime Blog #Articles #Christian Anime #Christian Otaku #Author: TWWK

[archiesonicworkbook]

ARCHIE SONCI MENTUONE

ARCHIE SONIC MENYIOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(also............. i may be a baby fawn in the middle of a field regarding archie sonic stuff but would yr archie sonic server be open for someone just getting into it v slowly)

#letter from the editor

[crumplebottomsinteriorsmagazine]

A warm welcome from Editor-in-Chief, Samatha Rossi...

Welcome to Crumplebottom's Interiors Magazine, the next big thing to happen to the interior and building community since, well that one forum shut down and simblr started to be a thing.

Today, I just wanted to tell you a little about my plan for this "magazine."

First many thanks to our sponsor @orangeresearcher that has kindly let us use his space for our operations.

Back to the plans,

We of course want to show off the beauty that the simblr community and the many architects and interior designers. We are open to any style of housing and rooms, though we have a soft spot for contemporary design. You are welcome to submit your projects on our submission page. We are a small team, so please be patient as we set up your post.

Joining our team as critic-at-large, Francis DeWolf will cover criticism and interviews with homeowners, both large and small, and their creative teams.

Additionally, the social team is excited to launch challenges and design competitions.

Since we are working with a shoestrings budget, we all have day jobs and thus are very busy with our own deadlines, but who knows what the future will entail.

-Samantha Rossi, EIC

#welcoming post #OC: Samatha Rossi #letter from the editor #s4 simblr #simblr #is it a story blog? a lifelong dream? who knows and who cares

[ufohio]

Premise & Setting

Welcome to Earth, OH — Circa 2157

Forget everything you know about society. This is the United States of America in 2157. 

You’ve landed in Earth… Ohio—a small, remarkable city sticking out like a sore thumb between tall, glittering Columbus and the silver shores of fair Cleveland...

Here “on Earth,” we pride ourselves on our rich agriculture, our stunning vistas—and our tip-top experimental flight and rocket programs. 

Earth, Ohio, has been consistently named American Astronauts’ City of Choice over Wapokoneta and Dayton, and our beautiful camping grounds and wonderful, active skies attract visitors from all over the state. Pay no attention to the mysterious restricted area in the north of town, the site of a 2147 ecological disaster that left the grounds dangerous and closed to all but the very enigmatic… And never you mind the eerie lights in the night sky that glide without rocket fire and soar without wings—that twinkle in the distance like all different suns and stars... 

Spend time instead relaxing at our new mall! Visit our museum and explore our local history of dazzling pulp fiction. Rent a rocket for a weekend trip to Mars. 

Or, help us welcome our sweet and strange new neighbors who’ve relocated here from the Sunshine State. They’re downright otherworldly, so let’s all give them a warm Earth “hello!”

Hello! Our upcoming science fiction title will be an adventurous, awe-inspiring collection of strange and astonishing tales—or at least we hope it will be! The setting’s many hooks and scenarios have been written to honor iconic pulp fiction staples and provide a truly fantastical but also resonating environment where writers can explore, narrate, and reappreciate daily life on our thrilling wonder planet, Earth. 

On our science fiction site, writers and characters will be encouraged to explore a truly magical life in a truly magical place. We’re interested in character-driven stories, adventures, and mysteries that engage with themes of family, home, hope, fear, and belonging as well as the most marvelous parts of the average day-to-day in the new fifties: hovercars, super microwaves, jet pack injuries, retirement rockets, and more.

And of course, the city of Earth will not just be populated by mankind and its many wonders—it will also be home to many different beings from many different worlds, journeys, and futures of their very own. Beings made and loved by you, the writers! And we can’t wait to meet them.

Here, we fundamentally believe that there’s no such thing as a normal, non-marvelous life. Have your character investigate the strange quarantine zone in the center of town that evicted a whole neighborhood ten years ago. Or let them be a part of the buzzing, flight-filled skies. They can visit the many different sights and sounds of the touristy Solar System—or they can discover that life or love wasn’t what they thought it was—that it was something so much more beautiful and strange … and perhaps gooier than they expected. These and many other subplots will be available to you at our upcoming title—plus, all of your own ideas, too! 

In the small, sparkling city of Earth, Ohio, where The Golden Age of Science Fiction is revered and preserved, we don’t think it will be very long at all before the people of Earth find themselves resembling their favorite fantasies and mysteries. And that’s exactly what we’re going for. 

We appreciate you coming along for the ride! 

P.S. Oh! And yes, we will be ragging on Florida a lot. A lot a lot. So much.

#premise #setting #premise & setting #major update #letter from the editor #the royal we #jcink rp #site buzz #science fiction #futurism #slice of life #character driven #subplots #plot hooks

[wttnblog]

The August Wrap

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#books i read #by Jocelyn #letter from the editor #movies i watched #october wrap up #review list #the august wrap

[the313gentleman]

Letter from the Editor 7/8/23

Welcome back fellow gamers! Life always has its curve balls and I write this message to you in hopes to encourage you. We are all dealing with something whether it’s minor or major the hiccups and kinks in the plan are there. I wish I had some sage advice or could pull an inspirational Jiraya quote out but in real life, I fell. I had to take a moment and step away from everything I love and…

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#letter from the editor #Letters from the editor #World War Z #WWZ #zombie apocalypse #Youtube

[shadowboxerinc]

Letter from the Editor / June 2023

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#announcements #June 2023 #Letter from the Editor #news #slider #Summer 2023

[megankoumori]

THIS. This is the blunt, no BS kind of call out the media should employ when it's time to cancel.

#real life #scott adams #Dilbert #cleveland.com #letter from the editor #cancellation

[herpoetryshelf]

Letter from the Editor

Hey there fellow poetry lover! I’m Debbie Pierre, a nostalgic, whimsical, and pop culture-based poet. If you’re reading this between 2022 and 2024, you’re able to follow my creative writing MFA student journey in real time at William Paterson University.

During high school, I did not think much of creative writing as a profession, so my poems were just quick scribbles on the page for a grade. Fortunately, that all changed during my junior year at Bloomfield College. Even though I took Intro to Creative Writing as an elective, it soon became a turning point for me. My creative writing professor always stressed how poetry acts as a representation of the writer. 

He was right.

These poems were less like grades and more like me in a stanza. I would spend hours revising: looking for the perfect descriptions, phrases, metaphors, and similes. It was a personal mission for me to describe someone or something without explicitly saying its name — an equivalent no one else has thought of. 

In 2022, I graduated with a bachelor's degree in Creative Writing and was class recipient of the Joyce Carol Oates Award in Creative Writing.

As of now, I’ve sat on the rough pavement while eating street food at the Dodge Poetry Festival, watched a man get down on one knee in front of his girlfriend at the Nuyorican Poets Café, and stuttered through my first in-person performance at the Montclair Public Library. And, I hope to have and share many more of my poetic learning experiences in this blog.

Now leave your shoes at the door and follow me to my poetry shelf. We have to study the past to become the future!

#letter from the editor #poetry #poems #blog intro #intro post #poetry review #poetry recs

[meavz]

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

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Editors social @thicktrap on Instagram

#meavz #artmagazine #letter from the editor #love quotes #heart #calling all artists #artists on tumblr

[cestpaspourtoi]

letter from the editor #1

Promise.

Initially, I promised to work on this project every day this month, but I will be honest, fifteen days have passed and I have done very little. I haven’t sewn a thing, I haven’t styled a single wig or practiced any makeup application at all. I haven’t even thought much about it, I’ve been working on my writing and playing D&D with my friends and helping my cousin get his campaign together.

That said, I have felt happy. I’ve lost weight (five pounds in two weeks). I’ve hung out with my friends and family and turned twenty-five. I picked up tarot again and have actually learned things. Today didn’t start out great, but the month so far has actually been pretty nice otherwise. I’m lonely, but I do have friends. 

This project still means the world to me, and I am promising to pay attention to it and learn those skills that I will need in order to be the performer I want to be, and more importantly the dedication to stick with something through all seasons and moods. No matter what comes out of it, I want to finish. 

So, that’s my promise: I will do this. I will grow and learn, I will dedicate myself to something, and I will finish this. 

#letter from the editor #promise #22-23 #self-exploration

[crumplebottomsinteriorsmagazine]

I'm excited to announce...

I am excited to announce our first interview feature will be published tomorrow and very pleased it will be Etienne Toussiant, who designed and crafted the Etienne Bench and Love...seat. He is known to be media shy, so it is truly a win for our young publication.

#letter from the editor #crumplebottom's interviews #OC: Samatha Rossi

[havendance]

could I ask about Nightwing recruiting people for Brother Blood?

This is the fic where Tim joins the Church of Blood because of that time Nightwing got brainwashed and went on television publicly endorsing them. It's currently on hold because I need to get around to finishing reading that arc in New Teen Titans.

Currently all that's written is a scene which sets up Tim as a sad, lonely kid stuck at boarding school for the summer and thus vulnerable to cult recruitment:

"There's only a week and a half left of school," Tim said. "You guys always come home for summer break." He tried very hard to sound like he was pointing out facts and not like he was whining, because he wasn't. "You know we're trying our very best," his mom said this time. "We'd much rather be home with you and if things weren't so complicated over here, we would be. It should only be a couple extra weeks and then we'll be home." "A couple weeks I have to spend at school." "Belmont Academy has an excellent summer program," his dad said. "You can spend your time running around with your friends instead of getting weighed down by your ole' mom and dad. It'll be fun, kiddo."

#letters to the editor #Anonymous #tim drake #tim tag #havendance writes #despite the title of this fic #from the planning i've done so far Nightwing does not actually play that major of a role #besides being important to tim that is #carthago delenda est

[wttnblog]

The July Wrap

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#books i read #by Jocelyn #letter from the editor #movies i watched #october wrap up #review list

[cowboymaterials]

When Settler Becomes Native by Solomon JB Brager

#decolonize #palestine #israel #indigenous solidarity #anti zionism #theres some good letters to the editor that respond to this comic #from turtle island to palestine

[karinyosa]

one action that i haven't seen a ton of people discuss online is writing a letter to the editor (not one specific editor, that's just what they're called). i'm thinking of palestine, but a lot of this can apply to other things. jvp has a letter to the editor guide here if u think you'd find that helpful. it's specific to jvp members from what i remember, so take what applies. individual papers will sometimes have their own sets of guidelines as well so be mindful of those. letters are generally more likely to make it to print when it comes to local papers, but you can also write letters to like. the nyt or wapo. you're just more likely to not get a response. as tools for social change, letters' purpose is to sway public opinion and pressure via institutions of media. i focus on local papers because, like with bds campaigns targeting college campuses, this stuff is going to start on a smaller scale first, but can and does build over time. think of one berkeley branch voting to divest very soon after another did first. this is like that to me.

i recommend seeing what other articles individual papers have about palestine just to get a feel for what might be most impactful for you to write about, or what still needs to be said. for local papers, you might want to tie it to your community in some way (and that might even be a requirement to get in the paper), so you can talk about, for example, how much money comes out of your specific area for israel, using uscpr's funding map. you can talk about protests in your area. if there are arab, palestinian, and/or muslim communities in your area, you talk about them. if there are medical facilities or lots of families in your area, you can talk about them. if there's a big tech presence in your area, you can relate it to that. education, youth, food, policing, etc. there's something. there are probably multiple lines of connection between your local community and palestine. you can also just respond to a published article or lte.

if you are writing a letter to the editor, it will be considered an opinion piece, so you can include opinions or things that may be seen as more subjective. check out other letters to the editor to get a sense for the type of tone/content/etc they are looking for. don't be afraid to break or bend those rules, but it's helpful to be aware of the general vibe of the paper, what's likely to get published, and what needs to be said.

what do you want your community to be talking about? what needs to be brought to their attention? what misconceptions need to be corrected? what issues do you want to put on the table? what do you want to add to the conversation? what's missing? what should be done about it?

if you can't make it to in-person actions, this can all be done online. and if you consider yourself good with words, this may be an area in which you're uniquely effective.

ps: citing other articles or sources is always helpful and is a way to platform other articles/books/texts that u think should be shared, although i don't think that's usually a requirement for ltes. if u can't think of one, ask around.

#palestine #sudan #drc #actions #haiti #writing #letter to the editor #at some point i want to write about one state solutions with reference to jewish currents' dispatches from gaza #and like. help lay the groundwork for that to be something that's at least considered a possibility by the general public #but there are also papers where it's like. i think i need to write about like this language of self defense and who is presumed to be #violent and argue that it is a genocide and things like that #so you know. gauge where you need to push etc. not that you necessarily need to respond to what's there #also there are more than likely multiple local papers in your area. you can write to more than one #personal stories also work for this #if you've written or made artwork idk if every paper is going to pick that up but consider submitting to a local litmag #congo #free palestine #also i'm not an organizer or a professional. these are just some things i've been thinking about