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daydreamerdrew · 1 year

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Comics read this past week:

DC Comics:

the Sandman stories in Adventure Comics (1938) #43-44

With these two Sandman stories I just went from September 1939 to October 1939. The first story was six pages and was written and drawn by Bert Christman. The second story was ten pages and was written by Gardner Fox and drawn by Creig Flessel with Fred Guardineer assisting on inking the backgrounds.

The premise of the first story was that Wesley Dodds was on a vacation and flying his plane in the South Seas where he chanced upon a criminal plot on one of the islands. The second story began with a man breaking into Wesley Dodds’ house but immediately derailed that intended robbery when Wes recognized the man as his childhood friend. The two catch up and the childhood friend shares with Wesley that he intends to go straight as soon as he catches and gets revenge on the man known as the Mask for getting his sister killed. This is interrupted by a police officer supposedly entering the home due to a call that someone was seen breaking into it, but was really the Mask in disguise who killed the childhood friend and injured Wesley enough that he was hospitalized for days. The rest of the story was Wesley investigating in order to track down the Mask and ultimately killing him.

Fawcett Comics:

the Captain Marvel stories in Whiz Comics (1940) #61-62 and in Captain Marvel Adventures (1941) #42-43

In this batch of Captain Marvel stories I went from November 1945 to December 1945. There is one Captain Marvel story per issue of Whiz Comics and four per issue of Captain Marvel Adventures for a total of ten Captain Marvel stories read in this batch. These stories ranged from seven to twelve pages.

The story "Captain Marvel and the World of If" (written by Otto Binder; artist unknown) in Captain Marvel Adventures #42 explored through a ‘world of if’ machine a possible alternate timeline in which Captain Marvel joined the Nazis. This happened through a Nazi tricking Captain Marvel into signing a contract agreeing to “denounce America and help Hitler” which Captain Marvel then treated as binding and, after a brief moment of sadness, completely followed. But when Captain Marvel transforms back into Billy to go to sleep that night, Billy is devastated and sobs before determinedly sneaking around Hitler’s compound to try to find and rip up that contract. This all is presented as something that was entirely possible to happen, but that even in a world where Captain Marvel joined the Nazis he would eventually turn on them and defeat them. And so Billy states at the end of the story in his concluding broadcast that, “There are many possible branches of if worlds! But in all of them, no matter which one fate chooses to follow, there is always Captain Marvel! And as long as there is Captain Marvel around, things just can’t go wrong!”

The story "Captain Marvel and the Plot Against Christmas" (writer unknown; possibly drawn by Pete Constanza) in Captain Marvel Adventures #42 was very much like Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol with Captain Marvel taking a crotchety old man who was resisting donating toys to orphans for Christmas around to different places to try to teach him the Christmas spirit. I particularly appreciated the beginning of the story where Billy was working alone at Station Whiz on Christmas Eve and looks at the pile of Christmas cards from his friends on his desk and says to himself, “Sometimes I wish I had someone closer to me than just friends! It’s times like Christmas when it’s tough to be an orphan!”

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seeranon · 3 months

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sending all my mutuals a lil card :3

[ :3 ] [ merry christman ]

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bastardbvby · 2 years

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Can we wake an f1 anon because I had a tiktok about seb. Is it true he sends christman cards to all the drivers and none of them respond to him????

if real that's so sad and sick and twisted . f1 anons pspspsps come here

#f1 anons we need to talk..............i fear some of u are straying to the darkside (ferverdream) .#asks #thank u anon <3

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elains · 2 years

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It’s Christmas in Bookclub! ❧ anna karenina for hailey

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”

#anna karenina #leo tolstoy #litedit #bookeit #myedit #cards #christmans in bookclub

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sunnylighter · 2 years

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Hey all, Merry Christmas. The reason I haven’t been posting my doodles lately is because I’d been working on this. Every year I do a Christmas group picture with my friends and family, and as you can see it takes a little more work than a quick sketch with gel pens. Still, it’s fun to do every year, but now that it’s done I can start working on requests again.

#christmas #snowball #snowball fight #christmans card

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kids-worldfun · 2 years

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How You Can Get Into The Christmas Spirit With Your Family? Christmas is more than exchanging gifts! Discover some fun and entertaining ways to keep your family in the festive spirit this year. Read more: https://www.kidsworldfun.com/blog/how-you-can-get-into-the-christmas-spirit-with-your-family/

#christmas #christmas decoration #christmas spirit #christmans songs #christmas gifts #christmas tunes #christmas tree #christmas movies #christmas story #christmas cards #christmas events #christmas carol

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meiusoo-twistedtwst · 2 years

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[Twisted Wonderland Theory] Trying My Best to Explain Malleus and Sebek

(Images from the new Twisted Wonderland wiki. I choose the Halloween ones just because there's no Christman cards yet, I'm sorry...)

So, there has always been some form of complaint against Sebek and Malleus (yes, Malleus gets hate too). I worded it weirdly, but basically some people don't understand Malleus and Sebek. And I think a lot of that misunderstandment comes from the fact that Malleus and Sebek both have fae blood in them but unlike Lilia, these two struggle to blend in with normal humans.

Let's start off with Malleus:

Now, everyone should know by now that Malleus is a pure fae. Born and grew up in the Valley of Thorns, he was surrounded by faes almost all his childhood. Due to this and his extreme lack of connecting with the modern world surrounding him, Malleus doesn't know much of anything about human morals. Faes have completely different set of morals compared to humans. According to classic fae literature, kidnapping young kids and babies was completely normal for faes. So, chances are Lilla might have kidnapped Silver when he was a baby, so maybe this is what will drive Silver to rebel against his father if Lillia joins sides with Malleus. Malleus casually stopped time and he and Lilia kidnapped a bunch of people and had ghost possess them all just for fun. The Endless Halloween event clearly shows the difference between Malleus' way of thinking compared to the non-fae characters.

Then, Sebek:

A lot of people tend to blame Sebek for always agreeing with whatever Malleus says as that prevents Malleus from realizing he's wrong to do certain things sometimes. And those people make valid points. However, we also have to consider who Sebek is. Sebek is only a half-fae who's Malleus assistant and guard. Compared to Malleus himself and Lilia who's a retired, highly honored military general who has probably been alive since the Ice Age, Sebek might believe he must agree to everything Malleus says as his opinion may be considered as not important, earning Malleus mutual love and respect is what will give Sebek a voice among his pure fae peers back at the castle. I think Sebek was looked down upon and shamed for only being the half-fae grandson of an honored military general back at the royal castle. Silver may also be looked down on, but he knows Lilia is his adopted dad and that's enough for him.

In general, I think we just need to be patient and considerate when it comes to Malleus and Sebek. Those two are probably the most out of the world characters in Twisted Wonderland.

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todaysdocument · 5 years

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“Volunteer Enlistment Paper of William Christman,” 3/25/1864

File Unit: Compiled Military Service Record of William Christman, 67th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 1890 - 1912. Series: Carded Records Showing Military Service of Soldiers Who Fought in Volunteer Organizations During the American Civil War, 1890 - 1912. Record Group 94: Records of the Adjutant General's Office, 1762 - 1984.

William Christman was the first military burial at Arlington National Cemetery.

#Civil War #volunteer #William Christman #Arlington National Cemetery #military #troops #burial #military burial #archivesgov #March 25 #1864 #1800s #1860s #Easton Pennsylvania #pennsylvania

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redshift-13 · 6 years

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“Matthew J. Etchells, Elizabeth Deuermeyer, Vanessa Liles, Samantha Meister, Mario Itzel Suarez, and Warren L. Chalklen (Texas A&M): White Male Privilege: An Intersectional Deconstruction. Why girls can be boyish but boys can’t be girlish. The grown white man in his underwear in Mommy’s basement is the poster boy for a new identity category, the gender separatist. It’s time for men to stop worrying about who they are, and start thinking about what they do. Patriarchy deflated: The #MeToo movement is making male power look silly. What about the boys? Nora Fyles on educating boys for gender justice. Katrina Karkazis on the masculine mystique of T.

Emily K. Carian and Tagart Cain Sobotka (Stanford): Playing the Trump Card: Masculinity Threat and the U.S. 2016 Presidential Election. Too many men: In China and India, men outnumber women by 70 million — both nations are belatedly trying to come to grips with the policies that created this male-heavy generation. University of Texas campaign around healthy masculinity plunges conservative outlets deep into their feelings. Kevin Hardcastle interviews Daemon Fairless on getting into fights, the anxiety-based roots of violence, and the co-opting of masculinity by “public intellectuals”. How Big Dick Energy explains modern masculinity: Big Dick Energy is the meme we need in 2018.

Phil Christman (Michigan): What Is It Like to Be a Man? Samuel Veissiere (McGill): “Toxic Masculinity” in the Age of #MeToo: Ritual, Morality, and Gender Archetypes Across Cultures. Anthony Bourdain took responsibility for toxic masculinity and called out his friends. Today’s masculinity is stifling: As boys grow up, the process of becoming men encourages them to shed the sort of intimate connections and emotional intelligence that add meaning to life. Alia Wong on the many possible meanings of the “masculinity crisis”. Alison Lefkovitz on Jordan Peterson and the return of the men’s rights movement. What kind of man takes his wife’s last name?”

#toxic masculinity #reforming men #healthy boyhoods #male socialization #book forum

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owlartshop-blog · 6 years

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Christman w/REoee at #EtsySpecialT by rescuedofferings featuring a merry christmas card

#polyvore #art #EtsySpecialT #SpecialTSale

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hiphoprunsweb-blog · 5 years

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August Alsina Reportedly Getting Evicted From His Bell Canyon Mansion

August Alsina may have to find himself a new home.

August Alsina has not been dealt with the best of cards as of late. The 26-year-old “Song Cry” singer lost his sister on Christman Day last year and became the legal guardian to his two nieces.

“I’m going through my process. I’m going through my journey,” he recently stated…

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#Music News August Alsina Bell Canyon mansion evicted report home california

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theconservativebrief · 6 years

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The idea of having a mailbox full of actual mail seems outdated.

Print magazines are fading, more and more bills are paid online, and many brands have scaled back on printed catalogues, preferring to funnel resources into website upkeep and social media instead.

Yet over the last few years, brands — including hot, digitally savvy, direct-to-consumer ones like Casper, Harry’s, Wayfair, Rover, Quip, Away, Handy, and Modcloth — have taken to targeting customers in the mail.

If you’re in your 20s or 30s and live in an urban city, you probably have gotten, for example, a glossy, blue booklet from mattress brand Casper inviting you to check out its latest products. If you’re a woman in the same age range, you’ve probably been mailed a millennial pink pamphlet from no-makeup makeup brand Glossier.

Electric toothbrush startup Quip targets new customers via mailers. Quip.

Perhaps you’ve tossed these mailers into the trash and moved on to your meal delivery kit. But maybe you’ve done exactly what these companies want you to do, which is to go to their site. Extra points if you buy something using the accompanying discount code found on all their mailings ($50 off of a mattress with the code MATTRESS50; $5 off at Glossier with the code Stamp!).

Why do these disruptive, online-first companies want to be our old school pen pals?

The rise of young, digital brands spending money to mail us stuff speaks to the cyclical progress of shopping trends. A decade ago, companies looking to reach customers would often buy email addresses from third parties. They’d do giveaways and, if existing customers handed over their family and friends’ email addresses, they’d offer discounts too.

Fast forward 10 years and the virtual mailbox today looks a whole lot like our parents’ IRL mailboxes back then: A total shit show. Our inboxes are overflowing with newsletters, real letters, ride-sharing receipts, lunch-sharing receipts, bills, fake bills, breaking news notifications, not-so-breaking news notifications, brand promotions, sales promotions, social media alerts, spam, and porn. How do we all stay on top of this?

Footwear startup M.Gemi sends mail to new and existing customers. M.Gemi

The answer, as you probably know, is that we can’t and we don’t. Emails often get deleted without so much as being opened, regardless of how cheeky the subject line is.

“People our age get hundreds of emails a day, but they only get ten pieces of a mail a day, if that many,” says Pete Christman, the head of acquisition marketing at the shaving company Harry’s, which counts on mailers as part of its marketing. “From a numbers perspective, email is a much noisier environment.”

Advertising on social media has become increasingly difficult too. In case you haven’t noticed, which surely you have, brands are targeting you on social. And in aiming for the ideal consumer for sexy, digital brands, many companies are finding themselves in the same spot: targeting the exact same age group (millennials), living in the exact same areas (heavily populated cities), with the exact same income (middle-class).

This pond brands have to fish in is small and only getting more crowded, which explains why so many digitally-native brands turn to old-school retail methods like opening stores or buying billboards. It’s for this reason that mail is often a better way to catch the attention of new and existing customers than a Facebook or Instagram ad.

“The advertising world gets excited about things like digital and pours money into complicated ads when there’s limited opportunity because everyone is trying to get in front of the same people and there are limited users,” says Christman.

The cost of a stamp, on the other hand, is not up to Mark Zuckerberg

Facebook often raises its ad prices as they become more effective, and so the cost of customer acquisition — the term marketers use to determine how much it costs to make you buy something — keeps climbing. The cost of a stamp, on the other hand, is not up to Mark Zuckerberg.

“Direct mail went away for a while, but more digital brands are seeing how well it works as strong marketing,” says Cheryl Kaplan, the president of DTC footwear company M.Gemi, which sends attractive, thick-papered pamphlets to new and existing customers. “It’s a different way to speak with customers who are sick of the ads they see on Instagram.”

But while customers might be sick of ads on Instagram, they’re not sick of ads that look like Instagram. Today’s mailers have a distinctly modern feel.

“It used to be that the way to stand out was to look like you were screaming,” says Kaplan. “It’s very different now. You want to get your point across quickly, otherwise you go in the garbage, but you don’t want to just be sending old post cards that are shouting.”

Instead of pages crammed with products, pricing, and discounts, there are some key characteristics in common. Mailer ads pretty much adhere to the same style rules, a look many startups already share. Products are drenched in high-flash photography, bold type, matching color pallets, and cheeky — but not too cheeky — catch phrases. While older mailers were about sending the most amount of messages possible, Kaplan says the goal is to “storytell, in a bold, interesting voice” with specific fonts and colors. And even if it ends up in the trash, the quality and weight of the paper matter too.

While brands like Glossier and M.Gemi choose to mail pamphlets out on their own, more companies are opting for a way in which they can share the costs: group mailers.

At some point in time, you probably have been mailed a thick, colorful envelope filled with promotional advertisements from many brands, all packaged and delivered neatly together.

On the front of the envelope, you’ll see an invitation to open it up for access to exclusive offers from “premium brands,” while the back is usually lined with the logos of the companies inside the envelope. Inside, if you get there, you’ll find glossy promotional materials for the brands, complete with bright colors and kitschy catchphrases.

Mailers that are split by brands from Share Local Media. Share Local Media

One company that has mastered this type of mailing is Share Local Media, a mailer advertising company that’s been around for about two years, and specializes in working with digitally-native brands. Teju Prabhakar, the company’s CEO and co-founder, has a background in the world of digital. He previously worked at Quidsi, the fast-growing e-commerce company behind Diapers.com, which was acquired (and later killed) by Amazon. After moving to on-demand cleaning startup Handy, Prabhakar decided to start a mailer marketing firm in 2016 because he didn’t think digital businesses took the mail seriously enough.

“Everyone lumps direct mail with TV and radio together, and they are actually pretty different,” says Prabhakar. “I felt like direct mail could work really well if you get the right targeting format and you are creative.”

Share Local Media now has Instagram-friendly clients like Casper, Joybird, Lyft, Oars and Alp, ModCloth, Away, Jet.com, Rover, Hims.

People who’ve received these mailers have noticed how striking it is to get mail from startups, of all places, and have even joked about comparing Share Local Media’s envelopes to podcasts, IRL.

when I was a kid my parents would get envelopes of bundled ads and coupons in the mail for, like, grown shit like custom blinds and landscaping and local car dealerships. If you live in Brooklyn in 2018 you just get them for millennial lifestyle startups pic.twitter.com/XtYsObzRDr

— Amanda Mull (@amandamull) August 1, 2018

Share Local Media charges them a minimum of $15,000 for 30,000 envelopes, a cost that’s split between the companies in the mailer. Prabhakar’s team buys customer addresses and demographic information from the United States Postal Service and third party providers like your credit card company. It currently sends mail to customers in cities and the surrounding metro areas including New York, Boston, Nashville, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Houston, Omaha, Denver, St. Louis, and Silicon Valley, because of course.

Share Local Media works as a kind of gatekeeper, able to place like-minded brands together. After nabbing the few big fish (like Casper or Away), it attracts companies that want to be placed by their side. It can give veneer of startup cred to brands like Jet.com and Modcloth (both of which have been acquired by Walmart), while boosting the profile of smaller companies like TreeHut.co or Winc, which benefit from the legitimized glow of a big name like Overstock. Prabhakar adds that Share Local Media is also careful about which digital brands it picks up advertising mailers from, which is hardly a claim Facebook can make.

“You give an offer that the person can hold onto. It’s hard to do that in a banner ad.”

But not unlike Facebook, the company is able to provide targeted mailing thanks to a proprietary system that organizes addresses into categories, such as moms, people who’ve just moved, or residents of high income areas. Shared Local Media also does “look-alike” marketing, determining who the brand’s existing customer is and finding similar customers to mail envelopes too. This is exactly the way Facebook helps brands target audiences online, except as Christina Carbonell, the co-founder of kids clothing company Primary, notes, “you give an offer that the person can hold onto. It’s hard to do that in a banner ad.”

As anyone who’s actually bothered to open one of these envelope knows, discount offers are what really matter to customers. Prabhakar advises that every brand puts in “value prop that compels a customer to take action” — a.k.a a coupon code. This, of course, is one of the oldest retail tricks in the book, dating back to when Coca Cola introduced the concept of a coupon in 1887 by offering a free glass of Coke as a way to introduce the drink to shoppers.

Science has studied how coupons can cause a rise in oxytocin levels. Psychology Today has reported on how shoppers prefer to buy products they have coupons for, even if it means spending more money on a product because it provides “smart shopper feelings.” More analysis of the coupon industry has found that 57 percent of shoppers will buy from a company for the first time if they are presented with a coupon.

Coupons don’t automatically mean a purchase, but Kaplan, of M.Gemi, believes offering a discount code is essential to this type of marketing because “you have to give customers some sort of experience, whether it’s free shipping or a discount.” Plus, in typical tech startup fashion, coupons are a great way to track customers. Prabhakar says his clients can “easily run a match between the addresses a mailing was sent to and the addresses of purchasers.”

Share Local Media

Are mailers more effective than online advertising? That’s certainly up for debate. No company Vox spoke with for this story would share numbers that compared the response rate of mailers to digital advertising.

Shane Pittson, the head of electric toothbrush startup Quip says “direct mail piece URLs are more likely to be used than URLs from other offline marketing channels” and Christman, from Harry’s, advocates for the practice, noting that sending something to someone’s home can feel more intimate, which is true. But being targeted, unsolicited, at home could be at least as off-putting as being served an ad for a brand you Googled or talked about.

Glossy photography definitely looks better IRL, but it also essentially just ends up in the trash, just like everything else.

Fortunately — or unfortunately, depending on how much you enjoy being entreated to spend money — brands see mail as complementary to the rest of their advertising budget. It’s not an “if/or,” says Kaplan, of M.Gemi, but “is something that adds to the ways we can share our story.”

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Internet Marketing: These Tips And Tricks Will Change Your Life

By Christman John

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