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July 5, 2015 Trae Dorn Anime Matsuri, Arthur Suydam, Con Scene, Conventions, Ghostbusters, gundam, Legend of the Galactic Heroes, Marvel, Montreal Comic Con, nozomi entertainment, Oz Con, Paul Feig, rightstuf, Saskatoon Blitz, Sony, Spider-Man, Tom Holland

Episode 51 – Mostly American

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July 4, 2015 Trae Dorn Arthur Suydam, Artist Alley, Con Scene, Conventions, Montreal Comic Con

Arthur Suydam Seems Like a Bit of a Dick

So apparently comic artist Arthur Suydam has a nasty habit of showing up at cons where he’s assigned one table

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July 3, 2015 Celeste Startwin Anime, anime expo, Conventions, gundam, nozomi entertainment, revolutaionary girl utena, rightstuf

Rightstuf Entertainment just stole all my money. (Gundam X reveal)

Hoo-boy, in the past 48 hours I have received so many impossible bits of good news from American licensing companies that

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July 2, 2015 Celeste Startwin Anime, Classic anime, Impossible things, Legend of the Galactic Heroes

Legend of the Galactic Heroes is FINALLY Coming to the States

Legend of the Galactic Heroes is a lot of things. Its a series of novels by Yoshiki Tanaka. Its an anime

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July 2, 2015 Trae Dorn Copyright, Fanart, Funimation, Trademark

Funimation Makes Official Statement Regarding Fan Art and Derivative Works

Fanart is a mainstay of most artist alleys. Sure, it skirts the line of fair use – and there are

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July 2, 2015 Trae Dorn Con Scene, Conventions, Saskatoon Blitz

Is Saskatoon Blitz Dead?

Saskatchewan, Canada based convention Saskatoon Blitz may have pretty much run a master class on how not to do PR

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July 2, 2015 Trae Dorn Nezumi Con

Read an interview with Trae!

Quick Note: Trae was interviewed by a Nezumi Con staffer last week, and they’ve now posted the article to their

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July 2, 2015 Trae Dorn Ash vs. Evil Dead, Bruce Campbell, Evil Dead, Starz

First Photo of Bruce Campbell’s Ash in ‘Ash vs Evil Dead’

The Evil Dead franchise is pretty beloved in the nerd world, so when we learned that a TV series was

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July 1, 2015 Trae Dorn Anime Matsuri, Con Scene, Conventions, John Leigh

Multiple Women Accusing ‘Anime Matsuri’ Founder of Sexual Harassment

John Leigh, Co-Founder and Director of Anime Matsuri (one of the largest Anime Cons in the US), has been accused

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There’s an annoying thing in the witchcraft community where every new idea or trend gets cast as an “ancient” practice even if it’s just a few years old. Time and time again, we see people constructing false narratives about the supposed historicity of ideas, spells, and rituals in witchcraft spaces, and all of it is bad for us. Why do people feel the need to lie? Why does something being a new idea make it less credible in people’s eyes? Why have we been doing this as a community from the start?

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