Sunday Samplers are a “lightning round” of different subjects, whatever I feel like talking about, no matter how random or trivial or rambling. They’ll make appearances whenever I feel like it, but it’ll always be a Sunday.
No AI was used in the creation of this blog post. I have been using em-dashes since high school, and I’ll be damned if I let either the plagiarism machine or terminally online witch hunters take them away from me. Also, any art is by either real people or myself (which you will easily spot cuz it’ll look like trash).
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There are only a handful of things that I’d think of as “end of an era” signifiers for me. Most are major historical events, things like the fall of the Berlin Wall or 9/11 where you just knew that going forward things were going to be VERY different. But there are always smaller examples, ones that affect a niche area but do so in a way that will leave ripples within that niche for years. Personal examples for me are Sega stopping its hardware production, Y100 abruptly being replaced, and Cartoon Network introducing Adult Swim.
Marvel Comics moving out of New York City definitely qualifies as an “end of an era”.
