Jennifer M. Smith

@jenmargretsmith.bsky.social

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Freelance comic book editor (MONSTRESS, TWO GRAVES, MOTOR CRUSH). Formerly: Marvel X-Men office, UW-Madison Media and Cultural Studies program. NJ girl in a WI world. She/her.

A paperback copy of Let the Great World Spin, by Colum McCann.
A book wrapped in paper, with hints about its contents on the front, bundled with tea bags, a button, a sticker, a bookmark, and a hot cocoa packet.
A small metal and possibly leather bottle top, with an illegible cursive inscription.
Images of 8 TV shows and their respective milestones. (I'm sorry, I'm still at trivia and can't do full alt text.)
A happy black and white pit bull, tongue out, facing the camera.
QA red Lego flower, maybe a camellia, on a stem with a bud to the left.
A stem with two bell-shaped, light pink Lego flowers.
A cluster of tiny green and white Lego flowers.
A Lego flower in white, yellow, and orange -- it looks like a bird of paradise.
An absolute unit of a tom turkey on the pavement in front of some garages.
A big Lego flower with five petals in two shades of purple and three long, white, tusk-like stamen.
A Lego flower with a bunch of clusters of red buds or berries on a brown stem with two small green leaves.
A collection of four Twilight Zone audio drama CDs, narrates by Stacy Keach, Jason Alexander, Jim Caviezel, Adam West, and Adam Baldwin.
A big red and white Lego flower with bits of pink and some long green and yellow stamen.
A Lego flower that's some kind of reed or pussywillow, with white ball buds on two stalks.
A big orange Lego poppy.
A page in the brochure for next season's performance offerings from Madison's Overture Center. A mascot costume of Bluey the cartoon dog is pictured in the same blank yellow void as guitarist Bonnie Raitt.
A cluster of small blue Lego flowers on a green stem.
A piece of hail over an inch across, held in the palm of a white hand.
A Lego reed of some sort -- brown stems and clusters of white balls.
A pair of pale pink daisy-like Lego flowers.
A dark blue bell-shaped Lego flower with three green leaves.
A truly inexplicable Lego flower, with tiers of yellow and orange petals and some sort of pale green globes on top.
A big brown Lego flower with a big yellow center.
A big orange Lego flower with yellow stamen. Maybe a hibiscus?
A set of two Lego flowers on a branch. They hav big white petals and pink centers. Perhaps some kind of magnolia?
A sprig of Lego cherry blossoms.
A big brown and white Lego flower with orange and green stamen and pistils.
A cluster of small white Lego flowers, like a wildflower.
A set of two purple Lego flowers on a vine, with white bell shapes below the purple petals.
A white, daisy-like Lego flower.
A tall pink Lego flower, possibly a hyacinth.
A pink Lego flower with a red and yellow center, with two layers of long thin petals, like a Gerbera daisy.
The anthropomorphic outlines of Minnesota and Wisconsin, hugging.
A warning label that starts with "Come on please" and then a 5-point set of nonsense instructions that end with "5. Don't be so careful in time of death."
A wall at an Ohio rest stop advertising Ohio features, each depicted in an Ohio-shaped frame: corn, warblers, shipwrecks, the Vermilion Lighthouse, and the Rutherford B. Hayes presidential library.
A small black pitbull with big brown eyes and a white bib, staring up at the camera in front of the legs of his new mom.
A light pink, oblong ceramic tray with embossed, black-detailed butterflies of various sizes.
The sign for the Gay Harlem Renaissance exhibit, featuring a photo of Gladys Bentley, a large Black butch person in a white suit and top hat.
Two kittens, one white with orange points and one white and tabby, curled up together on a rolling chair.
A white kitten with orange points, next to a wand toy.
A white, black, and gray kitten with impossibly big eyes looks up from her place curled up under a decorated Christmas tree.
A white woman bundled up in a maroon coat with a furry hood stands behind a frame meant to look like a snow globe. It says "In my very own small-town holiday movie." There's a ton of snow on the ground, and you can see little white shopping cottages behind her.
A vague glow on the horizon over a lake. Several people in winter coats peer out at it. Is it the aurora, or just the next city?
A woman dressed as Gritty, with a Flyers Tshirt, black hockey helmet and gloves, black lipstick, orange headband for a beard, and paper googly eyes.
A forest on a sunny day. The trees (aspens, perhaps?) are full of yellow leaves that also carpet the ground.
A red paisley pattern over black. Two paisleys are overlapping in an extremely phallic way.
A photo of a TV showing Fox News, but all of the colors are inverted.
My hand (which is not a small hand) holding the Mistress Compendium aloft, with obvious strain.
A gray and white cat stretched out on a red comforter. Her eyes are going in separate directions and her legs are akimbo.
The head of a statue of the Virgin Mary, Seville's "Macarena," with big, sad eyes beneath her crown.
A poster of the main characters of the Moomin franchise, primarily starring fuzzy white hippo-like creatures.
A small brown songbird trapped between a plastic quart container and a piece of cardboard.
A white woman with long reddish-pink hair, smiling outside in blue floral glasses and a sleeveless black-and-white dress.
The 2025 Pride specials from both Marvel and DC.
A restrictive list of words is provided to write a poem. Mine reads: our home aches overnight, the impossible wakes all we couldn't bear is glass, scatters where we trample our devotion
A deer on someone's front lawn.
A photo of a TV showing an anthem singer in a set of Oilers fans. The closed captioning reads "land. Truly pale like in all us commend. Us."
A wall at my old high school with posters and a signed guitar, identifying the Jon Bon Jovi Music Suite.
A bottle of Parson's Ammonia All-Purpose Cleaner that is, generously, 30+ years old, and the most 70s bottle of Jergens lotion you have ever seen.