I'm wuxia now

The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste

Under Cover of Night

Artist of the Akshauhini ended up totalling just under 15k words. This current story will probably be around 7.5k. I really like the novelette format

I ordered a pair of moccasins lined with faux fur on sale. I think I'm officially Unc now

Z.A.T.O. went with the Soviet school uniform that looks like a restaurant host from 1910 as opposed to the other straight up French maid-esque one

Boys Just Wanna Have Chow Fun

A core aspect of the experience however is the hilariously demeaning targeting of pharmaceutical ads by each cable channel's viewer demographic data. Semaglutide and antidepressants for Hallmark, erectile dysfunction amelioratives for History Channel

bumping this again. Everybody go READ IT!! (and then follow-up with 20020, it's just as good)

I can't stop thinking about the Umamusume hall interaction where the student council is responding to a broken floor. It's implied Rudolf and Air Groove have authority over school maintenance budgets and making RFPs to construction contractors while Brian is entrusted with making a sign with crayons

happy thanksgiving #ffxiv #ff14

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I wanted to talk to a human right now about as much as I wanted to lose a couple of limbs and have a conversation about my feelings.

thanksgiving is a time for people to come together, to celebrate the spirit of unity despite our differences, and to demonstrate that, here is busta rhymes performing "break ya neck" with raphael the ninja turtle

Advanced Power Dolls 2 // Kogado // PC-98

Another one

Mahoui Rex no Hentai Karte: A blessedly good manga straight from the mind of a lunatic

Important update: I have received word from insiders that Crunchyroll executives have deemed the user backlash to be small enough that their subtitle enshittification & OOONA plans will NOT be cancelled, only delayed. I have added an update to the article. There's a summary at the top now too.

Keep your hands off Bonequest!

Annual reminder about turkey frying safety:

The thing about everyone now having brain fog and being unable to focus on complex low-stim media anymore isn't even new. I had this problem as a preteen who watched a lot of TV in the 90s. It went away when I drifted from TV towards internet in high school. Early 00s internet was very text based

I read Nobuteru Yuki's manga. (there isn't much of it) It really is like a fusion of Lodoss War, Escaflowne, and The Weathering Continent with Fist of the North Star

You can even do one better and skip certain scenes entirely. Years can past between two paragraphs

Boss Quest wip☕️ #らくがき

Kind of fascinated with the cross section of this pastry

Tiger & canned coffee 🐅 [pastel variant]

I'm skeptical about whether the Gnosia anime will actually adopt the game's fragmentary/misleading, learn-as-you-go via context storytelling. I suspect it'll be more linear and caught up in rules exposition. That said, I feel compelled to watch b/c damn, game had one of my favorite SF art aesthetics

The lost art of opening your TV anime with a keyboard blast so loud it sends your parents and cat jumping across the room www.youtube.com/watch?v=2x6F...

"Meal"

The literary equivalent of the Frieren-looking-up meme is either dialog attribution tags or active voice (an early technical proficiency hurdle many juniors struggle with more than they're comfortable letting on)

oh it’s like this was designed for me specifically

"You shouldn't let poets lie to you." Happy Birthday, Bjork! 📺💕

When I was watching XPlay, this Mountain Dew ad came on where this guy forcefemmes transgenderizes his homie.

Vanguard Sound are now the official court composers for the Holy See

軍馬娘っていう軍馬の擬人化イラストも描いてます。 なお、あくまで軍馬の擬人化というだけなので他作品とは実際関係がない

Some people are saying deep fry turkey gender reveal and why would you even put that out there.

One of my favorite character dynamics in Umineko. Younger cousin/elder cousin, master/apprentice, two manifestations of the fate Ushiromiya women cannot escape

In light of the astronomical increases for my health insurance next year, I thought it would be a good time to encourage people to subscribe. (A few hundred should cover it. Sigh.) clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

GFL fanworks continue to impress me (linking this repost since the original has since been removed from Bilibili) www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCvQ...

If you purchase SonMay anime soundtrack CDs in the 90s what the odds that you funded triad human trafficking operations?