Girls deserve good stories, even darker ones. Shoujo should not be lesser because it's for girls Ribon's statement is from 2019 but it still rings very true today

yuritober day 7 but one of the girls is really big

does anyone have any recommendations for linux alternatives to taiga.moe

湿度高めのキス後イラストです！

have any trans people made melancholy public domain classical music

This is a warning to every artists and clients using PayPal: Leave the note blank or send invoices. Apparently even saying "commission" makes them trigger happy. #SaveSpeech #StopPaypros And continue the pressure by calling PayPal. Helpful link here: anti-censorship-campaign.carrd.co#phonescript

As much as folks might not want to believe it, artists who sell their work cannot survive exclusively on platforms that cater to primarily other artists. The Circulating The Same Five Dollars™️ model can't feed us or pay bills for long. We need places where we can be seen and discovered.

"hand-to-hand combat with antifa every night"

okay so I broke some stuff trying to get rid of all the shit davinci resolve made me do in order for it to not work and had to re-reinstall Linux Mint all over again thankfully it is not much effort to get back to where I was before this happened. lesson learned, keep snapshots

As someone who switched to Linux 15 years ago when my Windows broke, and now feels like a boomer wrestling with a pdf whenever I have to use Windows, 90% of the struggle people have with Linux is unfamiliarity. The other 10% is drivers. All operating systems suck in different ways.

can't sleep

she's 18 years old. it's her birthday. her Wikipedia page says so. (it is the 31st of August in Japan)

actually Hatsune Miku is now 18 years old so your argument is invalid

so I've been getting into the habit of using proton docs instead of google docs lately, after seeing enough horror stories about google just deleting people's shit that I was like "okay I will just Not Risk That Anymore" and I think I'd probably recommend it for most people?

meet cuppy dog NOW store.steampowered.com/app/3571820/...

I want to start work on the game we're making but Ophelia is stressed out for reasons that will not go away until this week is over so that sucks

so, I dunno how necessary it is to back stuff up when switching to linux mint, or whether it'll be able to read the data I have on the drives I've already got. I assume so but I'm backing up everything important anyway ...it's taking a long time though and I wish I could skip this part

anyway whatever I deleted all that. I'm just gonna focus on other. stuff.

the third and final episode was meant to be a conclusion of sorts, picking out our fave games to give a shoutout to and discussing the remainder of what we played. then they announced the winners so we played those too (thanks/apologies to gutterbride for the img) moonarchive.art/ep-115-3

IF YOU ARE GERMAN, YOU NEED TO CONTACT YOUR MEPs AND DEMAND THEY OPPOSE CHAT CONTROL -RIGHT- -NOW- the link below contains individual emails and everything, PLEASE do not sleep on this!

I think Bluesky could still be saved. Won't be, but could. They should hire me as Head of Comms. I could fix her (Jay) azhdarchid.com/jay-graber-c...

started bandori s1. these two are rather yuri with it #bandori

just sort of slowly going through hard drives to clean things out now.

benn and i played about half the toxic yuri jam games and talked about them into a microphone for about 18 hours split across three recordings which we released over 3 saturdays. first up, the boston definition of toxic yuri and games we didn’t both get a chance to play moonarchive.art/ep-115-1

天使の小窓いいよね #天使の日

Folks who create videos about games on the internet: I have questions for you if you'd be so kind. I'm trying to determine the relationship between traditional media and those who create videos about games and have never worked for the games press. Sharing is appreciated! forms.gle/cG3BEkGqwuoh...

I love women.

It's Bandcamp Friday and owning files forever is sexy, go get em and support artists with 100% of the profits today!

魔法少女ノ魔女裁判 (Mahou Shoujo no Majo Saiban) and Death Game Mysteries as Spaces for Mental Health Discussions mimidoshima.neocities.org/main/posts/2... i talk about the hot new yuri danganronpa-like and how the story allows folks to discuss teenagers' mental health issues and why that's important.

I respect your efforts, ma'am, but please stop telling people to go to another subreddit that doesn't exist on the reddit you made that no one knows how to use except for the specific group of people obsessed with the reddit you made.

perfect boy

been getting back into the swing of writing since I began taking medication and I feel pretty good about it although there is still nothing ready

we've entered a dark era where hidive's janky-ass selection of like six very ungood fonts and small handful of colors now makes for the best anime-watching experience on the market, for all of ~3 new shows they pick up each season

I guess its even more reason I'm glad to be learning Japanese, its crazy that the more mainstream and accessible anime becomes, the more optimal it is to just learn Japanese to not deal with corporate nonsense. I cannot rebuild the fansub scene alone, but I can learn enough JP to read signs

With the way everything is going this isn't surprising (I'm amazed this lasted as long as it did) but its still incredibly disappointing to see great typesetting like this basically die overnight, specially after the swan song that Dress Up Darling S2's subs were

New article: animebythenumbers.substack.com/p/worse-crun...

imo what people are trying to find is a nice public park everyone can share to enjoy jogs or rest at a bench or walk their dog, etc. One with no mall cops trying to eject "loiterers" and you can casually say hi to an acquaintance you bump into and then see a random artist displaying their wares

"how are these people allowed to exist on gmail??" well, they're using a different email provider first of all, and if you take issues with their posts then you can use filters, maybe a spam service, ban them from your email lists, etc.

Buntober Day 1 • Marin It begins…

some day we're gonna have to solve the problem of younger CEO's of web services being too online and weirdly insistent on needing their fiefdom online to be people all agreeing with them and being nice to them lol

Yea this is really it, and also add that making another room is still a huge endeavor even if doors are around so even if I go out the door, I don't have anywhere to go

I just think the main issue is that Jay and Friends noticed that most rooms don't have doors, so they designed a door, but they didn't actually make a nicer room and when people complained they said "there's the door!!" And no. good job, you made a door. but you should have also made a nice room

There's no way to get out of this without alternative tech, yes, but better tech alone cannot, and will not fix anything. The motivations behind the tech matter, and the whole field is poisoned and rotten to the core with this libertarian mindset it feels like

The bluesky faithful believe in tech first and foremost, the only thing wrong with social media and software at large is how it is technically structured and ran, if we just make it all open and "free" enough everything will naturally solve itself, just one more protocol bro

I miss cohost, there was little foresight behind it so it was doomed to fail, but it came from an explicitly anti-tech mindset which meant it gathered a very specific kind of audience. It also meant it failed

you can also access a lot of paid academic articles for free by attaining extended confirmed status on Wikipedia (plus having an at least 6 month old account) and then logging in through the Wikipedia Library portal en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...