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From "Tokyo Godfathers" stage play (2020)

"The Harvest Beast of Sekot Runs Amok!" Last post of the year for me, I made it with posting weekly till the end of the year! I hope the harvest beasts of you kind folks run amok with many awesome things this coming year. Happy holidays!

I'm a regular guy, I put my trousers on the same way as everyone else: falling into them through a hole in the ceiling via a contraction operated by my long suffering dog

The people who profited most from the cancel culture/free speech panic were less interested in actual freedom of speech than establishing their own control over public discourse. You don't even have to take my word for it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Premium quality Corto.

Editor: Write what you know. Socrates: Hold my hemlock.

There is no ethical use of AI because the continued existence of the AI industry is directly harmful to (alongside everyone else) the interests of everyone whose labour makes books exist—writers of fiction & nonfiction, illustrators, translators, researchers, editors, everyone.

These are good trees

Asking for directions🚀🌠

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 155: It takes time and practice to get good at writing. Anyone telling you otherwise is a liar. Anyone trying to sell you ways of doing it without those things is a crook.

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 80519000: Your work is your own. Your decisions are yours. Whether you use editors, sensitivity readers, beta readers or not, whether you take advice or not, whether the readers like it or not, you call the shots. For good or ill, it stops with you.

The more I look at this project, the more I get the sense they might be doing something interesting. Just have to wait and see, I guess.

Goblin Man thing

It’s a shame the Cristophe Gans film never got off the ground. No idea how it would’ve turned out, but the concept art was on-point. Between Tom Hughes, Michelle Yeoh, Milla Jovovic, Mark Dacascos and James Thiérrée, the acrobat grandchild of Charlie Chaplin, they’d gathered a great cast.

Miller’s quotes here are somewhat reassuring, I suppose.

Not sure what to think of this… Chances are it won’t happen. But if it does… Well, we all remember The Spirit (2008), don’t we? www.cong-pratt.com/en/hugo-prat...

W.T.P.F. 2011

this made me so happy

Fountain 2

Young Hideaki Anno watching an episode of "Lupin III" by Hayao Miyazaki ;-] From japanese TV drama "Aoi Honoo" (Blue Blazes).

Started reading One Piece way before I got into anime on the whole, but my actual gateways were Samurai Champloo, Fullmetal Alchemist, Naruto, and Spirited Away.

New poster for japanese/french "A New Dawn" animated feature film by Yoshitoshi Shinomiya.

Corto Maltese by Carlos Dearmas

New trailer for "L'Étoile de Paris en fleur" (The star of Paris in bloom) japanese animated movie by Goro Taniguchi (Arvo studio). Coming in Japanese theaters on March 13, 2026. >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWxJ...

"Kindred Spirits", the new animated feature film project by Tomm Moore & Cartoon Saloon (Secret of Kells, Song of the Sea, Wolfwalkers). To be pitched at Cartoon Movie 2026 festival.

Quentin Rigaux is now developing "Cosmo Princess" as an animated feature film (produced by Sacrebleu, France). The project will be pitched at Cartoon Movie 2026 festival.