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New post! I bullied 12 dear friends into taking over my site to share their favorite new to them Japanese media of 2025 and got 12 thoughtful, funny, beautiful essays covering a huge variety of art. Get cozy, because this is a big one!

January 6, 2021 was a complex event that activated many networks around America's hard-right & an inflection point for more activity. A quick look @ our coverage: D.C. Riots: A Look at the Minnesota Contingent unicornriot.ninja/2021/d-c-rio... [1/13/21]

ICE is a relatively newer agency that has always terrorized communities and attracted white supremacists to their ranks. Do people want to “train” them to be better at that? Any mention of training reveals someone who doesn’t know what they’re talking about.

INTERVIEW: Conrad Groth at Takumigraphics by @wendeego.bsky.social Adam interviews Conrad Groth at Fantagraphics (@fantagraphics.bsky.social) about their newest imprint, the Asian comics-focused Takumigraphics. yattatachi.com/interview-co...

during times like these, organizations are often able to use $ more efficiently than an individual can if you have the ability to give and want to help Venezuelans, donating to the Venezuelan red cross is one way you can make your donation maximize its impact www.ifrc.org/national-soc...

Totally mind blown by the intro of Of The Devil. Always so incredible to run into a game that is completely fresh in presentation, writing, and style. Love it already!!!

Honored to be among geniuses here and to be friends with shy, who has saved my life so many times

Today on Okazu - Okazu’s Top Yuri of 2025 Special Awards Winners! These four manga have been so popular on Okazu that we decided to give them a list of their own. ^_^ okazu.yuricon.com/2025/12/29/o...

As we enter the New Year remember fear of making bad art is holding you back. Fear of people not liking your work is holding you back. Rejection is holding you back You'll make bad art, you'll have people not like your work, and you'll be rejected. Moving past it is half the job of being a creative

i think its good that bluesky is boring and you dont want to scroll through it too much because you're not supposed to waste your day away scrolling on social media when you could be using the computer to play & draw & learn before the corporations destroy the rest of the internet. tick tock

❗️❗️❗️ please help some lesbian friends in the midwest with rent support !! the goal is around 450 USD to finish covering it, anything helps !! please share and donate if you can !! pypl: paypal.me/GabsGoo venmo: account.venmo.com/u/Gabrielle_...

change of plans. feeling like I'm just gonna come to terms with my rusty cage

Go Nagai on Moto Hagio

vacantworld.substack.com/p/its-such-a... i just dropped a new substack piece! it's about five of my favorite rap songs from the 90s. if you read it, i hope you enjoy!

tbh. every single nation-state project on the planet has declared war on its women, queer, trans people under the banner of "fraternity", so all must eventually be swept into the dustbin of history. there is no nationalist state project that is not inherently patriarchal.

this dialogue from february between sophie lewis and emma heaney is worth posting again www.pinko.online/on-the-cisne...

they should make it illegal for the film industry to make it hard for me to see the new kahlil joseph movie

We're starting off 2026 strong with 4 new releases in our Takumigraphics imprint: Lovers of the Empire: Vol. 1 by Yudori, On Their Frontlines: The Lives of Japanese War Brides Vol. 1 by Marina Lisa Komiya, Wandering Cat's Cage by Akane Torakai, and Wandering Son Volume One & Two by Shimura Takako!

Thanks for the patience and the review. It’s online: sergedaney.blogspot.com/2025/11/mang...

one thing i've always dreamed of is translations of manga criticism. i'm like man wonder what's going on in that field. is there a serge daney of manga. i wanna know!

Truth nuke I’m afeared

The government of Jamaica has organized the following page for #Melissa donations, relief and recovery: supportjamaica.gov.jm

TransWave Jamaica has been supporting the trans community in JA since 2015. Please donate to them now as they'll be able to help some of the most vulnerable folks post #Melissa transwaveja.org

If you missed the campaign, don’t worry — the PDF Late Pledge is still available! Your late support will still count toward the stretch goals, so let’s keep this energy going! 🌸 www.kickstarter.com/projects/gal...

🎉 We did it! “Galette - Special English Edition Vol.4” has been successfully funded with 713 amazing backers! Thank you so much for your warm support and belief in our work. 💕

battan's art is so good. one of the greatest to ever do it

RPG Maker Software Advertisement and Default Assets: create classic fantasy stories of knights and dragons! Early 2000s RPG Maker Users: what if there was a girl in a really upsetting location

in my head otome games and BL games are basically the same world of post yaoicceleration, the only difference is that the protagonists of otome games arent men but still exist in that kind of ideal egalitarian utopianism of desiring men. GL games take place on another planet, and are thus rarer

#SaveSpeech Ive updated this infographic with additional bill info, issues, etc Find your federal and state reps below and make your voices heard! www.congress.gov/members/find... www.usa.gov/elected-offi...

Also of course wrote a tiny bit about the film over at the blog, so go over there too!

New translation! The movie that shocked a young Hirokazu Kore-eda and has followed him his entire career...from the director of Dream Island Girl and Utopiano, Shoichiro Sasaki, I'm happy to share English subs for the gentle masterpiece that is "The Flow of a River, the Sound of a Violin" Enjoy!!

This has been moving at less than a trickle. Please donate and share so that Leqaa can be brought home.

Qu'ils reposent en révolte (Des figures de guerre) aka May They Rest in Revolt by Sylvain George

transmisogyny, antiblackness, and palestinian liberation are sort of the Great Filter for all the remaining 20th century liberal & leftist currents, sects, and organizations and quite a few are not able to pass through intact ...

you cant really say much to how obvious the hypocrisy is everywhere without driving yourself mad, so you don't have to talk about it. just remember that you don't ever have to forgive them when the tide turns and they try to ask for it. they'll whine like they always do about unreasonable leftists

liberalism appealing to "kirk was brave for saying his speech without fear of violence [even though he repeatedly advocated for and glorified violence against the marginalized]" is so 2010s its kind of childishly adorable. the right wingers keep shooting each other (and everyone else) already

Shocked and saddened to hear that Matt Haasch, founder of indie manga publishing company @starfruitbooks.bsky.social has passed away. His gofundme campaign for his medical and other expenses is still up - contribute if you can. www.gofundme.com/f/donate-to-...

Kusahara Umi's Mothers is one of the newcomer masterpiece collections we published in the last several years. Their global debut, it was a top-5 Jury Nominated title for Best New Manga at the 2024 American Manga Awards and has been glowingly received by readers and critics alike since.

.𖥔 ݁ ˖⋆.˚ talking about sex bloomfilters.neocities.org/journal/talk...

Just a reminder that I wrote a book on the history of the Yuri genre which was then published by the wonderful publisher @journeypress.bsky.social, which you should definitely buy and support us both! By Your Side: The First 100 Years of Yuri Anime and Manga www.yuricon.com/product/bys/

New translation! This week in the world of proto-gekiga, we have the icon of shoujo manga himself, Macoto Takahashi, giving his take on a classic Sherlock Holmes story! Enjoy "The Speckled Band" here!

Honestly I would die for this company and everyone who works there's honor

www.kickstarter.com/projects/gla... Finally happened. Preorders are live for 5 new titles + some other goodies! We can't wait for you to see these new books the GBB staff have worked so hard on! Please check out the campaign and preorder some (ALL!) of our new books, they're worth it!

every “ancient tradition” was invented between 1848-1870 and every “modern perversion” is so ancient as to predate writing

時代はサーカスの象にのって '84 Our Age Comes Riding on a Circus Elephant 1984 (Hagiwara Sakumi, Terayama Shūji, 1984) a video of the legendary play by Terayama shot in 1984