Animated films often become hard to find after their festival runs end. CEE Animation hopes to change that with Animation HUB, a new platform featuring nearly 4,000 curated titles alongside editorial, networking, and educational resources. www.cartoonbrew.com/shorts/cee-a...

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Salutary tale for young bears in comments of latest Tasting History video. Apparently Swedish king & rather naughty boy, Charles XII, got a bear so drunk on wine that it fell out of a palace window & died. Beware royalty, my cubs! Also take care around wine & windows 🍷🪟 youtu.be/hg5G50hBHW4?...

From: The White Snake Enchantress (1958), dir. Taiji Yabushita, Toei Doga

One of the excellent things about the Stranger Times books is giving Manchester a go at being magical & weird. There are definitely a few other places that deserve a bit of a mystical side eye. If Cumbernauld town centre isn't a portal to somewhere eldritch then 🤨 thestrangertimes.co.uk/books/

Once again wondering if there's a city with so many alternative fictional worlds as London? New York or Paris or Tokyo might be close but for some reason London has no end of hidden versions, magical libraries & mysterious occult night markets. Neverwhere & Undone & Un Lun Dun & all the the rest 🤔

Madame would put it up there with Hitchhiker's Guide. One of the most fun alternative London stories. We are very much needing some strange whimsical fun right now. Just found complete series 1-3 on that XigXag so that's what we are doing today. Hurrah! links.xigxag.co.uk/s7KL

We've been trying to transfer old audiobooks & stuff from a collection of elderly mp3 players & mystery memory cards to a more currently usable place. Unfortunately one we haven't tracked down yet is one of Madame's all time favourites - radio series Undone. 1/2 www.spesh.com/ben/undone1p...

Goodness, the things you can still learn on the interknits! Despite being both Scottish & frequently quite the example of a mallifuff life, Madame had never heard of the word before 👍 www.dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/ma...

Also starting to notice Madame might have bit of a type with fav anime/manga chaps - Ace & Corazon (One Piece), Bruno Bucciarati (JoJo), Aki Hayakawa (Chainsaw Man) - & this leads me to believe that the lovely Qifrey of Witch Hat Atelier (next anime watch) needs protecting *growls protectively*

At long last - Chainsaw Man: Reze. Animation was beautiful & grotesque & beautifully grotesque. Plot is slight (had already read manga). Pretty standard boy meets girl as devils rampage through Tokyo 😬👍 Music is maybe the highlight. Including last year's most beautiful song -

The Crunchyroll subscription has been revived 🎉 Finally & at last we are going to watch Chainsaw Man: Reze & the anime version of Witch Hat Atelier. Was getting worried we'd have our weeb cards revoked if we waited much longer 👍

@misheleneous.bsky.social We hope you had a wonderful birthday! (Apologies that this is rather late in the day so here's some Biscuit in compensation 👍) youtu.be/XAuiWmVHd8M?...

🧹 Our newest Spotlight Series is the one and only #WitchHatAtelier! You can read Vol 1-3 for FREE, and pick up Vol 4-13 for up to 50% off, just by signing up for a Reader Account - but only until 7/6. More info on perks here: https://ow.ly/RY3m50Z9uUM https://ow.ly/5yFe50Z9uUL

10 am. Attempting to rest but not sleep. Is it lunch time yet? No. How about now? (two minutes later) Still no. Maybe we could look on eBay for completely impractical shoes & party frocks? You don't wear shoes, don't go to parties & only wear jammies. Apparently I am a stuffed little killjoy.

Today we're suppose to be resting. Madame's MEcfs befuddled brain wants to do all the things. While dancing. Maybe singing too. In fact let's turn it into Do All The Things: The Musical. Her body... SHE SHOULD LISTEN TO HER BODY.

My friends, we may be at war with the couriers. Wednesday's parcel turned up at 11:30pm last night - when I thought all couriers would be tucked up with their teddies. Meanwhile, yesterday's parcel is still at a depot in the Horsehead Nebula. Or the West Midlands. Somewhere definitely not here.

Now thanks to @ani-obsessive.bsky.social , there's a gif of this very moment! Featured in their most recent newsletter "Slow Stories Don't Have to Be Boring."

Someone overdid things this morning. Someone just opened a cupboard & had thoughts of fully reorganizing cupboard. NO TO THAT KIND OF THING. Also a parcel that is definitely being delivered today is currently at a depot nearly 600 km away so it is quite the day for false hopes & disappointment 😬👍

That thing were Madame decides to do a little tidying within sensible MEcfs pacing guidelines & then suddenly she is lying in a big pile of chaos & all her energy is waving bye bye & taking her thinking with it 👍

Exciting times. Courier finally found us - possibly by accident. Madame now has a new citrus squisher & enough kitchen roll to build an full sized replica Eiffel Tower & matching Arc de Triomphe. If she doesn't use it to mop up all the spilled lemon juice that will be happening 🍋👍

Once again we contemplate the mysterious movements of couriers as we have been the next stop for over an hour & the little tracker symbol has wandered everywhere around the town except here.

Before anyone gets any ideas, you wouldn't get a single tiny baby sock out of my fur. But I'm glad the big bears got to see their extra fluff being used in such a special project. youtu.be/TiemMdPN_vE?...

Madame appears to have sprained her knee while doing one of the few things she was still good at - sitting down. This now lowers her potential skills to... er... um... breathing to an acceptable level & pyjamas wearing 😬👍

Oh. Anthony Head has been part of many pleasant things in our lives. I think he will be missed by many people.

Anthony Head, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Ted Lasso actor, dies aged 72

“How was that, Toad?” said Frog. But Toad did not answer. He had fallen asleep.

Daily bunny no.3340 is sick of communal living

No, this brave dog-knight is not really medieval ;) Debunking of this image here: youtu.be/E67h-NAXdYM?...

Not sure what Pooh and the gang having been up to last night but I'm pretty sure Eeyore has fallen asleep at the controls.

Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis,' dies at 56

@bullythelsb.bsky.social Not buying things reminds us. Madame was not looking to buy a vinyl storage rack so naturally variations of this kept being recommended - all with the same 3 particular records on display. Why these three? It is a great mystery we might never solve 🤔

Madame needs to order new leggings. Except she just moved a pile of stuff, looking for something else, & TA DA! many surprise leggings. Probably left by a kind leggings fairy. Not bought by Madame & forgotten in thick cloud of brain fog before they could be put in the right drawer 👍

Hurrah! We suddenly went from 4 more stops to 6 more stops to parcel left mysteriously outside the front door - where Madame very bravely risked Cyberman attack to bring it in. We can only wish our time travelling courier well in whenever they go next *salutes*

Oooooo! We are down to 6 more stops again before we get our parcel. Wee tracker symbol isn't moving at a speed that suggests courier is evading capture by Daleks so crossing Distressed Time Traveller off the list of Where Is Our Parcel?

We are waiting for a parcel. Either the tracker isn't to be trusted or our courier is some sort of time traveller. We've gone back & forth between 10th, 6th & 9th delivery all without the wee truck symbol moving for nearly 2 hours now 🤔

2022年のイラストの再掲：ガルガとアトワート #HappyPrideMonth 🌈

It's giving context, babes!

Sadly the video obviously didn't have time to cover my own favourite otter - Mr 13 from One Piece - assassin & style icon 😎

Otters! Not bears but decent enough. Unless you are a sea urchin or some form of small tasty thing *looks dubiously around Bluesky* Also much beloved by many of the #btposse youtu.be/SCKszEb3_FI?...

Kirkcaldy is definitely a place. Has a bit of history to it. Industry. Naughty pigs. Birth place of great minds - & Madame. We'll forgive Mr Fummey his jokes about Fifers no being able to count - I can count up to at least 3 - cause it's always a joy to hear the town name said right.

In case anyone wonders, the greatest character in the whole of One Piece is of course Bepo.

We've done it! We've caught up to One Piece. One small step for manga reading kind, one giant read for Madame & Bear.

Having a rubbish day? Consider the life of Anne Boleyn. Humiliated. Executed. Commemorated nearly 490 years later as a rubber duckie. So today may be hard work but perhaps one day you too will be remembered as a novelty bath toy 😬👍 shop.rsc.org.uk/products/ann...

They managed to get Madame outside for first time in months. Get her sat in the shade all nice. So right away a chap appears next door with the world's loudest strimmer & she is back in again ☹️

In case anyone is wondering about MEcfs - Yes, it's real. No, chronic fatigue & Chronic Fatigue Syndrome aren't the same thing. Yes, that is confusing. Also no, even after 25+ years, Madame still can't pronounce Myalgic Encephalomyelitis or spell it without help. It is a very stupid illness.

Madame is feeling rather rough today. MEcfs does not play nicely with warm weather (or cold for that matter. Not that great at weather in the middle either to be honest). She would like to be asleep in nice cool bedroom. But of course a certain family member is visiting 😕

We've nearly caught up on the manga so it's strange to go back to earlier events but excellent work once again on breaking down all the little hidden plot points & details in One Piece Live Action. I hadn't spotted the statue of Hiking Bear!

Listening to an actual album again - from beginning to end & over & over again until you are basically living inside the music - has got Madame thinking about The Divine Comedy & how she needed to hear these albums again. So that's what we are doing.