In 2026, let's bring back casually enjoying things instead of having any fandom need to be both immersive and a moral statement.

There are more shoujo/josei/joseimuke anime coming out last season and this than we've probably gotten in the last five years total, but some people don't pay attention so I decided to write up a guide for all the upcoming series!

That Raqio, they speak the truth

Convince me to read My Dress Up Darling please because I think I’d like it (and probably 2.5 Dimensional Seduction; I really liked the anime) so that in 2026, I can really gain momentum with reading manga about costuming again

I’m starting to feel a bit of melancholy and I think what it actually is is the emotional release of the past few weeks of working the holiday season in retail—basically, I’m pretty sure I’m in autistic burnout since I’ve been working nonstop since 11/16 sans sick and weekend days

Truly an honor to work for Sam, AH, and to do what I do best: edit with heart and immense skill!

One thing I’m really proud of is that I’ve gotten into upcycling in a big way. Glass jars from other products become vessels for pantry goods and my bulk spices, dingy and beat up eco bags hold my recyclables, and nearly nothing in organic goes to waste.

I napped with the kind of greed they have in the Bible and honestly, I think this might have fixed at least the past 48 hours of severe retail exhaustion

Gamers. It’s time

Ain't too proud to beg because $60 cinches me my meds and then hopefully, the state will take over from there

You don't need to think about what is "normal." You are you. One day, the world will come where there is no need to categorize people as LGBT🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Until that day arrives, I will continue to send out this message. Your soul is beautiful.

As 2025 comes to a close, I find myself drawn to reflecting on my accomplishments so far. I've been formally working on Marshmallow Fables for six months now! Let's talk about it. #art #webcomic #yearinreview

Aching for a place to write my literacy "what if?" analysis of A Sky Full of Elephants by Cebo Campbell for BHM 2026

If all goes to plan, I will spend the majority of my weekend on the sofa doing a two day reset wherein I will enjoy a small stack of books (mostly just Dungeon Crawler Carl 4 and 5), Queen Latifah films, Kirby and the Forgotten Lands, and many, many naps

It’s difficult to have to do this again but I’m still waiting on the state to move forward with my case for getting state medical insurance while disabled to get and I need ASAP mutual aid get this month’s meds this Thursday

I am also putting "fridging" up on the shelf since apparently a lot of y'all can't tell the difference between a character death that has been foreshadowed and ties into the plot and themes from the cruel, random killing of a female character in order to motivate a man

My mouth is on fire. My nose is running. I can't stop open mouth breathing. I have a heaping cup of 2% milk. That's right I'm eating spicy noodles for dinner tonight and it's soooooo incredibly delicious!

Honestly, being nice to children and being a good villager are part of the many joys of riding public transportation AND being a bookseller and I do both with relish even when I also want to face plant into bed (like right now)

I received enough aid to buy two medications but I’ve still got six that I needed, one of which is critical and keeps my health stabilized. Anything helps at this time

Did some quick yarn shopping (aka went to my KALLAX shelf and picked yarn from my stash) so I can properly spend my weekend restarting my knitting journey for the third or fourth time, only this time with gusto

Hey. Make that story weirder.

I love Expedition 33, but this is absolutely the right thing to do. Good games shouldn't get a pass for using the plagiarism machine.

Retail is not for the weak, and maybe it’s hard on the autistic I am the autistic and I’m extremely mind melted

meee :3

Genuinely a hard task because it turns out, I’m really handsome, very cute, gloriously fat, and just such a splendid part of our wide, wonderful planet

The scarves I made for donation. I’ve got two baskets and a takeaway laundry bag full of probably about 80+ scarves and soon, they’ll go out into my community to our most vulnerable because they, above all else, deserve the most beauty in our world right now (I will take scarf pictures, I promise)

what I want trans kids, queer kids, and gender nonconforming kids to know: you are loved you are so much more powerful than the ghouls using your healthcare as a political pawn, and you WILL outlive them (they know this, and it is why they're attacking you)

“We see you” is nice. But nice isn’t really useful. Want to help trans people? Throw us a few bucks. Give us some work and chances to share our art. Ask what we need. We can’t live on “You’re valid.”

I’m definitely not going to hit my book goal of 50 books this year, which I’m okay with: being a bookseller means I’ve read a lot but not necessarily finished a lot because I’m constantly keeping my finger on the pulse of all genres

Outstanding news! www.fastcompany.com/91461983/ind...

Also: The Delinquent Girl Beside Me Suddenly Dyed Her Hair Black, and The Villainess Who Came to Marry Into the Frontier Noble's Household Is an Exceptionally Capable Wife, Isn't She?

I say this with zero irony: if you are even tangentially a part of a retro video game community, it is your civic duty to push back against this company and shun anyone who doesn't. This is fascism tapping gently at the door and as soon as you let it in, it's going to invite its friends.

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please don't resign yourself to horror. please don't believe that a bad future is inevitable. please believe in and fight for a better future for everyone.

We stand with our people. Period. We stand with our allies. Period. We stand with the most vulnerable and most targeted among us. Period. We stand for our principles and the world we want to build, and we build that world by fighting for it. And by fucking inhabiting it.

New Illustration: "We Beat 'Em Before..." Taken from a British WW2 poster, the original features a WW1 German soldier at the top. I just swapped it for the Nazi soldier it had at the bottom.

Guess I'll post this again

I'm oiling all of my cutting boards for the first time and wow, yeah, I'm gonna keep these bad boys for as long as I can! This is fantastic!

Art is for humans. Making it, enjoying it, critiquing it, it’s all for us. Even when we’re the only ones who will ever see it or read it or hear it or wrestle with it - it’s still just as vital. The only thing that is inevitable about any of this is that humans will always create art.

No, there isn’t a way. There just isn’t. GenAI is poisoning the water supply of Oregon. It’s boiling inland seas.This tech, at scale, is an anti life equation, and all to spit out stolen collages of other people’s work to plug into a pipeline that has to be fixed by an underpaid real human later.

I am so grateful that I have a community around me who understands that I'm just a little guy who gets severe migraines when I'm extremely over-sensitized which I definitely am today Time for Friendly Safe Food Delivery and continuing to take care of myself

Had a sick day where I’m realizing that I’m actually very burnout and that maybe it’s okay if that’s the next step in healing after spending years treading water

I love my country’s people. I love the stewards of this land, the hands that create music and art and food that makes me content to my bones. I love the sound of a language I’ll never speak, the buzz of a conversation not meant for me. But I do not love my country.

I wish I had a cat or two to go home to because that would really help the pending verbal shutdown that I feel coming on

I wish I had a cat or two to go home to because that would really help the pending verbal shutdown that I feel coming on

If you need some last-minute gifts, books are the very best thing you can buy. Support your local indie bookstore, and give your friends and family a gift that will keep them warm and entertained during the holidays!

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.