Atsuhiro Yoshida's short story collection Tokyo Apartment brings together 21 pieces of fiction about people who rent rooms in and around the city. Instead of wealth and glamor, these stories celebrate the smaller and seedier corners of Tokyo. #Japanesefiction 🌃 japaneselit.net/2026/01/03/t...

🐴2026🐴

Best wishes for a green and growing new year 🌿

Happy New Year everyone ✨ I don’t post my bird photography too much here but please enjoy my very first snowy owl

All the birds together. I'd like to update this into a true print...soon!

I love seeing typos in the papers and articles and short stories I read. I fucking love it. Thank god, I think. An actual human wrote this. Praise Jesus and all the saints. A human mind made a small mistake, and it's beautiful

My sincere wish for all of us in 2026 is we all keep makin' art! Good, bad, stinky – it doesn't matter! Let's keep making things. ✏️💨

Happy Year of the Horse 🐎 #お正月 #illustration

Happy new year 🌅❣️

Happy Year of the Horse 🐎 #お正月 #illustration

Happy New Year 2026! May it be better than the last one. #FFXIV

Goodbye December ❄️ Wishing everyone a beautiful ending to the last day of the year tomorrow and a beautiful start to a new one!!

以下の日時でこちらのドキュメンタリーのオンライン上映があるようです。その後YouTubeにもアップされる予定とのこと。楽しみです。 There’s an online screening of this documentary on the date below, and it’ll be up on YouTube afterward too. Excited to watch! Date: Jan 7, 2026 Time: 9pm JST Full info: www.instagram.com/p/DSrJKqSCY9...

I'm looking forward to giving a paper at the #MLA2026 conference about historical memory, ecocriticism, and the work of the superstar manga artist Kyō Machiko. I'm in Session 658, "The Future of Graphic Narrative in Japan," at 1:45pm on Sunday, January 11. Hope to see you there! #AcademicSky

Nishiogi Kitan, or “Strange Tales from Nishiogi,” is a beautifully drawn collection of slice-of-life magical realist #manga stories about young professionals living peacefully alongside supernatural creatures in a trendy (but fictional) suburb of West Tokyo. 🏙️ japaneselit.net/2025/12/27/n...

Shigeru Mizuki's THE DEFINITIVE YOKAI FIELD GUIDE is coming to English this April! The was a personal request by Mizuki to have translated--the last such request he made. He felt it was the culmination of his work as an educator on Yokai. amzn.to/4jmUDIG @dandq.bsky.social

Great Fairy from Echoes of Wisdom 🌟 #LegendofZelda #illustration

Mods are asleep, post blobby Qing dynasty cats

First trailer for "Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia" anime series by Science Saru studio. Directed by Naoko Yamada & Abel Gongora. Character designer & Animation director : Kenichi Yoshida. Based on the manga by Tomato Soup. Coming in July 2026. Full video >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqB3...

Project Kat is a short narrative adventure about a high school girl who performs occult rituals as a hobby. No one ever explains what happens at the end of these rituals, because none of them ever work... but what if one did? A short #indiehorror review: digitalfantasydiary.com/2025/12/27/p...

Your annual reminder that Satoshi Kon’s Tokyo Godfathers, a near as dammit perfect seasonal movie (with great queer/trans rep), is free to stream on Tubi: tubitv.com/movies/10001...

Happy Solstice 🦉 #kidlitart #watercolor #gouache

Winter Solstice🌿❄️ #art #illustration

Masatsugu Ono’s At the Edge of the Woods is a short but disquieting Gothic novel about modern anxieties. Ono’s writing is gorgeously atmospheric, and the legendary Juliet Winters Carpenter has done a dazzling job with the translation. #Japanesefiction #booksky 🌲 japaneselit.net/2025/12/20/a...

In "Breaking the World," Justin Mann analyzes the work of Octavia E. Butler, Colson Whitehead, and Janelle Monáe to show how their practices of speculation are tools to break apart the antiblack world of the security state. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/wsdmSyo

Masatsugu Ono’s At the Edge of the Woods is a short but disquieting Gothic novel about modern anxieties. Ono’s writing is gorgeously atmospheric, and the legendary Juliet Winters Carpenter has done a dazzling job with the translation. #Japanesefiction #booksky 🌲 japaneselit.net/2025/12/20/a...

🗡️✨🌙 #artistonbluesky

Forest Temple 🌿 #LegendofZelda #comics

delightful Ganondorf comm I did for @kathrynthehuman.bsky.social !! thank you so so much for your trust 🥹🥹💛 I just love his design(s) so much........

meee :3

Hornet 🪡 #Silksong #illustration

In 2026 I hope you get freakier and get plenty of money and become the cutest or scariest you wanna be and that your hard earned talents and hobbies reward you endlessly

[ #Tloz | #TwilightPrincess ] TP Zelda commission

Suburban Witchcraft Issue 11 is now Live! Teeming with #art , #writing, #poetry and #photography , we hope it takes you on many creative journeys! Read Issue 11 at : suburbanwitchcraft.com/issue11 #writingcommunity #suburbanwitchcraftmagazine #reading #publishing #litmag

I'm looking forward to giving a paper at the #MLA2026 conference about historical memory, ecocriticism, and the work of the superstar manga artist Kyō Machiko. I'm in Session 658, "The Future of Graphic Narrative in Japan," at 1:45pm on Sunday, January 11. Hope to see you there! #AcademicSky

Princess Mononoke 🐺🌳

I had the privilege of writing a review for Comics Beat about Cathy Malkasian’s new graphic novel, Shadows of the Sea, which is just as strange and heartbreaking as the artist’s earlier work but ends on a gloriously high note that gives me hope for the future. 📚 www.comicsbeat.com/graphic-nove...

Graphic Novel Review: SHADOWS OF THE SEA seeks hope in an absurd world Cathy Malkasian’s Shadows of the Sea tells an intimate story of grief and healing set in a strange and fantastic world.

The Beat’s Best Video Games of 2025 The Beat staff compiles its list for the Best Video Games of 2025, including metroidvanias, RPGs, roguelites, and more.

My story “The Annotated Kitab al-Azif,” a queer Lovecraftian romance about the perils of translation, is free to read on The New Absurdist! Join two handsome nerds as they explore the medieval Gnostic religious traditions espoused in the Necronomicon. #amwriting 📚 newabsurdist.com/editors-pick...

I'm obsessed with @realgdt.bsky.social Frankenstein, it's such an inspiring piece of art. ✨ I made this sketch of Elizabeth with watercolours and then I adjusted it on Clip Studio Paint. #art #frankenstein

anyway, I love art. and there's fantasy artists making art tenfold as strange, dark, whimsical, heartfelt, & erotic than any large studio could dream of, who refuse to give up on their craft. they're laying out trenchers of food and fable for you on your grim pilgrimage. please find it, support it.

This is such a good book and very well illustrated It was written in part by Yoshinari Yonehara who has a PhD in animal behaviour who has done work with Pokémon on games since Pokémon Legends: Arceus Get this book. It's fantastic.

Second Sentinel ⚔️ #Silksong #illustration

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

Yoko Ogawa’s 2025 novel Silent Singer is a bittersweet story about the significance of creativity at the margins and the value of art that never finds an audience, as well as the decay that creeps in at the edges of isolated communities. #Japanesefiction #booksky 📚 japaneselit.net/2025/12/13/s...

The Mystery of Felina is a short, free-to-play 2D narrative horror game set on a small island in southern Italy. A travel influencer visits to promote a local cat-themed festival, but there's something sinister about the celebrations. An #indiehorror review: digitalfantasydiary.com/2025/12/13/i...

My second game, made for an Italian Jam but also in English this time spesknight.itch.io/felina

Bernie Wrightson

🚨URGENT: Congress prepares to push forward wolf slaughter bill that would remove federal protections for gray wolves across the lower 48 states and prohibit judicial review. Decision will be voted on Dec. 15 and could move to a House vote next week. 📣Take action: https://bit.ly/4adWexU