Men need to start wearing shit like this to the Met Gala

I see no lies here

Unexpected JIBUN WOOOO

Holy crap, it’s like this was designed in a lab to intrigue me.

assigned fujo at birth

They’ve mutilated my boy! Inch was my first Beanie Baby.

Hey all. I am still on the hunt for freelance work in Japanese to English translation, translation review, English editing and proofreading, or almost any localization-parallel role that can be done remote from Germany. I specialize in creative writing localization. Please share with your circle!

English language monthly or bi-monthly manga magazine aimed at adults, so, mostly josei and seinen manga. Nothing that would be shown on Adult Swim or from Shonen Jump.

KADOKAWA announced on April 27 the establishment of "KADOKAWA Retail Ventures" with the aim of expanding retail manga and book sales in North America through its "Manga Spot" stores. The new company will be headquartered in New York and will headed by Yen Press founder and CEO Kurt Hassler.

Which hostel did they take over, Alex?

I've been putting this off for too long, but I need to do one of those "looking for work posts." I'm open to full-time, part-time, or freelance work in either games or films media/criticism. I have experience as a news writer, interviewer, video editor, sound editor, and essayist.

I've heard of self-insert fanfic, but this is next-level

Looking for freelance reporters who will be at ANNECY for coverage for Anime News Network. If you're interested, please drop me an email with "Annecy Freelancer" in the subject line. Meanwhile, I'll continue to plead my case so my publisher will send me some time.

This is not a conspiracy theory, simply the truth, especially with regard to why the second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. The Occupation-led medical examinations of hibakusha (the ABCC exams) after the war were also a data-harvesting, not humanitarian, mission

Free Comic Book Day is BACK! Here's the quick tl;dr: May 2nd, noon to 6, come here for free comics. For full details and the list of free comics we'll have available: crowsnest.quest/free-comic-b... For Just The Quick Facts, read on in this thread!

An underrated 21st century skill is knowing what level of digital friendship you should have with somebody. Getting that Instagram request and being able to say, "no, LinkedIn mutuals is right for us." Tough when you realize belatedly that you don't actually want to know what your gym trainer thinks

Literally translating the way the Japanese language uses quotation brackets makes everything sound sarcastic in English.

We're all in @thewaroncars.bsky.social together. 🎶

The Columbine massacre was on this date in 1999. Instead of energizing our country to get gun violence under control, it kicked off a new normal. One of the best explanations ever of journalism's destructive impact on mass shootings came from Roger Ebert in his review of Gus Van Sant’s “Elephant.”

How does anyone move house in this godforsaken country?

Some men experience the riches of the earth only to be blind to their own wealth

“Feud with the Pope” is BACK as a likely Wikipedia section heading after a 400-year gap.

Time for a rewatch!

Checking out the first episode of Mao since I can’t ignore a story with a Taisho era setting, but is it just me, or is this series missing background music? Do modern anime have less background music than anime 20 years ago?

One of the most persistent and frustrating phrases common among #Indigenous peoples of the west is something to the effect of: “There’s no word for ‘profit’ in our language.” e-tangata.co.nz/reflections/... #language #langsky

Lavi and Kanda

Sometimes I feel unsure of myself, while other people go around in 2026 claiming to have invented the Afro

It has a name, you know

NOT ONLY THE HEGEMONY OF DOUBLE CATTLE

One side obsession from my research into the 1920s is the extensive network of ELECTRIC trains that used to connect cities and towns across the central Midwest called the Interurban. We had this more than a hundred years ago. The things we had and the things we lost.

In today's payment processor news: the adult manga publisher FAKKU has released a post about its recent payment processor issues www.fakku.net/news/an-upda...

smth i wrote on tumblr

Exactly one year ago today:

Just watched a TV Asahi news report on Youtube about the little boy in Kyoto with the worst AI translation *and* AI narration I’ve ever heard. It would be absolutely incomprehensible to someone who couldn’t read the on-screen Japanese text.

Vinaigrette Germany

Gathering some data. Would y'all mind listing 9 Final Fantasy characters in this form? docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Scottish Labour manifesto is out, don’t vote for them

Do not watch Sesame Street on Tubi with the subtitles on 😭. I swear, I didn't edit or add anything. Is it hilarious? Yes, but also, they need to fix this immediately. Absolutely incomprehensible and bad

interesting that when a movie with female protagonists does poorly the response is to cancel upcoming projects with female protagonists and when a movie with female protagonists is a huge hit the response is to cancel upcoming projects with female protagonists

sick of these catholic converts showing up and saying "well I have a different interpretation of the scripture" no you don't. that's protestantism and a heresy. don't like it there's the (incredibly beautiful and heavily ornamented with precious metals) door

Dear Trigger, please hurry it up with the second season of Dungeon Meshi. I haven’t had any good fanfic in years and my husband won’t shut up about Mithrun and Cabru.

In fifty years when people look back at the past decade or so, the big world-changing technological innovation won't be the chatbot slop machines, it'll be mRNA.

A very astute (and upsetting!) piece that touches on four scary cultural trends: 1) The demand for spelled-out moral clarity in stories 2) A growing inability to understand different types of narratives 3) The "customer's always right" version of fandom 4) The growth of fandom as a social identity.

Digimon grow up so fast🥹

Witch Hat Atelier dub is off to a good start!

Yeah no possible other way to capture the ideas of Yoko Ono and John Lennon, two people who famously only used words to communicate

Iranian music teacher's farewell to his school 💔

Israel is using America's war as cover to conquer Lebanon. They've forcibly displaced 1 million civilians while striking dozens of villages daily - far more than they strike Iran. Today, we saw the first report of IDF forces attempting to cross the Litani River. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/...

@bostonglobe.com released a half-hour documentary last week on the transgender ban in the US military, but managed to not interview a single trans man. This further perpetuates the assumption that we don’t exist, and also, I’d argue, increases hostility towards trans women. Do better.