Now that @joecorallo.bsky.social and @ryehickman.bsky.social have brought Kate back, anything is possible. She's one of my favorite characters ever and I'd love to write her.

(this is why i'm so critical of their slow march into screaming sexy anime gambling baby gacha homogeneity. imo the best rhythm games have unique song lists influenced by real music scenes/tastes, with something to say about music or its curation. now a lot of them just say "collect more figurines")

one joke i like to make when people freak out about IIDX doubles is that these games all tell you exactly what inputs to do and you just do that. but in that truth there is the heart of not just gaming, but personal expression and performance. even the most technical can become a communal instrument

pay me $360,000 for having to look at that haircut, phew

OSCAR ISAAC, on whether he'd return to "Star Wars": ".. Yeah. I mean, I’d be open to it, although right now I’m not so open to working with Disney. But if they can kinda figure it out and, you know, not succumb to fascism, that would be great." @variety.com $DIS variety.com/2025/film/ne...

I'm opening 6 Colored Half-Body Sketch Commissions this weekend for $100 each. This will include 1.5-2 hours of work on a female character of your choice. If you are interested, reply here or send me an email with your references to [email protected]. Payment by paypal only.

THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY Please read this entire excellent piece by Caroline, which points out that a judge ordered the Feds (again) to stop doing **this exact kind of thing** and they are still continuing to do it all over Chicago

Here's a contemporaneous interview with the development staff of Super Smash Bros. (1999), a game I loved. I was interested in gleaming as much as I could from Google's translate function because it's an early game featuring work by designer Michiko Sakurai née Takahashi www.1101.com/nintendo/nin...

humor?

If you used your Actual Intelligence you could write a really good prompt for an imagination, and write a piece of prose fiction or a poem

Whomst is doing these illustrations

Seriously, if you have a Sikh gurdwara in your area please let people know about this. We have at least one here in Detroit Metro that I know of. Bonus is that Sikhs are, on the whole, extremely rad people.

🧵 Important new study out in Cell Reports Medicine (Shahbaz et al. 2025): 👉 Long Covid with ME/CFS isn’t the same in women and men - biologically. 👉 And it’s not “fatigue.” It’s immune, hormonal, and neurological chaos. Let’s break it down layperson style 👇

this sucks. a workers/labor rights publication using AI???

Making Darkseid a universal evil is easy, only Jack Kirby knes what he really is, and what his real life counterparts are: a sad, lonely, old man of a tyrant, who hates his allies but can't do anything without them, and no amount of power can fill the void of self-loathing where his soul should be.

The second chapter of my Pokémon: Living Dex Adventures begins next Saturday, November 15th in celebration of @extralife4kids.bsky.social's Game Day. All proceeds will go to The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Come on by, make a donation if you can, and watch as I slowly lose my mind.

I did an interview apparently! I barely remember doing it because of Marijuana abuse thank you to Tate McFadden for asking great questions and doing very detailed and faithful transcription work!

Really appreciated this thoughtful interview with @hausofdecline.bsky.social on comics history and the insidious nature of fame, among other things www.comicsbeat.com/you-gotta-cu...

why am I like this

I know no one wants to hear that making a livelihood on Bluesky is often very frustrating, but truly, it’s so hard

I personally find it really, really hard to convert sales on Bluesky. I get a lot of F4F listeners purchasing my stuff from Twitter, but it’s been a bit harder to get Bluesky users to sign up. It’s really challenging to grow on this platform as an ASMRist

I just spent an hour chasing these ICE jagoffs through Bridgeport. They detained and questioned two old Chinese ladies (clearly dangerous criminals) then let them go. They are terrorizing the entire neighborhood. There have been people abducted this morning. I'm beyond enraged.

5 hours left ⚠️ PLEASE share! I don’t know how else to express the urgency for these six families’ lives. With no support anymore, how will eat in persisting famine, protect their kids from the deadly cold in tents—deliver a baby in two weeks ⁉️ 389/1000 by tonight…

this is yuri

THE SANDWICH IS INNOCENT

Thank you to the Otherness Archive for including my 2018 short comic book film, Allegheny Cemetery. O.A. says on their site: "We are a visual archive documenting queer films and its pioneers, as well as a space for contemporary filmmakers." othernessarchive.com/archive/alle...

There is a week left for the kickstarter for my debut film By Time You See Me There Will Be Nothing Left (link below), we have reached our goal but anything still helps as this is a very low budget film, if you want to get an early screening of this film this is still your chance

Hell yes

Yeah, that's a lot more like it. This one kind of demanded that I just go apeshit...

Thinking about Banksy's "On Advertising."

so many good pictures out there

The Illuminate the Arts Grant is designed to strengthen and financially uplift Philadelphia’s creative sector, especially artists and organizations rooted in communities that have been historically underfunded or excluded from traditional sources of arts support www.creativephl.org/illuminateth...

There’s inequality as a writer, yes, but the directing side is 10x worse. You have to be entirely self-generating - write the script, package the film, find the money, then try for distribution; there’s only so many times you can do that. If you’re not wealthy or famous, that number may be 1 or 0.

And it was pretty much the case for all the women I know from my class. Several have directed multiple films - some with stars - and were never once approached with offers for other projects or agents. There’s a reason most women directors only make one or two films per decade.

I’m just saying, I directed a movie for basically no money that debuted in the 90s on rotten tomatoes and got distribution with no stars attached, I did not get a single call and couldn’t even find a rep as a director. This was not the case for any of the male directors I went to AFI with.

As a somtime writer on games (critic? Journalist? Unimportant to me) who lost freelance jobs due to budget cuts, I really appreciated this video from DF. Don't read the comments. youtu.be/5_iu5avJkcQ?...

The entire right-wing propaganda machine came after Zohran Mamdani. The president and his allies came after him. Democratic leaders, by and large, did not have his back until the last minute. He still won, turning out historic numbers and inspiring young voters. His politics can win anywhere.

pointing at a game and saying "this is not a game" means you're saying it shouldnt be thought of as a game, it shouldnt be compared to other games, and it shouldnt be respected like a game. it's a tool of dismissal and erasure

i wish people would be substantially more careful with their choice to dismiss art/games they don't like as "not art / not a game"

This is true and also I think we should pay attention to the fact that he acts like a normal human being and not a robot made at the politics factory. It is *very* important that we notice the people recently gaining traction - Mamdani, Walz, etc - all have this in common.

And for posterity, Mamdani's last name 「曼達尼」can be interpreted as "the long, graceful path to peace". There you have it, a noble man with an incorruptible spirit, who puts down fame and fortune to take the long, winding road towards peace, despite the cold winter ahead. That's a hell of a name

The orchid and the plum are so prevalent in Chinese culture that you will find them as two of the four bonus tiles in mahjong. It takes a lot of skill to find an easily pronounceable name with multiple readily recognizable cultural meanings

Most importantly, the Chinese names are homophonous with "Zohran Kwame" when pronounced in both Cantonese (the spoken language used by first-wave Chinese immigrants from the South) and Mandarin (the spoken language used by new-wave Chinese immigrants from the North). What an absolute masterstroke.

Zohran picked 「卓蘭」("excellent orchid") for his first name and「夸梅」("brilliant plum") for his middle name. The orchid and the plum are among "The Four Noble Ones" in traditional Chinese art, the former symbolizing an indifference to fame and fortune, the latter an indomitable, incorruptible spirit.