Listening to the Shoujo & Tell episodes on Fruits Basket. One of the things I’ve always appreciated about Jacob Chapman’s analysis and it’s in great form in these episodes, is how well he articulates compare and contrast between characters in a work.

...standee 🌹

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it's never inevitable. keep fighting it

Commission from @kaisuke.bsky.social Thank you! #ガンダム　#Gundam

Well you all asked for her, so here's Bunny Stocking! SPICY and GOCK versions are live on PATREON and SUBSTAR

The amount of incredible talent in the queer lit space and its subgenres we're losing to these mindless, baseless hate campaigns will be looked back upon in a few decades by younger generations wondering why the fuck queer people were so down bad for queerphobia

One Piece is the story of one young man who makes life hell for all who choose to associate with him.

the truth is Millennial Writing is actually Gen X Writing and Zoomer Writing is actually Millennial Writing and Alpha Writing will be actually be Google Gemini

"Indie animation dialogue" huh. Typical. You get a single taste of Gen Z writing and you come crawling, begging for the subtle nuanced grammatic touch of the millennial. Well it's too heckin late pal bc that just happened, and yes, im right behind you aren't I.

imagine if this energy was directed towards the millionaires and politicians killing your neighbors right now instead of random mangaka

reading trigun again :) #trigun #trimax

Fruits Basket is such a kind and emotionally intelligent story. You *will* leave a better person after watching/reading it

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They're going after horror, we said this would happen

Witch Hat Atelier is pretty perfect, and the Euro VAs in the dub is a cute touch

Local Man Remains Celibate, Claims He’s “Too Good At Sex”

I didn't know that but we called it HaneGOODo back then for a reason

FMA 03 is one of those deviations that you won’t see anymore because of how vitriolic (especially Shonen/Jump) fanbases are to creative liberty. I love Brotherhood but I absolutely consider its production and success to be the start of the current reality

Everyone wants a faithful adaptation, but much like translation from Japanese to your language of choice, the translation from page to screen should also have room for potential creative choices that enhance the tone and atmosphere of the work.

If an over abundance of adaptations is rotting the anime industry, I think it's partially due to every manga fan ever begging for Manga Accuracy as an overcorrection to their very flanderized view of filler material, resulting in kinda stylistically bland recreations of panels dragged out for 22 min

The last anime adaptation I watched that deviated drastically from the source was Hanebado!, way back in 2018. It was fantastic! But nobody really watched it and it's basically been completely forgotten about. It's an added risk incurred to possibly alienate the source fans without drawing a new one

Maybe there’s comfort some people take in thinking the most vile people who run the world’s most powerful nations aren’t actually entirely hollow & pathetic creatures, but it’s unfortunately not true This sick, mentally-deteriorating fuck’s greatest pleasure in life is more tv airtime

Alex Jones repeatedly throwing himself onto landmines for Trump makes him catching a stray here especially funny. They all deserve each other.

Today we remember a legend

Like, remember when queer users were complaining that they were allowing a transphobe icon to keep posting shit that blatantly broke the rules and the then-CEO sneeringly responded with "Waffles"? The trust thermocline is a funny thing. Cross it and folks won't come back

In essence if Bluesky had wanted to keep growing they could have decided that the enthusiastic users who cheered them on mattered more than the minority of well-connected goons who wanted to be harmful. The "Waffles" debacle where staff mocked and derided their most active users didn't help.

I didn’t know hounori, my GOAT, was here!

An excerpt of an interview with art historian and critic David Sylvester which i think feels relevant to the environment artists find themselves in the digital/social media/algorithmic content age

oyakodon can be two princesses

You see a lot of posts about 'not listening to the fanbase' and it's like seeing someone try to build morale to win a war lost a decade+ ago. Anything big enough to have 'a fanbase' is doomed to become pandering slop that swings wildly based on online discourse

This has been in my head for months now

This is the funniest reason for a character in a romance game to be non-romanceable

OK for fun: top funniest tweet ever? I am torn between "moon's haunted" and "Denise I was at your wedding."

the fgo wikia translating aoko's special buff as "protagonist correction" compared to official fgo na using "plot armor" is a good example of how you can have a translation that's dictionary accurate but still utterly sauceless. or in other words just because you're correct doesn't mean you're right

Is interesting seeing the difference in reviews from game sites vs movie sites regarding the Mario movie. It’s a funny example of how even if both sites review it poorly, film reviewers will actually use their full scale instead of “kinda bad, 6/10”

I always think of this when Naruto comes up

Time for this week's Thursday AMV Drop! This week's video is Astringent Aftertaste by Complicated Muse youtu.be/D56CRtl14Ts?...

"Kaiba : Owned Memories" Metal Canvas Art Exhibition (this month in Japan). From Masaaki Yuasa's 2008 anime series. >> gallery.gaaat.com/pages/kaiba

One person at my job was like “why haven’t we been to the moon in so many years? Pretty suspicious.” And someone else’s immediate response was “we’ve been spending all that money on counter-terrorism” Nice to be reminded when you work with some people who get it

Seeing a lot of “we went to the moon instead of funding healthcare” takes and want to note it is a false dichotomy. The US could easily do both, but the politicians and people who finance them have chosen to make Americans suffer. And they avoid paying taxes to make it harder to help Americans.

it’s important to remember that every dollar spent on NASA generates $3 in economic activity - it generates good jobs in science, engineering, and manufacturing, and it develops new technologies that often make their way into our everyday lives

Don’t threaten me with a good time. Anyways, Y’all Come Easter! ❤️👍🏾