I love the way my following on here has evolved into a lopsided 20% music journalist moots and 80% weird otaku girls. hi ladies.

so much bad news rolling in lately. I'm tired, boss

hey. our cat is recovering well post-op, but she's going to need chemotherapy to maximize her quality of life. a full recovery is unlikely, but we're doing our best to make her comfortable. we've unpaused the fundraiser because it's going to be very expensive. any little bit is helpful. thank you.

this is the best pokemon card art ever. he's too fucking big for that surfboard

feels really nice to email an old colleague and they're super stoked to hear from me. sometimes I forget that I've done a lot of good things and left good impressions on people.

extremely radicalizing that an amount as unfathomable as a trillion dollars of wealth can centralize around one worthless waste of a person while I have to panhandle online to be able to afford my cat's cancer treatment. it should be so far beyond doubt that capitalism is not working.

I don't like that "diabolical" has turned from a word with linguistic flourish to something everyone uses to describe anything mildly amusing. some words are fun to say because you deploy them rarely. we are rapidly approaching vernacular homogeneity

reading the Holy Bible today to atone for my sins

if there's a world record for most days in a row experiencing ego death, I think I have broken it handily

it's such a weird feeling to overhear your dental technicians having casual conversation while you're strapped to a chair like frankenstein's monster getting your enamel blasted. their daughters are on the volleyball team and have a lemonade stand. good for them

went to a convention in cosplay for the first time. felt good to be approached by tons of people telling me I'm cute. did not feel as good to sweat under a wig for several hours

I'm conflicted. it might be a good idea to write a bio that actually reflects my professional credentials. but the utena one is aura

smoking crack with hunter biden tomorrow. jealous?

been wound up and anxious from having one of my most stressful weeks ever. time to deploy the emergency ambient electronic tranquilizer albums

biggie and pac would have been such good friends if they had gotten to hash it all out over a few games of mario kart

date idea: we watch hibike! euphonium together and I cry a little bit every time kumiko says 「そして、次の曲が始まる」

the dirty soda epidemic is becoming a problem. mormons are accumulating too much soft power

an update... she's out of surgery and back home. she's very cranky but the operation went well. most of the cost is covered by the amount we were given and I am floored by all the support. thank you. 😭

hello. me and my friend, who have been raising a cat together for 14 years, need some help. our baby is fighting bladder cancer and needs an expensive surgery and some additional care to get her back to a good quality of life. if you'd like to help, we're running a little fundraiser. thank you!

really sudden and devastating development: I have learned that my beautiful little baby has bladder cancer. she's going in for surgery tomorrow. if I can get some encouraging words for her, I'd appreciate it.

since I keep getting followed by games publications and magazines, I just wanna put it out there: I am available for work and you *can* commission me for articles about cool otaku culture stuff 😇

no better feeling than recommending someone a record and then seeing them recommend it to someone else not even 24 hours later

something unfortunate about the increasing irrelevance of print media is that it's probably pointless to put an ad in the missed connections section of the newspaper now. I may never met the beautiful woman I helped use the self-service kiosk at taco bell ever again

I love commissioning artists on skeb, but it's always risky when your character is brown. they will probably just not even try to get the skin tone right. I've gotten so many pieces I would really love if they didn't make me white lol

hung out with a group of people I'm not very close to recently and it was amusing to notice that the funny guy of the group was just quoting old viral tweets nonstop and nobody else noticed because they're not as online lol

I just thought of a really good post to make on my birthday. you'll see it in seven months if I don't forget.

I always feel so silly when a publication needs a photo for my contributor page and I give them one of my little art commissions instead of a professional headshot. I may be the first ever VJournalist.

alright so. I'm seeing Haruomi Hosono at Radio City Music Hall :3

brushing my teeth and popping a breath mint before I get into a voice call

some really beautiful drawings of girls in the kamiina botan manga. I just had to stop on this page for a solid few minutes

I'm like a scared animal whenever someone starts taking interest in me. you have to lure me out by leaving little treats to gain my trust

One of my all-time favorite releases was reissued recently, so I figure now's a perfect time to share the piece I wrote about Adrian Rew's "Slot Machine Music" and how it makes some interesting statements about the psychology of gambling. daily.bandcamp.com/hidden-gems/...

yep. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW77...

love Ryo's newsletter and always happy to be invited to contribute. if you wanna know my favorite Japanese songs from this half of the decade, you can find my list in there... alongside a bunch of other lovely folks.

an interesting thing that's happening more and more now that I have a significant following in some places is that people are getting upset at me for not "gatekeeping" niche stuff. I do not remember people being this insecure about their hobbies even just a few years ago lol

starting to have dangerous thoughts like "I need a PC-FX and FM Towns in my home." they can't let me become a vintage computer girlie

I never shared this piece on social media anywhere when I published it three years ago, but I'm still proud of this dive into a Nokia 3410 phone game that is the first mobile game using true 3D rendering. I tied it into some thoughts I have about media preservation. www.shy.center/p/munkikis-c...

everybody got that one oomf that clearly wants to be your friend but is terrified to ask for your discord

learned today that my evil ex who made fun of me for being too enthusiastic about music is now trying to be a music influencer and makes ugly aesthetic topsters. it's always your biggest haters that steal your swag the hardest lol

Loving this book of '90s rave flyers from Japan. There's such a wonderful hodgepodge of disparate art styles, collaging, and blatant copyright infringement. The perfect visual analogue to the plunderphobic nature of the whole scene.

Stevie Wonder's Journey Through the Secret Life of Sengoku Rance

I'm feeling compelled to write a top 50 all-time vocaloid albums list. someone tell me it's a bad idea so I can do it anyway

I have to abstain from listening to the new Drake stuff. not because I dislike his music (I do), but because I finally got him out of my top ten on lastfm and I need to him to continue sinking down the rankings

the meanest thing you can do to a writer is make them aware of how much they spam their favorite meaningless filler word. you'll have them rewriting every sentence for the rest of their lives

scientists love to give hamster breeds names like Macedonian Chubbycheeks

she wants to play Roller Angels for the Nintendo DSi

great tune but it does bug me a little bit that he says "give me the bridge" on every part of the song but the actual bridge www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYip...

lately I'm hyper-aware of how my glasses feel on my face and it's uncomfortable. idk why this happened but it's going to make me go insane lol

changing your discord icon to something cute is such a mind hack. I'll start being way nicer to someone I thought I couldn't stand as soon as they switch off something I don't like looking at lol

kids are smoking the hantavirus