In more historical news we too watched the Integrity crew return to earth. That velocity counter decelerating so fast and the earth coming nearer the camera was incredible. My oldest was excited to hold our vintage Artemis plush while we watched and she told the astronauts they could do it (land)!

Delighted to clock Scha Dara Parr in this week's Nakamura-kun ED, who made the SuperFamicon Zelda rap cm song (which I love and is the only song of theirs I know so how did i even recognize them) (itself a parody of their own Game Boyz song and according to Wikipedia became its own sequel?)

sure didn't expect to see this on JP news.

Intermediate proficiency in Japanese is a curse because you learn to recognize how many crypto companies are sponsoring the shrine you're visiting

Popped onto twitter to look at some art by Japanese artists who haven’t gravitated over here and the second I accidentally stepped out of the doujinshi bubble every post was just people talking about one thing or another and responses full of “Grok what is this? What does this mean?”

AkaneBanashi ep 1 was good! (The series is/will be free on youtube) Being in a medium you can hear versus manga really helps the portrayal of Rakugo. Since it skips over some of the actual Rakugo though I think it'd be very helpful to see Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu to hear some full stories.

Frieren, Detective Conan, and Sanrio help Japan's iconic Licca-chan doll make her American debut!

The Go For It Nakamura-kun anime is cute but the ending sequence for ep 2 is a perfect scene lol Boy embarrasses himself in front of his crush and goes home to wallow in self loathing with an incongruous non-diagetic 1990s pop song doing its ridiculous thing

Mfw there's no more #TamonsBSide anime Gosh what a good romcom, I really hope they get a continuation to cover more of the manga and make more original F/ACE music #多聞くん今どっち

Tamon must be protected at all cost. #tamonsbside

They gave my beautiful boy his beautiful eyes back 🥺

I'm sure this has been shared elsewhere, but having been made aware of this great article recently, I felt it needs more attention. (h/t IGDA, thanks!) Please read before writing your game script and design your UI. Actually, just read in any event! #gameloc #indiegames

One nice thing about home ownership is you wont get in trouble for not cleaning your oven for 2.5 years and then hoping spamming the steam clean cycle over a few days with some aftercare (baking soda and elbow grease) will solve this thing that neither capable adult in this house prevented 😁

once you learn how much training data images of women come from porn, it illuminates so much. this is more than bad to look at, it's the rot of misogyny in full display. arxiv.org/pdf/2110.01963

Random and perhaps hot take: "use [up] a spell slot" does not mean the spell is used, the spell has been reserved for later use. A slot is empty or filled. A better terminology I think would be to use a spell spoon, in reference to spoon theory.

Finally watching New Panty and Stocking With Garterbelt and finally got to Polyurethane and Polyester and ahhh so good to see Trigger doing Trigger things (the random old cartoons style episode was also very good)

Discovering Rally House and I am s u s c e p t i b l e

Eldest Daughter has been enamored with the original Digimon anime Eng dub and I keep cracking up at Nicholas Wolfwood's voice showing up as a parent and later as Digi-not-Ewan-McGregor-as-Obi-Wan-Kenobi

One of the most successful mangas ever looks like this.

Wasn't sure how the anime would be for The Other World's Books Depend on the Bean Counter but they did Seiichiro SO dirty NOT giving him that one gap moe expression when he's magicsick in Capt Aresh's bed or w/e during their first time together in the manga He just looks sick and tired and NOT cute

Belatedly watching Bravern and I am happy to report that Ive been enjoyably surprised by all the homosensuality presented to the viewer. The sex jokes revolving around the alien daughter her first episode were deeply offputting though. An accusatory wtf to the motel lady.

some bits of wisdom from tunglr

Added it to Chrome and can verify it works, thank god

An incomplete list of things I regret donating to thrift stores when I was first living on my own and trying to make room and be "grown up" -Trigun Kuroneko-sama shaped CD case (fuzzy and cute) -Gatomon and Palmon plushies (9 years later my toddler daughter would have loved them)

There are still plenty of interesting things to do and see in Tokyo's Akihabara. One “attraction” that contradicts Akiba’s bouncy anime image is a bank of vending machines with a lineup of products locals describe as “cursed.”

You need to be willing to plant trees knowing you will never sit in their shade

Studying up on Setsubun and figuring out how to teach an American preschool class about it has got me feeling like Im in school again orz It's also been a hot night of roasting soybeans phew (idk if my own mom knows the history of why you throw beans & when it started, she certainly never taught me)

Breastfeeding baby has really upped my youtube watching the past several months 😅 gotta stay awake somehow

Feels like this fall Ive found more good music than I have for a while, so I'm not feeling so old lol. Charli XCX and John Cale's "House" is a superb vibe. Found a hauntingly beautiful and random khaen piece called "Car Alarm." "Iris Out" and the Chainsaw Man Movie OST are great.

More stupid AI bullshit by Google. Also: they're starting to stuff it all over Android as well, including the messaging app - why you need fucking AI in your text messages boggles the mind. Just turn off RCS chat to get rid of it there tok

Looking through an afghan patterns book from the library and hard paused at this Tomioka Giyu lookin color scheme - but it's from 2010 so it can only be a complete coincidence right lol?

Got the Mouse Guard ABCs book from our library for my toddler & husb to enjoy together. After seeing this art I giddily told him "these are Italian Cold Steel Cinquideas!" an old fact learned from @drawfeeshow.com (lol). Husb said the mice usually wield them but just call them knives or daggers lol

Yayyy ARH by @bellhasabat.bsky.social and @raspberryhazel.bsky.social came! I think this is my 3rd copy over the printings it's had since the 2010s, it's really that good. Also I forgot about and lost it when Adrian wishes Carter luck on their French test (probably for the 4th+ time) 😂.

if you would like to know more about how zohran's look came together (designed by Aneesh Bhoopathy of co-op studio Forge!) please check out this great writeup in curbed

Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back! Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary. Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest! #MundaneHalloween

TIL that when Trump backs off of an obviously stupid threat, Japanese social media users say he’s TACOる (“TACO-ing”) and I think that’s great

We saw Chainsaw Man Reze Arc last night and it was perfectly bombastic and a great fit for a giant screen 🫰

New article on ★ daiz.moe ★ Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles for no good reason daiz.moe/crunchyroll-... A ton of research and effort went into this one. This is the article to read to get to the bottom of Crunchyroll's subtitle changes! Replies here will show up as comments (eventually)

With the release of the Hokkaido-set Ghosts of Yotei, many abroad are having their first exposure to Japan's vast northernmost main island. But how did Hokkaido, home to the indigenous Ainu, once known as Ezo, become part of Japan? One of our earliest videos explores just that. youtu.be/VJTfGfwY878

I have to admit these particular FB AI topic button things are accidentally funny

Ive been getting old people ads now lol also in general its really pushing "utopian scholastic" music playlists at me which isnt so bad but is anyone else getting those? Think children's Eyewitness documentary series bgm and early Wii and DS.

If you were a webcomic artist trying to make the next Berserk, Watchmen, Sin City, Skydoll, Blacksad - basically any acclaimed adult comic you can think of - there are dwindlingly few places you can independently publish that online

Whenever sites come up with new rules like this I thing about how if you were a creator who was making something every bit on the level with a hugely popular and acclaimed series, would you be allowed to share it? Like, if you were sitting on the next Game of Thrones, you couldn’t share that here.

"fascism is a temper tantrum disguised as an ideology"

3yo and I finished watching Nadia today, she was excited to learn from the epilogue that Nadia and Jean have a baby after getting married. I loved seeing old Sanson but holy crap why was I still floored he married who he did when I clocked it the instant they first truly interacted 🥲

It's time to do that thing you've been wanting to do

Ytube please switch ur ad algorithms btwn me and my husb, it's showing me horror movie trailers and him Kroger ads. He's the horror buff & is getting none of the trailers that I am. I get regular "uhh you're a woman(?) in ur 30s right? uh here's fashion" stuff too but srsly no thanks to horror.

youtu.be/KaNxotpzdf8?... durhur attempt 2 of my #Mignon #민용 amv

youtu.be/iHd7eWUXuLU?... Idk why #Milky☆Subway hasn't been on my radar but its way fun! (You can choose audio language in the settings)

Ghhhhh its bug season and it's worse this year because I couldn't spray the house perimeter cuz pregnancy and then breastfeeding, and husb kept putting it off till now I missed my chance to kill a cockroach as it climbed somewhere into our couch and 20 minutes of vigilance has reaped no benefit😭