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😭

Karaoke iko anime was so good. Please watch it and read the manga and then read the sequel famiresu iko and then join me in insanity

Hungry for AMVs I keep watching the same like 4 GojoxGeto and Utena videos Also should fix my Mignon amv and re-upload it so it doesnt get copyright flagged again

It dawned on me that if we were a cosplaying family, this would be a perfect next few years for Dungeon Meshi costumes (husb Laios, myself Senshi, toddler Marcille, baby Chilchuck)

Remember when I talked to a load of manga translators about AI? Well, now you can read that article for free. The Age of Enshitification is here and I hate it. www.thepopverse.com/comics-manga...

Also thanks ytube and Studio Trigger, you caught me off guard (🙈🙊) youtu.be/pYDCaP03mmY?...

Finally watching Nadia and the Secret of the Blue Water and episode 3 was suddenly very proto Evangelion lol (battleship crew fighting a sea monster)

I wondered if there was a show rule in Wild Kratts that Chris and Martin can't show their bare cartoon feet, cuz they were always wearing water shoes in swimming situations, but yesterday for the 1st time I saw them lol. But it was an older ep so maybe a rule was made afterwards. Cuz internet lol.

During my hospital stay a friend watched our toddler and introduced her to Dinosaur Train and it lead to a rough for husb and me 2 weeks of watching it. She also oddly was really into City Island. We're so relieved to get back to Work it Out Wombats and Wild Kratts the past 2 weeks lol.

Baby is 1 month old (came a week earlier than planned which was an ordeal in itself) and man the 1st 2 weeks were unexpectedly a bizarre emotional and hormonal hell, I'm extremely grateful to be mostly out of that. Baby blues and Post Partum Depression and Anxiety are terrifying to face,

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there's an episode of The Simpsons where Marge tries to get a violent cartoon pulled from the airwaves, only to discover that the people backing her aren't going to stop at just the art that *she* doesn't like, and that supporting artistic freedom means accepting discomfort. It aired in 1990.

Writers should internalize Lao Tzu's lesson about how the emptiness at the center of a wheel is what makes it useful, and how a pot is valuable because of where the clay *isn't*. Corporate geek culture has warped us into thinking that negative spaces are flaws that need to be fixed.

2 and a half weeks of ~pregnoncy~ left Im both ready to get this baby out and half worriedly wondering what have I done But we will persevere

Heheh 2 robohomoerotic things in a row (Got my copy of Black Blood in the mail already!)

"The Replicant", a promotional short film by french duo Milli (& Wizz studio) for Louis-Gabriel Nouchi clothing collection (LGN Spring/Summer '26). Slightly inspired by Blade Runner ;-] (and it's really hot in France today). Full video >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdYQ...

[Review] If you are or have ever been a connoisseur of the clang-clang, rest assured that Kuku gets it, and has provided a book that delivers.

If *you* have dealt with AI in your workplace—if your boss is forcing it on you or your team, if it's causing your freelance work to dry up, if a manager is threatening to replace you with it, or even if it's made your life wonderful!—I want to hear about it. Send stories to [email protected].

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