woah! a wizard! 🧙‍♂️

📣 It's here: the 2026 @strangehorizons.bsky.social Criticism Special! 💡 A whole week of critical insight, with a new essay and new review every day. A podcast, a roundtable, an *editorial*. 📚 The weird! Anthropology! Non-anglophone SFF! Plus thoughts on fantasy series, adaptations, film and more.

the days are getting longer again and it's always so funny when the sun finally shows up in winter here in the nordics. everyone's so excited in the video meetings "hooray i'm gonna go have lunch and go outside before it goes away"

love trying weird shit, this was much better than I expected

Yesterday I wrote about Unbeatable and getting past your own expectations. noescapevg.com/unbeatable-a...

Brother, you already *were* a ghost. Up there, screaming — along with all of them. Scaring each other. Haunting each other. It's the living who are ghosts. The dead are silent. They don't rattle windows or write letters in blood. The living do. Leave them behind. Rest.

YOU - That's sad. LIMBIC SYSTEM - Yes, it is. And you drowned in that sadness a long time ago. YOU - What do you mean, “drowned”? LIMBIC SYSTEM - You lost.

Showing Larry things he's never seen before

Gameoverse real???

No, himedanshi aren’t all actually girls. Many of them turn out to have been, and many of those girls keep many of their attitudes they picked up during this time in their lives, but some of them are just guys who are like that for some reason. open.substack.com/pub/halimede...

(smack smack smack smack) #pokemon #art #grookey #pokemongo #comic

Separation Anxiety

And above all, you let life defeat you. All the gifts your parents gave you, all the love and patience of your friends, you drowned in a neurotoxin. You let misery win. And it will keep on winning till you die -- or overcome it.

How Browsers Work - An interactive guide to how browsers work. howbrowserswork.com “The guide is for engineers and curious people who use the web every day, but never built a mental model of how browsers work.”

For the first Stop Caring piece of the year, it is my honor and pleasure to welcome @ashlikeadragon.bsky.social to the site. She wrote about Depression Quest, Hanif Abdurraiq's On Seatbelts and Sunsets, and struggling with depression. The gold standard to what a personal essay should be.

I've bought the same Japanese Whiskey called Tenjaku, and it's very good and delicious but I'd like try something new so if anybody has any suggestions, do tell me

YOU - “I approve of this, very futuristic.” (Tap on the girls kissing.)

Scott Adams is dead. Jim Davis yet lives. there can only be one true king. long live the Garf.

damn, even the logs are calling me out

i’ve been looking into keyboards lately and i have to tell you, words like “creamy” and “thocky” have dealt unbelievable psychic damage to me

It's been a bit since I posted it, and I was thinking about it again, so, Front Mission 2 window color menu:

Returned to Animal Crossing: New Horizons recently and Jesus Christ why didn’t they tone down the wasp nests? I had four nests in one screen’s worth of trees yesterday and just got two in less than a minute. Why add crafting and then make resource gathering distinctly fucking annoying?

#ゆめにっき #yumenikki

You cannot save her You cannot save her You cannot save her

🚨NEW DOC ALERT🕹️ Our Disco Elysium series continues with a 72 minute deep dive into Writing. From how characters were created, to the tech the team used, the collaborations between writers and editors, and the struggles they had along the way. youtu.be/fpjHZc9bbFk

I’m this close to a fourth playthrough of Disco Elysium man

INLAND EMPIRE - There is also a *fourth* thing you've lost. YOU - A... fourth thing? INLAND EMPIRE - More precious than the gun, the badge and the motor carriage *combined*. Lost forever. Into the deepest of seas.

Me when I get accepted to Dokomi

For the cost of spotify subscription you could buy 1 album on bandcamp every month. Maybe more. And your money would actually pay the creators you like. What's that? You don't know what to buy? Well good news I have posted 31 recommendations and a song from each dollarchive.neocities.org/library

Girl who's going to be ok🙏

woah higurashi

Are you... are you part of the *homo-sexual underground*?

Wine 11 runs Windows apps in Linux and macOS better than ever

us DS2 haters have it so hard out here

these are all perfect comics

god I remember being so entranced by the music here back when I played this on the 360. it's so nice to be here again.

YOU - Of all the creatures I've met you are the kindest.

BEAUTIFUL NECKTIE - Your heart is broken, *bratushka*. And it cannot be mended. Believe me, I've tried.

YOU - I don't want to get better -- I want to get worse.

I'm probably not playing it but I'm a big fan of the diorama style graphics.

Watched all of City The Animation and it's a 10/10 from me. Hope they make more. I'm trying now to get into the things I've wanted to since like middle school but never did for some reason. Starting with Kino's Journey and it's very good. I wish I had watched it sooner.

Going to start calling open world games "worldslop"

is that the fucking borg

“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...” A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today. lithub.com/renee-nicole...

Kyle MacLachlan makes a Twin Peaks themed Bento Box youtu.be/YmI5iG0qakU

yumenikki fanart