Trump: It's not working! Why don't they love the fair? How do I make the crowds cheer? Oracle of DC: If you test your strength against the heat with a very long speech, the nation will celebrate harder than they ever have. They will party in the streets. No one will ever forget the night.

Are cigarettes cheap in Japan or something? Everyone in anime and manga is constantly stubbing out cigarettes after like two or three drags.

Guess who played the stupid "I've got all month" game on activating their new bank card and is now winning the stupid "all your monthly scheduled purchases are failing" prize?

Auction link for one of the best things I have ever made. You think the pics are beautiful, but in person he is dazzling: www.32auctions.com/organization...

Man, it's been so long since Shutline's last update that I've forgotten what they were doing.

Some days you just want to issue a declaration of nope to all the various strains of bullshit and go back to sleep.

You guys doing ok tonight?

Dashcon energy.

The bird report from my long breakfast on the deck today: * A pair of orioles * A cedar waxwing * A mourning dove who face planted on a tree branch * A brave ground sparrow bopping around the deck * A cardinal singing his song wrong * Several rock pigeons * Too many house sparrows

The arm on NBA star Kelsey Plum, who throws a rolled-up jersey to her dad sitting in the upper bleachers. www.reddit.com/r/AbsoluteUn...

People getting mad at weekly manga or manhwa for needing breaks are weak and won't survive the winter. I've gone years between chapters of BL manga. You'll live.

ANN reviewers are hardly above reproach, but calling an article "clickbait slop" for criticizing Agents of the Four Seasons for being trauma porn is just goofy. Even if the reviewer wasn't 100% correct like they are here, that doesn't make it slop. Make your case for why their take is wrong.

Yen Press and their heavy-handed localization strikes again. They're called gyoza. Just call them what they are. Besides, not every American English speaker calls Chinese dumplings pot stickers. Around Boston, they're called Peking Ravioli. I didn't hear pot sticker used until I met a Californian.

absolutely. i think that there should be more of these big, federally organized civic activities. an annual fair where each state showcases their best food and fare is actually a great idea.

Probably not a great sign that I've fallen asleep twice while trying to read this BL manga with plenty of sex in it. I don't think it's possible to overstate how important sexual tension is. Without it, you're just drawing anatomy diagrams.

And I plan to watch all of them. Gimme that sweet fantasy romance wish-fulfillment.

Sometimes it takes a minute to realize a key visual is terrible. Like, why is everyone's mouth hanging open? What is going on with the main girl's thighs and waist?

Right now the world is full of people who want to code and write and paint and film stuff and people who want to play and read and look at and watch stuff and nobody is allowed to do any of that because some unrelated third guy isn't making enough money off the deal

Fuck, it's easy to fall down a Wikipedia rabbit hole. I started out looking up the shag haircut, and when I looked up 20 minutes later I was looking at Roman chariot racing teams.

So, there's a house in the neighborhood with two big dogs who charge a rickety looking fence whenever people walk by. Well, the fence finally lost the the battle other day, and I'm dying to know what happened. All I know is that police were involved and the house is down a dog.

I'm sad there's a finite amount of workplace yuri by Sal Jiang. I want more!

Oh my, that's a great face he's making

The MC of How to Win Over Your Crush lies like a cop. It's embarrassing to watch.

Wild that none of my top 3 - Go for It Nakamura-kun, The Ramparts of Ice, and A Hundred Scenes of Awajima - make this list. Nice to see Kirio Fan Club get some shine, though.

what’s happening tonight in NY is how we win the infrastructure is there, you don’t have to build it from scratch, it’s called the Democratic Party you just need to go and wrest the controls from the people who aren’t serious about doing what needs to be done, and as tonight shows, that’s doable

This is the second time this retort has shown up, and I wonder what the Japanese said, because this makes zero sense in English. Nobody says that.

Husband: I wonder if you can reprogram the dryer to play a different song. I could have it play Raining Blood. Me: I dunno, man. H: Or maybe Take Me Higher. Would you like the dryer to play Creed? Me: Haven't I suffered enough? H: Creed doesn't think so.

Oh man, Europe. 40 C sucks balls with or without air conditioning if you're not built for it. Hope it breaks soon.

This was a solved problem 25 years ago! Put some goggles on your biggest titted friend and take a black and white photo of her in a construction site for gods sake. When did everybody become helpless

Age test

The Seven Seas translation discourse is back, baby. The anti-localization culture warriors are the worst.

this should be mandatory reading for the entire country

Novel readers in the comments of the Dash! manhwa on Lezhin stop spoiling the story, difficulty impossible.

Tartan Army adopts local grandpa.

I love Our Not-So-Lonely Planet Travel Guide, but having the characters in your globe-trotting, food-loving manga visit the US and not stop in New Orleans is straight up malpractice.

Every once in a while, I watch an ecchi-adjacent shounen romcom with preposterous titties and have a great time. Sometimes, the over the top silliness just works despite itself.

I'm never surprised when I see Katrina Leonoudakis in the credits of a manga or anime as the translator. She writes English like someone who spent time on Tumblr before the purge.

I think it's a good idea to commemorate the end of slavery in the US, but I kinda feel like making Juneteenth a national holiday without having an agreed upon way to mark the day is a little uncomfortable. It doesn't feel quite right for white America to celebrate it as a summer cookout holiday.

Well, holy shit. They gave the shoujo manga with the unique, beautiful art style to a top tier studio. Is this what winning feels like?

free idea for Simpsons writers

So the new series from the creator of Love for Sale is so up my alley. We've got: * Cats * Big boy bottom * Cats * Shy, quiet top * Cats * Virgin x virgin * Cats I like its sense of humor, and the anxieties they have as older undergrads should be interesting. www.lezhinus.com/en/comic/pur...

I'm about to lose it with people rewriting history because they didn't like the ending of the Go for It Nakamura-kun anime. Like, sorry this was an open-ended romcom without any kissing, but no, that is not what "always" happens with BL anime, be serious.

Mars is wild, you guys. This is some top shelf teen drama. Somebody's gonna get murdered by the end of it, I think.

So, it's June, but northeastern Mass is already at level 3, critical drought. Which is kinda terrifying, because our dry season usually starts after July 4th. It's going to be a long summer.

I *love* the lesbian bar in this series. More yuri should have lesbian bars in them.

The romantic comedy event of the summer

Yeah, I'm sorry Lezhin, but 12 updates in a day is too much. I've got yuri to read, lol.

Most of the daily thread on r/anime watched this last year, and nearly every single one of us gave it a 9/10 rating. There have been plenty of anime that were consensus picks for us, but this one was so specific. (careful, though, it'll haunt you for days afterwards)

just saw a post regarding this so, once again, and in case you haven't been checking my reposts: deck.blue won't ever have any AI-generated code, images, text, anything; I hate this thing quick reminder that I also helped translate @anthonymoser.com's "I'm an AI hater" text to PT-BR