Looking over some of the JRPGs of my youth and remembering that all the villains wanted to be Golbez who wanted to be Darth Vader, until after Final Fantasy VII when they all wanted to be Sephiroth who wanted to be Griffith, but Buff.

is there any phrase more meaningless than saying players "want to shape the worlds they play in"? that makes it sound like everyone wants their games to be minecraft or have an impact in online games that affects everybody, which sounds way harder to implement compared to dropping support for israel

my crops...they are healing...

Basically what I was trying to get at last night.

this may be antithetical to the entire 202X internet experience but at some point you just have to stop yourself from opening the Thing That Makes You Mad. resist the temptation

i need all video games to start looking like saga frontier right now

I think the danger of the personal narrative poem is that we’re creating the self that is speaking. All too often we create a self we can live with. —Marie Howe

I mean, I was able to cheat for a while because I was raised catholic and inherently believe that pain is at least a little bit good, but it's clear to me now, this is the coward's way out.

God Speed Racer slaps

Realized at some point I fell an entire chapter behind on @burgeroise.bsky.social 's Coquette Dragoon. Remedying this problem.

If you haven't read Elizabeth Sandifer's "Cuddled Little Vice" it's absolutely and 100% worth the time. It's hard to imagine anybody will ever write a better reflection on Neil Gaiman's artistic legacy and all it implies, both about the limits of art and the limits of a particular person.

I'm thinking a might do a portrait of myself tonight, something I can use as an avatar. Abstracted enough, but, you know, a face.

You know, much like Alysa Liu, I also do not need a medal, I just need to show people what I can do. maidandlion.itch.io/the-fair-unk...

"It's so much harder for me." Okay? You're still capable of the same amount of harm as everyone else. And you're *also* not required to ever interact with X stranger, this is a completely voluntary interaction YOU initiated! You know what I do when I agonize over what to say? I don't say anything!

You're telling me a horse shoed this crab?

I don't know what I think of the new Mountain Goats album. It's interesting that just making straight up musicals is where John Darnielle's muse has led him. I think maybe it's just that Jenny From Thebes was an all-timer for me, and anything is going to struggle to follow that.

I believe very strongly that “Wolf Like Me” is the greatest song ever written about werewolves as a metaphor for horniness, surpassing even Florence and The Machine’s “Howl.”

replace the national anthem with TV On The Radio doing "Wolf Like Me" on Letterman in 2011

Maybe this is it, the moment when I finally play Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask Of The Betrayer.

Madlax (2004) Update: lot of weird stuff going on here. I genuinely don't know to what extent I'm hallucinating about Deeper Meaning within a show that's kind of mid, and to what extent I'm seeing a show with interesting ideas that's handicapped by either a lack of budget, or time, or expertise.

@alexscokel.bsky.social Is it true that you wrote Ydwin in Pillars of Eternity 2? I'm really enjoying her!

It's monday, it's a whole new week... you know, you could read my visual novel about Knights and all that they are a metaphor for, this evening. maidandlion.itch.io/the-fair-unk...

Thinking about COUNTER/Weight.

considering dusting off an essay that i wrote in 2023 for some readings. the thing is, I didn’t know what i was writing about when i wrote it.

It's wild to realize that the tragicomedy of being badly mentored by another trans woman is actually kind of an intracommunity cliche at this point? It's in Roz Kaveney's Tiny Pieces of Skull, it's in Nevada, it's in Castration Movie pt 1... It's older than I am and it's the new hotness!

telling yourself "healing isn't linear" is a crucial stage of the essentially linear process of healing

WY34 Sybille Canyon, 4/10/2026, 6:26:43 AM

But...you can just watch Escape From New York anytime you want?

Here's what you need to get to know me: if I was picking five books I'd consider it in violation of the spirit of the rules to pick two Ursula LeGuin books for the same list. Therefor, I must choose between Left Hand Of Darkness and Tombs of Atuan.

you’re not going to convince me that people can or should be having panicking meltdowns in my mentions and i would not recommend trying; i have not singled anyone out here and don’t intend to. but you *do* have a responsibility to other people, even if they just live in your phone.

Bashir/Garak is so Genly Ai/Estaven. Bro is always failing to understand shifgrethor.

@bmprager.bsky.social and I got our copy of Dark Science 2 from @dresdencodak.com !!! its so fucking cool! seeing the art at this size feel monumental, like ive not seen it properly before.

"I am overrated/ said the sculptress to the sea/ I've been praised for all the ways the marble leaves the man/ I was wrong to try and free him."

THIS GUY!! KAWASE HASUI IS A SUPER COOL GUY.

random close-of-weekend thoughts

Speed Racer still fucking hits

Boy it’s humiliating being a human being with feelings and needs

moby-dick, his eyes enormous: from hell's heart you STAB at moby? for hate's sake you spit your last BREATH at moby? oh! oh! the great shroud of the sea for ahab! the great shroud of the sea rolling on as it rolled five thousand years ago!!!!

Comics are great. Comics are like trees, there's never a bad time to look at a tree and just marvel at its beauty and the solidity of its construction.

Is there a single person that follows me and doesn't know to read Dresden Codak? It seems unlikely, but even so I want to draw people's attention to how cool this panel is in its entirety.

Oh by the way if you have the Criterion Channel: This week they picked up (and apparently no one else has this yet?) Bi Gan's "Resurrection", which is five surreal short films in a trenchcoat and INCREDIBLY worth it. Your senses destroyed one by one www.criterionchannel.com/resurrection

have you heard the good news.

The Banquet - 1958 https://botfrens.com/collections/61/contents/1212611

It's weird to say this at a time when I just released a personal project, but I've been thinking a lot in the last month about how my games industry career is really like, over-over at this point. I think I always hoped that eventually the industry would bounce back and me with it, but...

Want to know what's incredible? You can actually find work that's going to really change you at any age! Seriously, I just discovered "Pale Fire" like last year and I'll be thinking of it forever.

You’ll find that every American art industry is pivoting to not making anything, has been for 10-15 years, and there are charts about profit from this that you’re not allowed to argue with. The fake promise of AI has only made this worse. It’s awesome

Madlax isn't good, in fact, I'm pretty sure it's the worst of Bee Train's 00's "Girls with Guns" animes, but I just find something about it compelling, who can say what.

Today's a great day to listen to "Brand New Lover" by Dead Or Alive. youtu.be/ZWbj64Rwfvc?...

Gawain is, of course, a refreshing glass of fresh-squeezed orange juice.