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The temptation to dunk on that Bluesky tech guy. Kinda like he dunked his phone.

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*Male Yuri fans. See, my autocorrect doesn't even want to acknowledge this distinction

It feels weird to try to classify make Yuri fans as a distinct thing, because Yuri fandom, particularly in the west, has always been pretty gender inclusive. There are various reasons for this but I will say that it's very funny to call male Yuri fans "princess boys" given where they often end up

That article is baffling. I'm among the oldest of the old school Yuri fans and the fandom it's describing is so alien to me. I had to look up Nana because I didn't even know what show they were talking about.

Something I wanted to do with this series is show how the feelings and lessons from the magical girl genre could be applied to adult life, without turning it into another grim 'n gritty deconstruction. I feel like I'm accomplishing that and I'm really proud of it.

Please do read them 🥹

This, plus one of the parents has severe mental health problems so that it feels like saying the wrong thing could trigger a weeks-long breakdown

Oh no

ICE Agent Injured After Repeatedly Trying To Detain People In Neighborhood Mural

ICE Agent Injured After Repeatedly Trying To Detain People In Neighborhood Mural https://theonion.com/ice-agent-injured-after-repeatedly-trying-to-detain-people-in-neighborhood-mural/

The press dutifully hanging off the dying Emperor Galerius's every mumbled word while the rest of us wait for his entire ass to fall off

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Picturing an angry space marine denying he's Mr Gay, only to learn that she's Ms Gay

Now on BBC Two with strong language from the start, Pokopia.

He looks so disappointed too

Title: "Unprepared for a Regrettable Luncheon! (With apologies to Kelly)" In the visual style of famed The Onion cartoonist Stan Kelly, Superintendent Chalmers is having lunch with Principal Skinner, who is menacingly placing a tray of hamburgers and fries upon the table, which greatly upsets Chalmers. Beneath one of the hamburgers is a wrapper bearing the text "Obviously grilled fast food". Chalmers [labelled as "Disappointed guests"]: "B-but... I thought we were having steamed CLAMS!!" Skinner [labelled as "Isometric exercising* odd fellows" - the asterisk refers to a footnote reading "Latest fad"]: "Oh, no, I made STEAMED HAMS™®! ©1996 Skinner family All rights reserved" From within the clouds of smoke billowing from Skinner's kitchen (wherein an American flag can be seen burning) three heavenly beings gaze upon the scene disapprovingly: A pig labelled "Actual hams", Krusty the clown, labelled "Hard-working patent-holders", and a teenaged fry-cook labelled "Ignored sandwich artists". Lady Liberty peeks in the door and sheds a sad tear at this woeful scene. Kelly's obligatory artist cameo has him disgruntledly commenting "Seymour-a bore-e-malice."

Steamed Hams but it's a Kelly comic

(Yup that's right I still make "Steamed Hams but..." memes)
#simpsons #kelly #steamedhams

Man, Saga needs a pride parade, if only because then the writers of Zombie Land Saga would have to do an episode about it, and Ai and Junko might finally kiss

(Honestly they were one of the first prefectures to introduce civil partnerships so it really wouldn't be a stretch)

Whatever it is, it isn't affecting the newbies, so right now they're running the company

Came into work to discover that none of the senior technicians can log into anything. The boss is investigating but this is made more difficult by the fact that she also can't log into anything

Sheridan: Yeah, so I wasn't actually confused about...
Sebastian, reading from Wikipedia: Jack the Ripper was an unidentified serial killer active in and around the impoverished Whitechapel district of London, England, in 1888

Sheridan: Around the time you disappeared from Earth there was a string of horrific murders in Victorian London
Sebastian: Yes. I paid for my crimes with eternal servitude, my name lost to history, remembered only... as Jack
Sheridan: Well yeah, I...
Sebastian: First name Jack. Last name The Ripper

Babylon 5: Simultaneously shockingly relevant sociopolitical commentary and a very obviously mid-90s show from the days before they invented subtlety

Some are pretty cool though, like how Azurill is "polka dot" because the Japanese term for polka dot is "mizutama" - "water ball", or a drop of water

There's also a second thing happening with Bidoof, where its Japanese description is "maru nezumi" - "round mouse", a recurring motif in Japanese art that I don't know much about, so I'm definitely missing some nuances. But yeah, a lot of these terms in the early gens are questionably translated

Most of the weird classifications are either Japanese puns, or terms that don't fully overlap. So "nezumi" is usually translated as "mouse", but it can also mean any type of rodent, so Pikachu, Rattata, Bidoof etc all get called "nezumi", which for some reason they keep translating as "mouse"

I genuinely can't imagine a less practical way of releasing the Gen I soundtrack than "Dedicated music player with individual cartridges for every track"

Watching the Pokemon Presents, and the Pokemon Company continue to be the masters of coming up with Elaborate Shit Nobody Asked For. On some level it's genuinely impressive

Quote with 10 anime to get to know me!

🐧 Azumanga Daioh
⏰ Doki Doki School Hours
🍳 Dragon Half
🪲 El-Hazard
🩷 Galaxy Fraulein Yuna
🦈 Heaven's Design Team
🍮 I'm in Love with the Villainess
🌒 Sailor Moon
🚫 Stop!! Hibari-kun!
🧟‍♀️ Zombie Land Saga

Is this is the great western railway I'd hate to see the crap western railway

Christ, the state of this union