@dalessio-dave
Full-time writer nowadays. Speculative fiction and fantasy, and don't ask about magical girls! Also a blogger on what anime and manga can tell us about writing. Try davedalessiowrites.wordpress.com or get the book, Samurai Storyteller, at Amazon
How to Build a Story: Gunslinger Girl
You can tell that Gunslinger Girl is really old, and not just because the animation looks old. You can tell it’s really old because, despite the name, it doesn’t actually use the modern Gunslinger Girl trope. But you know what else? That’s a good good thing.…
I was taught to do three, but I really need four: 1) Bash it out 2) Make it make sense 3) Put in the color details 4) Polish the prose
5 Favorite Anime Blog Posts from 2026 Week 10: Celebrating posts from:
• Anime Evo
• AngryAnimeBitches Anime Blog
• Anime UK News
• Filthy Casual for Life
• Okazu
TONIGHT:
Final gig of our UK co-headline tour w/ Buckcherry - in Brighton!
Ya comin’ or what?
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#michaelmonroe #buckcherry #steveconte #samiyaffa #richjones #karlrockfist #Chalk #Brighton #UK #England
Barbara Smith. She showed me samples for a different project and I said, “Woah … let’s talk Magical Girls.” She knocked it out of the park
Book Drop Coming!
Are you, or do you know anyone who might be interested in a Magical Girl Rom-Com? If so, you might want to know about .... Ta ta ta ta ta ta daaaah! GOLD DRAGONGIRL AND PIZZA BOY Mercy Jefferson is crushing on Milo, the mysterious new transfer student to Seabeach High. But how…
That’s cool! Thanks
A girl with dragon's wings looks at a handsome boy in front of a fairy tale castle
Coming soon: GOLD DRAGONGIRL AND PIZZA BOY
Magical Girl rom-com!
Mercy is crushing on Milo, the hot transfer student. But how can she tell Milo she's a magical girl who fights intelligent TIGERs in another dimension?
Not that Milo doesn't have secrets, too ...
ARCs available. DM me!
Thinking you want a paperback copy? Thinking you want a SIGNED paperback copy?
If you're in the GTA, you're in luck! Come see me @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social on March 22nd to hear a brief reading, enjoy a quick Q&A, and grab your SIGNED copy of Woman of Sorrow and Blood!
Especially a six year old mind reader!
A girl with dragon's wings looks at a handsome boy in front of a fairy tale castle
Coming soon: GOLD DRAGONGIRL AND PIZZA BOY
Magical Girl rom-com!
Mercy is crushing on Milo, the hot transfer student. But how can she tell Milo she's a magical girl who fights intelligent TIGERs in another dimension?
Not that Milo doesn't have secrets, too ...
ARCs available. DM me!
It's Monday and maybe you want to read a weird story about Piglet, Pooh, Kanga, and the rest of the Hundred Acre Wood gang? If so, look no further than my story "Piglet Delivers" in @apexmag.bsky.social !
www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...
Character Analysis: Kaoruko Waguri
Kaoruko Waguri, the best girl from The Fragrant Flower Blossoms with Dignity (FFBD from now on, since typing that phrase makes my fingers hurt) is an interesting character to break down (no double entendre intended) because she’s not really a character, or at…
5 Favorite Anime Blog Posts from 2026 Week 09: Celebrating posts from:
• The Infinite Zenith
• Merlin's Musings
• Mosaicboy's Interest Nook
• The Review Heap
• The Wonder of Anime
To commemorate the 30th anniversary of "Eva," we announced the first report regarding the production of a completely new series in the "Evangelion" franchise at the Final Program on February 23 (Mon. Holiday), the final day of the festival "EVANGELION:30+； 30th ANNIVERSARY OF EVANGELION." Series Composition / Screenplay YOKOO Taro Director TsuruMaki Kazuya, TaniBe ToruKo Music Okabe Keiichi Production Studio Khara × CloverWorks
A new Evangelion series is in production.
5 Favorite Anime Blog Posts from 2025 Week 08: Celebrating posts from:
• Anime Evo
• Anime Hanabi
• Anime Rants
• Filthy Casual for Life
• The Infinite Zenith
Stories without Stories: CITY the Animation
With City, the Animation, which is by implication nothing at all like City, the manga, we’ve got another of those slice-of-life stories that doesn’t really have a plot. Instead you’ve go these three kids who are canonically college age but who act like…
It’s a BIG universe and there’s a lot of stuff out there we don’t know about yet
How about Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt? And the old animator in me adores the way they mixed techniques in FLCL
Streets of Minneapolis (Radio Mix)
Directed by Thom Zimny
Edited by Thom Zimny and Samuel Shapiro
Production Footage: Pam Springsteen and Thom Zimny
Astarion in his ruffled peasant shirt and tight leather pants, standing in a lavish room and tapping his index fingers together while saying “Preorder, pwease :3”. Above his head is cover for Woman of Sorrow and Blood by Dianna Gunn, which features a woman in a quasi-historical flowing red dress holding a rose. An arrow points from the cover to a QR code leading to the preorder link.
I think you should buy my vampire book, but more importantly, Astarion thinks you should buy my vampire book
Woman of Sorrow and Blood available for PREORDER NOW on Itch: diannagunn.itch.io/wosab
And elsewhere: books2read.com/u/m0p0kW #BookSky #HorrorSky
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They left out how she caved on Brett Kavanaugh, too.
The Power of Threes: The Flowers of Evil
I’m not fond of the Eternal Triangle or the Love Triangle as a trope because it’s usually just too trite. So you’ve got person A, who is being pursued by persons B and C, who are very different people. Typically A picks out one of them – I don’t care – say,…
One Piece!
Another Chosen One story
5 Favorite Anime Blog Posts from 2026 Week 07: Celebrating posts from:
• Anime Rants
• Confessions of an Overage Otaku
• Filthy Casual for Life
• Getmorexp
• Lita Kino Anime Corner
Then tell him he needs to get a better shirt :)
The slogan on that shirt alone would make anyone cover their drink
He still has lots of time to change his mind and have her blown apart by anti aircraft artillery