Hi everyone, it's new article day! This week, we have an interview by Seth Burn with legendary composer Yoko Kanno, who discusses her career, working in the anime industry, and more. It's an outstanding read and we hope you enjoy it.
#AnimeBoston #YokoKanno
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![EXCERPTS FROM KAFKA'S DIARIES
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JANUARY 20. The end of writing. When will it take me
up again?
JANUARY 29. Again tried to write, virtually useless.
JANUARY 30. The old incapacity. Interrupted my writing for barely ten days and already cast out. Once again prodigious efforts stand before me. You have to dive down, as it were, and sink more rapidly than that which sinks in advance of you.
FEBRUARY 7. Complete standstill. Unending torments.
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EXCERPTS FROM KAFKA'S DIARIES 281 JANUARY 20. The end of writing. When will it take me up again? JANUARY 29. Again tried to write, virtually useless. JANUARY 30. The old incapacity. Interrupted my writing for barely ten days and already cast out. Once again prodigious efforts stand before me. You have to dive down, as it were, and sink more rapidly than that which sinks in advance of you. FEBRUARY 7. Complete standstill. Unending torments. MARCH 11. How time flies; another ten days and I have chieved nothing. It doesn't come off. A page now anc hen is successful, but I can't keep it up, the next day m powerless. MARCH 13. [.] Lack of appetite, fear of getting ba te in the evening; but above all the thought that I wr
The writing life, courtesy of Franz Kafka.
i got to see yoko kanno perform my favorite song from my favorite anime’s soundtrack live on stage and no one can ever take that from me. oh my god i still cant believe that just happened. i cant believe she played walt. it feels like she did that for Me Specifically and im so fucking grateful
1. dragons are horses-as-nukes
2. deeply, intentionally rooted in (actual) medieval norms
Incredible that human beings figured out how to do this. How cool. What if we only did cool stuff
all the "hurr hurr, it's dark humor" replies completely missing the point that making fun of the madman with his finger on the Button for NOT pressing the Button is fucking stupid as hell.
also none of the people who post like that are funny to begin with
I have nothing to say that matches the gravity of the situation. I just want peace and safety for everyone targeted by the insane whims of a madman.
pioneer 9, pioneer 10, and the jupiter icy moons explorer floating through space, along with a few scattered footballs
nothing to do but watch the game
HAPPY IMMORTALITY DAY JON BOIS SIR
HAPPY IMMORTALITY DAY
IT'S WITCH HAT ATELIER DAY HAPPY WITCH HAT DAY
New blog post alert; its a sad one talking through the transfeminine kink zeitgeist, the ttrpgs it has inspired, saftey tools, LARP, and the act of becoming in spite of fear.
You know, just in case you wanted something light to read over a long weekend.
thegardenbelow.blot.im/against-safe...
I LOVE U MY BEESTIE!!!!!!!!!
EPISODE MADE SPECIFICALLY FOR ME
This week on Dice Exploder I had on @beealexander.bsky.social and @barcstravis.itch.io to talk about Lures from belonging outside belonging games. Mechanics that bring in character relationships are almost always good!
I cannot stress enough how these are PTA moms and soccer coach dads and I can best describe the vibe as “festively bloodthirsty”
Walking thru the “Ultra Normie” No Kings rally in my extremely rural, white town and there are Patagonia wearing moms carrying signs that say “DEAD PEDOPHILES DONT REOFFEND” and “ICE GETS THE WALL” and I hi fived an old guy with a sign that said MY DADDY FOUGHT NAZIS AND SO WILL I” this is wild
Narnia's Aslan: "Please feel free to cite the Deep Magic to me! I was there when it was written so I love talking about it. :)"
what was the last recipe you made that turned out really well?
so this question has come up in conversation recently: obviously, bluesky has features that allow you to disable interactions like replies and quote posts. but is doing so contrary to the spirit of social media? is it antisocial behavior? maybe even unethical? interested to hear everyone's thoughts
Need to finis this project GF - Needs to finish this project - "Oh yeah I haven't finished this" - "Haha woops it's not done yet" - "Right I forgot about this project"
wrote an essay about encoding, decoding, 'you missed the point by idolizing them' and anton chigurh—but most of all about designing tabletop roleplaying games: medium.com/@rosequarter...
There is now a blog post:
iknowadamseats.blogspot.com/2026/03/you-...
Grand Guignol gives us crooked alleys & foggy squares, charged touches & words left unsaid, lavish parties & faceless crowds, bloody hands & dangerous smiles, and always the darkness without & within asking ‘What lurks in the secret corners of your heart?’.
yes! yes!!
So the BBC promised Davidson and StudioCanal (who made I Swear) that any swearing tics would be edited out from broadcast, and instead they left them in despite a two hour delay, and even put a fucking microphone right in front of him to ensure they picked it up - he was sat at the back of room.
If you liked this experiment, I published a full piece today in the same vein: a text that gets 100 years older with every section, from a modern blog post to a medieval chronicle.
It's a single story spanning 1000 years of English. See how far you get.
www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...
