MANGA REVIEW: Chi's Sweet France

Adorable new manga available today from @kodansha.us ! Check out my review of CHI'S SWEET FRANCE:

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When artists are quitting the industry in droves because they can't afford to feed themselves, thus ensuring eradication by corporations embracing AI further, no I don't think stealing art in any guise is okay.

Not even then.
Nope.
Not then either.

BOOK REVIEW: Infinite Shores

It's new #bookreview day! Check out my thoughts on INFINITE SHORES, available now from @simonbooks.bsky.social :

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a man in a suit and tie is sitting in front of a window and says " i just want it to stop " ALT: a man in a suit and tie is sitting in front of a window and says " i just want it to stop "

Plans for streams this Friday may be scuttled due to the storms we're having . I'm barely hanging in there due to scrambling to protect the house from taking on water.

Ko-fi is open in the meantime as I need to do emergency prep. Link in replies below.

MANGA REVIEW: Gizmo Riser Vol. 1

Now available from @titanmangahq.bsky.social ! GIZMO RISER Vol. 1 has Gurren Lagann and Gachiakuta vibes - sound like your thing? Check out my review today on my blog:

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#manga #mangareview

I need to get on this list so bad.

Root beer tastes like wintergreen and both are nasty.

"Onscreen."

Cozy manga reading

Good morning, it’s Shonen Jump catchup time.

Waiting on someone to provide me with Lulutto Lilly because it was made for me specifically.

Probably the worst thing about the clocks going forward is having to rotate your entire henge 30°

Kara Dennison, Author, Journalist, and Mega-Fan YouTube video by The Halfling and the Spaceman

We were excited to chat with Kara Dennison. She has credits at Crunchyroll, Discotek, Sekai Project, and others. She has written several short stories for anthologies and has written some stand-alone fiction and non-fiction. @rubycosmos.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjJx...

MANGA REVIEW: Fruit of the Underworld

Underworld narrative but make it manga! Today on the blog I review FRUIT OF THE UNDERWORLD Vol. 1, available now from @kodansha.us :

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#manga #mangareview 💙📚

Time to start setting up my mood boards and playlists and whatnot for my next WIPs. I will try to be better about posting regular progress as well. (Keeps me accountable, too.)

Ink, marker, colored pencil and acrylic paint wash Twelfth Doctor.

You can hide the truth from your self.

But never the Twelfth.

#DoctorWho

It only had to have a good story for me to be into it, but it's got a good story AND it's beautiful to look at??? A gift.

And that's a 10.5k-word story sent off to the relevant individual(s). Now we commence my days and weeks of fearing it's no good. Hurrah!

MANGA REVIEW: Statues

Greetings, fellow #JunjiIto enjoyers! STATUES is now available in English from @viz.com , and my review of this creepy new collection is now live on my blog:

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#manga #mangareview 💙📚

It’s Manga Madness with Helen McCarthy! Manga is one of the biggest storytelling mediums on the planet, and Mandy has been successfully avoiding it her whole life — until now. World-renowned expert Helen McCarthy hands her three wildly diff...

"Helen McCarthy is the author of the first English-language books on Japanese animation and on Hayao Miyazaki — which is to say, she was there taking manga seriously before the rest of the English-speaking world had even formed an opinion about it."
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layers in photopea named Char, char, char copy, char copy 2

gundam writers making up guys

subway ad that says "your idea could be live by the time you reach your stop"

as a culture we have really given "ideas" way too much credit. ideas are a dime a dozen. they happen all the time. the magic is way more in the doing, and the doing's diminished stature is linked to lack of respect for labor and, more recently, skill and expertise.

BOOK REVIEW: Olivia Gray Will Not Fade Away

Book review morning! OLIVIA GRAY WILL NOT FADE AWAY is now available from @simonbooks.bsky.social - check out my full review on the blog.

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#books #newbooks #bookreview 💙📚

me tooting my little bugle and summoning up my guys

I’ve got some rosemary Parmesan sourdough to put it on, too.

Sketchbook Bowie character #3:
Ziggy Stardust

A friend gave me a dozen eggs from her chickens and I’m going to bed excited about the amazing scrambled eggs I’m going to make in the morning. Not sure what tier of boring adulthood that is but here we are.

My alabaster milk child Teuton keeps asking for ranch dressing at the caviar factory, it is most epic. The fishmongers despise him.

BOOK REVIEW: Heiress of Nowhere

Available now from @simonbooks.bsky.social - HEIRESS OF NOWHERE, a story of murder and mystery in the Pacific Northwest. Read my full review today on the blog:

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#bookreview #books #newbooks 💙📚

If I click a link for a service and get taken to a funnel, I am no longer interested. Fuck a fake quiz, either show me your price points or go away.

Seems a large job for a little bear.