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:

karadennison.blogspot.com/2026/03/mang...

#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:

karadennison.blogspot.com/2026/03/book...

#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.

So it’s traceable - I was perfectly ready to accept it as twee nonsense that emerged fully formed.

When was it decided he's a psychopomp?

Afternoon Tea Review: Tea Around Town (Chicago)

Afternoon tea reviews are back! Earlier this month, bestie and I tried the Tea Around Town experience in Chicago. Here's what I thought, plus a run-down of the full menu:

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#tea #afternoontea #chicago

DUEL OPERA EXHIBITION w/ VTubers and Voice Actors! YouTube video by Mach Valan VOD Archive

The archive of my Duel Opera Exhibition is now online via my YouTube VOD Archive!

Watch Here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNsr...

You will certainly not regret making your games look like uncanny mobile game ads.