Obstentia 🕯️🐍

If I ever make anything, from the beginning I'll have narrative stand-ins for each externality that'd affect it. Would serve as a meta plot for people to discover later, reread, buy the older works. Maybe people do this anyways? I'd try my best to be deliberate and precise about it I guess

I gave up on their work and stopped following them when girl by the sea's release disappointed me, so I'm not really familiar enough with them to say this would be the case. At a glance they seem to publish with Shokugan consistently so they seem content with their work

seems as if a lot of series across genres have their last gasp be the mangaka's chance to vent their frustrations. can be ppinted toward the IP itself, the media, the labor going into it, editors, publishers, readers, themselves they see in their self insert characters, etc.

Iranian Girls’ Elementary School Massacre Was a Double-Tap Strike, Medics Say The tactic involves bombing a target and then launching a second strike meant to kill survivors and first responders.

Paramedics said last weekend’s bombing of an elementary in southern Iran was a so-called “double-tap” airstrike — a common tactic used by US, Israeli, and Russian forces by which attackers bomb a target and then follow up with a second strike meant to kill survivors and first responders.

i retouched this a bit

@armsaws.bsky.social every time I see this name my brain defaults to thinking himejoshi/danshi. Am I cooked?

you are already depressed. you are primed to have a negative experience, so just install kubuntu or KDE Neon or something. its not like it can make you depressed for the second time

Terre Haute, from the french "high ground."

They don't stand a chance.

Panoptics at Scale

YouTube video by doublexdare94 Bauhaus- Nerves

nylon steel nylon steel

@budderdog.bsky.social it do be like that

i don't get the fuss. in reality transitioning consist of cultivating a mahou shoujo transformation crystal from exclusively drinking monster ultra strawberry dreams' resulting kidney stone

The fulcrum point of causality.

The immovable axle upon which the wheel of history turns.

Today, you seize the future.

"Perhaps with Game and Chaos Theory we are casting off this historical responsibility, this terroristic responsibility for salvation and truth, which is exploited by science and religion, and recovering that same freedom enjoyed by the Ancients."
- The Perfect Crime

It’s not just their opinion pieces. It’s how they distort narrative with their fucking disingenuous reporting: never knowingly untrue, I am happy to concede, but always passed through a filter:

From the dunes

anyone choosing this moment to be all "here's what you get with republicans: bombs in the middle east" needs to grow up rapidly, considering what the last dem admin did in gaza & their current support for trump's actions right now. this is what you get with (wholly bipartisan) american imperialism

Jean Baudrillard

prediction markets are informationslop that supposes speed and iteration make truth, but that just means it replaces the real with the hyperreal quicker

I kinda want to see shen yun just to see the image of marx projected onto a tsunami wave. Sounds cool and can't find a photo of it online.

Bobr

I imagine this smells like spent oil and lavender

nerves like nylon nerves like steel

Funner alternative with dubious results, ask a local toastmaster association member to deliver the message.

If they are to attempt to ignore that it would necessitate discarding an object you clearly and verifiably put value in. That is to dismiss your clear value and efforts, giving carte blanche to do so with them in turn.

I'd consider making sure the message of 'leave me alone' sticks in their memory or be unignorable. A well written message inside a card formally delivered via official mail shows degrees of non-repudiation, consideration, deliberation, seriousness, and will serve as a physically constant reminder.

Depends on the setting. I'd assume this is at work, a roommate, or family since physical proximity and obligation can keep you from simply ghosting those. Ghosting is what I'd do first after a firm 'no' fails stopping their advances, otherwise.

Why I can’t sleep.

An engraving by Gustav Dore for "The Raven" by Edgar Allen Poe

the quoted post