Thaliarchus

Some kind of novelty wind-up walk-along sushi-themed toy. It looks like every second of its existence is pain. [The Idolmaster 2011]

Good night, and good luck.

Thank you! I don't know if I'll be headed to Sendai or not, but if the trip organises itself and I *am* headed there, I'll DM you well ahead of time to see if we can arrange something!

4,300 words.

This bit in the From Russia With Love game made me laugh out loud. You've got a fairly grounded, low key fight based on the one in the movie, then the most video game looking fucker of all time slides into frame.

Reimu: I'm just gonna do my own thing, Marisa!

Marisa: Right back at ya, Reimu!

Reimu: Alright, let's do this!

Marisa: UNIVEEEEERSE!!!

UNIVERSE

Twitch Twitch is the world

Today's vod!
www.twitch.tv/videos/27120...

idk if any of these are anything

Starting now!

Twitch Twitch is the world

Fantasy Monday Wars stream is up! Starting on the hour, in about ten minutes' time.
www.twitch.tv/thaliarchus

We all know that on the internet the only way to get the right answer to a question is to post the wrong answer and await correction.

I know nothing about the poet, Sophie Jewett. PF has a very short biography: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/sophie...

The Pearl
A Middle English Poem, A Modern Version in the Metre of the Original

A curiosity I stumbled on today: a 1908 translation of the Middle English Pearl, attempting to match the original's form.

Very conditioned by the tail-end of what I think of as polite English verse's common practice period, but full respect to the attempt.
www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1...

And while Luxembourg is a member-state and gets to vote on things, Monaco has to be the rule-takingest rule-taker there is.

I'm sure everyone there's too busy getting rich to mind, but they don't exactly get to conduct an independent foreign policy or diverge much on standards.

Caitlín Doherty, Everything Else — Sidecar In Dubai.

'in Dubai there is nothing to do, and I mean nothing, other than to feel rich and be waited upon.'
newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

Yeah. The situation of people stuck doing construction work, cleaning &c sounds grim enough, and on top of that there's been some reporting in recent years on the really nasty, grisly human trafficking of people to Dubai for sex.

Rembrandt's Vision of Zacharias in the Temple rediscovered after 65 years The painting, created by the Dutch master in 1633, had disappeared after being sold in 1961.

This is good.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

If I was the yearnful necromancer I would simply leave the house and meet people &c &c

As with many things (e.g. Brexit!) these events make a strong argument for looking at a map every now and then.

FT article text: 'An executive at a large global hedge fund with a presence in Dubai said: “We have been exploring how to evacuate people but it’s not easy.”  He added: “It’s pretty scary — this is going to have implications for some of my guys . . . The trade was not that you were getting exposed to geopolitics when moving to Dubai. It was not a consideration. People have moved families. This element of concern is new.”'

It is obviously the state's duty to help subjects who want to leave Dubai.

But we can also register that many of them are there because they dislike paying taxes and like having access to servants who lack rights.

The truth is, I wasn't on the planet when they alluded to VOTOMS. But I'd made the same allusion to VOTOMS on other planets.

Ideon pinup poster illustrated by mecha designer Yuichi Higuchi
from Kodansha Shonen Magazine Special Issue: Ideon & The World of Yoshiyuki Tomino (1982)

Xabungle poster illustrated by Tomonori Kogawa
from Kodansha Shonen Magazine Special Issue: Ideon & The World of Yoshiyuki Tomino (1982)

Soft times make tender chicken, tender chicken makes hard times, hard times make tough chicken…

lot of love for the guy who thinks it's in Dorset

Super Robot Wars 30 is not the 30th game in the series. That's silly. It's the game made to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the series.

It's the 48th game in the series.

パチェ。

Reform win a seat: The true Volk have spoken and we all must listen.

Greens win a seat: Early reports that Muslims may have ‘voted’ (an ancient Islamic practice designed to steal elections). How severely should the franchise be limited in response?