vera

ok i don't think i'm built for mandarin after all

i'm so glad i only watched the wizard of oz for the first time this january so i don't really feel any cultural obligation to watch wicked, it seems like such a headache to have a take on lol

(joke that only might be funny if you know a bit of japanese vocabulary) what if instead of higurashi it was called haburashi when they cry

Paper Girls, written by Brian K. Vaughn and art by Cliff Chiang (Image Comics)

christmas gift for oomf came a little early. streets say this is one of the best indie comics out there so... may as well do a little QA in the meantime, since i've never read it either

"Arf, arf!"

"Doggystyle? Understood..."

aw come on dude that's just. aw jeez man

#HundredVera

some flash comic written between 2022 or 2023, i forgor (dc comics)

"We're too late..." "You people are wild. I'm sure that's the pizza I ordered on Lex-Eats."

grand theft gotham. lex-eats. alright man. whatever.

The Flash Vol. 5 (2016-2023), written by Joshua Williamson and Jeremy Adams (DC Comics)

295. The Flash Vol. 5

really all over the place, but ultimately a platonic ideal of modern comics. lots of ups and downs even out to making it a really average comic overall, though it makes me wanna jump off a cliff when they start doing multiverse shit lol. bring back avery ho.

thinking about patlabor again. they were so hot together man you don't even know. they were on some real wong kar-wai shit

Lady Joker, by Kaoru Takamura

294. Lady Joker 💙📚

ABSOLUTE banger. the best kind of crime story, in which the people and contexts surrounding it are arguably more important than the actual crime itself. lots of meaty themes like societal isolation and the way institutions dehumanize us present too. a new fave book for sure

finished my shift and came back to my car to see a really long thread of webbing on my door that got all over my hands, and then i see a little spider just hanging out on the backseat door. like what the fuck man

when you simp for a character and your buddy simps for that character's canon sort-of lover. it's a powerful bond few can understand. forged in mutual trust and respect.

it's peak... might be one of my new favorite books

*reading japanese crime novel called lady joker* oh this is kinda like no country for old men. this is kinda like the wire. this is kinda like cure. this is kinda like uma musume.

i have not, but it looks cool. if it has the director of ong-bak and the protector, it must be pretty good, i imagine

my dog when he finds out that not only did he get actual chicken last night, he's going on a ride somewhere to get 'fixed'

me: "ok i stopped obsessively watching tv/anime every waking moment of my free time so i can put more focus into working on my books like i always wanted"

also me: "what if i started learning mandarin proper. both for its own sake and to help me remember characters for japanese too"

nah man what did they do to touma. they FUCKED his shit up

me who watched it on the plane home from japan and didn't even realize it literally just dropped on digital like one week prior (i knew literally nothing about project sekai other than miku being there)

"I-I see. I didn't know boys had to watch their weight too." -- ciel from tsukihime

you think she prefer bigger boys

"That's barely anything. What are you doing here, going on a bizarre journey re-reading your favorite manga?"

I KNOW WHAT THAT IS

#HundredVera

WAIT AIYO??????

the way i never knew about this until i googled the author's name immediately before making this post and one of the results was just "worst mangaka comebacks" talking about this 💀

remember when like bleach ended and there was this period of time where weekly shounen jump tried to really push toriko as their new big series but literally no one gave a shit so they eventually stopped (the sex crimes were unfortunately not a real factor)

reading a pitch for an original setting from oomf and suddenly uttering to myself "this is kinda like nikke" and feeling a wave of horror wash over me

that's fair. with time i could probably see myself adjusting it to be a little lower too as i mull over the ways it changes the book for the worse (the ending was soooo bad) but i had enough fun with the first two acts that i feel i can forgive it a little, even if yeah edgar feels past his prime

oh running man, i had such high hopes...

#LastFourWatched

when the japanese art comes out examining the nature of evil as a literal disease that you can catch

i'm gonna throw up laughing i'm sorry what is going ON

finding out robert dispatch was originally conceived to be half-korean before making him just full white so they could avoid accusations of ripping off invincible, as if the universe decided to give me a real reason to dislike dispatch free of charge

a couple of anime characters are standing next to each other in a room and one of them is saying `` hey '' . ALT: a couple of anime characters are standing next to each other in a room and one of them is saying `` hey '' .

she's just so