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These are some peak character designs

Realized I haven’t done any weeb stuff for a while so I’m giving Dorohedoro a spin

An episode and a half in and I think I’m into it

The geese are back in town

Living through 'uncertain times',as the ads like to phrase it, has made me appreciate the appeal of Neoplatonism a lot more; it would be consoling in a way to consign the vagaries of our material existence to the outermost film of the real while all the good stuff is secure in the realm of Intellect

A tall alien in dark hooded robes points across a cavernous, futuristic space, giving directions to a group humanoids with cat-like heads. The Kif has gray skin, a long dragon-like snout, and red eyes. The Hani have muzzles like lions and ears pointed back. The hair draping from their cheeks forms modest manes, falling flat at shoulder length. The most prominent Hani stands with regal bearing while the rest of the group is poised for action on the ramp behind it. Exposed from the waist up, the lithe musculature of the Hani is covered in short golden fur. Its red pants are cuffed above the calf, and it holds a snubbed nosed laser pistol at its thigh. Accents of gold can be seen in a simple thin band around its upper arm and a thicker bracelet around its wrist. A dark furred ape-like humanoid stands above the pack with eyes lost in thought, closely following the directions of the Kif, while a bearded blonde human glances sideways toward the viewer.

CHANUR’S HOMECOMING (1986)
Acrylic on Watercolor Board - 30” X 18”

The biggest challenge painting alien creatures is finding ways to communicate information about the way they think via gestures available to their peculiar forms. 1/4

You survived another February

For half a second I thought this was that discourse generator bot account

Did I take my estradiol this morning….?

Abolish the legal gender marker entirely. No government can be trusted to have a database of which people have changed theirs, no government has any business tracking what your gender is "supposed" to be in the first place.

Been meaning to get around to this one

Screenshot from Xenogears with Citan and the Emperor talking about the -Gospel-

really wild to think that the forces of freedom have as their icon a waifu from an anime that is verging on 30

I mean this is the most church counselor way of putting it, but intelligence by itself is nearly worthless. wisdom and prudence and discernment are necessary qualities for intelligence to be useful. innumerable religious scriptures have tried to explain this but yr tech bros aren't big on books

I did not realize I had actual voting privileges at the vestry meeting until I was at the vestry meeting. The Anglican Church is a little more lax in this regard than the Presbyterian

Guys being Dudes

cropped screenshot of youtube home page recommendation for "I Built a Secret Gaming Pod" by channel Jake Carlini a woman sits in a large leather recliner and a photoshopped cutaway shows an implausibly sized man crouched up inside a secret compartment underneath the seat, gaming

The Human Chair - Junji Ito

In the 80s we had "Greed Is Good," but today it's much subtler--self-interest is simply the only valid decision-making lens. "Let's not go to Chik-Fil-A, I don't like their food" is respected, but "Let's not go to Chik-Fil-A, I don't want to support a homophobic company" makes you a tedious scold.

As I get deeper into the thickets of my formal logic review it occurs to me that I'm getting dangerously close to another transfeminine stereotype - coding

Bad news for the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise

Analytic philosophy, like medieval philosophy, can get silly very quickly, but it turns out I have an immense nostalgia for it when I actually try reading it again

I've been trying to refresh my knowledge of formal logic. It makes my brain hurt a little but there is something weirdly consoling about it

It's Lent in T-minus 29 minutes

Finished Carole Satyamurti's blank verse version of the Mahabharata. What a wonderful book and a nice companion to have had through this harsh winter

a rare late night Lush doodle post for u all as a treat

Both movies are bookended by Mila Jovovich being naked, but the titillation aspect is somehow less important than the video game logic of “Mila Jovovich has lost her weapons/abilities and needs to regain them for the new game” like Samus damaging her power suit

literally studied Biblical Hebrew in the building this Presbyterian chapel pretending to be a Catholic Church is a part of

See back in 2004 I felt I was too sophisticated to pay attention to this stuff