Anna Winterstein

Just out of two chill and cosy days at #AdventureX, and as much as the industry can sometimes be a chaotic, difficult place, the community is second to none. There is hope yet, and it lies with the people earnestly using their voices to create games and share their stories, despite everything.

Just out of two chill and cosy days at #AdventureX, and as much as the industry can sometimes be a chaotic, difficult place, the community is second to none. There is hope yet, and it lies with the people earnestly using their voices to create games and share their stories, despite everything.

小川公貴/Kimitaka Ogawa lit.link 英日翻訳びと/EN to JP Translator、ゲーム、メディア、リーガルなどを翻訳します。 Translate Game, Media, Legal, etc.、One link to tell your story.

Can absolutely recommend my colleague Kimitaka; he's done stellar work in games and is a brilliant translator (and writer) lit.link/en/transneko

picture of a box with "leftist box of ammo (for crimes)" written on it

y'all not talking about this found evidence because it doesn't fit your leftist narrative

I should probably have contextualized that my grandmother was a movie star in the USSR in the 60s - having the Japanese press covering her movies would have been pretty rare though.

Cover of a Japanese film magazine from 1963 (N° 27) with a large b&w portrait of Margarita Volodina on it

The inside of the magazine, featuring some writing in Japanese and stills from the movie Optimistic Tragedy

Going through my grandmother's documents, and I found this Japanese movie magazine from the 60s that has her on the cover (amongst family pictures, some of them as old as the 1920s...) My little former-historian soul is kind of blown away.

Pure bloodlines? Ancestral homelands? DNA science says no. — Harvard Gazette Geneticist explains recent analyses made possible by tech advances show human history to be one of mixing, movement, displacement.

“Harvard geneticist David Reich said … increasingly sophisticated analysis of genetic material made possible by technological advances shows that virtually everyone came from somewhere else, and everyone’s genetic background shows a mix from different waves of migration that washed over the globe.”

Fallen Pomodoro

Hahahah yes it does xD

She's absolutely on my list! For January 🙈

Separation between two tube carriages. The inside, in hunter green, frames the outside of the next carriage, which is bright red, and that in turn frames the next carriage with its two rows of opposing seats

Inside of a 1938 tube carriage. It's all in green and red with golden wooden floors and wooden frames around the windows. A man with a tote bag is walking between seats.

Outside of a 1938 tube carriage. It's gleaming red, with a No Smoking sign on the window. The door is open, the green interior is peeking through.

A row of decidedly modernly dressed people (t-shirts, Vans, Converse) are seated in an Art Deco tube carriage. Wooden floors, red and green velvet upholstery, green details and wooden frame on the windows.

The carriage itself is pretty darn cool though!

An old-timey ad above the window of an antique tube carriage. It displays a hand pointing at you and reads in bold "You too can be a sucker" and in a smaller font "Just suck a smooth cool creamy minty chewy round slow velvety fresh clean solid buttery Nuttal's Mintoe and see"

True message of hope here from old-timey ads (taken at the 1938 tube carriage revival)

Haha yeah that's exactly my problem - I took a look at the stuff I have on my Kindle waiting to be read, then took a look at the sea and the sun, and was like "nope."
Why is so much of the good stuff so depressing 😅

Oh nice, thank you 🤩 The first one sounds super fun, and the second one I'm not sure how I missed - it's right up my alley!

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Omg, a Becky Chambers? That I haven't read? And solarpunk? That may just be the ticket, thank you so much 🙏🏻

Haha yep that one is my to-read list and will stay there until the winter I think xD

Good people of BookSky, I come begging for reading recs.
Let's say someone is by the sea, determined to do nothing except be lazy on the beach, and is looking for a novel that's very Good and Well-Written, but also generally sunny and happy and a page-turner. Anything comes to mind?

Of a mind to save it and send it over every time I come across someone who needs to read it...

Re-upping this again, please spread far and wide:

*breathe in*

I am not a dumpster fire.

*breathe out*

I am a dumpster phoenix.

Crafty weekend- embroidered a little guy on some jeans

I hate to just repeat the post text, but in this case it's a straight description: Tim Curry on the set of The Three Musketeers (1993), in costume as Cardinal Richelieu, holding an original GameBoy.

Tim Curry on the set of The Three Musketeers (1993), in costume as Cardinal Richelieu, holding an original GameBoy.

And this is why hereditary privilege should not be a thing - certainly not monarchy, but also not inherited wealth. A 100% inheritance tax looking better by the minute...

She loves being on this cushion, despite it being very far from any hiding place or her pen 😅 Display rabbit

You guys, I believe this will be on the iPlayer eventually, and if you have even a passing interest in classical music, you should give it a watch. An absolutely epic rendition of a gorgeous work!

Trolling taken to an art form.

Oh my GOD I feel so seen by this! And I do refuse to abandon the em-dash, Chat GPT be damned...

It also loves to overuse the word "tapestry", which is especially annoying because it's a fine word, and I've had to purge it from my vocabulary...

I need this.