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We live in in age where seriously ill and or aging musicians and comic book creators and authors and voice actors have had to crowdfund for medical costs and people are still thinking those groups are largely made up of landlords or some shit.

for no particular reason, here are some sites where you can read books for free:
- Project Gutenberg, which includes epubs and audio US public domain books: www.gutenberg.org
- Faded Page, canadian public domain: www.fadedpage.com
- Standard ebooks, US public domain: standardebooks.org
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A radical skeleton telling you "Just start. You don't need permission. Art, craft, 2nd book, cake, writing, that show, any new skill, making friends. If it sucks, ask for help. The time will pass anyway"

planet of the bass parody of europop meme song young white man with shiny goggles red dyed medium length hair and black sleeveless vest singing intensely women are my favorite guy.

here to celebrate my favorite guys today

Come thru tonight for a special sneak peek at @nochistudios.bsky.social's upcoming indie otome, Moondusk Masquerade! The party starts at 5PM ET!

Don't miss the stream: www.twitch.tv/blerdyotome

companies listening to what people say they want instead of making art and just giving them something has been ruinous for games, movies and more for the last 10-15 years

The 5th Otomate Fan Event is coming on Feb 23 with streaming tickets on sale now!
(Event is in Japanese only - No English)

Tickets for the event can be purchased here - https:/ /w.pia.jp/a/otomate24engpls/

anime style illustration of a pair of characters locked in a cyber battle with a gun and a green light sword. the logo on the left has a glitch effect and says "OTOME JAM 2025"

Otome Jam & Josei Jam are returning this May! Make an otome game within 2 months 💜

General Rules:
- May 1st-June 30th
- 18+ OK
- no specific theme, any otome OK
- visual novels & hybrids OK
- finishing previously started games & starting new games OK

✨ Sign up: itch.io/jam/otome-ja...

anime style illustration of a pair of women looking melancholic with their backs to each other. the logo at the bottom says "Without a Voice"

anime style illustration of a purple haired woman wearing a big pink witch hat and grinning. the logo on the left says "Witch You Want"

anime style illustration of a girl in a blue cloak. the logo says "Upwards, Rain! the post office of farewells"

anime style illustration of of a blonde woman in a red cloak with cards to her right. the logo at the bottom right says "Who is the Red Queen?"

what better way to spend Valentine's Day than with yuri—especially free yuri? 💖

play some of our free yuri visual novels on itchio: vnstudioelan.itch.io

Michigan State cancelled their Lunar New Year lunch. BUT. It's partly because the Chinese students who would have attended--many international students--were afraid to gather together right now.

I don't blame them. But this will happen more & more: make people afraid & they'll hide/self-censor.

GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references.

Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.

Displaced Black Families GoFund Me Directory

My wife and I are floored by the level of support from our community after these fires. We are going to be OK.

If you want to support those affected by the wildfires in Altadena, please signal boost these displaced families and donate if you can:

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Merry Christmas, Sunshine 🌻

2024 has been the year of Grimmy - we're excited to see what next year will bring!

For now, we wish you all a happy holidays and a restful new year 🥰

I suppose even that man is capable of logical arguments.

It's kinda funny how John Green has to constantly fight against book banners misrepresenting his work and intentions, and needs to make videos every few years explaining how Looking For Alaska is not porn

And Hank just has people questioning if you can, in fact, slam your boob in a door

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#slowdamage

It's hard to pick but I would say Frey looks like he'll be my fave atm

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol declares martial law, entertainment industry cancelling festivals & events So this isn't necessarily entertainment industry related, but it actually is because it's everything related, as South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has declar

[Update] All 190 members of the National Assembly vote to end martial law, military appears to begin dispersing. No response from President yet. www.asianjunkie.com/2024/12/03/s...

Good shit.

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol declares martial law, entertainment industry cancelling festivals & events - Asian Junkie So this isn't necessarily entertainment industry related, but it actually is because it's everything

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol declares martial law, entertainment industry cancelling festivals & events - By: IATFB
www.asianjunkie.com/2024/12/03/s...

A plump brown tabby cat is lying on top of a brown radiator cover, in the form of a soft and pleasant loaf. The photo is warm with wood paneled walls and many other brown interior decorating tones of the 1970s.

Whole wheat kitty loaf warming on the radiator. Photo from my collection, ca. 1970s (in case you can't tell from the rainbow of browns).

My other popular opinion is that in-app purchases fucked mobile gaming.

Yes, there are exceptions; I know them. But the whole “our game gets unplayable after a point unless you buy coins” thing just means that games are no longer fun and developers aren’t trying to balance playability any longer.

Public library energy is the best energy. Like here is all the knowledge we could find, it's been meticulously organized and vetted and it will cost you nothing today, welcome to the absolute pinnacle of human civic evolution, feel free to pull up any bean bag chair you like

daily reminder to support your local library, even if that’s just by checking out ebooks! 📚

Things I miss from Gaming when I was a kid

🎮 Reading the game manual on the way home over and over

🎮 Playing the most random obscure game cos it was all you could get

🎮 the smell of a new game when you opened the case

🎮 4 Player Splitscreen at a friend's house

Good Times 😩