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heart goes out to all trans people, and parents/family of trans kids stuck in this shithole country, on this hellscape planet. may you live long and joyously enough to see the putrescent politicians, judges, corpos, and ground-level bigots die mad, as they inevitably will

tired: someone is time-traveling wired: like Link/Zelda/Ganon, there've been incarnations of DK and Pauline across the eons, their lives destined to intertwine, whether as kidnapper and victim, sad-dad and girl, kart racer and mayor, Country conqueror and [not licensed by Rare], or what have you

The Bugle Call v1 came out the other day, and now it's available to read online via the Jump sub: viz.com/shonenjump/chapters/the-bugle-call the most exciting thing I'm currently working on, and possibly in my all-time top five. think Vinland x Berserk x X-Men, but also doing its own thing

took a local drawing class for people who never drawed anything before and can't draw good might've learned something!

took a walk this morning, contemplated the farce that is today being freelancer tax day #2 of 4, glimpsed how the streets of Portland are feeling about things

bonus upside to witnessing what feels like 1/2 the city turn out for an affirming thing: it inspires in me a crumb of forbearance toward local dummkopfs who fall asleep at red lights, take forever to order coffee, are generally meiwaku vexation abounds but at least many are evidently not fascists!

bumping up against the limits of compartmentalization as I tab back and forth between live updates on the unflagging ascent of unspeakable evil irl, and typing out scripts for children's comics about the power of friendship and RPG stats is this how punch and judy puppeteers felt during the blitz

easy to feel like nothing will ever be okay again, but at least Toby Fox can still put out battle themes that make me want to believe otherwise youtube.com/watch?v=OobVFldn6As

when the universe gives you a single banana (that you forget about until it's practically fermenting and oozing out of its peel), make cocoa banana donuts

flashback on page 157, panel 3 (of volume n) references a line found on...page 157, panel 3 (of volume n-1) little miracles everywhere, but portending what??

great bit from Tony Gilroy (Andor showrunner): "Empathy, yes. Empathy, empathy, empathy. [...] there's nothing like pretending to be other people, to make you realize that maybe you should look beyond your own momentary needs." (@ 11:59 in the interview) youtu.be/mGBXFWvPRsE?...

I've been partial to the *mandatory* schmaltzy weather/season-related openers to correspondence written in Japanese ever since learning about the custom, so you can imagine my delight when World Trigger handed me this

(note to self and other roguish scamps: a pseudo f-bomb can apparently be flown under the radar and into a simul via the stealth vehicle of "fugly" as a translation for かわいくない)

>google a unique JPN term >only results relate to the manga I'm translating (ain't that just the way!) >only result discussing it is in mangadex forum >comments are all crusty weebs, gooning, shitting on the fan translator >weebs don't know Japanese >no closer to figuring out term >just grumpy now

crikey, the elusive O-V-S sentence, in the wild! look at that beaut!

>gf is away for the weekend >heavy DHL package arrives >not my birthday; fair game to open >full gorget, pair of pauldrons, chainmail >not sure what I expected

One where the entire US anime industry isn't run by money-addled MBA-brains whose only passion is watching line go up