[Ongoing] Dr. Stone fanartists list
Dec. 3rd, 2025 09:55 pm
[RyuKuro, SaiKuro, KuroUkyo, KuroSen, XenoKuro, Tsuka->Kuro<-Ryu, TsukaKuro, GenKuro, KuroRuri]
Anime Check-in: Dr. Stone S4P2E6-9
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Episode 6: Taiju diving into the pile of Medusas. š¤£
I love when Gen gets that sneaky expression on his face.
I also love when Chrome comes out with something that solves a problem, makes me proud. :') Because of Senkuu, Chrome gets to learn more of what he loves.
The non-science users have created diamonds! <3
I love when Gen gets that sneaky expression on his face.
I also love when Chrome comes out with something that solves a problem, makes me proud. :') Because of Senkuu, Chrome gets to learn more of what he loves.
The non-science users have created diamonds! <3
Episode 7: Kohaku got another badass speech!
It's down to the wire and they're still trying to figure out how to make the diamonds work with the Medusa, but they got a new lead.
Episode 8: It just hit me that Charlotte looked exactly like a sex doll or cartoon balloon when she was poisoned by the spider...she was all butt and boobs. š
Xeno, even if Stanley wasn't a military man he would rescue you even if it wasn't by murdering teenagers...
Usui getting excited is so cute.
Even knowing Tsukasa and Hyouga will be okay it's hard to see them gunned down like that. š And Tsukasa's last thoughts being proud of them and of Senkuu.
"What I once sought to destroy has become a glimmer of hope."
Episode 9: Chelsea crying, Gen losing it at Taiju dying, then Ryuusui, daamn.
I can't remember if we get to see Joel and Kaseki meet but I need to see it!
Joel climbing out from under the corpses, hand getting shut in the vault but pressing the watch on time...the tension!! I'm glad I get to experience it twice through the manga and now the anime, because I definitely forgot some things.
Thursday @ 12:46 pm
Dec. 4th, 2025 12:46 pmalisxAurgh. Side-effect of the server wigging out this morning (I think I had too many ufw rules . . . oops) was rebooting it and, thus, apparently restarting the script that imports my fedi posts to my blog. And of course because of the spammy way WordPress and/or the WordPress ActivityPub plugin handles post updates (i.e., pushing them back to the top of the feed), I am now apologizing for spamming everyoneās feeds with old posts. 
Anyway, Iāve disabled federation at the blog until the importer catches up . . .
Spotify Wrapped 2025
Dec. 3rd, 2025 06:32 amforestsofpinePrevious: 2024 | 2023
Top 5 Artists
According to Spotify I listened to 1,727 artists this year. My top 5 were:
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Top 5 Artists
According to Spotify I listened to 1,727 artists this year. My top 5 were:
- SHINee
- ATEEZ
- Taemin
- Qntal
- Seventeen
( Read more... )Dreamwidth Paid Time
Dec. 3rd, 2025 05:28 pmprofiterole_readsThanks again to the kind anon who bought me paid time last year! If someone wanted to extend it, I would be very grateful.
Ignore this post if you have money issues.
Ignore this post if you have money issues.
December Patreon Panel: This Saturday!
Dec. 3rd, 2025 10:37 amduckprintspress
Our December Patreon panel is early in the month this time, coming up on Saturday, December 6th at 8 p.m.! Weāll be talking about Death of the Author by Roland Barthes (you can read it for free on the Internet Archive using this link) and related issues. If youāre a $7/month backer of our Patreon, I hope youāll join us. And if youāre not yet a backer, I hope youāll take a minute to check out all the awesome benefits we offer our supporters and help our indie press keep the doors open with your monthly support!
Panel Title: Letās Talk āDeath of the Authorā
Description: In 1967, Roland Barthes wrote the essay The Death of the Author, criticizing reliance on authorial intention as the ultimate means of deriving meaning from a work, emphasizing instead the importance of each individual readerās interpretation. Since then, the field of literary criticism has widely expanded, and now itās common to see a full spectrum of types of interpretation, from those in which the old style of authorial intention still retains supremacy on the end of the spectrum, to, on the other end, those in which authorial intention is entirely dismissed or ignored in favor of solely elevating reader interpretation. In this panel, weāll discuss the original essay, our views of the importance of authorial intent, our views on the importance on reader interpretation, where our own views place us on the spectrum, and specific cases of āDeath of the Authorā that we have personally grappled with.
Content Warning: This panel may include discussions of transphobia, sexual misconduct, or other issues with authors and/or crimes committed by authors, as it is likely that individuals such as J. K. Rowling and Neil Gaiman will factor in to our conversation.
Want to read Barthesās article before the panel? You can do so! Itās only 8 pages long, and itās available on archive.org.
Date: Saturday, December 6th
Time: 8 p.m. Eastern time (converter)
Panelists: Rhosyn Goodfellow, callmesalticidae, Zel Howland, Shannon Lippert, May Barros, YF Ollwell, and Vee Sloane
Nina Waters will serve as moderator.
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Make a wish, take a chance, make a changeā
Dec. 3rd, 2025 05:53 pmhalfcactusIsora Matsuri, "Secrets of the Silent Witch" (vol 1ā6)
Ongoing light novel series (with a newly released anime adaptation) about a traumatized and socially anxious witch / genius mathematician who develops a method of spell-casting without ever chanting, making her one of the most powerful magicians ever. Outside she is very intimidating and heroic, and inside she's a stuttering and tearful mess. After single-handedly saving a village from a black dragon, she retreats back into the mountain but is conscripted into guarding the Second Prince. To do this she must infiltrate the academy as an ordinary student while ~*keeping the magic secret~*. As a consequence, she learns to actually care about people and gradually heal and form relationships.
The high school setting and very YA situations aren't really working for me (especially with our MC, Monica, being the strongest and most ingenious witch to ever witch), but the politics are surprisingly interesting! The Second Prince (and ML) Felix is a popular and charismatic figure in the academy, and unnervingly conniving. He has a retinue of very loyal but elitist young men who befriend and are changed by Monica, the only commoner in the vicinity. This positions them as the "good" guys. However, outside the school walls, the Second Prince has many detractors, including Monica's own mentor/colleague. And as Monica protects him from assassins she learns that they actually have some very good reasons for wanting to murder him and prevent his ascension.
There are also some very nice twists with the Second Prince's character, the fun one is him being the #1 Monica Everett fanboy and having genuine interest in her magical research and papers.
Elizabeth Lim, "A Forgery of Fate"
I really enjoyed the magic and underwater setting and integration of Chinese culture/lore/tropes/food... not so much the obsession with noodles, because I often think "obsessed with a type of food" is used as a replacement for personality. In this case, the noodle conversations do have narrative relevance, it's just that I was not Feeling the Love. I also wasn't really feeling the themes of regionalism and discrimination, but those parts were pretty secondary anyway.
The first 70% was a 4/5 read for me, then got downgraded to 3/5 because the book lacked the narrative and romantic tension to pull off the last act. I simply didnāt feel anything or understand any of the characters. In fact, the only time I felt any real stakes in the story was at the beginning, when 1) Tru's mom had accrued a large gambling debt that Tru had to pay off urgently and 2) Tru had to guess (by painting) a mahjong tile correctly in a do-or-die moment. Everything after that felt only superficially dangerous. There's all this talk of the Dragon King having ~eyes and ears everywhere~ in their kingdom, and even of there being a spy within Elang's palace, but Elang and Tru continue to have conversations about their fake marriage + secret plan in a normal fashion. There isn't any real fear of being discovered, so the secrecy thing feels like a sham.
I did really like Tru's art powers. They never actually help her or give her a buffāit's really just prophecy with art as its medium. Nonetheless they're what Elang needs to execute his mysterious plan and the reveal for what that exactly was was very satisfying.
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MISC:
Found out from Twitter that Kelly Clarkson's Breakaway was originally written by Avril Lavigne and that an Avril Lavigne version was released a few years ago (for a 20th anniversary album?), There's a neat animated lyric video that features old clips and photos of her:
CW: Flashing / glitch effects
Relatedly, here's her singing Complicated for The First Take:
Ongoing light novel series (with a newly released anime adaptation) about a traumatized and socially anxious witch / genius mathematician who develops a method of spell-casting without ever chanting, making her one of the most powerful magicians ever. Outside she is very intimidating and heroic, and inside she's a stuttering and tearful mess. After single-handedly saving a village from a black dragon, she retreats back into the mountain but is conscripted into guarding the Second Prince. To do this she must infiltrate the academy as an ordinary student while ~*keeping the magic secret~*. As a consequence, she learns to actually care about people and gradually heal and form relationships.
Thoughts
The high school setting and very YA situations aren't really working for me (especially with our MC, Monica, being the strongest and most ingenious witch to ever witch), but the politics are surprisingly interesting! The Second Prince (and ML) Felix is a popular and charismatic figure in the academy, and unnervingly conniving. He has a retinue of very loyal but elitist young men who befriend and are changed by Monica, the only commoner in the vicinity. This positions them as the "good" guys. However, outside the school walls, the Second Prince has many detractors, including Monica's own mentor/colleague. And as Monica protects him from assassins she learns that they actually have some very good reasons for wanting to murder him and prevent his ascension.
There are also some very nice twists with the Second Prince's character, the fun one is him being the #1 Monica Everett fanboy and having genuine interest in her magical research and papers.
Elizabeth Lim, "A Forgery of Fate"
"My father used to say, 'Green is from blue, and is better than blue."Beauty and the Beast retelling set in a fantasy world with Chinese elements. The MC, Tru, has the gift of prophecy that manifests in art. When her father disappears, it falls upon her, the eldest daughter, to support her mother and sisters, so she turns to art forgery. The ML, Elang, is a half dragon who has lost his heart and been banished to live on land. The only way he can go back is by presenting to the Dragon King his Heavenly Match, so naturally this means a contract marriage storyline. There's also something about a curse but to be honest this seemed written to adhere to the Disney!Beauty & the Beast vibes more than anything, I really did not understand what was going on there lol.
"What does that mean?"
I gave Gaari my cheekiest smile. "It means you learn to surpass your teachers."
Thoughts
I really enjoyed the magic and underwater setting and integration of Chinese culture/lore/tropes/food... not so much the obsession with noodles, because I often think "obsessed with a type of food" is used as a replacement for personality. In this case, the noodle conversations do have narrative relevance, it's just that I was not Feeling the Love. I also wasn't really feeling the themes of regionalism and discrimination, but those parts were pretty secondary anyway.
The first 70% was a 4/5 read for me, then got downgraded to 3/5 because the book lacked the narrative and romantic tension to pull off the last act. I simply didnāt feel anything or understand any of the characters. In fact, the only time I felt any real stakes in the story was at the beginning, when 1) Tru's mom had accrued a large gambling debt that Tru had to pay off urgently and 2) Tru had to guess (by painting) a mahjong tile correctly in a do-or-die moment. Everything after that felt only superficially dangerous. There's all this talk of the Dragon King having ~eyes and ears everywhere~ in their kingdom, and even of there being a spy within Elang's palace, but Elang and Tru continue to have conversations about their fake marriage + secret plan in a normal fashion. There isn't any real fear of being discovered, so the secrecy thing feels like a sham.
I did really like Tru's art powers. They never actually help her or give her a buffāit's really just prophecy with art as its medium. Nonetheless they're what Elang needs to execute his mysterious plan and the reveal for what that exactly was was very satisfying.
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MISC:
Found out from Twitter that Kelly Clarkson's Breakaway was originally written by Avril Lavigne and that an Avril Lavigne version was released a few years ago (for a 20th anniversary album?), There's a neat animated lyric video that features old clips and photos of her:
CW: Flashing / glitch effects
Relatedly, here's her singing Complicated for The First Take:
WWW Wednesday
Dec. 3rd, 2025 09:47 amduckprintspress1. What are you currently reading?
- Dream of the Red Chamber by Tsao Hsueh-Chih: I'm making forward progress again. I. don't get it. I mean, it's very slice of life? I feel like I'm missing oceans of subtext about the relationships between these people.
- Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill vol. 1 by Ren Eguchi: I'm making slow progress cause I'm trying to focus on my library books and because we keep having company. I'm so tired of people lmao.
- ęåęåƹ家 by PEPA: I've missed a few days because of holidays and morning darkness mean I'm sleeping in, but I'm at 91% and expect to finish sometime this month. Still waffling on what Chinese book to read next.
2. What have you recently finished reading?
- On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twenthieth Century by Timothy Snyder: far from a perfect book, and there were a few things that had me raising a skeptical eyebrow (like the random unnecessary assumption of a Christian reader with a God reference), but the basic "keep fighting, don't surrender in advance, watch for these warning signs" parts were reassuring.
- Poison Ivy: Thorns by Kody Keplinger and Sara Kipin: my "read all the queer graphic novels I can find" thing has me dipping a bit more into DC and Marvel characters who are canonically queer, so here I am. This was decent, presumably a retelling of Poison Ivy's backstory (I don't know her original backstory, oh well, lmao). Yes she's a lesbian in it.
- Toxic Summer by Derek Charm: modern weird with a gay lead. It's basically all those crazy teen summer movies, just instead of cruising for girls, the main male characters are cruising for dudes, and then there's
alienshidden underwater civilizations and toxic sludge. It needed another 100 pages to really bring it all together imo, but it was okay. - Classmates vol. 4 by Asumiko Nakamura: modern BL. volume four is about a side character, who is a 37-year-old teacher who had a crush on one of the main story guys, who is a high school student. It was yucky when it was the 37 yo teacher perving on the 18 yo high school senior, and it's even yuckier in this one, when he's perving on a 15 year old freshman and they ultimately get together (tho not til the younger one is of-age). Still, I knew the dove was dead when I picked it up. I hated it about as much as I expected to, but it wasn't bad for what it was and aside from the (to me) inherent yuck of that age difference, it was handled about as well as it could have been. People in the reviews calling it grooming have no idea what grooming is. It definitely wasn't grooming. (obvs ymmv on what is yucky, but I don't personally enjoy age gaps that large, at least when the younger one is so young. 70 and 50, sure I'm there, but 37 and 15.....no thanks, I'll pass.)
- Hana and Hina After School vol. 1 by Milk Morinaga: very very fluffy modern hs wlw. I could wish for more substance there but I've read Milk Morinaga before and am not surprised there wasn't, and it's undeniably cute and soft.
- That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime vol. 1 by Fuse and Taiki Kawakami: I watched the anime of this transmigration story and thought, "I wonder if the light novel or manga are on Libby?" and there was the manga and here I am.
- Sakamoto Days vol. 14 by Yuto Suzuki
- Heavy Vinyl: Riot on the Radio by Nina Vakueva and Carly Usdin: girl fight club set in the late '90s with a lesbian protag. I liked this decently but wish it had been clearer it's a volume 1. Fortunately I scrounged up volume 2 on Libby. Thank you, Libby.
3. What will you read next?
Novels: if I somehow finish both novels I'm currently reading, I really need to get to Baker Thief by Claudie Arseneault. Book club is almost finished with it and I haven't started, oops.
Physical Library Loans: Paper Planes by Jennie Wood, Dozerdraws and Micah Myers is my next library read, followed by Daybreak by Moosopp and I Am Not Starfire by Mariko Tamaki and Yoshi Yoshitani. These books are so late, I really need to try to finish them all this week and return them.
Libby Loans: I need to finish Goodbye, My Rose Garden by Dr. Pepperco this week, as my loan on vol. 3 has only 6 days left (tho I have longer on vol. 2, lol, cause different libraries with different loan durations). Other than that, nothing is all that imminent so idk, it'll depend on my mood.
Wednesday @ 11:53 am
Dec. 3rd, 2025 11:53 amalisxOh shit. And apparently itās fandom.inkās seventh birthday today? Damn. Well. Happy birthday, I guess!
