yukamichi is a kawaii slime
i like speculative fiction and tabletop rpgs
japanese -> english translator
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writing: yukamichi.dreamwidth.org
- every time i see a universes beyond card i have to double-take because they look just like the entire history of laughably bad fanmade cards, same subject matter and eye-rolling game design and everything
- lmao did google move their AI slop to its own search results tab so people would stop dunking on its terrible answers?
- the wark left cost me my job points
- if you see this, quote with the energy you bring to bluesky
- 私はエメラルダス・・・
- one of the things i'm really enjoying in g quacks is all these normalcore zeon side characters feels like in the early uc anime there are a lot of cartoonishly evil villains and true believers and self-interested amoral politicians and all that stuff, but fewer "yeah i'm haman karn's drycleaner" ppl
- i dunno that hypno breast expansion guy sounds rather promising
- oh boy grabbing some random schlock (instead of carefully directed schlock, as has become the custom) from the tbr pile for when i'm done with dirty pair a lot of this is from back when i read more light novels than i do now and god digging through it there is so much weird shit in here
- do you think danny devito thinks that frank reynolds is the greatest role he's played in his life? do you think he talks about sunny waxing poetic about the art of performance like he's patrick stewart looking back at his time in the royal shakespeare company?
- i have a modest collection of store uniforms for stores i never worked at that i found at thrift shops bought just in case i ever had a need to impersonate an employee pretty much all of those stores don't exist anymore or have changed uniforms but i still like the little glimpse into retail history
- Etrivanias
- why is the 'e' upper case on one sign but lower case on the other
- also maybe i just have bad/non-characteristic memories of other shows from the era, but i feel like dirty pair is kind of unreasonably good-looking for a tv show made in 1985?
- isn't it weird how kei and yuri are always talking about their boyfriends, and yet we never actually see them with any of their boyfriends
- man episode 4 of dirty pair has everything a pink cat, lady wrestlers, kei and yuri in casual clothes, cops making themselves look like a bunch of fucking idiots everything
- change a letter ruin a band Malt Banana (actually that sounds pretty delicious)
- This is a really cool question and I prefer the answer that ties back into one of my evergreen rants ("Privilege is not something you have; it's how other people treat you"). The genie is warping reality so that people are happy to see and treat Aladdin as a prince, treat Jaffar as the sultan, etc
- watching barbarella and wondering what it must have felt like for marcel marceau being the only person in the movie who actually knows how to act
- it's fine guys the games industry may be economically unsustainable but the indies will save us (as long as those indie developers' parents own four investment firms)
- my manga backlog is much, much larger than my actual mental capacity to read manga so i frequently pick through and cull anything that doesn't immediately blow me away, but i'm always worried that if i keep the same standard up through the whole backlog i'll accidentally end up with nothing to read
- ar tonelico is really freaking good, like fighting at the top of the list of best rpgs of all time good as far as i'm concerned
- so like, is mishima pretty much just not available in e-book in japanese, or do i just suck at searching?
- lots of gundam fans don't know that before she met char lalah sune was a student at aikatsu's starlight academy
- props to all those seiyuu voicing eunuchs in apothecary diaries trying to squeeze out their best 'i just got popped in the cojones' voice
- mentioned nanaca crash as a one-off joke answer to someone's "i'm trying to remember a browser game (that literally had nothing else in common with nanaca crash)" question and managed to get at least three people (including me) playing it
- i should read more starship operators because i feel like there might actually be a real legitimate analysis to be made through baudrillard here (for those unfamiliar, starship operators is about fighting a guerrilla space war that is funded by a tv station in exchange for the broadcast rights)
- i hate how professional music people are almost totally incapable of actually articulating anything about sound, it's always just vibes cloaking institutional norms about what is good or bad that they either won't or can't acknowledge "that's so crunchy" "that's so spicy" ugh please gag me
- been feeling that anxiety-hungry thing all day which usually means "nutrient deficiency" but i can't think of anything i haven't been eating enough of
- i really like the way that usb-a connectors get those little grooves worn into them
- my favourite grocery store trips are the ones where i only need to buy like two things but then i also buy fifteen dollars worth of exotic cheese and scandinavian biscuits so people won't think i'm bad at shopping?
- one thing i'm really enjoying in the first dirty pair is that kei is using a ヒートガン ("heat gun") instead of a laser pistol or whatever that's straight up old school pulp stuff there
- holy crap i'm like ten minutes into high plains drifter and this film is unironically absolute cinema
- oh oh one more hot internet culture take it's less weird to simp on vtubers because the use of the avatar helps clearly demarcate the boundary between the authentic and the transactional, borrowing heavily from the japanese idol industry's model of "parasocial relationships as a service"
- the real poetry of the internet isn't instapoetry it's copypasta you can recite iconic lines like "oh, like you're doing right now?" or "every morning i wake up and open palm slam" and people will nod solemnly at the sublime beauty of language
- gonna start giving my characters "tomino names" using the following simple process: 1 come up with any name 2 transliterate it into japanese 3 transliterate it from japanese into english in the stupidest way possible (and because of english orthography there are a _myriad_ of stupid ways)
- they taste like a e s t h e t i c
