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[tsunflowers]

anime featuring adult women

what do I mean by featuring? the protagonist, point of view character, or co-lead is an adult woman. in stories with more than one lead, the adult woman is a well-developed character with as much time spent on her thoughts and feelings as the other lead

what do I mean by adult women? honestly, “not in high school.” there are a couple of women on this list who are still in their teens and/or attending college but they should seem refreshingly adult to people who are sick of stories about high school

ikoku nikki | journal with witch makio, a socially awkward novelist in her 30s, impulsively adopts her teenage niece asa after asa’s parents suddenly die. the two struggle to live together due to their very different personalities but form a profound connection

genre: slice of life female friendship: core to the story mood: tender, realistic other formats: started as manga available on crunchyroll

kowloon generic romance kujirai reiko is working as a real estate agent in hong kong’s kowloon walled city when she begins to notice that her past doesn’t add up and neither do the strange scifi happenings around the city

genre: scifi with secondary romance female friendship: core to the story mood: mysterious, sultry other formats: started as a manga available on crunchyroll

nami yo kiitekure | wave, listen to me a real hot mess of a woman named minare loses her job when her drunk rant about her ex gets broadcast on the radio, but she gets a new job as a late night radio host

genre: slice of life female friendship: yes mood: unhinged reality of modern life other formats: started as manga, also has a live action tv series available on crunchyroll

kidou keisatsu patlabor | mobile police patlabor mecha called labors are so common in this setting that people regularly use them for crime and a special police force is needed to stop them. noa is a tomboyish and impulsive woman who becomes a labor pilot for the police just bc she loves labors so much

genre: mecha, police sitcom female friendship: yes mood: buddy cop comedy other formats: large franchise including several movies and spinoffs

paripi koumei | ya boy kongming aspiring singer-songwriter eiko teams up with famous military strategist zhuge kongming to get her career going after he is reincarnated into modern shibuya

genre: comedy, reverse isekai female friendship: yes mood: colorful comedy about modern life + a guy from the year 234 other formats: started as manga

sakura quest after failing to get a job in tokyo, yoshino moves to the rural town of manoyama when they offer her a job as the “queen” of the town in an attempt to increase tourism. while there she befriends her weird boss, four other young women, and many more quirky residents of the town

genre: slice of life female friendship: core to the story mood: realistic to modern life but very silly other formats: none available on crunchyroll

apocalypse hotel a slightly neurotic robot named yachiyo does her best to run a hotel in a post-apocalyptic future where no humans are left on earth bc she is convinced that they will return one day

genre: scifi female friendship: core to the story mood: funny but sometimes bittersweet other formats: none available on crunchyroll

yubisaki to renren | a sign of affection a deaf college student starts dating an older student at the same college who loves learning languages and traveling. the two of them both find ways to expand the other’s world together

genre: romance female friendship: yes mood: realistic college romance other formats: started as manga available on crunchyroll

kabushikigaisha magilumiere | magilumiere magical girls inc a young woman named kana whose skill is memorizing manuals joins a startup company that makes magical girl technology as a professional magical girl

genre: magical girl (grownup) female friendship: core to the story mood: funny, loving twist on the magical girl genre other formats: started as manga

wotaku ni koi wa muzukashii | wotakoi: love is hard for otaku a man and a woman who work at the same office and are both secretly nerds start dating

genre: romcom female friendship: yes mood: light-hearted workplace comedy other formats: started as manga

ookami to koushinryou: merchant meets the wise wolf | spice and wolf: merchant meets the wise wolf a pompous wolf goddess travels a medieval European inspired fantasy world with a shrewd merchant, alternately helping him, teasing him, and getting him dragged into tense political situations. and of course, they fall in love

genre: historical fantasy, romance female friendship: not much mood: adult fantasy but by adult I mean they do taxes other formats: started as light novels, has a previous anime adaptation available on crunchyroll

watashi no shiawase na kekkon | my happy marriage a cinderella story in an alternate taisho era where magic is real. heroine miyu is so used to cruel treatment from her family that fiancé kiyoka’s aloof behavior doesn’t bother her, causing him to drop his defense mechanisms and open his heart to her in his own awkward way

genre: historical romance with fantasy elements female friendship: yes mood: sentimental and artistic other formats: started as light novel, also has a manga available on netflix

mayonaka punch a youtuber who just got canceled for punching one of her cohosts starts a new channel with a group of vampire roommates, promising that she’ll let the one who kind of has a crush on her suck her blood when they hit one million subs

genre: comedy female friendship: core to the story mood: wacky comedy with yuri vibes other formats: it is an anime original but there is a manga and light novel available on crunchyroll

kuragehime | princess jellyfish awkward artist tsukimi moves into a small apartment inhabited only by other female nerds. her life is turned upside down when a beautiful woman helps her save a jellyfish from a pet store and she learns the next morning that the beauty identifies as male but loves women’s fashion

genre: comedy with secondary romance in the manga and live action female friendship: core to the story mood: loser women lifestyles other formats: started as a manga, also has a live action tv series and movie available on crunchyroll

zenshuu perfectionist animator natsuko wakes up in the world of her favorite anime, which she loved as a kid despite its horribly depressing ending that was hated by critics. she attempts to use the power she’s been given to animate things into life to fix the story, with mixed results

genre: isekai female friendship: yes mood: explosive love for animation and storytelling other formats: none available on crunchyroll

[fontseeker]

I’m a huge fan of this blog— I stumbled upon it today and it’s already rekindled my excitement for hobbyist document design and printing.

I was wondering if you have any personal favorite “handwritten” fonts? (i.e. fonts that are meant to mimic someone writing freehand) I’m currently formatting a print version of a story that includes a series of letters sent between two characters, so I’d super appreciate some recommendations if you have any. I want to use different fonts for each character, to add an extra dimension to their voices.

Thanks so much for running this blog and sharing such a cool art form with the world!

There are some good "casual" fonts, though it's hard to find one that actually looks like an average person's handwriting. But here's a couple of options:

Iris' Hand (2023)

Biró Script (2007)

[fontseeker]

The VHS logo is in Lee (1972).

Lee was also used for the opening and closing titles of the original Charlie's Angels. Charlie's Angels and the VHS format both came out in 1976.

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The instructions modeled into the top of the cassette are in Handel Gothic (1965).

Handel Gothic is used in quite a lot of things. But here's a few other early examples, which may have helped popularize it:

[thegroovyarchives]

70′s & 80′s Local Television “Technical Difficulties” Station IDs/Bumpers 1. WPTF-TV, Durham/Raleigh/Fayetteville, North Carolina, 80′s 2. WTTW-TV, Chicago, Illinois, 1981 3. WPXI-TV, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1986 4. WGN-TV, Chicago, Illinois, 70′s 5. WZTV-TV, Nashville, Tennessee, 1977 6. WXNE-TV, Boston, Massachusetts, 1986 7. KYW-TV, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1977 8. WGN-TV, Chicago, Illinois, 1983 9. WNEV-TV, Boston, Massachusetts, 1984 10. KMGH-TV, Denver, Colorado, 1981

[fontseeker]

1, 9, 10: Helvetica (1957)

2: Data 70 (1970)

3: ITC Eras (1976)

4: ITC Serif Gothic (1974)

5: Alternate Gothic No. 2 (1903) or Trade Gothic Bold Condensed (1948) – the two are almost identical

6: Futura Extra Bold (1952) or Twentieth Century Ultra Bold (1959) – another example of almost identical fonts

7: Bookman Bold Italic with Swash (circa 1965)

8: ITC Benguiat Gothic (1979)

[redvelvetsource]

JOY The 1st Mini Album 【From JOY, with Love】 Album Details (Jewel Case Ver.)

[redvelvetsource]

JOY The 1st Mini Album 【From JOY, with Love】 Album Details (Tin Case Ver.)

[nkim-illustrates]

How I Paint Grapes! 🍇

[luvwich]

gradient text maker

i made a tool for creating gradient text! it's similar to this great site, but with a few additional features:

extract a color palette from an image

paste a string of hex codes to load the colors

AO3 export mode (it's a bit of a pain in the ass but it works)

on neocities →

[luvwich]

stoked that some folks found this useful :3 i added a feature that checks for contrast and suggests a lighter or darker color based on your preferences:

you can configure how much contrast it will optimize for; the idea is to aim for colors that will be readable against dark or light backgrounds!

it isn't perfect (e.g. it won't check for all the intermediate colors between the ones you've selected), but i think it's pretty handy~ you can turn it off if you don't need it!

[chunghastuffs]

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[apas-95]

An Actually Short Reading List

I’ve seen a lot of Short, Introductory, Beginner’s reading lists with ten or twenty links, and, well, they’re intimidating. While you might not want to leave off something important, if everyone gets scared off by your list, nobody reads anything. So, let’s try something a bit more approachable! Here are three easy-to-read works.

Principles of Communism

If you’re new to communism, this short-ish work will introduce you to… the principles of communism! Engels’s writing style can be a bit difficult, and he references a lot of old-timey stuff (what’s a spinning-jenny?), but it’s a good introduction!

Link: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/11/prin-com.htm

On Authority

If you like the thought of communism, but are wary of ‘authoritarian’ or ‘totalitarian’ communism, this very short (one page!) text might help you understand why historically, communists have supported those measures (hint: if they just wanted power, they wouldn’t be siding with the powerless!).

Link: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1872/10/authority.htm

Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong

Quotations from Chairman Mao, while longer than the last two works, is made up of small, self-contained… quotations, which are individually easy to read (and reread), and if you’re interested in learning more about a topic, you can always check out the work the quote is referenced from. This ‘little red book’ discusses communist perspectives on topics ranging from education, the military, and study, to self-criticism and culture.

Mao’s writing style is, I find, much easier to read, and the little red book covers such a wide range of topics that, if you only try to read one of these, I’d say to try this one. If feudal peasants were able to study and understand it, so can you!

Link: https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/red-book/index.htm

That’s all! Thank you for reading this, and I hope you give the works I mentioned a try!

[orpheusismefr]

[mournstera]

Saturday — a responsive, single-column theme

Static previews: - Preview (Header) - Preview (Right sidebar)

Download code: GitHub

This is a single-column Tumblr theme with a choice between a header, left, or right sidebar, and body font + accent font (Google fonts) of your choosing. Full support of npf posts. Optional dark/light mode toggle and update tab available.

Theme guide - click to browse all the features and/or read a thorough guide to this theme.

[darhak]

Seriously, where did Steve find that armor? I hope he didn’t steal it from an aggressive warrior or something…I don’t want him to get in trouble, ya know? It’s been a year since this tutorial is on Patreon, so I’ll post it for everyone now! (I have to work on a reptile scales or transparent materials tutorial one day tho)

Underwater tutorial: https://darhak.tumblr.com/post/642964456883765248/steve-why-is-he-always-like-this-metal-tutorial

Fire tutorial: https://darhak.tumblr.com/post/186828219798/thats-my-first-and-probably-not-last-art

[sticksandsharks]

Pokémon matchbox designs.

[jetsetradiofuture]

[hobbies306540111]

Taylor Swift’s hollow empowerment narrative 

The singer’s faux-feminist branding is so convincing journalists are doing her PR for her.

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[paper-mario-wiki]

hey here's a website for downloading any video or image from any website.

works w/ youtube, soundcloud, twitch, twitter (gifs and videos), tumblr (video and audio), and most other websites you're probably lookin to download stuff off of.

[paper-mario-wiki]

for anyone wondering about privacy and whatnot, i'm happy to say that the developers are pretty committed to have 0 trackers and 0 data retention. you can read more in their "about" section, but here's the basic important stuff: