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[yesterdaysprint]

The Waco Times-Herald, Texas, June 19, 1936

[notsomeoneyouknow]

[lovednknown]

[notsomeoneyouknow]

[loveridden1999]

problematic sudoku solving skills gap

[featuringmarkhoppus]

[sea-salted-wolverine]

I'm telling you; the time allotted for rest and the time allotted for relaxation should not come out of the same bucket.

I would like to do a low key enjoyable activity for my own benefit, but god fucking damn it. I need to sleep. Eyes need to be shut. honk shu mimimi. I do not get to relax because I only ever get to rest.

[thevampirecrow]

fellatio sounds like a supporting shakespeare character rather than oral sex on a penis to be honest

[profmeowmers]

drying off after the shower. glasses off, visual acuity nil. unbeknownst to me my wretched gremlin of a cat hopped up onto the edge of the tub behind me, stood on his hind legs, and tapped me ON THE SHOULDER with his horrible crime paws.

let me just say. the scream i scrumpt.

[kuken-i-buken]

has anyone else noticed that pretty much everyone who is worth knowing seems to be doing really bad all of the time and is never allowed a moment's respite from all the pointless cruelties and horrors ❓❓❓❓❓❓❓

[contemptible-scoundrel]

bachibros trying to gas their manga into the upper echelons of shonen fandom via luring fujos into the community is one of my favorite moments in internet history. they were genuinely popping bottles when the first yaoi fan art dropped

[contemptible-scoundrel]

W gay people. W pervert women

[chireikiden]

Touhou Koumakyou: New Classic - the Embodiment of Scarlet Devil on Steam

Dodge the barrage, defeat enemies, and brave the Scarlet Mist incident.The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil returns with fresh music and graphics

An official remaster of the Embodiment of Scarlet Devil was announced today, releasing this September. The first time a Touhou game has gotten this treatment, and notably the first time EoSD is available digitally at all (I think). Featuring art and music redone by ZUN, updated gameplay, and notably, inbuilt translations for 10 languages!

Happy to admit that I'm part of the English translation team. Notably the process is still ongoing and the trailer and Steam page use different versions of some text. There's not much else I can say about it at this point, but look forward to it!

[chireikiden]

I knew to expect a big reaction, but thanks for all the personal congratulations too!

I figure I should circle back around to clarify some of the things that people online seem most curious about. This is all from public sources, not any kind of insider info.

The circle "Shanghai Alice Reprise" formed for this project consists of ZUN and some of his usual collaborators like his wife Kii-san, Jyunya and Curee from AQUASTYLE, and Unabara Iruka from Twilight Frontier, plus some other staff. There is some vague hope of continuing with the remasters in the future. New Touhou games are still going to be done by Team Shanghai Alice i.e. ZUN with some help, just like before. Nothing has changed in terms of the fanwork guidelines either, he wanted to clarify, I guess because there's a new circle involved and all.

Contrary to what I kinda vaguely said, the art is done by other people like Curee (close redraws of ZUN's old art), Jyunya (enemy sprites) and Kii-san (player sprites). The coding is being handled by other people like Jyunya recreating ZUN's old game in a newer engine.

The music is all redone by ZUN himself. It has wider instrumentation and better audio quality, obviously, but I'd say it's still pretty close to the original rather than e.g. some attempt to make "2026-style versions" that'd sound like they came out of FW. I'm not a music person, though.

While the others talked ZUN into this project, it isn't just something he gave his blessing, he is closely personally involved with it. In his own words, until now he's been very busy just making all the music, but now comes the part where he needs to check other people's work and nitpick everything he wants changed (mostly joking). They've had a very tight schedule coming up on this announcement, and still a lot to do in the three months before release.

The release includes both the new version and a close recreation of the 2002 original, down to lacking quality of life features that the new version adds in. (screenshot source)

[goth-queen]

[sarahreesbrennan]

ALL HAIL CHAOS LAUNCH

I haven’t posted properly about my ALL HAIL CHAOS launch yet because I become overcome every time I think about it.

Listen, my meta fantasy with gang of chaos gremlin bisexuals criminals etc and there’s a musical book went over better than I could have dreamed but sequels are tricky and I know I made you guys wait - I was sick but also I knew the book could be better!

But people came! People flew in to come and brought me flowers and one reader said something very insightful about Glacia and Diane Duane came (!!!) and Sarah Maria Griffin did an introduction so sincere and beautiful it made me wish to cry. I’m not very good at being sincere without cracking jokes but I tried to be in this blog post.

Chaos Out In the World

with all my chaotic gratitude

I did try to give a reader a skull. Mistakes were made.

I am so grateful, for those who came and those who were there in spirit.

[dduane]

So much fun to be there! A fabulous launch. :)

[finder-plus]

commissioned @mikufanclub a while back

[janmisali]

here's another idea for a poll! I think this will have some interesting results. this sentence is here to pad out this paragraph so people who don't read posts will be more likely to accidentally miss these instructions. if you're reading this, please select option eleven. here's another sentence to make this block of text look longer. anyway here's my fun poll idea!

try to create a normal (bell curve) distribution

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Voting ended onJun 13

[jazzw4ve]

fascinating data. having picked through the notes these are the groups of people i tended to notice:

1. Post Understanders: people who read the whole post, voted 11, and are chuckling at the results

2. Good Sports: people who got bamboozled and are reflecting on their own habits, often with an air of exaggerated self-deprecation

3. Silly Goofy Pranksters: people who read the post but then voted for something other than 11. unclear how many of these there actually are or what their motives were.

4. Lucky Souls: people who didn't read the post but picked 11 out of sheer chance. reactions vary but i can't imagine there are too many of these.

5. Defensive Skinmers: people trying to rationalize why they didn't read the paragraph at the top of the post before interacting with it, often citing something like text size. i'm sorry but you need to be more like group 2. the instructions were at the very top, and if you read even the third sentence of that paragraph you would notice something is up. three sentences! is that so hard? do better, please

6. Clueless: still don't get it after voting?? like seeing the insane skew after trying to make a bell curve, rather than thinking "hm maybe there's a reason why the data looks like this" they instead chastise other voters for not making the bell curve, indicating they still have not read the post or really any of the notes around it.

7. Voted On Accident: wow tumblr mobile kinda sucks huh

[pyr0clast]

y’know as much as self-sacrifice gets made out to be super noble and shit in a lot of fiction, i am. very much more in favor of the message “you can live. you can want to live. it is a good thing to want to live, and it is a good thing that you are alive. you don’t have to feel guilty for being alive.”

idk it’s what i really needed to hear when shit got bad and honestly it’s what i still need to hear sometimes and it’s what i want the people i care about to believe about themselves.

[thekijs]

Do not let the noble actions of characters in fiction fool you - they are all resurrected the moment you turn back the page to begin the story anew. This is the blessing and curse of the narrative, they are bound within it, yet eternal.

Their sacrifice is only a single beat in their story which can be retold a thousand times, while you, dear reader, are a single temporary point and a thousand times more precious for it.

[prokopetz]

H P Lovecraft may have been a cranky racist hack, but we mustn't let his proclivities taint our appreciation of pretentious verbosity. Sometimes "cyclopean" is in fact the word we're grasping for. Sometimes it's even "rugose".

[prokopetz]

JRPG where the teenage firebrand protagonist is taken under wing by a wise older mentor figure in their twenties, as one does, except the third party member to join is in their thirties and regards both the protagonist and the initial mentor as dumb kids; the fourth is in their forties and thinks the same of the first three; and so forth.

[alpharaposa]

[whataboutbobbed]

Nichelle Nichols (December 28, 1932 - )

[rhyfeddu-partyofone-deactivated]

“Uhura never had another name during the series. One of the fan writers wrote “Upenda” - which means “peace” in Swahili, I understand — not officially, but in some of their fan writings. And it sort of took hold. But when they were going to do the official history of Star Trek in a published book, the writer called Gene and asked him was “Uhura” her first name or her last name? Gene said, “Well, Nichelle and I never decided.” We always leaned towards it being her last name because it’s taken from the Swahili “uhuru” which means freedom. So it would sort of be like the same as “Freeman.” So he said, “You can make it her last name.” The writer said, “What about her first name? I’ve come up with one in Swahili. It’s Nyota.” Gene said, “I can’t give you that permission because Nichelle and I named her together, and she has rights to that, so you’ll have to call her and get her permission.” So he gave him my number, and he called me and I laughed and was delighted. He said, “I have a name and it’s Nyota.” I said, “That’s quite beautiful. What does it mean?” He said, “It means ‘star’.” I said, “You can have my permission!” So I have since said that her name is Nyota Upenda Uhura, which would mean a free-floating star: “star of freedom and peace”. I like that.”    — NICHELLE NICHOLS