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blueshiftofdeathWatched this with ebaths last week, and it was very entertaining. I was expecting more of a cash grab, but I felt a lot of love and thought had been put into the movie. Great animation with some stand out moments, great soundtrack, laughs throughout (important!!), an overall effective message, and very pleasantly female-centric on top of it all! I enjoyed myself and have been returning to the soundtrack since finishing.
That being said, it's not so impressive that I would normally be writing a post about it, but there were several elements that kept me thinking about it. Mostly in terms of what they didn't do. The core message (basically "self-acceptance and the ability to confide in others are important parts of life") is very effective, but it seems like it was supposed to be part of something more complex that got cut. Some parts of the movie really left me scratching my head..... personally I'm OK with this since I see it as a purely "for fun and entertainment" movie rather than something with deep literary value, but still. I have Thoughts... here they come!
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2025-09-28 20:46alisx
alisxOkay. I know this is extremely "what were you doing at the Devil’s Sacrament" energy but the Homestuck pilot explicitly establishing it’s set in 2009, including the use of flip phones, and then having Rose use the term "pfp" is just 
2025-09-28 15:33alisx
alisxNot gonna lie, as a videoclip enjoyer, I would just and watch it all day . . .
. . . which okay I effectively ended up doing. So, thoughts:
- The “watchability” of a novelty song is pretty directly correlated to your attachment to whatever original thing it’s riffing on and/or having encountered it as a child.
- The UK really does punch above its weight here, for reasons you could probably do a whole dissertation on, but basically boil down to “publicly funded broadcasting.”
- Way too much awful 80s whiteboi rap.
- Watching “Do the Bartman” for the first time since I was a child just reminded me of when my school used to bleep the one single “damn” in it.
- Similarly, watching “The Sunscreen Song” in my 40s when I last heard it in my teens sure is a thing.
- And, finally, everyone in the 90s was doing so much fucking ecstasy, hey.
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2025-09-27 13:30jesse_the_k
jesse_the_kJust found a great episode on 20,000 Hz, a favorite podcast of mine.
SUBTITLES ON: WHY IS MOVIE DIALOGUE SO HARD TO UNDERSTAND?
Answer at ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
access_fandom, a comm I co-mod where we talk about making sure the full fandom experience works for all of us, no matter how our bodyminds work. Like many DW comms, it hosts useful knowledge going back a while, and is always ready to be revived.
2025-09-27 19:20thepasteldyke
thepasteldykeKalma is looking awfully cute for a cat who is probably (~99% chance) the reason why I can't find the USB I had several unpublished fanfics on
(i know it was on my desk, now it isn't there. Kalma likes to plant his butt on said desk, and thinks everything small is a toy - it only takes one BAP with a tiny little paw and something will be lost in the void)
this is what i get for trying to not have to deal with constantly having to log into private browsing to use gdocs
luckily i don't think i had anything actually important on there but it's a bummer for sure, hadn't had the time to back the latest stuff up yet
(i know it was on my desk, now it isn't there. Kalma likes to plant his butt on said desk, and thinks everything small is a toy - it only takes one BAP with a tiny little paw and something will be lost in the void)
2025-09-27 00:24kalloway
kallowayWhew, IIBB is done. It still feels a little surreal that I finished that project, tbh. Just... aaaaaaaaa for ages and then suddenly, actually done.
I had also entered the project in a tiny gunpla discord's seasonal contest and neither won nor placed and that's fine. The important part was the deadline along with the oft-painful lessons on time & project management.
That said- I can solidly say I'm at the upper end of whelmed with basically all my hobbies. So time to take a short breather and re-evaluate.
Monthly mail has gone out to everyone aside from folks in Canada.
TGS has not been overly exciting. The Xbox presentation was surprisingly strong, and I've watched bits of a few others. I briefly tuned in for the Suikoden one but wasn't awake enough.
Considering that I've not made it past the 'pre-cleaning other areas so I have space to sort' phase of cleaning the utility room, the actual utility room cleaning will be postponed until I get some other spaces under control. Nothing is terrible, just... I can see how this year has been rough in various ways.
I had been considering the cemetery walk this weekend at the big local-ish cemetery but I didn't enjoy last year's and left after an hour (during which the tour had progressed about three stops on a list of about thirty graves to visit) and also my digestive tract has not been thrilled with me for the last couple days, which I suspect is mostly a delayed reaction to the busyness of everything else.
I had also entered the project in a tiny gunpla discord's seasonal contest and neither won nor placed and that's fine. The important part was the deadline along with the oft-painful lessons on time & project management.
That said- I can solidly say I'm at the upper end of whelmed with basically all my hobbies. So time to take a short breather and re-evaluate.
Monthly mail has gone out to everyone aside from folks in Canada.
TGS has not been overly exciting. The Xbox presentation was surprisingly strong, and I've watched bits of a few others. I briefly tuned in for the Suikoden one but wasn't awake enough.
Considering that I've not made it past the 'pre-cleaning other areas so I have space to sort' phase of cleaning the utility room, the actual utility room cleaning will be postponed until I get some other spaces under control. Nothing is terrible, just... I can see how this year has been rough in various ways.
I had been considering the cemetery walk this weekend at the big local-ish cemetery but I didn't enjoy last year's and left after an hour (during which the tour had progressed about three stops on a list of about thirty graves to visit) and also my digestive tract has not been thrilled with me for the last couple days, which I suspect is mostly a delayed reaction to the busyness of everything else.
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2025-09-27 11:18alisx
alisxA look into . The main point of interest here is that the article is written by a self-identified “rat,” which means some of the underlying assumptions, jargon, and general weirdness inherent in Rationalism are glossed over in a way that I think gives the game away even more than the article text itself (I do love me an unreliable narrator) . . .
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2025-09-26 17:18alisx
alisxHearing a Youth pronounce it out loud as “ . . . eye-three-three-seven speak?” made my soul immediately leave my body from old age.
2025-09-26 00:04kalloway
kallowaymirroring from iddyiddybangbang
Title: Astraze Ein
Creator:kalloway
Fandom: Gundam Series
Numbers: 30+ Photographs & 3000+ word project log, in-verse fiction, and a bit of rambling.
Rating: All-Ages
Content Notes: None.
Summary: This is a fully-documented and photographed 'kitbash' 1/144 Gundam scale model from initial conception to finished piece.
Astraze Ein & Project Log on DW
iddyiddybangbangTitle: Astraze Ein
Creator:
kallowayFandom: Gundam Series
Numbers: 30+ Photographs & 3000+ word project log, in-verse fiction, and a bit of rambling.
Rating: All-Ages
Content Notes: None.
Summary: This is a fully-documented and photographed 'kitbash' 1/144 Gundam scale model from initial conception to finished piece.
Astraze Ein & Project Log on DW
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2025-09-25 20:41lannamichaels
lannamichaels- -Adventures of buying a serger: I have gone from "the bottom looper always comes out" to "the upper looper always comes out" with the occassional "the right needle always comes out" and yet somehow I did manage to sew a couple seams before this inability-to-keep-the-machine-threaded problem started, I have watched videos, I have called the company, I have not yet wept tears over it but I am so frustrated, so hopefully telling people will make the machine stop unthreading and then I figure out the tension issues and then I can serge.
- -Where is a good place to buy desk lamps? The one I had broke and then I spent a while trying to find one including going to a hardware store, and then I found out that home depot has two listings with what appears to be the exact same lamp, but a different company for each and slightly different cost, and this decision has now left me lampless for a month as I figure out which to buy and decide on neither. Lamp is used to be on a timer so it goes on at the time my alarm clock sounds, this is helpful for the time of year when the sun is not up yet at that time, which -- not to worry anyone -- is approaching. So I need a new lamp. Looking for 12-14 inches, not LED, no random bits at the bottom for pens and stuff that'll just collect dust. Not a sun lamp; I tried that and it gave me a headache immediately.
- What is keeping me from buying a new sewing machine is falling in love with one that's out of stock and then scrolling down today on my usual check of it's in stock to see multiple complains, 2 and 3 years old, that it's out of stock. Perhaps I should settle on my second choice, rather than falling in love with an out of stock sewing machine with features I do not need. (but! the one I have now is not great and I've wanted to replace it rather than keep fighting it, and all it really does is straight and zigzag, so I do not, in fact, need to replace it with a machine with 240 built-in stitches and two fonts, I just need a machine that has a speed I can set rather than try to be perfect on my foot pressure. But if I'm going to upgrade, I wanna upgrade.)
- I have no intention of writing a Tishrei fic. No ideas, nada. Happy to take a prompt if someone has one but this may just be the year where it stops happening, and I'm okay with that.
2025-09-26 00:48alisx
alisx[B]ig business and the state have never had a clear dividing line; large firms are always chartered by the government for quasi-public purposes. We’ve just chosen since the 1980s to make that public purpose the enrichment of a few finance-oriented managers and technologies, and lied about it. But before that, we had a decentralized business apparatus, though big business was heavily regulated by the state through forms of public utility rule-making. As FDR put it in 1938, “The power of a few to manage the economic life of the nation must be diffused among the many or be transferred to the public and its democratically responsible government.” He wasn’t saying that to be nice. It was 1938, the alternative was fascism.
Matt Stoller on .
Only tangentially related to the above, I think one of the things the Trump era has made abundantly clear about the whole “run the government like a business” shtick is just how fucking awfully run most businesses are. Even the profitable ones. Hell, especially the profitable ones.
Like, there’s definitely a temptation, because of who Trump is, to pretend that he’s an especially egregious example of Johnny C. Businessman but, uh. Not really? He’s more blatant about it — feels less of a need to trot out the usual apologetics and stories corporations tell about themselves — but that’s really about all. The underlying dysfunctions are the same. The mass hiring of unqualified lickspittles, the deranged and impractical top-down edicts, the failing up, the cults of personality, the blatant lying about basically everything . . . like, if you have worked in a business, you’ve seen all of these things in action, to one degree or another. They’re also, if you’ll note, exactly the same problems you get in, for example, absolute monarchies, the military,1 failed states of all persuasions, and certain forms of community and religious organisations, which kinda of gives a clue to the real culprit here, i.e., authoritarianism, at least in its “small-a,” generic sense (and, also, the “big-a,” political science sense, since Authoritarianism is by definition authoritarian).
Like, don’t get me wrong. Modern forms of liberal democracy aren’t perfect. But they have been developed over centuries in specific opposition to authoritarian forms of social organisation, in their case absolute monarchies. The fact that the locus of authoritarianism in the modern world has mostly shifted from monarchs to capitalists, and that the theory has been lagging a bit behind the practice? Well. So it goes.
- One of the things I don’t think gets enough play is that the modern military does a lot to try and temper the effects of authoritarianism in an organisation that pretty much has to be extremely hierarchical. If you’ve never really dealt with the military I think it’s easy to overlook this, but it’s something the modern professional officer class angsts about constantly; this is what all the stuff about honour and duty and service and whatever is actually supposed to be a counter to. And even then it still frequently goes wrong! ↩
2025-09-25 09:11kalloway
kallowaySince starting my Accidental Advent project on the 8th, I've made it through an impressive amount of stuff! This is the animated chunk of the pile; the manga/comics/magazines/etc will come later.
Grimms Notes - could not get into at any point despite some fun gimmicks; turns out this was based on a dead Square-Enix mobile game that never reached global. Basically a wander through fairy tales. Also Joan of Arc is a fairy tale now and I am actually kinda curious why Japan likes her so much.
ClassicaLoid (S1) - this was fun? Composers reconstituted into the present with weird abilities? Like, this was fun and dumb but I cannot imagine watching it again or seeking out the second season. Really good music, and I really liked all the composers but... yeah.
Cars 1-3 - iirc this was a gift, and this is actually the first time I've seen Cars 2 since it came out. It's still bad! 1 & 3 are formulaic and charming, but 2 is bafflingly bad! I think the main problem is that it hangs on Mater and he's not a lead character archetype. Wait, no, that's one of the main problems; the other is the entire plot and wtf. Hilariously, these were packaged in the case as 1, 3, and then 2 in the back. I agree.
Earl & Fairy - this is still charming and since the novels are licensed I should really get them. (eBook only afaik, alas) This was a 'I've seen this multiple times but it got licensed and I guess I bought a copy?' watch.
Monster Musume OVAs - idk why this is a loose disc or where it came from because while I read some of the manga, I've never seen the anime. I legit do not know where this came from. Also since it's OVAs, it's boobies bouncing breastily everywhere.
Fractale - I don't know why I bought this. I mean, the entire creative team suggests I should have really liked it but it was downright awful and I almost turned it off after the second episode but I thought it might get better? Overdone 'everyone prefers VR' + main character gets accidentally pegged as a pervert and the accusations follow him for the whole show for no reason. I feel like this could have and should have been good, but it was terrible.
Anyway, two for the shelf, three for the sale box, will ask M if perhaps he misplaced or would like the Monster Musume disc.
Grimms Notes - could not get into at any point despite some fun gimmicks; turns out this was based on a dead Square-Enix mobile game that never reached global. Basically a wander through fairy tales. Also Joan of Arc is a fairy tale now and I am actually kinda curious why Japan likes her so much.
ClassicaLoid (S1) - this was fun? Composers reconstituted into the present with weird abilities? Like, this was fun and dumb but I cannot imagine watching it again or seeking out the second season. Really good music, and I really liked all the composers but... yeah.
Cars 1-3 - iirc this was a gift, and this is actually the first time I've seen Cars 2 since it came out. It's still bad! 1 & 3 are formulaic and charming, but 2 is bafflingly bad! I think the main problem is that it hangs on Mater and he's not a lead character archetype. Wait, no, that's one of the main problems; the other is the entire plot and wtf. Hilariously, these were packaged in the case as 1, 3, and then 2 in the back. I agree.
Earl & Fairy - this is still charming and since the novels are licensed I should really get them. (eBook only afaik, alas) This was a 'I've seen this multiple times but it got licensed and I guess I bought a copy?' watch.
Monster Musume OVAs - idk why this is a loose disc or where it came from because while I read some of the manga, I've never seen the anime. I legit do not know where this came from. Also since it's OVAs, it's boobies bouncing breastily everywhere.
Fractale - I don't know why I bought this. I mean, the entire creative team suggests I should have really liked it but it was downright awful and I almost turned it off after the second episode but I thought it might get better? Overdone 'everyone prefers VR' + main character gets accidentally pegged as a pervert and the accusations follow him for the whole show for no reason. I feel like this could have and should have been good, but it was terrible.
Anyway, two for the shelf, three for the sale box, will ask M if perhaps he misplaced or would like the Monster Musume disc.
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2025-09-24 21:32yhlee
yhlee
Candle Arc #1, color version, at
candlearc just to keep it corralled. Note that it's viewer discretion advised on account of cuss words, violence, and hexarchate-typical awfulness.UPDATED: Alternately: Candle Arc #1 on its own website at Candle Arc (candlearc.com).
I have the Ka-Blam setup in progress so fingers crossed I can make it available via print-on-demand at Indyplanet in the nebulous future, depending on how orchestration homework is going. /o\
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2025-09-24 19:02operasteers
operasteersgot my wisdom teeth removed and
what an experience
i kept thinking to myself "pressure is different from pain pressure is different from pain pressure is different from pain aaAH" while the tv in the operating room was playing young sheldon and friends (two shows that i, personally, don't care all that much for) and idk if it's my sensory issues or dentists are just... rough... i think when they were turning my head it hurt worse than the actual extraction (minus when they first put in the shot for the numbing)
right before the operation the specialist asked if i had any questions
me: what do you do with the teeth afterwards?
specialist: they get put in bio hazard waste
me: are people allowed to keep them?
specialist: did you want to keep yours? (turns to other dentist in the room) can she keep them?
dentist: they go into bio hazard
dentist: no
which i thought was funny
but overall i think i handled it p well! gives me confidence for getting a tattoo in the future (and writing even Hotter and Sexier dentist scenes that would honor the spirit of little shop of horrors)
what an experience
i kept thinking to myself "pressure is different from pain pressure is different from pain pressure is different from pain aaAH" while the tv in the operating room was playing young sheldon and friends (two shows that i, personally, don't care all that much for) and idk if it's my sensory issues or dentists are just... rough... i think when they were turning my head it hurt worse than the actual extraction (minus when they first put in the shot for the numbing)
right before the operation the specialist asked if i had any questions
me: what do you do with the teeth afterwards?
specialist: they get put in bio hazard waste
me: are people allowed to keep them?
specialist: did you want to keep yours? (turns to other dentist in the room) can she keep them?
dentist: they go into bio hazard
dentist: no
which i thought was funny
but overall i think i handled it p well! gives me confidence for getting a tattoo in the future (and writing even Hotter and Sexier dentist scenes that would honor the spirit of little shop of horrors)
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