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RicG @alienoutpost.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

He will, from the comfort of his sofa.

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RicG @alienoutpost.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

New Lidsville upping the nightmare fuel of the original.

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RicG @alienoutpost.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Twenge is either a hack or her other job is an WWF referee.

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RicG @alienoutpost.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

EVERYTHING ON THE INTERNET IS TRUE! Ok I will be watching this.

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RicG @alienoutpost.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Either there's a lot less full computer drawn work this season or I'm missing them. Whichever, a good trend.

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RicG @alienoutpost.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

considering manga artist spends a lot of panels depicting the hero as a drooling stick figure with a propensity for throwing his clothes off I've no doubt this will deviate. He really loved his villains though. will check out SW bcs need some laughs.

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RicG @alienoutpost.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

also enjoy Sasaki & Peeps but haven't read that far as where season 2 is heading was it always more of a fucked up teen girl show more than Magical Girl Raising Project?

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RicG @alienoutpost.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Marrioner art was a bit jarring, though being trad animation got used to it quick. Feels very nostalgic rather than interesting. conversely forgot Laid-Off Cheat-Granting Magician manga artist DGAF about art if he can make a gag & animation really making up for it. Might be 7th Prince level fun.

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RicG @alienoutpost.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

He looks like he owns a clown costume too.

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RicG @alienoutpost.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

That's the problem buying clothes from internet. There's a little more guessing the true colours & fit than eyeballing in person.

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RicG @alienoutpost.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

t-shirt arrived. A little more bubblegum pink than hoped but good fit. Now need a Quislet to fill out my menangerie.

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RicG @alienoutpost.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

having a couple of cheap action figures around to figure out angles & lighting is hand in spots like this.

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RicG @alienoutpost.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

finally placed what Saturn Girl's new costume reminds me of. Pure Ian Gibson energy!

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RicG @alienoutpost.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Well damn. Truely unbridle imagination in his work. Tracking down music mentioned in his comics formed a lot of my tastes today.

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RicG @alienoutpost.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

As an experiment it's probably worth finding out.

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RicG @alienoutpost.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

it seems nothing was learned either.

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RicG @alienoutpost.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

i'm shocked he outlived Tammy-Faye this long.

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RicG @alienoutpost.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Even new anime of stuff I read are just... not good. Overgeared is well drawn & pretty fun manhwa. On screen; warm sick in a cup. AND THAT'S BEEN ONE OF THE BETTER ONES.

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RicG @alienoutpost.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Just had it on as background noise. Then the sense of horror took over.

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RicG @alienoutpost.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

@pi8you.bsky.social oh god, watched Click You All Over. Sob.

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RicG @alienoutpost.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Guess that's why the brooks babble.

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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

An old man has spent years caring for this ray ever since she was little. He feeds and nurtures her, and she treats him like her human grandpa, approaching him affectionately like a massive ocean companion. Original post

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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I mentioned the other day that for the Mesopotamian rpg I was writing up Plato's Allegory of the Cave (from REPUBLIC) as if it had been written by the Iron Age predecessor of Lovecrafts' Abd al-Hazred. I did. Here it is, in a four-part post. Notes: Rúgúzid is the Iron Age al-Hazred;

2282. Near the end of this year, Rugúzid finished what he believed would be his last and greatest work. He had spent the previous fourteen months in deep thought, usually writing only a sentence or two every day and always following up by double- and triple-checking everything in the sentence or sentences, including the placement and appropriateness of the punctuation marks. When he had at last completed the essay and was satisfied that it said everything it needed to say as clearly as possible and in just the right words, he leaves his apartment, walks across Babilim to the headquarters of the Nam Abgal, and orders the scribes working there to make copies of the essay—dozens of them, on papyrus and linen scrolls, on clay and stone tablets, on wax writing boards, on moving stone tablets, and on every other material and item which the other Nam Abgal members preferred to read from. When the scribes have finished, Rugúzid paid the Nam Abgal couriers to bring one copy of the essay to each member of the Nam Abgal with haste, no matter how far away their homes were.
What he had written bore the title On Shadows, Forms, and Perfect Forms. For a few years, it was the most powerful thing Rugúzid had ever written. It had the effect of a thunderbolt, or shower of thunderbolts, on the members of the Nam Abgal, who were variously nonplussed, disconcerted, amazed, bewildered, or deeply, deeply impressed—but none doubted the truth of what he had written.
The most important passage of On Shadows was the

following:

Imagine a group of mortals—humans and other intelligent folk, like anthrōpotauroi and kéntauroi and brazen folk—living in an underground cave-like dwelling, with an entrance a long way up, which is both open to the light and as wide as the cave itself. They’ve been there since childhood, fixed in the same place, with their necks and legs fettered, able to see only in front of them, because their bonds prevent them from turning their heads around. Light is provided by a fire burning far above and behind them. Also behind them, but on higher ground, there is a path stretching between them and the fire. Imagine that along this path a low wall has been built, like the screen in front of puppeteers above which they show their puppets.

Then also imagine that there are some other group of mortals along the wall, carrying all kinds of artifacts that project above it—statues of various intelligent folk and of various animals, made of stone, wood, iron, and every other material. And, as you’d expect, some of the carriers are talking, and some are silent.

Would the prisoners see anything of themselves and each other besides the shadows that the fire casts on the wall in front of them?

No, they couldn’t—their heads are motionless because of their bonds. Likewise with the things being carried along the wall.

If they could talk to each other, they would all believe that the words they use to name the shadows were correctly applied to those shadows. And if the cave had echoes from the wall in front of the prisoners, the prisoners would believe that it was the shadows passing in front of them that were talking.

In all, the prisoners would believe that the shadows they were seeing were the entirety of those beings—that the truth lay in those shadows.

Now, imagine how the prisoners would feel if they were rescued, released from their bonds and cured of their ignorance by being shown the figures and things casting the shadows. When one of the prisoners was suddenly rescued and stood up, walked forward, and turned his head so that he could see the source of the light—his reaction to seeing the things whose shadows he’d previously been seeing would not be relief. He would be dazzled, yes, but also dizzied, discomforted, unstable, uncertain, and painfully vulnerable.

What do you think that prisoner would say if they were told that everything they’d seen while bound and fettered, all of the shadows that he believed were the reality, were all

inconsequential? What would the prisoner feel, what would they say, if they were told that they saw only falsities before, but now they are seeing correctly—now they are seeing the truth? If we pointed in the direction of each of the figures passing by and asked the prisoner what each of them were, and to name each of them, what would the prisoner say?

The prisoner would be puzzled and disoriented and at a loss and would eventually say that the shadows they had spent their life seeing were the truth and the reality, and the figures passing by were just lies and illusions. And if the prisoner were made to look at the firelight itself, its light would hurt their eyes, and they would flee from those who freed them and run toward the shadows, believing that they are the truth and that they will save them.

And if the prisoner were grabbed by their rescuers and dragged out of the cave, up the rough, stone path and into the open air and the sunlight, how would the prisoner react? They would be angry at having been grabbed and dragged against their will, they would be nearly blinded by the light of the sun, they would be dizzied by the wind and the many new smells they were experiencing—and they would not be able to recognize that everything they were seeing and experiencing were real and true.

After some time, the former prisoner would still see shadows, but they would have adjusted to their new circumstances

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RicG @alienoutpost.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

they kind of line up with choices he could have made in the original series. Remembering him whining about taking a different med speciality.

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RicG @alienoutpost.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

okay, those opening credits do psychic damage.

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RicG @alienoutpost.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

well goddamn, that's my morbid curiousity flaring up to doom 20 minutes of my life.

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RicG @alienoutpost.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

his seething new-money jealousy of those who get to walk beyond the VIP section curtain was visible from space.

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RicG @alienoutpost.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

is that FX Fighter? Kinda thrown by it being based on a doujinshi.

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Roger Langridge @hotelfred.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's the Lakes International Comic Art Festival this weekend! I will be there with comics, art, sketches and my new self-published FEZ PAPERS, which collects my old Fez strips, most of them in full colour for the first time.

Cover to "The Fez Papers", showing The Fez (an ambulatory empty suit wearing a fez and a monocle) holding a flaming torch. Behind him a huge, toad-like monster with horns is lurking menacingly.

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RicG @alienoutpost.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

you'd think they'd rather be lead by whichever is actually competent.

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RicG @alienoutpost.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Worst name since the gay lizard kid got stuck with Anole.

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RicG @alienoutpost.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

That translation makes me wonder if it's somehow been conflated from the position of nurse. Priestesses, nurses and prostitutes often bearing not too disimilar roles in ancient life, before they split off into specialized jobs.

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RicG @alienoutpost.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Good haul for a public holiday.

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RicG @alienoutpost.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Why are you posting the text from my dating profile?

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RicG @alienoutpost.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

the love that dare not speak its name down t'pub.

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RicG @alienoutpost.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

so fkngdt or, to truly aussie it up, DT for short?

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RicG @alienoutpost.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

somebody insulted TFG instead of the other way around? Astounding. Once it's been explained to him how there'll probably be another tariff tantrum tiff.

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Wren @satanicwren.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Drexel University in Philadelphia is trying to shut down the oldest Natural History Museum in the western hemisphere, privatizing its vast collection. If you care about natural history PLEASE watch this video that tells you how you can help. youtu.be/nxyfBfCrbDw?...

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The Plan To Destroy Americas Oldest Natural History Museum

YouTube video by Miniminuteman

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RicG @alienoutpost.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

When it comes to whole coolers & suss patrons might be time to revisit them, at least container size wise.

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RicG @alienoutpost.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

can you tell them to remove it? Either they're holding a picnic, stealing books wholesale or blacklegging organs. None seem an ideal outcome for the library.

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RicG @alienoutpost.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

GO FOR IT, NAKAMURA-KUN! stands out for being a rare comedy about a shy gay highschooler trying to work up the courage to confess to his crush. The art is so like Ranma surprised the manga came out in 2014. It seems sweet.

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