Iaculus @iaculus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026This goes all the way down to the series's 'Zaku'. The Graze looks a lot more like the Leo (OZ's basic grunt-suit) than is common for a Zaku-expy. 010
Iaculus @iaculus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026... but that said, just as Mika and Kudelia are distant descendants of Heero and Relena, the Gjallarhorn aesthetic probably has its Patient Zero in Gundam Wing's Treize Khushrenada. 110
Iaculus @iaculus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026It looks quite like him (yes, he does actually have surprisingly pointy ears), but still a bit too close to the world's most infamous antisemitic caricature for my tastes. 030
Iaculus @iaculus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026More of these two from back when Chloe (the dog) was one year old: 020
Iaculus @iaculus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This is definitely something he inherited from one of his in-universe inspirations, Amuro Ray. 110
Iaculus @iaculus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I remember Ema the alchemist in the first Garo anime being pretty cool. Kept throwing up death-flags and then kicking ass while steadfastly refusing to die. 110
Iaculus @iaculus.bsky.social · 16/09/2026It is true that animators tend to have to heavily simplify CLAMP's elaborate costume designs in order to, well, animate them (just compare Code Geass's screenshots and concept art). GoHands just got extra-lazy and resorted to wholesale plagiarism of close-enough real-life fashion photos. An example: 020
Iaculus @iaculus.bsky.social · 14/09/2026You can directly trace the increased salience in the U.K. to a massive influx of American money in 2016-17. There were no public interest stories that kicked this off, but there was the founding of formal arrangements like Hands Across the Aisle (plus its less overt precursor orgs). 110
Iaculus @iaculus.bsky.social · 09/09/2026This does, admittedly, run into challenges with edge cases like the Landmates from Appleseed. 110
Iaculus @iaculus.bsky.social · 03/09/2026While G Gundam does not, sadly, include a goblin Gundam, it does have oni Zakus with big frowny eyes. They get beaten up by a kung fu grandmaster and his samurai apprentice. 100
Iaculus @iaculus.bsky.social · 02/09/2026This is more or less exactly as stupid as the word's real-world etymology. 010
Iaculus @iaculus.bsky.social · 02/09/2026You even get knights in vaguely-shiny armour, even if they lose out hard to their brothers to the south and east in style points. 010
Iaculus @iaculus.bsky.social · 31/08/2026I remember Jedi Survivor being real good about droid diversity. The bartender at the outpost that served as the game's hub was sophisticated, emotionally intelligent, and looked like this: 040
Iaculus @iaculus.bsky.social · 30/08/2026The Death Note manga team's misogyny is, unfortunately, overt and constant. It's actually their manga-about-manga, Bakuman, where they spell it out most directly. 070
Iaculus @iaculus.bsky.social · 24/08/2026For context, the two Boichi genders. I remain convinced that he collapses from sheer apathy halfway through drawing ladies and his assistants have to reach over his unconscious body and mail his rough sketches to Shonen Jump. 010
Iaculus @iaculus.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Freshly-trimmed cocker spaniels are indeed velvety. Exhibit A: Chloe. 120
Iaculus @iaculus.bsky.social · 22/08/2026One thing that receives a little less focus than it might in general discourse is exactly how chemical-pumped Vietnam servicemen were, even by the standards of twentieth-century wars. I mean, holy shit, your heart stood a good chance of exploding before you even met a VC. 000
Iaculus @iaculus.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Yeah, she's a regular secondary character. Gets brought out by the heroes' fighter stable to take on other heavyweights, mostly. There's also an Intimidating Old Lady In A Suit. 1131
Iaculus @iaculus.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Had a readthrough of Isshou Senkin recently. It's a work by the author of Kengan Ashura about female underground fighters beating the everliving shit out of each other, and may be relevant to your interests. 160
Iaculus @iaculus.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Maps of Meaning, Peterson's first book, is apparently fairly orthodox Jungian academia, which gives me no faith in ol' Carl and his followers whatsoever. 010
Iaculus @iaculus.bsky.social · 15/08/2026This bit, for instance, becomes genuinely creepy when you hand it over to a talented narrator. 130
Iaculus @iaculus.bsky.social · 14/08/2026It's clique-driven - not precisely or fully top-down, but persistently ahead of demand rather than behind it. The recent anti-trans crusade is a classic example of a story created ex nihilo - there were no significant public interest events at the time that caused this spike in articles. 0191
Iaculus @iaculus.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Google 'Jason Arday woke', and you'll see a long list of columns from the Mail, Times, and Telegraph (plus foreign right-wing media) on this exact theme. Examples in screenshots: 120
Iaculus @iaculus.bsky.social · 14/08/2026POE/Avowed does correctly note that any military with officers that look like this (magical skull-face optional) is going to have a fuckload of firearms. 040
Iaculus @iaculus.bsky.social · 14/08/2026As I've mentioned before, I think some of his hero outfits are OK. It's really a question of whether you want him to keep the helmet as a good guy. 010
Iaculus @iaculus.bsky.social · 11/08/2026I like how the Milady from Shadow of the Erdtree was introduced specifically to cater to this market. It even lets you do a swaggering 'come at me' pose before you start carving some poor idiot up. 170
Iaculus @iaculus.bsky.social · 30/07/2026There's this, and also the section on state constitutions and the 10th Amendment at the bottom (which makes a universal right to education a consequence of all fifty states' agreement on a right to education). Also, Brown vs. BOE specifically held that private education offered inadequate coverage. 100
Iaculus @iaculus.bsky.social · 29/07/2026It's fun, but I think I prefer the sleeker, cleaner look of its probable design ancestor, the Romulan D'deridex from Star Trek:TNG. Now that's a ship designed to look striking from any angle. 110
Iaculus @iaculus.bsky.social · 29/07/2026There are... well, it's not actually all that clear how many wolves are inside you. The word 'dogpile' exists for a reason. 010
Iaculus @iaculus.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Gove is simply continuing a grand old Spectator tradition. Remember that one of its longest-serving columnists was Taki Theodoracopulos, who played a key role in founding the transatlantic 'alt-right' and gave the magazine headlines like this: 000
Iaculus @iaculus.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Hell, if you're unlucky enough to be an Indian soldier posted on the Himalayan border, you might end up seeing some Chinese dude coming at you with a fuckin' guandao. 110
Iaculus @iaculus.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Even if it wasn't, tin bronze (the version used for blades) tended to come out silvery-grey a lot more often than you might expect from what we modern folks think of as a 'bronze colour'. Here's a Greek museum's reconstruction of two of its swords with tin bronze blades and gilded handles: 000
Iaculus @iaculus.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Yeah, but this is a word-for-word quote of one of the funniest 'advertisements' for Starmer: 020
Iaculus @iaculus.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Another riff on the Exia Repair from 00, eh? For a suit with so little screentime, it sure cast a long shadow. 010
Iaculus @iaculus.bsky.social · 21/07/2026From the description we get of him, I imagine him looking a lot like Cal Kestis from the recent Star Wars Jedi games. Dweeby, babyfaced redhead who is absolutely not cut out for this shit, but has resigned himself to getting it done anyway. 010
Iaculus @iaculus.bsky.social · 20/07/2026This is the advantage of a dog who is small enough to flop in comfort while allowing you your own space. 130
Iaculus @iaculus.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Reminds me of the Iceblade Sorcerer adaptation. Here's how the manga and the anime introduced the exact same character (apart from all the obvious differences, note the poorly-composed background work): 100
