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Brian Smith @brianditb.bsky.social · 7h

The new Magic Knight Rayearth is just as I remembered it.

A panel from 2001 webcomic "Mr T vs. Magic Knight Rayearth".

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Daniel Dockery @dandock.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Today would've been the sixty-fifth birthday of Yu-Gi-Oh! creator Kazuki Takahashi. It tends to get swallowed up in the enormous franchise it became, but I truly believe that his original manga can provide a valuable lesson to artists about process and work and improvement over time.

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Niall Flanagan @juvenialldlinquent.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

On a brand new DRAWN OR ALIVE, two versions of Peter Chung's sci-fi parable/kinky sex comedy Aeon Flux have their respective existences pondered. www.drawnoralive.com/2026/10/show...

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Show #12: Aeon Flux (1991) VS Aeon Flux (2005)

The aesthetics & sensibilities of animator Peter Chung are not for everybody, but at heart he's always been pushing the medium to fulfill it...

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Ray Barnholt @rdbaaa.space · 04/10/2026

that's just what a fake CG Cutie Honey WOULD say!!

GYAAAAAR!! I fight evil, for I am the TRUE Cutie Honey!

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Niall Flanagan @juvenialldlinquent.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

On a brand new DRAWN OR ALIVE, two versions of Peter Chung's sci-fi parable/kinky sex comedy Aeon Flux have their respective existences pondered. www.drawnoralive.com/2026/10/show...

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Show #12: Aeon Flux (1991) VS Aeon Flux (2005)

The aesthetics & sensibilities of animator Peter Chung are not for everybody, but at heart he's always been pushing the medium to fulfill it...

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Brian Smith @brianditb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The Amazon approach to subtitles is pretty good for accessibility options compared to Netflix (which will let you change size, but doesn't have colour/contrast options) and Crunchyroll (where it is non-existent).

Amazon subtitle settings offering 5 sizes of subtitle and 4 preset colour options.

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Brian Smith @brianditb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Also anime production committees might want to think more about international presentation, and eliminate these problems at the source. I'm very curious about why the most recent Gag Manga Biyori that ran on Amazon really cut down on signage gags compared to the previous 4 seasons.

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Stefan @zin5ki.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Okay. You asked for it, Boggs!"

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Niall Flanagan @juvenialldlinquent.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

When you lose the dick measuring contest.

Panel from bureaucrat manga Kakakaka with the two main brothers hiding under floorboards.
"I've been outdone... That's Master Wang for you..."

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Niall Flanagan @juvenialldlinquent.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Sucks working the night shift but at least the commute takes the scenic route.

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Niall Flanagan @juvenialldlinquent.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Miracle energy source not as miraculous as initially expected.

A chamber in the undersea palace from episode 10 of Goodbye Lara, stacked with giant clamshells that serve as hibernation pods for the mermaid princesses. The deep sea kingdom consumes the true love of their princesses to produce the light and energy it depends on.

An enormous mound of spent Shizuma drives from part 6 of Giant Robo. The Shizuma drives promised clean renewable energy but were also producing emissions that could create a chain reaction that would consume the Earth's atmosphere.

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I also resent the idea that people who declare themselves to be lovers of trash present themselves as enlightened and uninhibited. Everyone has a gag reflex and I’m sure there’s a form of reading that appals them. Novelisations of screenplays, usually.

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Niall Flanagan @juvenialldlinquent.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Miracle energy source not as miraculous as initially expected.

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 30/09/2026

don't bother addressing a congregation unless you're in the baroque creature pulpit

Baroque pulpit ca. 1750, rebuilt 1856, Parish church in Dobroszów.

a fanciful scaled sculpture where the serpents open mouth serves as the pulpit

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Spooky McSkellington @gooberzilla.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

New month, new podcast and what could be more SPOOKY than identity theft, assassination and general skullduggery? Check out our review of the Nineties Internet time capsule that is The Net (1995):

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Surfin’ That Information Super-Highway

Practice some basic information security, because The Net (1995) is (probably not) The Greatest Movie EVER! Click on the movie poster or the title above to download our review of the film, featurin…

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We've had the ability to watch, say, Counterstrike marathons, Street Fighter tournaments, or chess matches between computers since the 90s. Spectacles which, by their very definition, would be at a "higher standard" than human play. And nobody wants it. It's entirely meaningless. It has no appeal.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Every time a discourse kicks off over whether AI music, literature or art will be "as good as" the real thing, I'm always amazed more people don't cite that **there already are** creative pursuits where human-free spectacles have been available for decades, and nobody has ever wanted to watch them.

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internet bird @shoebill.moe · 30/09/2026

heh heh hell yeah brother i'm in that edo state of mind

In modern days, the Kanji character for Tobacco is the combination of SMOKE and WEED.

In the good old Edo period, the Kanji for Tobacco was only 1 simple Kanji of WEED + GOOD.

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Arlan Skellington (famous) @thehell.zone · 30/09/2026

no it isn’t! fuck you!!

picture I took of my tv playing Bloodsport (1988). JCVD strikes a thoughtful martial arts pose as text says “This motion picture is based upon true events in the life of Frank W. Dux”

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yixura @yixura.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

look at my mechanics dawg my car is fucked 😭

the golden kamuy cast in a collab with a car? parts? company? theyre dressed as mechanics

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Kevin Fox @michigrim.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Big fan of the Maltese Falcon poster making it look like a John Woo heroic bloodshed movie.

Humphrey Bogart hovering over a woman like some kind of protector god while dual wielding .45 Colt pistols. The tagline reads “A story as explosive as his blazing automatics.”

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Niall Flanagan @juvenialldlinquent.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

While it's important to be accurate it's also important to be understood when communicating about anything. If you insist on needless obfuscation when you're talking to somebody, least of all about how much you like cartoons, you may be more concerned with being "right" than making a connection.

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Tides🌌🌊🏳️‍🌈 @galactictides.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When your friend tries to get you into magic the gathering

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Brendan Hark! T'is nearly Halloween. @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

An emergency injunction is being sought at Belfast High Court to try and block Timmy Mallet cycling down the Garvaghy Road

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Brendan Hark! T'is nearly Halloween. @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The DUP and SF have been in a staring contest over who will collapse stormont first and I don't see how that won't happen when a load of people get battered off the road by the PSNI so 35 pricks, who've been using an alternative route for 28 years, can march down a road full of taigs.

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bakoon @bakoon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

dad reassuring crying child that dog which ran out into the street and got hit by plumbers van has reincarnated and is now wealthy landowner in western RPG type world, using the skills accrued over a lifetime of eating dog food and sleeping to rise up the social ranks of a cutthroat royal court

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Most riveting thing I've seen all week

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i'm grant morrison, i'm undead @shinidengager.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Whoever did this mural and put the Goddamn X-Bomber in the middle, I salute you.

A graffiti mural on a large canvas in an empty display space. The centrepiece is a powerful-looking red and white robot with an X-shaped metal crosspiece on its face. The robot is from the 1980 Japanese puppet series created by Go Nagai, X-Bomber (known in English as Star Fleet).

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Joe's Cinemarama @joescinemarama.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Twenty 20-Sharks continues with a movie that's mad about oil spills. (It's oil. The black demon is oil.)

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Twenty 20-Sharks: The Black Demon (2023)

Shark movies can't *not* reference Jaws. It's against the law(s).

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Paul @pauljonmilne.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

making important art while on the phone

BO DEREK text badly put together above the number '3' and a painting of a man in armour, with a photo of Bo Derek's face on it

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Niall Flanagan @juvenialldlinquent.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Finally did that 9 Anime thing, is this right?

That My 9 Animes grid everybody jumped on the last few days repurposed to a Mega Man boss select screen with his concerned blue head in the centre. The surrounding anime in the grid all end with "Man": Eat Man, One Punch Man, etc.

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Niall Flanagan @juvenialldlinquent.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Finally did that 9 Anime thing, is this right?

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Space Leech @spaceleech.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

My favorite TMNT fact is that Peter Chung was the one who came up with making Krang's robot look like that. His explanation was that robots in Dimension X are SO advanced that they don't look like normal robots.

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The Nick From Mercury @opencilsharp.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I hate it when I do a Mazinger Rocket Punch and my opponent Judo Boy stops it with the ol’ Three Stooges. Happens all the time.

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Niall Flanagan @juvenialldlinquent.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Tuned back into Judo Boy on a weird episode since it returned to HiDive. While exploring an Egyptian tomb Sanshiro encounters the ghost of Princess Nile, named after the river. In effect this has Sanshiro repeatedly shouting my name at me for the next 15 minutes.

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Nell @cwtchbutch.butchsky.social · 21/09/2026

So this is supposed to be the DNA of the witch, right. Guess how delighted I was to find that the sequences (or the few I tested anyway, I'm not typing all that shit out) blasted as the mitochondrial DNA for the common carp!!! Fish!!! like the witch!!!!

screenshot of real ncbi BLAST, showing one of the sequences from the goodbye Lara episode. It is a 100% match for the mitochondrion of Cyprinus carpio

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Nell @cwtchbutch.butchsky.social · 21/09/2026

I have to share my sayolara nerding with the world. I got to this part in episode 9, and got jumpscared by ncbi BLAST, a tool for comparing DNA, RNA and protein sequences to a massive database. So ofc I had to go onto the real blast and check out a couple of these sequences to see what they were

A screenshot from goodbye Lara showing someone holding a tablet with ncbi BLAST open and a series of nucleotide sequences on it

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This week in my #calling353 piece for @thejournal.ie I consider the Ed Sheeran song “Galway Girl” and what its lyrics reveal about its composer. Ed Sheeran has given the Irish a chance to air gripes with Galway Girl jrnl.ie/7166379

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Ed Sheeran has given the Irish a chance to air gripes with Galway Girl

The lyrics from the English narrator disclose Sheeran’s take on himself and his entitlement to Ireland.

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Randall @revuestarlight.net · 20/09/2026

crazy next season for the "watch anime seasonally from 20 years ago" club

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Niall Flanagan @juvenialldlinquent.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

All these clowns reckon they're gonna be Kenshiro or Raoh in the post-apocalypse when in reality they'll be the Goon Of The Week getting punched in the pressure point that makes them confess their darkest secrets before their head explodes.

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Niall Flanagan @juvenialldlinquent.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Unclear how much if any input was used but Frank Miller was at least -in the room- when they were discussing how to kill off Optimus Prime.

Excerpt of an old interview from Topless Robot with Transformers writer Flint Dille.

TR: Can you talk about writing his death scene?

FD: Well, Gerber and I were trying to figure out how to kill Optimus, and we probably re-wrote that scene at least five-hundred times. And one day he tells me that he’s got some comic book guy coming over to the office for lunch. So the guy comes in, and he’s been working on some Batman book, and we start talking about killing Optimus. And I mentioned that I wanted to do it like Davy Crockett dying in The Alamo. You know, that old John Wayne movie? And the comic guy says, “Have you heard of The 300 Spartans? You should do it like that!” And of course, it was Frank Miller.

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