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OncoMouse37 @oncomouse37.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

"Who was your first anime crush?" Mine is Kanako Urashima from Love Hina, the autistic-coded Elegant Gothic Lolita fashionista mistress of disguise with a talking black cat-rabbit prone to have her staunch ideals escalate into pitched battles with neurotypicals. Only Kanako could understand me.

The cover of Love Hina vol. 11 by Ken Akamatsu. Kanako Urashima stands in the foreground of a Japanese garden filled with cherry blossoms while Kanako waters lillies irrigated in the floodplane beneath a picturesque waterfall. The scene is an allegory of Kanako's plans to restore the Hinata Inn to its former glory, destroying what it had become in the metaphoric flood. Kanako forms a striking contrast in the foreground with her Elegant Gothic Lolita clothing in black, white, and red. Relegated to the backround is the Victorianized students who had benefitted from cheap rents in the derelict hotel, now risking eviction if a compromise isn't struck. Between them stands Naru Narusegawa in Sweet Lolita clothing in frou-frou pink and black as she acts as a mediator between these polarized factions. But in Kanako's vision, most everyone holds tea cups symbolizing the elegant way of life promoted by her version of the Hinata Inn.

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OncoMouse37 @oncomouse37.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Share a horror movie that isn't talked about enough 🖤

A blu-ray case for The People Under the Stairs directed by Wes Craven (1991).

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OncoMouse37 @oncomouse37.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

This cover art for the Final Fantasy VII soundtrack has more of the vibe of how Cloud was conceived and envisioned; an androgynous dark knight he would be seen as a fair-featured beauty whether a man or a woman.

Yoshitaka Amano's art on the cover of the Final Fantasy VII Original Sound Track by Nebuo Uematsu.

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OncoMouse37 @oncomouse37.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

QTP with a game that has a 10/10 soundtrack

Jet Set Radio Future Original Soundtrack. Also don't forget the Jet Set Radio Future Sampler compilation from Grand Royal Records.

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OncoMouse37 @oncomouse37.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

How would YOU open the Strait of Hormuz? Wrong answers only

The famous shot from Independence Day (1996): an energy beam from a giant unidentified aerial phenomenon obliterates the White House.

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OncoMouse37 @oncomouse37.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Distracted to what end? As Khaled Akil's 2016 photography series "Pokemon Go in Syria" underscored, Pokemon's capacity for distraction has tended to leave the world more like a moonscape. Though a science-fantasy political reading of Pokemon in the age of genetic biotechnology is indeed possible.

Khalad Akil's photograph of a boy treading the ruined streets of Aleppo in Syria while the ordinarily cheerful Pikachu looks dejected sitting behind him while surveying the damage.

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OncoMouse37 @oncomouse37.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Which 80s star had the best hair? My vote goes to Johnny Slut of Specimen.

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OncoMouse37 @oncomouse37.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Post something Random, or you'll have an AWFUL March! Comments: I get good results with Sichuan pepper flakes, and use more of them for a feisty spicy kick. No more than a pinch well-distributed.

From Masahiro Ito, character designer of Pyramid Head from Silent Hill.

"Honey buter honey toast aka Fuck Toast, this is the recipe.
The road to fuck - Honey butter honey toast ^_^
1. Sprinkle Sichuan Pepper powder on it. 2. Spread honey onit and put the bread in the toaster oven. 3. After baking, spread butter and little of honey. 4. Sprinkle the pepper powder again."

Comments: I get good results with Sichuan pepper flakes, and use more of them for a feisty spicy kick. No more than a pinch well-distributed.

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OncoMouse37 @oncomouse37.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Share a movie that no one else remembers that you regularly think about 🖤 I'll share two from the 1980s that I'm astonished haven't seen a revival in the present political context.

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OncoMouse37 @oncomouse37.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

What's MAGA about the console? If anything, the Genesis/Mega Drive succeeded because it appealed to those who wanted a different emerging 1990s sensibility from the Reagan/Bush 1980s, and felt infantilized by Nintendo's policies pandering to the Focus on the Family types of authoritarian parents.

"SEGA FOR THE 90's: THE NEW GENERATION' declares the erupting graffiti headline of the Premiere Issue of Sega Visions in 1990, surrounded by icons of the MTV Generation and American pop culture, Japanese arcade hits of the System-16 board with accurate home console ports like never before, and a heady RPG exploring themes of genetic engineering, artificial intelligence, and planetary terraforming. This is a console for cool teens and young adults.

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OncoMouse37 @oncomouse37.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

His statement was broader than artificial intelligence, namely those who say that art isn't worth anything. Such attitudes can also be seen for example in contempt for arts, literature, cinema, and I daresay even game studies programs in education compared with STEM and the economic Mammon Machines.

Crono, Lucca, and Marle confront the Mammon Machine of the Kingdom of Zeal in Chrono Trigger.

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OncoMouse37 @oncomouse37.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

It's questionable how innovative it was compared to other first-person shooters of the 1990s. But like other Rare releases on Nintendo consoles, it found workarounds to break through Nintendo's family values pearl clutching to give their players the kinds of games they wanted. There was even blood.

James Bond shoots the subliminally vaginal aperture of a camera or sniper scope from the viewer's first-person perspective, upon which their blood streams down in a kind of visual pun on ejaculation. This recurring shot at the beginning of James Bond films became the basis for death screens in Goldeneye on the Nintendo 64, functionally introducing blood on one side of the screen that was not allowed on the other. Which was of course a vibe in multiplayer deathmatches.

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OncoMouse37 @oncomouse37.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

As for the Torment Nexus, it's a meme about tech companies and entrepreneurs basing technologies off dystopian science fiction as eagerly as utopian science fiction. Techno-optimism can reinforce the sense doing so won't go horribly wrong, or at least the tech company is shielded from consequences.

Album cover for Torment Nexus by Oudus. A nude woman surrounded by nude women in green cryosleep blocks is warped on an ominous machine into a new dimension of torment.

A tweet by Alex Blechman:

Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale

Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus

Posted November 08, 2021

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OncoMouse37 @oncomouse37.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

I don't think this dress silhouette would look like this at this angle. It'd be more like Ulala/Urara from Space Channel 5 showing off her chest wearing a similar mod dress (albeit there showing off the midriff as was popular at that time).

Sophia, Humanity's Companion from Persona 5: Strikers leans forward.

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OncoMouse37 @oncomouse37.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Drop something BLACK & WHITE 🖤🤍

Sakura Matou symbolically attains balance between light and shadow in the epilogue of Fate/Stay Night: Heaven's Feel III. spring song with her black cardigan worn over a white dress. It is the time of the cherry blossom viewing.

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OncoMouse37 @oncomouse37.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

A general strike would be a great idea.

An International Workers of the World poster with a black cat against a vibrant red background declaring "GENERAL STRIKE!"

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OncoMouse37 @oncomouse37.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

The games Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge and Vampire Savior: The Lord of Vampire both give Felicia magenta hair on her black cat color palette.

Front view of the black cat version of the Felicia Darkstalkers Bishoujo Statue Limited Edition statue by Kotobukiya.

Back view of the black cat version of the Felicia Darkstalkers Bishoujo Statue Limited Edition statue by Kotobukiya.

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OncoMouse37 @oncomouse37.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Obscurity, danger, and mystery. A shadowy landscape, an erupting volcano, a femme fatale or homme fatale, a carnivorous animal or plant. I tend to believe this photo I took of a museum diorama with a leopard feeding at dusk exemplifies the sublime in aesthetics.

A museum diorama of a leopard feeding at dusk, holding a deer it has fatally attacked by the neck in a tree.

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OncoMouse37 @oncomouse37.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

1. Sakura Matou from Fate/Stay Night 2. Rin Tohsaka from Fate/Stay Night 3. Mikuru Asahina from The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya 4. Miko Iino from Kaguya-sama: Love is War

Sakura Matou beams with pride at taking care to turn off the gas in the oven in these days of mysterious incidents written off as gas leaks.

Rin Tohsaka pulls her deadly kitsune smile to look daggers at anyone gossiping about her outings.

Mikuru Asahina is a time-travelling young lady of mystery full of "classified information" about the future.

Miko Iino comes into her own among supporters. Perhaps her next electoral run will prove more successful if she can come to terms with the sexuality of herself and others, effectively drawing more attention to her idealism and volunteerism rather than a controversial platform of requiring dudes to shave their heads like monks.

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OncoMouse37 @oncomouse37.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Humorously, my Bluesky dashboard conjures the post "Oops! All Assholes!" after this one, though I don't think it was meant so literally.

A screencap of the post "Oops! All Assholes!" on Bluesky following a cropping of Chunmomo's backside photography in the previous post on the dashboard.

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OncoMouse37 @oncomouse37.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

While drawing Starling herself as the Madonna. The therapist side of him wants to help her confront her feelings of helplessness in the face of violent slaughter. His murderer side wants to taunt her after with the persistence of evil in the knowledge of his escape to immanently devour more victims.

Clarice Starling as the Madonna holding a lamb on the path to Golgotha, where Jesus and two thieves/bandits were crucified, as illustrated by Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs.

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OncoMouse37 @oncomouse37.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Choose 30 of your favorite horror films of all time. One film per day for 30 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just posters or covers. #FilmSky #Moviesky #horrorsky 30/30 The Lovely Bones

The Lovely Bones directed by Peter Jackson (2009)

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OncoMouse37 @oncomouse37.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Pan's Labyrinth directed by Guillermo del Toro (2006)

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OncoMouse37 @oncomouse37.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

What's a film you watch once a year, like it's a ritual? #filmsky The Green Knight is very much my idea of the movie to watch somewhere around Yuletide.

The Green Knight directed by David Lowery (2021)

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OncoMouse37 @oncomouse37.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

The Devil's Backbone directed by Guillermo del Toro (2001)

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OncoMouse37 @oncomouse37.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

The Ring directed by Gore Verbinski (2002).

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OncoMouse37 @oncomouse37.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

House directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi (1977)

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OncoMouse37 @oncomouse37.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Suspiria directed by Dario Argento (1977). Poster by Malleus.

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OncoMouse37 @oncomouse37.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Hellraiser directed by Clive Barker (1987)

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OncoMouse37 @oncomouse37.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Choose 30 of your favorite horror films of all time. One film per day for 30 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just posters or covers. #FilmSky #Moviesky #horrorsky 23/30 May

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OncoMouse37 @oncomouse37.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Good as this cover looks, it has nothing on the original 1970s art nouveau cover. It just goes to show what we've lost in this new minimalist book cover paradigm compared to the more psychedelic book covers of the 1960s and 70s.