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Teresa (Katy) Castillo @harleygin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I truly believe that @yattatachi.com, @animefeminist.com, @okazu.yuricon.com, & @animeherald.com are still around because of spite, determination, sweat & tears, & the power of their communities. They continue to brave the storm. I hope more folks will discover them & help strengthen them.

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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

horrifying, but it does explain why I occasionally run into people who get very mad at me over things they think i said instead of things i actually said www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

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Zal @zalman.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

"It was inevitable" "Been saying this for years" "I'm all digital anyway" Please leave. This will mean fewer options for consumers, more control for publishers, and a huge part of gaming culture vanishing just like that You can still buy physical movies. You will not be able to buy physical games

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Michael @michaelklamerus.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

if you have your own physical media collection, you can do your own version of the Criterion Closet where you stand in your basement by yourself and saying "oh wow, In the Mood for Love, what a film" to absolutely no one

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New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

⏲️72 hours go to and we're working toward our final stretch goal; pay bonuses for the author, artists, and staff involved in producing our latest book! 👉 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

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Blue Fire: A Jirel of Joiry Novella

An officially licensed novella starring the first lady of Sword & Sorcery, Jirel of Joiry!

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Mel Brooks @officialmelbrooks.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Thank you so much for all of your happy birthday wishes. Honestly, I don’t really feel 100. I feel pretty good. I feel like I’m only 98!

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Faysal K @steerpike17.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Played this years ago but it's still stuck around with me. In a sea of games where everyone is trying really hard to be cinematic and prestige with their games, Adios embraces that form and still turns out to be one of the most thought provoking indie games out there.

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Maytera Marble @mayteramarble.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

The Mandalorian and Grogu flopped, Masters of the Universe is tracking insanely poorly, and Obsession & Backrooms are burning up the charts. it really does feel like we're finally seeing the death of 80s nostalgia and the rise of something new from Gen Z. thank God.

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Felipe Pepe @felipepepe.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

One of my biggest gripes with how we tell video game history is how we erase cool stuff like this - usually because it's "local" or isn't "a real game" So much of 90s and 2000s gaming was just derping around with freeware, browser & Flash games, emulators, and these sort of weird independent games

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Alyssa Matesic @alyssamatesic.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Something I wish more debut authors knew: the first book you write doesn't have to be the one that makes your career. 👉 Stephen King wrote 4 novels before Carrie was picked up by Doubleday and became his debut.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

just explained what a tsundere was to Ben and he went “oh like the home alone shovel guy”

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Wallace Polsom @wallacepolsom.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Unused GOLDEN BAT designs by Keita Amemiya, who went on to create GARO.

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Yacht Club Games @yachtclubgames.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

TRUE FINAL RELEASE DATE!! 🐭🙌 Mina the Hollower launches May 29 for only $19.99! Prepare yourself for one of the greatest top-down adventures ever to be delivered directly to your soul for less than 20 bucks. Mark your calendars. Tell your friends. Wishlist now - links below! 🧵

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Giovanni Colantonio @marioprime.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Don’t totally know how to express this in a nuanced enough way, but I’ve been feeling bummed out over how games get dissected in the past three years. A lot of mainstream discussion feels less interested in the games themselves and more about what they Represent About Gaming. It wears me out a bit!

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Minovsky @minovskyarticle.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Superimposing a live-action Hanya mask over an animated character rules. Rintaro forever.

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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

A special TV report on the late Osamu Dezaki will air this Saturday in Japan on NHK (as part of the "I Want to Meet That Person" program). www.web.nhk/tv/an/anohit...

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Minovsky @minovskyarticle.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Hideo Kojima and Yasumi Matsuno (FF Tactics, Tactics Ogre, Vagrant Story) first met while waiting in a long line to see John Carpenter's Vampires on opening night.

Kojima: I first met Matsuno at the 1998 Tokyo Fantastic International Movie Festival. I was standing in line to see the premiere of Vampires at the Shibuya Parthenon… I was waiting on that spiral staircase there for 8 almost hours. (laughs)

Matsuno: That’s right. I never imagined I’d meet you at a place like that!

Kojima: We talked movies on that staircase for hours. You said you didn’t mind waiting if it was a movie you really wanted to see. I guessed then, that here’s a guy with the same DNA as me. (laughs)

(Translation by Shmuplations)

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grassflu.bsky.social @grassflu.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

He was just a baby 😭 with a gun

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Dylan Cheung @dylancheung.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Every 1960s Cantonese wuxia film looks like it only exists on a series of glass plates or something.

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Suzi Hunter @thespherehunter.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Reconnecting with Silent Hill has been an introspective series of events. As I've covered the original series I've reawakened a lot of memories of playing each game as they released. I grew up with SH, I watched it come and go. I feel as though culture had blinded me to how much I actually love SH 🥺

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Jake Tropila @jaketropila.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

For all its horror, I still contend this is the most life-affirming work of art I’ve ever seen.

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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

late night reminder that the rec thread for this steam sale has started and it's already almost up 50 games in here! something for everybody!

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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

you already know what's up (steam sale rec thread is what's up) as always, i focus primarily on older, obscure, and just plain weird games, as big name titles don't need the help. so, onwards!

an edited version of the box for the amiga version of Megatraveller 2, which features three space travelers on an alien world, gazin at a crystal tower, and in the distance, a space ship, a saturn esque planet, and one giant red planet

at the top: SPACETWINKS REC THREAD
below: Quest For some Weirdass Games

left sidebar: VIDEO GAMES - A strange starfaring force that fills up your backlog and possibly alters your brain chemistry with some fucky thief raccoon or I guess it's some bug lady nowadays, w/e, followed by a picture of my fursona, a kangaroo

bottom sticker: AMIGA
yes, the Amiga had things other than crack screens and skunk furries
like there were some really terrible licensed games too
keyboard AND mouse supported. holy shit. unreal
she amiga on my darkmere till joke to be determined later

and where PARAGON SOFTWARE would normally be, PINK KANGAROO has replaced it

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Big Dracula Energy @mayawest.online · 22/11/2025

remember kids -

vaporwave image of a small plant growing hopefully
overlay text reads "if the situation was helpless, their propaganda would be unnecessary"

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Caves of Qud @cavesofqud.com · 24/11/2025

Hey friends! Unfortunately we are delaying our Switch release til January. Port isn't perfect yet, & given Qud's long dev timeline, what matters most to us is releasing the best possible ver of the game, even if it means a delay We're confident on the Jan timeline, so we'll see you on Switch soon

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Dia Lacina @dialacina.com · 05/11/2025

See this is that OVA vibe that Persona forgot...

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Anni Jyn @annijyn.com · 28/10/2025

are you for real

four pillars in the middle of a park, they’re surrounded my leaves of all autumnal colours. red, gold, yellows and greens.

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 02/10/2025

It's bad out there. For everyone. In ways I didn't even know it could be bad. Everyone looking for work is vulnerable in some way, and deserves to be treated better than this automated, callous, scam-filled, AI-riddled hellscape.

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Minovsky @minovskyarticle.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Deaf Crocodile have announced that The Treasure of Soviet Animation Volume 3 will be The Short Films of Yuri Norstein. Pre-orders begin in November 2025.

THE 25TH, THE FIRST DAY (25-E - PERVYY DEN) - 1968, 9 min., co-dir. Arkadiy Tyurin.

Norstein's first film is a visually striking tribute to the Bolshevik Revolution on October 25th, incorporating the Cubist-inspired artworks of Soviet painters Nathan Altman and Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin.

SEASONS (VREMENA GODA) - 1969, 9 min. A man and woman ride through the forest while the seasons change around them -- leaves swirling, cranes overhead, a tattered scarecrow in a field -- in this lovely, elegiac short set to music by Tchaikovsky. Produced and written by the great animator Ivan Ivanov-Vano.

CHILDREN AND MATCHES (DETI I SPICHKI) - 1969, 5 min. Norstein’s rarely-seen educational short about the dangers of matches, from ancient times up to today. The image of pipe-smoking portraits on the wall suddenly bursting into flames is particularly surreal.

THE BATTLE OF KERZHENETS (SECHA PRI KERZHENTSE) - 1971, 10 min., co-dir. Ivan Ivanov-Vano. Arguably Norstein's first great animated film, inspired by the legend of the City of Kitezh which disappeared into a lake to avoid Mongol invaders. BATTLE incorporates Russian frescoes from the 14th-16th centuries, set to music by Rimsky-Korsakov.

THE FOX & THE HARE (LISA I ZAYATS) – 1973, 12 min. Norstein’s utterly charming and irresistible short about a temperamental "house-filching fox" who boots a poor rabbit out of its home. The rabbit turns to a wolf, bear, bull and rooster for help, with surprising results. Told in a gorgeous combination of cut-out and hand-drawn styles.

THE HERON & THE CRANE (TSAPLYA I ZHURAVL) - 1974, 10 min. An awkward crane and a high-spirited heron go back and forth on marrying each other, in this impossibly lovely and heartbreaking short about romantic misunderstandings.

HEDGEHOG IN THE FOG (YOZHIK V TUMANE) – 1975, 11 min. "In the evenings, the little hedgehog used to go to the little bear's to count stars. They would sit on some logs, sipping tea, and gaze at the starry sky." So begins the deceptively epic journey of the tiny hedgehog, filled with impossible marvels and dangers: a shimmering white horse and a crafty owl. A fluttering bat, a falling leaf and the ever-present curtain of fog. Widely considered one of the greatest animated films ever made, HEDGEHOG fits more mystery, suspense and delight into eleven brief minutes than most features do in two hours.

A DAY BEFORE OUR ERA (ZA DEN DO’ NASHEY ERY) – 1977, 6 min. Co-dir. Fyodor Khitruk. This experimental collage of images of the French Revolution was apparently abandoned before it was finished, and remains one of Norstein’s rarest films. A companion piece in some ways to his earlier THE BATTLE OF KERZHENETS.

THE TALE OF TALES (SKAZKA SKAZOK) – 1979, 29 min. Norstein's longest film to date, TALE is a story about stories -- or more precisely, a dream of many dreams. A giant bull and a little girl skip rope. A frustrated poet picks up a lyre. Couples dance under a streetlight to nostalgic music until the male partners disappear, headed off to war. And through it all, the Little Grey Wolf -- Norstein's greatest creation alongside the Hedgehog -- watches silently at the rondo of human loves and losses.

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tama @tama00001234.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

探索(2022.7)

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Deb Aoki @debaoki.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Shocked and saddened to hear that Matt Haasch, founder of indie manga publishing company @starfruitbooks.bsky.social has passed away. His gofundme campaign for his medical and other expenses is still up - contribute if you can. www.gofundme.com/f/donate-to-...

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Donate to Matt's Journey: Healing and Comics, organized by Matthew Haasch

With your support, I can focus on healing from lymphoma while continu… Matthew Haasch needs your support for Donate to Matt's Journey: Healing and Comics

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

2025 Democratic politics is that scene in every 70s movie where somebody gets their car stolen and runs down the street shaking their fist in the air yelling, "Hey, that's my car!!!"

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PBS @pbs.org · 07/08/2025

An update from us here at PBS 💙

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Kly (𝔐egalith) @klyart.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

"I'M A FREAK OF THE UNIVERSE." Gully Foyle from The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester.

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Minovsky @minovskyarticle.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

You should listen to more Yellow Magic Orchestra.

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Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

"We are actively preparing for the future development of the Persona series as a studio"

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Kevin VanOrd 🏳️‍🌈 🐻 @fiddlecub.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Thinking about the best game no one talks about.

Anachronox box art - a PC game. It features a bedraggled man, a cyberpunk-sexy lady, and a gruff guy with a goatee. The tagline: "An epic sci-fi RPG adventure."

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Godot Engine @godotengine.org · 02/05/2025

We interviewed Frederic Plourde and Daniel Castellanos who used Godot to create an educational XR experience for SOMAR, a non-profit association focusing on the conservation of marine life 🐬 godotengine.org/article/godo...

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Godot Showcase - Somar – Godot Engine

We interviewed Frederic Plourde from Collabora and Daniel Castellanos from Decasis about the Somar project.

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Tokusatsu GIFs @tokugifs.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Himitsu Sentai Gorenger (1975) Episode 53

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