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trickle-down misery in penny dreadful

2024-10-04T00:00:00+00:00

it’s generally good for normal people when cards aren’t obscenely expensive. what’s surprising in this case, though, is that one of the cards banned on the 23rd lost so much value that it’s come full circle to cause chaos in an entirely different format.

sports is soap opera

2024-08-18T00:00:00+00:00

incredible scenes at the women's tour de france this morning after kasia niewiadoma beat demi vollering by four seconds after not having won a stage race in seven years.

unicorn overlord is very fun, and very stupid

2024-03-30T00:00:00+00:00

the mechanics are pure fun. it's an incredibly clever adaptation of the RTS model to console: you can pause at any time while moving your units on the map in order to rethink your strategy, use items, or activate a unit's special skill.

the tunes of 2023

2024-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

no I’M the dumbest girl alive

the best things of not-2023

2023-12-31T00:00:00+00:00

as usual, it's time for a look back at the stuff i encountered for the first time in 2023

some thoughts on the Birdie Wing finale, trade groups, Madlax, mpreg, and the retreat to the allegorical

2023-06-24T00:00:00+00:00

Bit of a letdown, huh?

madlax might be Actually Good

2023-04-09T00:00:00+00:00

In the early 2000s Bee Train made three shows loosely connected by the theme of “girls with guns.” I only watched a few episodes of El Cazador de la Bruja because it got transphobic, but I’ve watched Noir (twice, even) and now Madlax.

akiba maid war was almost the best anime of recent years

2023-01-08T00:00:00+00:00

this contains spoilers for the ending of the show

The Best Stuff of 2022

2023-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

2022 is over! What a fucking year. I'm sure 2023 will be normal.

The Best Stuff from Not-2022

2022-12-31T00:00:00+00:00

I am once again going to be a time cop and remind everyone that 'best of 2022' lists made while 2022 has yet to be fully experienced are invalid and possibly illegal. You will get my list tomorrow; for today, these are the best things I came across this year that weren't themselves published in 2022.

read another book!

2022-11-24T00:00:00+00:00

the mission of the podcast about anime i do with @prophet-goddess is to encourage you read a book instead of watching anime. instead of watching anime, even anime we claim is good, read one of these books.

all i want for christmas is an unrealistic racing game (gay)

2022-11-08T00:00:00+00:00

i’m not an especially sports person. the only one i like playing myself (indeed, the only sort of exercise i’ve ever enjoyed) is badminton, and i don’t watch a lot of sports. i do like sports stories, but that’s largely insofar as they are vehicles for stories about people and relationships in the pressure-cooker of competitive sport. see Ping-Pong, Black Swan (and Love Doctor), and, the one that started the train of thought that led to this chost, Aquamarine by Carol Anshaw.

The official Martin Beck power ranking

2022-09-11T00:00:00+00:00

The series as a whole is one of the great works of fiction about police and policing because, in addition to featuring brilliant plotting and characterization, it has an abiding suspicion not only of the police practices of its time, but of policing, and, indeed, state power more generally.

[homestar runner voice] elden ring

2022-09-03T00:00:00+00:00

i’ve now got almost 150 hours in elden ring, having done all remembrances and having made it most of the way through ng+, so i am officially qualified to have Opinions about it.

Reading Eve (Or, Killing Eve is Over)

2019-06-28T00:00:00+00:00

I’m less optimistic about the future of Killing Eve these days. But not, maybe, for the same reasons as a lot of other people.