#SF Blogger

[luvlowrise]

watching west coast baseball while being out east is not for the weak.

[nellasbookplanet]

My notes: blows up

Me: WHAT is going ON

My notes: nkjemisin reblogged your post

Me: ok yeah that explains it

[claire-starsword]

The Guardiana Magic School Run - Part 1

Let's do this thing. Seeing @shiningforcegirlpower got me inspired to do Shining Force challenge runs myself, so I'm finally starting the magic users only run in GBA that I had wondered about some months ago, maybe many? Ah, time.

All posts will be tagged as "#guardiana magic school run". We've got a lot of rambling and RPG starting setup to go through, let's get to it.

The rules:

-I can only use characters who start with spells or learn spells at some point. So Max and Arthur are valid despite knowing only Egress and nothing at the beginning, respectively. Mawlock however is banned, I'm treating the card gimmick as something completely different that honestly deserves its own challenge one day. Also excluding him gives us exactly 12 characters to work with which is very convenient as it means I'll never have to worry about the team composition.

-I must have every character who fits the rule above on the team, no giving up on any of them. If a character dies, I must revive them as soon as I have the money needed instead of saving the money for something else.

-Enforcing character bans is super easy in this version as you can remove any characters except Max from the team any time. The exceptions however are the Narsha interludes. Frankly, I'm not too concerned about these as I'll likely just die on them lol, but yeah, I can't use Zuika and Mawlock for anything on them. But if they do attract enemies or do a counter or anything like that it's out of my hands and I don't care.

-No resets (unless I accidentally break a rule and have to undo something), we die like men who enjoy funding the churches of Rune. This also means I can't reset for good boosts from stat boosting items, if I decide to use those I get what I get. Also means I can't reset for good item drops, which are a thing in this version.

-Also in the spirit of not exploiting things, I can only check the deals section of shops once before each battle. From what I've heard the deals section rolls to generate stuff each time you open it so you could abuse it by just opening it a lot. I want to ride on the silly waves of the RNGods instead.

-No Egress or Angel Wings, I don't want to just overlevel on easy battles and then wipe out the rest of the game. I can however use the Retreat command at the start of battles.

-I just remembered a Bank exists in this game and would make these money related restrictions trivial so, that's banned too. I don't think I've ever used that thing.

-Also on the topic of money, I can use/sell the items of banned characters, I'll give myself that.

-No using magic through items, I want to see the character's own magical skills. Also the Sword of Light and the Chaos Breaker tend to destroy the late game with their magic.

-It's hard to enforce this as a rule but, again, the point of the challenge is to not overlevel, so dying on purpose to go around the Egress ban shouldn't happen either. I should play trying to minimize losses and even characters deaths to the best of my ability. So I will be counting these metrics, with two caveats: Narsha deaths on the interludes get a separate counter, and Mawlock and Zuika's deaths there don't count at all since they shouldn't even be there. The interludes are a beast of their own and kinda don't mash well with challenge runs.

The rules have been set, let the games begin.

Queen Anri's dream has come true and the Guardiana Magic School is a success. To celebrate and promote its teachings, we are gathered here today for a perhaps not very historically accurate reenactment of the war against Runefaust, with only the Shining Force members who can showcase the wonders of ~*~magic~*~. Hans weeps tears of joy at not going to battle this time, and vows to never get anywhere near magical talent, which might be the opposite of what this expedition is trying to achieve here, but that's okay this isn't about him.

Between the starting money and what we get from selling Hans, Ken and Luke's equipment, we get 385 gold for our first provisions. And I know some if not all of my Shining followers haven't played this version, so I'll try highlighting differences when I remember. We already have big ones when it comes to items and equipment.

First, as my rules implies, the deals section have a random chance of coming up with some special equipment, sometimes very overpowered for the chapter you are in. But I did just check it once as I'm allowed to and there's nothing yet.

The amount of items you can carry has also changed. In classic SF games, each character can carry at most four items total. So if you have a weapon equipped, that's one less slot to carry an item on, and same if you have a ring on. Also, you can only equip one ring at a time. Here instead we get four slots for items, and separate four slots for equipment. So everyone gets to carry more healing items or whatever else we need. We also get to equip more rings at once, and the game will incentive us to do that by putting a lot of new rings in this version (also weapons but I'll bring them up as they come later).

The Steel Ring can only be bought in Guardiana by a whooping 500 gold, and offers a mediocre +1 in defense. Stacking three of them however can make a good difference, especially in a gameplay full of squishy wizards. I would love to buy as many of these as I can before we leave Chapter 1, but sadly that sure won't happen now. Or before Battle 2 which happens before we can get back to Guardiana. Oh well. Max does start with one, so we aren't ringless at least.

The fact that we can't get back to a shop for a while does make me paranoid so I buy sixteen medical herbs to fill up everyone's bags. Of course I don't have four valid characters but we'll get to that in a hot minute. Let's get our carriage and head to the Gate of the Ancients already.

And then let's immediately retreat, I allowed it in my rules for a reason. We return to the world map and go to the Mountain Hut to pick up Gong. With this frankly silly move, our four first spellcasters are finally assembled.

Our great leader Max is for now only in this playthrough by technicality due to knowing Egress aka the run button which is a spell in this series for some reason. This is the GBA version though so he will learn something else eventually, but it will take quite a while so it's not worth talking about it now. For now he's a welcome melee fighter in this spell based team, but he's also the man we can't let die at all costs so there's only so much he can do in the front lines.

Tao the Blazing Woman is our first squishy wizard, you can see even with these small numbers she's the frailest member. I would love to shower her with Steel Rings in the future but for now I'm letting Max keep his because I hope to not let her get hit at all in the next battles. She's also my favorite of the wizards in this game and the first to get high level spells, so I'm expecting her to carry this run honestly.

Lowe and Gong are our healers, as of now there's not much difference between them in offense and defense. Lowe has way more MP, allowing him double the amount of Heal 1, while Gong has better movement, which will definitely matter for Battle 2.

You can also see two GBA exclusive things in these stat screens. One is Magic Resistance, a new stat that reduces the damage the character takes from enemy spells. Usually only characters that know magic get this, so basically everyone in this run, which should be fun to show off. The other thing is the CTR OK in the top right for some characters. In this version only characters with this have a chance to counter enemy attacks, non-combat oriented classes like mages and healers can't. It doesn't make much of a difference honestly but it's a neat detail.

After this long ass prologue that you should have expected because I can't be brief to save my life, let's get some action in this party.

Every battle until Chapter 8 in this version has some sort of bonus for clearing it in a certain amount of turns, usually either money or a special weapon. I do want those Steel Rings, and this one is not too hard, so let's do our best to get it (you can check the turn count in battle btw, along with the character order within the turn, it's one of the many QoL improvements of this version).

Again, this battle shouldn't be hard even with less characters. The goblins are weak and tend to stay spaced out instead of rushing us together, and the dwarves and the knight, which are bigger threats, stay still in the back. I'll try to keep Lowe and Tao safe while Gong and Max tank some hits, but Lowe might need to attack at times if we want the clear bonus. Also the AI loves to hit Max through any means possible so we gotta be careful with that.

I get counterattacked on my very first action of this run and hope this isn't some sort of omen. If Gong is taking 3 damage per goblin then in theory all goblins here could kill him next, so it's time for Lowe to do some healing, even if it feels like a waste.

I immediately give up on letting Tao stay safe because I'm a reckless idiot and she gets hit for 4 damage, while doing double that amount on the guy first, so you can see why I do that. She's just great.

Gong gets swift revenge (counterattack that i failed to screenshot). One of the goblins wasted their turn just lining up with their friend, because even though this version has much better AI than the mega drive one it is still silly sometimes.

Turn 3 is chill. Everyone kills a goblin except Lowe, who heals Tao. I began to fear that I should be saving her Blazes for the tougher enemies, but alas. Self control is apparently not a thing I have, but that's okay, who needs good strategy to do a challenge run of the strategy game.

Turn 4. Gong could reach those guys but I'm scared so I stay a little away to heal and see if the goblins advance first. Only one of them does, and that's fine I guess. Max seems to be the slowest of the team right now and that's currently good as he can score a hit once the enemies have already moved.

oh no they had not all moved. Max tanks it well though, so all the better that the dwarves are now separated.

-_-

This asshole survives at 1 HP but I'd rather Tao burns the dwarf.

She does great and Max finishes the job, earning the first level up of the run. Look at that attack boost, this man is so overpowered. The next dwarf comes at him because he's irresistible like that, but with this +1 in defense he's tanking even better than before.

We start turn 6 and I'm like everything is going so well :) I figure Lowe can heal Max a bit later and would rather Gong just punch someone (the dwarf). This unfortunately gets the knight's attention.

MOM I'M SCARED

THAT'S NICE I GUESS BUT STILL SCARY.

Plans are out the window, Lowe, fix this. This is Lowe's last heal but we do have a squad of Medical Herbs so it's fine.

Tao is out of MP but can still kill that 1HP goblin. She gets a level up as she deserves, and +3 MP, which means her amount of Blazes just went from 3 to 5 in a flash. Love this woman.

Meanwhile Max has to heal himself with a Medical Herb because I'm scared. He's taking like 2 damage from the dwarf which is great, but I don't want at half HP when the knight is Like That.

We get to turn 7 which is getting tight for the clear bonus but Gong's super punch did leave the knight on death's door already so there should be no need to rush, let's get the exp from the other enemies before ending the boss. I am terrified of Gong getting double attacked or critted which would end him, but also scared of taking him out there and opening a path to Tao. We're on the hands of the gods.

We get a kinder damage roll this time I guess. Turn 8 arrives and there's a half dead goblin on the field yet because Lowe and Tao couldn't finish the job, but I don't wanna risk losing the bonus, let's finish the knight already. And hope he doesn't counter Gong with that big roll because Gong's at exactly 7 HP.

The asshole survives at 1 HP and counters but thankfully does only 5 damage. And then gets to their turn and attacks Max, because I moved Max next to them before finishing dwarf, and the AI just loves Max so much. Lowe finishes them, getting a level up that I barely pay attention too because I'm bad at that, and a Bronze Lance drop? Extra money I guess.

Man that was stressful. But we won. The anticlimatic town theme starts playing as we move immediately to more war, except we don't because I retreat and save the game. The parade of Guardiana spellcasters shall continue some other day.

Also reviewing this hours later before posting I realized there's no damage rolls in this game and I've just been watching too many pokemon runs. Gong leveled up at some point and got +2 defense, and I didn't notice at all, probably because I was busy crying in fear.

Losses: 0 Deaths: 0 Number of Hans mentions in a run not about Hans: 2 (see the tags)

[sergioguymanproust]

I must let you in a small secret, there two parallel worlds where planes just like this one are still flying by the hundreds.Back in the 40s,50s and 60s in the midst of all those years where we were warmongering and we were experimenting with new engines for our warbirds and foo fighters appears in skies all over Asia ,Europe and North America unbeknownst to the common innocent civilians,we in the US rip the fabric o that separated us from our neighboring dimension by detonating a nuclear bomb in outer space ,then they came pouring in and settle among us without any of us knowing until years later. They got busy taking our technology and even hundreds of our best minds from all over the planet back to their dimension, close the horrific gap between our dimension and theirs and as if nothing had occurred turned the locks of electromagnetic waves and closed the portals that they had created and used by millennia .So ,scientists have tried to reopen some at the CERN and have been partially successful. But getting back to our planes the manufacturing goes on.Just like there are far more advanced civilizations than ours there are those who are behind us.Let’s not forget that there are infinite numbers of civilizations in the trillions of galaxies existing in universes we know nothing about them yet ,but we know that we are constantly being spied on by those in parallel dimensions.They do come and go as they please and sad to say but we humans are so naive and secretive and still question their existence,which is okay ,but by now we should be able to discern and catalogued hundreds of them and made them public knowledge.But our governments are so corrupt and greedy that we keep missing opportunities one after another .I guess our lot is far more narrow minded than we give it credit for.Words by Sergio GuymanProust.

[skyborneveggie]

all the conservative anti-SF propaganda going on in the past few years has actually been pretty positive for locals. housing prices are dropping, & ppl can actually enjoy their city without swaths of tech bros clomping everywhere. I hate that people elsewhere believe in the bs, but I'm glad it keeps them away.

[freddiespencerchapman]

Sun through the clouds at San Quentin.

[acourtofthought]

"Sarah and Bloomsbury are soft launching E/riel in ScreenRant interviews!"

In the recent Spotify interview, we had Sarah talking about the 10 year anniversary of the release of A Court of Thorns and Roses coming up this Spring.

A book that took place in the Spring Court.

In Spring of 2024, Sarah shared an IG Story welcoming readers to the Spring Court.

Bloomsbury shared a video of a popular Baby Name Blogger who told us the meaning of the names Tamlin, Feyre, Rhys, and Lucien. All names of characters we met in book 1 which took place in the Spring Court. The video even reminded readers of Lucien's secret heritage that's been an unresolved plot since ACOWAR.

In SF we were told Beron might want to take over the Spring Court.

In SF we were reminded that the Spring Court’s residents were being neglected.

In SF we were reminded that the High Lord of the Spring Court is not getting better despite their attempts to bring him back.

In SF we were reminded that they need the Spring Court’s forces.

In SF we were told that Lucien was being permanently placed in the Spring Court.

In multiple books it's mention how Elain would marvel at the Spring Court, how the Spring Court had been made for someone like Elain, how Nesta would tell Elain to visit the Spring Court if they were visiting, how certain areas of land in the Spring Court had begun to die with Elain saying how the world needs more gardens. Sarah and Bloomsbury gearing up to celebrate the 10 year anniversary of A Court of Thorns and Roses which did not feature Azriel at all. Az who has never been placed in the Spring Court.

But of course an E/riel book that takes place in the Night Court / Dusk Court is next because clearly Sarah and Bloosmbury are sneaking information to ScreenRant despite what they've posted / said in their own interviews and publishing / author social medias and in the books themselves.

[van-yangyin]

LightTree Table Lamp (2 versions) + Spell paper

This is a LightTree table lamp. Hope you enjoy this one! 💗

From unknown source this lamp with a natural tree shape, emits a magical light that will not go out unless you say the magic words. The paper with spell is sold separately - good luck!

(All items are for sale exclusively at the Glimmerbrook Magic Market, but we, the Sell Your Sould for Something Supernatural For-Profit Association, will ship it to your door.) 🟡🌳

Short brief when this post is published: I still have my computer with problems and reinstalling Windows myself, because the problem persists and otherwise I would have to pay about $63 just to factory reset it. Wish me luck! So I'm still a bit disconnected from social media. Thanks for your continuous support and I'm sorry for not being able to be here so much lately. I hope that this week will be the definitive one, because if the factory setting doesn't work the next step will be to change the tower and it would be an extra expense that I don't know if can afford.

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General Info:

5 packages per version of 26 swatches each one (White and Black, Yellow and Blue, Green and Purple, Red and Pink, Orange and Brown ball colors)

two versions [LightTree Table Lamp and LightTree with lights Table Lamp]

Spell paper written in medieval Simlish (Actually it's not necessary download it to turn off table lamps but you can download it and place it near one of them to keep the mystery if you read description above)

Base game compatible

all LOD's

All Maps (Diffuse, Normal and Specular)

Category: Buy Mode > Lightings > Table Lamps/Miscellaneous. Version 1: Price: 500 【English Name: LightTree Table Lamp + (name of colors) | Spanish Name: Lámpara de mesa Árbol de luz + (nombre de los colores)】 Version 2: Price: 801 【English Name: LightTree with lights Table Lamp + (name of colors) | Spanish Name: Lámpara de mesa Árbol de luces + (nombre de los colores)】 Spell Paper~ Category: Buy Mode > Decoration > Miscellaneous. Price: 24 【English Name: Spell Paper for MagicsTree Table Lamps | Spanish Name: Papel de hechizo para las lámparas de mesa árboles mágicos】 Contain a description in English and Spanish, personalized by me and Lea (@lea-heartscxiv) [Anyone can send me translations of text in their language so that more people can enjoy it in their own language.]

Mesh and texture made from scratch by me

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LODs Info: LightTree Table Lamp: LOD0: 7234 poly | LOD1: 3618 poly | LOD2: 1810 poly LightTree with lights Table Lamp: LOD0: 10114 poly | LOD1: 5057 poly | LOD2: 2528 poly Spell Paper for MagicsTree Table Lamp: All LODs 36 poly

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[bluiela]

If the ewriels want to pretend to be the girl supporting/loving side of the fandom then they need to stop putting down girls for shipping characters which they don't ship

So this literally shocked me so much, Basically i though that all posts who say negative stuff regarding gwyn and her SA are trolls and no body actually thinks that

But.. Seeing the troll post credit actual big accounts that are supported and seeing the OG post getting support shocked me to hell.

The actual creator this post, Not only put a timeline on what is the appropriate time for a SA Victim to heal like, As a SA survivor you don't get to put a timeline on when a person chooses to have sex again,

If Gwyn wants to have sex after sf or even after the blood rite she can do so, She can choose to have sex whenever she is ready and you don't get to decide when that time is,

Secondly, they are guilt tripping people into thinking they are doing something wrong for shipping fictional characters!!

This isn't even an argument this post is just putting down readers by guilt tripping and gaslighting them into believing that they are doing something wrong because they want gwyn to have a happy ending bcoz they want to make themselves look superior.

This is an actual post by a famous e/riel blogger (Checked their a/c)

Many people liked and supported this post (OG).

Wow this is honestly so disgusting

[freezerbnuuy]

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A Sims 4 fantasy story set 300 years prior to 'present day' and tells the story of those who fought against the witch-hunts and the eventual creation of the Magic Realm. Includes premade Áine (Tess Dyer in the games, the RoM Untamed Sage predecessor).

The sun-moon divider used in the story is by @/strangergraphics

[emrysbell-sims]

✨Penny Pizzazz NoCC Makeover

Penny Pizzaz is ✨sexy✨, I don't make the rules here 🤭 I imagine her as a city blogger who is in the centre of events, whether it's a spice festival, a dance club opening or an exhibition. And she also has an old cat, Naruto, whom she picked up on the street when she was a teenager, and he is the one for whom Penny earns money 💖 ✨ gallery id: emrysbell ✨ sfs

[cursedbeasts-cc]

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I've renamed to Cursedbeasts-cc from pixelbeasts-cc as I've learned that there's an NFT collective of the same name, and I don't want to be confused with them lmao.

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[anamoon63]

Your TS3 gameplay really does inspire me to give that game another shot. Are there specific mods you use to make sure the game runs smoothly/is stable? What mods/cc are the best to use so the sims look good?

Hi, Marci! 😊

First of all, thank you very much for your ask. Knowing that my sims and/or my gameplay can inspire other simmers to play means a lot to me cause The Sims 3 is my favorite game in the whole Sims series. Plus, I love my sims, so this makes me twice as happy. 🤗💖

That said, it is my duty to warn you that The Sims 3 is not an easy game to maintain, it requires a lot of care and patience, even from the moment of its installation. You ask me what it takes to make it run smoothly and make it stable, well I'm no expert, but what helped me with that is all contained in this Steam post. I believe these tips you can follow even if you don't have your game on Steam. I followed all these steps when I reinstalled my game back in 2017-18, and I have never had a problem like lag or crashes since then.

It's thanks to the amazing person who wrote that post and to talented modders like @lazyduchess and Twallan (Nraas Mods), whose mods I consider indispensable, that I have been able to play The Sims 3 without problems for years now. I may have had a couple of crashes due to some wrong or corrupt cc, but that's on me because I download a lot of stuff. In those cases, it's a matter of locating the bad cc, taking it out, and that's it. The game runs great, even with a ton of mods installed. (I have a 9 GB mods folder, and I've had more than that at times, lol, but I try to keep in less than 10 GB always).

As for what mods and cc's to use to make the sims look good, well, that would depend on your taste, or as they say now, on the aesthetics of your game or your sims.

For what it's worth, I have always used Ephemera's E-WEAK skin as default. I also use some other Ephemera's like E-Skin Natural MIX, Asia and Fresh. I use some by Kurasoberina too.

I think Ephemera's site doesn't exist anymore, but the E-WEAK skins I use can be downloaded on MTS here. Kurasoberina TS3 skins you can find them here along with more of their fabulous content.

I'm sure there are other skins much newer, and super nice too, but these are the ones I use, cause they give my sims the look they are known for. 😊

Also I use Tifa N38 default eyes, as well as Buhudain's You Are Real body and face maps replacements to give some realism to my sims' skins/bodies. Neither Tifa's nor Buhudain's sites exist anymore, unfortunately, but you can still find Buhudain's archives on this SFS page. And those of Tifa in this other one in Mega. (I hope I am not doing wrong by sharing them, otherwise I will remove them).

There's also this stunning version of Buhudain's You are Real by @nectar-cellar named You are Hyperreal. :)

As for the rest, if I start listing all the other content I use such as hair, clothes and makeup I would never finish, I'd gladly share my whole mods folder, but I don't want to piss off the creators, or blow-up other players' computers, lol. I'm WCIF friendly, though, so feel free to ask for any specific content, of any type, CAS or Buy/Build, I got my custom content well documented, so I'll provide you with links to any of them.

For the time being, here is this link to my custom Content List on my Blogger. I have kept this list for many years, and I still use most of that content; it may be a little outdated of course, cause I have a lot of new stuff now, so my intention is to update the page soon when/if I have the time. Also, some of the links may not work anymore, if so just let me know and I'll fix them for you if I'm able.

I hope this answer has helped you. Sorry for taking so long to reply, but I wanted to make this post as detailed as possible. If you have any other questions about The Sims 3, I'll be here whenever you need me. Good luck and happy simming! 😉💗

[mostlysignssomeportents]

This day in history

Picks and Shovels is a new, standalone technothriller starring Marty Hench, my two-fisted, hard-fighting, tech-scam-busting forensic accountant. You can pre-order it on my latest Kickstarter, which features a brilliant audiobook read by Wil Wheaton.

#1yrago Kickstarting "The Bezzle" audiobook, sequel to Red Team Blues https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/10/the-bezzle/#marty-hench

#5yrsago The Monsters Know What They’re Doing: an RPG sourcebook for DMs who want to imbue monsters with deep, smart tactics https://memex.craphound.com/2020/01/10/the-monsters-know-what-theyre-doing-an-rpg-sourcebook-for-dms-who-want-to-imbue-monsters-with-deep-smart-tactics/

#5yrsago For the first time, you can search the database of money that publicly funded researchers in Illinois received from pharma companies https://www.propublica.org/article/dollars-for-profs-illinois-professors-conflicts-of-interest

#5yrsago A company that makes spy-tech for cops threatened to sue Vice for publishing its sales literature (because Iran!) https://www.vice.com/en/article/this-secretive-surveillance-company-is-selling-cops-cameras-hidden-in-gravestones/

#5yrsago Virgin’s subsidized smartphones come with unremovable Chinese malware https://www.zdnet.com/article/unremovable-malware-found-preinstalled-on-low-end-smartphone-sold-in-the-us/

#5yrsago Pranksters produce enlistment ads featuring Trump Jr: “I’m not enlisting but YOU should” https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-jr-army-enlisting-sign-pranksters_n_5e1874f1c5b650c621dd0041

#5yrsago Howto: file your taxes for free without getting defrauded into paying a big tax-prep firm https://www.propublica.org/article/how-to-file-state-federal-taxes-free-2020#175169

#5yrsago Boris the Babybot: a picture book about resisting surveillance https://memex.craphound.com/2020/01/10/boris-the-babybot-a-picture-book-about-resisting-surveillance/

#5yrsago NYPD ordered to disclose records of secret X-ray vans https://www.propublica.org/article/judge-orders-nypd-to-release-records-on-x-ray-vans

#15yrsago If HP Lovecraft wrote C manuals http://www.bobhobbs.com/files/kr_lovecraft.html

#15yrsago Britain’s Digital Economy Bill will cost ISPs £500M, knock 40K poor households offline https://torrentfreak.com/piracy-surcharge-set-to-force-40000-households-offline-091228/

#15yrsago Bugs in the Arroyo: sf podcast about metal-eating bug apocalypse https://reactormag.com/bugs-in-the-arroyo/

#15yrsago Slovak aviation cops sneak explosives into travellers’ luggage, jailarity ensues http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8441891.stm

#15yrsago Orson Welles on privacy, prescient remarks from 1955 https://web.archive.org/web/20100114060742/http://www.thejanuarist.com/orson-welles-on-privacy-the-passport-and-personal-rights/

#20yrsago Desperate Ken Lay paying search-engines to return links to his “version” of Enron https://web.archive.org/web/20050108125640/https://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/business/2982765/

#20yrsago EFF defends bloggers’ rights to keep informants’ identities secret https://web.archive.org/web/20050105112953/http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2005_01.php#002190

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The comments on the charles christmas photo a month ago made me unfollow it. Hopefully it will be better in the season. /

Wait did something happen on r/f1? I stopped checking after abudhabi bc I knew i wasn't really going to see anything good and I'm too afraid to go check now

what happened on the christmas thing if you don't mind me asking

also for the livery reveal they're just gonna slap that shit on the f1 75 or another car and call it a day right? no sf 25s in london or wherever the fuck

it was the post from charles' ig from his vacation in mexico... all the comments were ripping into alexandra and charles, calling her fake and ugly, saying he probably didn't even care about her, etc.

i never realised how many incels slash wag gossip bloggers were on that subreddit until that day lmao i also don't understand why that post in particular got so many comments compared to the other 5 billion personal posts about charles that are on there

and yeah they will not be revealing the actual car in that show (i don't remember where it is either)

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Just another one of those posts where I do a bit of a general update on a few things. This time opening with an edited scan of Maomao from Nekokurage's Kusuriya no Hitorigoto manga adaptation to get your attention. Boo!

I've been reading the Kusuriya no Hitorigoto light novels and enjoying them in the sense that I think preteen me would have liked them. I started reading the LNs earlier this year (as they're great for reading in waiting rooms and the like thanks to their short format) and I think the LNs are definitely my preferred version of the story. The anime has a nice OP theme but is fairly middling otherwise and I don't go much on the art in either mang adaptation (though Nekokurage's art has improved recently and Maomao looks less like a giant-headed baby doll in the Animate bonus cards per my scan above). Maomao is the real draw in all versions so obviously I preordered her Nendo the first moment I could — bring on May 2024!

Speaking of translated light novels you can buy right now, the first part of the Oguni no Koushaku Reijō wa Tekikoku nite Kakusei Suru light novel was just released as A Young Lady Finds Her True Calling Living with the Enemy Volume #1 by Cross Infinite World (see here). It's a solid story that doesn't overstay its welcome and Bertine's business acumen is just *chefs kiss* for those after a competent heroine.

Once the second and final part of this is out, I'd love to see Cross Infinite World pick up another short (but unrelated) PASH! Books publication, Shiitagerareta Shuusai Reijou to Ringoku no Haraguro Kenkyuusha-sama no Amayaka na Yakusou Jikkenshitsu. The web novel version was quite solid but I haven't read the printed version yet. Yeah I like science ladies, what can I say? It would be so good to keep seeing interesting titles for girls and women being picked up for English release because I tire of isekai villainess stories (which imho peaked years ago with Watashi no Oshi wa Akuyaku Reijou) and there are some great little tales out there that do things a bit differently & just need to be shown to the right audience.

I'm so excited for Metallic Rouge in early January! While it used to be that getting an original property from BONES was always exciting, it has been a while since they've created anything I've really cared about but I'm hoping this will break the drought. If a show has Izubuchi, Kawamoto, Yamada contributing then you know I've got to be there. Plus a couple of lady leads in a SF setting? Trailers with some great action and music? I'm trying not to get my hopes up too much but I'm keen to give it a shot. If it isn't for me at least I can say I've given it a chance, right?

I've been terrible at sharing the latest about this year's Silent Möbius anniversary, but I'm not a news blogger and frankly very few people care so eh y'know, whatever. BUT I figured I should say something about FAIRYTALE PARFUM releasing scents for the key members of AMP this month (though Mana has been totally forgotten, it seems). You can check out the range here, there will be a launch event on the 10th of December in Shinjuku too.

Asamiya drew new artwork for the bottles and while I'd love to get Kiddy's perfume that nods towards her bodily acceptance in its notes, importing that stuff is just too much of a pain so I've settled for a tiny acrylic stand of Kiddy instead. Sadly there's no option to buy a set of stands so I just went "whatever" and grabbed just my best girl. Anyway, if you'd like a tiny acrylic stand of an AMP girl with extra weird proportions then make sure you check out the FAIRYTALE PARFUM website.