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[ladyerynn]

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[throesofincreasingwonder]

"A story doesn't need a theme in order to be good" I'm only saying this once but a theme isn't some secret coded message an author weaves into a piece so that your English teacher can talk about Death or Family. A theme is a summary of an idea in the work. If the story is "Susan went grocery shopping and saw a weird bird" then it might have themes like 'birds don't belong in grocery stores' or 'nature is interesting and worth paying attention to' or 'small things can be worth hearing about.' Those could be the themes of the work. It doesn't matter if the author intended them or not, because reading is collaborative and the text gets its meaning from the reader (this is what "death of the author" means).

Every work has themes in it, and not just the ones your teachers made you read in high school. Stories that are bad or clearly not intended to have deep messages still have themes. It is inherent in being a story. All stories have themes, even if those themes are shallow, because stories are sentences connected together for the purpose of expressing ideas, and ideas are all that themes are.

[thyinum]

*gently taps the sign*

Useful post (mostly about hanfu but with a mention of kimono)

I’m not that confident about hanbok so feel free to correct me

[cirwedh]

The very Dragon Age experience of looking for images to make a post and then finding that post already made.

[hichter-art]

THE SONIC X DC CROSSOVER IS OUT!! (And I love it!!!!)

SONIC, my dude, my guy, please never change!

The pseudo beef between these two😭

Also I love how you get so much dialogue between the characters when they are all fighting or getting to know each other and for Batman and Shadow it’s mostly:

*understanding silence*

[tshifty]

"use ai to summarize research articles" "use ai to generate conversations" "use ai to generate art" "use ai to write your emails" the ai-fueled sanitization of basic human cognition should horrify you actually

[catastrophic-crisis]

Today, August 2nd, game magazine Game Informer was revealed to be ending, suddenly. All who worked there appear to have been laid off in the middle of working on their next issue of the magazine. Their website is now just a landing page announcing the end of the magazine, eliminating access to the years of online content, some exclusive to the website.

There are various online efforts to preserve both the digital and physical work done by the many talented people who have been laid off.

Fuck Game Stop, who owns the company.

Blake Hester 🧵:

The Life And Career Of John Johanas (director of Evil Within 2) | Three Days With Bokeh Game Studio (Slitterhead) | Exploring Caves With The Creator Of Spelunky (hosted on Game Informer YouTube) | The Bully 2 You'll Never Play | Life and death With Ikumi Nakamura (formerly Tango Gameworks, now Unseen) | Exploring Shibuya with Tango Gameworks | The Making of Humanity, 2023's Best Puzzle Game (hosted on Game Informer YouTube)

[rouge-the-bat]

when i see people against using the term transandrophobia its all "just men trying to steal the spotlight from women again" "trans men just keep bandwagoning on things trans women are already doing" "they dont experience things as badly as trans women do" "terfs focus more on trans women so we should be talking just about that" "theyre just using this to say that TRANS WOMEN are their opressors!! its just transmisogyny!" "a bunch of TME people and theyfabs trying to say they have it worse"

then i see people that actually talk about transandrophobia and theyre just. in their own communities discussing the problems they face, trying to get people to not completely ignore their issues, and that they deserve to be treated decently and not as evil or that theyve become worse or betraying women for transitioning into their proper gender.

i think yall who hate these discussions are just falling into queer terminology discourse and oppression olympics and infighting (and radfem juice for sure), all of which we say again and again does nothing but help people that want all of us dead. this shit is stupid as fuck

[dinodorks]

[ The skull is mounted on a custom steel armature, which allows for it to be seen all the way around. ]

"After seven years of work, the best preserved and most complete triceratops skull coming from Canada — also known as the "Calli" specimen — is on display for the first time since being found in 2014 at the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller, Alta. A museum news release calls the specimen "unique" because of where it was discovered, the age of the rock around it, and how well it was preserved. Following the floods that tore through Alberta about 10 years ago, the Royal Tyrrell staff were engaged in flood mitigation paleontology work when the triceratops skull was discovered in 2014. Triceratops fossils are rare in Canada. This skull was found in the foothills of southwestern Alberta — an area where dinosaur fossils in general are uncommon — and nicknamed "Calli" after Callum Creek, the stream where it was discovered. Transported via helicopter in giant, heavy chunks, the skull and most of the jaw pieces were extracted over the course of a month in 2015. The rest of the triceratops' skeleton was not found. Roaming the earth roughly 68 to 69 million years ago, the museum says this skull was buried in stages, evident by the fossilization process.  "Paleontologists know this because the specimen was found in different rock layers, and the poorly preserved horn tips suggest they were exposed to additional weathering and erosion," reads a museum blog about the triceratops skull.  "The rest of the skeleton likely washed away," noting that the lower jaws were found downstream. From 2016 to 2023, Royal Tyrrell technician Ian Macdonald spent over 6,500 hours preparing this fossil, removing over 815 kilograms of rock that encased the skull. This triceratops skull is the largest skull ever prepared at the museum and its third largest on display."

Read more: "Canada's biggest and best triceratops skull on display in Alberta" by Lily Dupuis.

[vimflam]

[hamyilton]

Can't believe Ian Leslie no homo'd Achilles and Patroclus 💀

[dontforgetukraine]

Kharkiv's Faktor-Druk printing house has resumed operation after being severely damaged by a Russian missile strike on May 23. The facility is only partially restored, and they have shifted focus to printing essential educational materials such as textbooks for the new school year.

According to Tatiana Hryniuk, the general director, damages from the Russian missile strike exceed €10 million, with losses still being calculated. The attack claimed seven lives and destroyed almost 100,000 books.

Source: Kharkiv’s Faktor-Druk printing house resumes operations after Russian missile strike

[gossamerufansubs]

One page about Eiyu Club film "Ausencia Memoria" from HEROINE magazine Volume 2 (2004). The film is the sequel to "Evaroid Seria". This edition focused on independent heroine tokusatsu production companies such as Eiyu Club, Center Island, and more.

English translation below the cut:

[White text on large image of Sharan and Shion on right]

The ultimate androids are here!

[Red text below large image, with smaller black text below]

Ausencia Memoria

"Ausencia Memoria" was created, set in the world of "[Evaroid] Seria". Many people have become fans of the series due to its stunning design and exquisite drama.

[Text below middle-top image of red and white Evaroid “Shion”]

Shion 

[Text with red design behind it] Indie Heroine Special! 

A female android with high defensive capabilities who was prototyped by Dr. Izumi during the development of Evaroids. She uses the same chassis and basic parts as Sharan, making them have a "sister"-like relationship. After completion, she was used in various tests, and eventually became the basis for the Seria series. After her use was completed, a destructive test was supposed to be conducted on her under the guise of a durability experiment, but she was eventually sold to Dr. Izumi. She was given pseudo-human memories and lived a happy life as Izumi Hinako, but after Dr. Izumi was killed by the Executive Destruction Federation, she was unable to receive regular maintenance and gradually began to question her true body. In terms of performance, she has the excess capacity unique to a prototype and is highly capable. (Appears in “Ausencia Memoria”)

[Text to the left of the purple and silver android in the bottom right]

Sharan

A high-combat-capability female-type prototype android developed by Dr. Kamikaze [TN: also called “Jinpu” in the movie] during the Evaroid development period. Sharing many components with Shion, she is considered her "sister." (However, since Sharan was completed three months earlier, she is regarded as the elder sister.) Following various performance evaluations, Shion was chosen as the production model for mass manufacturing, and Sharan was initially scheduled for dismantling. However, under the pretext of using her for additional combat function development, she was handed over to Dr. Kamikaze. Dr. Kamikaze eventually defected and became a key figure in the radical anti-robot organization the Executive Destruction Federation. Yet, for some reason, he treated Sharan as his own daughter and cherished her. After Kamikaze’s death, Sharan, despite being a robot herself, chose to carry on her "father’s" will and embarked on a path of robot destruction, plagued by the contradictions of her own existence. (Featured in: Auscensia Memoria)

[Text in orange box]

Data

Ausencia Memoria (2003)

During the early days of Evaroid development, two prototype androids were manufactured using the same chassis. After their trial period ended, they were handed over to their respective developers. Hinako, later known as Shion, was implanted with artificial human memories and raised as Dr. Izumi’s daughter. Meanwhile, Sharan underwent further enhancements and modifications under Dr. Kamikaze [TN: also called “Jinpu” in the movie]. With Kamikaze’s defection and the formation of the Executive Destruction Federation, the two sister units found themselves on opposing sides, bound by a relentless fate. Shion is shocked and devastated upon learning she is an android. Sharan, an android who, despite her nature, inherited her father’s will and dedicated herself to destroying robots. As the ambitions of the Executive Destruction Federation and PSS intertwine, an even harsher fate awaits these two tormented androids.

[Top right image of Shion kneeling over Sharan]

Shion's appeal is her cuteness. She has a unique charm that male heroes never have. Her curves are also wonderfully sexy.

[Second from top image of Shion jumping]

This is the way girls often jump when they're happy. Male heroes never do it like this. Cute!

[Third from the top, group shot of Shion and Sharan in suits, the face actresses flanking the suit actresses]

The four of them lined up after transforming. From the left: Mio Misaki as Luna Kamikaze, Sharan, Shion, and Sayaka Kano as Hinako Izumi. The setting is that the girls flanking Sharan and Shion transform into them. With double the amount of usual heroines, there's plenty to see.

[Bottom right, series of four small images of Sharan doing an action sequence]

Sharan is blown away in an explosion scene! The heroine, who lives side by side with danger, straddles the line between life and death. How she’s blown away looks so cool!

[Below image of 3 people: Shion, Sayaka Kano [Shion’s face actress], and Sharan]

We had the two actresses, who were acting out their pre-transformation poses, wear the suits and take a commemorative photo. They look cool even without masks, and the bodysuits make them so sexy.

[Bottom right blue and black text]

Free Video Group

Eiyu Club [TN: Also in English, the nearly illegible font]

Costumed Heroines in Danger!!

[magnoliasforyourmedic]

I just read an article where a WWII medic by the name of John Burch of the 82nd Airborne Division discussed just how troubling of an environment the Battle of the Bulge was for a medic.

Under the Geneva Conventions medics were not allowed to carry weapons and were not supposed to be targeted. “The Germans didn’t respect at all,” Burch said.

Burch spent a lot of time at the hospital that had been set up in Reims after the Germans had just been ejected from the town, but he said that no one knew where the front lines were.

As the battle progressed, the wounded continued to flood in, as did some unwanted guests.

“Germans were dressed in American uniforms over their own and were dropping into areas by parachute.”

“(Once) some came in two ambulances dressed in American uniform and greatly hurt the medical staff of the 101st – they murdered really, the medics and we found out then it was not wise to be known as a medic.”

Let that set in.

German dressed in American uniforms hijacked ambulances in order to infiltrate the hospital, slaughtering doctors and medics.

The enemy was walking amongst them, purposefully targeting soldiers whose only mission for the war was to help their own.

To say it was “not wise to be known as a medic” was an understatement. The situation was so bad, in fact, that the general of the 101st Airborne offered some advice:

“The general of the 101st met with our commander and said, he couldn’t order us to carry weapons, but he advised that it was up to us. So, we taped over our steel helmets that had red crosses on them and hid our identification and were given pistols. We didn’t really know how to use them, but … we never put on our red crosses again.”

I wish they would have included a scene that shows this kind of thing because I think having to watch these unarmed angels of the battlefield cover up a symbol that was supposed to protect them would have been super powerful.

[oediex]

This is the only important thing I've taken away from that Game Informer article