self love is radical 🤘

it doesnt interact with the API at all, it scrapes the metadata to make sure they get as little as possible.

THE GRAY BAR HAS RETURNED! GLORIOUS DAY!!!!!!!!!!

i don't remember what features it has but I'm pretty sure it gets on with ublock & does screen-off play

under lake huron // kincardine, canada // june 2005 // ©

exploring a mossy creek bed

These are ancient and powerful words inscribed on this wall

you broke the seal… she has been released

Sony WM-F51, 1987

low tide rising // tunnel beach, oregon, july 2025

it wont let me do shit bc i apparently have 81 gigs of apps clogging my c drive, but my largest app is 0.4gb?????? its not system applications either because system is its own segment of storage. wadda hell are you talking about

todd howard im fucking coming for you

"thank you random microsoft customer support agent" we all say in unison

Amazing wplace sighting

First time crossdressing?  I take aLL THE SELFIES.

I'm so incredibly grateful to have friends, family, and coworkers that are supprtive in this process and just... wow, so proud of myself for getting here 💖

image language is wild

While it can look funny out of context to somebody not immersed in the style, the underlying logic is actually an attempt to support telling more serious stories. In the 50s and 60s, when practically all manga was light comedy, the style was much more cartoony and characters had a wide variety of probosces, and characters often showed their emotions the same way that they’d be shown in looney toons: dramatic and physically-impossible symbolic mutations of the entire body. The “bishojo style” that is the primary stylistic influence for almost all anime and manga today is the synthesis of two movements happening in manga in the 70s: shojo comics, aimed at teenage girls, were beginning to get emotionally and intellectually complex (in part because the genre, being dismissed as trash, was not getting much oversight from editors and censors, and became a place where politically dissident women, many of them lesbians, thrived and did the artistic experiments that had been getting them kicked out of theater and literary magazines), and to support these stories that were focused in the inferiority of characters and their relationships, a style where bodies were simplified & faces were made larger and more expressive was developed; at the same time, some mostly-male manga artists were annoyed by the lightness and child-centrism of manga and started a movement for darker-and-grittier comics called gekiga, where characters were drawn with realistic proportions and both the style & content was influenced largely by American action movies. These two movements merged into the bishojo style, which was used to sell more complex manga to older teens and adults; “bishojo” means “beautiful woman” & reflects that these comics were sold to men through the sex appeal of attractive characters & to women based on their grace and fashion sense (or at least, that was how many people thought about it at the time). In this new bishojo style, it would be normal to have serious and grounded dramas – and suddenly seeing a nose pop out of somebody’s face can break immersion. (As late as 1995, some anime kept more realistic nose sizes and suffered for it – ex., Escaflowne.)