Afternoon all, hope you're having a good day. The above was posted by WHA's German Publisher, Egmont Manga, following the Leipzip Book Fair that Shirahama just attended, and I'd seen the wonderful WitchHatUpdates account on twitter share these screenshots and wanted to share it here too as I whole heartedly agree with the publisher here. By purchasing from official sources or second-hand from fans selling old copies at reasonable prices we can keep our fan community low on scalper behaviour. This will be extremely critical when the anime comes out and we see an influx of fans and the opportunists looking to exploit their wallets. This is especially true of extremely limited items such as event-specific goods - it's one thing to buy an old artbook that was available for online preorders at double price, it's entirely another to encourage physical spaces to be swarmed with people looking to make money in the literal place where a fan could have been.

English ALT text is below, if someone would be willing to transcribe the German I can also add that.

[ID: A screenshot of an instagram post from Egmont Manga's account (egmontmanga). It consists of white text on a black background, arranged into 2 columns. The text reads: "Hello everyone! We've received messages that some people want to sell the trade fair edition of 'Atelier of Witch Hat' at exorbitant prices; one person even sold a signed shikishi, which, to be honest, disappoints us. "The bad news is: we can't do anything about it. [Emoji of a right pointing arrow, to direct you to the next column.] "The good news is: you can! Simply by doing nothing. If you stick together as a community and no one responds to these offers, these people will be left with their offers. "Using books and shikishi in this way is neither in our interest nor the artist's interest. The same applies here as concert tickets: don't buy from third parties at exorbitant prices. "Best regards, your Egmont Manga Team [hand-heart emoji]" END ID]

German ID (transcribed by @/failedmyturingtest, thank you!)

Meanwhile Britta is on a date with a lesbian who is actually a straight girl who think she's a lesbian and somehow the whole subplot just highlights that Annie is the most lesbian-coded. The way she's nervous and fascinated by lesbians and trailing after Britta like a lost puppy. Her interactions with the not-lesbian's "not lesbian" bff.

your song is #22 🔀 the promise by when in rome

so, fun fact, this song is actually in my wrapped and on my abedison playlist! because it's on the lisa frankenstein (queen of my heart, favorite movie of 2024, etc.) soundtrack, and lisa frankenstein is such a deeply, powerfully correct abedison movie night film. i believe this with my entire chest.

does it have anything to do with what i actually wrote? definitely not, but that coincidence is frankly the only reasonable explanation i have for why i immediately came up with an idea, spiraled, expanded the idea by 500%, and ultimately wrote a wholeass multi-chapter fic instead of just, like, a normal prompt.

which makes the prompt fill kinda too long to include here. i'm so, so sorry. but here's chapter one!