#cool article

an ensemble with hints of Janet Jackson [...] and which Tyler described to me as both "Captain Crunch" and "a gay dictator."

my new favorite thing is stumbling onto unique dissertations about how the tanuki is just a weird little creature

Was doing research for a drawing and stumbled upon this article detailing an illustrated satire of the westernization of Meiji-era Japan, through the lens of several weird gags featuring weirdly anthro raccoon dogs. As a person who had multiple (non-consecutive) points in their life defined by looking on the internet at galleries of ancient furries bandying their "magic raccoon pouches," this page turned me luminescent - for one, I thought I'd already seen every preserved instance of the subject there was. Reading through this gave me a very specific flavor of nerd solidarity by commenting 'this is like that scene in Pom Poko where' and 'they totally copied this idea from Kuniyoshi's prints' seconds after I would think them.

If there’s one theme that runs through the season it’s of Verstappen seemingly being prepared to risk a crash to stop Hamilton overtaking him. In San Marino, Spain, Brazil, Saudi Arabia and on Sunday in Abu Dhabi, Hamilton had to take avoiding action to prevent a collision – though it was only in Saudi Arabia that Verstappen was penalised. How, many ask, would a Black person be treated if they drove the same way as Verstappen?