YouTube Video On That Stupid Thing Logan Paul Did (And Why It Matters)
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anime_mangaHonestly, if you're interested in manga collecting at all, you should watch this video.
A month of Kidd Pirates [One Piece] Sketches - 2026 April
May. 2nd, 2026 06:01 pmmekachu04 posting in anime_manga
Fandom: One Piece
Author/Artist: Mekachu04
Title: April Punk Aibou Sketches
Pairing: Eustass Kidd & Killer
Rating: gen to adult. please mind the nsfw thumbnails
Word Count: art
Highlight for Warnings: *got some adult peices but no genitalia this month.*
Disclaimer: Kidd, Killer, the Kidd Pirates and other characters belong to the world of One Piece by Eiichiro Oda. I'm just playing in the sandbox
AN: I'm trying to draw something everyday. So most of these are drawn at about 3-5am in about an hour or two at work during the down time.
( thumbnails linking to each day under cut )
Fanatical Kodansha manga bundle
Apr. 30th, 2026 04:57 pmmythicmistress posting in anime_mangaFanatical has just launched a manga bundle featuring Vinland Saga, Altair: A Record of Battles, and Issak. https://www.fanatical.com/en/bundle/heroes-and-legends-featuring-vinland-saga-manga-bundle
Admittedly, this isn't as good as buying from Humble Bundle (no charities involved), but the first tier here does include the first volume of each for just $1.00 total. The total 54 volume bundle (tier 3) is $24.99.
(please let me know if I'm overstepping...)
Admittedly, this isn't as good as buying from Humble Bundle (no charities involved), but the first tier here does include the first volume of each for just $1.00 total. The total 54 volume bundle (tier 3) is $24.99.
(please let me know if I'm overstepping...)
Journey to Bad Vibes Mall
Apr. 29th, 2026 10:06 pmcimoreneToday I finally made my expedition to the mall with rancid vibes! The plan was: 5 min. walk ➡️ 33 min. on bus ➡️ 10 min. walk to suburban shopping center.
Right away, on the way there I missed my bus stop and had to walk back a kilometer from the next one. The signs pointing the way to the mall just petered out when the huge fortress came in sight, and so did the sidewalk; and having never approached it other than by car, I couldn't see a way in. I ended up hiking around half of it and walking into the parking garage, and I arrived overheated even though it was cold and so windy my eyes kept watering behind my sunglasses.
At the mall I did find the main things I was looking for, but I also got confused trying to say my phone number out loud in Finnish and could only recover it by writing it; and also later got flustered and went to a café with mediocre baked goods instead of the bakery I had been planning to eat at. There were TWO sets of charity facers camped out in the main intersections of the mall, too, which added random anxiety that the day didn't need.
When leaving I found the route back to the sidewalk, which requires walking through the grounds of the apartment block next to the mall. (There's a taxi stand on the opposite side, so you must be able to reach a sidewalk there, but that's useless for my bus route.) My hip and knee both started feeling slightly stiff as I was walking back to the bus, something that has never happened when I was out walking before, and I had to slow down a bit because I couldn't stop and do range of motion exercises there. And then I got lost trying to follow the map to the bus stop, and ended up at the wrong bus stop and had to look up directions from there, and missed the bus, but that all took so long that by the time I got to the right bus stop the next one was less than 10 minutes away.
The part of the edge of Turku where this mall is has very little pedestrian infrastructure - it's highways and overpasses and no shade and parking lots. It does have paved sidewalk/bike paths beside the road, but they are plainly a grudging afterthought. It FEELS hostile there. In future if I need to go to a mall by bus I will definitely take the hour trip to downtown Turku instead, even though that will mean lots more people around. (And if you're going by car, Mylly is a much nicer mall than Skanssi.)
Right away, on the way there I missed my bus stop and had to walk back a kilometer from the next one. The signs pointing the way to the mall just petered out when the huge fortress came in sight, and so did the sidewalk; and having never approached it other than by car, I couldn't see a way in. I ended up hiking around half of it and walking into the parking garage, and I arrived overheated even though it was cold and so windy my eyes kept watering behind my sunglasses.
At the mall I did find the main things I was looking for, but I also got confused trying to say my phone number out loud in Finnish and could only recover it by writing it; and also later got flustered and went to a café with mediocre baked goods instead of the bakery I had been planning to eat at. There were TWO sets of charity facers camped out in the main intersections of the mall, too, which added random anxiety that the day didn't need.
When leaving I found the route back to the sidewalk, which requires walking through the grounds of the apartment block next to the mall. (There's a taxi stand on the opposite side, so you must be able to reach a sidewalk there, but that's useless for my bus route.) My hip and knee both started feeling slightly stiff as I was walking back to the bus, something that has never happened when I was out walking before, and I had to slow down a bit because I couldn't stop and do range of motion exercises there. And then I got lost trying to follow the map to the bus stop, and ended up at the wrong bus stop and had to look up directions from there, and missed the bus, but that all took so long that by the time I got to the right bus stop the next one was less than 10 minutes away.
The part of the edge of Turku where this mall is has very little pedestrian infrastructure - it's highways and overpasses and no shade and parking lots. It does have paved sidewalk/bike paths beside the road, but they are plainly a grudging afterthought. It FEELS hostile there. In future if I need to go to a mall by bus I will definitely take the hour trip to downtown Turku instead, even though that will mean lots more people around. (And if you're going by car, Mylly is a much nicer mall than Skanssi.)
Nut brittle
Apr. 28th, 2026 09:00 pmcimoreneAnybody have a favorite recipe for nut brittle? I guess I'm just never going to be able to buy it in a store again and making it would be much easier than ordering it from far away.
The cat separation dilemma
Apr. 28th, 2026 07:47 pmcimoreneJust imagining talking to a new therapist or new friendly acquaintance, like...
"Oh? Why do you think you've been in that depressed rut for so long?"
"Well, I haven't been in the same room as my wife in two years because of our special-needs cat."
(I have been, but not to sleep, and usually not for more than half an hour or an hour at a time.)
This situation all happened a bit at a time and seemed reasonable all along, like the boiling frogs. But taking a step back and looking at it every now and then is disorienting (and even more depressing).
"Oh? Why do you think you've been in that depressed rut for so long?"
"Well, I haven't been in the same room as my wife in two years because of our special-needs cat."
(I have been, but not to sleep, and usually not for more than half an hour or an hour at a time.)
This situation all happened a bit at a time and seemed reasonable all along, like the boiling frogs. But taking a step back and looking at it every now and then is disorienting (and even more depressing).
Tuna Meltdown by roger-rozander (SFW)
Apr. 28th, 2026 08:48 pmmific posting in fanart_recsFandom: Heated Rivalry
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Shane Hollander (/Ilya Rozanov)
Content Notes/Warnings: sound might be a bit loud!
Medium: digital art, made into a gif
Artist on DW/LJ: n/a
Artist Website/Gallery: roger-rozander on tumblr
Why this piece is awesome: An amusing gif made from the artist's digital art, celebrating the infamous tuna meltdown. Make sure to check out this artist's portrait of Ilya with a red background too - it's a stunner.
Link: Tuna Meltdown, backup link here
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Shane Hollander (/Ilya Rozanov)
Content Notes/Warnings: sound might be a bit loud!
Medium: digital art, made into a gif
Artist on DW/LJ: n/a
Artist Website/Gallery: roger-rozander on tumblr
Why this piece is awesome: An amusing gif made from the artist's digital art, celebrating the infamous tuna meltdown. Make sure to check out this artist's portrait of Ilya with a red background too - it's a stunner.
Link: Tuna Meltdown, backup link here
Witch Hat Atelier + Sailor Moon Icons
Apr. 27th, 2026 07:21 pmlinky posting in anime_mangaPosted both some Witch Hat Atelier and Sailor Moon icons to my icon comm! 16 icons in total. :)
Find them here atchemyxstory
Find them here at
chemyxstoryBTS: i had to do it by kaseystitches (SFW)
Apr. 27th, 2026 11:23 amglitteryv posting in fanart_recsFandom: BTS
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Jeon Jungkook
Content Notes/Warnings: N/A
Medium: Cross stich
Artist on DW/LJ: N/A
Artist Website/Gallery:![[twitter.com profile]](https://p2.dreamwidth.org/e0caa790ec10/-/twitter.com/favicon.ico)
kaseystitches
Why this piece is awesome: It's a cheeky interpretation of Jungkook's recent TikTok. It made me smile.
Link: i had to do it
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Jeon Jungkook
Content Notes/Warnings: N/A
Medium: Cross stich
Artist on DW/LJ: N/A
Artist Website/Gallery:
Why this piece is awesome: It's a cheeky interpretation of Jungkook's recent TikTok. It made me smile.
Link: i had to do it
Forgot one
Apr. 25th, 2026 07:38 ampetrea_mitchell posting in anime_mangaOne other show I'm watching this anime season: Nippon Sangoku: The Three Nations of the Crimson Sun. It's set in a future Japan which, for various reasons that should not be thought too hard about, has regressed to a feudal-ish society but with early 20th century technology. The first episode leaned hard into feudal-level corruption and cruelty, so despite the excellent production values I did not plan to watch any more of it, but another viewer at my favorite anime Discord server assured me that episode 2 was a lot less like that.
There are probably a lot of references to Japanese history and/or The Romance of the Three Kingdoms that are going over my head, but that's okay for now.
There are probably a lot of references to Japanese history and/or The Romance of the Three Kingdoms that are going over my head, but that's okay for now.
Search maintenance
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dw_maintenanceHappy Wednesday!
I'm taking search offline sometime today to upgrade the server to a new instance type. It should be down for a day or so -- sorry for the inconvenience. If you're curious, the existing search machine is over 10 years old and was starting to accumulate a decade of cruft...!
Also, apparently these older machines cost more than twice what the newer ones cost, on top of being slower. Trying to save a bit of maintenance and cost, and hopefully a Wednesday is okay!
Edited: The other cool thing is that this also means that the search index will be effectively realtime afterwards... no more waiting a few minutes for the indexer to catch new content.
Drawing Ilya at sunset by christianpuppetshow (SFW)
Apr. 22nd, 2026 08:27 pmmific posting in fanart_recsFandom: Heated Rivalry
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Ilya Rozanov
Content Notes/Warnings: none
Medium: digital art
Artist on DW/LJ: n/a
Artist Website/Gallery: christianpuppetshow HR art on tumblr
Why this piece is awesome: Gorgeous colours in this nearly single-colour painting of Ilya by the lake, bathed in sunset.
Link: Drawing Ilya at sunset, backup link here
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Ilya Rozanov
Content Notes/Warnings: none
Medium: digital art
Artist on DW/LJ: n/a
Artist Website/Gallery: christianpuppetshow HR art on tumblr
Why this piece is awesome: Gorgeous colours in this nearly single-colour painting of Ilya by the lake, bathed in sunset.
Link: Drawing Ilya at sunset, backup link here
Should I have cleaned out my bookmarks before? Yes, but now's not the time!
Apr. 21st, 2026 04:20 pmcimoreneI finally got around to reinstalling Linux Mint on my laptop last week so that I could back up the last two years of photos. Going through the photos of 2024-2025 was wild. Wax and I have both been in such a fog of depression that we sometimes barely remembered the things in them, and it all feels vague and like a long time ago. Haha, great.
Anyway, the process of updating my laptop didn't go as planned.
First Tristana threw the external on the floor while it was in the act of copying, thus more-or-less bricking it (a computer repair store MIGHT be able to recover the data). It's possible that there wasn't very much on it that we don't have elsewhere, but I'm not quite sure without taking apart both desktops to access my hds from Wax's to check.
And then signing into Firefox went wrong and it failed to sync my bookmarks, even though they're all there still in the mobile version. The backup of my ff profile that contained the bookmarks was on the external but had not copied before The Incident. So I need to try removing and reinstalling the browser before I have to give up and move them manually, because apparently even though sync refusing to work is a not-uncommon issue, going by the support threads everywhere, they actually removed the "export bookmarks" button! ( Read more... )
Needless to say, I did consider switching browsers, but that feels like too many more steps to tackle at the moment.
Anyway, the process of updating my laptop didn't go as planned.
First Tristana threw the external on the floor while it was in the act of copying, thus more-or-less bricking it (a computer repair store MIGHT be able to recover the data). It's possible that there wasn't very much on it that we don't have elsewhere, but I'm not quite sure without taking apart both desktops to access my hds from Wax's to check.
And then signing into Firefox went wrong and it failed to sync my bookmarks, even though they're all there still in the mobile version. The backup of my ff profile that contained the bookmarks was on the external but had not copied before The Incident. So I need to try removing and reinstalling the browser before I have to give up and move them manually, because apparently even though sync refusing to work is a not-uncommon issue, going by the support threads everywhere, they actually removed the "export bookmarks" button! ( Read more... )
Needless to say, I did consider switching browsers, but that feels like too many more steps to tackle at the moment.
