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bo @2o23oo.bsky.social · 2h

if i was gonna splurge i wouldve gotten a cousin cover+book set... maybe next year...

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bo @2o23oo.bsky.social · 2h

made my hobonichi purchases... i'm being frugal this year...

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bo @2o23oo.bsky.social · 1d

sending positive healing energies to your mom (and to you)

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 3d

this girl Gloria who got into my local newspaper for seeing Titanic 50 times in Rome and who I have remembered since reading about her in 1998

Published March 14, 1998|Updated Sept. 12, 2005

A 12-year-old from Rome, identified only as Gloria, goes to the movies every day. Same time, same place, same movie: Titanic. So far, the girl has seen the hit film about 50 times, leading the pack of Italy's fervent Titanic fans. And she's still not tired of it. She even has cats named Jack and Rose. The young movie buff was discovered by the newspaper La Repubblica. "She comes to the 9 o'clock feature every night," said Giancarlo Malferrari, the owner of the only movie theater in Castelfranco Emilia, a town of 11,000 in central Italy. "And every weekend, she watches two shows in a row." Now the theater has started saving her favorite seat and even letting her in free. Neither he nor La Repubblica used the girl's last name, citing Italy's privacy law. Gloria told La Repubblica it isn't heartthrob Leonardo DiCaprio that attracts her, but the character he plays: Jack Dawson, a struggling artist who wins his passage on the Titanic in a poker game. "Jack is cuter than Leo," she said. "And it's for real; it's a true story. That's what makes it so beautiful." Gloria's mother, a cleaning woman who works at night, says she hasn't seen Titanic yet but she's not worried about her daughter's obsession. "She's not doing anything bad," she told the newspaper, adding that Gloria has to do her homework first every night.

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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 16d

a spider can fly on a current of air

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bo @2o23oo.bsky.social · 9d

#r99 i'm playing SP5... matilda and sotheby is such a funny dynamic. sotheby respects matilda so much and matilda is basking in it 😭

bo @2o23oo.bsky.social · 9d

#art some hades 2 doodles

A grayscale sketch page of various characters from Hades 2. There are sketches of Melinoe, Hermes, and Zagreus.

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bo @2o23oo.bsky.social · 10d

non-zero % chance of moomin & snufkin kiss. who said that

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bo @2o23oo.bsky.social · 10d

if this was announced in 2019 on tumblr people would have died

Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 10d

Rebecca Sugar (Steven Universe) to direct a "Moomins" animated feature film.
variety.com/2025/film/ne...

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bo @2o23oo.bsky.social · 10d

going back to studying coding.... it's fine but my brain is mush and terrible

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Reimena Yee 🦇 @reimenayee.com · Dec 21

A new translation was recently published of a seminal manga/comics studies essay in 1995 that documents and explains manga iconography with 120 examples. It's so exciting to see a precursor of what I'm doing rn with the Comics Devices Library
www.japanesestudies.org.uk/ejcjs/vol24/...

Abstract: In the following translation of an important essay from seminal Manga Studies work How to Read Manga (Manga no yomikata, 1995), manga creator and editor Takekuma Kentarō examines the full range of manga iconography (manpu) and visual effects in this sweeping survey of over 120 concrete samples. He calls these “shape metaphors” (keiyu) and classifies them into two main branches: stand-alone icons and picture-dependent metaphorical effects. If a giant sweat mark has been drawn on the back of a character’s head, one can tell that he is in a panic just from seeing that back figure even though this image is unrealistic. This is a type of visual metaphor and the profundity of such expressions are distinct to comic books. Takekuma’s “shape metaphors” have such refined functions that express the situation or the state of mind of a character, often efficiently and even humorously. Through their use, comic book artists have been able to liberate their stories from the bare bones of plot and create additional layers of psychology and mood all through these seemingly nonsensical and excessive graphic marks. For the first time, this translation presents in English the writings of this seminal manga artist, humorist, critic, and scholar and provides an encyclopedic-like guide to some of manga’s most interesting and irrepressible visual tropes.

A set of expressive lines used in manga to denote motion and feeling.

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Forest @yoursforest.bsky.social · 20d

Idk if you guys know but the japanese film festival provides free japanese movies every month you can stream on their site its actually pretty cool en.jff.jpf.go.jp ive seen some good movies on there and they have subtitles and everything

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bo @2o23oo.bsky.social · 13d

i guess i'll check blue proton

bo @2o23oo.bsky.social · 13d

the kobo clara bw is out of stock on the official store :/

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bo @2o23oo.bsky.social · 16d

sometimes you have to put your guys into various situations. for your mental health

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bo @2o23oo.bsky.social · 16d

i'm currently going through STUFF (nothing life-alteringly bad....yet [?]) so I have been indulging in original writing. it is not ready for public viewing and not sure if it ever will be but I am enjoying the process

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bo @2o23oo.bsky.social · 17d

I miss you fudrilshi.....

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bo @2o23oo.bsky.social · 17d

can fudrilshi please come to bluesky

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 17d

In honor of Eric Adams dropping out, I'm now resharing my all-time favorite bit of Eric Adams content

for years, this thing was like my video from The Ring, where I had to get other people to watch it in order for me to stay alive

enjoy

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk2W...

Sen. Eric Adams: Combating Gun Violence

YouTube video by New York Daily News

www.youtube.com

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bo @2o23oo.bsky.social · 21d

happy hades 2 day for everyone who celebrates (me included). if i am unreachable for the next week or two it's bc of that

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spam, The Sublime Dip @spammm.bsky.social · 21d

yes please spend time with actual people in the real world and don't think the younger posters you don't understand are indicative of the corruption/failure/stupidity of the youths at large

Minovsky @minovskyarticle.bsky.social · 21d

I see people my age already falling into moral panics about the youth and then I actually meet young people and they're largely the same as they ever were. We have to chill.

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bo @2o23oo.bsky.social · 22d

👀 I would be interested.... but tell me later when I get my reader LOLLLLL

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bo @2o23oo.bsky.social · 22d

nice! I already read a lot on my phone but I like the idea of having a dedicated reading device. im glad it works for you! I will probably end up buying the kobo clara since they seem to be the most easy for sideloading files (which i have a lot of lmao) and integrated public library functions

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bo @2o23oo.bsky.social · 22d

currently looking into the kobo clara BW or color... very no-frills anything outside of Amazon is a plus lmao

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