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Bee @letmebebee.bsky.social · 17m

COMICS RULE

A psychic manifestation of hate from a bubble boy who entered a manga competition attempts to murder a competition winner while yelling “AND BY THE WAY, DID I TELL YOU HOW MUCH I HATE YOUR CRAPPY MANGA?”

Bee @letmebebee.bsky.social · 21m

Oh good, a literal murder mystery in Spawn centring around a not-tokyopop rising star manga contest. I knew demons were involved with that blasted company.

Al Simmons’ brother Marc reports on how all the victims in a case were award winners in that ‘Tokyoblast Rising Talent Manga Competition’.

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Bee @letmebebee.bsky.social · 9h

My family pleading with me to stop listening to Chumbawamba every minute of the day, as I once again queue up Anarchy and Slap with a manic grin on my tortured face.

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Bee @letmebebee.bsky.social · 10h

youtu.be/foF5j4jMTI8?...
In a world full of no-ones
I am a someone

Chumbawamba Timebomb

YouTube video by Daniel Obručník

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Bee @letmebebee.bsky.social · 10h

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I Thinj I Like You Better When You're Gone is a modern pop banger, a standout track.

Reneé Rapp - I Think I Like You Better When You’re Gone (Official Lyric Video)

YouTube video by ReneeRappVEVO

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Bee @letmebebee.bsky.social · 10h

New Album List Entry!

2025 albums #70

Reneé Rapp is more open with her audience and herself than ever, and the result is some catchy pop that mostly keeps its head above the water in a constant stream of similar talent. In at 485.

Full list: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Entries 481 to 490 of Every Album Ever, Ranked.

Bite Me enters at 485, just above Japanese Breakfast's For Melancholy Brunettes, and just below syrup16g's delayed.

Fave track is I think I like you better when you're gone

The cover to Reneé Rapp's Bite Me. That's her, that is.

This album is most interesting as a comparison to Sabrina Carpenter's latest. It's maybe more polished, less messy, and less outwardly problematic than Man's Best Friend, but in lacking the cheeky charisma of Sabrina we end up with something more akin to a modern day Kelly Clarkson. Which is fine! That's a fine thing to be! But it's a bit lower on the list as a result.

This is the 775th album on the list, the 70th from 2025, and as of this writing is the 46th best in year.

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Bee @letmebebee.bsky.social · 10h

youtu.be/FEdbR0jnfvQ?...
One of the first bits of video game music I ever heard and STILL complete magic to me. A happy birthday to the greatest of all time.

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Bee @letmebebee.bsky.social · 12h

The Hine/Haberlin era of Spawn may as well be a different comic entirely to what came before, but it's also... maybe the best part of the series up to that point? More human, but still violent and weird.

Spawn punches a sin-eating thing. Haberlin's art always looks like weird cg, but in a way that kinda works

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Bee @letmebebee.bsky.social · 16h

I can't speak to in-app, but kindle volumes of formerly simulpubbed works are crisper. Ironically it's Shueisha selling WSJ as opposed to a simul library that lends itself to their editions looking great weekly and in-volume.

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Manga Properties @manga.properties · 16h

In the second half of the author profiles of the Jump Multi World 1993 booklet they feature some of their up-and-coming creators.
The first being, Yuko Asami, one of their few female artists who had their "Ten Yori Takaku!" manga cancelled in 1992.

Yuko Asami Profile - Jump Multi World 1993

From the 1993 Jump Multi World booklet, the mangaka Yuko Asami, has a profile highlighting her series in Weekly Shonen Jump.

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Woltergeist II: The Other Side @wolter.bsky.social · 17h

“I'm an invite-era poster! Discover tab tricks don't work on me! Only mutuals!"

Watto, a Star Wars character that couldn’t possibly have problematic connotations.

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Bee @letmebebee.bsky.social · 17h

Lol I didn't realise but this specific page has some major trivia regarding its background, what're the odds.

Bee @letmebebee.bsky.social · 21h

A day ending in Y, another instance of me being frustrated by how much our English-language apps compress the shit out of art, at least for simulpubs.

No idea if this’ll capture here but it’s BRUTAL

Bee @letmebebee.bsky.social · 21h

I mostly read the Japanese volume release to cover extras and the odd bit of ‘did they really say that’ investigation (not to criticise translation, but to understand how creative our pro freelancers are having to be), but every now and then you get actual art corrections! From chapter 1:

English weekly edition, a patch on the old man’s face has evaporated over a page turn

Japanese volume edition, the patch is restored

Bee @letmebebee.bsky.social · 21h

A day ending in Y, another instance of me being frustrated by how much our English-language apps compress the shit out of art, at least for simulpubs.

No idea if this’ll capture here but it’s BRUTAL

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Bee @letmebebee.bsky.social · 21h

Rounding up my research on recent Jump flop Embers ahead of the SF episode spotlighting it, and I gotta say these covers go HARD. In an alternate universe where this blew up you could do a sick embossed treatments on these.

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Bee @letmebebee.bsky.social · 1d

Oh not at all, I'm glad for the thought

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Bee @letmebebee.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, absolutely, but outside of making it a default setting it can be hard to contemplate when dumping emotions into the void.

But then this is all a selfish thought, anyway. Lots I could do to accommodate or circumvent, but it's about not wanting to. The complications of the human heart, haha.

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Bee @letmebebee.bsky.social · 1d

This is a selfish thought, I realise, but the catharsis of acknowledging in a public space that brain no good is powerful, and hampered by the performance of niceness. I'm not nice in those moments, I'm miserable. Let the whatever I am be miserable out loud.

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Bee @letmebebee.bsky.social · 1d

I want to feel more able to post aimlessly about being depressed/having a depressive episode without the obligation to entertain responses by well-meaning well-wishers. I like that they care but sometimes I just want to write down that I feel like shit without having to like responses or say thanks.

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Bee @letmebebee.bsky.social · 1d

I was kicking myself for not being able to fit Coheed in, so very glad that you've got them front and centre!

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Bee @letmebebee.bsky.social · 1d

Define your music taste in eight artists:

- Jamie T
- Los Campesinos!
- Funeral for a Friend
- Slipknot
- De La Soul
- A Tribe Called Quest
- Bruce Springsteen
- Chumbawamba

I don't know what this means.

erin plasma @plasmasword.blacksky.app · 1d

just 8 is hard when it changes like every week. hmm. ok. okay ill try

-bad brains
-j dilla
-tech itch
-burial
-SOPHIE
-prince paul ( gravediggaz, handsome boy modeling school )
-marcus intalex
-the prodigy

Em, Rat Queen 🐀🏳️‍⚧️ @ratqueenem.bsky.social · 1d

Define your music taste in eight artists:

-mew
-Dinosaur Jr
-Orchid
-the National
-neutral milk hotel
-Carpenter Brut
-against me!
-in flames

Look I don’t fucking know either.

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Bee @letmebebee.bsky.social · 1d

... anime. Anime. I'm at work.

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Bee @letmebebee.bsky.social · 1d

I've not talked about it but the new High School Kimengumi is the most excited I've been about an ajime since... fucking... Gurazeni or Major 2nd. Gonna be good.

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VF5SS @vf5ss.bsky.social · 1d

People say anime is weird these days when suddenly a remake it announced for that show based on the manga about dudes with ugly faces who form a club for dudes with ugly faces but then a girl is a tiny bit nice to them. It had 86 episodes.

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Bee @letmebebee.bsky.social · 1d

I hope that you, too, end up looping this fifty times before bed

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