it doesn't make unicorn Good but the brief moment where you can go 'she's a WHO?!' before it sucks again is one of its few highlights

'skip zz, watch unicorn' is always such a funny bit of common bad gundam watch order advice, like unicorn is more of a sequel to zz than it is cca?

My cold northern heart is breaking for those in Tumbler Ridge & for queer & trans people in small towns around BC who now have to contend with huge hate-driven & well-paid influencers who still can't point out Tumbler Ridge on a map yet crafted a narrative to dehumanize others.

not yet somehow

Omelet You Cook

this is my balatro; more chaotic and absurdist (my highest scoring omelet had three live pufferfish on it) but still mechanically juicy in setting up your synergies and deckbuilding. funny without getting too twee or interrupting the flow. and all of the food art is really cute! 🍳

there's no heterosexual explanation for asuham

dining bar akira is my fave shorter yaoi manga! only the flower knows is another good one. can't go wrong with the year 24 shoujo classics; yas adapted ktknu! i have a soft spot for vassalord (mangaka is a trans man!)

and shouwa genroku rakugo shinjuu is a BANGER, not canon but blindingly obvious

it doesn't have canon yaoi but you should watch king gainer so i have someone to talk about asuham/gain with

other recs: devilman, samumenco, rose of versailles if you read oscar as trans masc. my fave non-canon bl ship of all time is from s3 of yu-gi-oh! gx, it was my 'i should take t' moment 🃏

The Mark of Lilith

fantastic short film; having a vampire be seduced by a human film theorist by way of queer, feminist reading on horror movies and vampire mythology is just the right level of metatext to utterly charm me. cheat on misogynists! "ah yes, the toothed vagina. i know that story well."

Space Runaway Ideon

rewatched in bits with a friend. it feels the most 50s science fiction of tomino's shows, and i love it to bits. love it more than a lot of the same 50s sf classics tbh. has some of the same warts (misogyny) but hits such higher highs; childhood's end doesn't have sheryl formosa

Dune (1984)

is it coherent? not especially. do the blue eyes look silly? yes. does it rule? absolutely! fantastic cast, wonderful music, the set/costume/production design's phenomenal; a great film that both demands you read dune to understand it and is testament to the power of creative liberties

Kurofune (Sadistic Mika Band)

came for the early 70s japanese prog, stayed for the fantastic pop song that was a little jarring but is an undeniable banger. my favorite track is probably the third act of black ship though, the guitar is just stellar. i should probs listen to more masayoshi takanaka

Model Home

great horror novel, fantastic prose and excellent use of pacing to set up the nature of the ending - it's an ending many haunted house stories have, but the peeling of the layers of aggressions in the neighborhood builds to it naturally. ezri is such a dynamic narrator, poetic. fuck hoas

The Muppet Show (2026)

it's... okay! if the muppets had stayed on the air for decades, this feels like it could have just been this week's episode. but i suppose i've just outgrown this show; miss piggy is an icon and statler + waldorf are legends, but i'm window-in-window'ing for the music numbers