joasakura
@jo-asakura.bsky.social
writer, artist, gamer, comic colorist
Find my original works here: https://www.patreon.com/c/ajvanderpoel
And my fanworks here: https://archiveofourown.org/users/JoAsakura
Find my original works here: https://www.patreon.com/c/ajvanderpoel
And my fanworks here: https://archiveofourown.org/users/JoAsakura
Every single word of this post was like getting hit in the face with a frypan - in mostly a good way
Seeing these Oz graphic novels by Eric Shanower advertised in Grimjack is making me nostalgic. I bought the collected Adventures of Oz back in the early 00’s for reading to my niece and daughter, never realizing IDW had reprinted 20 year old comics.
December 7, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Every single word of this post was like getting hit in the face with a frypan - in mostly a good way
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And THIS is why not all books need to be shelved in YA, people!
When I worked at The Wherehouse, I kept having to take "Legend of the Overfiend" out of the kids section because "It's an animated movie, it must be okay."
December 7, 2025 at 8:25 AM
And THIS is why not all books need to be shelved in YA, people!
FWIW I’m 100% Team Sexy Saejima
Sometimes I think about how if I tried to bring my Yakuza stuff to a con I would have the most unmarketable booth in the world. 9/10ths Saejima Everything with a heap of slutty Hamazakis and some Okuderas. It would be like a farmer’s market stall that sells nothing but anchovies and olives.
December 6, 2025 at 3:59 PM
FWIW I’m 100% Team Sexy Saejima
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This. 😄
If the writer’s eyes light up when asked, “why did the character do that?” then it’s real.
December 6, 2025 at 10:40 AM
This. 😄
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This is one of the examples I will forever cite as proof generation wars are stupid. Because if you are old enough to remember Jim Baker you know exactly how this movie ends
December 6, 2025 at 3:53 PM
This is one of the examples I will forever cite as proof generation wars are stupid. Because if you are old enough to remember Jim Baker you know exactly how this movie ends
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The new editions of the FULL TRILOGY by @aliettedebodard.com are available for preorder now in ebook and paperback. Enter a Paris wrecked by magical cataclysm in this beloved series of fallen angels, devious alchemists, & Vietnamese dragons. Check out book 1 here:
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The House of Shattered Wings (#1) – JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc
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December 4, 2025 at 2:53 AM
The new editions of the FULL TRILOGY by @aliettedebodard.com are available for preorder now in ebook and paperback. Enter a Paris wrecked by magical cataclysm in this beloved series of fallen angels, devious alchemists, & Vietnamese dragons. Check out book 1 here:
awfulagent.com/ebooks/the-h...
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an important read for at least 2 reasons:
1. shows how big tech operates on intuitions and vibes and not rigorous research
2. this is a masterpiece in how to breakdown complex scientific concepts in simple language and elegant pros that captivate the lay reader
taranis.ie/datacenters-...
1. shows how big tech operates on intuitions and vibes and not rigorous research
2. this is a masterpiece in how to breakdown complex scientific concepts in simple language and elegant pros that captivate the lay reader
taranis.ie/datacenters-...
Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.
There is a rush for AI companies to team up with space launch/satellite companies to build datacenters in space. TL;DR: It's not going to work.
taranis.ie
December 4, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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Reupping the Gävle Goat, because while we have it it's a nice thing. One of the few that will also be a nice thing we can have if it gets set on fire. www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1VO...
The Gävle Goat LIVE 2025 | Lofi Christmas mix
YouTube video by Gävle Goat LIVE
www.youtube.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Reupping the Gävle Goat, because while we have it it's a nice thing. One of the few that will also be a nice thing we can have if it gets set on fire. www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1VO...
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Sharing again bc this makes me so happy
![Bevan “Mouse” Tar
— honorary Corsair
— uneasy detente with former sister-in-law Mara Sov
— questionable botany enjoyer
— (crossed out with a red pen) probably should have been rez’d a warlock
— knows that Saladin’s password is “password”
— (crossed out) reportedly slept with Calus or a robot facsimile
[in red pen beneath: NO ONE CAN PROVE THIS]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cx3nfd66dpjq3qtssxdcokcc/bafkreignfinjabzzjqvkhjn7klxtcfikihzzv7altu6pq4k35ruwye2ifq@jpeg)
December 3, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Sharing again bc this makes me so happy
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Holiday gifts, discounted library supplies, LT shirts... we've got it all! Pins for $3, barcode scanners for $5, shirts for $16. 🎁 #holidaygifts #holidaybargains #💙📚 #Booksky
Shop our Holiday sale here: www.librarything.com/more/store
Shop our Holiday sale here: www.librarything.com/more/store
December 3, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Holiday gifts, discounted library supplies, LT shirts... we've got it all! Pins for $3, barcode scanners for $5, shirts for $16. 🎁 #holidaygifts #holidaybargains #💙📚 #Booksky
Shop our Holiday sale here: www.librarything.com/more/store
Shop our Holiday sale here: www.librarything.com/more/store
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December 3, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
December 2, 2025 at 10:59 AM
I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
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Mark Kelly: “Pete Hegseth is not a serious person. He’s unqualified for this job. I think he is the least qualified Secretary of Defense in the history of our country by far. & this President thinks he can bully & intimidate people? He’s not gonna stop me from speaking out & holding him accountable”
November 30, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Mark Kelly: “Pete Hegseth is not a serious person. He’s unqualified for this job. I think he is the least qualified Secretary of Defense in the history of our country by far. & this President thinks he can bully & intimidate people? He’s not gonna stop me from speaking out & holding him accountable”
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(hurriedly scribbles down title for novel: FORBIDDEN SYMMETRIES)
Matter with “forbidden” symmetries was once thought to be confined to lab experiments, but is now being found in some of the world’s most extreme environments.
Why quasicrystals shouldn’t exist but are turning up in strange places
Matter with “forbidden” symmetries was once thought to be confined to lab experiments, but is now being found in some of the world’s most extreme environments
www.newscientist.com
December 1, 2025 at 12:14 PM
(hurriedly scribbles down title for novel: FORBIDDEN SYMMETRIES)
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Over at #Ebooks Direct, on this "Whatever We're Supposed To Call The Sunday After Black Friday" Sunday: our #Pride package is on sale! Contains #LGBTQ & queer folk (mortal and immortal) of many kinds, stripes and varieties, all of them worth meeting at least for drinks! ebooks.direct/products/pri...
Ebooks Direct Pride Package
This package contains all our Middle Kingdoms material—some of the first LGBTQ-representing epic fantasy in the 20th-century fantasy field, now continuing into the 21st. It also contains the matter-of...
ebooks.direct
November 30, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Over at #Ebooks Direct, on this "Whatever We're Supposed To Call The Sunday After Black Friday" Sunday: our #Pride package is on sale! Contains #LGBTQ & queer folk (mortal and immortal) of many kinds, stripes and varieties, all of them worth meeting at least for drinks! ebooks.direct/products/pri...
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What a great headline
November 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
What a great headline
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Listen as much fun as “Hamazaki Lives and Everyone but Majima Loves Him” AU is, eventually Saejima is gonna notice his Kyodai is upset and have a grownup conversation about it 🖊️🦑
November 27, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Listen as much fun as “Hamazaki Lives and Everyone but Majima Loves Him” AU is, eventually Saejima is gonna notice his Kyodai is upset and have a grownup conversation about it 🖊️🦑
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We have met the $500 part of the goal!!! Thank you all so much 💖 I’ve updated to show it on Ko-Fi. Monthly goal still active! If you still want to donate, you’re welcome to, and if not, go ahead and reshare it. It helps to know we have some cushion for if shit comes up instead of being unprepared 😭
Bumping this, because we are now negative 500$. Please help if you can. 🤦🏼♀️
November 26, 2025 at 12:09 PM
We have met the $500 part of the goal!!! Thank you all so much 💖 I’ve updated to show it on Ko-Fi. Monthly goal still active! If you still want to donate, you’re welcome to, and if not, go ahead and reshare it. It helps to know we have some cushion for if shit comes up instead of being unprepared 😭
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Now this is the kind of carrying on I needed
November 26, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Now this is the kind of carrying on I needed
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Device…hoarding. Because you don’t go get a new one while yours is still fine.
Apparently I am also practicing car hoarding, house hoarding, husband hoarding, dog hoarding, computer hoarding, furniture hoarding and art hoarding.
Apparently I am also practicing car hoarding, house hoarding, husband hoarding, dog hoarding, computer hoarding, furniture hoarding and art hoarding.
stupid young people, stop buying a new phone every year if you don't want to be broke. wait no, not like that.
November 25, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Device…hoarding. Because you don’t go get a new one while yours is still fine.
Apparently I am also practicing car hoarding, house hoarding, husband hoarding, dog hoarding, computer hoarding, furniture hoarding and art hoarding.
Apparently I am also practicing car hoarding, house hoarding, husband hoarding, dog hoarding, computer hoarding, furniture hoarding and art hoarding.