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Thaliarchus
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Hedge poet. I watch anime & am often accused of reading.

'Now praise those names on tombs of steel engraved | And toll this rotting country's countless bells.'

Read my work: https://thaliarchus.itch.io/cosmic-warlord-kinbright
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Fortunately, Hiromi is able to see off the tennis assailants of darkness.
Hiromi smashes the ball over the net Hiromi's shot defeats the mysterious tennis assailants.
November 23, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Aim for the Ace is quite grounded *by the standards of sports anime*.

But there're still mysterious disguised tennis challengers haunting the night.
A mysterious figure stands cloaked in tennis darkness. Two mysterious tennis figures stand cloaked in tennis darkness.
November 23, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Shared conundrum.
Oka and her cat, Goemon, sit on her bed in similar poses.
November 23, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Ah, youth.
Maki and Hiromi are silhouetted in the middle distance as they run towards the town's lights.
November 23, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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The Coach loves to drop an unnerving sentence about tennis and then leave.
The Coach departs from the practice field. Dramatically tilted and spatially distorted shot, long shadows.
November 23, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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High technology performance review.
Tinted black-and-white footage of a doubles match. The coach watching a projector.
November 23, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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A bunch of Fist of the North Star goons looking shocked.
November 23, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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Good night and good luck, pilots.
Comically overcomplicated gears, wheels &c. [Dirty Pair Flash]
November 23, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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Don't think this'd work if the game gave it any more emphasis, but I like how they can find shreds of modernity here & there in Gensokyo, useless and unused.
Nitori calls Marisa's attention to a mobile phone that she's found.
November 22, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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Kappei, falling: 'Did we do it? Did we fight well?' Kappei's face is overtaken by darkening speed lines.
November 22, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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Oh, the duke's henchmen fear repercussions now that their lord stands less high in the king's favour?
'"Musk had not been just their visionary leader. For them, he was their protector: the man who had a direct line to Trump, who they believed could pick up the phone and secure a presidential pardon if the worst came. Without his presence in Washington, they were suddenly exposed,” Politico is reporting before adding that a recent gathering,' https://www.rawstory.com/doge-employees/
November 22, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Good night, and good luck.
Late-day sun breaks through gaps in the clouds, lighting a futuristic industrial landscape. [Venus Wars]
November 21, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Good night and good luck, pilots.
November 21, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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Fan wiki timelines with intimidating auras.
The top of a timeline. It reads: 4.6 billion years ago? - Gods create the Earth The phrase 'Paleozoic era' is half-visible below.
November 20, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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I think my approach in this piece is to go all the way into bathos and then try to wind it back later while redrafting.
To ladder’s base she worked. With heaving lungs she saw at hand a maw of horror whole, a thing defying thousand tellers’ tongues. \ In cliff a cavern gaped, a hung’ring hole; above it graven stood, in runish staves, ‘Who through me goes, all hope discards from soul’.
November 20, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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economic impact
Table of contents from a Touhou wiki page on fairies. 'Fairies in Touhou: appearance, occurrence (birth), size and height mystery &c', ending in 'economic impact'
November 20, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Good night and good luck, pilots.
Mamoru's family home. [GaoGaiGar]
November 20, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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! is that a Persona 3 reference
Uncurteys goddis and importune fer from thy mende arn dreve, Which from caves þat monstruous be ofte Tartarus loosith to men.
November 19, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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Modpack that automatically doxxes you so that its maker can send you one of these.
Single socket long extension lead.
November 19, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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Good night, and good luck.
Lin gazes at a sunset. [Fist of the North Star]
November 18, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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The attack animations are, while inventive, a bit more limited. But they have their moments (everything above the text box in this image is animated).
Remilia: 'Let all of Gensokyo be bathed in my mists!' [blasts of incarnadine energy ripple out to destroy everything]
November 18, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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'What sort of thing happens in the Scarlet Devil Mansion?' is a question to file alongside:
'So what about this Dr Hell? What kind of person is he?'
November 18, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Good night, and good luck.
Chise does iaijutsu with a cricket bat. [Princess Principal]
November 18, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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Good night, and good luck.
Minoa, into a mic: 'The Earth is saved once again.'
November 16, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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Twenty-one lines roughed out in draft today; here're six.
But song itself sought quietness in range: her music seemed to ring of hearty meals and sleep when mortals rest for work exchange, \ of marrow chewed from bone, and warmth one feels beside an evening hearth. The beast shrank back, turned round, lay down, curled up and showed its heels.
November 16, 2025 at 10:25 PM