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vestenet (full of bones)

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she's red for an amazing reason

December 7, 2025 at 2:35 PM

vestenet (full of bones)

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kinda wish i still had these

knockoff chuck taylors in the colors/style of friendship is magic-era rainbow dash

December 6, 2025 at 3:55 PM

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I understand why retro studios did not do this (gamers would have firebombed their HQ), but nobody can stop me from imagining that Myles Mackenzie is actually a flustered lesbian trying and failing to look cool in front of Samus with accelerating desperation

the "I can imagine anything" guy. bonus joke: Samus mimicks this exact pose in Metroid Prime 4

December 5, 2025 at 2:04 AM

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chainsaw man chapter 222

diptych of yoru apologizing to a screaming demon skill

December 2, 2025 at 3:07 PM

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this whole chapter was heartbreaking

from Detransition Baby

"Baby, why are you crying?" Reese had asked. Because some combination of hormones and poppers had made possible the sex that Amy had given up on. The poppers made her too dumb to flee into herself, to send herself somewhere. So there she was with Reese. Not off elsewhere working to see herself as a woman when she lay on top of a woman, or replacing a man with someone else while he lay on top of her. She simply was a woman present with a woman. It felt like some kind of healing, some kind of redemption. And all she could do was cry.

Later that night, Reese stroked her hair and whispered to her, "I'm sorry you've been in so much pain for so long."

Any night before that one, Amy would have denied it, would have told Reese about all the privileges she had, about how lucky she had been compared to other trans women, how many advantages she'd been granted. How few of the readily nameable traumas she ever suffered. And without legible traumas to point to,

what would pain make her? At best, a trans version of those Didion-worshipping bourgeois white girls who subscribed to a Grand Unified Theory of Female Pain, those minor-wound-dwelling brooders with no particular difficulties but for an inchoate sense of their own wronged-ness, a wronged-ness that fell apart when put into words but nonetheless justified all manner of petulance and self-pity. In pain? No, not Amy.

That night, however, she gaped at Reese, shocked at how easily Reese had named what she'd gone through. She remembered Ricky telling her about Reese's uncanny ability to say what you need.

Whether she could trust Reese or not, no one had ever said such a thing to her. No one had so casually seen through her hollow stoicism to the accumulated disdain and disgust she harbored within. No one had ever implied that Amy might be wounded or suffering too, least of all Amy. She didn't know she needed that kind of permission until that moment. She opened her mouth to protest, gulped once, and collapsed into tears all over again, sobbing onto Reese's chest at all she had done to herself for years, at the hurt she'd inflicted upon herself and on the people she'd been with, while Reese gripped her and didn't tell her to stop.

November 29, 2025 at 10:09 PM

vestenet (full of bones)

@vestenet.bsky.social

personally, i'd be normal about this

flashback to an emaciated little girl walking up to shiori in her full giant mermaid form, save for the left side of her face

close up of shiori bearing a dispassionate look and brandishing a single long pointy index claw

November 28, 2025 at 5:52 PM

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legit excellent watatabe this week. even the adaptation rises to the occasion with thoughtful contrasts of light and dark—especially how the clouds and rain roll in as shiori breaks hinako's heart. obvious, but deployed well in combo with the soundtrack and performances

$hinako and shiori sit on a covered bench. the light falls entirely on hinako but only hits a fraction of shiori$ shiori nuzzles hinako, who is now pulled into the shadow while the sunlight fades behind her

shiori nuzzles hinako, who is now pulled into the shadow while the sunlight fades behind her

shiori holds her hand up to block the sun

hinako sits in her bed, curtains drawn save for a few rays of light pushing through

November 28, 2025 at 5:41 PM

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kindred spirits

miko, flustered, refuses the siren call of hinako's blood

"stop apologizing and just put it away!"

nazuna, flustered at the sight of ko's bare neck

"cover that up, quick."

November 28, 2025 at 4:55 PM

vestenet (full of bones)

@vestenet.bsky.social

didn't mark hinako as putting out that easily

hinako offers her bandaged wrist to miko

"would you like to taste it?"

miko, scurrying away and screaming

"don't you say that! not even as a joke!"

"'cause it's gonna go past joking *real* quick!"

November 28, 2025 at 4:51 PM

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morosely eating a strawberry cream sandwich

hinako somberly chews on a fruit sandwich from miko's favorite bakery

November 28, 2025 at 4:46 PM

vestenet (full of bones)

@vestenet.bsky.social

bit of a work in progress (more so than usual) right now

November 28, 2025 at 1:21 AM

vestenet (full of bones)

@vestenet.bsky.social

re-bought we know the devil so i could put it on my deck. excellent patch note.

patch notes for We Know the Devil, dated 2025.11.19:

Fuck JK Rowling

November 26, 2025 at 4:24 PM

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checking back in on the state of ave mujica doujinshi

a dense array of black speech bubbles all saying "saki-chan"

(from Loft Moon by Karas Oshigata)

November 26, 2025 at 2:37 PM

vestenet (full of bones)

@vestenet.bsky.social

still in a cloyingly introspective mood. I was telling my therapist I couldn't remember why I read Whipping Girl in 2016, but I actually just figured it out: it was me playing We Know the Devil in late 2015

anyway I'm going back in time and hitting myself with a big hammer

two tweets I wrote right after finishing we know the devil:

now i know the devil ;A;

2:31 25 Sep 15

These precious children. I'm midway between a ♃ (Jupiter) and a ♀ (Venus) but I could def use a whole lot more ♆ (Neptune) because she's the best.

November 26, 2025 at 4:51 AM

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from Detransition Baby

The first year of transition, Amy discovered, was about learning how much you've lied to yourself. How unreliable your own self-assessments were and how little the sense of self from your past could be put to good use in transition. The awful part was watching what therapy called "your coping mechanisms" flame out. There was a moment in which you could catch a glimpse of how scared you'd been and the degree of pain in which you'd been living as a boy, before that pain and fear actually hit you and shredded you. The same way in which 1950s films captured men in early atomic bomb tests watching the flash and mushroom cloud rise, marveling at the Shiva-esque destruction for just a split second before the shockwave and heat sent their searing bodies flying backward, along with the camera recording those bodies, and after which nothing could be seen, only felt.

November 25, 2025 at 10:28 AM

vestenet (full of bones)

@vestenet.bsky.social

already have a list of things I know I can improve on (and I'll clean up the excess bits tomorrow) but baby's first nail polish application is out of the way

photo of my left hand sporting a set of freshly painted black nails

November 25, 2025 at 1:37 AM

vestenet (full of bones)

@vestenet.bsky.social

know your roots

photo of a flyer in Seattle that says

BREAK
BEZOS'
'BALLS'

MAYDAY2018

overlaid on top of an illustration of Saya (from Saya no Uta) stepping fiercely onto a man's crotch

November 24, 2025 at 2:21 AM

vestenet (full of bones)

@vestenet.bsky.social

the girl being named "mary sugaki" is taking me out

steam page for Zako no Ahiru

"ZAKO NO AHIRU" is an exasperating climbing action game where you aim for the summit with a peculiar-behaving duck while being taunted by the cheeky girl, Sugaki Mary.

November 23, 2025 at 1:40 AM

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okay i know there's no reason to suspect crunchyroll will not continue enshittifying itself in the long run, but i'm going to take credit for this small w