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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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Thaliarchus @thaliarchus.bsky.social · Aug 1

Anyway please try Cosmic Warlord Kin-Bright, which is free, in case you like it.
thaliarchus.itch.io/cosmic-warlo...

Cosmic Warlord Kin-Bright by Thaliarchus

Giant robot yuri space opera. In verse.

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Thaliarchus @thaliarchus.bsky.social · 11m

‘This place is a place of great honour... a highly esteemed potato is cooking here...’

Thaliarchus @thaliarchus.bsky.social · 13m

No stream today, but check in at 1800 UTC/GMT tomorrow for some narrative verse!
www.twitch.tv/thaliarchus

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Games, poems, oddments.

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Thaliarchus @thaliarchus.bsky.social · 20m

Powerful concept.

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はつ @mepomipoprepre.bsky.social · 1h

なぎさお誕生日おめでとう！
大好き！
#美墨なぎさ生誕祭2025
#キュアブラック生誕祭2025

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theothermrjeff @theothermrjeff.bsky.social · 3h

Sword in the Stone(Dino).

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Paul Chamberlain (Arkem) @arkem.bsky.social · 3h

I recently did the second part and I highly recommend it

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Thaliarchus @thaliarchus.bsky.social · 4h

Headline from a pokemon game.

'Fossil found on Dorset coast is unique "sword dragon" species'

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Thaliarchus @thaliarchus.bsky.social · 4h

It's that leave-your-clothes-on-a-beach-and-flee-to-australia feeling.

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Thaliarchus @thaliarchus.bsky.social · 4h

A minor aspect of SRW J that I appreciate is the game giving you the option to play with Calvina as the protagonist and Granteed as her unit (even if, IIRC, her base stats are a bit more suited to the smaller more evasive robot choices).

Calvina: 'You can regret leaving me alive.. when you're DEAD!'

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Delicious in Dika @kadian1367.bsky.social · 14h

i'm here for the Fresh propaganda

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Thaliarchus @thaliarchus.bsky.social · 14h

Good night, and good luck.

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chicken @superchickendx.bsky.social · 14h

moses supposes the woodses have woeses but moses supposes erroneously, precious

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Thaliarchus @thaliarchus.bsky.social · 15h

This's another minor element pulled from much earlier writing.

e.g. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, in which Gawain fights (in passing), 'wodwos | þat woned in þe knarrez' (something like 'wood-woses who lived in the crags', l. 721)

Thaliarchus @thaliarchus.bsky.social · 15h

The book briefly introduces woses and—this is fairly typical—at once glosses the word ('Wild Men of the Woods').

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ExecutiveOtaku @executiveotaku.bsky.social · 15h

The year is 2099. Following the AI Meltdown Wars of the 2030s, only those born during the Phase are allowed to operate computers.

Every nation maintains a cache of Phasers in suspended animation, unfrozen only for brief periods to safely perform essential functions.

THIS SUMMER...

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 16h

after careful study, I believe only people born between 1975 and 1995 should be allowed to use the internet

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Thaliarchus @thaliarchus.bsky.social · 15h

She's good fun! You do need a certain tolerance for stock footage, though.

Thaliarchus @thaliarchus.bsky.social · 15h

I don't know whether Ninja vs. Gokudo is good, but you should try the show it has an internal parody of, Fresh Precure, which is good.

Eas and Peach lie in the rain after fighting to exhaustion.

A dramatic image of mysterious doughnut seller Kaoru.

'Due to ... multiple circumstances, it all became potatoes.'

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Thaliarchus @thaliarchus.bsky.social · 16h

Anyway this episode was called 'Mother's Secret', which is weird, because I've not spotted any mothers keeping secrets in this show—

Medium close-up on Vega, looking shocked.

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Thaliarchus @thaliarchus.bsky.social · 16h

There's an 'Exurbia the Forbidden Growth' joke to be made here but I'm not sufficiently opposed to the Greens to make it.

Thaliarchus @thaliarchus.bsky.social · 16h

Vega update: Vega refuses to run out of motorbikes.

Vega sits on her motorbike, in a garage full of exact copies of it.

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Thaliarchus @thaliarchus.bsky.social · 16h

Not an unfamiliar experience.

A gunpla-style model kit labelled CZ-634C-TN DOME from 'Dongame'.

Hokuto has just snapped a part during assembly.

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Thaliarchus @thaliarchus.bsky.social · 16h

Hear, hear.

Thaliarchus @thaliarchus.bsky.social · 16h

Tilting and/or internally framing most shots isn't the subtlest approach in the box, but it gets the job done.

Dramatically tilted shot of a wall phone.

Orie, Hokuto and Orie's father seen distantly through the mansion's windows.

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Thaliarchus @thaliarchus.bsky.social · 16h

Dendoh's not going to dip into dark night of the soul territory.

But there's an effective bleaker tone to this sequence cutting together Orie's conversation and Hokuto exploring his grandfather's mysterious mansion.

Orie talks to her father in a highly distorted shot of his drawing room.

The same scene but seen from the grate of the coal fire.

A partially shadowed photo of Orie as a girl.

Hokuto stands confronting a shaded room. Tilted shot.

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Thaliarchus @thaliarchus.bsky.social · 16h

Bit of a cluster of episodes here with more visual oomph.

Hokuto's grandfather looks up significantly to his butler. Dramatically tilted shot.

Orie and her father talk, seen from above, through the turning blades of a ceiling fan.

Ginga and Hokuto in stark black-and-white as they endure an attack.

Knight Ogre (Ouga??) and Dendoh counter-kick each other.

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