Thaliarchus
@thaliarchus.bsky.social
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
'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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Cosmic Warlord Kin-Bright by Thaliarchus
Giant robot yuri space opera. In verse.
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Today's Cosmic Warlord Kin-Bright's one-year anniversary!
The whole damn thing remains free. You can and should try it.
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The whole damn thing remains free. You can and should try it.
thaliarchus.itch.io/cosmic-warlo...
Fantasy Maiden Wars in two hours' time (at 1900 UTC/GMT): twitch.tv/thaliarchus
Twitch
Twitch is the world
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November 25, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Fantasy Maiden Wars in two hours' time (at 1900 UTC/GMT): twitch.tv/thaliarchus
guy who argues that Saki is a formalist experiment disguised as a Young Gangan manga
November 25, 2025 at 4:04 PM
guy who argues that Saki is a formalist experiment disguised as a Young Gangan manga
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It's time to revisit 2009 with James Cameron's Avatar. Listen to hear Niko and Brian burst a blood vessel trying to rate just the mechs in this thing~
It's time to revisit 2009 with James Cameron's Avatar. Listen to hear Niko and Brian burst a blood vessel trying to rate just the mechs in this thing~
Ep 0061 - Avatar (2009)
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November 25, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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It's time to revisit 2009 with James Cameron's Avatar. Listen to hear Niko and Brian burst a blood vessel trying to rate just the mechs in this thing~
It's time to revisit 2009 with James Cameron's Avatar. Listen to hear Niko and Brian burst a blood vessel trying to rate just the mechs in this thing~
Peanut butter for me.
November 25, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Peanut butter for me.
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Looking forward to your reactions to Mystic, where FMW fully begins the transition from "shockingly good for a fangame" to "actually one of the top-tier SRW"
November 25, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Looking forward to your reactions to Mystic, where FMW fully begins the transition from "shockingly good for a fangame" to "actually one of the top-tier SRW"
More FMW tonight, 1900 UTC/GMT.
November 25, 2025 at 1:42 PM
More FMW tonight, 1900 UTC/GMT.
x media is 'good' but the dialogue isn't in formed verse
when people are like "x media is good but the dialogue is overwrought" i'm like dude my favorite show is Hannibal where in the first episode one guy asks another guy "what do you see me as" and he responds "i think you are the mongoose i want under the house when the snakes slither by"
November 25, 2025 at 1:23 PM
x media is 'good' but the dialogue isn't in formed verse
Oh I love how this is tagged with '#pain'.
November 25, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Oh I love how this is tagged with '#pain'.
I hope it clears up soon (the flu not the non-stain).
November 25, 2025 at 11:53 AM
I hope it clears up soon (the flu not the non-stain).
IIRC at the bottom end animation's 'cost floor' is higher than live-action's, unless you want to make Mizue Mirai five-minute solo-animated shorts.
November 25, 2025 at 11:18 AM
IIRC at the bottom end animation's 'cost floor' is higher than live-action's, unless you want to make Mizue Mirai five-minute solo-animated shorts.
'Never' is a strong word, and I expect one could find some exceptions. I'm not sure capitalism defines Seo Mitsuyo's Momotaro films, for instance.
But broadly I agree, and some of this is baked into the medium itself. You can't really make long-form animation without a team, which means money.
But broadly I agree, and some of this is baked into the medium itself. You can't really make long-form animation without a team, which means money.
November 25, 2025 at 11:12 AM
'Never' is a strong word, and I expect one could find some exceptions. I'm not sure capitalism defines Seo Mitsuyo's Momotaro films, for instance.
But broadly I agree, and some of this is baked into the medium itself. You can't really make long-form animation without a team, which means money.
But broadly I agree, and some of this is baked into the medium itself. You can't really make long-form animation without a team, which means money.
'how many times a day do you think about the summer wine'
November 25, 2025 at 9:02 AM
'how many times a day do you think about the summer wine'
Romulus, watching his brother's death-throes, realising with horror that he has killed the last of the Remans.
November 25, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Romulus, watching his brother's death-throes, realising with horror that he has killed the last of the Remans.
Successfully outsourcing the 'gaming' component of the plan.
November 25, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Successfully outsourcing the 'gaming' component of the plan.
Students sometimes imply that they see me as a kind of Last of the Romans figure.
This is quite wrong: the true Last of the Romans were (by strange coincidence) the people who taught me.
This is quite wrong: the true Last of the Romans were (by strange coincidence) the people who taught me.
November 25, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Students sometimes imply that they see me as a kind of Last of the Romans figure.
This is quite wrong: the true Last of the Romans were (by strange coincidence) the people who taught me.
This is quite wrong: the true Last of the Romans were (by strange coincidence) the people who taught me.
Good night and good luck, pilots.
November 24, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Good night and good luck, pilots.
Those dungeons aren't going to travel themselves.
November 24, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Those dungeons aren't going to travel themselves.
It's funny when a set of choices (end-rhyme in two AV lines, no pendant rhyme) wind up creating an unplanned constraint (only type B b-verses at the start and end of an AV passage).
November 24, 2025 at 11:04 PM
It's funny when a set of choices (end-rhyme in two AV lines, no pendant rhyme) wind up creating an unplanned constraint (only type B b-verses at the start and end of an AV passage).
But since I don't use pendant rhymes that *does* commit me to type B (x/x/) b-verses in the first and last lines of the AV.
(or type E, like /\x/, but I don't feel comfortable with type E in the b-verse.)
(or type E, like /\x/, but I don't feel comfortable with type E in the b-verse.)
November 24, 2025 at 11:02 PM
But since I don't use pendant rhymes that *does* commit me to type B (x/x/) b-verses in the first and last lines of the AV.
(or type E, like /\x/, but I don't feel comfortable with type E in the b-verse.)
(or type E, like /\x/, but I don't feel comfortable with type E in the b-verse.)
So my (provisional) plan is to tie the starts and ends of the AV passages to the surrounding stanzas.
I want to do this using end-rhyme on the fourth (usually non-alliterating) lifts of the first and last lines.
I want to do this using end-rhyme on the fourth (usually non-alliterating) lifts of the first and last lines.
November 24, 2025 at 11:00 PM
So my (provisional) plan is to tie the starts and ends of the AV passages to the surrounding stanzas.
I want to do this using end-rhyme on the fourth (usually non-alliterating) lifts of the first and last lines.
I want to do this using end-rhyme on the fourth (usually non-alliterating) lifts of the first and last lines.
So the thing I'm writing right now is in terza rima: aba bcb cdc efe and so on, with continuous inter-stanzaic rhyme links.
However, a few bits will involve alliterative-verse passages.
However, a few bits will involve alliterative-verse passages.
November 24, 2025 at 10:59 PM
So the thing I'm writing right now is in terza rima: aba bcb cdc efe and so on, with continuous inter-stanzaic rhyme links.
However, a few bits will involve alliterative-verse passages.
However, a few bits will involve alliterative-verse passages.
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This week on Unpacking the Shelf, my friend Alex and I dug into the stories of author Shirley Jackson! We play the Lottery, haunt Hill House and Always Live in The Castle
Episode 85 - The Stories of Shirley Jackson
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November 24, 2025 at 9:59 PM
This week on Unpacking the Shelf, my friend Alex and I dug into the stories of author Shirley Jackson! We play the Lottery, haunt Hill House and Always Live in The Castle
Tomorrow Never Dies is not an especially good film, the odd good stunt aside. But one of the cultural-historical interesting things about it is the climax hinges on a confrontation between the RN (unaided) and the PLAN, which even then was perhaps a stretch but today is *unimaginable*.
November 24, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Tomorrow Never Dies is not an especially good film, the odd good stunt aside. But one of the cultural-historical interesting things about it is the climax hinges on a confrontation between the RN (unaided) and the PLAN, which even then was perhaps a stretch but today is *unimaginable*.