A. K. Blue
@akblue.bsky.social
A.K. Blue writes science fiction and fantasy. See Resilience and 99% Chance of Magic. https://goodreads.com/en/book/show/50125100-99-chance-of-magic She/Her.
My top 10 anime openings:
Angel Beats!
Bleach 11 (Anima Rossa)
Ergo Proxy
The Future Diary 1 (Kuusou Mesorogii)
K
Kill la Kill 2 (Ambiguous)
No Game No Life
Noragami
Soul Eater 2 (Papermoon)
Wolf’s Rain
Angel Beats!
Bleach 11 (Anima Rossa)
Ergo Proxy
The Future Diary 1 (Kuusou Mesorogii)
K
Kill la Kill 2 (Ambiguous)
No Game No Life
Noragami
Soul Eater 2 (Papermoon)
Wolf’s Rain
January 10, 2026 at 8:53 PM
My top 10 anime openings:
Angel Beats!
Bleach 11 (Anima Rossa)
Ergo Proxy
The Future Diary 1 (Kuusou Mesorogii)
K
Kill la Kill 2 (Ambiguous)
No Game No Life
Noragami
Soul Eater 2 (Papermoon)
Wolf’s Rain
Angel Beats!
Bleach 11 (Anima Rossa)
Ergo Proxy
The Future Diary 1 (Kuusou Mesorogii)
K
Kill la Kill 2 (Ambiguous)
No Game No Life
Noragami
Soul Eater 2 (Papermoon)
Wolf’s Rain
Finished my first book of the year, Keigo Higashino's Salvation of a Saint, a murder mystery. My second book by him, after the crime thriller The Name of the Game is a Kidnapping. and I enjoy his terse, sharply observed writing. The solution was not only ingenious but psychologically terrifying.
January 6, 2026 at 9:32 PM
Finished my first book of the year, Keigo Higashino's Salvation of a Saint, a murder mystery. My second book by him, after the crime thriller The Name of the Game is a Kidnapping. and I enjoy his terse, sharply observed writing. The solution was not only ingenious but psychologically terrifying.
Favorite books I read for the first time in 2025, in no particular order:
Heartbreak Is the National Anthem, Rob Sheffield
The City and Its Uncertain Walls, Haruki Murakami
The Jazz of Physics, Stephon Alexander
This Is How You Lose the Time War, Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
1/3
Heartbreak Is the National Anthem, Rob Sheffield
The City and Its Uncertain Walls, Haruki Murakami
The Jazz of Physics, Stephon Alexander
This Is How You Lose the Time War, Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
1/3
January 2, 2026 at 7:59 PM
Favorite books I read for the first time in 2025, in no particular order:
Heartbreak Is the National Anthem, Rob Sheffield
The City and Its Uncertain Walls, Haruki Murakami
The Jazz of Physics, Stephon Alexander
This Is How You Lose the Time War, Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
1/3
Heartbreak Is the National Anthem, Rob Sheffield
The City and Its Uncertain Walls, Haruki Murakami
The Jazz of Physics, Stephon Alexander
This Is How You Lose the Time War, Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
1/3
My last book of the year was Eye of Cat by Roger Zelazny. Finished it around 11:30 Wednesday night, just under the wire. Suspenseful. Billy Singer, cool Zelazny protagonist, is retired but used to collect alien animals for an Earth zoo. He suspects one was a sentient being. Turns out he was right.
January 2, 2026 at 7:43 PM
My last book of the year was Eye of Cat by Roger Zelazny. Finished it around 11:30 Wednesday night, just under the wire. Suspenseful. Billy Singer, cool Zelazny protagonist, is retired but used to collect alien animals for an Earth zoo. He suspects one was a sentient being. Turns out he was right.
I enjoyed my reread of Philip K. Dick’s Dr. Futurity so much I decided to read another, this time one I’d never read before, Dick’s second SF novel, The World Jones Made, from 1956.
December 22, 2025 at 8:19 PM
I enjoyed my reread of Philip K. Dick’s Dr. Futurity so much I decided to read another, this time one I’d never read before, Dick’s second SF novel, The World Jones Made, from 1956.
My latest watch on Crunchyroll was Undead Murder Farce, a 13-episode series featuring a trio of detectives who solve supernatural crimes. It's set in fin de siecle Europe and features famous fictional characters in the manner of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and Moriarty the Patriot.
December 6, 2025 at 8:17 PM
My latest watch on Crunchyroll was Undead Murder Farce, a 13-episode series featuring a trio of detectives who solve supernatural crimes. It's set in fin de siecle Europe and features famous fictional characters in the manner of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and Moriarty the Patriot.
I watched two movies in one day and, surprise, they were both set in the year 2150! Obvious in the case of Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 AD. A plot twist in Vanilla Sky (2000) which turns out to be taking place in virtual reality 150 years in the future. So 2150 exactly.
November 29, 2025 at 9:04 PM
I watched two movies in one day and, surprise, they were both set in the year 2150! Obvious in the case of Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 AD. A plot twist in Vanilla Sky (2000) which turns out to be taking place in virtual reality 150 years in the future. So 2150 exactly.
If you see this post an anime you love.
November 26, 2025 at 8:40 PM
If you see this post an anime you love.
Wow, Vanilla Sky is bad.
November 26, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Wow, Vanilla Sky is bad.
I've discovered, or re-discovered, Kanopy and Hoopla, the free public library-affiliated streaming sites. I've watched three movies in the last three nights. One more and I'll be able to do the recent viewing graphic from Letterboxd. (They were Le Samourai, Bleach: Hell Verse, and Under the Skin.)
November 22, 2025 at 7:06 PM
I've discovered, or re-discovered, Kanopy and Hoopla, the free public library-affiliated streaming sites. I've watched three movies in the last three nights. One more and I'll be able to do the recent viewing graphic from Letterboxd. (They were Le Samourai, Bleach: Hell Verse, and Under the Skin.)
VA Democrats flipping seats like birds.
November 5, 2025 at 4:09 AM
VA Democrats flipping seats like birds.
Now I'm hungry for a sandwich with onions and mustard.
November 4, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Now I'm hungry for a sandwich with onions and mustard.
Aw man, the two free web games I like to play have been hoovered up by an AI startup and now I have to use their "AI-powered browser" to play them (which isn't going to happen).
October 26, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Aw man, the two free web games I like to play have been hoovered up by an AI startup and now I have to use their "AI-powered browser" to play them (which isn't going to happen).
Now every time there's a post from Mondo Mascots I think "new anti-ICE demonstrator just dropped."
October 16, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Now every time there's a post from Mondo Mascots I think "new anti-ICE demonstrator just dropped."
I'm reading Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed for the first time. It's odd that I haven't read it before. I have read The Left Hand of Darkness, The Lathe of Heaven, A Wizard of Earthsea, and The Wind's Twelve Quarters, most of Le Guin's amazing run in the early '70s.
October 15, 2025 at 7:53 PM
I'm reading Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed for the first time. It's odd that I haven't read it before. I have read The Left Hand of Darkness, The Lathe of Heaven, A Wizard of Earthsea, and The Wind's Twelve Quarters, most of Le Guin's amazing run in the early '70s.
I'll always associate semi-colons with Philip K. Dick; they're the grammatical sparkplug of those nervous two-stroke sentences he uses to sketch in a scene or idea.
October 14, 2025 at 8:06 PM
I'll always associate semi-colons with Philip K. Dick; they're the grammatical sparkplug of those nervous two-stroke sentences he uses to sketch in a scene or idea.
I think the No Kings demonstrations are great but I'm not sure I'm going to go. I went last time and I didn't know anyone, there wasn't anything to do, and my legs got tired from standing, so I left after half an hour. It's not as if someone was there with a clicker doing an official count.
October 14, 2025 at 6:43 PM
I think the No Kings demonstrations are great but I'm not sure I'm going to go. I went last time and I didn't know anyone, there wasn't anything to do, and my legs got tired from standing, so I left after half an hour. It's not as if someone was there with a clicker doing an official count.
I just realized today that the creator of Peanuts is Charles M. Shulz, not Charles M. Shultz, and I feel like I'm losing my mind.
October 9, 2025 at 6:44 PM
I just realized today that the creator of Peanuts is Charles M. Shulz, not Charles M. Shultz, and I feel like I'm losing my mind.
My birthday's coming up in a couple of days and I want to get myself a laptop. Is Amazon a good place to buy one, or should I go somewhere else? I'm just using it to write and maybe play movies on an external DVD drive. I don't need a lot of features, but I do want a real keyboard. And that's it?
September 20, 2025 at 6:37 PM
My birthday's coming up in a couple of days and I want to get myself a laptop. Is Amazon a good place to buy one, or should I go somewhere else? I'm just using it to write and maybe play movies on an external DVD drive. I don't need a lot of features, but I do want a real keyboard. And that's it?
I've mentioned the High Demand Popular Fiction table in the lobby of the library before. Featuring the new books most library patrons were coming for. The bestsellers, the brand names. Four shelves, two on each side. And James Patterson is now filling an entire shelf.
September 19, 2025 at 8:51 PM
I've mentioned the High Demand Popular Fiction table in the lobby of the library before. Featuring the new books most library patrons were coming for. The bestsellers, the brand names. Four shelves, two on each side. And James Patterson is now filling an entire shelf.
Smash two movies together:
Citizen K9
Citizen K9
Smash two movies together:
Love Actually Lies Bleeding
Love Actually Lies Bleeding
Smash two movies
Office Spaceballs
Office Spaceballs
September 18, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Smash two movies together:
Citizen K9
Citizen K9
I love how A is just blubber and beans on toast.
For the rest of your life, you can only eat food from one of these regions. Which do you choose?
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September 17, 2025 at 10:54 AM
I love how A is just blubber and beans on toast.
I'm reading a minor Philip K. Dick novel, Dr. Futurity, that I read in high school as half of an Ace Double. I remember liking it okay, though I'd forgotten everything except a few images. I'm up to page 34, and we're in a society ruled by eugenics, where it's illegal to treat the sick or injured.
September 6, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I'm reading a minor Philip K. Dick novel, Dr. Futurity, that I read in high school as half of an Ace Double. I remember liking it okay, though I'd forgotten everything except a few images. I'm up to page 34, and we're in a society ruled by eugenics, where it's illegal to treat the sick or injured.
The perils of going online in the middle of the night: I woke up around 3:00 and started scrolling in bed and the first time I saw this image I thought it was a real photo of a mouse playing a video game in a lab and it was only the second time I saw it that I went, Oh, Stuart Little.
September 4, 2025 at 9:32 AM
The perils of going online in the middle of the night: I woke up around 3:00 and started scrolling in bed and the first time I saw this image I thought it was a real photo of a mouse playing a video game in a lab and it was only the second time I saw it that I went, Oh, Stuart Little.
Caturday Night's Alright for Biting.
August 31, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Caturday Night's Alright for Biting.