A. K. Blue
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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.
Hello Sleepwakers ~ Noragami Opening 1 CREDITLESS
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January 10, 2026 at 9:26 PM
No Game No Life Opening | This Game by Konomi Suzuki
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January 10, 2026 at 9:23 PM
Kill La Kill Opening 2 - CREDITLESS - 1080p
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January 10, 2026 at 9:17 PM
The Future Diary Creditless OP 1 (Fantasy Mythology)
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January 10, 2026 at 9:10 PM
"Ergo Proxy" - Opening [Creditless and FULLHD]
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January 10, 2026 at 9:07 PM
OPENING 11 | BLEACH | Anima Rossa by Porno Graffitti | VIZ
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January 10, 2026 at 9:04 PM
These are frequently purged from YouTube. I'll see if I can find links.
Angel Beats!
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Angel Beats!
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Angel Beats Opening | Creditless | 4K 60FPS Remastered
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January 10, 2026 at 9:01 PM
These are frequently purged from YouTube. I'll see if I can find links.
Angel Beats!
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Angel Beats!
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Correction: the Japanese original is from 2002 and the English translation is from 2017. Also, it's been filmed twice in Japan, once as G@me, a feature film, and once as a miniseries under the original title.
January 2, 2026 at 8:55 PM
Correction: the Japanese original is from 2002 and the English translation is from 2017. Also, it's been filmed twice in Japan, once as G@me, a feature film, and once as a miniseries under the original title.
My fave cover among the books I read this year (it's from 2004) was The Name of the Game is a Kidnapping (by Janet Hansen). It's why I noticed the book on the library shelf and created a want-to-read mystique so that I eventually checked it out. Very suitable to such a twisty, game-playing novel.
January 2, 2026 at 8:46 PM
My fave cover among the books I read this year (it's from 2004) was The Name of the Game is a Kidnapping (by Janet Hansen). It's why I noticed the book on the library shelf and created a want-to-read mystique so that I eventually checked it out. Very suitable to such a twisty, game-playing novel.
(Actually they're in the order I read them, I copied them from the (longer) list I kept.)
January 2, 2026 at 8:06 PM
(Actually they're in the order I read them, I copied them from the (longer) list I kept.)
Inherent Vice, Thomas Pynchon
The Priest, Thomas M. Disch
The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin
Culture Creep: Notes on the Pop Apocalypse, Alice Bolin
Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino
Twilight at Mac’s Place, Ross Thomas
Paola Santiago and the River of Tears, Tehlor Kay Mejia
3/3
The Priest, Thomas M. Disch
The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin
Culture Creep: Notes on the Pop Apocalypse, Alice Bolin
Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino
Twilight at Mac’s Place, Ross Thomas
Paola Santiago and the River of Tears, Tehlor Kay Mejia
3/3
January 2, 2026 at 8:05 PM
Inherent Vice, Thomas Pynchon
The Priest, Thomas M. Disch
The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin
Culture Creep: Notes on the Pop Apocalypse, Alice Bolin
Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino
Twilight at Mac’s Place, Ross Thomas
Paola Santiago and the River of Tears, Tehlor Kay Mejia
3/3
The Priest, Thomas M. Disch
The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin
Culture Creep: Notes on the Pop Apocalypse, Alice Bolin
Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino
Twilight at Mac’s Place, Ross Thomas
Paola Santiago and the River of Tears, Tehlor Kay Mejia
3/3
The Name of the Game Is a Kidnapping, Keigo Higashino
Reds, Maurice Isserman
Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir
Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism, George
Monbiot and Peter Hutchison
Valley of the Dolls, Jacqueline Susann
The Secret Public, Jon Savage
Annihilation, Jeff Vandermeer
Reds, Maurice Isserman
Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir
Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism, George
Monbiot and Peter Hutchison
Valley of the Dolls, Jacqueline Susann
The Secret Public, Jon Savage
Annihilation, Jeff Vandermeer
January 2, 2026 at 8:00 PM
The Name of the Game Is a Kidnapping, Keigo Higashino
Reds, Maurice Isserman
Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir
Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism, George
Monbiot and Peter Hutchison
Valley of the Dolls, Jacqueline Susann
The Secret Public, Jon Savage
Annihilation, Jeff Vandermeer
Reds, Maurice Isserman
Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir
Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism, George
Monbiot and Peter Hutchison
Valley of the Dolls, Jacqueline Susann
The Secret Public, Jon Savage
Annihilation, Jeff Vandermeer
Billy, or William Blackhorse Singer, is Navajo, but at least a hundred years out of time from interstellar travel, and at least partly wants to die, as Cat senses. And he is pursued by more than Cat. There is also a Chindi, a more traditional enemy, and even more dangerous. Lots of myth and magic.
January 2, 2026 at 7:54 PM
Billy, or William Blackhorse Singer, is Navajo, but at least a hundred years out of time from interstellar travel, and at least partly wants to die, as Cat senses. And he is pursued by more than Cat. There is also a Chindi, a more traditional enemy, and even more dangerous. Lots of myth and magic.
It, a one-eyed shape-changing predator he calls Cat, is pissed. But it's an opportunity. An alien assassin threatens a interstellar diplomatic mission, which Billy has been hired to stop. He offers Cat a deal: stop the assassin and it can kill Billy. But things go wrong and it turns into a hunt.
January 2, 2026 at 7:48 PM
It, a one-eyed shape-changing predator he calls Cat, is pissed. But it's an opportunity. An alien assassin threatens a interstellar diplomatic mission, which Billy has been hired to stop. He offers Cat a deal: stop the assassin and it can kill Billy. But things go wrong and it turns into a hunt.
Wow, this was a pleasant surprise, because I like this track too but I never hear it talked about, and I never thought it would be this high even if it was included. A Diamond Dogs flashback, just as The Secret Life of Arabia is a Station to Station flashback (DD is my favorite Bowie album.)
December 29, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Wow, this was a pleasant surprise, because I like this track too but I never hear it talked about, and I never thought it would be this high even if it was included. A Diamond Dogs flashback, just as The Secret Life of Arabia is a Station to Station flashback (DD is my favorite Bowie album.)
It has a real-life model to work from, of course. Written in the mid-’50, it reflects the ongoing Joe McCarthy era, with Hitler and Stalin and 1984 in the background, which gives it a kind of authenticity even if the present crisis is worse.
December 22, 2025 at 8:23 PM
It has a real-life model to work from, of course. Written in the mid-’50, it reflects the ongoing Joe McCarthy era, with Hitler and Stalin and 1984 in the background, which gives it a kind of authenticity even if the present crisis is worse.
Jones clearly has further ambitions, and he can realize them because he’s a mutant who can see the future. I’m interested in where this is going, but one thing the novel does that I wouldn’t have appreciated before is capturing how his movement pervades and poisons everyday life.
December 22, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Jones clearly has further ambitions, and he can realize them because he’s a mutant who can see the future. I’m interested in where this is going, but one thing the novel does that I wouldn’t have appreciated before is capturing how his movement pervades and poisons everyday life.
It’s a grim, post-nuke future U.S. with labor camps and secret police, but that’s not the bad part. Floyd Jones is at the head of a growing hate movement against the drifters, harmless space amoebas who are landing on Earth who are just a pretext.
December 22, 2025 at 8:20 PM
It’s a grim, post-nuke future U.S. with labor camps and secret police, but that’s not the bad part. Floyd Jones is at the head of a growing hate movement against the drifters, harmless space amoebas who are landing on Earth who are just a pretext.