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Jill @jillus.bsky.social · Sep 4

2026 is a few months away...why not prepare for it with a sexy calendar?
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Age Hasn't Slowed You Down One Bit- A Metal Gear Solid (senior citizen's) 2026 calendar - Jill's Ko-fi Shop

One full year of tasteful, fully coloured, cheeky pinups of your favourite Metal Gear Solid characters: Old Snake, Master Miller, Zero, Big Mama and m...

Jill @jillus.bsky.social · 21m

LS AU words written (posted): 26,920
LS AU words written (not yet posted): 52,743

Jill @jillus.bsky.social · 2h

Finally finished a LS AU fic rough draft....hoping I can post it by the weekend

Jill @jillus.bsky.social · 3h

i can see this so clearly

Jill @jillus.bsky.social · 3h

sunny being like this is what you guys do for FUN??? 🤨

Jill @jillus.bsky.social · 4h

thinking about otacon and snake going bowling.
otacon: this one's for you, babe 😘
(gutter ball)

Jill @jillus.bsky.social · 4h

remembering my post-university stoner days with a friend where we invented the candy sandwich (poptarts were the bread), with your favourite candy smushed inbetween.

if i even attempted to eat that now, my entire body would shut down (or shit itself)

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 11h

With alt text. Last photo repeated to complete alt.

In July 1945, when I was four and a half years old, Utsunomiya, the city I lived in got bombed. So, well, it's no use going into details. Since this is the memory of a four year old, I think I created a large part of the story while I was recalling it over and over.
When I woke up in my futon, I mean, I was awakened because of the air raid, it was midnight, but the sky was dyed in red, no, pink, like an evening glow. Even the inside of the house was pink. So, since it was a big house, we went into the shelter made in the corner of the garden, but we were told that it was dangerous even there. I have three brothers, but my youngest brother hadn't been born yet at that time, my younger brother was a baby, I was four, and my older brother was six years old. My mother carried my younger brother on her back and my father held my hand.
And my other uncle, I think he was also working for the munitions plant, he held my older brother's hand, and we evacuated to under the railroad bridge of Tobu Railway. It was under the bridge, outskirts of the town, and there were lots of greens, so we thought bombs wouldn't be dropped there. Actually, it was cloudy, and the firebombs, called oil and fat incendiary bombs which contained oil in them, were raining from the sky and the town was already on fire.

Then, we thought being there might still be dangerous.
That day, my uncle brought the company truck to the house. It was a very small Datsun truck, smaller than today's light car. It was a troublesome truck since the engine was hard to start, but my uncle went back home through the town in the fire to get that truck. He went back and found that the fire was coming right up next to the truck, but the truck wasn't burned yet, and when he tried to start the engine, it immediately started since it was warmed well by the fire. Well, (it was a kind of truck) you have to crank (the engine) up by hand. And he came back through the fire, and we decided to evacuate to outside of the town riding on this car. My mother holding my brother sat in the passenger's seat, my uncle was in the driver's seat, and it was full since it was such a small car. And my father, my older brother, and I sat on the loading platform, covered by a futon, since we had to run through the fire, and anyway, we started going.
Then, there were several people taking shelter under the railroad bridge, and I don't remember clearly, but I surely heard a woman's voice saying, "please give us a ride." i don't know whether I saw her myself, or I thought I saw her, since I heard my parents talking about her later, but anyway, a woman holding a girl, who was one of our neighbors, came running towards us, saying, "please give us a ride." But the truck just took off. And her voice saying
"please give us a ride" gradually died away in the distance... Well, that was made up in my head like a drama.

If there had been a kid who could say "please let her ride," I think maybe a mother and a father would have stopped the car at that moment. I mean, if I'm a parent and my kid says so, I think I would do so. There were many reasons that you couldn't do that. If you had stopped (the car), more people might have come and created more confusion. I understand that well, but I still wish I could've said so then.
Or I wish my older brother could've said so. Of course, it would have been better if my parents had stopped (the car).
Actually, this story about the truck has very little to do with the essence of the war. Even if I satisfy my conscience by doing so, how about the issue of the munitions industry?
Or, comparing the issue of some being burnt by the air raid and some not and the issue of, for example, Japan as a nation doing many horrible things such as massacres in China, the Philippines, or other countries in South East Asia, I have to conclude that Japanese as a whole were perpetrators, so the problem isn't that simple. But after all those years, | realized that I wanted to make an animation with a kid who can say "please stop the car" in such a situation, not (giving up since) humans can't say so after all.

So, offering a girl a tissue flower and saying "please accept my love" might sound unrealistic. A four year old kid asking his parents, "please stop the car" might be unrealistic. But if there is a kid who can say so, and if we can feel "oh, it's OK to say so in such a situation," I think that would be better. At least, I see myself as a person who can't make a movie in any other way. I saw many movies which depicted the dark side or stupidity of humans and made the audience feel that they were the ones who were accused and then go home depressed, and I think there is a significance to such movies, and we have to watch such movies from time to time, but I want to make something like, "I wish things are like this." It was so in Panda Kopanda. It was so in Totoro. Well, most (of my movies) were like that. I think I have no choice but to keep making such movies.

Jill @jillus.bsky.social · 16h

Eli/Tretji quick sketch from last night

Jill @jillus.bsky.social · 1d

It feels like my brain is leaking out through my ears

Jill @jillus.bsky.social · 1d

Hugging you ❤️❤️❤️

Jill @jillus.bsky.social · 2d

Road rage #mgs

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BAKER @fuckyoubaker.bsky.social · 2d

MONDAY.
SPITE AS FUEL.

Jill @jillus.bsky.social · 3d

I have never been so honored by a friend having a tag for my art on Tumblr called JART (jill art)

Jill @jillus.bsky.social · 3d

😾

Jill @jillus.bsky.social · 3d

📸

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Boonk @boonkin.bsky.social · 3d

For @chaoszonenate.bsky.social amazing fic: archiveofourown.org/works/71668276

Jill @jillus.bsky.social · 3d

Big...Boss?

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Mary Kenney @marykgames.com · 3d

how your email finds me

Ophelia is an 1851–52 painting by British artist Sir John Everett Millais in the collection of Tate Britain, London. It depicts Ophelia, a character from William Shakespeare's play Hamlet, singing before she drowns in a river.

Jill @jillus.bsky.social · 4d

YES omg

Jill @jillus.bsky.social · 4d

What should I draw tonight, taking requests, go nuts

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Marko (Nerd and Jock Comics) @markoraassina.bsky.social · 4d

Hang in there, struggling artists

Jill @jillus.bsky.social · 4d

HAPPY BIRTHDAY 🥳🎂🎈🎉

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Patricia, Wailing "AHH!!!" 👻 @pwallinga.bsky.social · 5d

I am so jealous of little animals who can curl up into a little circle. That's gotta be the best nap you can take.

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Leo Fox @leoofox.bsky.social · 5d

Jill @jillus.bsky.social · 5d

Tempering chocolate is a massive pain in the ass and I would only make small batches but I would do it....for them (the blorbos)