Katrani Merack
@katrani.bsky.social
Making odd connections across media for *grumble* years
Tend to drift to different stuff. Millennial, neurodivergent, queer as heck
She/they
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Fuller intro: https://bsky.app/profile/katrani.bsky.social/post/3kks26f3v472b
Tend to drift to different stuff. Millennial, neurodivergent, queer as heck
She/they
Icon by @fuwafawn
Fuller intro: https://bsky.app/profile/katrani.bsky.social/post/3kks26f3v472b
Boyfriend pointed out that the 30th anniversary for Tales Of is tomorrow
I have been itching to play Symphonia again......
I have been itching to play Symphonia again......
December 15, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Boyfriend pointed out that the 30th anniversary for Tales Of is tomorrow
I have been itching to play Symphonia again......
I have been itching to play Symphonia again......
Still utterly BAFFLED that Crunchyroll chose *this* season to have HeroAca on a delayed simuldub
I wanna scream about the finale but I have to wait 2 more weeks
I wanna scream about the finale but I have to wait 2 more weeks
December 13, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Still utterly BAFFLED that Crunchyroll chose *this* season to have HeroAca on a delayed simuldub
I wanna scream about the finale but I have to wait 2 more weeks
I wanna scream about the finale but I have to wait 2 more weeks
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1. For at least 10 years, Pepsi has conspired with Walmart to force up grocery prices. That’s the shocking evidence made public today in an unsealed FTC lawsuit. The suit was abandoned in May by the Trump FTC just before it was to be un-redacted. We went to court to get it unsealed & won.
December 12, 2025 at 5:30 PM
1. For at least 10 years, Pepsi has conspired with Walmart to force up grocery prices. That’s the shocking evidence made public today in an unsealed FTC lawsuit. The suit was abandoned in May by the Trump FTC just before it was to be un-redacted. We went to court to get it unsealed & won.
Once again it is time to debate if I want to be able to scream with my friends about bullshit or not put my eyes on the bullshit at all
December 11, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Once again it is time to debate if I want to be able to scream with my friends about bullshit or not put my eyes on the bullshit at all
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It's Game Awards day again and I'll repeat my forever-take on this show: awards for genres don't make any sense because *games* don't deserve awards; the developers do.
Joke: Best Action, Best Fighting, Best Family game
Woke: Best Level Design, Best Animation, Best UI
Celebrate the work
Joke: Best Action, Best Fighting, Best Family game
Woke: Best Level Design, Best Animation, Best UI
Celebrate the work
December 11, 2025 at 5:59 PM
It's Game Awards day again and I'll repeat my forever-take on this show: awards for genres don't make any sense because *games* don't deserve awards; the developers do.
Joke: Best Action, Best Fighting, Best Family game
Woke: Best Level Design, Best Animation, Best UI
Celebrate the work
Joke: Best Action, Best Fighting, Best Family game
Woke: Best Level Design, Best Animation, Best UI
Celebrate the work
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We’re deeply honored that HADES II is in the running for Game of the Year and more at #TheGameAwards tonight, especially since we’re in the company of such an amazing group of wildly different and beautiful games.
Congratulations to all our fellow nominees — we salute you!! 🙏👏
Congratulations to all our fellow nominees — we salute you!! 🙏👏
December 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
We’re deeply honored that HADES II is in the running for Game of the Year and more at #TheGameAwards tonight, especially since we’re in the company of such an amazing group of wildly different and beautiful games.
Congratulations to all our fellow nominees — we salute you!! 🙏👏
Congratulations to all our fellow nominees — we salute you!! 🙏👏
Doing an AP with friends
Laughing cause I didn't realize Stardew rando made the shipping bin a check reward
A little worried cause we just started today and my LttP file already has Master Sword, Lamp and Mirror
Will I be gloves-locked or bow-locked or boots-locked....
Laughing cause I didn't realize Stardew rando made the shipping bin a check reward
A little worried cause we just started today and my LttP file already has Master Sword, Lamp and Mirror
Will I be gloves-locked or bow-locked or boots-locked....
December 10, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Doing an AP with friends
Laughing cause I didn't realize Stardew rando made the shipping bin a check reward
A little worried cause we just started today and my LttP file already has Master Sword, Lamp and Mirror
Will I be gloves-locked or bow-locked or boots-locked....
Laughing cause I didn't realize Stardew rando made the shipping bin a check reward
A little worried cause we just started today and my LttP file already has Master Sword, Lamp and Mirror
Will I be gloves-locked or bow-locked or boots-locked....
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It rocks to tell people their shit rocks. Every single person who has ever been nice about my work has been appreciated for doing so. I take time to say I love stuff and it’s always the right time to remind somebody you value their work! You don’t need to get into detail either. Just say it rocks
I’ve sometimes fallen into the trap of thinking that complementing a creative person for their work is less sophisticated or desired than discussion or debate about it but very often the best thing you can say to them is hell yeah and that doesn’t make you dumb it just makes you nice
December 4, 2025 at 4:58 AM
It rocks to tell people their shit rocks. Every single person who has ever been nice about my work has been appreciated for doing so. I take time to say I love stuff and it’s always the right time to remind somebody you value their work! You don’t need to get into detail either. Just say it rocks
Friend and her bro have good insight!! Without getting into overly technical verbiage. Do show them some appreciation
It's time to talk about Final Fantasy VI in this month's episode of the VGM Appreciation Hour. This is the first of a two-parter where @sammneiland.gay and I dive into one of Nobuo Uematsu's greatest works. Listen in your podcast feed or direct in your browser: sites.libsyn.com/592375/final...
The VGM Appreciation Hour: Final Fantasy VI - Part 1
A masterwork by Nobuo Uematsu and his team. Your Hosts are and Show notes: - Medley of Opening theme, overture, and Terra's theme Many other themes in that playlist too. by Frankfurt Rad...
sites.libsyn.com
December 6, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Friend and her bro have good insight!! Without getting into overly technical verbiage. Do show them some appreciation
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Heya! If you know me, or read my posts, you know that I'm trying to recover from the most emotionally+mentally ill year of my life. But you might not know that tomorrow is my birthday! If you (or a family member with liberal guilt) would like to help a disabled trans gal, my venmo is in my profile.
November 30, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Heya! If you know me, or read my posts, you know that I'm trying to recover from the most emotionally+mentally ill year of my life. But you might not know that tomorrow is my birthday! If you (or a family member with liberal guilt) would like to help a disabled trans gal, my venmo is in my profile.
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💯 This pattern is pervasive. Even among workers with privilege to speak up, managers disregard internal objection. Tenured faculty can write critical papers and object via shared governance, but students and parents complaining to administrators about slop education carries more weight. Solidarity ✊️
Here's the good news: though the workers 'making' these AI locs can't do much to stop them, WE, THE CONSUMERS, CAN.
Email them. Cancel your subscription. Call them and complain.
Be a Karen. Tell them they have lost your dollar.
Workers secretly want this. They want consumers to riot.
Email them. Cancel your subscription. Call them and complain.
Be a Karen. Tell them they have lost your dollar.
Workers secretly want this. They want consumers to riot.
November 30, 2025 at 2:14 PM
💯 This pattern is pervasive. Even among workers with privilege to speak up, managers disregard internal objection. Tenured faculty can write critical papers and object via shared governance, but students and parents complaining to administrators about slop education carries more weight. Solidarity ✊️
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[observing someone’s obsessive passion project] wow i really like whatever’s wrong with that guy
November 28, 2025 at 11:40 PM
[observing someone’s obsessive passion project] wow i really like whatever’s wrong with that guy
Like I know I bought the cheap-ass ones but part of my headphones just kinda fell apart?? Out of nowhere?????
Hopefully they don't completely break until like February
Hopefully they don't completely break until like February
November 29, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Like I know I bought the cheap-ass ones but part of my headphones just kinda fell apart?? Out of nowhere?????
Hopefully they don't completely break until like February
Hopefully they don't completely break until like February
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the new defunctland video is a prequel to knights of guinevere
November 28, 2025 at 5:09 AM
the new defunctland video is a prequel to knights of guinevere
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A *huge* vaccine victory. I've been writing on this for years; Australia has seen remarkable progress in cervical cancer prevention with the HPV vaccine. I love seeing science triumph like this.
Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
newsGP - Australia set for world-first cervical cancer elimination
Vaccination programs have played a key role, and GPs remain ‘instrumental’ in boosting screening rates to reach the 2035 target.
www1.racgp.org.au
November 27, 2025 at 6:12 PM
A *huge* vaccine victory. I've been writing on this for years; Australia has seen remarkable progress in cervical cancer prevention with the HPV vaccine. I love seeing science triumph like this.
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TONIGHT
Three new soaps!!! Inspired by tabletop RPGs
Goblin - Earth, moss and cedar
Mind Flayer - Bergamot, tea, and lemon
Dragonborn - Smoke, clove, patchouli
Stay tuned for when they drop ...!
🐉🦑👺
Three new soaps!!! Inspired by tabletop RPGs
Goblin - Earth, moss and cedar
Mind Flayer - Bergamot, tea, and lemon
Dragonborn - Smoke, clove, patchouli
Stay tuned for when they drop ...!
🐉🦑👺
November 27, 2025 at 3:17 PM
TONIGHT
Three new soaps!!! Inspired by tabletop RPGs
Goblin - Earth, moss and cedar
Mind Flayer - Bergamot, tea, and lemon
Dragonborn - Smoke, clove, patchouli
Stay tuned for when they drop ...!
🐉🦑👺
Three new soaps!!! Inspired by tabletop RPGs
Goblin - Earth, moss and cedar
Mind Flayer - Bergamot, tea, and lemon
Dragonborn - Smoke, clove, patchouli
Stay tuned for when they drop ...!
🐉🦑👺
Beatbreak had a good set-up for Gekkomon's digivolution with the Pandamon stuff but didn't take it
However I do wonder if they're foreshadowing a possible fusion mechanic as a mid-season change-up
However I do wonder if they're foreshadowing a possible fusion mechanic as a mid-season change-up
November 27, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Beatbreak had a good set-up for Gekkomon's digivolution with the Pandamon stuff but didn't take it
However I do wonder if they're foreshadowing a possible fusion mechanic as a mid-season change-up
However I do wonder if they're foreshadowing a possible fusion mechanic as a mid-season change-up
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NEW!
Black Cherry Shave Soap is here! Looking for something that smells a little sweet? We got you.
www.midnightnonsense.com/shop/p/black...
Black Cherry Shave Soap is here! Looking for something that smells a little sweet? We got you.
www.midnightnonsense.com/shop/p/black...
November 24, 2025 at 11:05 PM
NEW!
Black Cherry Shave Soap is here! Looking for something that smells a little sweet? We got you.
www.midnightnonsense.com/shop/p/black...
Black Cherry Shave Soap is here! Looking for something that smells a little sweet? We got you.
www.midnightnonsense.com/shop/p/black...
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Remember: they used thousands of academic books too! If you’re a scholar, check for your books too. This isn’t just novelists and pop writers, it’s academic books too!
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Remember: they used thousands of academic books too! If you’re a scholar, check for your books too. This isn’t just novelists and pop writers, it’s academic books too!
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why are people so concerned with pointless stuff like whether the zelda movie will be "good" or "bad" or when you could simply be getting excited to see what new zealand actors from power rangers or xena warrior princess you might see as hyrule castle handmaiden #4 or whatever.
November 17, 2025 at 2:40 PM
why are people so concerned with pointless stuff like whether the zelda movie will be "good" or "bad" or when you could simply be getting excited to see what new zealand actors from power rangers or xena warrior princess you might see as hyrule castle handmaiden #4 or whatever.
Megalobox tattoo!!!!
Chief-specific hummingbird cause the hummingbird as devotion motif works so well and Chief especially burrowed into my brain.
Quote is from one of the episode titles. "Though you feel powerless, still God offers their image as a stepping stone."
Chief-specific hummingbird cause the hummingbird as devotion motif works so well and Chief especially burrowed into my brain.
Quote is from one of the episode titles. "Though you feel powerless, still God offers their image as a stepping stone."
November 18, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Megalobox tattoo!!!!
Chief-specific hummingbird cause the hummingbird as devotion motif works so well and Chief especially burrowed into my brain.
Quote is from one of the episode titles. "Though you feel powerless, still God offers their image as a stepping stone."
Chief-specific hummingbird cause the hummingbird as devotion motif works so well and Chief especially burrowed into my brain.
Quote is from one of the episode titles. "Though you feel powerless, still God offers their image as a stepping stone."
I at least appreciate the commitment to the bit with the weird quick edits
YOU GUYS WANNA SEE SOMETHING CURSED???? HOW ABOUT NEON GENESIS LEHIGH VALLEY PHANTOMS HOCKEY?????
November 17, 2025 at 5:31 AM
I at least appreciate the commitment to the bit with the weird quick edits
44 hours until my tattoo :D
I really hope it'll be clean enough to post right away, but who knows, bodies react weird to stuff
I really hope it'll be clean enough to post right away, but who knows, bodies react weird to stuff
November 16, 2025 at 3:06 AM
44 hours until my tattoo :D
I really hope it'll be clean enough to post right away, but who knows, bodies react weird to stuff
I really hope it'll be clean enough to post right away, but who knows, bodies react weird to stuff