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5uki5en5or

@5uki5en5or.bsky.social

since it's new years eve, my fave youtube video this year was
@transparency.bsky.social 's video about Japanese Spyro the Dragon, which absolutely captures the uphill battle of videogame discourse and the importance of original research. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfVu...

Did Japan ACTUALLY Hate Spyro?

YouTube video by Transparency Boo

www.youtube.com

December 31, 2025 at 10:40 AM

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IDOLA's Strangest Fruit

@rodence.bsky.social

holy fuck what an intro

December 30, 2025 at 11:55 PM

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Toorurii🦩🪐

@toorurii.bsky.social

He’s clowning around

A drawing of Toorurii’s OC, Agape, in an impossibly tight and raunchy ‘clown’ outfit with long sleeves with fluffy ends.

December 30, 2025 at 6:44 PM

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Xan

@comicsbyxan.bsky.social

Pronouncing "chibis" like it's a word in Hebrew

December 30, 2025 at 5:30 PM

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David J Prokopetz

@prokopetz.bsky.social

Inadvisable tabletop RPG premise #137: short-form storygame about gay catgirls in love written in the High Gygaxian register of a late 70s Dungeons & Dragons clone. The mechanics for tracking emotional intimacy are very obviously adapted from a historical wargame's mechanics for besieging a castle.

December 30, 2025 at 5:25 PM

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Sora

@nyaasora.bsky.social

Bloody queers #14 - trying out clothes

#comics #webcomics #art

December 29, 2025 at 6:32 PM

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Bayleaf 🍃

@iceghost.bsky.social

Reposting an old silly sort-of-autobio comic

December 29, 2025 at 11:50 PM

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sai ✦ frosty faustings

@radiostarkiller.bsky.social

this still slaps

March 25, 2024 at 10:40 AM

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Kara Buchanan 🏳️‍⚧️

@magicariot.com

babe, are you ok? you reskeeted eunnieboo's "pink in the night" again

⭐️eunnie⭐️ @eunnieboo.bsky.social · May 28

pink in the night (2019)

lyric comic to pink in the night, by mitski. page 1 text: and i know i've kissed you before, but i didn't do it right. scene 1: a little boy and girl are sitting in the rain. the boy wipes away tears, having tripped and scratched a knee. the girl leans forward to kiss the small wound. scene 2: the two friends are in elementary school, holding hands. the boy looks at a picture depicting a mom, dad, and child.

page 2 text: can i try again, try again, try again. scene 1: high school. they lie on the floor during a study session, but they only have eyes for each other. scene 2: college. the same couple, only now they are two girls, kissing in bed. scene 3: the girls are getting married, exchanging a sweet kiss in a field of flowers. sunset colors cast warm light onto their wedding dresses.

page 3 text: try again, and again, and again. scene 1: the girls are moving in together. one dozes off against an unpacked moving box as the other kisses her head. scene 2: disneyland. both wear minnie mouse ears as they take a selfie, laughing at the kiss mark one has left on her wife's cheek. scene 3: the childhood friends have grown older. one woman hides a bouquet behind her back as they kiss over breakfast.

page 4 text: and again, and again, and again? scene 1: the women wake up in bed together, hints of grey in their hair. one kisses the other's bare shoulder. scene 2: a winter walk. they kiss as their dog plays in the snow. scene 3: the shore of a beach. the wives have greying hair and fine wrinkles, but they're still just as in love. they hold each other close, laughing, full of affection.

June 4, 2025 at 2:49 AM

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富岡二郎

@tomioka2.bsky.social

October 21, 2024 at 4:19 AM

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Jay Hulme

@jayhulmepoet.bsky.social

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.

I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video

A photograph of the seminary gym in knives out. It has the same window.

December 29, 2025 at 1:11 PM

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Anime Wink

@animewink.bsky.social

Tucked away in a Polish anime CD from 1997: Windows 3.x/95 Solitaire infused with the Power of the Moon!

Also known as Moonsol and Solitaire: Sailor Moon Edition.

A Windows 98 screenie with Moonsol opened, where all the cards are all Sailor Moon themed.

December 29, 2025 at 5:09 PM

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈

@danifroom.bsky.social

Galaxy Quest director Dean Parisot recalled a time Tim Allen was unsettled by a scene he was performing:

I turn back, and Tim is just completely emotional; heart wrenching, actually. He says, "Yeah, I don't like these feelings I'm having, I'd like to go back to the trailer." I said, "Okay, fine." And Alan Rickman said, "Oh my god, I think he just experienced acting."

December 26, 2025 at 5:38 PM

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neo

@neorarty.bsky.social

one of my fav paintings this year

December 29, 2025 at 12:38 AM

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Borch

@borcheim.newgrounds.com

Old art I still love :P

December 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM

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nrcgray.bsky.social

@nrcgray.bsky.social

It's late😖but I drew this holiday version of my pack rat girl:

December 27, 2025 at 11:06 PM

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中林ずん(OωO)不運からの最強男アニメ化決定！🎊

@zunbayashi.bsky.social

線画セリカ

March 21, 2025 at 12:49 PM

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Jackdu

@vavafle.bsky.social

June 14, 2025 at 9:23 PM

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gloriouscow.bsky.social

@gloriouscow.bsky.social

I've released my tool for encoding pixel art on floppy disk tracks.

Because that is surely a thing that people will want to do? I don't know. I just get ideas and dumb stuff happens.

github.com/dbalsom/flux...

#retrocomputing #floppy #floppydisk

A screenshot from the HxC disk editor showing three pixel art cats where you would normally expect a flux transition timing diagram with three horizontal bars indicating standard MFM encoding.

Instead we have cats, somehow.

December 28, 2025 at 3:12 AM

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Retronauts

@retronauts.bsky.social

great find from the Retronauts Discord: you can still enjoy the "Solid Eye" mode in Metal Gear Ac!d 2 on PSP if you have a copy of Tool's 10,000 Days album (and who doesn't?)
Credit to "3do_kid_but_not_that_one"!!