The birds and the bees- a toh mini comic
I apologize, the first few panels look a bit clunky since the sketches were so lazy (I initially doodled it without the idea of it being a comic) but I hope it’s still ok
actually this is a pretty good "welcome to the blog" image. hello friends from afar. i am making a visual novel codenamed soulsov.
it's about these two, a gentle man named loic and a chaotic woman named ysme. brought together by unusual circumstances, they navigate the ruined world outside a great tower that has housed all of humanity as far back as anyone can remember. there is magic and passion and an alligator(?? we're still trying to confirm this one)
please look forward to it.
Day in Fandom History: January 15…
The Gems try to help Steven how to successfully use fusion powers but is having some trouble staying focused when learning this technique, and when Connie tries to cheer him up and Steven helping her how to dance in public leads to a surprising result. “Alone Together” premiered on this day, 8 Years Ago.
The professor wasn’t Jewish. The former student who targeted and killed him thought that he was and hated him for it.
I was so honored to get the opportunity to write the script for Neon White! The gameplay is a blast and the story is an ode to anyone nostalgic for sexy, camp absurdities rife in old anime.
not to be all “think of the children” but the fact that companies can openly admit to using methods to intentionally form addictions in children and we’re not killing their ceos in the streets yet is astounding
when I say “kids now don’t know how to disconnect” or “kids don’t know how to be bored anymore” i don’t mean “kids should sit in a white room in a solitary chair eating saltines and never touch technology” i mean “kids are losing the essential ability to imagine and create their own play because they have a constant 24/7 stream of more overstimulating material than they could ever watch at their fingertips, and when this stimulation is removed they literally don’t know what to do with themselves”
when I say “kids are addicted to video games” I don’t mean “ah these darn kids and their dag-blasted Ataris” I mean “video games are being purposefully designed to squeeze as much money/ad engagement out of the individual consumer as possible and mechanisms like lootboxes and season passes are intentionally engineered to create addiction”
i know it’s purely anecdotal but every time i think about that toddler who told his dad “don’t forget to like and subscribe” at bedtime because he thought it was how you said goodbye to people i feel sick
this isn’t reserved to china, though china suffers the worst from it due to being the same location as the investors. multiple countries are having to make buying property and land illegal for people who do not have at least permanent residency/do not live in our countries for a certain amount of days a year, because billionaire chinese investors and investment companies buy properties and land en masse for appreciation purposes, and in doing so, the act forces the prices to go up. and you have massive amounts of empty houses and unused land that just sit there, collecting capital gains. this was big in new zealand until we made it illegal (but unfortunately rich nzers and companies caught onto the practice and now do it themselves here, the scale has properly tipped).
i know other countries also have this problem from the rich and investors in their own nations, but yeah, i grew up in such a town where only 2000 people lived there, but there were around 5,000-10,000 empty, expensive houses in the area just bought up by real estate companies to sell and trade and collectively bring the prices up to make profit.
This is what every west coast US city is like. West coast real estate companies only rent out about half the housing units they purchase or develop. The rest sit empty. They’re the driving force behind a debilitating housing crisis. And the cities bend over backwards to accommodate this practice. There’s been no regulation here.
Los Angeles: 93,000 empty units with a homeless population of 69,000
San Francisco: 44,500 empty units with a homeless population of 20,000
Seattle: 22,600 empty units with a homeless population of 12,000
San Jose: 14,000 empty units with a homeless population of 7,000
Oakland: 10,000 empty units with a homeless population of 10,000
The state of California has a total 1.2 million empty units with a homeless population of 116,600. If every homeless person in California was housed, there’d still be 1.1 million empty units.