Jay Blanc @jayblanc@awoo.space

Welp. Majo No Tabitabi - The Journey of Elaina, seemed to be a pleasant Traveling Witch story. And then Episode Three took a sharp turn into "Whoops I got someone killed but guess there's nothing to be done" and "Well, forcing your affections onto a slave girl is okay actually".

Your good news today is that a defunct satellite did not collide with a discarded booster rocket to trigger a catastrophic kessler cascade.

I reorganised my iphone homepage, and I feel so accomplished, I did something today!

Best beans?

Imagine if you made a co-op zombie defence game, and then when no one bought it you turned it into a Battlegrounds game with a hat based economy, and then suddenly you had someone perform a concert in your Battlegrounds game, and now you're a social media platform. And this is all producing horrendous amounts of money so you can never admit you don't know what you are doing. And the giant terrifying multinational that owns you is asking, demanding you make more money. So you sue Apple.

I just realised that in the not too distant future, someone will eventually end up writing a video game patch notice that includes "Fixed: Breast feel haptic feedback exploit that could crush users fingers."

The impending horrors of the Near-Future VR Anime Tiddy Hackable Threat Vectors are not my fault.

Dear Millennials,
We're all very tired, and we're might get cranky once in a while, but we're okay with you just taking over now. Just keep us supplied with updated remakes of our nostalgic media, and we'll be happy. We love you, please take care of the world.
- Gen X

Happy Bastille Day, and remember there's only one way to check if the 1% are made of cake.

As I do the last minute catch-up reading on the Hugo awards shortlist, I am pondering a way of deciding zero-or-more Laurel awards for science fiction writing. Perhaps approval voting on the combined short lists of the Nebulas and Hugos?

It may come as a shock that it was not possible in 2015 to get a broadway production that outright called the founding fathers slave owners.

But I don't want to see white people telling black people they weren't brave enough to talk about slavery.

I've written a new thing. https://www.deviantart.com/jayblanc/art/In-The-Finest-of-Spirits-846054094

Ah, the wonder of American Conservatives asking Irish-British people if they condone vandalising Churchill statues.

Now might be the right time for those of you with dormant Twitter accounts, to go do a check up and prune of which accounts there you were following.

Today I discovered that Dave Sim has a website and a twitter account that are labeled as 'unofficial fan sites' that are run by some un-named fan. Who just happen to have all of Sim's original art to scan, and run columns from him when ever he wants them to.

And also that this account will reply to criticism of Dave Sim on Twitter, retweeting those replies. But it's just an unofficial fan site, so that's okay.

One thing I find very satisfying about the relationship between Adora and Catra is that Adora was never an enabler for Catra's bullshit. And it had to be Catra who changed her toxic behaviour to have the relationship she wanted, not Adora.

Now that "Dispatches from Elsewhere" has completed it's season, I can whole heartedly recommend adding it to your must-watch lists.

Happy Easter! Tag Yourself!

I've found a youtube channel that consists entirely of a Norwegian Train Driver taking real-time cab-view video of her train routes. And it is the best thing ever. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygjw-n1bOnE

According to the current "Which fictional character are you?!" test going around, I'm tied in similarity between Bruce Banner and Willow Rosenberg. And I'd say that's fair.