cthellis

@cthellis.bsky.social

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Tiny bit more active here now. My home remains: https://urusai.social/@cthellis I doubt Bluesky (or any algorithmic social media) will be any healthier for the psyche, even if it does have far fewer Nazis.

Political test chart with colored bars showing the results below Your Results 78% Woke 22% Chud 44% Techbro 56% Neo-Luddite 56% Hopepilled 44% Doomer 72% Davos 28% Dubai Your Closest Match: Zohran Mamdani Zohran Mamdani Mayor of New York City (2026-present)
Niya, the large, grey tabby from The Secret World of Arietty—taking up the whole frame—staring down at her, center screen. This counts. It is a picture of an IMAX movie screen. 😛
“The Average Asian Aging Process” explained through multiple pictures, with 18, 20-30, and 30-50 looking like the same young/slender image just with her hair up and with kids in the final bracket Then a MENOPAUSE!!! trigger after which 60-70 is short and zaftig with sunglasses and a sweatshirt, and “Age 120” has a tiny old lady face poking in from bottom frame
Image of Chihaya(furu) crying. She deserves to be on the list!
A giant patissier wielding a knife, uniform coated with red as if bloody (it is strawberry innards) saying “…welcome.”
Crew of the anime Irresponsible Captain Tylor (10 characters shown)
Picture of Yuri (from the Dirty Pair) covered in a blanket, in her freezing cold room. On a monitor behind her is, for no apparent reason, the names of the actors of Star Trek: TOS - W. Shatner - L. Nimoy - D. Kelly - J. Doohan - W. Koenig - G. Takei - N. Nichols
Image of a tweet Altus @PunishedAltus Breasts feed and nurture life. They are the bedrock of civilization. The ass expels waste and can only destroy. The boob man is a creator, the butt man worships chaos. 9:16 AM • Apr 29, 2026 • 2.1M Views
Some yuri with one character crying on the couch while holding a beer and getting drunk: “You’re right, I’m completely worthless!” WAAAHH The second is holding her hand out, trying to interrupt and offer comfort.
The full screenshot of "man of culture as well" guy, from Arakawa Under the Bridge, Season 2 Episode 9, wherein they are talking about topknot tea whisks. Most people do not know this. Welcome to the Secret Lore™
Tight-in focus on "Ah, I see you are a man of culture" meme guy. Without the text. It was very hard to find anything without the text, which is I'm sure why this shot is cropped in.
Snapshot from Urusei Yatsura Movie 2: Beautiful Dreamer, showing Mujaki the dream demon (super-deformed weirdo with a red jacked, bowtie and tophat) arguing with Sakura (long-suffering Shinto priestess and exorcist, dressed in traditional white robe over red hakama), on a decaying balcony in the dilapidated dream-state Tomobiki High School.
“What are the four character classes” “Wrong answers only” Plus come crazy combatty art
Profile info, revealing 06/09/2003 creation date, 3803 posts, and other Fark info
Purple box with a white-and-black complex Escheresque design involving dragons and polyhedrons and stuff, with the name "Archon" displayed. Amusingly at top in much larger text is "Atari XE Video Game Cartridge" so you know what it can play on. Also included is the internal instruction book and the video game cartridge, which similar picture/text adornments.
Speed bubble pulled from a comic panel, with "Hey, that's not a bad idea! We could use my spare overclocked Pentium III 450, get a DSL line, and we'd be in business!"
Well, nothing has changed about my desires for it: ⁠chihaya-furu⁠ Question is, what has the author revealed? Not... much. I feel like there has been some extra "TaichiXHanano" scenes, to possibly try to fend off the wailing fangirl hordes. Suo is changed largest and Shinobu as well, that I feel it's even best-er now if the win. Though not LIKING that it's luck-of-the-draw (a bit overused and too-cute-by-half here), it shows how much Chihaya and Arata have earned, but lets "the title draw" carry on past the end of the series. A win by Arata here would be tainted by "well the meijin was going blind anyway" but Suo's win here still has "proof" to it, and that can carry on into bringing karuta into other communities, and he can empassion those who wouldn't by either Arata or Chihaya. Shinobu can best draw out karuta into "a profession" and make the next meijin/queen match explosive. She could also best play out a "fated rivalry" aspect between her and Chihaya. (But frankly I want someone like Inokuma or Sakurazawa to take it from Shinobu before Chihaya would.) cthellis — 6/12/2022 10:39 AM Both Chihaya and Arata are obviously fated to BECOME "the best" at some point, but having both or even either of them do it at the end of the series here comes down more on "narrative obligation and making the audience happy" which is... not as satisfying, ultimately. I could take either Arata's confessing again or Chihaya's positive acceptance of one better in light of their mutual losses better than being "the prize for winning." But... I'd rather as I stated before, that it doesn't happen with any of them. There has simply not been enough romantic development in ~245 chapters to end with a random kiss and a promise. Chihaya still feels bound and determined to "find her role" in the world and keep on with karuta before any distractions, and it would probably make sense for Arata and Taichi to come to terms with immature/schoolguy crushes and everyone has, like..…
Space Brothers is coming to its end soon, and is my favorite series ever, so I must list Akane-banashi got two seasonal write-ups, so deserves a slot Orion's Board got another, so here we go! Vinland Saga was my major "catch up on in 2025 and holy shit it's great" Wotakoi wins "I never stop reading it in K Manga in an ever-looping cycle" hmmm... Bluesky really needs a character limit upgrade! XD What have I been looking forward to most each time I open an app this year...? Tonikawa/Fly Me to the Moon Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You My Dear Detective Witch Hat Atelier Steel of the Celestial Shadows Good enough. I could be here all day, otherwise. XD
Spartacus meme, but with “I’m Cheesy”
"Girl" from Angel's Egg, in the most "Frieren Angle" pose I could find.
The broad back of a young man, cast against a background of flowers. A panel from the mange “A Serenade of Spring Thunder” There is text of what he is thinking: “I will never fall in love.”
The “four guys” from Beast King GoLion/Voltron, in mostly casual clothes, with “Chibi”s head barely visible from the bottom, which is most-amusing.
Red-headed Maris the Chojo, chillin’ in her ship with a furry lil’ dude.
Chacha of Akazukin Chacha, who is designed like a chibi Red Riding Hood. Here she is in a strange cave of some sort, with a mallet in her hand, playing a Whack-a-Mole proxy.
The original EverQuesf loading screen, with Firiona Vie front and center holding a glowing staff, under the title banner running over a city wall, with small pictures of other characters and scenes in windows along the side. Pics you can hear!
A serious-looking lady piloting a giant golden mecha, drops the head of the previous foe she just punched to death, and whips out a laser sword to slice in half another mecha charging her with its own sword. Get better pilots, dorks! (This is near the end of Five Star Stories.)
A scene from Bubblegum Crisis #1, where a Boomer is flying through the air, and Linna jetpacks up to confront it with a laser sword that arcs out of her forearm, which she uses to slice the bugger in half.
Final fight in Grey Digital Target, where Grey gets knocked back, the brings up his laser sword to guard and charge in, knocking robo-laser-swords aside to somersault-jump up and on top of the robo-dude's headless body, flip his sword vertical, and stuff it down the neck hole of his opponent, while he lands behind. Dude appropriately blows up, casting our hero in the shadow of his boominess.
Scene near the end of Grey Digital Target, where Grey gets shot at after losing his gun arm, then jetpacks though the air and pulls his laser sword out again to decapitate a robo-fool.
Scene from Grey Digital Target, with Grey charging an enemy, then pulling a laser sword out of his shoulder-armor-thingee and doing the slash-and-pose-wait-----they-blow-up thing.
That scene from the Daicon IV intro where our bunny girl fights Darth Vader
Scene from the end of Dirty Pair: Project Eden, where Kei is using a laser sword to slice open a grabbyhand, and lands on the floor next to a machinegun-totin' Yuri, as the camera pans up to display Kei's lightsaber-posin' glory.
Netflix splash page for Tokyo Tarareba Girls
Poster for They Were Eleven
Shou Tucker If you know, you know.
Four Greco-Roman busts of Mars, Hermes, Medici, and Saint Giorgio, who comprise the main “idol unit” in the anime Sekkō Boys. Here shown fancy green and pink sparkly backgrounds effects, and blushing moeishly
“Do you want to join my religion” fake texting meme, with five of the Bible Black girls scantily clad, in sultry poses They’re interested
Phone Lock Screen with the background of Journey (ThatGameCompany) showing two robed and long-scarves characters on the bottom and a hazy, tall mountain far off in the distance.
Chart with Prep-Goth on the X axis and Jock-Nerd on the Y. The dot is experiment far into NerdGoth “ You are 69.1% Goth, 87.3% Nerd, placing you in the LARP category.”
Timothy Dalton-ception: Thar scene from Hot Fuzz where TD’s character is mugging for the camera, in front of a picture of himself with the same creepy-grinning expression.
Jingoro, Jigoro…. close enough
A shot of the bunny girl from the Daicon IV vid flexing her guns, and overlaid with a stencil square saying "RIGHT NOW BUNNY GIRLS RULE."
The floofiest of big white furry doggo, wearing a black bow tie. Bond, from SpyXFamily. 13/10 goodest doggo