Iro | Obsidian Moonshine

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I'm still here. I'm not dead yet. Anime: https://theglorioblog.com/ Site/Blog: https://obsidianmoonshine.com RSS: https://obsidianmoonshine.com/feed.xml

screenshot from Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga.
A character with red hair in dreadlocks named "Ex-member of the Solids" says: "Embryon, tell me mon, is the Nirvana where y'wanna bounce to the yo and jiggity go?"

edited image of Magic The Gathering's 2027 roadmap, featuring collaborations with Disney, Pornhub, Furby, Lockheed Martin, Hololive, Reese's Peanut Butter Cup, Power Rangers, Kill la Kill, Mountain Dew, Coca Cola, and Magic The Gathering

an anime girl with glasses is holding some books. There are two dialogue options on screen:
1. "I know the lore"
2. "I don't know the lore"

an attractive anime lady wearing a lab coat over a qipao is smoking a thin pipe. there are two dialogue options on screen:
1. "I know about the Malleus Maleficarum"
2. "I don't know about the Malleus Maleficarum"

two jars. one is a jar of early umeshu that is just starting to take on a yellowish tint. the other is a jar of early ichigoshu that's already turned quite red.

a colander of peeled lemons next to a bowl with a bunch of lemon peel steeped in sugar and honey

Decotrade, Itasha, and Yarucar from Bakuage Sentai Boonboomger

screenshot of a discord conversation

I say: "urrrgghhh is dragon ball what gets me to buy a lego set for the first time in decades"
friend replies: "we'll have to see how they look, I wonder which designers on working on the line"
I say: "right, fair
you could do *many* dragon ball sets"
friend replies: "but yeah full theme usually means a variety of sets from $20 on up
like 8-10 sets
at minimum 5 models"
I say: "kame house, kami's lookout, budokai tenkaichi, namek, namek spaceship, namek village, namek about to explode,
namek about to explode 2
namek about to explode 3"

page from the daisy owl webcomic

Panel 1: the father who is an owl says "Kids! Dinner time!"
Panel 2: Daisy and Cooper, Owl's human children, say, "You... cooked?" Owl says, "Yep. Traditional owl recipe."
Panel 3: Daisy looks at a whole rat carcass on a plate.
Panel 4: Owl has one also and says, "Relax, yours are tofu rats. Very realistic."
Panel 5: Cooper holds his fork above his rat in trepidation.
Panel 6: Owl switches his plate with Cooper's, saying, "Hold on Cooper, I think you have my plate."
Panel 7: Owl says, "Alright! Dig in!" whilst tucking in his bib with "TUCK TUCK" sound effect text.
Panel 8: Daisy and Cooper stare blankly at their rat carcasses.
Panel 9: Daisy and Cooper share a meaningful glance at each other regarding their rat carcasses.
Image Alt Text reads: "The sound effect in panel 7 was originally 'BIB BIB BIB,' but I felt that the world was not ready."

zoomed in map of Dagda from Fire Emblem Fortune's Weave with a portion on the northern edge of the map circled in red

screenshot from cohost
@graham's post says:
"Inside of you there are two wolves

Neither one can pilot you on its own - the burden is far too great for a single mind. But these two have formed a powerful bond. Their minds are connected together so that they may pilot you: their Jaeger mech"

a node map of my website, specifically of the "Tales from the Feed" compilation series, where the five posts from 2026 are naturally forming a pentagram

image showing that the audiobook of Book 1 of 5 of The Stormlight Archive is 45 hours and 30 minutes long

the start of twilight princess but ilia's hair has not rendered properly

Inside of a stadium for the US Sumo Open

screenshot from ace combat 3 electrosphere.

a plane is flying in a disorienting cyberspace grid. large block letters in the center read, "ENTERING ELECTROSPHERE"

First row:
PARANORMASIGHT The Mermaid's Curse, Dragon Quest III, Final Fantasy VII, Pillars of Eternity 2 Deadfire, Titanfall 2

Second row:
Nier Automata, Asura's Wrath, Neverwinter Nights 2, Tsukihime, Persona 5

Third row:
Shin Megami Tensei Digital Devil Saga, Fate/Stay Night, Trails in the Sky, Chrono Trigger, The Legend of Zelda Majora's Mask

Fourth row:
Disco Elysium, Xenoblade Chronicles X, Return of the Obra Dinn, UNBEATABLE, Kowloon High-School Chronicle

Screenshot from Xenoblade Chronicles 2.
Morag says:
"I do not comprehend every nuance of meaning in your words, yet the depth of desolation behind them is clear as day."

picture of a handheld device with the title screen of Fate/Extra CCC displayed

screenshot from Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd Gig.

Two cyber tanks are in a comedy wrestling ring. The subtitles read:
"A pathetic pall hangs over us here in cyberspace!"

Screenshot from Robot Alchemic Drive.
Nanao says:
"I dice bread, fry it in oil, then boil it in water."

piloswine from pokemon

screenshot from Dragon Quest 2 HD-2D. A text box states:
"They scamper hither and yon, japing and jesting and otherwise sowing discord. But their bodies are those of grown men and women, and must surely soon suffer the consequences."

jojo fridays meme. Edited manga page from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure where three men have dramatic looks on their faces. The dialogue is edited to say:
"It's finally a Friday..."
"Yes... Finally here..."
"Friday...."

Screenshot from Xenoblade Chronicles 2
Morag says:
"I do not comprehend every nuance of meaning in your words, yet the depth of desolation behind them is clear as day."

9 games in a 3x3 grid
Pyre, Kowloon High-school Chronicle, Planescape: Torment
Disco Elysium, Chrono Trigger, 13 Sentinels Aegis Rim
Fate/Stay Night, Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4, The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask

edited meme image from Tintin.
The original version has the captain saying, "What a week, huh?" and Tintin replies, "Captain, it's Wednesday"

This version has Tintin reply, "Captain, it's The Feast of Shadows!"

text:
"And I don’t mean good taste/bad taste. I mean you can’t tell what it tastes like on your tongue anymore, you just know what the ingredients are and you know how to talk about the ingredients. And you can make a convincing, clear argument about what’s happening. You can describe something that is happening. And it’s not wrong, but it isn’t driven by the thing that I think marked my criticism in the mid-2010s, which was, first step, How does it hit your tongue? What is it doing to me? How am I engaged in that way?"

screenshot from Kamen Rider Tycoon meets Kamen Rider Shinobi where the grizzled old original actor for Kamen Rider ZX makes a cameo. he tells the evil wizard villain, "Your dark arts won't work on my cyborg body!"

PC port of "Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII".
Rather than having a dedicated graphics settings menu, all of the graphics options are in a drop-down menu on top of the window akin to a word processor program or web browser.

screenshot from Wandering Sword.
A pair of villains has been caught trying to sneak into a treasure vault, and they're now flanked by a scruffy sword-user and a wheelchair-bound detective.
One of the villains, Lianxian, a guy dressed like a stereotypical shady bureaucrat, says:
"Gusu Wheelchairman and Ye Fei the Black Hawkstrider... This is a real head-scratcher for me."

Difficulty select screen from UNBEATABLE. "Hard" is selected. Text beneath reads:
"[Hard] Is our baseline difficulty. It's what another game might say is the "intended experience." For us, the "intended experience" is one where you give the game your full attention and hit credits. The "ideal experience" is playing this game in one sitting late on New Year's Eve and finishing it a few hours after midnight.

clipped screenshot from weather.com, reading:
"FLASH FLOOD WARNING (+13 MORE)
! There is a marginal risk of severe weather today."

iro's steam replay 2025.
- 45 games played, 35 new games, 54 demos
- 894 achievements unlocked, 30 games, 114 rare achievements
- 17% played with keyboard and mouse, 83% with controller
- monster hunter wilds, 9% of playtime, 116 sessions played
- persona 5 royal, 8% of playtime, 44 sessions played
- kowloon high-school chronicle, 6% of playtime, 36 sessions played

A snippet of a larger "Games I played in 2025" list. It reads:

"Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
4 out of 5 stars
Possesses the essential quality of an Xbox 360 JRPG; the exact kind that all the games press currently tumbling over themselves to praise Clair Obscur would have cited as proof of Japan's inevitable decline. I don't particularly care for the entire third act on a conceptual level, but the moment-to-moment writing and acting is great throughout.
More proof mascots are better as sad old men: Monoco
It really is that busted even post-nerf: Stendahl"

comedic edit of a screenshot from Kowloon High-School Chronicle where the two dialog options are:
1. I know about Kowloon High-School Chronicle
2. I don't know about Kowloon High-School Chronicle

Rick the hamster posing dramatically while wearing a stereotypical Chinese cap that, were it in a less charitable context, could potentially be construed as somewhat racially insensitive. But this user can say it.

screenshot from Labyrinth of Galleria: The Moon Society.
A young anime girl looks confused as a donkey shouts at her, "I'll fucking kill ya!"

bask om from zeta gundam with the downward speech bubble shopped onto the picture. the quote tweet in question reads: "I DO NOT BELIEVE SIDES DESERVE RIGHTS!"

a paperback book with an extra sheaf of pages starting with page 351 bound in between the normal pages 350 and 351

few seconds footage of a large bird, assumed to be a cooper's hawk

page from the volume extras of Trigun,
Panel 1: "I am Yasuhiro Nightow (33). I was describing the process of developing my story when the publisher came along, shouted and punched me..."
Panel 2 (Publisher speaking): You eat, sleep, game, sleep, and only write a little bit in between. You don't even exercise. You are wasting your life away! You have no dreams, no will, no inner fire!!"

screenshot of Ninja Slayer with gag subtitles reading, "DŌMO"

fake movie poster for "Man of the Sea Versus Sharpedo". a buff dude is surfing and a sharpedo is behind him.

custom character from pokemon legends z-a in an outfit approximating the samurai uniform from shin megami tensei 4

jojo's bizarre adventure "it's finally a friday... yes... finally here... friday..." meme image

Screenshot from Mother 3 where the party is checking a mailbox.
Text is: "The mailbox lid is open... Peek inside?"

(At this point in the game the party is tripping on mushrooms or something and the mailboxes in this area all contain surreal or horrifying things.)

crop of a screenshot from Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles.
Princess Ovelia is trying to use a leaf as a whistle. The sound effect subtitles state: "(leaf whistle wheezes feebly)".

All four images are of the same text box in Final Fantasy Tactics with varying English translations. A knight is kidnapping a princess and being commanded to stop by her protectors.
In the original Playstation version, he responds with: "Tough... Don't blame us. Blame yourself or God."

a grilled cheese sandwich in a pan. it looks comically perfect.

a party of various anime people are sitting around a table including one wacky mascot that is controlled by one of the other people sitting there so really it has no business also being at the table.
ringo the playable protagonist says: "Oh man, you guys. I just had a breakthrough. You can dip the bread... in the soup."

Me: "edelgard is a fundamentally misguided individual who undercuts any of her political messaging with her willingness to commit atrocities in the name of the conquest and subjugation of fodlan while intentionally ignoring the historical context which created the church of seiros and the unscrupulous dealings with eugenicists and ethnic-supremacists that permitted her own privileged position in the adrestian empire"

Intelligent Systems: "what if she was an adult woman from fantasy egypt fighting in the fantasy olympics to prove her country deserves to sit at the global table via force of arms"

me: "hmmmm hang on"

end screen of hollow knight silksong:
GAME COMPLETION
PERCENTAGE: 100%
TIME: 40h 59m 51s

ash ketchum, eternal 10 year old, says: "I am too old for this."
from sun and moon

tier list
S tier: Female protagonist from Persona 3 Portable
A tier: Labrys from Persona 4 Arena, Yoko Hiromine from Shin Megami Tensei V Vengenace, Kasumi Yoshizawa from Persona 5 Royal
B Tier: Metis from Persona 3 FES
C Tier: Miyako Hotsuin from Devil Survivor 2 Record Breaker
F Tier: Alex from Shin Megami Tensei Strange Journey Redux, Marie from Persona 4 Golden

cover art for the PSP version of Persona 2 Innocent Sin