Justin S. Harrison

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Arcueid Brunestud, the vampiric heroine of the visual novel “Tsukihime: -A piece of blue glass moon-,” leaps towards the viewer and prepares to rend them with her claws. Arcueid is a blond white woman with glowing red eyes. She wears a white sweater, a silver pendant, a blue miniskirt, and black stockings.
A five-panel page from the comic "Three," drawn by Ryan Kelly, colored by Jordie Bellaire, and written by Kieron Gillen. Terpander, a Helot wearing Spartan armor from the era of Leonidas I, speaks to an unseen band of Spartans. In the first panel, Terpander gestures towards the Spartans with his spear. He speaks: "You dream of Thermopylae...but we Helots are just as familiar with that day." In the second panel, a close-up of Terpander's helmeted head, he continues: "Three hundred of you died there...But each had a Helot beside them." In the third panel, Terpander continues his story, gesturing with his speark. "Their spirits are watching over us. They cry out for debts to be settled. For all those who died for YOUR freedom." In the fourth panel, a second close-up, Terpander sneers at the Spartans. "You owe them your lives...And that is what we will collect." In the fifth and final panel, Terpander sets aside his spear and points at the Spartans, issuing a mocking challenge: "So come, any who would dine in Hades...Let those who LIVED there show you the way."
The poster for filmmaker Sam Peckinpah’s seminal 1969 western “The Wild Bunch.”
An illustration by the artist Miyo02. It depicts Arcueid Brunestud, the heroine of the visual novel Tsukihime, striking down Count Orlok, the villain of the 2024 film Nosferatu. Arcueid is a blond woman with red eyes. She's wearing a white bikini top, a silver pendant, a blue NATO watch strap, and blue sunglasses. Her nails are painted red and blue in sort of a cosmic pattern. Count Orlok is a grey, almost blue man with a stupendous mustache and raggedy black hair. He wears a t-shirt from the podcast KILL BY KILL, inspired by Nosferatu. The t-shirt reads "MY VITAL JUICES!" Arcuied is holding Orlok by the throat with her left hand. She is readying her right hand, whose nails are long and claw-like, for an attack. Orlok has been cut in half at the waist, and his left arm has been severed above the elbow. He is beginning to combust in the sunrise, and is furiously attempting to swipe at Arcueid with his remaining hand. Arcueid is coolly confident. Orlok is enraged. As Arcueid readies the final blow in what seems to have been a one-sided fight, she says "Vae victis." This is Latin, and translates to "Woe to the conquered." It's the battlecry of another famous vampire, Kain. Aside from that, Orlok is a haughty noble who believes himself to be unstoppable and untouchable. Arcueid making it plain that he's been thoroughly trounced is as humiliating to him as the trouncing itself.
Arcueid Brunestud.
The results of a personality quiz, describing the quiz-taker as having politics most similar to Pope Leo XIV.
Joe Taslim as Li Yong in the much-missed tv series WARRIOR.
The great Bob Hoskins, at the end of legendary crime film The Long Good Friday.
The band HEALTH perform at Emo’s in Austin, Texas. They are surrounded by purple light and smoke.
David Tennant, the 14th Doctor, screams “Why does it have to be THIS?!” in anguish and anger.
A photographer holds up a copy of Dan Charnas’ book “Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm.”
Justin Harrison, a man in his 30s, wearing a black t-shirt, a watch with a bund strap, blue jeans, cycling sneakers, an insulin pump and CGm, and a hat advertising the Austin Public Library, introduces a movie at Austin's Hyperreal Film Club.
A masked figure holds up an ominous, elaborately decorated spherical device.
A .gif of the immortal Bob Hoskins as gangster Harold Shand in “The Long Good Friday.” His expression is rapidly changing as he ruminates on his probable doom.
An illustration of Tsukihime heroine Arcueid Brunestud by Videajames, in which she’s wearing a blue sweater with an astronaut giving a peace sign in front of the moon, a black-and-white plaid sweater, blue stockings, and black boots.
A screenshot of Marian-Webster’s Bluesky account, featuring a New Year’s novelty gif that flashes a selection of words in quick sequence. The skeet requests that followers screenshot the image, explaining that the word they capture will be their word of the year. Mine is “Based.”
A commissioned illustration done by Xyewii, depicting Lloyd Bannings and Rixia Mao, two of the protagonists of the video games Trails from Zero and Trails to Azure. Rixia, a tall woman with a dancer's build and purple hair that she's tied back with a white ribbon, wears a purple sports bra, light blue shorts, and a black compression sleeve. She is pole dancing, gripping the pole with her right hand and her thighs. Rixia is using her left hand to scoop up her paramour, Lloyd Bannings. Lloyd has short brown hair, is well-built, and wears a white t-shirt that is riding up his body, along with dark purple shorts that have an embroidered image of the adorable cat mascot Mishy about to dunk a basketball, blue and yellow athletic sneakers, and white socks. Lloyd has wrapped his arms around Rixia. Both Lloyd and Rixia are blushing and grinning, and they're having a grand time.
A screencap from the video game Trails in the Sky: 1st Chapter. Estelle, the game’s heroine, meets up with Joshua, the game’s hero. She is carrying two ice cream cones, and realizes that something is off. She does not know exactly what is off.
Katsumi Liqueur, the protagonist of the manga Silent Möbius.
Chiptune rock band Anamanaguchi perform at Emo’s in Austin, Texas on the night of September 19, 2025. At the moment this photo captures, the band’s lighting effects are blue-white and sync to their music.
An illustration by artist Miyo02, depicting Death Stranding 2’s Neil Vana and Trails Through Daybreak’s Agnés Claudel escaping from a boardwalk run by a nostalgia-obsessed vampire who had abducted Agnés as part of a plot to establish a new Calvardian monarchy. Neil is weary, Agnés is scared, and both are determined to get clear of the creep’s realm. Due to Neil’s presence, the boardwalk has been consumed by a blizzard. It’s lighted welcome sign, which reads “Eternity Pier Boardwalk” and its Ferris wheel, named “Fortuna,” are still visible in the background.
Death Stranding 2: On the Beach's Neil Vana faces off with Trales Through Daybreak's Olympia of Aurum and her mechanical angel Ishtanti. They're fighting outside of the city of Tharbad's famed Hotel Al Jumeirah, which has been caught up in a blizzard due to Neil's presence.
Sheryl Nome, one of the heroines of the anime series Macross Frontier, singing.
Speedy, a small brown Russian tortoise, looks up from his food bowl.
Arcueid Brunestud, one of the heroines of Tsukihime: -A piece of blue glass moon-, floats in the night sky. She's swapped out her usual white sweater for a midnight blue sweater that features an astronaut giving a peace sign in front of the full moon. Arcueid waves playfully.
Dennis Lehane's novel "Darkness, Take My Hand"–specifically the cover it had for its mid-2000s trade paperback release.
Ciel, one of the heroines of the acclaimed visual novel (and my favorite piece of media of 2024) Tsukihime: -A piece of blue glass moon-. She’s greeting the protagonist in their school’s tea room, and she’s brought her cartoonishly massive anti-vampire weapon with her.
Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon’s dreaded boss Balteus explodes after roughly eight hours of attempts across two days.