The Malfoid Memes just keep on coming. It’s apparently driving the Bluesky denizens completely berserk, to the point that they bullied a well-known professional artist until she gave in and deleted her take on it.

The Apothecary Diaries 3.1, episode 1

Hits the ground running. Maomao and Shinji are currently living separate lives, but fate is bringing them back together. Also the Emperor.

Wild Last Boss 2, episode 2

The battle against Psycho Bikini Lesbian continues, interrupted by flashbacks and backfill.

Verdict: I’m really getting tired of Flashbackus Interruptus, but otherwise this was fun.

Vortex Farce, episode 1

First impression: Sexy Bad Girl does Bad Thing in orbit, and that’s a fine way to start.

Second impression: I’d complain about how they integrate the CGI into the 2D animation, but the truth is they don’t even try.

Third impression: Our Hero’s Big Sister gets a crotch closeup in the middle of her introduction. Okay, now I believe this is from the director of Strike Witches and Vividred Operation.

Fourth impression: Mom is hot. Big Sister has a bit of bounce in gym clothes. Her fight scene starts with an ass shot, then graduates to braless downblouse; saving the nipples for a Bluray release, perhaps? And the OP promises plenty more eye candy in the form of post-highschool hotties, and both OP and ED possess amusing animation and non-horrific music. And I think they made it through pretty much all of the necessary lumpy exposition to explain what’s going on.

Verdict: I think I can work with this.

(picture is unrelated, but it’s got aliens, so close enough)

Isekai Kinky Porn Game Cheat Harem, episodes 1&2

Of all this season’s shows, this is not the one where I expected them to bring their A game. Naughty, naughty A game.

Verdict: exposition-heavy, but also fanservice-heavy.

Random isekai idea

Beaten To Death For My Taste In Music, I Woke Up In A Fantasy World And Became A Legendary Bard By Serenading A Tsundere Elf Princess With Barry Manilow Songs.

(took about 30 tries to get every word to render correctly; for some reason, it really hated “serenading”, and usually gave me “serenaring”. Still faster than laying it out in Illustrator and coming up with the framing and swashes by hand, but I’ve been tinkering with the settings, and it looks like small text errors in Qwen 2.1 are reduced by bumping up CFG from 1 to 2-3, at the cost of doubling the rendering time)

Today I Learned…

…that the reason Draco Malfoy fits so easily into a female bully stereotype is that J.K. Rowling based the character on memories of the girl who bullied her at school. Which also explains why she was unhappy with the attempt to redeem him at the end of the movies.

(this is the pic that launched a thousand Malfoid memes)

As usual, hold off on Apple’s latest

Shiny new iPhone 18 Pro Max Super Ultimate Frisbee Edition doesn’t work reliably on AT&T. Just a minor issue with a minor carrier, and multiple fixes being rolled out that might eventually solve the problem. Except for the ones that just have to be replaced.

“Thank you for paying to beta-test our product!”

(I might be interested in the new iPad Mini that’s supposed to be out this month, but not until at least January)

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