Brickmuppet hand-assembled a list of popular Pixiv pics on both the Male and Female lists. Naturally I scripted it with PixivPy, and included their relative position on the two lists…

The core of the code looks like this (delete “_r18” from both searches to see the clean-ish images); output is suitable for including directly in a Markdown-based blog like mine:

url = 'https://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id='

result = aapi.illust_ranking(mode='day_male_r18')
male={}
mcount=0
for i in result.illusts:
  mcount = mcount + 1
  male[i.id] = mcount
while result.next_url:
  next_qs = aapi.parse_qs(result.next_url)
  result = aapi.illust_ranking(**next_qs)
  for i in result.illusts:
    mcount = mcount + 1
    male[i.id] = mcount

result = aapi.illust_ranking(mode='day_female_r18')
fcount=0
for i in result.illusts:
  fcount = fcount + 1
  if i.id in male:
    print '* [F: %d, M: %d](%s%s)' % (fcount, male[i.id], url, i.id)
while result.next_url:
  next_qs = aapi.parse_qs(result.next_url)
  result = aapi.illust_ranking(**next_qs)
  for i in result.illusts:
    fcount = fcount + 1
    if i.id in male:
      print '* [F: %d, M: %d](%s%s)' % (fcount, male[i.id], url, i.id)

Rankings and links after the jump, because about a third of the clean sets of 500 and more than half the R-18 sets of 300 interest multiple genders:

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I really like this image from Hebitsukai; sadly, it’s the only one that just feels detailed rather than cluttered.

Last one of these for a while, but I had to do this one:

Don’t you think?

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Fear the cute ones!

Besides the sheer cuteness, this picture is notable for including an amusing conceptual tag, 伊丹ホイホイ = “Itami (Our Hero) trap”, from the popular “Gokiburi Hoi-hoi” cockroach trap.

This is the only acceptable kind of trap in anime.

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I currently have 1,596 illustrations bookmarked on Pixiv. Almost all of those are from images included in my various cheesecake posts.

Periodically I update my follow list to include anyone I’ve blogged more than 3 images by. After the most recent update, that brings me to 325, listed alphabetically after the jump (recommended if you’re NSFW-shy, since clicking on either of the links above will fill your screen with cheesecake and other delights).

(and, no, I don’t have Brickmuppet’s Boy Problems, mostly because advertising on the Internet is something that happens to other people; every once in a while I see what popular sites like ZDnet look like for people without ad-blockers, and I run away screaming)

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I knew that Google’s company culture was fucked up, but not that it was just a daycare center.

To pick on just one of the issues these people have, my feelings on the pronoun madness are pretty simple:

1. Honestly, for 95% of the people I meet, at work or elsewhere, I forget their names within five minutes, so demanding at gunpoint that I remember their invented pronouns is just never gonna happen. I can’t tell you the names of the people who’ve been my neighbors for the past twenty years, and they all know mine!

2. Forms of address are a courtesy and/or a sign of respect, and neither discourtesy nor disrespect are crimes, particularly when the $other demanding compliance is $self rude and insulting.

3. “Okay, $other, my pronouns are: normal, normal’s, normself; use them or else!”

Update…

(yes, I wrote a generalized hello-sticker-making Perl script using PDF::Cairo…)