Apropos of nothing, a mostly-complete fan-translation of the original web-novels for Restaurant To Another World is available. While there’s cheesecake in these stories, it’s the literal sort, not involving the female cast. The more familiar form of cheesecake was apparently anime-original, dropped in at intervals to make sure the audience was paying attention.

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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!”

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

There is no cure.

“Hmmm, those guys in the iron carriages have a mage? And an elf shaman? And… Rory Mercury?!?”

“Fetch me my brown armor!”

--- Princess Piña Co Lada (loosely translated)

I think there are currently more Democrats running for President than there are pictures in this set…

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That’s “Democrats Insisting on Reparations for Everything”, the cornerstone of the “free shit good, orange man bad” platform that pretty much everyone in the clown car is running on.

Reparations for being a gay couple denied a wedding license. Reparations for getting a graduate degree in underwater genderqueer dance therapy. And that’s just Warren and Sanders this week. How long until they promise reparations for trans activists denied dates by people who don’t find them attractive?

(raise your hand if you immediately answered “next week”…)

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“Needs more Lobo”.

What’s worse than a rap break in a Barry Manilow song, gravel in your Grape Nuts, or the feces-filled streets of San Francisco? Adding Lobo to a dramatic series about Superman’s grandfather on Krypton.

The tonal shift is jarring, and the reasoning behind it turns out to be that SyFy is developing a Lobo series, and dropped him into Krypton with all the subtlety of Mork from Ork’s appearance in Happy Days.

Seems like a terrible thing to do to a series that’s starting to figure out what it wants to be when it grows up.

Wonderduck commented that the artist responsible for my Certain Scientific Cosplay posts “certainly knows what he likes to draw”, which reminded me of one I posted two years ago, where almost every girl CCreayus draws is just C.C. in cosplay.

Here’s another, appropriately named Studio Zombie, where a bit over a third of his drawings consist of Junko and Ai from Zombieland Saga as a very cute couple:

Illustrator Yuu Shirousagi seems to have mostly abandoned posting cheesecake on Pixiv, but maintains an active presence on Twitter.

I’m okay with only one pic every 18 months if it’s as interesting as this one. It definitely passes my “want to read a novel with this cover” test.