No relation to him, this Yanni (王馨瑶) is a popular model and actress from Guangdong.

And a real cutie, yep.

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Okay, these kittens are technically adults, and one of them’s almost 30, but when you’ve got a few decades on them…

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One of these things is not like the others…

At least this one is obviously wrong, unlike the time I asked it to take me to the Embassy Suites SFO, and eventually discovered that there are two of them, about ten minutes apart…

The 百合 tag at Pixiv starts at “two girls in picture”, passes through “friendship” and “obvious attraction” on the way to “making out”, and ends up at “hardcore lesbian pr0n”. That last one is generally not canon for the characters depicted, even the ones also tagged 百合夫婦, “yuri married couple”.

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Not only is it rather difficult to hold a katana in this position, what would you actually do with it from there? You can’t swing, you can’t block, you can’t thrust, and if you hold the position for very long, you’ll get a cramp. About the best outcome you can hope for is shaving your own cheekbones.

I’ve been adding example code to PDF::Cairo. Here’s the output from what I’ve got so far:

• 2019 Progressive Calendar, a much-cleaner version of the script I wrote in March.

• Box-slicing test, not actually useful for anything.

• Image-loading test, ditto. (new! improved! fixed translate/rotate/scale order to get rid of skew)

• Inkle drafting grid, planning tool for Inkle weaving. Reimplemented from here, using my Box library and polygons rather than my hand-tuned, impossible-to-debug component method. About 12x larger output, but Cairo isn’t a PDF library, it’s a library that can output PDF, so you don’t get as close to the metal.

• Isometric drawing pad, mixes my Box library with a bit of trig to clean up the grid layout.

• Kanji practice sheet, currently blank; I plan to add a second example that fills it in with selected characters in a pen font, grayed-out so you can draw on top of them. It’ll be much cleaner than the version I wrote ~14 years ago.

• Sample Pango layout, showing the use of its markup. Now includes glyph outline support.

• Japanese report paper.

• Kyokuto-ish notepad sheets.

• NEW! Glyph outlines, including manually processing the drawing operators.

• New! Traveller hex grid. Unlike my 15-year-old sec2pdf script, which I threw together over a weekend when I discovered how terrible the existing Traveller mapping tools were, this one actually centers the grid correctly on the page. (seriously, before sec2pdf, the way to create a PDF Traveller map was to run a DOS program that spat out an import script for an obscure 2D free CAD program, then let it run for 10-20 minutes; these days it’s a lot better, although the border definition method I came up with is still in use)

Naughty words, that is.

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