“It’s a real conflict for me when I go to a concert and find out somebody in the audience is a Republican or fundamental Christian. It can cloud my enjoyment. I’d rather not know.”

— Linda Ronstadt, exiting stage Left

Cheesecake: nurse


Yes, it’s true: the most common adjective associated with nurses is ‘naughty’, and Gelbooru contributors firmly embrace this. So much so that I had to pass over quite a few, especially the ones that involved equipment less wholesome than stethoscopes and syringes…

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Spellcrafting 101


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Amazon Quantum Shipping


I’ve had this happen several times recently. Hopefully it won’t affect any of my holiday shopping…

Cheesecake: oldschool


The number one lesson I learned from browsing the oldschool tag was that, even with an exclusion list that weeded out the really raw stuff, most fan artists have very intimate memories of their childhood favorites. Especially Nausicaa.

No red half-rims here, because apparently they hadn’t been invented yet!

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Dear California,


Care to guess how soon you’ll see stories like this showing up after the significant increase in tobacco taxes that just passed? This is, of course, in addition to the Internet sales and interstate smuggling that’s already going on, and the pipe/cigar shops going out of business because of the estimated 40% price increase. No one knows what will happen to vape retailers, because even the people who wrote the law still don’t know what it means.

Note that in the linked story, the headline calls the cigarettes “fake”, when what they really mean is “untaxed”.

Dear Hello!Project Choreographers,


Nice to see you’re teaching the girls skills that will come in handy when their idol careers end.

Ayumi Ishida, pole-dancer

Cheesecake: monster girl


There are two basic problems with the monster_girl category at Gelbooru: lolis and Everyday Life With Monster Girls. Both are a bit overexposed. Lots of mermaids, too, of course, but as long as it’s not the same one every time, that’s fine.

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Because when I think 'vitamins'...


of course I think Krispy Kreme.

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