played Promise Mascot Agency over the holidays and it's everything the cozy genre SHOULD be: slice-of-life with a ton of personality and the real-world grit left intact. two of the first characters you meet are a giant severed thumb and an anxious block of tofu, and I would die for them.
bonus: hwasa's good goodbye is climbing the pak charts for a reason, what a year for upbeat melancholic heartbreak songs. put this on your new year's playlist!!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe8f...
usually I do an end of year music roundup but for 2025, I'm just telling people to listen straight through NMIXX's Blue Valentine album, the now definitive magical girl pop album. yearning! defiance! deliverance! did I mention the yearning
only seen clips but the Frankenstein we all need to be watching is the Korean musical proshot
your art is beautiful!! I picked up a ton of used frames when I was updating my walls and most of the time the frame is just whichever one happens to fit the print dimensions 😅 (I've considered messaging artists about paying to self-print with my current frame backlog...) but I'm so happy yours fit!
ALSO I need a new mouse pad (play mats also ok), so if you know any artists selling one (or if you are selling one!!!!), please link me <:
stuff on my walls from:
- @choodraws.bsky.social
- @wendyxu.bsky.social
- @paralilac.bsky.social
- @heikala.bsky.social
- @mochipanko.bsky.social
- @natandrewson.bsky.social
- @silversprocket.net
- @ionomycin.bsky.social
- @koyamori.bsky.social
- foxsnails.bigcartel.com
and more!!
a print that says gulls gulls gulls with seagulls on them (by foxsnails), and a print with a mage cat (by heikala)
a print of a mysterious blue woman in an oval frame (by paralilac)
a print that says "I Never Learn, I Always Yearn" with a sad dog in headphones (from Silver Sprocket)
a wall of colorful framed art with postcards and illustrations by different artists (pink art of two girls fighting by choodraws, small infinity particle sticker by wendy xu, darker by four print, colorful cat postcard from a museum, tiger print by me, skeletal poppy print by mochipanko)
people always ask me where I get my wall art and I'm like, you gotta just buy prints when you see an artist you like!! I have 15 years of maximalist collecting on my walls, I do not believe in buying things in a set or to match decor. anyway go buy directly from an artist shop this weekend!
🌸 added a couple other things to the shop~ sale code goes to 12/15!
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I GET it josh (the sad french music is definitely the other best part, shout out to that one crescendo as you run into the last act of the game). also I feel like you must have been told this but you could cosplay a great cleo -
Stellar year for games but I will be another one praising Expedition 33!! It was actually a slow burn for me but that ending is so good, so difficult to pull off in a video game medium, I still think about it. Also lowkey has one of the best YA fantasy storylines (please give me the Cleo DLC).
every time I'm a little too late in finding out Hozier is in town 😔
they would never lie to their fans
ensemble chemistry that should be studied (see also: matthew, shoe-licker)
this is my silksong
surprise i just dropped a new article! i had a lot of thoughts about how people don't know how to engage with fiction, which ties into chatgpt delusion & book bans among other things. big thanks to @cxorlando.bsky.social for telling me to write about it when i posted a throwaway insta story
jinu felts a smaller tiger out of the tiger's floof
the three eyed magpie has stolen the felted small tiger
i don't think jinu is much of a crafter but he tried
mood but also mood lifted because I saw this!!! can't believe it's already (almost) here, congrats!
Sabrena Swept Away by Karuna Riazi, cover by Lavanya Naidu
It's awkward going, "Hey, I fell off the face of the earth but I have a book coming out tomorrow if you're interested" but...
Hey, I have a book coming out tomorrow. It's a MG fantasy inspired by 1001 Nights with a Blasian heroine. Might be fun? Might distract from the horrors?
I'm sorry I'm not done yelling about how fucking violent and cruel this policy is-- I just went by an encampment that was being swept to drop off donation and it was fucking crushing.
Venmo @love-and-justice to pitch in for all our unhousend neighbors who have NOWHERE TO GO now.
Auction link: www.32auctions.com/genrefortrans
Seriously, if you like audiobooks, go check out Libro FM. You can support an indie bookstore like us with every purchase.
And for the next 21 hours, their huge, indie bookstore day sale is still happening. Like, 89% off some of our top staff picks?!
Text reads: open call for submissions. Seeking new and emerging writers of young adult aromantic short fiction. Submission period from March 31st-April 28th. Link to application and guidelines in bio. This is a paid opportunity.
Submissions are OPEN!!
If you’re a new/emerging aromantic author of YA fiction, @madelinedyer.bsky.social and I would love to see you in the inbox! Full submission guidelines here:
madelinedyer.co.uk/call-for-sub...
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I THOUGHT OF YOU FIRST
Finally got around to scanning this 🦇
super fair! I know the dev had been updating it, so they might tighten it up, but hey, the more minesweeper variants, the merrier. I feel like there's been a trend of them!
have you played Dragonsweeper I was briefly obsessed with it
