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He/him. I review manga and light novels, and also reblog a lot of US and UK politics. I also like dogs, cats, and Higurashi.

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Doctor Who’s lost episodes are worth getting excited about Two parts of a previously missing 1965 Dalek serial represent the series at the peak of its powers

Wrote a thing about these newly found episodes of Doctor Who: www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/a36baf2...

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Paging @brigidalverson.bsky.social, this should sound familiar to you. :)

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After seeing them portrayed as the "Serious" team of the NFC East for so long, it's pretty fun seeing the Eagles getting to be as funny as the rest of us.

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Health Speculations Swirl After Trump Screams, β€˜Fuck! I’m Dying!’

Health Speculations Swirl After Trump Screams, β€˜Fuck! I’m Dying!’

Health Speculations Swirl After Trump Screams, β€˜Fuck! I’m Dying!’ https://theonion.com/health-speculations-swirl-after-trump-screams-fuck-im-dying/

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If you have never seen the Tokyopop version of Initial D, I don't think anything can prepare you for how fucking awful the music replacement was.

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Doctor Who Magazine Special: Legends – Terry Nation - Doctor Who Magazine

If you want to read a deep dive into the newly recovered episodes of The Daleks' Master Plan, the DWM Terry Nation special which includes my script-to-screen article is still available: doctorwhomagazine.com/specials/doc...

13.03.2026 09:42 πŸ‘ 59 πŸ” 20 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Red-Headed League has always been my choice.

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The Warner Archive table, now listing in smaller text the release date, the collector's recommendation score, and links to order the set from Amazon and MovieZyng). Shorts marked with an X have not appeared on DVD/Blu-ray restored, while shorts with a check are restored on Blu-ray in HD.  Shorts with a DVD symbol are restored for DVD in SD, but not for Blu-ray.

The Warner Archive table, now listing in smaller text the release date, the collector's recommendation score, and links to order the set from Amazon and MovieZyng). Shorts marked with an X have not appeared on DVD/Blu-ray restored, while shorts with a check are restored on Blu-ray in HD. Shorts with a DVD symbol are restored for DVD in SD, but not for Blu-ray.

10 days left until Collector's Vault Volume 2 releases!

UPDATE: Need easy access to a Warner Archive Collection set with the Looney Tunes shorts? The table has been updated to now include links to purchase sets from Amazon, MovieZyng, and Gruv Entertainment!

ltrestorationguide.com/changelog

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Hair and wardrobe assistants do checks on a child actor playing an ape in a planet of the apes movie. The ape is staring right down the barrel of the camera with a β€˜get the fuck out of my face’ look

Hair and wardrobe assistants do checks on a child actor playing an ape in a planet of the apes movie. The ape is staring right down the barrel of the camera with a β€˜get the fuck out of my face’ look

I’ve been laughing at this photo for ten minutes

13.03.2026 12:02 πŸ‘ 52 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

I FUCKIN' CALLED IT!

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Twats in comment sections going on about Dr Who before it was woke, obviously not remembering the episode where William Hartnell looks right down the camera and says 'And incidentally, a happy Bi Visibility Day to all of you at home!'

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Not even the Nazis expressly announced they were committing war crimes. Indeed, at Nuremberg war crimes were denied.

But here, openly, the US Secretary for Defense is explicitly admitting to committing war crimes.

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How can you hope to express your grief, when all you feel is an absence of feeling? Can we truly change our shape for others, or can we only grow more forgiving of ourselves? Let's dig into the messy, vibrant stuff of life, as we begin Journal With Witch
wrongeverytime.com/2026/03/13/j...

13.03.2026 15:10 πŸ‘ 48 πŸ” 25 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1
lan Levine's Doctor Who Group
lan Levine β€’ 2h
Obviously I'm thrilled that part one and three of my all-time favourite Doctor Who story have successfully been returned. If this had happened three years ago, I would've not been able to sleep from excitement. But now I feel ambivalent. These two particular episodes, I have now done three separate times each. I was very satisfied with them. Of course the real thing is always the best, but it's only very recently that I redid them. The most interesting part of this will be to compare them. I hope that when you do, you will see that I was pretty close. Not perfect but pretty close. I'm now excited to see them again and just compare them for myself.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g7kwq1k110

lan Levine's Doctor Who Group lan Levine β€’ 2h Obviously I'm thrilled that part one and three of my all-time favourite Doctor Who story have successfully been returned. If this had happened three years ago, I would've not been able to sleep from excitement. But now I feel ambivalent. These two particular episodes, I have now done three separate times each. I was very satisfied with them. Of course the real thing is always the best, but it's only very recently that I redid them. The most interesting part of this will be to compare them. I hope that when you do, you will see that I was pretty close. Not perfect but pretty close. I'm now excited to see them again and just compare them for myself. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g7kwq1k110

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand he’s off.

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Every time a new Hartnell episode is discovered I marvel at what a fantastic actor he was. And fantastic Doctor, for that matter.

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That was some good Frieren.

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The Telegoons revived the Goon Show on TV just after it had ceased to exist as a radio show. For kids like me whose parents weren’t fans, it was first exposure and first love. I still see the puppets in my minds eye when listening to the β€œreal thing”.

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EXCLUSIVE First Look: Missing Doctor Who episodes FOUND! | The Dalek's Master Plan | Doctor Who
EXCLUSIVE First Look: Missing Doctor Who episodes FOUND! | The Dalek's Master Plan | Doctor Who YouTube video by Doctor Who

More clips and extended clips as well. The Nightmare Begins is going to be a fascinating watch

youtu.be/QvwUrJAuAHk?...

13.03.2026 14:44 πŸ‘ 46 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

there's probably lots of reasons why hooters failed but i think the largest, and hardest to see in a spreadsheet is that the plausibility of "liking it for the chicken wings" was shattered once you could get reasonably good wings almost anywhere else

13.03.2026 13:46 πŸ‘ 842 πŸ” 76 πŸ’¬ 56 πŸ“Œ 6

(I mean, I literally cannot watch this scene without laughing hysterically, so I think it counts.)

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Let's start this year with PUPPY POWER!!! Repost with a fictional dog you like. 🐢

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A section from a wikipedia article with the heading "Title Discrepancy" that reads:

Translating the original Japanese title of Aa! Megami-sama proved to be problematic. Fred Patten, in writing the preface to the collection "Watching Anime, Reading Manga: 25 Years of Essays and Reviews", stated that fans were still debating whether "Ah! My Goddess" or "Oh My Goddess!" should be used at the time of writing, approximately 15 years after the first Oh My Goddess! manga was published.  When the United States anime import company AnimEigo obtained the original video animation (OVA) rights, they titled the series Oh My Goddess! This approach was also followed by Toren Smith and Dark Horse Comics when translating the manga, released in concert with the OVA series in 1994. Smith has since stated that he saw the title as a play on "Oh my god!", and felt that there was no problem when translating it. Smith confirmed that his interpretation of the author's intent was correct by consulting with Fujishima. Nevertheless, Kodansha's bilingual release of the manga used Ah!My Goddess, as did Pioneer's North American release of the film, and Media Blasters's 2005 DVD release of the TV series.

Fujishima stated in Animerica that "Oh" was closer to his intent, but acknowledged that the title should be rendered so as to make sense within the country that it is published, and specifically stated that films may warrant different titles than other works. 19 He did, however, state that he would prefer to see consistency between the titles of the manga and those of the animations.

A section from a wikipedia article with the heading "Title Discrepancy" that reads: Translating the original Japanese title of Aa! Megami-sama proved to be problematic. Fred Patten, in writing the preface to the collection "Watching Anime, Reading Manga: 25 Years of Essays and Reviews", stated that fans were still debating whether "Ah! My Goddess" or "Oh My Goddess!" should be used at the time of writing, approximately 15 years after the first Oh My Goddess! manga was published. When the United States anime import company AnimEigo obtained the original video animation (OVA) rights, they titled the series Oh My Goddess! This approach was also followed by Toren Smith and Dark Horse Comics when translating the manga, released in concert with the OVA series in 1994. Smith has since stated that he saw the title as a play on "Oh my god!", and felt that there was no problem when translating it. Smith confirmed that his interpretation of the author's intent was correct by consulting with Fujishima. Nevertheless, Kodansha's bilingual release of the manga used Ah!My Goddess, as did Pioneer's North American release of the film, and Media Blasters's 2005 DVD release of the TV series. Fujishima stated in Animerica that "Oh" was closer to his intent, but acknowledged that the title should be rendered so as to make sense within the country that it is published, and specifically stated that films may warrant different titles than other works. 19 He did, however, state that he would prefer to see consistency between the titles of the manga and those of the animations.

*touching the ground and closing my eyes* a great battle was fought here...both sides shed blood... *cocking my head slightly, brow furrowed* but neither can claim victory........

13.03.2026 13:30 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Two panels from a Pogo comic strip by Walt Kelly. Churchy La Femme screams "wow!" so loud that Pogo and Beauregard jump into each other's arms and fall over. Then Churchy looks down at them and says "It's Friday the Thirteenth!"

Two panels from a Pogo comic strip by Walt Kelly. Churchy La Femme screams "wow!" so loud that Pogo and Beauregard jump into each other's arms and fall over. Then Churchy looks down at them and says "It's Friday the Thirteenth!"

13.03.2026 13:22 πŸ‘ 203 πŸ” 68 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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020: MAD's Al Jaffee Podcast Episode Β· Gweek Β· April 7, 2016 Β· 1h

Today is the date of the birth of the great Al Jaffee (March 13, 1921-April 10, 2023). One of the great joys of my cartooning career was becoming friends with this legend. Here is an interview Mark Frauenfelder and I did with Al, for Mark's podcast Gweek.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/0...

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Photographs of a dinosaur-looking bird, the shoebill, and popstar Sabrina Carpenter, overlaid with a height comparison showing both are 152 cm, with visual graphics saying the magazine's name SSWAGGER and some Chinese characters

Photographs of a dinosaur-looking bird, the shoebill, and popstar Sabrina Carpenter, overlaid with a height comparison showing both are 152 cm, with visual graphics saying the magazine's name SSWAGGER and some Chinese characters

Photographs of a shoebill and popstar Sabrina Carpenter overlaid with a height comparison showing that, yes indeed, both are just 152 cm

Photographs of a shoebill and popstar Sabrina Carpenter overlaid with a height comparison showing that, yes indeed, both are just 152 cm

I can't even begin to describe this photograph. I think that might be Taylor Swift on a night out with Sabrina Carpenter. But Sabrina is photoshopped to have a shoebill face and talons, with wing-tips coming out her coat but still Sabrina's hair

I can't even begin to describe this photograph. I think that might be Taylor Swift on a night out with Sabrina Carpenter. But Sabrina is photoshopped to have a shoebill face and talons, with wing-tips coming out her coat but still Sabrina's hair

Just incredible shoebill awareness-raising from this Hong Kong teens' magazine

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The list of existing Doctor Who episodes from the 1981 DWM Winter Special.

The list of existing Doctor Who episodes from the 1981 DWM Winter Special.

I love out out-of-date this list is.

(Yes, The Invasion 4 shouldn't be on there, it was a mistake)

13.03.2026 12:52 πŸ‘ 42 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 2
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NFL Free Agency Phase IV: Fresh Out of Ideas Thoughts on Kyler Murray, Osa Odighizuwa, Bradley Chubb, Keaton Mitchell and other second-tier stars of the Post-Maxx Crosby Cinematic Universe

"Whenever Kyler Murray leaves the public consciousness for a few months due to injury or ineffectiveness, he enters a kind of cryostasis, reappearing with his reputation as some sort of toolsy prospect restored to factory default settings."

miketanier.substack.com/p/halftime-o...

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JG Thirlwellβ€˜s Xordox project will perform at Abasement, 11 Cortlandt Alley NYC on 04.06.26. In this live iteration of Xordox, Thirlwell is joined by Rebecca El-Saleh (Kitba). Also playing: Hans Tammen, Dreamcrusher with Samantha Riot and Leo Chang. Free admission. Photo by Nikki Sneakers.

13.03.2026 12:28 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I lost my job, my kids have measles, and gas is six dollars a gallon. But at least now they’re not tearing down a statue of a Confederate general that I’ve never heard of in a city that I’ve never been to.

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