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an adult. 25+ games/manga/books. 24/7 fujin soul currently resides in the muck at the bottom of a decorative koi pond

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kitt@donkitt· 6d

I'm Going to Obliterate You (with thoughtful gifts of gemstones and lucre)

Balor from Fields of Mistria. A somewhat fancy pixel man

kitt@donkitt· 18d

i found him in an oily puddle in the street (the toy, not the slumbering beast) and restored him to good condition. i guess i need to make a found poster in case someone is out looking

A polar bear toy in a little igloo next to a curled up tortie cat.

kitt@donkitt· 23d

okay

Table of contents of Picnic at Hanging Rock. It's just the introduction and then "Picnic at Hanging Rock" with the rest blank

kitt@donkitt· Jul 2

Tomodachi Life fan meetup. "Okane ga nai has brought my family together in a way that nothing else ever has or will!"

kitt@donkitt· Jun 30

I Was Healed By Dog Beer

Tomodachi Life picture. I made an intricate pixel art of Bark Light dog beer (pumpkin flavor)

kitt@donkitt· Jun 29

mad libs is in fact still funny to me

Tomodachi Life screenshot. "They found an ancient Swarovski crystal Shrek here on Kirakira that's supposedly 500 years old!"

"But...wouldn't you rather be itabagging than uncovering enemy schemes?"

kitt@donkitt· Jun 28

the game understands their characterization so well already

A mii is pleased at a successful conversation about uncovering enemy schemes

A mii chases another one wildly around his own damn house

kitt@donkitt· Jun 28

this machine transforms OCs into tomodachis (the game is so cute)

Two of my original characters in tomodachi life. Just two little guys with scribbled on horns

A mii hangs from the hand of the deity with a wet kitten expression.

kitt@donkitt· Jun 23

this too is yaoi (from The Scarlet Pimpernel)

The young man drew up his slim stature to its full height and looked very enthusiastic, very proud, and very hot as he gazed at six foot odd of gorgeousness, as represented by Sir Percy Blakeney, Bart.
"Lud, Sir Andrew," said Marguerite, with one of her merry infectious laughs, "look on that pretty picture-the English turkey and the French bantam."
The simile was quite perfect, and the English turkey looked down with complete bewilderment upon the dainty little French bantam, which hovered quite threateningly around him.

kitt@donkitt· Jun 21

my sample size thus far. kingdoms of elfin has your covered for the shifting and chaotic realm of relations between people (and elves)...lud-in-the-mist cloaks its intense existential angst behind a plot about the war on fairy drugs

Cover of Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrles

Cover of Kingdoms of Elfin by Sylvia Townsend Warner

kitt@donkitt· Jun 11

hell yeah the library has me covered

Cover of book entitled How to Draw Vampires. Scary beasts with big fangs and glowing eyes abound and also what looks like a totally normal dude in a cloak carrying a lady and looking bored.

kitt@donkitt· Jun 10

coyotes hate to see them coming

Ad with a miniature pinscher wearing a bright pink spiked vest, while a frustrated coyote looks on nearby. "Protection that lets your dog move with confidence."

Ad with Chihuahua wearing a pink spiked vest. "Engineered for ultimate protection."

kitt@donkitt· May 29

Wictionary page for the phrase "des Pudels Kern." Literally, "the poodle's core," meaning the crux of the matter, the gist of the matter, the heart of the matter.

kitt@donkitt· May 28

faust is good. i like this translation and this artist's interpretation of a transmogrifying poodle

Illustration by Peter Sís. Faust and Mephistopheles in a lamp-esque cutaway scene. A figure with a skull face rises behind a very fluffy poodle.

kitt@donkitt· May 28

despite everything

Excerpt from Goethe Faust. "Mephistopheles
In the end you are--what you are.
Set on your head a wig with a million curls,
Set your feet on heels half a yard high,
Still, always, you stay what you are."

kitt@donkitt· May 25

getting closer to understanding economics. grubstake

Thesaurus.com screenshot in which it lists various strong synonyms for "grubstake" such as CD, IRA, capitalization, kitty, treasure. For some reason nest egg is a weak match only.

kitt@donkitt· May 23

"this is sand, i reckon" - the sand-reckoner

Cover of book The Sand-Reckoner. Illustrated by a man holding some sand which he is reckoning.

kitt@donkitt· May 20

grey is great! my all time fave bachelor is the wizard from animal parade. duality of harvest man

kitt@donkitt· May 18

when reading historical fiction it's important to immerse yourself and interpret vocabulary in its proper context. to react to this passage with anything more than mild amusement at Maturin's silly sluttery would be highly improper

Excerpt from Post Captain, an Aubrey and Maturin novel. "They were looking after themselves, living with rigid economy; and there was no greater proof of their friendship than the way their harmony withstood their very grave differences in domestics behavior. In Jack's opinion Stephen was little better than a slut: his papers, odd bits of dry, garlic'd bread, his razors and small-clothes lay on and about his private table in a miserable squalor; and from the appearance of the grizzled wig that was now acting as a tea-cosy for his milk-saucepan, it was clear that he had breakfasted on marmalade."

kitt@donkitt· May 14

deranged book (positive). gentle romcom movie plot about a single dad finding a place in a close-knit rural community. interspersed with murders and drownings and seal clubbing and the generational curse of an incestuous pirate clan. in other words, what actual close-knit rural community is like

Cover of The Shipping News by Annie Proulx. Drawing of a lighthouse on a wood grain background.

kitt@donkitt· May 13

i bought a book rec book with discussion questions for 50 cents because it seemed to hew incredibly close to my own taste. didn't realize at the time the entire book is written like this. re: The Talented Mr. Ripley and Jeeves and Wooster

5. Although the novel ends on an ambiguous note, in the future books, Ripley is rich, safe, happy. What message is this sending to young people? Do you think this kind of thing is responsible for a decline in morals? If so, is it too late, given that the book was published in 1955, and the people originally affected by it have already murdered their friends?

5. Would this be even more fun if Jeeves were a gifted cat? What if Jeeves were a cat, and he and Bertie were solving crimes together, in the White House, where Bertie was a really dim-witted president? (Of course, for those purposes, he's American.) In fact, how many different ways can you have the theme of a dumb employer with a servant who is his brains? How often do you think this happens in real life?

kitt@donkitt· May 5

an unfiltered documentary about a cult favorite british band that abuses substances, grapples with ancient folklore, becomes lost in a labyrinth, has deep troubles with women, and makes a very questionable album art choice. no it's not that, it's this not-quite-horror novella and it was pretty fun!

Cover of Wylding Hall by Elizabeth Hand. Sepia-tone drawing of manor house.

kitt@donkitt· May 5

if there's a goat one must promote

kitt@donkitt· May 3

this one is so troubling. it has rave reviews and adorable spiders. sweeping scope and cool biotech worldbuilding but it spins (yeah) a misanthropic narrative at the expense of the human cast. and you gotta spend half the book with those guys. i hated holsten an impressive amount by the end lmao

kitt@donkitt· May 1

what are we, some kind of arknights? (i did no repeats to prevent a wall of ebenholz and thorns)

A grid of my favorite Arknights characters.

kitt@donkitt· Apr 30

cat treat marketing is a fascinating field (they are square)

Tab from a bag of cat treats. Irresistible Shapes! it boasts

kitt@donkitt· Apr 30

a challenger approaches

Screenshot of an article entitled "First of All, There's Nothing Charlotte of 'Charlotte's Web' Says About Wilbur That Isn't Also True of The Virgin Mary"

kitt@donkitt· Apr 22

hot new universe called earth is catching on among fantasy fans

screenshot of an ad for some book reading "If How to Train Your Dragon had horses and birds instead"

kitt@donkitt· Apr 21

love the summary on the back of my library copy of the woman in white. escalating from vaguely wrong to straight up making shit up (the woman wasn't lost in London, he didn't report her to the authorities, private detectives are not involved in the story at all, Wilkie Collins was a man)

Published in 1859, we are immediately intrigued by the narrative - a young and genial tutor of arts, Walter Hartright, encounters a woman dressed head to toe in white who is lost in the streets of London. After reporting her to the authorities Walter is informed that the lady was an escape from mental asylum.

However, when Walter takes a new position in teaching art he encounters a girl named Laura, whose looks are stunningly similar to those of the woman in white. As the pair fall for one another, the sense of mystery deepens - is there more to their meeting than first meets the eye?

Lauded for its innovative and compelling plot and use of multiple characters in narration, The Woman in White is one of the earliest examples of detective fiction. Throughout his quest for the truth, Walter hires a number of private detectives and eventually mimics their methodology, with Collins' legal know-how lending realism to the plot line. Wilkie Collins was strongly motivated to author her novel by the unequal situation men and women found themselves in at the time, the law overtly deferred to men in matters of inheritance and estate.

kitt@donkitt· Apr 15

bad