Émilia Hoarfrost 🏳️🌈
@emiliahoarfrost.bsky.social
📖 Student
🖌️ Art
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✊ Activism @emiliapermafrost.bksy.social
💘 Empress @linav87.bsky.social
🖌️ Art
🌍 EN/FR/JP/ES
✊ Activism @emiliapermafrost.bksy.social
💘 Empress @linav87.bsky.social
Original by Earnest, source: safebooru.org/index.php?pa...
October 11, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Original by Earnest, source: safebooru.org/index.php?pa...
Reposted by Émilia Hoarfrost 🏳️🌈
October 5, 2025 at 6:50 PM
An article on space in anime, how places are investigated in a mystery, invested in drama across temporalities, how power manifests itself across space, how fiction can affect with nuance the real world, and how a secluded and rural area may mean amplified creativity & amplified relationships.
How does the Higurashi no Naku Koro ni anime invest its space?
Higurashi (2002) is a franchise of Japanese entertainment that was first released through the game Onikakushi-hen (2002), and that spans…
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October 1, 2025 at 5:40 AM
An article on space in anime, how places are investigated in a mystery, invested in drama across temporalities, how power manifests itself across space, how fiction can affect with nuance the real world, and how a secluded and rural area may mean amplified creativity & amplified relationships.
New article on gamedev
Elegance in Game Design
Games often wind up with unending tutorials and brutal info-dumping immediately humbling the player, if not turning them away. But…
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September 16, 2025 at 2:36 PM
New article on gamedev
Last development endeavor was a voxel engine so my perhaps +10k Minecraft hours (including Sumo limbo) aren't for nothing. Was fun to dive into it especially doing my own spritesheet
September 8, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Last development endeavor was a voxel engine so my perhaps +10k Minecraft hours (including Sumo limbo) aren't for nothing. Was fun to dive into it especially doing my own spritesheet
Did a Zettelkasten-type map webapp, supporting .txt & .geojson format imports and exports. Barely functional but I learnt a fair bit!
GitHub - EmiliaHoarfrost/Zettai-Castin: Zettelkasten-type map webapp to keep notes of world locations.
Zettelkasten-type map webapp to keep notes of world locations. - EmiliaHoarfrost/Zettai-Castin
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May 31, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Did a Zettelkasten-type map webapp, supporting .txt & .geojson format imports and exports. Barely functional but I learnt a fair bit!
Reposted by Émilia Hoarfrost 🏳️🌈
Reposted by Émilia Hoarfrost 🏳️🌈
medium.com/@emiliahoarf... (I'll prolly crosspost to @emiliahoarfrost.bsky.social)
GPU PASSTHROUGH: How Computer Graphics & Virtualization Herald Futurism
Computer graphics, which involves the creation of visual content through algorithms and computer hardware, is an ever-evolving field…
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December 15, 2024 at 12:43 PM
medium.com/@emiliahoarf... (I'll prolly crosspost to @emiliahoarfrost.bsky.social)
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I am finally up to date with Umi Ga Hashiru End Roll (Tarachine John) and 🥹🥹🥹🥹 It’s the story of a 65 years old who join a film school to become a director after her husband dies, and it’s so beautiful. Of course, it talks about aging but also about allowing yourself to be a creative.
November 18, 2024 at 4:10 PM
I am finally up to date with Umi Ga Hashiru End Roll (Tarachine John) and 🥹🥹🥹🥹 It’s the story of a 65 years old who join a film school to become a director after her husband dies, and it’s so beautiful. Of course, it talks about aging but also about allowing yourself to be a creative.
Reposted by Émilia Hoarfrost 🏳️🌈
Mifumi Inaba's first Teasing Master Takagi-san manga spinoff will end in five more chapters (specifically, the 314th chapter)!
Mifumi Inaba's 1st Teasing Master Takagi-san Manga Spinoff Ends in 5 Chapters
Karakai Jōzu no (Moto) Takagi-san spinoff launched in 2017, will end in 314th chapter
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June 12, 2024 at 7:32 AM
Mifumi Inaba's first Teasing Master Takagi-san manga spinoff will end in five more chapters (specifically, the 314th chapter)!
🎨The artists behind your favorite #anime are struggling hard, that much is common knowledge.
📝And artistic direction is nuanced, worthy of criticism to evolve as an artform.
〽️But crisis rhetorics can harm criticism by being misinforming or teleological.
📝And artistic direction is nuanced, worthy of criticism to evolve as an artform.
〽️But crisis rhetorics can harm criticism by being misinforming or teleological.
How do Crisis Rhetorics & Adaptive Ethos interact in Japanese Animation?
Recently, the airing of the new Spice and Wolf: Merchant Meets the Wise Wolf (2024) anime has seen mixed reactions comparing the Imagin…
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May 12, 2024 at 11:47 PM
🎨The artists behind your favorite #anime are struggling hard, that much is common knowledge.
📝And artistic direction is nuanced, worthy of criticism to evolve as an artform.
〽️But crisis rhetorics can harm criticism by being misinforming or teleological.
📝And artistic direction is nuanced, worthy of criticism to evolve as an artform.
〽️But crisis rhetorics can harm criticism by being misinforming or teleological.
🏳️⚧️Anime and transfeminism is a complex story, considering the history of sexualization in the medium.
📺I argue that media narratives and receptions show interplays between gender performativity, patriarchal division of labor and transfeminine positionality.
📺I argue that media narratives and receptions show interplays between gender performativity, patriarchal division of labor and transfeminine positionality.
The Anime Trap: Femboy, Pederasty, Transfeminine Positionality under Patriarchal Capitalism
Anime as an artform with a place in the mainstream media landscape stands to be glanced at with scrutiny, as somewhere narratives and their…
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April 4, 2024 at 9:38 PM
🏳️⚧️Anime and transfeminism is a complex story, considering the history of sexualization in the medium.
📺I argue that media narratives and receptions show interplays between gender performativity, patriarchal division of labor and transfeminine positionality.
📺I argue that media narratives and receptions show interplays between gender performativity, patriarchal division of labor and transfeminine positionality.
YURI, MOE AND THE (FE)MALE GAZE IN ANIME: What Japanese Lesbian Media Can Teach Us On Gender From Its Performativity To Its Demographics
YURI, MOE AND THE (FE)MALE GAZE IN ANIME: What Japanese Lesbian Media Can Teach Us On Gender From…
In the anime community, critical discourse related to the male gaze tend to gravitate around two terms. Fan service: a gratuitous gender…
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December 10, 2023 at 1:02 PM
YURI, MOE AND THE (FE)MALE GAZE IN ANIME: What Japanese Lesbian Media Can Teach Us On Gender From Its Performativity To Its Demographics
🏳️⚧️Trans Day of Remembrance is dawning right as the Trans Awareness Week is about to end. The time has come...
🏳️🌈Queer depictions are commonplace in this medium, but let's name them for what they are, across famous shows like One Piece or Hunter x Hunter.
🏳️🌈Queer depictions are commonplace in this medium, but let's name them for what they are, across famous shows like One Piece or Hunter x Hunter.
ANIME AND QUEER DEPICTION: How Japanese Animation Deconstructs The Binary As A Popular Artform!
Queer depictions in anime are interesting to study as they reveal both things on the global reception of the medium (r/Animemes and the…
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November 18, 2023 at 6:08 PM
🏳️⚧️Trans Day of Remembrance is dawning right as the Trans Awareness Week is about to end. The time has come...
🏳️🌈Queer depictions are commonplace in this medium, but let's name them for what they are, across famous shows like One Piece or Hunter x Hunter.
🏳️🌈Queer depictions are commonplace in this medium, but let's name them for what they are, across famous shows like One Piece or Hunter x Hunter.
Reposted by Émilia Hoarfrost 🏳️🌈
[Review] MAPPA might not be able to keep up with the demands of this production for much longer.
Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2 ‒ Episode 41
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November 18, 2023 at 5:30 PM
[Review] MAPPA might not be able to keep up with the demands of this production for much longer.
🚶At its core, a walk cycle is about the repetitive walking action of a character... Or is it?
🗽Walk cycles are templates that can magnify the figuration of protagonists in character-driven shows!
medium.com/@emiliahoarf...
🗽Walk cycles are templates that can magnify the figuration of protagonists in character-driven shows!
medium.com/@emiliahoarf...
THE WEALTH OF ANIME WALK CYCLES: Sprightly Ebata Walk And The Organic Overlapping Action!
At its core, a walk cycle is about the repetitive walking action of a character. This means that it is conditioned by joints and skeletons…
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November 4, 2023 at 7:54 AM
🚶At its core, a walk cycle is about the repetitive walking action of a character... Or is it?
🗽Walk cycles are templates that can magnify the figuration of protagonists in character-driven shows!
medium.com/@emiliahoarf...
🗽Walk cycles are templates that can magnify the figuration of protagonists in character-driven shows!
medium.com/@emiliahoarf...
👔Setting up an animation studio is a rich entrepreneurship endeavor in the anime industry.
⚖️It is about striking a balance between responsibilities, seeking funds, organizing labor and achieving artistic excellence and freedom.
medium.com/@emiliahoarf...
⚖️It is about striking a balance between responsibilities, seeking funds, organizing labor and achieving artistic excellence and freedom.
medium.com/@emiliahoarf...
YOUR OWN ANIME STUDIO: Late-Game Animation Career Goal?
To an anime career, a handful of job positions fit what could be defined as a late-game career stage, equating with more experience to…
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October 28, 2023 at 7:18 PM
👔Setting up an animation studio is a rich entrepreneurship endeavor in the anime industry.
⚖️It is about striking a balance between responsibilities, seeking funds, organizing labor and achieving artistic excellence and freedom.
medium.com/@emiliahoarf...
⚖️It is about striking a balance between responsibilities, seeking funds, organizing labor and achieving artistic excellence and freedom.
medium.com/@emiliahoarf...
Reposted by Émilia Hoarfrost 🏳️🌈
A yokai scholar, a professor of djinn, and an expert on Virgin Mary apparitions talk gods, monsters, and the nature of belief on GOD FORBID.
(It's me. I'm the yokai scholar)
www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/godforbid/god-forbid-jinns-genies-marian-apparitions-and-japanese-yokai/102949958
(It's me. I'm the yokai scholar)
www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/godforbid/god-forbid-jinns-genies-marian-apparitions-and-japanese-yokai/102949958
Belief in the seen and unseen: Jinns, Marian apparitions and Japanese yokai - ABC listen
You might think our belief in monsters is dead or dying – a superstitious relic. But regardless of the place on earth, or time in history, people say they see strange apparitions and ghostly figur...
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October 28, 2023 at 6:55 PM
A yokai scholar, a professor of djinn, and an expert on Virgin Mary apparitions talk gods, monsters, and the nature of belief on GOD FORBID.
(It's me. I'm the yokai scholar)
www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/godforbid/god-forbid-jinns-genies-marian-apparitions-and-japanese-yokai/102949958
(It's me. I'm the yokai scholar)
www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/godforbid/god-forbid-jinns-genies-marian-apparitions-and-japanese-yokai/102949958
Reposted by Émilia Hoarfrost 🏳️🌈
I like to have fun and hang out, but I need to be serious for a moment:
We're very much a small zine working on $320 a month. We don't run ads and every dollar we raise lets us do more and keep paying everyone fairly
Consider backing us on Patreon and help us keep raising up the indie anime press.
We're very much a small zine working on $320 a month. We don't run ads and every dollar we raise lets us do more and keep paying everyone fairly
Consider backing us on Patreon and help us keep raising up the indie anime press.
Anime Herald | Patreon
creating an ad-free source for anime commentary, reviews, and an
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October 18, 2023 at 5:01 PM
I like to have fun and hang out, but I need to be serious for a moment:
We're very much a small zine working on $320 a month. We don't run ads and every dollar we raise lets us do more and keep paying everyone fairly
Consider backing us on Patreon and help us keep raising up the indie anime press.
We're very much a small zine working on $320 a month. We don't run ads and every dollar we raise lets us do more and keep paying everyone fairly
Consider backing us on Patreon and help us keep raising up the indie anime press.
📺A new season is starting, and many anime series contend for our attention.
📸So here's a spotlight on promising productions, like Frieren and Undead Unluck, wishing to cast more light on industry entities involved!
medium.com/@emiliahoarf...
📸So here's a spotlight on promising productions, like Frieren and Undead Unluck, wishing to cast more light on industry entities involved!
medium.com/@emiliahoarf...
FALL 2023 ANIME LINEUP: A Production Spotlight On Promising Shows (Frieren, Overtake!,
Trying to cover an entire season in an article is always a tough try, perhaps doomed to fail, simply by virtue of my attention span being…
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October 14, 2023 at 1:16 PM
📺A new season is starting, and many anime series contend for our attention.
📸So here's a spotlight on promising productions, like Frieren and Undead Unluck, wishing to cast more light on industry entities involved!
medium.com/@emiliahoarf...
📸So here's a spotlight on promising productions, like Frieren and Undead Unluck, wishing to cast more light on industry entities involved!
medium.com/@emiliahoarf...
Reposted by Émilia Hoarfrost 🏳️🌈
Osamu Tezuka draws the "Stars of Page and Screen."
October 14, 2023 at 9:15 AM
Osamu Tezuka draws the "Stars of Page and Screen."
💴 Cuts are paid by the unit price, and this determines the remuneration of Japanese animators.
⚖️ The Qualified Invoicing System changes the negotiating interplay between animators and producers.
🤵♀️It favors in-house status animators over free-lancers.
medium.com/@emiliahoarf...
⚖️ The Qualified Invoicing System changes the negotiating interplay between animators and producers.
🤵♀️It favors in-house status animators over free-lancers.
medium.com/@emiliahoarf...
ANIME AND THE CUT UNIT PRICE: On the Interplay Between Producers, Animators, and Anime Workers in a�...
That animators don’t swim in gold is common knowledge in the anime community, especially if compared to their Western counterparts, whether…
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October 7, 2023 at 5:03 PM
💴 Cuts are paid by the unit price, and this determines the remuneration of Japanese animators.
⚖️ The Qualified Invoicing System changes the negotiating interplay between animators and producers.
🤵♀️It favors in-house status animators over free-lancers.
medium.com/@emiliahoarf...
⚖️ The Qualified Invoicing System changes the negotiating interplay between animators and producers.
🤵♀️It favors in-house status animators over free-lancers.
medium.com/@emiliahoarf...
Some keyframing Hideaki Anno did in the 80s for the now famous Daicon IV animation. I used it along other production materials while video-editing a Sakuga MAD focusing on the 80s, which you can watch there.
September 26, 2023 at 11:52 AM
Some keyframing Hideaki Anno did in the 80s for the now famous Daicon IV animation. I used it along other production materials while video-editing a Sakuga MAD focusing on the 80s, which you can watch there.