Thaliarchus
@thaliarchus.bsky.social
Hedge poet. I watch anime & am often accused of reading.
'Now praise those names on tombs of steel engraved | And toll this rotting country's countless bells.'
Read my work: https://thaliarchus.itch.io/cosmic-warlord-kinbright
'Now praise those names on tombs of steel engraved | And toll this rotting country's countless bells.'
Read my work: https://thaliarchus.itch.io/cosmic-warlord-kinbright
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Thaliarchus
@thaliarchus.bsky.social
· Nov 9
Cosmic Warlord Kin-Bright by Thaliarchus
Giant robot yuri space opera. In verse.
thaliarchus.itch.io
Today's Cosmic Warlord Kin-Bright's one-year anniversary!
The whole damn thing remains free. You can and should try it.
thaliarchus.itch.io/cosmic-warlo...
The whole damn thing remains free. You can and should try it.
thaliarchus.itch.io/cosmic-warlo...
Fantasy Maiden Wars stream in two hours, at 1900 GMT/UTC.
www.twitch.tv/thaliarchus
www.twitch.tv/thaliarchus
thaliarchus - Twitch
Games, poems, oddments.
www.twitch.tv
January 2, 2026 at 5:02 PM
Fantasy Maiden Wars stream in two hours, at 1900 GMT/UTC.
www.twitch.tv/thaliarchus
www.twitch.tv/thaliarchus
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A great finish to a great story. If you haven’t checked it out yet, put the Gordian Cycle on your to-read list for 2026.
Heya! I got you your gift early this year.
That's right, you can now read the finale of the Gordian cycle: THE VIOLENT DEATH OF MORGAN RED-MAW
I'm very happy with it.
sunshine-moon.itch.io/the-gordian-...
That's right, you can now read the finale of the Gordian cycle: THE VIOLENT DEATH OF MORGAN RED-MAW
I'm very happy with it.
sunshine-moon.itch.io/the-gordian-...
The Gordian Cycle by Catia RX
Henshin hero wasteland sci-fi in the style of a medieval Irish saga
sunshine-moon.itch.io
January 2, 2026 at 2:00 PM
A great finish to a great story. If you haven’t checked it out yet, put the Gordian Cycle on your to-read list for 2026.
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I lost the post but I saw someone talking about how isekai anime/light novels invented the "kicked out of the hero's party" whole cloth, and I mostly agree but also that happened to my buddy Diarmuid ua Duibhne.
January 2, 2026 at 2:07 PM
I lost the post but I saw someone talking about how isekai anime/light novels invented the "kicked out of the hero's party" whole cloth, and I mostly agree but also that happened to my buddy Diarmuid ua Duibhne.
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extremely sick mecha sakuga from episode 9 of Dragonar. This is the good shit!!!! fuck yeah robots!!!!
January 2, 2026 at 9:53 AM
extremely sick mecha sakuga from episode 9 of Dragonar. This is the good shit!!!! fuck yeah robots!!!!
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Started Ghost Sweeper Mikami
January 1, 2026 at 6:29 AM
Started Ghost Sweeper Mikami
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it's a new year. it's osg's ONE YEAR POD. and you know what that means
January 2, 2026 at 9:17 AM
it's a new year. it's osg's ONE YEAR POD. and you know what that means
Good night, and good luck.
![Distant overlooking view of a hillside road in an urban area. Flowers in foreground. [Maison Ikkoku]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:e2ninzls6xnrs5spyr4etufv/bafkreibsg3q4564rwdmtcfqdgk5klrfk4czpt7ijf23kzehfcnrgsvi4bu@jpeg)
January 2, 2026 at 12:39 AM
Good night, and good luck.
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Revisited Rintaro's two Galaxy Express films just one after the other today 💫🫰
A whole myth designed to miss your youth. Romantic, inspirational, pessimistic, educational. Dark.
Every scene of the Arcadia and The Queen Emeraldas escorting the train gives never-ending goosebumps. True friendship.
A whole myth designed to miss your youth. Romantic, inspirational, pessimistic, educational. Dark.
Every scene of the Arcadia and The Queen Emeraldas escorting the train gives never-ending goosebumps. True friendship.
January 1, 2026 at 11:15 PM
Revisited Rintaro's two Galaxy Express films just one after the other today 💫🫰
A whole myth designed to miss your youth. Romantic, inspirational, pessimistic, educational. Dark.
Every scene of the Arcadia and The Queen Emeraldas escorting the train gives never-ending goosebumps. True friendship.
A whole myth designed to miss your youth. Romantic, inspirational, pessimistic, educational. Dark.
Every scene of the Arcadia and The Queen Emeraldas escorting the train gives never-ending goosebumps. True friendship.
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Jan 1: this is the year of new Me
Jan 12: [eating shredded cheese directly from the bag] new years resolutions are a bourgeois construct for disciplining bodies into productive units for capital
Jan 12: [eating shredded cheese directly from the bag] new years resolutions are a bourgeois construct for disciplining bodies into productive units for capital
January 1, 2026 at 10:43 PM
Jan 1: this is the year of new Me
Jan 12: [eating shredded cheese directly from the bag] new years resolutions are a bourgeois construct for disciplining bodies into productive units for capital
Jan 12: [eating shredded cheese directly from the bag] new years resolutions are a bourgeois construct for disciplining bodies into productive units for capital
When I watched Code Geass (S1) it was in 4:3.
January 1, 2026 at 8:50 PM
When I watched Code Geass (S1) it was in 4:3.
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Early in grad school I read an article where some comp folks studied the writing process and one thing they noted is that there wasn't any correlation between how good the author thought a passage was at time of writing and how good a reader thought it was...
January 1, 2026 at 8:27 PM
Early in grad school I read an article where some comp folks studied the writing process and one thing they noted is that there wasn't any correlation between how good the author thought a passage was at time of writing and how good a reader thought it was...
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Super Robot Wars W stream is up: www.twitch.tv/thaliarchus
Starting on the hour, in ten minutes' time.
Starting on the hour, in ten minutes' time.
Twitch
Twitch is the world
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January 1, 2026 at 6:50 PM
Super Robot Wars W stream is up: www.twitch.tv/thaliarchus
Starting on the hour, in ten minutes' time.
Starting on the hour, in ten minutes' time.
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Time sure flies, feels like yesterday when I was looking at the seasonals chart waiting for this to drop.
January 1, 2026 at 6:34 PM
Time sure flies, feels like yesterday when I was looking at the seasonals chart waiting for this to drop.
This year, Your Name is as old as Code Geass was when Your Name premiered.
And Code Geass is as old as Dragon Ball (sans Z) was when Code Geass first aired.
And Code Geass is as old as Dragon Ball (sans Z) was when Code Geass first aired.
![Mitsuha and Taki run past each other, briefly linked by the supernatural thread. [Your Name]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:e2ninzls6xnrs5spyr4etufv/bafkreia45vrk2och5qv4snmqpgkcvikmtjx6zumvyv2oqmuwlrmv7rog4e@jpeg)
![Close-up on the geass sign in Lelouch's eye [Code Geass]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:e2ninzls6xnrs5spyr4etufv/bafkreiatiqwgqo4vbz6htunk76wy6tuqfzexvyhr3p4zhz77w2bmooaija@jpeg)
January 1, 2026 at 5:55 PM
This year, Your Name is as old as Code Geass was when Your Name premiered.
And Code Geass is as old as Dragon Ball (sans Z) was when Code Geass first aired.
And Code Geass is as old as Dragon Ball (sans Z) was when Code Geass first aired.
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Okay, where exactly did the "Genetically Enhanced Super Dolphin" trope originate from?? I've seen it all over '80's sci-fi. The Dolphins often end up being used as bio-computers/navigators
I had assumed it was David Brin, but there are earlier examples. Who made it popular??
I had assumed it was David Brin, but there are earlier examples. Who made it popular??
January 1, 2026 at 5:48 PM
Okay, where exactly did the "Genetically Enhanced Super Dolphin" trope originate from?? I've seen it all over '80's sci-fi. The Dolphins often end up being used as bio-computers/navigators
I had assumed it was David Brin, but there are earlier examples. Who made it popular??
I had assumed it was David Brin, but there are earlier examples. Who made it popular??
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Do you have any idea how little that narrows it down &c &c
(same)
(same)
January 1, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Do you have any idea how little that narrows it down &c &c
(same)
(same)
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t-this pink haired girl with a PS5...?
January 1, 2026 at 5:35 PM
t-this pink haired girl with a PS5...?
My feed has a lot of the pink-haired girl with the complex life today.
January 1, 2026 at 5:33 PM
My feed has a lot of the pink-haired girl with the complex life today.
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Wrote about Shoushimin, its conversation with Honobu Yonezawa's previously animated work in Hyouka, and the way it evokes eeriness out of an unnatural accumulation of shots that scream that they're normal - the same delicious friction you see in its characters blog.sakugabooru.com/2025/12/31/s...
December 31, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Wrote about Shoushimin, its conversation with Honobu Yonezawa's previously animated work in Hyouka, and the way it evokes eeriness out of an unnatural accumulation of shots that scream that they're normal - the same delicious friction you see in its characters blog.sakugabooru.com/2025/12/31/s...
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I think you can sort of repeat the point about Beowulf within Old English poetry by looking at OE poetry within OE in general.
The surviving verse corpus is at once large for a European vernacular in those centuries, and small set against the surviving OE prose.
The surviving verse corpus is at once large for a European vernacular in those centuries, and small set against the surviving OE prose.
January 1, 2026 at 3:53 PM
I think you can sort of repeat the point about Beowulf within Old English poetry by looking at OE poetry within OE in general.
The surviving verse corpus is at once large for a European vernacular in those centuries, and small set against the surviving OE prose.
The surviving verse corpus is at once large for a European vernacular in those centuries, and small set against the surviving OE prose.
I have known people thrill equally at passages I slammed out in the heat of inspiration & at passages I contrived like a watchmaker & I am not sure what if anything that reveals about creativity.
January 1, 2026 at 3:28 PM
I have known people thrill equally at passages I slammed out in the heat of inspiration & at passages I contrived like a watchmaker & I am not sure what if anything that reveals about creativity.
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Watching THE GREEN KNIGHT again
April 22, 2024 at 7:43 PM
Watching THE GREEN KNIGHT again
Good night, and good luck.
![A suit of armour, axe raised. [Cyborg 009 (1966)]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:e2ninzls6xnrs5spyr4etufv/bafkreigeyvsu4w5x2gkh6idruvbku4lgcuz7djuxorwhdytrc33k2rjim4@jpeg)
January 1, 2026 at 12:22 AM
Good night, and good luck.