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@ae2501maeth.smallbird.social
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tara "tara wrist" hillegeist. i dabble.

(once, i moonlighted as a dragon golem vtuber for a time. one day i shall do so again.)

if you're here you're here for 1 of 3 things: media criticism, dialectical materialism, or unhinged reposts of what i like.
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ae2501maeth.smallbird.social
ah, feck off, i resemble, i say, i resemble that remark
[under a picture of the glock 17c from HALF-LIFE:] Your Result: Glock 17C You have the gun from Half-Life and you paid sticker price for it. You are the Glock 17C Gay, and it's not your friends' fault they sometimes worry you're a cop. If you stick it out for another decade or two, your surviving friends will grow into their fogeydom - which you came into young - and value you as a pillar of stability. In the meanwhile, don't be afraid to throw down a lot of money on a good time.
November 22, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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reddit post went viral. everyone united around the difficulty of drawing faces at that angle and commiserating on the struggle to learn how. many porn artists provided comprehensive study guides for their technique.
November 18, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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meme template of the "two paths" image, featuring a young man at an intersection, the left side leading to sunny skies and a bright future and the right leading to storm clouds and a dark future. text reads: (left:) YOSHIYUKI TOMINO vs (right:) GREG BOVINO: GETTING SO OBSESSED WITH STARSHIP TROOPERS YOU MAKE IT THE FOUNDATION OF YOUR WHOLE CAREER
November 17, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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"[insert show] was created to sell toys (implied: to children)!"
"The impression I had of war was that it was "atrocious," and I hated it... so I never thought about it. By watching Daimos, I began to think seriously about what "war" really is. I strongly believe that war is nothing but a tragedy and should never happen. Daimos is a very valuable anime because it made us, the peaceful generation, realize this. I will never forget Daimos. And I will keep thinking about it." This is a letter one year on, from one Hokkaido fan, who wrote to me after [Fighting General] Daimos had finished airing, to curse me for killing Richter. Now let's take a look at the letter they sent me the previous year, as well: "I have a complaint. Are you a sadist? Why are you killing the characters you created? You demon! Fiend! Murderer! Damned sadist! Argh, how dare you?! How freaking dare you kill Richter?! Oh, I curse you, I curse you!" Few people would read these two letters and think they were written by the same person. It seems that many people felt the same way in their grief over Richter's death. However, it's this fact, that someone who saw Daimos, and had such a problem with Richter's death specifically, has continued to think about it for a year and has grown so much; I am deeply moved by this fact. I created Daimos precisely as something that challenges the viewer to debate in this way. Certainly, there must be some aspects that cannot be understood just through casual engagement with my work. However, as long as people continue to explore the topics implied within the work, they will learn of the persecution of Jews by the Nazis, and discover Minamata disease, and begin to broaden their perspective on the world. I have known many people [that grew up] just like this ... I could not be happier. Tadao Nagahama, Combattler V - Voltes V - Daimos: Roman Robo Anime, Climax Selection (Magic Box, 1980).
November 16, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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smiles wide enough i could swallow a sea inside me
still from the concluding story sequence of the arknights event WRANKWOOD: ACT OR DIE. several people in a darkened movie theater, viewed as if from in front of the projection screen, in various states of bemusement, boredom, and contemplation. the row seating is not full. the text caption reads, below the image: "Audience Member A: It's definitely going to be polarizing. The fans will rate it highly, while the haters are going to *hate* it."
November 15, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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lowlights shouting "WATCH TWIN PEAKS" at every single person who plays his furry tower defense game, at maximum possible volume
the WRANKWOOD: ACT OR DIE event mission-select screen. look, it's just the black lodge from TWIN PEAKS. it's literally the black lodge. what do you want me to say here the pre-mission story segment summary/skip screen for the second mission of WRANKWOOD: ACT OR DIE. text reads "Shelly begins to hallucinate on the set, putting herself in danger and rescued by Lucian at the critical moment. Lucian uses the incident as an opportunity to find out more about the accident from five years ago - the tragic death of a young actress named Laura."
November 14, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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emblem of Lisa, NEXT unit of the anti-Cradle terrorist known as the "Old King", from ARMORED CORE: FOR ANSWER
November 10, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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chancellor sheev palpatine has just endorsed the campaign of andrew cuomo
ian mcdiarmid as chancellor palpatine, standing in the galactic senate chamber, in a still frame from STAR WARS: ATTACK OF THE CLONES
November 4, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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if you see this, post a vampire that isn't dracula
eliza goddamned bloody harker. (as drawn by yours truly, forever ago.)
October 30, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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these fuckin' spacesuits in ASH (flying lotus, 2025), man. this movie does the business on a tightass budget (can't find exact figures but i bet the marketing budget for this thing cost ten times its production cost and the movie spent its funds more wisely). real "ten rocks and a warehouse" shit.
it's a spacesuit, but frankly it looks more like a cross between a skeleton wrapped inside a squid latched onto its wearer. another shot of the spacesuit, showing off its breathing apparatus, which looks like nothing so much as a backlit set of tiny skeletal ribs floating in cosmic nebula juice. another look at the spacesuit, in a rather dark silhouette, showing off the glowing, bulbous shoulder and lower arm pads.
October 30, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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like any year, 1989's spoiled for great choices in great albums. but for my money, i know where my heart is buried
the cover of BLUE BLOOD, by x japan. inside the X of the band's visual signifier, in english, the phrases "PSYCHEDELIC VIOLENCE" and "CRIME OF VISUAL SHOCK" overlap each other.
October 30, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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if you are ever thinking "i bet tara would be great to have participating *actively* in my discord server sometime, i should invite her" please understand: no you shouldn't, and no i wouldn't
apologies the wall of text happening here is almost literally so long it made the alt text box shit itself and scream at me and by "almost" i mean it's twice the length bluesky allows you to include as a caption
October 23, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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tj miller's entire body as he watches bill burr and pete davidson catch the last blood-spattered invitations to the rapist castle in their mouths like eager puppies, leaving him behind in the remains of his intentions:
local man baked alive into hot leaded death-mask statue, news at eleven. (this was tj miller two seconds ago. frame capture from TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION)
October 23, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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it's legit to blame ppl (myself included! i trusted who i reposted to have done the due diligence!) for falling for rage clickbait misrepresentations of what miyamoto actually said but i can't help looking at what he said and thinking "but that's actually worse. you know that's, uh, *worse*, right"
--With the expansion of areas like Universal Studios Japan's "Donkey Kong Country" and the growing number of people experiencing Nintendo IP, I believe the Nintendo Museum is an extremely effective way to engage three generations of families. What kind of corporate vision are you aiming for as you expand your IP going forward? Miyamoto: We have character-themed exhibits along the walls on the second floor, and we also feature characters in the welcome zone at the entrance to the museum on the first floor. (Initially, this museum) was primarily designed around showcasing past products and hardware. But to help people understand Nintendo as a whole, we decided showing them the IPs was the best approach, so we created this space. Now, we're operating it as a gateway to introduce these IPs and bring people back to Nintendo games, much like IPs, theme parks, and movies do. Looking ahead, while games are obviously part of the larger Nintendo IP brand, we envision creating even more compelling things. We hope to think of it as a space where all sorts of things can be incorporated. Ultimately, what people remember are the IPs. Games become obsolete when new versions come out. But that's incredibly sad. We started video production partly because of that sadness--seeing our creations become playable only on Virtual Console. Even making them playable in a museum has its limits, but video content can endure forever. I envision more and more of these things accumulating, making Nintendo itself a huge brand. I always say our theme is "creating reasons for people to choose Nintendo." I dream of a world where, when a child enters first grade, the conversation isn't "what game should we buy?" but rather "When you start first grade, we'll get you a Nintendo."
October 19, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Define perfect ending.
nearly the last frame of TWO-LANE BLACKTOP. the film itself burns away under the engine's roar, distorting the image of the open road as seen from behind the Driver's shoulders.
October 19, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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look at it colin. look upon its face and tell me what you see
it's a piece of merch sold by gainax, depicting the "back" side of the angel shamshel. ... it looks like a flatwoods monster.
October 19, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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shout out to ok-vin kim in THIRST (park, 2009), still one of the all time iconic performances of psychotic womanhood in horror/exploitation film ever put on a reel. every choice a matchstick set to light; every consequence, another explosion's fuse sparking aflame. a chapel lathed out by gatling gun
October 17, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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October 17, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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i will always firmly believe that matt salinger was robbed. there's only one film actor who understood steve rogers and his name was never chris evans
steve rogers under the static california sun, his face stippled by five-o-clock shadow, his eyes haunted; like a worn-out photograph of the past, dog-eared and well-creased. the specter of dead generations and a war he fought, but failed, to survive, weighs like madness on his unnaturally-still-living shoulders. the present burying itself in his eyes like a nightmare-conjured ghost. it is a starkly bright sunny day, and all the darkness of its shadows lies sunken deep behind his gaze.
October 16, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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well. i can't say the translation staff handling KAMEN RIDER ZEZTZ don't know exactly what audience they're expecting to tune into their efforts!
screencap of a subtitle reading "Seven's very good with his hands."
October 14, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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cover to the A LITTLE SOMETHING SPECIAL album, by standup comedian Gianmarco Soresi. he's sitting on a barstool and leaning over conspiratorially. a little seductively, perhaps, if you will.
October 13, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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file under: lessons which i would like to trepanate several billion skulls and jab deep into the quivering masses found within
screenshot of a tumblr post: o-craven-canto Oct 5 To some degree being a good writer counts against someone's compellingness when you are reading them for information rather than pure aesthetic pleasure. Pepole like GK Chesterton and Sam Kriss are freakishly good prose writers, and precisely for that reason you cannot trust their content once you realize they would sound equally convincing regardless of the position they're defending.
October 12, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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i'll be honest, this is probably the most competent and threatening anyone's *ever* going to draw mordy to look ... i'm not complaining mind, but it does make me groan embarrassedly a little.

art by @alzandah.bsky.social, commissioned by my girlfriend as a gift for me.
partially monochromatic sketch of a blonde woman with thin double-pronged horns and tattered dragonlike wings, dressed in dark clothes, wreathed in orange fire. the fire is the primary source of color for what is otherwise a mainly black-and-white drawing.
October 8, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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REBEL RIDGE (saulnier, 2024).
cop cars along the treeline; beneath the roots of the tree, on the other side of the hill: a passageway into the earth, into the world below. an empty courthouse, dark save for two windows. one along the left edge of frame, a long vertical rectangle, obscured by thin white curtains. the other square and squat, center right of frame. in it, ensnared by lines as if locked within a cell, a blonde white woman is trapped, in silhouette. a view through a car's front window. smoke hangs in the night air, lit by headlights not the car's own. a man stands between the light and the fog, and his light-rimmed silhouette is outlined in the ghostly projection of his own looming shadow. a rundown building facade, in dark-stained wood, inset in a wall of off-white painted empty. a black man sits beneath the overhanging roof that juts out above the white door, in the shade, his bike beside him and his backpack between his sprawled legs. he does not look like the call he just made has left him any more comfortable than the brief respite he's taken from the sun.
October 6, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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did you know, in both of these, the pleas they utter as they beg not to be killed for the crime of wanting to be more than the sex object society insists is the purpose they were built/made for are not "i'm a person", but "i'm real"?

i did and i think about it all the fucking time lol
two images, juxtaposed. a still frame from the direct to video animated series ARMITAGE III: men assault and demolish a gynoid sex worker while a crowd looks on, restraining her with a collar attached to a chain. and a still frame from "the second renaissance, part 1", THE ANIMATRIX: men assault and demolish a gynoid sex worker while a crowd looks on, restraining her by bending her arms behind her back. ARMITAGE III was made in 1993. THE ANIMATRIX, in 2003.
October 5, 2025 at 7:44 PM