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foolishfera
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A thing of many hats, all of which go jingle jangle. Writer, poet, brewing multimedia stew. Sometimes horny about it. 30's They/Thing.
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foolishfera.bsky.social
Hyouge Mono is one of the best anime I've seen and I never hear it come up. Historical anime about one of Oda Nobunaga's vassals as he lusts for art and recognition as an aesthete. Goes into really fascinating detail on the art history of Wabi-cha. Also these fucking facial expressions.
Furuta Sasuke from Hyouge Mono pulling a grimace of glee Furuta Sasuke from Hyouge Mono looking with shocked fascination Furuta Sasuke from Hyouge Mono grimacing while sucking on his upper lip. The subtitles read "Holy wow." Furuta Sasuke from Hyouge Mono pulling a smile that folds the fat in his cheeks to a comical degree
December 11, 2025 at 12:03 PM
foolishfera.bsky.social
rat king of perpetual motion machines cancelling each other out
Quote: explain your gender in 10 words or less without using boring words like "male", "female", "nonbinary", "masculine", "feminine" or "androgynous". go!
April 28, 2025 at 9:13 PM
foolishfera.bsky.social
An interesting thing about this piece is how the environment came first (Escher being fascinated by inhuman & non-Euclidean architecture), and the flatworms were added after thinking about what could live in such a place, as he mentions in this script for a lecture he was unable to give:
A scan of page 71 of the book "Escher on Escher: Exploring the Infinite". In the top right of the page is a copy of Escher's piece "Flatworms", showing cartoonish worms with large eyes swimming about a building made of tetrahedrons and octahedrons. The highlighted passage has this to say about it: "The right print [Flatworms] demonstrates that one can build a house not only with our usual right-angled bricks but also with tetrahedrons alternated with octahedrons. Such a building is not suitable for human beings to live in, for it has neither horizontal floors nor vertical walls. That's why I imagine that it is filled with water, in which swim a colony of flatworms. It was amusing to build different sorts of vertical columns, all made up of alternating tetra- and octahedrons."
April 2, 2025 at 12:13 AM
foolishfera.bsky.social
These are on the Flashpoint Archive! I just tested it now to see if it runs and it seems to be fine (I think the one you showed here is Alchemy II).
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A screenshot of Alchemy II running from the Flashpoint Archive from search results.
February 24, 2025 at 8:24 PM
foolishfera.bsky.social
a sci-fi flashfic about looking at things
Achilles’s Hairy Ball In an attempt to unite the nations of an unrestful world, governments and media agencies and anything with an acronym gave a crack at the ol’ common enemy trick. We all convinced enough of each other that there really were little green or grey bulbous bipedal Martians that had been spying on us, lowering fertility rates, weakening our economies, loosening bolts in our otherwise-healthy machine to get us all to turn on ourselves for them to swoop in for an easy invasion while we’re all riding in scrapwork monster trucks, too busy looking for clean water to look up. It was a good way for all nations to appear effective peacekeepers while everyone ignored all the real poisons that were dragging them gravewards — solve everything and nothing with a good show! Some people were angry and opposed, but plenty had grown apathetic having been born after the stars had disappeared beneath an LED sky. So all the space agencies of the world (after some polite then firm restructuring) devised several plans and the most expensive one was picked to churn out rocket after rocket and missile after missile to show off the might of a modern and global military industrial complex with the packing power to remove a piece of our very sky. The rockets couldn’t actually do anything, really they would huck asteroids at the planet to do the real damage and then detonate a few explosives around the scene. We couldn’t let the general public know that atrocity could come so cheap. The day came, and for a lucky half of the Earth they got full view of a sudden flash in the sky, and angry fire like the sun was uncoiling itself. The other half as they spun into view got to see what appeared as a tiny and sad-looking nebula, like a gunned-down amoebae. And just like that everyone could mark on their calendar one September day the death of an entire planet. We all just stood dumbly looking up at the night sky with a sudden smear on the lens, or staring at pictures on our televisions and phones, or just contemplating the new hole in our collective minds. And while we all marvelled at Mars like children fascinated by roadkill, the Venusians came down and quickly enslaved us all. They got us while all our backs were turned, and no one could argue that wasn’t an impressive feat when their target was a fucking sphere. They mocked us relentlessly, compulsively. A Venusian master couldn’t walk by you without saying “hey Earthling, it says gullible on Mars!” and if you didn’t politely chuckle along with them they’d stamp on you with their hooves while in uncontrollable and violent mirth. Many people took fine to the takeover once things had settled, however. The Venusians had similar economic sensibilities to us (why else do you think their planet looked like that?) and by October everyone was back in the office. Not much had changed except they put porn back on Tumblr. That kept us all going for a while.
October 17, 2024 at 11:47 PM