This has been in my head since the new HoYoFair promotional art dropped yesterday. #HonkaiStarRail

Why was Jade denied her "The"? She has the oversized hat. Perhaps she failed to meet some other requirement?

Some of the character names in the new Hoyoverse game certainly are something.

Dromas～ 🦕🦕🦕

From Pom-Pom's Bilibili page. Original artist: 配菜的米饭
www.bilibili.com/opus/1097206...

There are not. There are six sandwiches in the promotion (in my region at least) and they are the sort of sandwiches one would expect to see nominated if one conducted a poll to find the top six most boring sandwiches.

I was briefly excited when I first saw this promotion, but the strawberry sandwich wasn't included in the available selection.

It's been a while since I've bought any figures, but Good Smile's Nakoruru & Mamahaha currently taking pre-orders is tempting me.
www.goodsmile.com/en/product/1...

I also ended up in the Casually Feminine club.

Arknights' 6th (Chinese) anniversary livestream kicks off in two hours!

Bite, kick butt, knock down

Today's motivational quote comes from the wise deer of Nara.

Another year, another neat Ambience Synesthesia outfit for Lappland that will never see the light of day. This year's outfits for Thorns and Blaze also deserved to make the jump to skins IMHO.

Pictured:
Lappland's 2021 & 2025 concert outfits
Thorns' 2025 concert outfit
Blaze's 2025 concert outfit

Finally found some bookends I'm happy with! My old bent metal ones seemed designed to shred books. I've been looking for something that's essentially a cubic paperweight to use as a bookend for ages with no luck. The glass pebbles were on sale and I bought some craft storage boxes to put them in.

This year's Valentine's Day artwork for Arknights features Kjerag power couple Sciurus and Yucatan enjoying a cosy evening together. It was too adorable not to share.
www.bilibili.com/opus/1033742...

Continuing the theme of queer (and other) erasure...

I've recently been picking up a few books that I missed out on when they released. The Japanese edition of volume 1 of Tamen de Gushi (a.k.a. Their Story / SQ / Begin W/Your Name) arrived this week. A second volume seems unlikely at this point...

Hypergryph (Arknights dev) held a recruitment drive at several US universities recently. Attendees were treated to a presentation on the development history of the game. I found this mind map they created to define the direction of the game amusing.

Photo credit: Loopy果 xhslink.com/a/Sa3MXkieXMTX

For years I've had a memory of a sci-fi film broadcast on TV in the late 80s or early 90s that I caught the last 10 minutes of, but I've never been able to identify it. During an episode of insomnia last night, I went through Wikipedia's list of 1980s US sci-fi films and finally tracked it down.

I felt like giving a shout-out to The Ink Apprentice, an ongoing fantasy webcomic by @lydialing-draws.bsky.social that I'm enjoying. The dragon's expressions are ridiculously memeable.

Links
Webtoon: www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/th...
Tapas: tapas.io/series/The-I...
Patreon: www.patreon.com/LydiaLing

I can't tell whether the headlines about the Neal’s Yard Dairy heist are genuine or a viral marketing campaign for the new Wallace and Gromit movie.

(Arknights CN 5.5 anniversary) In a setting where everyone is morally painted a shade of grey, Lappland seems keen to kick off her supervillain arc, and I respect that.