joasakura
@jo-asakura.bsky.social
writer, artist, gamer, comic colorist
Find my original works here: https://www.patreon.com/c/ajvanderpoel
And my fanworks here: https://archiveofourown.org/users/JoAsakura
Find my original works here: https://www.patreon.com/c/ajvanderpoel
And my fanworks here: https://archiveofourown.org/users/JoAsakura
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Apparently the subject of the day on the art side of the internet is how to draw heads at difficult angles, so I’m gonna put it out there that there is absolutely nothing wrong with grabbing a tool like @handyarttool.bsky.social to get super specific references of difficult angles to draw
November 18, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Apparently the subject of the day on the art side of the internet is how to draw heads at difficult angles, so I’m gonna put it out there that there is absolutely nothing wrong with grabbing a tool like @handyarttool.bsky.social to get super specific references of difficult angles to draw
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A #Skydiver Appears to Fall from the #Sun in a Stunning Image
#photography #Icarus Credit: Andrew McCarthy
Link for more: www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/11/andr...
#photography #Icarus Credit: Andrew McCarthy
Link for more: www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/11/andr...
November 17, 2025 at 9:53 PM
A #Skydiver Appears to Fall from the #Sun in a Stunning Image
#photography #Icarus Credit: Andrew McCarthy
Link for more: www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/11/andr...
#photography #Icarus Credit: Andrew McCarthy
Link for more: www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/11/andr...
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Once again it is Saejima time 🖊️🦑
November 18, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Once again it is Saejima time 🖊️🦑
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Ad for the FAIRYLOGUE AND RADIO-PLAYS, an outrageously expensive multimedia presentation that included color slides ("Parisian color" referred to hand-applied color by French artists), musical numbers, a live author reading... and brief filmed sequences (now all lost)
November 19, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Ad for the FAIRYLOGUE AND RADIO-PLAYS, an outrageously expensive multimedia presentation that included color slides ("Parisian color" referred to hand-applied color by French artists), musical numbers, a live author reading... and brief filmed sequences (now all lost)
If you see this, post a redhead!
Treviso man getting into trouble, film at 11
Treviso man getting into trouble, film at 11
November 19, 2025 at 1:59 AM
If you see this, post a redhead!
Treviso man getting into trouble, film at 11
Treviso man getting into trouble, film at 11
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Image generators now enable businesses to create complex images without the visual awareness that normally comes with that ability. Which is how you can end up with this monstrosity.
There must have been several people involved in this, and NOBODY took a proper look at the picture. Happy Crisis!
There must have been several people involved in this, and NOBODY took a proper look at the picture. Happy Crisis!
This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu
November 18, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Image generators now enable businesses to create complex images without the visual awareness that normally comes with that ability. Which is how you can end up with this monstrosity.
There must have been several people involved in this, and NOBODY took a proper look at the picture. Happy Crisis!
There must have been several people involved in this, and NOBODY took a proper look at the picture. Happy Crisis!
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(eyeroll) Yeah, have had a batch of these over the last couple weeks (though not yet the Anthropic one). Here’s yesterday’s one…
November 18, 2025 at 6:30 PM
(eyeroll) Yeah, have had a batch of these over the last couple weeks (though not yet the Anthropic one). Here’s yesterday’s one…
This week on patreon, the last installments of Crow[n] of Crow[s] and Gallowglass before hiatus
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November 17, 2025 at 2:07 PM
This week on patreon, the last installments of Crow[n] of Crow[s] and Gallowglass before hiatus
patreon.com/ajvanderpoel...
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W o w
At what point does this person figure it out? Are they even a person? Or a bot?
November 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
W o w
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New episode of Comic Tropes! Dan Mora’s breakthrough and techniques through a look at Klaus.
youtu.be/noJqo0GNMmw?...
youtu.be/noJqo0GNMmw?...
Visual Storytelling 101: What Dan Mora Does Differently
YouTube video by ComicTropes
youtu.be
November 16, 2025 at 6:35 PM
New episode of Comic Tropes! Dan Mora’s breakthrough and techniques through a look at Klaus.
youtu.be/noJqo0GNMmw?...
youtu.be/noJqo0GNMmw?...
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What are your top 5 movie genres? Mine are:
-"I got it, we'll *pretend* to be married! What could go wrong?"
-Englishmen being weird
-Ship hunted by submarine
-Submarine hunted by ship
-Submarine hunted by other submarine
(The first two can be improved by the addition of a submarine.)
-"I got it, we'll *pretend* to be married! What could go wrong?"
-Englishmen being weird
-Ship hunted by submarine
-Submarine hunted by ship
-Submarine hunted by other submarine
(The first two can be improved by the addition of a submarine.)
- Films from 1932 in which three chorus girl gold diggers who share a flat try to survive the Depression
- Craggy former gunslinger bleakly confronts his life’s work
- Miscarriage of justice documentary
- Half-arsed ‘80s buddy comedy
- Holly Hunter whispering
- Craggy former gunslinger bleakly confronts his life’s work
- Miscarriage of justice documentary
- Half-arsed ‘80s buddy comedy
- Holly Hunter whispering
What are your top 5 movie genres? Mine are:
- Roaring rampage of revenge
- Reluctantly, I must resume my life of violence
- On reflection, the risk assessment on our giant monster facility and/or attraction could have been more thorough
- Girl survives
- Crime but make it quirky
- Roaring rampage of revenge
- Reluctantly, I must resume my life of violence
- On reflection, the risk assessment on our giant monster facility and/or attraction could have been more thorough
- Girl survives
- Crime but make it quirky
November 16, 2025 at 10:03 PM
What are your top 5 movie genres? Mine are:
-"I got it, we'll *pretend* to be married! What could go wrong?"
-Englishmen being weird
-Ship hunted by submarine
-Submarine hunted by ship
-Submarine hunted by other submarine
(The first two can be improved by the addition of a submarine.)
-"I got it, we'll *pretend* to be married! What could go wrong?"
-Englishmen being weird
-Ship hunted by submarine
-Submarine hunted by ship
-Submarine hunted by other submarine
(The first two can be improved by the addition of a submarine.)
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Hello it is me once again here with your daily reminder to vote for Saejima 🖊️🦑
November 16, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Hello it is me once again here with your daily reminder to vote for Saejima 🖊️🦑
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Badger badger badger badger badger badger badger
November 15, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Badger badger badger badger badger badger badger
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I may have to form a rock band, so I can use this as the cover of our first cd.
www.livescience.com/space/the-su...
www.livescience.com/space/the-su...
Astrophotographer snaps 'absolutely preposterous' photo of skydiver 'falling' past the sun's surface
Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy has snapped a striking shot of a skydiving YouTuber perfectly aligned with the fiery surface of the sun. The unlikely image, dubbed "The Fall of Icarus," required met...
www.livescience.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I may have to form a rock band, so I can use this as the cover of our first cd.
www.livescience.com/space/the-su...
www.livescience.com/space/the-su...
Post your favorite Star Trek character. Wrong answers only.
November 15, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Post your favorite Star Trek character. Wrong answers only.
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This is a better answer than I gave on The Source to @kaitlancollins.bsky.social last night.
November 14, 2025 at 5:10 PM
This is a better answer than I gave on The Source to @kaitlancollins.bsky.social last night.
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They complain about a male loneliness epidemic but have they even tried going shirtless and leaping to and fro on clay pots whilst wearing diaphanous trousers? They have not.
November 15, 2025 at 5:04 AM
They complain about a male loneliness epidemic but have they even tried going shirtless and leaping to and fro on clay pots whilst wearing diaphanous trousers? They have not.
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New #WriterBeware blog post: Yet another in the growing catalog of AI-driven writing scams from Nigeria: a multi-layered marketing/editing referral scheme that begins with a message or email from someone purporting to be a well-known author writerbeware.blog/2025/11/14/i...
If a Famous Author Calls, Hang Up: Anatomy of an Impersonation Scam - Writer Beware
You open your email program one morning. The usual work stuff. Some spam (annoying that it got past your filters!). A couple of newsletters (maybe later). You sip your coffee, scroll down. Wait. What’...
writerbeware.blog
November 14, 2025 at 6:10 PM
New #WriterBeware blog post: Yet another in the growing catalog of AI-driven writing scams from Nigeria: a multi-layered marketing/editing referral scheme that begins with a message or email from someone purporting to be a well-known author writerbeware.blog/2025/11/14/i...
I lobbied hard for Saejima with the single person I know who plays Yakuza, and she promptly voTed for Daigo, I tired 🥲
I mostly started posting all these thotty Saejimas as a joke but they released mid-campaign results and Saejima is barely clinging to 10th place, so now I’m pleading in earnest for people to go vote for my boy because I’m gonna be so sad if he gets voted out of the top 10 and ends up left out. 🖊️🦑
November 15, 2025 at 1:18 AM
I lobbied hard for Saejima with the single person I know who plays Yakuza, and she promptly voTed for Daigo, I tired 🥲
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I heard you like Oreos so I put oreos in your Oreos so you can eat Oreos while you’re eating Oreo.
oh wow that’s crazy
oreos with bits of
of oreos. in them
Real Bits of Oreos
oreos with bits of
of oreos. in them
Real Bits of Oreos
November 15, 2025 at 1:12 AM
I heard you like Oreos so I put oreos in your Oreos so you can eat Oreos while you’re eating Oreo.
after The initial “wouldnt this be neat” idea hits, I start with 3 beats: the initial idea, where it should end and then where it should start. then, I backfill until plot appears. The outline starts off with notes like “fancy dinner, all hell breaks loose” and then grows as I work out the details.
It looks like this. (Tl:dr; an outlining system that's worked for me for more than forty years.) www.dianeduane.com/outofambit/2...
November 14, 2025 at 6:50 PM
after The initial “wouldnt this be neat” idea hits, I start with 3 beats: the initial idea, where it should end and then where it should start. then, I backfill until plot appears. The outline starts off with notes like “fancy dinner, all hell breaks loose” and then grows as I work out the details.
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It looks like this. (Tl:dr; an outlining system that's worked for me for more than forty years.) www.dianeduane.com/outofambit/2...
November 14, 2025 at 2:30 PM
It looks like this. (Tl:dr; an outlining system that's worked for me for more than forty years.) www.dianeduane.com/outofambit/2...