I Hate Pinterest.

Pinterest, man. You try to trace an image to its source so you can give proper credit to the artist, and you end up in this never-ending maze of pins that just loops back on itself, so you think you’re almost to the original website, but no, you’re back where you started.

Pinterest is, like, entirely dedicated to ripping off stuff. With a click of a button, you can share pictures without giving credit and make it impossible for people to find the original! And it’s as counterintuitive and hard to navigate and all-around schizoid as Google Plus, if not moreso.

I think this picture featured here is by somebody calling himself Nardack. But I wouldn’t swear to it.

Nice picture, though. I even pinned it.

JAKE AND THE DYNAMO Chapter 7

JAKE AND THE DYNAMO

CHAPTER 7: THE WEAPON

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Margherita smiled, raised her hands in the air, and spun on one foot. “Evildoers beware, for I toss the dough of justice—and justice is never half-baked! Saucy, spicy, and a little bit sweet, I am Magical Girl Space Princess Pizza Margherita!” Continue reading “JAKE AND THE DYNAMO Chapter 7”

Musical Interlude

Hidden Power: a magical girl mix from nevermore999 on 8tracks Radio.

More magical girl music than you can shake a wand at, assembled by nevermore999 at 8tracks.

Jake and the Dynamo Tonight

I’ve been out for a few days as I’m trying to catch up on things. We’ll see if we can get another review up in the near future.

And, of course, chapter 7 of Jake and the Dynamo will go up tonight at midnight Mountain Time, on schedule.

#Magicalgirl #Art

Featured image: “Magical Girl” by Naussi.

Review: ‘Wish upon the Pleiades’

Wish upon the Pleiades. Written and directed by Shōji Saeki. Studio Gainax, 2015. 12 episodes. Approximately 290 minutes. Not rated. Available on Crunchyroll.

It’s refreshing to see a magical girl series made as recently as 2015 that’s simple and sincere with no traces of so-called deconstruction or irony. The girls never discover that their familiar is conning them, nor that they’re really in hell. Nobody gets mind-raped. And though it does find a flimsy excuse for a swimsuit episode, it even manages to steer clear of the more grotesque side of anime cheesecake. Continue reading “Review: ‘Wish upon the Pleiades’”

New Review Tomorrow

Featured image: “Star Light” by Gendo0032

I just finished a series, and I seem to be getting over my flu bug, or whatever I had. I’m taking screenshots now and should have a new review up tomorrow.

JAKE AND THE DYNAMO Chapter 6

JAKE AND THE DYNAMO

CHAPTER 6: GIRL WITH GUNS

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Jake half climbed and half slid down the ladder. Because of the hole the dinosaur had made, it was ten feet between the bottommost rung and the pavement. He carefully lowered himself from the lowest rung and dangled for a few seconds before he dropped. Such a fall would have stung if he had been in his Oxfords, but, fortunately, he was in basketball shoes. Once he was on the ground, he helped Miss Percy down by letting her lower herself onto his shoulders.

After he got her to the pavement, she gazed unhappily at her pumps. “What a day to be in heels.”

“I wonder,” Jake muttered, half to himself, “if we should try to find some kind of weapon—”

“What good would that do?”

“I don’t think these are magical monsters.” He shaded his eyes and peered again into the sky. “It looks like the tower guns are doing real damage. That means these are just ordinary, run-of-the-mill dinosaur robots from space.” Continue reading “JAKE AND THE DYNAMO Chapter 6”

Update

I was going to spend the day on a new essay, but I want to finish the draft of chapter 16 of Jake and the Dynamo to keep my healthy ten-chapter buffer, and I need to finish editing and fact-checking an essay I’ll be submitting to another venue.

And I’ve come down with a flu or something.

Anyway, chapter 6 of Jake and the Dynamo will go up tonight as usual.

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‘RWBY’ Art

Featured image: “Ruby Rose” by unknown artist.

In spite of its flaws and rough edges and obvious derivations, I adore RWBY, Monty Oum’s anime- and video game-inspired action girl indie cartoon with Rooster Teeth. But I still haven’t finished the third season. I was depressed by Monty Oum’s untimely death.

In spite of the remarkably improved animation quality over time, including in the third volume, which approaches professional level, the action sequences aren’t the same without the series creator. Oum was the Yuen Woo Ping of animation. Nobody can do cartoon action like he could. Still, I approve Rooster Teeth’s decision to go forward without him.

Also, judging by RWBY‘s barely concealed source material, Oum must have liked the same stuff I like. Pretty sure he must have been a fan of Fairy Musketeers, one of my all-time favorite magical girl shows, which pits a team of fairy tale girls led by Red Riding Hood against an evil Cinderella, much like RWBY.

But, anyway, have a little art of best girl, by whom I mean Ruby Rose.