Time for the usual daily #anime#manga#DecRecs, and today I'm gonna rec Pandora Hearts by Mochizuki Jun.
Japan loves Alice in the Wonderland, and this is another tale with a twist on it. Our main character, Oz Vesalius, was told that his entire existence was a sin during his coming of age ceremony and was banished into the Abyss where creatures called Chains exist. He meets Alice, one of the Chains in the Abyss, made a contract with her to help her regain her lost memories and then together they bust out of the Abyss into the surface/normal world and found out that ten years have passed.
It's very hard to describe the plot... But the series starts off immediately intriguing, and there are lots of mysteries to unfold. Also, there are lots of heartaches and paaain... But the ending is satisfying, imo. And the art is very pretty.
I'd recommend not watching the anime until after you read the manga because the anime is not great (please, someone, readapt it) but the music is great (well, it's Yuki Kajiura) and the cast is A+.
From Along the River During the Qingming Festival 清明上河圖. Version claimed to be Song Dynasty, but likely to be a late Ming forgery. Held in the National Palace Museum, Taipei.
@Bluedepth@stux looks like I’m heading back to one of his most esteemed instances 😉
I’m big on an open and free web and crying foul when a big player actually adopts open and free standards doesn’t sit right with me.
Sure Threads might end up doing some bad noise that would earn an instance level block as any other instance would but let’s wait for them to do that & welcome their users, actual people.
Marquis de Lafayette, 18
James Monroe, 18
Gilbert Stuart, 20
Aaron Burr, 20
Alexander Hamilton, 21
Betsy Ross, 24
James Madison, 25
Thomas Jefferson, 33
John Adams, 40
Paul Revere, 41
George Washington, 44
Samuel Adams, 53
Ben Franklin, 70
DAMMIT! We had plans to see some of our most COVID-cautious friends between Xmas and NYE. They don't do much, wear masks, and won't see their grandkids' Xmas concerts for safety. Then she tells us she's going to the salon that week--in what will probably be one of the most dangerous, high-transmission weeks in 2 years!? So, we've canceled with them.
Why is it so hard to make sane, appropriate decisions on elective activities during a #COVID19 surge?! Risk your long-term health over a haircut?!
@sour You mean, aside from the fact it kills over 1,000 Americans every week, is surging to the second-highest level of the pandemic in parts of the US, leaves 10% or more with chronic Long COVID symptoms, and risks increase with each reinfection--yeah, totally irrelevant.
To my English reading tootline, sorry for all the political messages you are reading these days.
As a matter of fact, president Macron has been elected twice with a small majority of the electoral vote, against a far-right candidate, with the explicit promise that he would be the dam against far-right.
Tonight, he is ready to have a law passed that drastically restricts the rights of foreign people in France, under a warm round of applause of the far-right he had pledged to contain.
This is a sad night for France.
This is a sad night for democracy.
This is a sad night for the world.
@tess@mrcompletely I'm here for those reasons, but also for niche communities, too.
I’m done with shitposting endless scrolling dopamine loopsinto my brain with each swipe.
Not being combative though, what I love about Mastodon is that there's a place for everyone to get what they want out of it, vs. what's forced down our throats.
Don't like it here, try over there. Not into Y, well there are folks into Z. If unsure, follow hashtags and searches to find content in your feed.
@vsnmaryland This is the same judge who issued the injunction it looks like?
Alston issued an 18-page opinion Tuesday evening to lift the injunction. He said the allegations that the removal efforts amounted to grave desecration “were, at best, ill-informed and, at worst, inaccurate.”
Aight, good to know he's changed his mind.
Some of the figures also on the statue include a Black woman depicted as “Mammy” holding what is said to be the child of a white officer, and an enslaved man following his owner to war. ... He noted that the statue depicts, among other things, a “slave running after his ‘massa’ as he walks down the road. What is reconciling about that?” asked Alston, an African American who was appointed to the bench in 2019 by then-President Donald Trump.
If I were this judge I'd be kicking myself for issuing the injunction in the first place. What craven ghoul would defend this rock?