Otaku Links: Sampuru Size
By the time you read this, I’ll have already gone off the grid! After Otakon, I needed a vacation from my vacation, so I’m heading out to a friend’s lake…
Blogging is a two-way street
Last week, my Twitter account got temporarily disabled in some sort of glitch. It was down for only five hours, but I didn’t know that when I tried to log…
Welcome to the Gunpla DB Beta!
Here it is, the project that has been in the works since January, and which I’ve been cagey about since around Monday. Turns out this is an echo from two…
See you at Otakon 2016!
About a decade ago, Otakon was the first convention I ever attended. On Thursday, I’m going back for what must be the seventh or eighth time. If you’re looking for…
On Saying No
“We may be socialized to be friendly and accommodating, but nobody can do it all, and that’s why we need to protect our time by saying no, even if it’s…
Otaku Links: Fanservice and fursuits
Fellow aniblogger Serdar has upgraded his blog, Ganriki, to a new blogging platform he built from scratch! Serdar’s been working on this since I interviewed him for Build Your Anime…
July 2016 Income Report
Thanks for being so cool about last month’s income report. It can be scary to share this stuff and wonder how people are going to judge me, but I have…
Otaku Links: 100% Politics Free
Politics are important, but after a week of work at a political organization by day, and watching the Democratic National Convention by night, I’m ready to forget they exist for…
None of this is your fault.
When I was in middle school, I would sometimes come home in tears, crying to my parents that the other kids had picked on me. After a few episodes of…
How to take shit on the internet with dignity
The first rule is, don’t let them see you care. I’ve had a friend since middle school who recently said her favorite thing about me is “You were always so…