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Barbenheimer | Movie Trailer

#youtube #barbie #oppenheimer #barbenheimer #a use for AI that I can get behind

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Fans of the mountain-climbing anime Yama no Susume will appreciate the "victory yokan" I took with me to the top of Strawberry Peak yesterday. 😝

#yokan #hiking #mountains #angeles national forest #strawberry peak #encouragement of climb #yama no susume

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In my experience, even when it's a gift from God, you still need to practice!

#art #writing #creativity #introvertdoodles #practice makes perfect

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Looks like I discovered someone's stash of Halloween props.

#catalina #catalina island #two harbors #what is this #pirates

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Press coverage, then and now...

#you can't do that on television #ycdtotv #writing #nashville banner #moorpark acorn #newspaper #articles #interviews #nickelodeon #year: 1985 #vanderbilt #nashville #moorpark #book awards

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The third panel is the most real for me.

#art #writing #practice makes perfect #don't give up #inspiration #don't listen to them

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A little interview with yours truly about my Benoit Mandelbrot and Edward Lorenz biographies.

#royal fireworks press #benoit mandelbrot #ed lorenz #fractals #fractal geometry #chaos theory #math #biography #children's books #homeschool

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Anime Favorites 2022

I'm not normally a big fan of music-themed anime, so no one is more surprised than I am to find two music-themed series at the top of my 2022 list. BOCCHI THE ROCK! is on a lot of people's lists, and deservedly so, but Healer Girl isn't getting a whole lot of attention. Okay, maybe it wasn't the best anime of the year, but it was definitely one that I needed most. I'm still processing the loss of my own singing voice, and I needed these characters who built their lives and the good they did in the world around their songs.

Here's the rest of the list:

Favorite New Series

Healer Girl

BOCCHI THE ROCK!

SPY x FAMILY

Favorite Returning Series

The Demon Girl Next Door

Yama no Susume: Next Summit

Ascendance of a Bookworm

Problematic Favorite

Akebi-chan's Sailor Uniform

My Dress-Up Darling

Lycoris Recoil

Favorite Non-Anime Animation

Fairies Album

The Owl House

Pantheon

Favorite Yuri Couple

Shamiko and Momo, The Demon Girl Next Door

Chisato and Takina, Lycoris Recoil

Suletta and Miorine, Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury

Favorite Het Couple

Gojo and Kitagawa, My Dress-Up Darling

Lev and Irina, Irina: The Vampire Cosmonaut

Loid and Yor, SPY x FAMILY

Favorite BFF's

Aoi and Hinata, Yama no Susume: Next Summit

Serufu and Purin, Do It Yourself!!

Anya and Becky, SPY x FAMILY

Favorite Opening Title Sequence

"Tokimeki Rendezvous," The Demon Girl Next Door

"Feel You, Heal You," Healer Girl

"Hajimari no Setsuna," Akebi-chan's Sailor Uniform

Favorite Closing Credit Sequence

"Tokyo Sunny Party," Heroines Run the Show

"Nani ga Warui," BOCCHI THE ROCK!

"Believe like Singing," Healer Girl

And lastly, one that's particular to a writer-type like me...

My muse's favorite avatar

Anya Forger, SPY x FAMILY

Myne/Rozemyne, Ascendance of a Bookworm

Suzumi Hiyori, Heroines Run the Show

#anime #2022 #year in review #anime 2022 #healer girl #bocchi the rock! #spy x family #machikado mazoku #yama no susume #ascendance of a bookworm #my dress up darling #akebi's sailor uniform

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Great Egret taking off.

#bird pictures #water bird #great egret #southern california #ventura county #flying

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Some of the artwork from the Owl House crew exhibition at Gallery Nucleus in Alhambra CA.

#owl house #the owl house #toh #lumity #toh lumity #disney #alhambra #gallery nucleus #luz noceda

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Yesterday I went to the exhibition by the creative team of Disney’s The Owl House at Gallery Nucleus in Alhambra.  Here’s one of my favorite pieces.

#youtube #the owl house #owl house #toh #toh king #gallery nucleus #alhambra #california #artwork

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When you can't remember your phone number but you still remember that really embarrassing thing you did one time when you were six.

I have never felt more seen

#bocchi the rock! #the struggle is real

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Pixel Con! How many of your favorite characters can you spot?

#fandom #fandom culture #fandom things #marvel #doctor who #avatar the last airbender #studio ghibli #anime #who's the genius who made this?

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Favorite opening title sequence of the season.

RWBY: Ice Queendom Opening - "Beyond Selves" by Void_Chords feat. L

#youtube #rwby #rwby ice queendom #anime #summer 2022

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"Welcome to USA!”

“Wait, don’t shoot me!”

#youtube #yup #murica #healer girl #anime #of course

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Reminder

Marvel comics have always been "woke."

Star Trek has always been "woke."

Doctor Who has always been "woke."

Sesame Street has always been "woke."

If you think they weren't, you're remembering wrong.

#star trek #sesame street #doctor who #marvel #marvel cinematic universe #marvel mcu #stop whining #remember when #wokeness

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My friend Emma Rault is a translator in English, German, and her native Dutch. Check out her latest work!

#dutch #book #books and novels #novels #new fiction #pan macmillan #social media