Olive the Manga Reader
@allofthemanga.bsky.social
Manga geek of 15+ years. Video game writer. Past bylines: ButWhyTho? and Anime Feminist (Some likes/rts may be NSFW) She/Her. Demi. 31.
Help get the good folks at Smitten Kitten to Germany! They have not stopped doing mutual aid and rent relief since Metro Surge.
Mara Abolish I.C.E.@mauratwit.bsky.social · 5h agoMembers of Unidos and the staff of Smitten Kitten are traveling to Germany to accept their peace prize. Unidos folks are much more buttoned up this is gonna be awesome. Anyway shop at Smitten Kitten to help those amazing staffers afford their trip! smittenkittenonline.com
high key looking for an artist to commission a big fossil design for a tattoo. If you are someone with a spookier/realistic ish style and available comment here I'll dm! ❤️
As it currently stands the incredible, young artform of the video game is being held hostage by a handful of people who make more money than the rest of us will ever see and don't care one bit about the quality of what gets made. It's not right. We're here to change that.
Want to give a huge shout-out to Heidi and the ComicsBeat staff on their non-stop coverage on the Diamond Bankruptcy. Since it began, I've seen ComicsBeat publish updates on the topic, keeping everyone informed. With the ordeal concluding, I wanted to shout them out for their hard work on it!
Heidi MacDonald@comixace.bsky.social · 9h agoIn call y'all missed it: big victory for publishers as a settlement has been reached in the Consignment Controversy in the Diamond Bankrutpcy: www.comicsbeat.com/its-over-dia...
Please help if you can
Leti (she/they/meow)@letiuchiha.bsky.social · 19h agoMohammed: "To everyone seeing this post, please, I desperately need $120 to buy life-saving antibiotics. I'm struggling to afford the treatment; please don't let me lose my fingers. Please save my life before it's too late. 🙏💔😭 I hope you will share this post". chuffed.org/project/moh01.
Over 150k and still 8 days to go. 🙏 Thank you everyone who has purchased the bundle. Your generosity helps us support laid off game workers who are facing eviction, have put off important medical care/treatment due to losing insurance, and the like. Your solidarity means the world.
itch.io@itch.io · 2d agoEnjoy 127 items by 109 creators and support game devs effected by recent layoffs: itch.io/b/3802/game-...
Follow Kotaro as he cleans tanks and discovers the ocean's incredible, quiet wonders living 200 meters below Tokyo Bay. 📗 Deep-Sea Aquarium Magmell, Vol. 1 Take a look inside on the Yen Press site: buff.ly/iLYkxt7
YEP guess what, You KNOW WHATS OUT! To everyone who picked up the preorder, TYSM! We hope you're enjoying the book if you got it and making use of the coaster. And everyone else go to peow.studio
Kaze Hikaru, Vol. 34 is now available in print and digital! Read a free preview: https://bit.ly/4h94qD3
Also recently announced and coming in 2027 from @udonentertainment.bsky.social and @mangasplaining.bsky.social from our friends at Jitsugyo no Nihonsha is "Department Store Waltz" by Hiromi Matsuo. Like "Rondo," it gives readers a glimpse into a chic, dreamlike world of retro fashion retail
ICYMI - @udonentertainment.bsky.social and @mangasplaining.bsky.social extra have picked up 3 new titles from Jitsugyo no Nihonsha (publisher for "Veil" by @_K0TTERl_) for release in 2027 If you love "Veil," you'll also enjoy "Belles Ruelles," a full-color anthology manga set in a fictional town
Mizuho Kusanagi absolutely wrecked me with this spread in “Yona of the Dawn” Vol. 42. I’m scared to keep reading. I’m not emotionally prepared for the end.
This is the new worry for authors--that "detection tools" will say our work is AI. I heard a "clear sign of AI" is em dashes. Well you want to know what I fucking love--what I put an excess amount of into everything I write? That's right. Em dashes.
Susanna Kearsley@susannakearsley.bsky.social · 2d ago❤️ Gillian Green, publisher at Tor Bramble, told The Bookseller: “HM Wolfe has confirmed that Daggermouth was written entirely without AI. We stand behind our author, and we do not recognise third-party AI detection tools as a fair or reliable measure of authenticity when used on their own.”
I love waking up to a bright orange sun and having to close all my windows because the other side of the state is on fire. (This is sarcasm.)
I absolutely LOVED #AvatarAangTheLastAirbender, not only for this amazing story with the Gaang, but for its incredibly pertinent and timely message against ethnonationalism. My latest for @butwhytho.net: #AvatarTheLastAirbender #AvatarLegends #ATLA butwhytho.net/2026/08/avat...
‘Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender’ Is A Rousing Call Against Ethnonationalism
Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender is a beautiful film with a timely message against the horrors of ethnonationalism.
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With the amount of stuff I've written on writing, I suspect most people would wish I'd gatekeep some more and shut the fuck up.
Antony Johnston@antonyjohnston.bsky.social · 3d agoSeeing complaints online that authors 'gatekeep' information…! Absolute nonsense. There is no industry or craft in the world which is so comprehensively written about, studied, and discussed as fiction writing, and every author I know welcomes new writers who are serious about giving it a go.
I did not spend years learning the rules of grammar and a well-constructed written piece just to now be told it must be fake if it is good.
Anthony Michael Kreis@anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 2d agoI saw someone say that sentence length variation is a sign of AI. I’m just out here like, no:
everyone in the world of One Piece, every single last person: so you see then I ate the extremely rare and mysterious devil fruit, a special thing very few people get to do
I need targeted ads to stop trying to get me to go see that One Night Only movie. I have zero interest in “what if straight people had their sex lives made illegal but it’s cute and romantic” on screen.
Many of the quotes posts to my latest piece are highly presumptive of its content and even of me, going as far to accuse me of never having consumed a single #SpiderMan story (I've literally read and watched hundreds). It's sad they make these judgments without reading tbqh, but I hope you will. 🙏🏽
But Why Tho?@butwhytho.net · 4d agoThe MCU Will Never Let Spider-Man Shine on His Own
The bad-faith AI-booster argument about artists being “gatekeepers” is so facile that it really doesn’t deserve any air. Those are not serious people, and your time and energy for yourself are too valuable to expend on them!
Clock in. Suit up. Save the world. Pre-order Hero Company by Kazuhiko Shimamoto and discover a workplace where being a superhero is just another day at the office. Coming soon in 2-in-1 omnibus editions. buff.ly/rn17t17
Bluesky is a "liberal bubble" because fascist chuds can't get traction without algorithmic assistance and because people here trained themselves to block "debate me" trybois the instant they roll up
The Verge@theverge.com · 2d agoBluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."
I don't really have an objection to the CEO saying Bluesky is open to all; it's kind of his job to do that. But as others have pointed out, the design of the site means it's harder for trolls/bots/chuds *and also* influencers/hypebeasts to get traction. The "bubble" here is actually normal humans.
The real converse of "BlueSky is an echo chamber" is, conservatives would find their own echo chamber if they wanted, but they don't because they do not exist to be with other conservatives. They only wish for affirmation through rejection by the people they hate to embolden their conviction.
Bonnicula | Vampire Vtuber ⚧@bonnicula.bsky.social · 2d agoUnderlying structure dictates outcomes! The fact that bluesky allows a greater degree of agency to the user regarding what they do and don't have to see or interact with means it is less exploitable by far right media manipulation And they HATE that
