I’m just saying, The Sopranos intro is 90 seconds long, and you know what else has a 90 second intro…

BAKING BREAD?! LIKE WATER WEIGHT?!

Omorashi (おもらし / オモラシ / お漏らし) es una parafilia de origen japonés, relacionada con la incontinencia urinaria: la palabra japonesa omorashi, que significa «mearse encima», hace referencia a un tipo de fetichismo sexual habitual en productos de entretenimiento hentai y en el porno blando, ya que se diferencia de otras prácticas asociadas a la urolagnia en donde la excitación sexual se obtiene del acto de orinar, aunque también el hecho de obtener placer en el sufrimiento previo y la vergüenza posterior se asocia a las prácticas de dominación y sumisión del sadomasoquismo.

En Japón, una de las variaciones más populares es el omorashi yagai, consistente en orinar en público, mientras omorashi yagai hōnyō implica que el sujeto se desnuda antes de orinar o lo hace al aire libre sin ser visto; otra acepción, omutsu omorashi u oshime omorashi, le añade el uso de pañales. Aunque la prostitución en Japón -entendida como el contacto entre genitales- está prohibida, prácticas como el omorashi están permitidas en los salones de masaje y «clubes de imagen» junto con otras fantasías sexuales: el servicio incluye llevarse la prenda de ropa mojada; incluso se venden en máquinas expendedoras. También existe un lubricante artificial con olor a orín, el Nyou Maniac Lotion.

El origen del omorashi —abreviado omo— se sitúa en la popularidad de los concursos televisivos nipones que incluían pruebas de resistencia de la vejiga urinaria, y en el resto del mundo tiene medios dedicados como la revista australiana Wet Set, con fotos de mujeres vestidas pero con la ropa empapada. En 2018, un hilo del web Reddit que preguntaba si era posible tener un mini orgasmo al orinar después de haberse aguantado se hizo viral, con respuestas afirmativas de muchos usuarios; sin embargo, aunque es posible que la orinada estimule los nervios pélvicos y pueda provocar placer, también existe el riesgo de contraer una infección urinaria o que se altere la musculatura de la vejiga.

15 minutes to the Gay Deaf Movie + late 80s NorSL video magazine and fanime!

It’s about one hour and fifteen minutes to Lars + Tegnsatt + Satan’s B###h + Tokyo Magic Star!

TV☆3SIS kicks off its first broadcast of Pride Month '26 with a gay little flick out of the Norwegian Deaf community, followed by a Norwegian Sign Language video magazine from 1989, an edgy 2016 fanime by the creator of Tokyo Crystal Mew, and episode 6 of Tokyo Magic Star. It all starts in 8 hours or so!

According to the 2023 biography Carnage: A Succulent Chinese Meal, Mr. Rent-a-Kill and the Australian Manson Murders, at least. Jack Karlson was a victim of child sexual abuse and really terrible child abuse more generally when he was in the care of Blackheath Presbyterian Boys’ Home as a teenager, which I think is an important bit of context for how he ended up becoming a neo-Nazi: he was thoroughly traumatized as a kid, turned to a life of petty crime, and in true Lumpenproletarian fashion became a reactionary. This is how I understand it, at least.

It should go without saying that this doesn’t excuse his Nazism, though. There are obviously many victims of CSA who don’t grow up to paint Hakenkreuze on their cars and say “two Heil Hitlers” instead of “three cheers”.

Something I really hate is how the Democracy Manifest guy turned out to be a neo-Nazi. Real Milkshake Duck hours.

Hell fuckin yeahhhhh I love this one, I posted it here a few years ago in fact. For reference, this is the original version of the song. It’s also good, but I do think I prefer the Neon Nativez remix overall.

The Russian form of “USA” is a particularly cursed example of this: США (SŠA), pronounced colloquially as Shhhha.

Own Blorps

Star vs. The Forces of Evil has been a pretty big hit. It admittedly took a while for me to get back into the groove of it, since I’m a very different person now than when I first watched it, and its occasional “random XD” humor is less appealing to me now. But now I feel like I’m rediscovering the love I had for something I fell in love with many years ago, and this time I get to share that joy with friends.

Uma Musume: Pretty Derby has been less of a hit. I’ve been personally enjoying Uma Musume, but it being a pretty typical sports anime with some uncomfortable baggage in gambling, animal abuse, and noncery, it hasn’t resonated with everybody. Which isn’t to say that the blorpers hate it per se, it’s more that opinions are mixed but not strong. I’m increasingly thinking of showing Keijo!!! after finishing my showing of Uma Musume season 1, and then Little Witch Academia after that, rather than directly continuing to Uma Musume season 2. I guess Uma Musume is a bit like Barillé’s Once Upon a Time… that way, in that it’s maybe best with breaks between the seasons.

PONIES: The Anthology has been fun, thankfully nowhere near as problematic as I worried feature-length shitpost compilations from the early 2010s might be, and format-wise not as boring as I worried feature-length shitpost compilations from the early 2010s might be. Above all else PONIES: The Anthology films are fun little time capsules of contemporary brony and Internet culture.

The Owl House has remained fun as well, as has my dead air material of Joshua Jones and Magic Heart and the Magical Warriors.

I finished showing the DPRK furry war/political drama cartoon Squirrel & Hedgehog, or Squedge as I like to call it. Good show, but the plot basically stopped progressing after the first few episodes, which I guess is the risk you run into when your release schedule is “new episode twice a year to once every two years”. I and the other blorpers were sort of shocked that Officer Yeou only shows up in the last two episodes when she’s the most memed-on character with the most fanart. Supposedly more Squedge episodes are in the works this decade, so hopefully they’ll release soon enough.

After Squirrel & Hedgehog I showed three fanime: My Demon Girlfriend, Yay! Cat Evan’s Future, and the first half of Tokyo Magic Star. The former I’d go so far as to call my second favorite fanime I’ve seen this year; it’s very well-animated and is an enjoyable little show overall. I don’t mind the Kevin MacLeod stock music but others reacted to it. Cat Evan is my least favorite fanime I’ve seen this year, for no other reason than that it’s so short that it leaves no impression. Tokyo Magic Star is more middle of the road. It’s a very early 2010s fanime, albeit with more edge and less charm than the likes of My Jungle Book, Your Year. Unfortunately, some of the dialog in Tokyo Magic Star was completely inaudible due to YouTube’s auto-removal of a copyrighted song. Nonetheless, given the influence of Tokyo Magic Star on the fanime scene, I look forward to continuing it.

Work on my own fanime, Blazoner Narazen or BlaNara, has been going swimmingly. I finished prescoring episode 1 (by the end of last month I’d prescored ~70% of that episode); I also finished storyboarding the whole episode, And Also I subtitled the whole episode, and made an audio description track for it complete with ducking. Have you ever seen a fanime with subtitles and AD? Accessible fanime is practically unheard of, but here at STUDIO☆3SIS, accessibility is our top priority.

Anyways, now I just need to make the final animation for BlaNara episode 1. I have about 45 days to get that done. I’ve unfortunately already squandered a few days, but I’m sure that if I pick up the pace now I can get at least most of the final animation done by the deadline of July 15. At this point I should also think about finalizing the script for episode 2, which I’d like to premiere on November 4.

Next Wednesday I’ll be showing the Norwegian Sign Language LGBT drama feature film Lars (2022), two more episodes of the NorSL video magazine Tegnsatt (1989), the fanime Satan’s Bitch, and another episode of Tokyo Magic Star.

Others’ Blorps

New Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt, shown by Clara, continues to be good, albeit a bit heavy on the movie parodies. I continue to tune into Clara’s showings of Hazbin Hotel each week despite not particularly liking it. It has its moments, sometimes very good moments in fact, but I think I mostly tune into Hazbin Hotel because I want to stay in the chat a bit after PASWG, and then I just end up chatting so long that I end up watching the whole show anyways. Garg is nearing the end of Magic Knight Rayearth II, and that too is something I continue to watch for the chat opportunities even though I haven’t cared for the show that much.

I saw Empress Chung and Black Magic M-66, shown by Cuban, and the last 20 minutes of Vampire Hunter D, shown by Cud, but none of them left much of an impression on me. Which is especially a shame for Empress Chung since it is a movie with some very special circumstances as a DPRK-ROK coproduction that was lost for like 20 years. I do sort of suspect it would’ve been better to watch Empress Chung with my full attention.

I saw episode 4 of Puella Magi Madoka Magica when Stalin was showing it, but I wasn’t going to stay up super late for Madoka Magica, especially when Madoka Magica is a show that demands your full attention, and when I tried watching it by myself last time, I ended up peacing out after the first three episodes. I’m sure I will eventually change my mind on Madoka and watch the show to the end, but not right now.

For some live action things: I saw Stalin’s showing of the first episode of Squid Game, and I don’t regret it because it’s important to make yourself uncomfortable sometimes, but I don’t really like that sort of realistic violence and mass death. It was super late anyways, so I didn’t stay for the rest of the show.

I can say a similar thing about the 2025 film Hen, shown by Camden: a very good movie that’s worth watching even if it makes you sad and uncomfortable. I pointed out a parallel between the chick sexing scene at the start, and the mass suffocation of a group of refugees later in the film. Based on that alone you can tell that Hen is the sort of movie where you have to be mindful of your own needs as you watch it.

(like 90 % horny bullshit)

I suspected as much, but it’s good to get confirmation.

Super GALS! shows off gyaru culture as it was in its golden age (and delinquent adjacent),

Ooh, sounds very neat! Slice of life comedy by Studio Pierrot, it says. I’m struck by how many people recommend Kodocha for fans of Super GALS! and vice versa.

As for what I’ve been up to last month, I’m just gonna split it between two comments this time.

Reading

The only manga I’ve been reading on my own lately is still Sweat and Soap, and I continue to enjoy it a lot. With my mom I’ve been reading one of the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic tie-in IDW comics (meant to mention this last month), and a manga telling a fictionalized version of the Sanrizuka struggle called Boku no Mura no Hanashi (“Story of My Village”). I read the first few chapters of BNMNH many years ago when they were first published on Mangadex, but more chapters have been posted to the site since then, so I decided to read chapter 1 of BNMNH to her, she got caught up to where I left off, and we’ve been continuing it together ever since.

As for proper books: I’ve mainly been reading Moby Dick and Wired Love. Moby Dick I can particularly appreciate for the brevity of its chapters, and it is a good story on the whole. Wired Love was a best seller for ten years after publication but in the long term has ended up way further off the beaten path than Moby Dick. It is very interesting to read Wired Love in a “plus ça change” sort of way: being a romance between two telegraph operators who met over the wire, it is very of its time; and yet a lot of it will be relatable to modern audiences who have in some way or another dealt with romance across distances through the Internet. It’s good stuff. It is sort of comphet and there was a tiny bit of period-accurate racism in chapter 3, but at the same time, it has a lot of that sort of late 19th early 20th century gender play, because the characters can conceal their genders on the wire. The author, I should mention, was herself a telegraphist and politically engaged as an activist for women’s suffrage, and I think this shows in the main character. It was also fun how one of the characters basically predicted mobile phones in chapter 3.

Apropos late 19th early 20th century gender play, I can also mention A Voyage to Arcturus, although I’m yet to finish the first chapter. There’s also Frankenstein but I’ve read even less of that.

Anime with Obama’s Elf (and AernaLingus)

I’m continuing Maison Ikkoku and it continues to be a lovely little 80s show. I got to the part where the OP changes to “Suki Sa”, which… Honestly doesn’t really match with the vibe of the show? It’s anemoic as hell, though.

I finished season 1 of Avatar: The Last Airbender. It’s a decent show but I guess it hasn’t really enticed me that much compared to other things I’m watching.

I also finished TEPPEN!!! Laughing 'til You Cry and it was… fine. A pretty middle-tier show. It’s got some laughs but I didn’t quite like the format of it. The OP is the best part of it. To replace Teppen after I finished it, I started The Klutzy Class Monitor and the Girl with the Short Skirt, AKA PonSuka, recommended to me by @AernaLingus@hexbear.net. I’ve still only seen the first episode, but it’s pretty promising! I was struck by the lead boy’s name being Togo, since I’d just been teaching myself about that country. The lead girl is named Poem, and she is very embarrassed about it.

Apropos unfortunate names, I’d actually sort of “procrastinated” on starting PonSuka because the full title was a bit of a turnoff. But as a wise man once said, “Don’t judge the cover, judge the book.”

Incidentally, with AernaLingus I just finished The Idolmaster and its special. It was a fun time. AernaLingus said of it that it’s not K-On! tier or Hibike! Euphonium tier, but it is a nice little show with nice little musical numbers and she thought it was nice to finally check it out. I’m inclined to agree, except I haven’t seen Hibike! Euphonium myself. Ami and Mami are still my favorite characters in The Idolmaster. And now that we’ve finished The Idolmaster, the next show Aer and I are gonna watch together is The Wasteful Days of High School Girls, so look forward to hearing about that next month.

With mom

We’re continuing Mono, Sailor Moon R, Serial Experiments Lain, and Kodocha. Very coincidentally for the latter two we ended up seeing the clipshow episodes on the same day. We finished Ojamajo Doremi season 1 and started season 2, Ojamajo Doremi Sharp. Evidently, Sharp is the Wacky Baby Hijinx season of Ojamajo Doremi. At least the new transformation sequences are very cute and catchy with the castanettes, but the OP/ED/eyecatch leave a lot to be desired compared to season 1. As for the writing itself, it’s maybe too soon to say, but the Wacky Baby Hijinx doesn’t give me high hopes.

We saw a few more episodes of Lupin III Part 2 and started Skullfaced Bookseller Honda-san and the 1999 version of Hunter x Hunter. I keep discovering that old popular shonen anime are popular for a reason! We aren’t very far into HxH but I like the animal welfare themes it’s got “Gon” on. Honda-san is a pretty simple half-length gag show based on the mangaka’s own experiences working in a bookstore. It’s fun enough.

I showed my mom a few episodes of the 2003 version of Fullmetal Alchemist as well as the “Fa Fa Fuck” segment of New Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt and she enjoyed both shows. She might actually want to watch the shows in full with me some time.

As for live action: We’re continuing the 60+ minute Furuhata Ninzaburo specials, and they continue to be Japanese Columbo Goodness.

Yes, but there is a big difference between Utau and generative AI. It’s the difference between playing a piano yourself, and putting a roll into a player piano.

Yes, being stinky is antisocial behavior, but what I’m saying is that there is a tension between prosocial and antisocial behavior in communists: it is not always good to be prosocial, and it is not always bad to be antisocial: these terms as I use them only describe adherence to social norms, nothing else. To be a good communist you must simultaneously be the most prosocial and antisocial you can possibly be: Prosocial, because you must be animated by a profound love for humanity and a desire to uplift all the people around you, and because you must appeal to and mobilize millions if not billions of average people for your movement to succeed; and antisocial, because you must recognize all the harmful norms of society imposed by the ruling class and internalized by the same people you’re trying to mobilize, and fight to overthrow those norms. To be fully prosocial alone is to accept the status quo. To be fully antisocial alone is to show a total disregard for the people around you. To be fully prosocial and fully antisocial at the same time is to be a revolutionary. This is my point.

Bringing this back to personal hygiene: What I mean to say is that if you go around with stinky pits in a culture where this is taboo, then it does not matter if you can eloquently describe that taboo’s origins in the ideology of the ruling class, or how hypocritical society is when other smells that you absolutely cannot stand are seen as perfectly normal, if not the epitome of fragrance. Your words do not matter if you stink, because most people don’t want to hang out with people who stink. Most people won’t hear you out, and whatever revolutionary movement you claim to represent will just become “those stinky weirdos”, and it will fizzle out and die. The theory of connotations of smells being socialized is correct, but the praxis of disregarding those connotations entirely, is incorrect. This is the real reason why it’s bad to be a stinky communist.

This is ultimately largely the same point as you’re making, but I think the change of framing is important.

I’ve loved this song for many years, Plavi Orkestar has some other good songs, too. I first heard “Fa Fa Fašista” in the wake of the Christchurch mosque shooting, and it really spoke to my absolute rage at the rise of fascism. Incidentally I believe I took inspiration from the line “zaveo te draga zlatokosi švabo” in this song, when I came up with my conlang’s name for Germany, Šebiya.

Genuinely, showering every day is a completely arbitrary standard rooted in classism and colonialism that’s effectively impossible (or even counterproductive, depending on things like climate and hair texture) for many people to achieve. I’d go so far as to say that what constitutes a “bad smell” to begin with is to a large extent (but far from totally) socially conditioned. I won’t say that these facts justify being stinky at the org meeting, but they are worth pointing out as an example of the inherent tension between prosocial and antisocial behavior in a popular revolutionary movement.

This being said, I interpret the Soviet poster as more being about e.g. washing your hands and face every day, which to me seems a lot more doable, reasonable, and environmentally friendly than showering every day.

Strange. That’s never happened to me. Could it be tied to a social media ban in your jurisdiction?

Babs Seed profile picture pog

Sounds like “generative AI”…

14 minut do starta! (art by Dimfann)