I for one, love the content.

Same! Endings are the hardest part & soooo many books just completely miss the mark.

Ooooo kudos on getting so much done! It can be so tricky translating in a way thay lets the original authors style shine through.

Also I’m kind of jealous of the rain, we were supposed to get a big storm where I’m at, but haven’t gotten more than an hour of rain at a time.

He has a long history of dating / marrying very young women. His first wife (the one you referred to as getting left) was 15 when they officially started dating. He first met he at the age of 12. She was pregnant by 16.

There’s also the weirdness of how his movies portray age gap relationships. The professional in particular is often criticized for how it both sexualized a young girl & portrayed her as the instigator. Natalie Portman has talked about how this movie brought her fame and long lasting trauma. Plus the original cut was much more problematic & the studio cut quite a bit before it was released – so bussons original vision was even more pedophilic. Plus it is supposedly inspired by his real life romance with a 12 year old.

Here’s a link to a essay that goes a bit more in depth: https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/luc-besson-leon-the-professional-truth

Edited to add: there are also the many rape allegations from various women who have worked with him over the years.

Some of the lemmy front ends have an option to hide posts you’ve already seen. I know connect does.

My reviews tend towards being discussions of the themes of the book and thoughts on what did or didn’t work well. I also have one or two sentences recapping the plot. They’re mostly for my own records so I can jog my memory of the book later on. Or so I can find the title of something I vaguely remember lol

I do love spoilers though, so I often read reviews before going into a book lol. I enjoy knowing where things are headed so I can appriciate the journey there. I can fully understand having them as a post book treat though :)

Sorry for missing last month, it was the end of the school year and that’s always a bit chaotic getting packed up and prepping the classroom for summer.

I’ve been doing quite a bit of reading and have written a few book reviews, as well as personal journaling. Its nothing super creative, but its kind of my standby mode to stay writing. Summer has been nice so far, I’ve gotten many of the house projects I had on hold all school year finished & am finally about to get my office space set up. I really think having a dedicated work space will help me get into a better work flow. Basement life & living out of boxes has really taken a toll on my creative process lol.

Hopefully next month I’ll be able to share more & will make some headway into my larger form projects that have essentially been on hold for the last year.

I love the idea of a cyoa version of the campaign, it’ll definetly help open the material to another audience.

I hope this continue going well for you :)

Oooo congrats on getting personal blog set up! I bet that felt like a good accomplishment. Plus it’ll be nice to have a collection of your writings you can look through :) i hope you’re able to get a decent amount of eyes on it

Was the citation for having it up too long in the spring? You could add some bunny ears and a basket to make it spring acceptable. Or some hearts for valentines day.

There’s one in my neighborhood that’s up year round & they have tons of outfits for him. My favorite is his 4th of July outfit.

When I had a gallstone induced pancreatitis they tried to tell me this is what I had. Luckly they still ran some blood work and got me scheduled for emergency surgery.

It was pretty annoying having the doctor trying to blame my severe pain on cannabis use though :/

Waking up this morning to find slrpnk back up was a special treat. A big thank you to everyone who helped make it happen behind the scenes :)

I also had more experience with them while on an account that federated with hexbear. There were definite pros and cons to having them show up in my feed. They’re a very active community and had lots of posts and comments. Definetly some good memes and fun conversations. There are also some very toxic views that get supported and given alot of attention.

I think for me personally I am fine either way. I dont think hexbear is all bad, but there are some definite bad parts. I can understand why the decision to defederate was made.

It looks so good! What’s your process been like? Are you free handing it at all?

Excited to see what it’s like once it’s finished :)

It’s sooo terrible. I updated my phone not realizing it was going to be such a big change & it kind of ruined my day.

I’d love to go with a different OS, but nothing has stylus support for writing and note taking :/

It’s exactly what I want lol

I love overly analytical videos deep diving into things that maybe weren’t meant to be taken so seriously. This was great, I’ll have to check out more of his stuff. Thanks for sharing :)

Yes japan! I’ll edit to add the link to the original site this is from

Edit: https://soranews24.com/2025/04/28/cleverly-designed-bath-use-glasses-that-dont-fog-up-make-a-splash-in-japan/

Ooo I’m glad I could introduce someone to the concept :) it’s one of those random things I’ve spent way too much time thinking about lol I find them so interesting

I thought it might be a window, but it was so dark I wasn’t sure. Still very liminal.

& i think maybe it might be creepier to someone who has been in those spaces before? Often people who find liminal spaces creepy it’s because they’re used to them in a different context than the photo. So usually the bathhouse would have people and it would probably be light outside, which isn’t the case here.

I dunno definely interesting lol