tell me why tifa recommended this guy again

it's slightly tragic to me that every year patalliro turns ten again & will never become the heavenly vision of bishonen perfection he so longs to be. but no matter how many years pass i don't think he would give up on his birthday wish *⁠.⁠✧

the prettiest boy in the world

Happy Birthday to Patalliro the 8th. Of course it's April Fool's Day.

inspired by my favorite manga cover and an image of Ryo Kato

Truly never going to be over how many children Terra gets to fight. First day out of the house in his entire life and a woman asks him to kill a fourteen year old and bring back her organs in a box. (He doesn't do this.) Then his dad's shitty ex rocks up and is like hey. I need you to kill this three year old for me. Then he gets sent to hercules world to fight a child soldier. He gets tricked into trying to kill Peter Pan. At one point he has to sit down and fight an alien that literally came into existence 0.2 seconds ago before his very eyes. It's a good thing he fights Braig somewhere in there because that alone is keeping the mean age of Terra's opponents above ten years old.

The next two gals! Yes, I only know how to draw pleats one way.

nostalgic

Colour illustration by Yuko Kishi - published in June magazine (1984)

Amano's Edgar Roni Figaro

Hiroshi Nagai, from Illustration in Japan Vol. 2 (1982)

nothing has a hold on me like rosewater. i have rosewater makeup remover I use every day to clean my face. I have a separate bottle of rosewater that I use multiple times a day as toner. I have another completely separate bottle of food grade rosewater that I just poured into my sparkling water. I don't think its actually doing anything for me but also I'm convinced its of the gods

All this discourse over who does "painting with light"

Hiroshi Nagai's paintings need sunglasses to look at.

They look like how it feels to walk across a parking lot on a 98° summer day without a speck of shade in sight.

They look like heaven but also like you'd burn your bare feet on the ground.

Even when you can see shade you know it's not enough and the minute you step out you'll be burnt to a crisp like a vampire.

And it's BEAUTIFUL

I want a reverse Star Trek, where instead of there being only one or two aliens on a crew full of humans, there's only one human on a crew full of aliens. And like, balls-to-wall weird aliens. Like one of them was bred for low-gravity asteroid mining, so he lives in a little hutch on the outside of the ship; one of them is just a cloud of birds with each individual bird being nonsentient, but they form a hivemind together with natural radiotransmitters in their brains; one of them is a liquid, but not the kind of liquid like Odo where it can take other shapes, so it just needs to be wheeled around everywhere in a tank, etc.

You want the novels. Look for the ones by Diane Duane. Say hi to K’tlk and Naraht for me.

Rella Cygnus