Lexi S. 🌸🥐🐉🪐

Freelance Entertainment Media Analyst.
Doing things and going places others won't.
CERTIFIED ERO CONNOISSEUR

[Lexi S. 🌸🥐🐉🪐 @Brkn_Azn]

Love is trash, Homies want ass.

[森川ジョージ @WANPOWANWAN]

22歳の頃、すでに連載は三度打ち切りとなっていた。
担当編集者は「ラストチャンスだぞ」と励ましてくれて、そのつもりでネームを書き連載会議に提出し続けて一年ほどが経った。

その日会議の結果を待ち廊下に面した曇りガラスの向こうで過ごしていると会議終わりの編集者がぞろぞろと歩いてくる。
「森川ジョージという名前を見るだけで読む気なくなるよ」とハッキリと聞こえてきた。
残念そうにネームを返却する担当と会話を交わすことなくそのまま講談社別館に行き60ページを頭から書き直した。

先ほどの声が耳から離れない。
三度失敗したらそういう評価は当然だろうと思う。
ラストチャンスと奮い立たせてきたもののそれはもう使い果たしていたことを痛感した。

悔しさよりも悲しさが上回った。
憧れのあの人のいる雑誌から離れるという選択肢を迫られていることが悲しかった。
あの人の隣に並びたいのに自分にはあまりにも力が足りなかった。
もう記憶が曖昧だがおそらくこの時僕は泣いていた。

描いても描いても受け入れてもらえずついには会議でネームすら無視される。
連載を続けたかった。
漫画が上手くなりたかった。
でもあまりにも力が足りない。
どうしていいかわからない。
ずっと頭の中であの人に問いかけていた。

『漫画上手いって一体どんな気持ちですか？』
『漫画上手いって…』
答えてくれる人はいないけれどずっと問いかけた。
もはや考えているのはネームではなくそれだけ。
考えられないからそれをそのまま書いた。

『強いって一体どんな気持ちですか？』
もう何も出てこない。
これでダメなら漫画家をやめよう。
そう決心してネームを再提出した。
そして連載が決定した。

「はじめの一歩」はあの人へ問いかけで始まって、今も問いかけながら続けている。
いつか実際に聞いてみたかったが少し仲良くなってしまって照れくさくて口に出せなかった。
機会はたくさんあったのに。
はじめの一歩は僕の漫画家としての第一歩であり、あの人との悠久の会話の始まりだった。
もう答えてくれる人はいないけれど、これからもずっと問いかけていく。

『ちばさん、漫画上手いって一体どんな気持ちですか？』

ありがとうございました。

[HIDEO_KOJIMA @HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN]

R.I.P.

[Rafas ☭ @ApenasRafas]

troquei a música de encerramento desse último episódio pela música da primeira abertura de Bleach, e se encaixou tão bem, cinema absoluto.

#Bleach #BLEACH_anime

[Lexi S. 🌸🥐🐉🪐 @Brkn_Azn]

@SubaruAmenaza @richiemalice Bro, Nakamura has conversational english. He's done interveiws in english.

[Lexi S. 🌸🥐🐉🪐 @Brkn_Azn]

@NYAANNIEE Sharing is caring, I guess.

[Lexi S. 🌸🥐🐉🪐 @Brkn_Azn]

@avataryaya_ What's funny about this is that NAMCO had this all figured out when they made TEKKEN6. Tekken force really had me leveling up and learning multiple characters in that mode. I have no idea why they just got rid of it in TEKKEN7.

[Varp™️ @GarpFanboy]

This guy just gets it, I have no notes

[Lexi S. 🌸🥐🐉🪐 @Brkn_Azn]

@CovfefeChan Going with option A because I'm built different.

[Jess ⚡️ @HuntyDraws]

Visiting important landmarks in Japan 🦀

[🌙☄️☕️Alice🇻🇳🏳️‍⚧️ @Bega092205]

True friends send each other porn

[🩷 Gabby ⭕ | Shockwave's lab rat 🧪🩷 @boot_stamping]

I understand all the mega freaked Chinese sex tutorials now because if someone made me this I’d be left with no choice but to invent the most insane and passionate ways of lovemaking to express my gratitude

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

nearly every botted AI reply on here comes from an account promoting tech, crypto, business, finance, or porn. it's never something like "Save the Wetlands" or "Friends of the Public Library."

[Lexi S. 🌸🥐🐉🪐 @Brkn_Azn]

@Mordredpenx

[Lexi S. 🌸🥐🐉🪐 @Brkn_Azn]

@CovfefeChan @crellythecow @CottontailVA @chibidoki @RayNarvaezJr @zentreya @Nagzz21 @VexTheSunEater @ChaChayourvmom @SpiteVtuber @sutosain Realistically it's 7, but the degenerate me saying 2.

[delty @DeltyThe73rd]

She lets you hit if you beat Ace difficulty with no damage btw

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The guy who founded Nike owns a movie studio that's lost money for almost 20 years straight. In two weeks it's going to lose a whole lot more, and he genuinely does not care.

Phil Knight is worth around $35 billion. He bought a small animation shop in Portland, renamed it Laika, put $180 million in before it released a single frame, and handed it to his son Travis to run. Travis directed Wildwood himself.

The losses are wild when you line them up. Missing Link cost $102 million and made $26.6 million worldwide. It won the Golden Globe for best animated film anyway. Any normal studio shuts down after a miss that size. Laika went and spent the next seven years building a 140-minute PG-13 stop-motion epic, the longest and most expensive thing they've ever tried.

And stop motion is brutal work. Animators move puppets by hand, 24 frames for every second of film. A good week gets you a few seconds of usable footage. That's why a Laika movie costs $100 million while CGI studios make theirs for a fraction, and why nobody else in Hollywood will touch the format at this scale.

So what is Laika, really? A patron deal, the same setup that got the Sistine Chapel painted. The Medici never asked Michelangelo to hit quarterly numbers, and Knight isn't asking Wildwood to open at $40 million.

Here's the part I love. Every other animated movie this year had to survive a studio balance sheet to get made. Wildwood just had to convince one 88-year-old man in Oregon that American stop motion shouldn't die.

So when the opening number comes in and the internet calls it a bomb, keep in mind the only number that's ever mattered at Laika is whether Phil Knight is still writing checks.

[Lexi S. 🌸🥐🐉🪐 @Brkn_Azn]

@SNIC_C

[Dave Greene @GreeneMan6]

This is Boomer. You don't get women by just hanging out doing her hobbies (which you probably find boring) and then lavishing her with flowers and expensive dinner reservations on the first date. Never BRIBE women with attention and resources to EARN dates. That's a way to look weak and go broke if modern women start seeing you as a meal ticket.

Here's a better plan:
1. STOP SIMPING; do not chase the shadow of women who you desire but can't have. Build masculine self-worth outside the female form.

2. FIND FRIENDS; male friends, guys who will have your back and call you on your shit. Remember, the things men playfully mock each other over largely resemble the things women call "ICKS" (non-masculine behavior). Build your confidence inside this group of friends.

3. FIND A CAUSE / SPORT; get something that you are good at, or that you can fight for. Get wins, victories, best rivals, build a story around yourself as a fighter, a winner, a protector of what is YOURS.

4. DECIDE WHAT YOU WANT; focus on a specific social community and a specific set of girls you see as candidates.

5. START LOOKING IN A LIMITED ENVIRONMENT; find prospects socially IRL in places likely to contain the types of women you want, OR on a dating app that limits its user base. Yes, this cuts down the total number of women, but the women there will be LESS likely to be in a "rejection mindset. Look for women in the places where they are least used to saying "No" to men.

6. DATE DECISIVELY; once you find a girl signaling some interest, come out with proposals for dates with times and places. Do NOT text back too quickly, but when you propose, BE SPECIFIC. Choose an affordable location. Propose dates twice, and only twice. Two "Nos" mean she isn't interested.

7. BEGIN WITH BANTS; show up to the date smiling, casual, jokular, ready to have a good time. DO NOT bring flowers or assumptions about where this is going. You are here to have a good time. Your guy friends should have taught you how to banter. Tell jokes and recall humorous stories; see if she laughs; watch her attention. REFUSE ALL job interview questions. REFUSE ALL political questions. If she asks, deflect and act like she is spoiling your fun(SHE IS!). Look for smiles and interest. If she persists with the ice queen routine and doesn't stop with the "job interview" questions, then find the soonest possible way to terminate the date; she is not interested in you.

8. SHOW HER YOUR BEST SELF; after she starts smiling, laughing at your jokes, and opening up a little bit, ask her about what she likes (this doesn't matter) so that she then returns the question and asks you about what YOU LIKE (this does matter). Use this question to highlight what you think is most impressive about you, or share a story about a "win" you had. Keep this cycle of exchanging stories and information going, and then return to BANTS and jokes to close out the evening.

9. CONTINUE AFTER EVALUATION; After the date, you should have a pretty good idea if you "won the girl over." A good test is the "bird test": when you talk to this girl about something that is ordinarily not funny or interesting, does she suddenly take interest, even laugh at unfunny things? That means she likes you. But now the ball is in your court: how much do you like this girl? Are you gunning for marriage? Continue dating in the same way as before, but turn down the performativity and show more sincerity and vulnerability. Try some jokey, practical humor that might otherwise be a bit offensive. If the girl keeps on showing interest, you have a keeper. If you think she's wife material, then you are ready for courtship.

10. BEGIN COURTSHIP; This is where you can give her the Boomer Romance. You know she's keen. You know she's a keeper. Let's see if magic happens. Flowers and expensive dates are good here. If it works, formalize it, and you are no longer "single"; if things keep working out, you have a path toward marriage. Just be aware that shit tests are always a thing, so it's ok to be comfortable but not TOO comfortable.

This is what works (at least in the late 2010s); maybe it's a little out of date, but I don't think so. At a minimum, it's better than Boomer advice.

[murder ibushi @Murder_Ibushi]

My favorite picture ever, Kenny Omega dropkick on Ishii’s head like Goku from Dragon Ball 😭

[Smitty Werbenjagermanjenson @MarTheMortal]

Can’t relate