iâm not sure who would appreciate this media analysis and comparison, but it was sure fun to write!
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I did, despite never getting into either Attack on Titan or Better Call Saul.
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Brennanâs article on his experiences with moral scrupulosity motivated me to collect my various thoughts on shame into a garden page.
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really appreciating you & @brennan 's pieces on shame & scrupulosity <3
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In honor of the ruby being Julyâs birthstone I have A Ruby Tiara Duo for July to share with you all this week!
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I got anoyed by looking over a friends shoulder on how many sites on his server are old wordpress sites that should really be static sites
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Have you ever read A Secret History of Jewels? Itâs an easy read and might be up your alley! It helped me put into context how valuable and rare rubies (and clear emeralds!) are compared to other stones (in addition to the v cool history stuff)
No, I have not read it but I am going to go out and find it now. What a cool looking read! Thanks for the recommendation!
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looove that tiara-necklace! it is suchh a big redesign from the original much more delicate-looking necklace, what a bold move! itâs so cool when these pieces can be worn in different ways like that.
also, re: your previous post, i tried going looking on discmaster for groovy beaches since you had such a hard time finding a vaporwave beach! maybe some of these will at least be nice to look at, even though they werenât what you were looking for.
and i dug around on tumblr and found a couple of proper vaporwave beaches!
artist credited where i could find em
(from 2018, artist here)
(2017, artist here)
(couldnât find artist; tineyeâs earliest versions are 2017)
& dualvoidanima on tumblr has been working in their same style since about 2017 so their stuff probably isnât ai, and they have some very groovy beaches; 8pxl has a lot of beautiful vaporwave-color-palette landscapes including beaches and is very anti-ai
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sooooo my AI menu post has escaped my cozy circle 
- I did get a good number of comments from strangers. I think a handful of them were trolls (which I just deleted and didnât bother to approve⊠not worth my time or any amount of energy - cusdis requires manual approval for all comments), but the majority were civil at least.
I wonât be making more followup posts but I did make a new post where I go off the rails and talk about my favorite fandom and art I drew for it recently (not linking here since I wrote that post more for me haha).
Oh, wow, thank you so much for going to the effort of finding vaporwave beaches! I really like that one from discmaster thatâs just titled sunset with no numbers after it.
I did try searching Tumblr but my searches werenât as productive as yours! Iâve been following 8pxl for a while ⊠love, love, love that artwork!
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First post on my completely redesigned about a disability topic.
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Found out about a new interesting philosophy concept and wrote a page of thoughts on it:
finding stuff on tumblr is weirdly difficult, i feel like whenever iâm looking for an aesthetic blog i suddenly canât find any but i see them all the time when iâm not looking⊠very mysterious haha. glad you like em! 8pxlâs work is soooo lovely
I wrote this screed this morning.
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My art friends are all like, intimidated by technology because they feel like itâs something that requires born aptitude/talent Or, theyâre avoidant of technology beyond a certain point because of genAI displacement/pollution trauma.
So I made a new blog category to talk about all the positive, non-genAI intersections of creativity and technology that I like. In an attempt to eventually make artists feel more competent and capable.
The first post is about using random-peripherals you have lying around as inexpensive shortcut/macro-devices using AutoHotKey and other such remapping/macro/script software.
https://hikatamika.com/blog/2026-07-25-controllers-for-creatives/
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I donât know if it helps, but I was a musician and a writer before I was a techie. I didnât get my first computer until I was 18. Had to buy it myself, too.
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Iâve taken a break from restoring old material to write something new.
One thing I had noticed about Jumper is that while David Rice is economic with the truth and has no trouble justifying his burglary of a bank, his willingness to use violence generally stops well short of killing. Another is that David is explicitly told by a US State Department official that he knows because the official had been tasked with repatriating his motherâs remains for burial, is that terrorism is not part of Arab or Muslim culture. It feels like something too many Americans never learned, or had forgotten, after September 11, 2001 and the all-but-incessant propaganda used to manufacture consent for a Global War on Terrorism.
Jumper is full of little touches like these that seem perfectly sensible and humane to me, and might even have seemed progressive back in the early 1990s. It was apparently part of why the novel was one of the American Library Associationâs top 100 most challenged books in the 1990s. Not to mention the mentions of Al-Anon, and the implication that David seeks therapy to deal with the abuse he faced at the hands of his alcoholic father after the events of the novel.