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Sun Haven is like if Stardew Valley was made by furries who shop at Hot Topic. It's not a MMO but does have optional multiplayer, which I have not tried.

Palia is a free MMO where the world is shared with strangers and has a similar cosy post-apocalyptic fantasy vibe to My Time At Sandrock.
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It really is just a small, efficient convection oven, it's less that you can cook new things and more that a bunch of recipes become faster and easier. But that has made a pretty big difference, to us as people who spent a lot of time thinking "I WOULD cook that in the oven but ehhh... too much effort".
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I was feeling inspired to play around with tessellations and stumbled across Tiled.art, a fun site that illustrates how tessellations work and lets you make your own.

I didn't end up making anything very exciting artistically but did have fun, and I think it could be pretty fun for other people, with or without an artistic or mathematical background. Just play and see what happens!

Just finished the first season of the live action Avatar the Last Airbender show. I went in with low expectations, prepared for things to be changed, and with that mindset quite liked it! Not a perfect adaptation, nor a super faithful one, but made by people who liked and mostly understood the original and did a pretty good job at crafting their own take on it.

I'm a big fan of the original show but haven't watched it in a few years, Cam has watched it more recently, and we both agreed that while there were some parts that didn't work very well and some changes we didn't like, it captured most of the important things pretty well, and some of the changes were good, even an improvement. But I got into ATLA as an adult, and am pretty open minded about adaptations taking liberties. This is an ok-but-not-brilliant and not always faithful remake of a beloved children's classic, so I suspect a lot of people are going to be disappointed.

It's hard to say how it would work for people who haven't watched the original tv show, but I think it would be pretty entertaining, if you are interested in an action heavy fantasy-drama about a bunch of teenagers trying to save the world, in an Asian inspired fantasy setting with an all-Asian/Indigenous cast and occasional gestures towards "sexism is bad and women are awesome".

The overall tone is darker than the original children's cartoon, with fewer jokes and more overt on-screen death, but still moderately light and sometimes cheesy. There's no swearing or sexual references, and no significant gore except for one burned dead body early on. It's more shallow and less understated, less interested in philosophical questions but not totally uninterested.

The action scenes were fun. The actors were all fine to good, and the visuals/special effects were mostly pretty good but occasionally distractingly cheesy or CGI sludgey.

Like the original, there's zero onscreen queerness, and only really one disabled character, whose writing is just ok.

Content warnings for both versions: genocide, death, war, child abuse, trauma

Under the cut, I'm going to go into some of the specific things the show changed that I would have liked to know going in. I'll avoid spoiling any new plot since it can be fun to see how things play out for yourself. But if you haven't seen the original this will be very confusing and spoilery!
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DID YOU THINK I WAS DONE?? I STILL HAVE AT LEAST ANOTHER POST LEFT AFTER THIS.

(I know I could just NOT review everything but I do always like having done it)

Past (just finished):

I finished it:
My New Boss is Goofy
Tearmoon Empire
I'm Giving the Disgraced Noble Lady I Rescued a Crash Course in Naughtiness
Our Dating Story: The Experienced You and The Inexperienced Me
Heaven Official's Blessing

I dropped it:
Frieren
Migi & Dali
100 girlfriends Who Really Really Really Love You

Current (just starting):

Delicious in Dungeon
Doctor Elise: The Royal Lady with the Lamp
Villainess Level 99: I May Be the Hidden Boss But I'm Not the Demon Lord
Hokkaido Gals Are Super Adorable!
7th Time Loop: The Villainess Enjoys a Carefree Life Married to Her Worst Enemy!
A Sign of Affection
The Demon Prince of Momochi House
Cherry Magic

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I am MASSIVELY behind on reviews so some of these are based on vague memories but lets go! I realised trying to remember which things I'd reviewed before was getting in the way of reviewing anything, so some may be doubles.

Live action TV: Our Flag Means Death S2

Live action movie: Semantic Error

Animated TV:
Cherry Magic
Heaven Official's Blessing S2

Manga:
Tsurumaki-sensei no Sakka Seikatsu
Haru Kakete, Uguisu (Warbler, Sing of Spring)

Books:
Evil as Humans
Married Thrice to A Salted Fish
After I married the disabled war god as my concubine
Paper Lover
A Simple Way To Give Money
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Over on transmediaclub, olivermoss posted a link to this collection of queer youtube essays and asked if anyone had any recs for other trans youtube creators before reccing caelanconrad.

Here's the comment I left:

Two creators I've enjoyed who are linked there are KatBlaque and verilybitchie.

Dropout is a big ensemble channel but has a few trans creators. Here's a cute moment involving the non-binary Ally.

I've watched an enjoyed a few videos by LauraKBuzz, who also talks about accessibility.

I think Vihart doesn't identify as trans but she posted a video about her agender-adjacent gender feelings, and otherwise posts very entertaining videos about maths, music, and other things.

moju_music is an amazing Indigenous Australian musician

CriticalProf is a pair of lit professors, one of whom is non-binary, who have had some interesting discussions of works inspired by the 18th and 19th century.

EDIT: Also since making this post I got around to watching the hbomberguy video about plagiarism that inspired him to make that list, and it was long but good! The fact that he's bi isn't always super relevant to his videos but it sure came up in this one, and he's donating all ad profits to the (largely queer) creators who were plagiarised.

A twisty scifi drama miniseries about diverse London police detectives from different time periods trying to solve the mystery of identical dead naked men who appear in the same alleyway in each era.

I overall liked this, it does a pretty good job of making you care about the different characters, and the central mystery holds together moderately well as Scifi Mystery Stories go. Themes of Society and Choice etc are vaguely gestured at but ultimately it just cares about it's characters solving mysteries, struggling against scary situations, and finding some measure of happiness. And on that level it's pretty enjoyable! My most significant problem with the show is that some parts/characters feel underwritten.

Trailer, though I'd skip it if you'd rather go in totally unspoiled:


No significant spoilers under the cut just more information, including content notes.
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These are pretty old so I am probably forgetting things.

Nimona, Andor, Spider-man: Across the Spider-verse, Glass Onion, Kinnporsche, Moonlight Chicken
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Masterpost

I only just started but thus far I am having a great time, the non binary inclusion is reasonably good for this sort of AAA roleplaying game and I'm enjoying the weird, darkly humourous dark-fantasy-horror and old school D&D inspired RPG vibe, it reminds me of playing Dragon: Age Origins, Planescape: Torment, and Neverwinter Nights mods back in the day, but as a modern game (albeit with all the graphics settings at lowest quality so my computer doesn't fall over). I continue to not be very good at this sort of combat, but that's what story mode is for! (It's presumably even more like other Larian games like Baldur's Gate 2 or Divinity Original Sin but I never really played those EDIT: ha, Baldur's Gate 2 was made by Bioware, guess that explains the Bioware Vibe!)

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