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Otakon licensing announcements

Discotek and AnimEigo both announced new licenses at this year's Otakon!

From Discotek we have...

Megaman (USA series)
Shin-chan (English dubbed version)
Urotsukidoji: Sequels of the Overfiend
Goldenboy
Lupin the 3rd: Castle of Cagliostro redubbed
Sgt Frog: The Movies
Zegapain
Digimon Movies 406
Monster: The Complete Series
Higurashi: When They Cry Kai
Higurashi: When They Cry Rei
Project ARMS
Zone of the Enders: Complete Collection
New Aim for the Ace

...and toku series like Kamen Rider Amazon and Kikaider 01

From AnimEigo we have...

Hotori: Simply Wishing For Hope
Alien Nine

...and updates on their release of Looking for the Full Moon, a magical girl series that's intrigued me for a while now.

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Speak Up Saturday

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Welcome to the weekly roundup post! What are you watching this week? What are you excited about?

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[ ICONS ] JERRICA/JEM, JEM AND THE HOLOGRAMS

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Pinch hits at Casefic Exchange!

caseficexchange is looking for pinch hitters to fulfil requests that include anime and manga fandoms.

About the event: Casefic Exchange is a fanwork exchange focusing on investigations. These can be solving murders, retrieving stolen items, finding missing people, missions, and mysteries. As long as it has an investigation as its core theme, it fits with the exchange. We are an AO3 exchange; you must have an account and be 18+ to participate.

Minimum requirements: We allow three mediums: a minimum of 3,000 words for fanfiction, a minimum of 10 panels for a comic, or a recording of a completed fic of 3,000 words minimum with "casefic" as one of its tags. Works must include a fandom, character/ship and be of a medium that the recipient has requested.

Event link:

caseficexchange.
Pinch hit link: Current pinch hits.
Due date: Friday 22 August at 11:59pm EDT.

Available post-deadline pinch hits:

PH 13 (comic, fic) - 終ノ空 remake | Tsui no Sora Remake, A Girl Corrupted by the Internet is the Summoned Hero?!, Tsukihime (Visual Novel & Anime) [ includes canon consumption tips]

Thank you for considering!

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TV Tuesday: 1984

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The upcoming cancellation of The Late Show has been in the news a good bit since the announcement. The network has also had to implement a bias monitor. It sounds like this will have a narrow focus and will look for specific references rather than possibilities of bias balanced across the network.

What cases of government interference in programming have you noticed or objected to in the past. How has this varied across countries? And does it depend on the type of programming? For example South Park did a very widely discussed episode on Trump at the start of its new season.

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[ ICONS ] JORANI, EYES OF WAKANDA

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!feedback

What should our next event be?

What should we do for our next event?

- another week-long word count challenge with questions to answer (like "700 to 7k")

- another week-long "3-sentence story" challenge (or 1-sentence, 4-sentence, etc)

- a week-long daily drabble challenge

- a month-long mini prompt table challenge where you aim to write multiple stories

- a challenge of a month or two to write a single short story (theme provided or choose your own), swap for critiques, and edit so you end up with a polished story suitable for submitting to anthologies

- a challenge where the community cowrites a story (one person writes a paragraph/max 5 sentences in the comments, then the next person writes the next paragraph, etc)

- something else

Current Music: Believe You - Slow Coast

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!24hourchallenge

Surprise 24-hour challenge

From when you see this post, you have 24-hours to write something for the following prompt:

It's only when I reach the other side

Bonus points if you a) finish a story, and b) it's a 100-word drabble (or a double or triple drabble).

Feel free to share your story in the comments - or a link to it, if you've posted it elsewhere. If you don't finish the story, feel free to share your word count and any comments on the progress you made. :)

ETA: You can use the prompt with the exact wording, or in a way where it's clear you've drawn inspiration from it.

(Prompt from Believe You by Slow Coast.)

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[ ICONS ] AIRA AND MOMO, DANDADAN

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Speak Up Saturday 🌿

Welcome to the weekly roundup post! What are you watching this week? What are you excited about?

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[ ICONS ] OKARUN, DANDADAN

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A month of Kidd Pirates [One Piece] Sketches - July

Fandom: One Piece
Author/Artist: Mekachu04
Title: July Punk Aibou Sketches
Pairing: Eustass Kidd & Killer
Rating: teen? it varies from gen/all audience to teen
Word Count: art
Highlight for Warnings: *some implied death/violence but nothing graphic. all are unfinished sketches so clothes might not all be there. *
Disclaimer: Kidd, Killer, the Kidd Pirates and other characters belong to the world of One Piece by Eiichiro Oda. I'm just playing in the sandbox. this is my first time sharing here - i hope this is okay?
AN: I'm trying to draw something everyday. So most of these are drawn at about 3-5am in about an hour or two at work during the down time.

( thumbnails linking to each day under cut )

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Peacock Pride [Arbitro/Akira; R]

Title: Peacock Pride
Fandom/Pairing: Togainu no Chi - Arbitro/Akira
Summary: Akira has had the bad fortune of getting captured by Arbitro.
Rating: R
Content: Canon-compliant awfulness, loss of consciousness, kidnapping, non-con...
Disclaimer: Togainu no Chi and all the characters in it are owned by Nitro+CHiRAL. I'm only borrowing them. No disrespect intended and I'm not earning any money from writing this. No people, either real or fictional, were hurt in the writing of this story.
Notes: 400+ words. Written for the prompt them's the breaks, but this is what it turned into. Many thanks to

zabimitsuki for beta-reading this for me, as well as cheering me on! :)

Read it here: DW | AO3

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[ ICONS ] ALEK AND DERYN, LEVIATHAN

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Super Moisture Milk [Sasaki/Miyano; PG]

Title: Super Moisture Milk
Fandom/Pairing: Sasaki to Miyano - Sasaki/Miyano
Summary: When Miyano gets a sunburn, it's Sasaki's time to shine.
Rating: PG
Content: Fluff, teenage boy romance, hurt/comfort
Disclaimer: I did not create these characters, they belong to Harusono Shô. I'm just borrowing them to act out my fantasies, while not earning any money whatsoever from it.
Notes: 550+ words. Written for the prompt sunburn. I've had great help from

zabimitsuki with beta and suggestions. :)

Read it here: DW | AO3

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TV Tuesday: Pinching Pennies

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A recent article talks about the financial crisis in British TV. U.S. streamers also spent more lavishly on TV shows 5 years ago than they are now, with some shows never even being shown to an audience.

Are there things you would miss if budgets ended up being cut 30% or more from what we've seen in recent years? What sort of programming might you miss?

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Penguin is DC's Andor

When person after person said they watched Penguin even when it was uncomfortable to keep going with it, it sounded rather familiar. I saw it with The Wire and especially with S2 of Andor. These were stories exploring the failures of systems, their purposes sabotaged by failing to account for personal agendas and human nature.

To me, Penguin and Andor share other similarities of the "it's so well written I had to see more" variety. Both are shows set within a franchise that do not feature the main features of that franchise, and which deal with the ruthlessness of societies in recognizable and everyday ways. ( Read more... )

In a side note, for those wanting more DC discussion, check out

gotham_tv for commentary on that show.

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[ ICONS ] MOMO AYASE, DANDANDAN

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Alone At Last [Haru/Ren; PG-13]

Title: Alone At Last
Fandom/Pairing: Super Lovers - Haru/Ren
Summary: There are worse things than being stuck together during a typhoon...
Rating: PG-13
Content: Adopted sibling incest, age gap, caught in the act, making out
Disclaimer: スーパーラヴァーズ is the property of Abe Miyuki, I'm just borrowing the characters to play with them. No people, either real or fictional, were hurt or abused in the writing of this story.
Notes: 650+ words. Written for the prompt bad weather. Many thanks to

zabimitsuki for beta-reading this for me! :)

Read it here: DW | AO3