Evan Minto @VamptVo@mastodon.social

My parents ordered a cake to welcome me back. This lettering job is very uh... let's call it "relatable."

Goodbye (for now) San Francisco. I came out here for a job at Crunchyroll and stuck around for nearly eight years! SV tech culture always grossed me out, but I learned that there's so much more to the city than that, from the local music scene (Hotel Utah ♥️) to the amazing activists working to make SF a better place (please join DSA SF 🌹).

Now, off to New York!

This morning I stopped by my favorite café in my neighborhood (Pebbles in Glen Park) and they made me a custom açai bowl on the house as a going away gift!

Drew a clownsona for my partner who's a big time 🤡 fan.

I can't get enough of all the textures and brushstrokes in the Carto art! What a beautiful game.

I know I've been playing too much MGSV because I saw these and immediately had the urge to attach balloons to them.

The story thus far has been about the internal struggles of these girls, coming to terms with why someone would kill themselves and what (if anything) they could have done to prevent it. Ascribing it all to an external force would make all that introspection much less meaningful, so I feel like that can't be where this is going.

Acca and Ura-Acca's backstory was pretty interesting but it conspicuously skips a bunch of details right at the end. Why would Frill be connected to the rash of suicides rather than just that one suicide? Felt like a mistake, but maybe it's on purpose to mislead Ai/the audience. We still don't know how they became mannequins.

The rogue AI story also feels a bit orthogonal to the themes of teen suicide, so I hope that turns out to be a thematic red herring.

I wrote about Akira’s vision of apocalyptic change and how it resonates both with the Japanese student movement of the 1960s/70s and the chaos of our current moment. https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2021-03-10/the-2020s-are-about-to-explode-what-we-can-learn-from-akira-vision-of-destruction-and-rebirth/.170028

Alert: a dog with sunglasses

Drew three of my favorite villagers: O'Hare, Tangy, and Agnes!