I could not believe it when my band The Sweet Things first EP was reviewed so favorably in Melody Maker by Everett True (aka The Legend!)- it seemed so improbable, especially considering the genesis of the recording. It was a quickly mixed practice tape from 1990- the original cassette mistakenly recorded over by our drummer Brendan (I think he put a Dead Boys LP on it). Somehow this tape was passed around in NYC where it eventually was edited and released by White Heap Records in '93. We made "better" recordings later when we moved to San Francisco, but we never made the English press again.

John Berkey’s 1995 cover to The Immortality Option, by James P. Hogan

Trigun Fic Appreciation Week, Throwback Style: TiggyMalvern

I love all the folks active in the fandom right now, the amazing stories currently percolating or being written or being posted, keeping this incredible fandom alive and thriving. But I want to take a sec to highlight someone whose Trigun fics are from ye olden days, who is buried at the back of the archive, and who maybe not enough new fans have heard of.

@tiggymalvern was writing Trigun fic back in ye olden days of LiveJournal, the early naughts, when the first anime was out and the manga was only half-finished and when a new issue came out we all waited with bated breath for someone to post scans of the original Japanese or for "Make A Little Lightbulb In Your Soul" to translate what pages they could. We didn't know how this story was going to end; there was a time when Wolfwood had died in the 98 anime but not yet in the manga, the canon that really counts, and the realists expected he would probably die there too, but we didn't know when or how or if. It was a small fandom, smaller if you were into the manga and not just the anime that had been on Adult Swim.

Tiggy wrote Vashwood fics that changed my brain chemistry forever. Tiggy's were the first stories I ever read that made sex scenes fascinating. In hindsight I know I was a baby ace who sort of skimmed a lot of tab A/slot B sex scenes in fics and that the simple mechanics weren't titillating to me. But I was also a baby writer, and I knew that it was weird for something as emotionally weighted as sex to be... just kind of boring? And then I read some of Tiggy's fics, the Balance and Evolving Arrangement stories, and The Loneliness of the Long Distance Traveler, and suddenly I was hit over the head with how emotionally complex and character-revealing sex scenes in fic could be.

I've been chasing how Tiggy's fics made me feel as a teenager for as long as I've been writing. Those stories felt like endlessly unfolding origami in my brain when I was younger. I attribute 100% to Tiggy my habit of writing kink into my ships as a way of exploring more convoluted emotions than just lust - I think that my VWL stories are basically a culmination of 20 years of writing practice that got its first kick in the ass from Tiggy's Balance & Asymmetry.

So please please please if you're a fan who hasn't dipped back into the old school fic, or who searches in the Trigun Stampede tag and misses the gems in the Trigun (Anime & Manga 1995-2008) tag (which used to be simply "Trigun"), go check out TiggyMalvern on AO3. Their stories are pretty heavily manga-based, but worth the read even if you aren't intimately familiar with the manga.

Ｇｕｎｄａｍ　７ Ｅ－４２１

SF#11: BATTLE CIRCUIT [CAPCOM | JP, 1997]

The VocaIdol AU: Two robotic idols that just want to fit in!?

Or, well, Piko doesn't really care and is technically a cyborg...but nonetheless!

Maybe they can buddy up with Momo and Defoko.

ENOUGH SWEET TREATS TO RIVAL THE DELIGHTS OF REAL LIFE.

PIC INFO: Resolution at 2231x2223 -- Spotlight on an oil on canvas piece titled "Dessert Tray" (1992-'94), artwork by the late, great American master, Wayne Thiebaud (1920-2021).

Source: www.sfmoma.org/artwork/97.880.

More Cody doodles but this time wit the dummy final fight haircut

Die Legende von den Menschen II, (The Legend of the Mankind II), 1992 by J.G.Wind

Dying Breed Scooter Club, San Francisco (Pre-Rally Kings), c.1992

END TO END BY SF-CREW

1990 Chris Moore cover art for Philip K. Dick’s Counter-Clock World

sometimes i see posts on here about what people want from fiction/characters and it is almost always something b5 did

lovejoy 5/17/23 bimbo 365 club + bonus sillies! photo cred @sootsz