Joe Cecil

Tenssaiga

InuYasha features a sword that heals: Tenssaiga, "the sword that can save a hundred lives with a single stroke." It would be amazing overpowered — except it belongs to InuYasha's brother, the demon Sesshomaru, who disdains it. More than that — it's not just a sword

Creating that starts with destroying

Not too long ago I saw a video on Twitter (YouTube) of Francis Ford Coppla talking about how he adapted Mario Puzo's novel into The Godfather movies. That started with reading the novel, but then things get interesting. After reading the book, he destroyed the book. He cut

Turtles

I appreciate the commitment to the imagery. Each frame almost makes sense on its own, except for all the ways it doesn't with everything else. It's the human nut, the kazoo cowboys, the dentures, the turtle man, the baby, just everything. Watch and enjoy. I wonder

Invisible society? Love letter?

(making words up, trying to gesture at something) There's a certain kind of Internet writing trope I notice. It's a trope of subject matter, or maybe of framing. I think of it as "the invisible society." It's like a secret society, but

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