Navi

I got recommended 9Lana while listening to Ado on Spotify and her Latin-inspired music is so catchy!

Balalaika and Dynamind is on repeat for me right now 🎶

OH HELL YEAH I MADE IT AGAIN #GrandSummoners

I've noticed that phanpy doesn't seem to be uploading images in the order I've added them?? annoying that I had to delete and repost this.

My April 2026 Reads

Here's what I thought of

• Light Novels

Started:

• Campfire Cooking v03 by Ren Eguchi

#NaviReads #MonthlyReadingWrapUp #StorygraphStats

Some of Xteink’s credit card-sized e-readers are losing their best feature
https://www.theverge.com/tech/921552/xteink-x3-x4-e-reader-third-party-crosspoint-firmware-usb-blocked?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Tech News @tech-news-theverge

I just got this device and I've been enjoying it, but now I can hardly recommend it to anyone else ☠️

The custom firmware is WHY I bought it to begin with.

Looks like XTEINK wants to lose all their customers 🤡

They're blocking the installation of custom firmwares on devices sold from China/aliexpress (currently). They're claiming they're allowing it on devices from their official store.

What else is this other than greed? They want to upcharge global customers and lock down the device for future enshittification now that it's a little popular.

https://www.reddit.com/r/xteinkereader/comments/1szk0pq/flashing_of_firmwares_disabled/

#XTEINK #XTeinkX4 #XTeinkX3

@kidokaproject.bsky.social I was trying to do a Shrek Sticker Sheet!

Cowpybara

I wanted to read Instapaper articles on my Xteink X4, so I decided to make a script that will download articles and serve up the epubs on an opds feed.

You can add the feed to Crosspoint or CrossInk and download selected articles for reading. It will also sync with your Instapaper, so deleted/archived articles get removed from the feed.

https://github.com/naivchan/instapaper-to-opds/tree/main

#Xteink #XteinkX4

I might try to submit something 🤔

Looks like Pixiv added some features for non-Japanese novels on their site, and they're doing a flash fiction contest to celebrate:

https://www.pixiv.net/novel/contest/pixivflash26

#PixivFlash26 #Pixiv #PixivNovels #Writing

I've never seen anyone so butthurt about a slice of life show with a kind of edgy premise.

Goumon Baito is worth watching! The main characters are basically a found family who work an unpleasant job.

https://sakurajima.moe/@animenewsnetworkrss/116483262802003301

It's Caturday! Visit the dragon spa 🐉💅

Art by Elisabeth Alba

@anime I think the studio is new, but the director is an industry veteran who seems to have worked on all kinds of high tier projects as a key animator (JJK, Dungeon Meshi, Tengoku Daimakyou, Devilman Crybaby) so I think the odds are good that it'll be a decent project.

Wow I feel like this got an anime so quickly. Kagurabachi's success will depend on how good the animation is since it's a shonen action series.

I think they might go big on this one to try and recreate JJK's success

@anilist.co https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:hdmd66ahyr5d2c2h4xc7fsen/post/3mkijz57xk42d

Nippon Sangoku is definitely the most underrated anime this season, both the animation and the storyline are awesome.

I get really strong Golden Kamuy vibes from it as well, and its got a wicked sense of humor for a military/politics focused show.

#日本三國 #NipponSangoku

Hollo 0.8.0 is out. The main additions: you can now run web and worker processes separately via NODE_TYPE, which helps on instances with large follower counts where federation load was slowing down API responses. Mastodon clients that support the 4.5 quote post API will now work with Hollo. Remote actor profiles are refreshed automatically in the background when they go stale, and dead follower records are cleaned up on permanent delivery failures. There's also a new dashboard page for mass-deleting cached thumbnails from remote posts to free up storage.

https://github.com/fedify-dev/hollo/discussions/449

I wanna go to sleep so bad (woke up early today) but I ate dinner late so I'll just get a stomach ache if I lie down 😭

I couldn't stop thinking about this so I had to make it and share it

@arimamary thanks! The new device is by a company called Xteink. I don't know if it's true, but I've seen people say it stands for "Xtra Tiny E-ink"

Ereaders make reading so much more fun with ebooks, it really does look like paper

My new mini ereader came in!

I saw the XTeink X4 on a bunch of YouTube videos and really wanted it since it would be much easier to carry around daily than my Libra colour.

#XTeink #XTeinkX4 #ereader #TechCollection

Here's a throwback to some fanart I did when the series initially came back from her previous hiatus:

https://dessins-de-navi.tumblr.com/post/161309936463/naivchanits-baaaaaackkkk-3

Omg Kohske-sensei is coming back to work on "Gangsta." as a serialized comic!

I'm so happy about that, it's such a great series. She was diagnosed with Lupus and had some pretty invasive surgeries years ago, so I could only hope that the series could continue at some point.

https://xcancel.com/go_kohske/status/2047512533565903139#m

#manga #Gangsta #Kohske

Creatures

I wrote a blog post with my findings about searching for #RSS feeds through my now familiar online neighborhoods. It includes templates for each platform mentioned as well as a resource for extracting feeds from sites that without native support.

Retoots appreciated!

Read on:

• my blog: https://arimamary.neocities.org/04%20blog/posts/2026-03-21-rss-feeds-and-where-to-find-them
• Pillowfort: https://www.pillowfort.social/posts/7577738
• Dreamwidth: https://arimamary.dreamwidth.org/20793.html

#Neocities #Tumblr #Bluesky #Dreamwidth #Pillowfort #Mastodon #Blog #SmallWeb #MarySelfPromotes

I updated Grimmory today to v3.0.0 and logo and branding changed after the update 👀

Makes sense since they can't keep using Booklore's, but I do miss the cute heart.

#Grimmory #Booklore