I'd like to cycle out the music on the radio monthly going forward, since its had it's current library for a long time now. Doesn't have to be anime related or anything, just whatever you like, as long as you can provide a YouTube link or mp3 file and it's not unlistenable.

Remembering a few young adult books that I would have read probably in the late 80s/early 90s, roughly. Can't remember the titles and haven't had much luck searching them up based on what I remember.

- Fantasy story where the MC's sidekick had a name I found pretty ridiculous, it was like "Pompoo" or something, pretty sure there was a "poo" syllable in it at least, because that's a great choice for a name in a kids' book right? The villain was described as having "a claw of iron", in full it might have been "a heart of stone and a claw of iron" but I'm only sure about the claw part. One of the chapters left off on the MC about to fall and grabbing what he thought was his friend's hand and it was like "but it wasn't a hand. It was a claw of iron". I forget what happened then but that chapter cliffhanger stuck with me.

- Fantasy setting that lays out the classic "whatever brave knight can slay the dragon plaguing our kingdom can marry the princess" setup, but the twist is that the princess runs away, gets herself outfitted with a suit of full plate armor, and goes around the countryside disguised as a man, hunting the dragon herself. Ultimately finds and engages the dragon in a really brutal battle where half her face gets burnt off and it almost ends in a mutual kill, but she gets that Sigfried type dragon blood magic that lets her understand animals who are having a conversation like "poor girl, if only she knew there was a magic healing spring right over there". So she recovers, goes back to the king while still in her knight disguise, demands the hand of the princess as promised and keeps pressing even after the king is like "but the princess has run away". When he finally promises to uphold the bargain if the princess comes back, she takes off the helmet and is like "and so my hand is my own to give as I please".

- Fantasy setting where there's this drug called "surka" (I think) that's basically wizard crack, powers up your magic power and you can do wizard duels for days on end but you might drop dead of overexertion afterwards. The royal heir ends up abusing it after being frustrated by a lack of magic power, and ends up burning their magic power out completely, only to be told "didn't you know the royals are always late bloomers", sort of a downerPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Hey, have any of you read the work of Imitation Crystal? I highly recommend both series of "Spectral Wizard" as well as Game-bu

https://anilist.co/staff/121115/Mozou-Crystal

For maybe 60k traffic/sales monthly how much do i need to do and what in art?
Also how good exactly

need plan and inspirations
to finish coloring my painting, fill the canvas
and get maybe 60k sales/traffic from each

Any tips to make your art 6 digits on social media? It seems evident that you need some kind of presentation to get the numbers... but my styling is different so... how do i get the same amount too? Computatively?

Or is it perhaps that only one and one styling only gain the kind of traffic it gets?

I just found this board and I already feel home, so I decided to start a thread about some of my favorite 80s metal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdhb2oG-d3A
One of the greatest prog/heavy metal albums of all time. One of the first metal albums to experiment with synthesizers and wow did it sound futuristic for 1986.
However, Queensryche reached their zenith 2 years later with this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8_JqGPteKk
Operation: Mindcrime, a politically-charged concept album about a drug addict named Nikki and his role in a shadowy revolutionary organization. The moral in short is that there will be jackals who exploit people with ideals for their own gain.
Another interesting one is Iron Maiden's "Seventh Son of a Seventh Son".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMuGG0ajtCs
Their most progressive rock influenced release to date; similar to Queensryche's "Rage for Order" in some ways but still definitely feels like a Maiden album. Bruce Dickinson's vocals, the keyboards, and the interesting songwriting is a treat for anyone who loves this sort of proggy stuff.
Now, I know I posted 3 progressive metal albums in a row, and I just want one more before I move onto other things, so bare with me...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5TnV09-n9A
Voivod's "Nothingface". Extremely experimental for something from 1989, it's "proggish" but not in the vein of these other albums which are prog in their use of "grandiose" instrumentation and unusual songwriting, and while this album has the latter, it's in a class of its own. Perhaps the first "avant-garde metal" release ever; it's very dissonant, but also weirdly melodic. Sadly the guitarist, who went by "Piggy" passed in 2005.
Alright, now let's move on to death metal because I'm not a big thrash guy (I like thrash but I'm more of a death metal guy)
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There's not a single song this man can't improve with a cover.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UcrC_1ZGT0

Does wapchan enjoy visual kei?

>What is Visual Kei?
Visual Kei is a musical movement that originated in Japan in the mid-1980s. Appearing out of Japan's punk and metal scenes, visual kei is an aesthetic, rather than a genre, pulling imagery from gothic rock, punk, shock rock, glam rock, speed metal and hair metal, often wearing elaborate costumes and flamboyant hair.
The movement expanded beyond it's hair punk and glam metal roots in the 1990s to cover a vast array of different subgenres and genres, ranging from extremes such as brutal death metal to accessible genres like synthwave.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18H2Uc9_7I0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNTv-tDtYvU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvY7zc0a-7Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81-czr9Zano