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Further down the pile Page 2 of the backlog

Older dispatches, same weather. Nothing back here has been tidied up for the occasion.
A sunlit, empty teenage bedroom in a rural Bavarian house, drawn in flat ligne claire style: an unmade single bed with late afternoon sun falling across it, an open window with a lifting curtain, a desk with an old CRT monitor, and a black t-shirt crumpled on the floorboards

Class of 2005 F*CK YOU – two words, no argument

The bug in the system - Heartstopper landed 20 years too late for a queer kid at a Bavarian village school. Six years, two carved words, what came after.
EN· ·Personal Lore
An elevated metro viaduct on slender piers curves across a flat delta city at dusk, crossing a wide river with barges below, low-rise tin roofs in the foreground and glass towers and construction cranes fading into haze behind

A Thousand Kilometers Of Intent Every metro line planned for Sài Gòn – and what is actually being built

The Sài Gòn metro in July 2026 - 27 planned lines, what is running, what is under construction, and which ground-breakings were only ceremonies.
EN· ·Concrete & Steel
A young Vietnamese man in a white t-shirt and jeans, seen from behind at the foot of a steep pale blue staircase, taking an impossibly long stride that clears four blank steps at once, while a young woman in a yellow dress waits at the top beside a lit doorway, drawn in flat ligne claire style.

A Loanword Rebuilt The trapboy takes the stairs four at a time

Trapboy and trapgirl mean something in Việt Nam they never meant in English - a courtship protocol, a fishing metaphor, and a stamped government form
EN· ·Love, Sex & Identity
A walled city cemetery on a still morning, worn blank gravestones in the foreground and a lone figure standing on a wide empty patch of lawn where no stones are, with Berlin apartment blocks hazing out behind the wall

Ten Years Of Being Right Knowing is not preventing

Germany knows exactly what the AfD is - and it is rising anyway. On memory culture, a blog post from 2016, and a calendar.
EN· ·Politics & Ideology
A young man stands in the doorway of a quiet apartment living room in early morning light, seen from behind with a backpack on one shoulder, looking back at a couch with a blanket folded into a square on the armrest

The Trärchen Year Two boyfriends and a contract on the kitchen wall

Throuple life in Frankfurt - a three-page relationship contract on the kitchen wall, one very good year, and the slow way it came apart.
EN· ·Love, Sex & Identity
A lone hooded figure stands on a desert plateau facing a large glowing rectangular slab of light that hovers perfectly still in front of a vast layered sandstone canyon

Two Rules, No JavaScript The four lines of CSS that killed my scroll-lock JavaScript

overscroll-behavior: contain now locks the page behind an open dialog in Chrome, Edge and Firefox - plus the :modal refinement and where Safari stands.
EN· ·Code
A teenage bedroom at night, a beige tower PC with its CD tray open holding a blank disc, a spindle of blank discs and a marker pen on the desk, a figure seen from behind lit by the glow of a CRT monitor

Notes From The Burner Tray The disc was the network

Game piracy in early-2000s Germany ran on borrowed CDs, blood patches and a school IT room - a look back at a world that dissolved around 2010.
EN· ·Nerdom & Games
A lone figure sleeps on a rise of sand while a vivid full-colour dreamed landscape of dunes, ruined towers and drifting lights unfurls from their head and fades to bare line drawing at the frame edges.

The Render Runs At Night My mind runs on MIDI

A mind with no mental images, a render engine that only wakes at night - and a creativity that never actually left.
EN· ·Personal Lore
A Sable-style illustration of a besieged fortress at dusk, mixing a Tolkienesque stone keep with a Crusader desert castle, a tiny granary and wheat field at the wall's foot, a huge simplified army with siege engines approaching, and a lone defender watching from the near tower.

You're Under Attack, Sire Helm’s Deep with Stronghold sound effects

Helm's Deep re-dubbed with Stronghold sound effects - the most cursed, most perfect gaming-nerd crossover since Troy met Age of Empires.
EN· ·Nerdom & Games
A lone figure at a drafting desk on a desert rise, a single server tower on the far horizon and a faint looping line curving back on itself in the pale sky, drawn in flat Sable-style linework

The Tool Eats Its Tail The pipeline that published this post

A custom MCP server drafts, scores, illustrates and publishes lui.vn posts in one chat - and this post came out the far end of it.
EN· ·AI