You see a lone girl sitting on a bean bag chair at the end of the manga aisle of the bookstore. She has a stack of 3-4 manga beside her, but she's currently on her phone. You're still browsing the shelves 5+ meters away right. You notice volume 1 Five Star Stories still isn't out yet (it's been delayed again until November) -- you came here for nothing. You walk down the aisle towards the girl who still has her phone in-hand. She appears to be either facetiming someone or something similar. As you walk by you hear her chanting "no one's going to get mad at you for posting today. moderators aren't even real" repeatedly. As if she's psyching herself up to hit "Post."

She deletes the post instead. You bash your elbow on the horizontal-but-pull exit door.

Volume 1 of FFS gets delayed another 2 months until January. Eventually it never releases and it's never revealed why.

A 35 year old man is sitting on a collapsible lawn chair inside an unfinished garage/car port. He sits perfectly framed by the door opening, lit by a fluorescent light that stands out even more against the purple skyline outside that's like the Phantasy Star Online: Blue Burst episode 4-exclusive Canyon location.

He's drinking a beer. He will sit there until sunlight is completely missing. Listening to recorded conservative radio clips from his phone bluetoothed to the garage stereo. No one will come to talk to him. He not get up to get another drink for those 3-5 hours, the cooler is right beside him. You will not make eye contact with him as you bike past.

You bike past again 2 hours later, it's completely dark. From this reverse angle you're able to see an ATV around the edge of the door with one of its wheels removed, seemingly for repair. He's still there drinking. He will do this again the next night.

he's gonna trim my pubes into the shape of a giraffe?? can he do an elephant instead

You're walking down a converted rail trail. It's gravel, every step crunches. You see a small lump on the linear path in front of you. You wonder what it could be, probably just other people walking their dog. It's actually a man with recording himself talking. The camera tripod takes up the other half of the path, you slow your pace and eye the space in between. "Do you wait for him naturally move or ask him to move?" you wonder. And what it is recording and talking about? As you draw nearer you know he knows you're there. He didn't turn towards you, but he took half a step back while still staring at the camera.

He seems to be in the middle of an anime rant, specifically, in his words, "how fucking cool as fuck Mezzo Forte's animation is" and then something about an Original Animation Video. You stop for 5 seconds and he finally approaches the camera to turn it off. He apologizes and grabs the camera tripod like he's about to waltz with it. He's afraid you'll knock it over. You scoot over to the right, where he was standing. You notice he's dressed in hiking gear and there's a stack of notes wedged inside a closed 13" Macbook Pro.

As you walk past he says "I was thinking you'd just walk by-- the middle here -- I didn't mean to be in your way."

You just say sorry without turning around. He returns to recording and starts saying "and concerning the sexual violence of episode two, in my honest opinion, it was very tastefully done. I can't elaborate further without spoilers, but the idiots on AniList getting mad at it aren't even engaging with the text on its level here, I can assure you."

You think he's talking big shit for someone with such a small laptop.