Dec 30, 2025·2 min read
Autumn 2025 in Review: What I Actually Finished Watching
A season write-up, a very unofficial editing-worthiness ranking, and the one soundtrack I haven't stopped playing while I work.
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Still cutting frame-by-frame, still refusing to use auto-sync.
This is a small corner of the internet for AMV editing notes, sakuga breakdowns, and season write-ups — no engagement metrics, no push notifications, just posts in the order I wrote them.
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May 11, 2024·2 min read
Guestbooks, Webrings, and Why I Still Believe in Both
A short defense of the parts of the old internet worth bringing back, and why this blog is built like it's still 2005.
Sep 19, 2023·2 min read
Top 5 Mecha Transformation Scenes, Ranked by Someone Who Will Not Be Reasonable About This
A completely biased ranking of the mecha transformation sequences that live rent-free in my sync-point notes.
Mar 8, 2022·2 min read
Building My First AMV in a Decade-Old Editing Suite
A walkthrough of the exact timeline, sync workflow, and export settings I use to build an AMV, mistakes included.
Nov 14, 2020·2 min read
Sakuga, Frame by Frame: Reading Animation Like an Editor
A close look at how sakuga cuts are built, why they're worth extracting frame by frame, and how to spot one before the internet tells you it exists.
Jun 2, 2019·2 min read
Welcome to the Cutting Room
Why I started writing about AMVs again, what this blog is for, and what it is very deliberately not for.