Here are some of the story driven ones I have enjoyed.

Shadows House (2021) - Great story and I don’t see it mentioned much. One of the ones that made me go and binge the source material.

The Ancient Magus’ Bride (2016) - Another one that never seems to get mention but is fantastic. Season 1 was in 2016 but it’s had season 2 since 2020

Lycoris Recoil (2022) - Great story, if I remember correctly it was vey popular but has faded into the back ground as more series get pumped out.

Ascendance of a Bookworm (2019) - Excellent series, binged the Light Novel. Can’t wait for Part 3 to be Animated.

Medalist (2025) - A nice comfy show that will have you routing for all the characters.

Delicious in Dungeon (2024) - Personally not one of my top picks but was vey well received by the community.

I think ponko goes for Glico Man pose here

Ponko was clearly giving prays to the gods!

7th Prince: The MC’s design will keep turning people away from this series, which is a shame because of how consistently fun it has been to watch. Production is also really good, the magic spell effects are beautiful.

I originally dropped it after 3 episodes. But after your comment I have gone back and watched Season 1 and enjoyed it. It’s the usual overpowers fantasy but they keep drawing me in.

You missed the best ones.

Ocean Blindness?

In the UK there is one that is pay as you go. (You pay per letter/parcel received)

I just put in the minimum deposit and used that. As long as no one actually sends anything it is basically free apart from the deposit. (I think it was £5)

I just use a free PO Box service. Then the Whois guard on top.

Yeah it looks like Chise

I haven’t read loads of series but the most similar feel would be the invincible little lady ( usually based around a school, over powered girl trying to fit in, strange things keep happening, gains a animal companion in later volumes, friends with the prince ) but it is still pretty far off being the same.

Just note it does have a pervert of a school master who assaults the students.

@NineSwords@ani.social any ideas on similar series to the silent witch?

Come enjoy the silent witch.

We have:

The coolest cat Nero

The number obsessed Monica

The best villianess Isabelle

The devoted husband Louis

Old man Sam and his pigs

I just hope it lives up to the light novel

There is Parrot OS Home edition which is marketed as privacy and security friendly.

https://www.parrotsec.org/

I read somewhere someone had their encryption key on their phone / another server and had the server pull the key via ftp on boot. Then the server and encryption key is separated but can decrypt its self as long on the ftp server is available.

Edit - might have been unraid where the OS and data drivers are separate

He was an HR guy in his previous life, and thinks of people as numbers.

So every HR person and senior management?

But won’t excel detect there’s no values and no print anything?

I think it has logic to only print pages which have values.

1. Type “.” In A1

2. Change the fill colour of A1 to Black

3. [CTRL] + [A] (Selects all cells)

4. [CTRL] + [R] (Copy’s the left most selected column across to the right most select column)

5. [CTRL] + [D] (Copy’s the top most selected column down to the bottom most select column)

Every cell will now contain the value “.” and be set to fill colour black.

6. Right click any of the column letters at the top > Set width > 1000. (Changes the column width to 1000 pixels. (Expanding the cells so they take up more room when printing)

7. Right click any of the row numbers at the left hand side > Set height > 1000. (Changes the row height to 1000 pixels. (Expanding the cells so they take up more room when printing)

8. [CTRL] + [P] (Opens up the print dialog)

9. [ENTER] (Selects the print button to start printing)

The UKs NHS do some.

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/nhs-fitness-studio/

https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/exercise/get-running-with-couch-to-5k/

It’s not a factual documentary?

Really enjoyed the LN so far, Can’t wait to see Nero (the cat).

Idea 1:

I was thinking of web scraping the data before hand, then having it hardcoded in an array or DB to be used in the drop-down. I have seen a few of the anime sites have pages for each season it could be pulled from. I saw some plugins for searchable drop downs for lime survey, So you might be able to make it work with the same software.

I think Manga would be the most difficult to limit, I am not aware of a single point where all the data is available. Light Novels have a CSV someone is scraping and hosting on GitHub, Anime have clearly defined seasons, But manga doesn’t seem to have a release system.

Idea 2:

You could check the account age. If anyone starts creating accounts now for a poll which may never happen then they deserve an extra vote.

I am absolutely open to feedback like this for if/when we do something like this again.

Just some ideas -

1. Limiting the options - you could pull the anime’s that have aired in the time frame from one of the Anime databases and limit the users to searchable drop downs.

I do worry now that people know I made these calls based on number of nominations that they could simply fill out the form a bunch of times. There are some steps I can take on my end to prevent or filter that, but it would also mean doing things like attaching browser cookies to the form or recording ip addresses, which I haven’t wanted to do out of respect for the users.

2. I feel it would be less intrusive than cookies or IP addresses to have a confirmation like you do with email signups. You could have an optional input for Lemmy Username and have a script to send the user a message via Lemmy to confirm they made a submission (… reply ‘YES’ to confirm…). Blank or unconfirmed submission could be treated with less importance when taking nominations due to the possibility of multiple submissions.

If you do decide to do it again in the future I am happy to help when possible.

And Thanks again for doing this.

Modern Apothecary Diaries?