I went to the Weird Al at SMC (Fresno State’s Save Mart Center arena). It was part of the Bigger and Weirder Tour with Puddles Pity Party as the opening act. Unlike most music concerts I’ve been to, it felt more like going a table-top-gaming convention.
Visually the concert was somewhat underwhelming, the live band and Weird Al sang in sinc to projected footage of his music videos. Al’s vocal abilites are often overlooked and underrated; especially his rapping ability. The musical performances were excellent and the evening was one of the most fun and positive concerts I’d attended.
Sadly I had to cut out some of the footage from my videos because of Copyright limitations.
Malfoid is a nerd war over a new hot genderswap character in the Potterverse. This Livestream is sponsored by Aura.com. Go to my link https://aura.com/moondog to get a 14-day free trial and see if any of your data has been exposed.
This week, videos started showing up on my feed, with a blonde anime girl in a Harry Potter student uniform with the word “Malfoid”. I decided to click one and bam, I dropped into a weird but ultimately cool Rabbit Hole.
Malfoid is the name of a new internet trend that is the center of a Venn Diagram of Harry Potter, AI, Anime, and also Lefty Woke Politics because nowadays anything entertaining has to offend some community on Blue Skey.
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Malfoid is the term given to the internet meme and fan art trend of a female Draco Malfoy instead of the original male character (played by actor Tom Felton in the movies)
Malfoid is a portmanteau combination of Malfoy and the incel term “femoid”. Whether this was coined as a derogatory term by Blue Sky Redditors against the popularity of the trend or used ironically by fans is debated.
Also oddly, in the Malfoid content, the character is not called Malfoid but simply named “Malfoy”. By the way, in my research it appears that FanFic female versions of the Draco character are more commonly named Draconica, Dracaena, or Draconia.
Fan-generated fiction aka FanFic, that expands on the Harry Potter story and characters has been around since the books first came out in the late 1990s. A common sub-genre is called shipping (derived from the word “relasionSHIP”). And another common sub-genre is gender-swapping characters (ie. What if Harry Potter was Harriet Potter?). None of this is new.
On September 22, an anime version of a female Malfoy was posted on X by @redten and it went viral with over 20M views. https://x.com/redteneri
It inspired the trend that others would term Malfoid. In less than a month, there has been an explosion of fanfic short stories, art, anime, and even AI videos like these.
#Malfoid has competition. https://t.co/iB1znyuAd9— Zey (@ZeyHashimoto) October 12, 2026
One side of this popularity is the outrage and hate this character is receiving among haters on Blue sky and Reddit. Claiming it’s misogynistic or a Manosphere dog whistle. It seems like they’re upset with anything supporting anything organically cute and attractive to heterosexual men, especially if its supporting JK Rowling because they consider her transphobic. Whatever. Haters gonna hate.
But on the fan side, I find this level of creative output inspiring. I like the Tsundere character of Malfoy better than Harry’s canonical wife, Ginny Weasley.
Malfoid got a lot more aura, and I root for her like Elizabeth in Pride and Prejudice or Helga in Hey Arnold! And she’s kind of hot in a femme-fetal kind of vibe, like Femke Jensen in 007’s GoldenEye. As @SmugAlana put it in her livestream on the subject, by changing Malfoy into a Tsundere girl, normie guys finally get why women were into Malfoy.
Also, I find the level of artfulness in these AI-generated anime and “live-action” to be surprisingly good.
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This American multinational book publishing media company has been a fixture in American education for decades. It’s famous for its “Book Fairs” in elementary schools, where many of us bought our first books.
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This book company’s mascot is Clifford the Big Red Dog, is one of its best-selling franchises since its debut in 1963. It is also notable for publishing The Hunger Games, Goosebumps, and the Harry Potter series.
SVBony keeps making optics that force you to check the price tag twice. The SA207 is a compact 8x scope with ED glass with a light weight magnesium chassis and the features you’d find in binoculars double or quadruple the price.
The ED glass deliver high-fidelity color with very little fringing, even off-axis. Weight is average but lighter than you’d expect. Nothing feels cheap or rattly.
It’s not a Swarovski or Zeiss, but it doesn’t pretend to be—and the street price under $300 makes this a good value
The new OSight K GN is physically identical to the red dot version of the OSight K. The large 6MOA dot is preferred by many combat professionals and competition shooters because the larger dot is more visible in bright daylight and faster to reacquire in rapid fire.
Like the original K, this budget reflex sight has a RMSc footprint compatible with CCW pistols and slim-profile slides like the 1911. It is powered by a user-replaceable CR1620 coin battery in a side tray. It comes with a wide selection of install screws and a cool skull-shaped Torx wrench.
Like many people, I’ve grown to hate and fear clowns. But one clown has a mesmerizing tenor voice.
Weird Al’s “Bigger and Weirder Tour’s” opening act was Puddles Pity Party. Puddles is a 7ft tall Pagliacci clown and an amazing singer. Puddles is concept performance act created by musical artist Mike Geier. He first gained attention as part of the Aqua Teen Hunger Force Live Tour in 2010. In 2013 his video went viral after fronting Postmodern Jukebox’s cover of Lord’s “Royals”. And in 2017 he appeared on America’s Got Talent.
In this episode, we’ll be talking live with SVBony, the Hong Kong maker of spotting scopes, binoculars, and telescopes. This Livestream is sponsored by Aura.com. Go to my link https://aura.com/moondog to get a 14-day free trial and see if any of your data has been exposed.
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SvBony is an optics company founded in Hong Kong in 2009 and makes affordable spotting scopes, binoculars, astronomical telescopes, digital cameras, and accessories. We have their Digital Marketing Manager, Michael.
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The Outrider is something most people do not expect from a tactical long-range scope company like Arken: fudd. The Outrider is a traditional hunting scope: second focal plane duplex reticle, and capped low-profile turrets.
When Arken released their first 2-12×42 Outrider, it was generally praised, but there was a common complaint: the Outrider lacked an adjustable parallax focus. Arken listened, and quickly released the Outrider 3-18×50.
The Outrider features edge-to-edge sharpness and a color-accurate image. They offer an illuminated fiber optic center dot that is daylight-bright and a cheaper model without illumination. It has a good eyebox and is pretty lightweight, especially compared to Arken’s other scopes. Moreover, the Outrider is covered under Arken’s U.S. lifetime warranty.
My only remaining criticism is the Outrider could be improved by adding discrete BDC stadia to the vertical reticle stem for elevation holdover; a standard feature with Vortex, Burris, and Zeiss hunting scopes. But ask 10 different people their opinion on a reticle, and you’ll get 20 different opinions.
For those looking for a Arken quality for practical hunting instead of long-range competition, the Outrider is your scope.
The SV29 is a budget 25-75×80 mm spotting scope aimed at target shooters, birders, and anyone who wants high magnification without paying a premium-price. I got the tripod starter kit which comes with an SVBony light tripod, and a phone adapter for taking photos and video. In addition, the scope has a Vixen-style dovetail so you can slap on a red-dot or optical finder, a feature usually only found in astronomy telescopes.
The 1.25″ eyepiece is detachable, so you can swap in astronomical or electronic eyepieces from 3rd parties and SVBony. The tripod kit includes a forgetable but basic, light weight aluminmum tripod. While there are higher quality spotting scopes, I haven’t found many as good or feature packed as the SV29 for a street price under $200.
Amazon is full of cheap photo tripods pretending to be shooting tripods. The Trakiom aluminium shooting tripod is one of the better exceptions. It has 36mm fat legs, a 360° clamping head, and a tilt knob that actually does something useful. 3-position leg angles cover prone, kneeling, sitting, and standing.
I did find that most of the leg tube clamps had loose screws. Not just the tension screws but, more critically, the set screws that kept the clamps in place needed tightening with the included Allen keys. I can’t say I’ve ever had to tighten an entire tripod out of the box, but the tripod functioned without issue after I did.
Telescoped in and folded, it is about 26″ inches long and eight pounds. The ballhead is solid. The specs don’t state the size of the ballhead, but it looks like it’s ~40 mm in size. There is a bubble level next to the ballhead clamp.
It is not backpack-light, but it will hold still when a rifle is on it. If you want an ultra-light tripod, you can buy a carbon fiber one for 6x more. If you’re getting to your shooting hide or match by car, truck, or quad, you won’t care about the tripod’s weight, but you will care about the extra gas money.
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