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started reading the works of lafcadio hearn and he really is the original this guy isn't he

I’m not going to repost the abomination that he’s made, but please know that Darren Aronofsky sucks shit and always has. May I suggest watching the sublime filmography of the late Satoshi Kon instead (the person he not so subtlety ripped off)? Can’t really go wrong with anything in his catalogue! 💜

"When one fed attempted to blow off the crowd by visibly watching basketball highlights on his phone, a protester shouted “You’re watching ads, you broke bitch! Kill yourself!” The federal agent returned to his room shortly thereafter." crimethinc.com/2026/01/27/t...

Ah yes my favorite totally real dagashiya, (checks notes) kirichin

One of the main ideas behind the Ikoku Nikki anime so far has been to use the structure of the house that the two leads share to underline how "living together" has been a technicality. They're still two separate lifestyles and there is tangible, solid separation between the two

hiiii my mom’s car is exploding and i’m having a crazy-making bug crisis in my home at the same time so i’ve made a gofundme to help weather this while i look for work 😭 please share if you can gofund.me/6811b7b9d

I wanna watch more j dramas to work on my comprehension but I always put it off because it felt like a time sink, but asadora are only 15 min episodes??? That's easier than I thought

whippoorwill bird inspired handsewn&handpainted doll, for sale, within shop. januar2026.

FINALLY......now to track down those weird muscular nendoll bodies for him and majima

From "Frieren" Season 2 ending, animated with colored pencils by Mimei Aoume (she had already worked on Season 1 ending). www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY4B... www.instagram.com/mimei_a

Here's a good way y'all can help trans immigrant youth in the cities: Troop 350064 is a trans immigrant group of Girl Scouts in the Twin Cities who cannot safely do cookie booths this year. digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/troop3... Order them for *shipping* not hand delivery.

One more- when recommending anime, nobody EVER EVER asks what the recommendee likes and the recs are almost always a miss

People LOOOOOVE to repeat the same rumors and talking points that go around in western fandom with little to no regard for how the industry actually works in Japan. If I see one more fake translation that fuels a popular rumor I'm gonna pitch a fit

I'm back to writing lore audio and audio dramas for AMFC. I have so many ideas for large world concepts that I need to get out, so I'm hoppin back on that train. If you didn't know, we have a long-format audio drama series within AMFC called Celeste Silverna that SLAPS, and she's comin back, Jr Wiz

My favourite Asada Nemui BL FINALLY got licensed OHMYGOD HUGE WIN!!! Cannibalism yaoi OH WE ARE SO BACK. (Sleeping Dead is a BL horror about a mad scientist and a human he finds stabbed to death in an alley that he experiments on and turns into a cannibalistic zombie.)

Love these but it feels like a huge miss to not make them magikarp

The ACNH update is live in Japan.... tomorrow....ACNH save me, save me ACNH

WOW it’s been almost a full year since I was laid off from Nickelodeon and I’d love to get back into working in preschool tv again!! 🙏

The shit I buy for cosplay

People love to say "kill the part of you that cringes" and yet there's such an atmosphere of embarrassment around anime, I really don't get it

Ok, this is amazing. Like, how can anyone take your tour business seriously if you use a bullshit AI image for your sakura forecast map. Niigata isn't there. Nagoya is too boring to be in two places. Kochi isn't on Honshu. The sooner AI dies, the better.

Jisho has long been an incredibly valuable website for learning Japanese - huge range of definitions, well sourced, and no ads. It's an honor that my silly little slang dictionary is now part of it. Can't wait for the full launch of the new version (plz bring back the dark background Kimtaro 🙏🙏🙏🥺🥺🥺)

Discord wants to know how you feel about AI. Go tell them: discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

My 2026 commissions for cat portrait teabag bookmarks are open! 🫖 Contact me via email at [email protected] if you're interested!

For years I would constantly tweet and tweet and retweet about politics. I didn’t help a single person doing that. It just eroded my mental health a little every day. I promise that actually DOING something, even one small thing, feels a lot better than reposting a million memes.

Discovering portal to Narnia by punching hole in drywall while having domestic spat with my disgusting boyfriend

Oh hell yeah it's COOKIE TIME

i miss when this guy was the only LLM

(trying to subtly ask if a guy is straight) is he, you know... a friend of the pod?

It took him a while to find and this print is a little sun bleached so the color is off but I finally got a print of the photo my dad took that won him an award. He took it with the same old Minolta he lent me, so I better get my act in gear

Billionaires need to stop the bullshit they're doing and start constructing a cooking arena called "Kitchen Stadium" where visiting chefs from around the world can compete against their Gourmet Academy, led by three or four Iron Chefs

I realized belatedly that I read basically no BL manga last year because I get overwhelmed by how much is out there now both in EN and JP. Has anybody read anything good recently? Translated or not is fine 👀

I'm not one for resolutions but I AM taking the opportunity to announce I'm gonna try the JLPT N2 at the end of this year for accountability. I gotta figure out how tf to do all this studying before then

Fun Fact: One of the reasons Square was pushed to improve its localization practices in the 2000s is because Alexander O. Smith showed them reviews proving that people *cared* about translation quality. (Link to the full interview: web.archive.org/web/20091113...)

Watched 10 Dance with friends on NYE, had hot pot and watched kohaku with friends on New Year's Day, doing a zoom BL chat shinnenkai with my sensei and friends tonight....2026 off to a great start so far

So glad her husband got that job so at least one cartoonist in New York can have health insurance.

Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

あけましておめでとうございます！今年もよろしくお願いします。（イラストは前に描いたものですみません） 今年の目標は「光が死んだ夏」を完結させることです！

Also my GOTY, incredible game incredible food crimes

Oh I LOVED the Edo Tokyo museum when I went about a decade ago, I'm excited to go back and see it again next year

Thinking again about how my sensei know I like a lot of yakuza media and characters so in class something like カタギ will come up and she'll be like "you know this one, right?" And she's always right LMAO

Y’all, the Castlevania: Awakening In The Moonlight musical by Takarazuka Revue is available legally on VOD with subtitles starting today until the end of March, this is a great adaptation and the women in this show are so good, PLUS this is a rare experiment globally Please see it if you’re curious

Here are a couple of the wonderful cats I photographed at the shelter yesterday - only two days left to donate to my fundraiser for them! Let's see if we can get it up to $8,000! givebutter.com/n5l31M