Some Indian stamps from sending postcards to Japanese oomfs

yesterday a european woman of some type showed up at work and asked me where i could find "the explication of the topography", she wanted a map.

as I move increasingly quickly towards open heart surgery this year, consider.... if you like the stuff I'm doing on Tsundoku Diving and elsewhere (and you have some spare change) consider throwing a dollar or two my way! normally it'd go towards site maintenance, but you know, circumstances

new blog post. i know everyone totally wants to read musings about asian diaspora feelings right now. note.com/zweiteturm/n...

I went to the "Forplay Society" and everyone knew you (?)

Obviously I knew the environment in Britain was bad and I'm doing one of the wokest jobs possible in one of the wokest cities in India but I'm finding it easier to be gender non-conforming in Kochi than like London. Here no one gives a shit, no one looks at you like you are a subversive agent.

my friends who run a bookstore let me write a little blurb for Sayaka Murata's Vanishing World, it's more positive than my actual feelings on the novel but i also just want more people to read Murata outside of Konbini Ningen so

it's already the new year but my favourite game i played in 2025 was the hundred line last defence academy (new) and final fantasy 11 (old). my favourite books were yu miri's the end of august (novel) and karatani kojin's the end of modern literature (non-fiction), i didn't watch a lot of films but

Incredible conversation I had with an Australian today where he asked if "people are allowed to own property in Kerala" because he presumably thinks we actually have a Marxist-Leninist economy and not a liberal communist party that does bare minimum social democracy inside a fascist federal republic

insane fyp pull

I think the UK rejoining Erasmus is bad because the Turing Scheme was actually really good, I got pretty much my entire living costs and then some funded while I was in Japan. For as much as Brexit is a bad decision people forget that the EU is a eurocentric cultural chauvinist protection racket

Really funny notification to receive when you're 5000 miles away from any Greggs

gang of dragon

im losing my shit what is this

I spent 5 hours today chiselling paint off a window. Anyway here's Che

Obviously, much to be said and debated about the Communist Party of India (Marxist)'s neoliberal macro-turn, but you get to Kerala and the fact that you can get a decent meal at a seaside table at a restaurant run by the state and staffed by a women's empowerment co-operative is mindblowing

first thing my parents told me when i said im moving to india for work for four months was don't accept lifts from strangers and i broke this maxim the fourth day im here for a guy who told me i had a homosexual vibe and commented on my breasts, anyway he didn't kill me and i am alive

global south post-communism maxxing by getting a basically-not-coffee-due-to-milk from the state-run women's empowerment co-operative's restaurant before i head to work at the postcolonialism factory (getting a tour of aspinwall house from the curator of the kochi biennale)

normalize calling the ui designer michiko sakurai and calling the director "sakurai's husband"

uncritical support to whoever is posting yuri on the final fantasy xi auction house website

I was craving mazesoba which I haven't had since I returned from Nagoya so I went to this place in London called monohon. It wasn't as good, and three times as expensive, as my ex-regular haunt Menya Kabuki just outside Yagoto subway station, but it was still good enough.

had the most wonderful encounter in final fantasy 11 today, i messed up a puzzle and was stuck, digggy showed up and we started brainstorming how to solve it, but then metroidsnacks appeared from behind the gate to open it for us :)

as someone who adores resonance of fate its interesting to see something like clair obscur being compared to it recently primarily in the sense of "(j)rpg curio" but people like clair obscur for its formal conservatism

exciting news!! I got to write about hermeneutics, translation, and gender (all my favourite guys) in silent hill f!

Our current issue comes to a close with a new article on Silent Hill f, by @zweiteturm.bsky.social bulletpointsmonthly.com/2025/11/19/p...

exciting news!! I got to write about hermeneutics, translation, and gender (all my favourite guys) in silent hill f!

Gay JOPs on r/visualnovels be like I can't date him we've got a problematic JLPT gap

female character?

So let me get this straight. I'm somewhere that's NOT what I would call Zebes... I'm seeing freaking Metroids, and... oh yeah I'm talking to a Chozo. Yeah okay that is something that I do now. I shoot missiles, kill X-Parasites, I'll probably screw jump next.

Fun anecdote that I don't want to type out again

once again in what appears to be a quarterly humiliation ritual, I have an interview at the Embassy of Japan tomorrow. Please wish me luck.

I regret to inform you that they found drugs in the Suica penguin’s apartment

i went to look up who did the frieren op since ive never heard it and its a yoasobi song called yuusha. that genuinely sounds like something made up by chat-gpt

i dont really watch contemporary anime and i especially dont look to anime for music discovery but its lame how if you watch fma 03 you'd be exposed to l'arc en ciel, asian kung fu generation, crystal kay, nana kitade etc but the range of what is acceptable as "anison" feels so much more limited now

I hate our gerontocracy so much. Schumer has got to go. This out of touch old man refuses to get a smartphone, even as people keep trying to hand him one.

i keep complaining that lemon sours are so hard to get in the uk but i just realised if i just buy shochu and lemons i can just make them at home

as a fun little exercise for myself i translated the coverage of Zohran's victory in Deshabhimani, the daily newspaper of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in Malayalam.

we got sucked into the rathalos fight and it was awesome

you get a free pumpkin head in capcom's "expoprimal"

thank you sakurai hikaru for inventing woke eroge

when you’re buying meat in the shop there’s always a sticker saying supporting british farmers! and it’s a bit frustrating because personally i would prefer it if my dinner furthered the ruin of all british farmers as much as possible

Tried to dig into SHf's themes of domesticity and how they relate to these threads throughout the series.

New post! After years I finally found it...here is shoujo manga legend Masako Watanabe's lost adaptation of the cult Obayashi flick House, scanned and translated for the first time! Read it here!! www.tsundokudiving.com/house-by-wat...

Small release-day housekeeping note: The Steam version... is alive! You can get it right now! store.steampowered.com/app/3649490/... The eShop page for the Nintendo Switch version will be up in 1 hour and 45 minutes! Please hold the champagne uncorking until then!

saw oomf

Wow you're telling me the idiot who works for the Washington Post and Colin Moriarty thinks you can joke around about being "moots" with the neonazis who run White House communications?

i did not know sakurai hikaru was working on a new game theres almost nothing here but its very exciting sakuraihikaru.com/starlight/

studio system : guardian angel (my horror game) is 15% off during steam's scream fest (until november 3rd), check out this trailer and also the game (you'd be a fool not to) store.steampowered.com/app/2194790/...