I think I might finally watch The Meg (2018) on my 3DS tomorrow to celebrate.

Finally I'll be able to get round to all those requests from people wishing to go drink with me.

PhD application submitted.

Big fan of 1LDK's first EP, titled "1LDK." Chinese, Japanese, and English lyrics, and incredibly chill beats, on the various tracks composed by this Tokyo-based international duo.

こっちのが危ないわよ

苺の乗ったショート刑期

Something really beautiful about how my favourite crop top is a hand-me-down from my trans guy friend I helped realise he is trans which subsequently led to him helping me realise I am trans. It looks great on me and helps me remember my past.

Fairclough makes a great point here but at the same time, there is something funny about considering each harmonious conversation along such lines among a happily yet unequally married couple to constitute another tiny win for conservatives.

I was just checking Tokyo Review's traffic on Wordpress and while looking at the "Referrers" tab, I saw... AO3?! Be honest, which one of y'all linked to a Tokyo Review piece somewhere on AO3???

Friendship ended with 中野区立中央図書館. Now 中野区立中野東図書館 is my best friend.

*Seeing power lines in Japan* wow just like in Serial Experiments Lain! *Seeing a staircase in Japan* wow just like in Kimi No Na Wa! *Seeing a small room in Japan* wow just like in The Tatami Galaxy! *Seeing a depressed person in Japan* wow just like in Welcome To The NHK!

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Obaachan I walked past started pointing at my exposed midriff and told me she had just seen a similarly dressed Japanese girl whom she had similarly asked if she wasn't cold lol. She walked with me for a couple hundred meters and complimented the pink in my hair.

I don't care what you people say. I think "Kimi No Wa" is a really good anime, actually. And not just because of the Radwimps soundtrack.

Slept for more than 10 consecutive hours but still don't feel completely rested after the adventures of the weekend. Unfortunately, I have to get up and get back to working on my PhD application. Good morning!

Home safe. Good night!

Had breakfast at Narita Airport and now I'll be home at 1PM　💀

OMG MY NEW FRIEND ALSO WRITES TANKA WE LITERALLY DANCED HAPPILY IN THE TUNNEL THAT CONNECTS HIGASHI NARITA STATION TO NARITA AIRPORT

I just showed, while sitting at the green chairs, the notorious part of the Jet Lag the Game episode that took place here to a Japanese friend I made tonight lol.

back at the (in)famous train station

omw home

time to head home!

Good morning!

Literally only a couple hundred meters, maybe less, away from the runways of Narita Airport

Secondhand smoking is so Dutch. You're literally smoking someone else's cigarette without paying jackshit.

midnight pasta!

Real ones instantly recognize this train station

I made it to my destination!

I guess it makes a lot of sense kids would do「痴漢ごっこ」if groping is something they hear and see a lot about but don't quite understand, but seeing the word printed on paper nevertheless did shock me a bit.

Continues to feel really funny, heading to the airport with my shoulder bags, containing not much more than a photo camera, money, medication, a book, and an eye mask, as my only "luggage."

INTENSE bout of baby fever thanks to the young couple standing near me in the train with their absolutely adorable little human cradled in their arms.

Maybe I should go to a baseball match in Japan one of these days. And by "a" baseball match, I, of course, mean *the* baseball match. The most intense and important rivalry in the history of Japan. Waseda vs Keio.

Heading to Narita Airport soon. iykyk

Getting strangely pissed off at the mere sight of white tourists in the area near my apartment, lately. Non-white tourists and white people who clearly also live in Japan are fine, as are white tourists who are at a distance of two or more kilometers from my apartment. Some territorial instinct.

Amsterdammers! Vanavond ben ik podiumgast bij de presentatie van dit mooie boek over discriminatie, uitsluiting maar vooral emancipatie van trans mensen. We gaan het o.a. hebben over hoe je emancipatie kunt steunen. Zoals: dit soort evenementen bijwonen. 😉 (@rockandvulcan.bsky.social is er ook! 🥰)

Last question before I go to bed: do you guys think Marxism would've still popped off the way it did if Karl Marx had had a really lame surname instead of Marx?

I did, and I think a lot of my nostalgia for that period stems from the fact that, for once, I didn't feel that Global South folk weren't as excluded from mainstream English-medium online spaces as we usually are.

Nancy 4/4/26 … Olivia Jaimes part 7, the epic conclusion

Did you guys also have this thing during the height of the pandemic where, despite how godawful, alienating, and frustrating it all was, you did feel oddly connected to people across the world because for once we were *all* affected by the same issue? Or was that just me?

It's funny how, whenever I'm in Japan, I feel much more connected to my other memories I've made in Japan than towards the ones I've made in the Netherlands. I've been thinking a bunch about my time in Toyama (2018) and my holiday with my family (2019) lately.

Just found out Rinze Visser (87) of the New Dutch Communist Party (NCPN), after serving as a municipal council member for roughly 56 uninterrupted years and in doing so becoming the Netherlands' longest sitting politician, didn't run in this year's municipal election, citing health reasons.

Put on a DJ mix by a friend and I was so immersed in my writing process, I didn't notice the Soundcloud algorithm had subsequently started playing some kind of lofi album until a sample of someone talking about their cocaine addiction or something interrupted my thinking.

Would you guys still love me if I started using an illustration of Miffy as my profile picture rather than BMO?

Google Photos notification just jumpscared me with a picture from 8 years ago where I have an actual beard lmaooooo

Reading "Changing Sex" (1995) by Bernice Hausman, in which she sought to attack the very phenomenon of transsexualism from a feminist angle, is kind of interesting because, unlike many TERFs/GCs she doesn't seek to villainize trans people themselves.

I was going through my DM requests on the other site and I found one of someone calling me a sinophobic racial slur and now I'm mostly just really confused

I dreamt a uni friend had gotten into a relationship with someone whose brain was planted into the body of a horse and they were already getting married after 1 month and I was like "woah! isn't that a bit quick" and then accidentally leaked the girl's phone number on Twitter.

Okay so it looks like I might end up spending only roughly 17000 yen (91 euro) on travel and accommodation for the 4-day Tohoku trip I'm planning. Incredible. I'll be going to Morioka and Hachinohe on this trip.

What the fuck lol. They sent me a different model than advertised!??? Both the product page and the label shown in the photograph said "Acer A11-065N1A", but they sent me a "Chicony A18-065N3A" instead. Considering whether I should ask for a return...