like how sometimes it's not the translator's fault, the original book is just badly written🤷‍♀️

To me they will always be Grand Sponsors😊😂

we are being told we are not going to start using ai but the inconsistency with that published statement has not yet been explained

nice. more Tokyo vacation photos please!

I'm glad we got the sturgeon facts before you found out

me too! I wanna see more photos of your house!😡

I know you'd probably rather be skiing but I love it when you spend the weekend in Tokyo💖

it's getting harder to love this sport all the time :(

I'm watching the live action Hirayasumi and it's really good, so my usual skepticism about such things is a little weakened right now

not in the US but this might be a mixed blessing? I am having a hard time imagining live action would be an improvement for this one. but now I'm curious dammit

yes, all of these questions especially marketing. even traditional publishers often expect the author to do most of the marketing now. can and will they really market the book better than you can do yourself? will it be so much better that it's worth the share of the money they are keeping?

people look at me when like I'm nuts when I say that the thing I'm looking forward to eating in Tokyo is baked goods. I keep staying at the same ryokan even though I'm getting too old for climbing the stairs and sleeping on the floor partly because there are like six tiny bakeries within two blocks

omg I just noticed the slogan with ファーストin it. don't want our people but will take our words, I guess

YES. brilliant point. also those horses did not become "free" they became stuff like glue and horsemeat!

still, better to be one of the people who dies than one of the people who are left behind to see that the AI companies face no consequences yet again

there is big difference that I often remind people about though which is that writing is NOT like figure skating because you can start any time and it's not over if you're not a success while you're still in your twenties

I feel that way about so many things! sometimes there's a time and a place for a thing for a person. and it doesn't negate its importance if it goes on without you

so happy for you

you said something lately about coming home from JET and not knowing who the Kardashians were and I thought "man I was living here the whole time and I didn't know who the Kardashians were either"

I'm with you on this and while we're at it can I also say that if people are going to repost those saved pictures of celebrities, they really need to say who they are in the alt text if I am going to have a clue what's going on

would 100% eat a piece of that if you handed it to me

😭

yeah Tokyo looks awesome from high up, but I've got @gaijinmommy.bsky.social to show me that

this is why i only go to the shopping mall at skytree and only take the escalators

oh god this is my nightmare. I will always take stairs instead of an elevator if I can and I'm sure it seems neurotic but I am correct!

snowsquids

yeah no I didn't notice any typos, I was only thinking "omg type faster"😂

omg I love them😍 I guess that's because I don't have to smell them?😅

Chinpo Sumou Manga o Egakimashita. ...

funny, a few days ago I was in a Discord conversation where we were trying to answer exactly the question "where are the sumo BL?" The only thing we came up with did not look at all promising 😅

nor did I! thank you this is news that I needed