Linden

Yeah I lost mine as a psychotically-depressed 6th grader and did not deserve a replacement. Lookism strikes again!

Filtered so you can see the frostline on Ningyōyama through the mist.

Kerosene heater started wheezing consumptively and blowing cold air so onto the bike and over the mountain we go to the repair jiichan.

Anyways yeah the hail. Takaoka is over the plain and gets the weather systems off Tateyama instead of off Hakusan, so they get tornadoes and gale-force winds. I had to lie both myself and the bike down in the lee of the river embankment, the wind was strong enough to blow it off its cargo kickstand.

80km/50 mile round trip, would have been fine if I had a bike poncho but instead I just have a horrible lanolinated sweater, the logic being that I can't stay dry for more than 15 mins in my shitty nylon raincoat but I can stay warm like a wet sheep. It's HEAVY. Saw also HEAVY.

Rode from Gokayama to Takaoka today to bring my mitre saw to be repaired by Makita. It cost a whole 180 yen, the cost of a new bolt for the blade cover, they didn't even charge for the service TAT
Downside I got caught in a hailstorm on the way there and my boot filled up with ice which then melted.

illustration of a woman walking through a forest fire, a massive wolf made of smoke walks behind her. text overlayed reads "these nights when i sleep, i dream of forest fires"

LAMBKIN 2/8

It seems to be, I thought I'd finally splurge on a new Goretex raincoat since I haven't had once since middle school and LL Bean doesn't make the one I want anymore with fabric discontinuation stated as the reason :(((( Now I'm extra pissed my mom bought one for my ex and not me.

Goretex has been discontinued?!

Can you tell this isn't my first time giving this speech :,) Annoying everyone at the anime function rhapsodizing about a piece of art I can't show them and we couldn't find on Google.

It's also like. The OPPOSITE of an ahegao hoodie? Like how ahegao print totally derives the subjects of context even of their own complete bodies, whereas Lichtenstein's work puts objectfied subjects in a background and context so that the context is what you see first.

Anyways I think the chair series is very clever because both lampoons traditional chinoiserie as unserious and sites Anglophone anime fandom as being part of a historical tradition of orientalism and objectification.

That fabric but a different chair! I remember the shape because it was the first hooded chair I ever saw in real life.

I FOUND HER!!!!
JESSICA LICHTENSTEIN!
www.jessicalichtenstein.com/shows-installs scroll down, it was a group show so the exact piece that was displayed isn't here but it's like the ones from the PLAY series.

Looking at hooded chairs reminded me of my favorite piece of modern art: it was in a gallery window in NYC circa 2012?, one such chair of antique make reupholstered in blue-on-white pastoral toile but the human figures in the print were anime nudes. I have neither name nor pictures.

(its not cool themed Disney homes either like the resort architectural inspo or w/e it's just "Thing, With Logo")

God I Wish That Was Me

(At the mall where they do WCS there's a homebuilder's showroom that's JUST for Disney-themed homes, imagine having to pay a mortage on your corpo fandom merch 🤢 next door to the HP shop so u can cringe while u cringe)

A least weasel. It fits in the palm of the hand.

If you’re wondering what a “least weasel” is, they absolutely live up to the name. This is the least amount of animal you can have that can still meet the bar for “is weasel”

kotatsu à la mode

It is winter again and I am Yearning for these practical homegoods.

BBC article. "Japan's Agriculture Ministry has reprimanded six civil servants who spent hours at work editing articles on Wikipedia - mainly about robots."

thinking about the guy who made 260 wikipedia edits about Gundam while on the clock. 🫡

The beloved fantasy manga Mushishi Collector's Edition is back in a hardcover omnibus edition.

Invisible to most, mysterious mushi influence human lives in strange ways. Wandering mushishi Ginko journeys through the countryside to unravel their haunting mysteries.

https://ow.ly/2I5m50XlW4T

In my new love affair with working out, I've met my addictive brain in a radically different setting from the mucky undergrowth that first sprouted it. I learned to be an addict in junk houses, dive bars, apartments with a single stained mattress on the floor as furniture; I've done coke off surfaces I wouldn't even sit on now. I've met WASP-type addicts in recovery whose alcoholism was rather a genteel thing, learned from parents over champagne toasts in Martha's Vineyard, but mine was always grubby and it was always secret: if a room could comfortably grow mushrooms along its dingy grouting, I could get high in it. Imagine my surprise at finding out that I can still get drunk in the fluorescently lit weight room at the Y, even without secrecy, even without liquor. I'm still doing it til it hurts. Til some as-yet-unexplored cave system inside myself floods with a familiar gushing pain, because hurting myself is the only way I've ever been able to know myself.

i wrote about being a sober alcoholic trying to have a healthy relationship with exercise
www.patreon.com/posts/143070...

I don't know what it is about mecha that produces such quality ot3s. You still haven't seen Code Geass, right? That's the good shit, the secret spice is truly two childhood friends and one space cadet.

Why is everyone writing for anime and manga a coward, stop writing love triangles and give me a canon ot3 you conformist weaklings *rattles the bars of my cage*

(I decided to watch 先輩はおとこのこ and the orbital slingshot from the gay childhood friend to the previously aroace girl has broken my neck)

おはカワセミ🐦
あざと可愛いマイフィールドのカワセミくん
これはモテそう😇
#野鳥
#翡翠

How the turns have tabled 🙃 English is the private language now.

This is why I started studying Japanese lmaooo I liked cosplay, was ambivalent about anime, but I HATED these weeb motherfuckers using it as their private language bc I was the only one in the group who got placed into French in high school.

So anyways I noodled along behind them for about 6km just off camera and then flew past their spandex asses on the steepest uphill in my highest gear (e-asssist won't kick in bc this is already bad for the transmission) in my high-viz vest and inaka pants full of holes.

(By shared I mean alternating.)
I even let people aside in my CAR if there's sports cars or motorcycles or the Kuroneko truck behind me. Be neighborly instead of being right. And certainly don't be a dick with channel promo livery.