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Unclench your jaw.

Relax your brow.

Go get a drink of water.

See if you've taken your meds

Eat something.

Doesn't matter what you look like right now, i think you look amazing.

Because you do.

You're a wonderful person.

And have this. 🫂🖤 you did great today. You made it through

A happy magic frog that says poof. You are now untired and very happy.

I CAST WHIMSY ON THE SKYLINE

Three cats sitting in round beds, looking toward the camera

Two black-and-white cats cuddling together in a wooden bowl

A black cat and a white cat lying close together on a blanket

A black cat sitting beside a tabby-and-white cat, both looking forward

Happy Cat Day in Japan!
May all cats be safe, loved, and happy

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Your Cherokee words for today.
The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.

This really is a great picture:

This local Wolfdog joined an Olympic ski event and triggered the finish-line camera. This is Nazgul. He snuck into a cross-country skiing sprint this morning and raced the homestretch with some competitors before being escorted home. 14/10 someone get him a medal

I work at an indie bookstore and there’s a guy who orders hundreds dollars of books at a time because he’s worried that books will be abolished and he doesn’t want knowledge to be lost.

From Harry Bernstein’s 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship biography: “I have proven with all this that age need not be a barrier to a useful and creative life. I hope to be able to reach one hundred. I hope to write more books. But with all of this I will never lose the memory of the one thing that gave me the strength and inspiration to accomplish what I have done thus far, my wife Ruby. Memories are supposed to dim with the passing of years. But my memory of her grows richer and deeper each year. I can still see her as vividly as I always did, her lovely, oval face with the smile always on it, her soft, dark eyes looking up at me with such love in them. Her presence will always be there with me until I too am no longer here.” https://www.gf.org/fellows/harry-bernstein/

Ahead of Valentine’s Day, I’m thinking about this 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship bio from Harry Bernstein, who published his first novel at age 96, which was written shortly after the death of his wife of almost 70 years.

I’m crying, you’re crying, we’re all crying.

…far more common after the success of trapped-in-an-RPG stories like Sword Art Online and Log Horizon

A few series that could fit in this sub-genre are:

Handyman Saitou in Another World
DanMachi
Hero Without a Class
Weakest Tamer
Villainess Level 99

I could name more, but I’ll stop here ^^;

…get their stats read. And these types of series can be anything from slice-of-life to epic action

Like someone else mentioned, a lot of these stories started out as web novels that got turned into light novels and eventually got manga and/or anime adaptations

I think they became…

…that revolve around useless job classes/skills and leveling up what they have, or showing that their job classes/skills aren’t so useless after all

Sometimes the characters in the series can access stat screens, but sometimes they have to go somewhere specific like a guild hall or church to…

RPG Realist, if I had to choose. There’s a ton of anime that would fall into the RPG-style-world-mechanics + people-there-are-aware-of-said-mechanics pattern

Most isekai that have adventurer guilds work that way and so do a lot of “kicked out of the xxx’s party” type series

There are even series…

I’d say this is a pretty huge sub-genre in Japanese anime. Though, their genre labels work differently than ours. For example, “isekai” just means “takes place in a world that isn’t ours,” which is distinct from reincarnation stories, or summoned to another world stories

I think I’d go with…

“But I didn’t understand a word he said.” Guess what, that’s the experience of many immigrants when they arrive in a new country, including the United States. You get humbled. Then you work hard and start understanding. We could all use that experience

Valentine’s doesn’t have to mean flowers.

Sometimes it’s a good book, a quiet walk, and learning about the birds and the bees, purely nature-based of course! 😏

A lovely gift, even if it is for yourself

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Good morning & welcome to Roast Dinner Day

Take care of yourself, not just the version the world sees, but the quiet parts too.
You don’t have to be strong all the time.
You’re not broken. You’re human.
Give yourself the care you give everyone else.

YouTube video by Japanese Cinema Hub Takako Irie (入江たか子) Pioneering Japanese Actress

The pioneering Japanese actress Takako Irie (入江たか子) was born 115 years ago, on February 7th, 1911. She was the most popular actress at Nikkatsu in the late 20s-30s and, in 1932, became the first woman to establish an independent studio in Japan.
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Mamdani: "I speak of Renee Good, whose final words to the man who murdered her were, 'I'm not mad at you.' I speak of Alex Pretti who died as he lived, caring for the stranger. ICE shot him bc he did something they could never fathom ... let us offer a new path: one of defiance through compassion."

Pursued by federal agents, suburban ICE observers remain resolved After a frightening pursuit by federal agents, suburban ICE observers say fear hasn’t stopped them from protecting their communities.

The suburban observers, heavily women, say they share a personality type.

“Many of us have encountered bullies our entire lives...I think that turns you into somebody that, even if that bully is wearing full tactical gear, I'm not interested in laying down for you.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

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Your Cherokee words for today.
The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.

Respect yourself. Even when others don’t.

Your feelings are valid and important.

People that love you, respect you. Stay close to them.

As for the others. Redefine their importance.

Its called compassion. And even if you can't personally change what happened, you can allow it to personally change you for the better. So, "it changes nothing?"
It changes you. And that's not nothing.

People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.

Writing Tip:
If you just want to entertain your audience, that's an excellent reason for writing. Not every writer needs to be some deep philosopher with hidden meanings in every line of text. Sometimes you can just write a story so that the reader has fun!
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Watch Midnight Diner | Netflix A scarred man operates a midnight diner in the backstreets of Shinjuku. No one knows his name or his story, but his customers each bring him theirs.

Midnight Diner available on Netflix is beautiful, haunting, affecting. Subtitles not dubbing. Poetry of the city from a great Japanese director. www.netflix.com/watch/80113542

Let's be clear:

We support the right of booksellers to curate their collections according to any (legal) factors; and we support the right of customers to choose to shop there, or to take their business elsewhere.

We oppose book bans.

These positions do not contradict each other.

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Despite what we are often told, this line from Mamdani’s inauguration speech is what true pragmatism actually looks like:

“Beginning today, we will govern expansively and audaciously. We may not always succeed. But never will we be accused of lacking the courage to try.”

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Your Cherokee words for today.
The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.

As we enter the New Year remember fear of making bad art is holding you back. Fear of people not liking your work is holding you back. Rejection is holding you back

You'll make bad art, you'll have people not like your work, and you'll be rejected. Moving past it is half the job of being a creative