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Közi's cats in chronological order

Zaku (ザク) - male tabby cat

Adopted in 1997, közi introduced him in the first edition of the Ma Cherie fanclub. He passed away in 2009 (i'm pretty sure it was due to sickness, but I don't have any source for it so...)

Lala (ララ)  - female gray tabby cat

Adopted in 1997, passed away in 2015.

Zeon (ヂヲン) - male tabby cat

Adopted in 2013. He is still alive to this day.

Duke (ヂーク)  - male black and white cat

Adopted in 2015, passed away in 2023 due to sickness.

Hamon (ハモン) - female black and white cat  

Adopted in 2024. Obviously she is still alive.

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Christ, I didn't even know they released a DVD with Acid Black Christmas on it back in 2017, I guess I should get a copy before it's lost forever.

I was there, but all I really remember is that I was with my good friend, we played Mario Party on DS before the show started (cheered on by some guys in the seats around us) and that it was VERY COLD especially for the girls who decided to wear bikinis and nothing else.

I guess I'm a little conflicted because I want to remember how happy I was then, but it's also painful to look back on considering, well, everything that has happened since.

The person I was then probably wasn't as happy as she looks in hindsight, though. I don't know.

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Hello there! This may be sudden or random, I think I might have reached out to a few years ago: but I wanted to ask, if you still perhaps your old translations for Janne Da Arc saved? I downloaded their entire discography when I was a teenager, and I think I still have most of the lyrics saved on my songs on iTunes: but while I used to use the Wayback Machine to view it using www.papersnow.net/kiku) but unfortunately, I think it's become broken on the wayback machine. I was just curious if you still had them and if it was possible to ask for them at all! Regardless, ty so much for everything, your lyrics genuinely helped make out a part of my childhood almost 20 years ago <3

Surprisingly to everyone, my livejournal appears to still be active and contains the majority of my old work (with paragraphs of long-winded bullshit that I don't know I would agree with over a decade later):

https://kikuko-kamimura.livejournal.com/memories/

Thank you for your kind words, I'm glad to know that my years of dedicated effort has lingered so long in people's minds. It at least makes it easier to not want to scrub all that cringe off the earth (and just leave it as it was to look on fondly instead of obsessively thinking I should make corrections with more experience).

I'm sure I probably still have everything on an old computer somewhere but for now that's most of it. I'm sure the newer ABC stuff is either here or somewhere easier to find, but all the Janne should be on Livejournal.

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Guillermo del Toro on AI

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8 days until Christmas - featuring Setzer

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It's always unfortunate how few people know about The Tithenai Chronicles by Foz Meadows.

It's only two books (both of which are out NOW!)

It's a queer Byzantine-inspired fantasy about a gay prince from a land that Frowns on that Kind of Thing who ends up Politically Married to a man from a nation that is the opposite. In addition to Political Intrigue, it's also an incredibly poignant story about finding yourself, how trauma never really quite goes away, and the complicated feelings of guilt and mourning what you never got to have in your youth once you find your People/are allowed to live as who you are. I could NOT put it down.

If you see this you are obligated to tell me your favorite book/series you've read this year (totally not using this as a way to get more book recs)

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I would even go so far to say there's a tactile element to paper books that is (probably) pleasing to our little monkey brains. Holding a book isn't the same experience as a device, turning a page isn't the same as hitting a button or touching a screen. Progressing through something page by page, watching it move from one side to the other as proof of our effort? It feels so much BETTER than "number go up". Just like how creating something is as much about the process as it is the end result--to those who well and truly love it and don't just see it as a race of how many pieces one can make in x time or who can sell what they've made for the highest price.

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Lord, grant me the strength to throw away this box that i'll never use, the courage to throw away this box that i'll never use, and the wisdom to throw away this box that i'll never use

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how it feels to be online these days

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Show up at work like hi boss sorry I'm late my I was helping my mother track down one specific 90s dungeon crawler for the purposes of obtaining a muffin recipe the developer hid in the files

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Was trying not to cry laughing at radiology today

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got a major pest problem this year actually

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look at the republican calendar and see which animal/plant/item is associated with your birthday ok. if you're born january 14 you get the day of the cat

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Ok look. I’m an Elder Millennial and I know we have our quirks but I honestly want to know something.

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2ha Japan novel volume 1 cover revealed

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“In the war film, a soldier can hold his buddy—as long as his buddy is dying on the battlefield. In the western, Butch Cassidy can wash the Sundance Kid’s naked flesh—as long as it is wounded. In the boxing film, a trainer can rub the well-developed torso and sinewy back of his protege—as long as it is bruised. In the crime film, a mob lieutenant can embrace his boss like a lover—as long as he is riddled with bullets. 

Violence makes the homo-eroticism of many “male” genres invisible; it is a structural mechanism of plausible deniability.”

–Tarantino’s Incarnational Theology: Reservoir Dogs, Crucifixions, and Spectacular Violence. Kent L. Brintnall.

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