#Aki Talki

[aki-appeared-and]

Listen, I didn't realize it at the time but Chobits was so meaningful to me as a teenager who was ace but wouldn't be introduced to the concept for several more years.

Chi is so cute, and so pretty, and so allowed to be sexy and learn about sex, but she's still never going to fuck. And that's okay. She's still completely worthy of love and being loved and having a soulmate.

Our protagonist gets to grapple with not only learning to see Chi as a person, but wrestle his feelings all over again to decide if he loves that person, if his romantic love can exist for someone who's functionally asexual.

Also besides Chi, pretty much every female character in Chobits is there to demonstrate that women are not interchangeable, and objectifying women is wrong, sexually or otherwise. CLAMP are really hammering it in by using it so many times, like yes, when we say no woman is interchangeable, we mean it. Not just our main girl. Every. Woman.

We've got Chi who will not have sex because erasing who she is would be the same as replacing her with a different woman. Everytime someone tries to touch her sexually without her permission she shuts down the city. But even when they're objectifying her in a non-sexual way and just treating her like a machine, those people are still in the wrong because they never get any answers, just broken PCs.

We've got the boy genius trying to replace his sister with a persocom but goes on a parallel journey to our protagonist where he realizes his sister can't be replaced! Even with a persocom, because that persocom is her own person.

We've got the baker who fell in love with a persocom enough to marry her and when everyone objectified her and treated their relationship like some kind of kink that he could replace with another model he said Stop talking about her being an object! THAT'S MY WIFE! And then he was able to fall in love again! And he makes sure she knows that he never wanted to love another persocom, but he would have fallen for her anyway because persocom or not doesn't matter, he's fallen in love with the person.

We've got the teacher who was straight up forgotten by her husband and replaced by a persocom, and what happens to that guy? Never seen. Never really spoken about after the reveal. The man who dared to replace his wife is not worth talking about or giving a redemption arc to. He gets less pagetime and consideration than the actual criminal characters who kidnap or attack Chi, he's that low. He's not even worth being seen or ever thinking about.

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I love how the Hatsune Miku and Takaaki Ishimaru thing started all because I said to play him the Levan Polka for an hour after reblogging @darkempressofchaos's post 😭😭😭

@0-rai I would also like to thank you for the art you made that just made the entire thing spiral into insanity.

I love you both (platonically) for the fun I'm having fjdnrn.

[cyancherub]

pls why have i felt so emo since releasing menthol SDLKFLK.,

[makimamoment]

mm thinking again about how so many of the best, or at least my favorite, moments in csm come when a common trope is subverted. i think it’s really interesting

[catsatopmydesk]

I think what I like abt csm the most is abt how it's like unashamed abt being abt connections and such

[not-postironic-cringe]

I have too many thoughts abt csm and how is genuinely heartbreaking at times and how I mostly see it as the funny mommy bark for me anime

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Finnish cinema

Finnish cinema, while less globally recognized than its Scandinavian counterparts from Sweden and Denmark, has a rich history and a distinctive style that reflects the culture, values, and history of Finland.

History: Finnish cinema dates back to 1907 with the creation of the first Finnish film production company, Suomi-Filmi. It produced many silent films and early talkies, establishing the beginnings of a national cinema.

Themes: Finnish films often explore themes of national identity, history, and the tension between traditional rural life and modern urban living. There's also a distinctive engagement with nature, fitting for a country known for its forests and lakes.

Social Realism: Like much of Nordic cinema, Finnish films are known for their social realism. They often tackle societal issues with a focus on the everyday experiences of ordinary people. This has led to a cinematic tradition that’s both grounded and poignant.

Humor: Finnish cinema has a unique sense of humor. "Finnish deadpan" is a style of comedy characterized by minimalist, matter-of-fact delivery and absurd situations, often combined with a melancholic tone. Notable directors in this vein include Aki Kaurismäki, whose films are internationally acclaimed.

Notable Films and Directors: In addition to Aki Kaurismäki, notable Finnish directors include his brother Mika Kaurismäki, Renny Harlin (known for Hollywood action films), and Jalmari Helander (known for his action and fantasy films). Some internationally acclaimed Finnish films are "The Man Without a Past", "Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale", and "Tom of Finland".

International Recognition: Finnish films have received international recognition and won awards at prestigious festivals, such as the Cannes Film Festival. However, they are not as widely exported or recognized as films from some other European countries.

Modern Finnish Cinema: Modern Finnish cinema is diverse, with films ranging from historical dramas to dark comedies, action films, and introspective character studies. The industry also produces high-quality documentaries.

In summary, Finnish cinema is characterized by its blend of social realism, distinctive humor, engagement with national themes, and a commitment to telling stories about ordinary people and their lives.

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Victor: Siiiiigggghhh.... Yeah....our time together is almost over... *He looks sad at that. He takes out a walking talkie* Oscar, Roosevelt. Airline. *A Helicopter flew down, landing in the field* Where are the animals? *Troops start collecting the carcass*

Lavaca: Aki you know I have to go to work. *She picks you up and kisses you* And you have school young lady.

Fiona: *She makes demands the whole way and talks like she owns you*

[thewomanintheshoppe]

Anyone else have so many ideas for usernames and wondering, "Whom shall I be?" It's one of life's hardest choices xD

My tumblr handle is an iconic callback to my Doctor x Clara era (the ship that made me join Tumblr)

"Aki on the Walkie-Talkie" is also a 10/10. I've gone by Aki online for 6 years now, and this is how I would announce myself at work when I grabbed a walkie. It was an escape room, we had codenames, so I didn't use my birth name.

Then there's "Fika and Fiction." Which I will probably turn into a WordPress blog at some point. I love Swedish culture, I love coffee, I love reading, I love writing.

My sideblog @americana-antihero is a mouthful to say, but in a stroke of 3 a.m. genius I thought it sounded perfect for a blog about a superhero's story. I am fascinated with how americana is presented in comics, and I love antiheros (who doesn't?) so it stuck.

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🍿 The 954 Movies I saw in 2022 🍿

This is the second year since I started writing short reviews of the many films that I watch every day. A year ago I summarized my experience of seeing 885 movies in 2021. And here's the encore for 2022. (All links at the bottom of this post).

Watching nearly 3 movies a day for 2 years is not exactly 'normal', and neither am I. However, I'm a life-long cinephile who finally have the chance to do whatever the heck I want, and that's what I decided to do. I love discovering new works of art, as well as re-living forgotten memories of the past. It also got me back into the habit of writing every day, even if it's only short observations that go into my proverbial drawer.

Most important is the joy that the process gives me, so unless my circumstances change, I plan on continuing with this “Project” for the foreseeable third year.

Below are some statistics and a few of my best finds of 2022:

Of the 954 films that I saw, 121 (12%) were films I had seen before (often repeatably), and 833 were 'New to me.' 74 of them (8%) were documentaries, 74 were short films, 7 were stand-ups and 9 were 'so bad that I couldn't finish them'.

This year I wanted to explore even more of “World” Cinema, so I saw a total of 460 “Foreign” films. They were broken into: French (76), British (71), Japanese (47), Korean (23), Swedish (22), Danish and Italian (21 each), Canadian (15), German (13), from Hong Kong (11), Russian (10), from Finland and Argentina (9 each), Iranian (8), Turkish and Czechoslovakian (7 each), Australian, Indian, Irish and Norwegian (6 each), from Iceland, Israel, Mexico (5 each), Austrian, Belgian, Spanish and Kiwi (4 each). Also multiple films from Afghanistan, Algeria, Azerbaijan, Bhutan, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, Congo, Cuba, Egypt, Greece, Holland, Hungary, Indonesia, Lebanon, Macedonia, Nigeria, Palestine, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Scotland, South Africa, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Tunisia, Ukraine and Wales. Many of the movies I enjoyed the most came from these countries.

As far as their age, there were only 32 silent films (before 1930), Only 77 'talkies' from 1930-1960, and 572 newer ones, from 2000 to today.

Of the individual directors, here are the ones I saw the most films of:

Hitchcock (12), Sang-soo Hong (8), Mike Leigh and Truffaut (7 each), Jodorowsky (6), 5 each from Antonioni, Steven Soderbergh, Wong Kar-wai, Rohmer, Aki Kaurismäki, Godard, Roy Andersson, Milos Forman and Bruce Beresford. And 4 each from Nuri Bilge Ceylan (!), Orson Welles, Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Abbas Kiarostami, Billy Wilder, Bong Joon-ho, Michael Haneke, J C Chandor (!), Michel Gondry, Denis Villeneuve, Werner Herzog and Spielberg. (There are just too many good directors, and even more so 'bad ones'.)

In principle, I prefer films with strong emotional resonance, quiet films about real people in real “life situations”. I have no problem with 'slow cinema'. I also adore films that are very cinematic and well made, that are unique and original. I feed on art and culture, but not necessarily on 'artsy' films. On the other hand, there are many types of films that I usually avoid; horror, superheroes, blockbusters, supernatural, sci-fi, franchise, fantasy, most 'action', only some 'genre'. So my list is bent with that in mind.

Without further ado, here are a few of the new-to-me, less-obvious gems that I discovered this year. Known “classics” from the usual “Best Of Lists” are not included. This personal collection is picked at random, as there were around 60 films this year that I rated 10/10.

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Guys and Dolls (1955), the surprising musical by A Joseph L. Mankiewicz, based on the stories by Damon Runyon, reminded me of a pastel-colored Jacques Demy bonbon.

From its opening titles, to the sexy Miss Adelaide And Her Alley Kittens number, and to Brando himself singing and dancing, it kept me enchanted for 2.5 hours straight. Brando establishes many of Vito Corleone’s mannerisms in super-cool gambler Sky Masterson personality.

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2 women, waiting for the bus, recognize each other. One of them apologizes to the other for something she did years ago, when they were in school. The other one says that she forgives her, and then leaves on foot.  

This is one of 56 short, unrelated vignettes, all told quietly as a series of static shots, in Icelandic Rúnar Rúnarsson‘s meditative Echo (2019). Snippets of stories, with no thematic connections between them, except that they all happen in Iceland during Christmas. Clearly influenced by Roy Andersson, (especially his ‘Pigeon Sat On A Branch Reflecting On Existence‘) and just as moving.

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Iceland has only 370,000 people, and they make about 10 films per year. But their cinema is terrific, including films by Baltasar Kormáku. His Virgin Mountain (2015) is a delicate and realistic story about Fúsi, a middle-age man, fat, bald, shy and lonely who’s still a virgin living with his mom. When he receives a birthday gift of line-dancing lessons he meets another lonely soul, a blond who suffers from depression and they starts a fraught relationship. Kormáku's series ‘Trapped’ is also recommended.

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One of the most unusual films I’ve never heard of, Lost in London, an audacious directorial debut. A Woody Harrelson production, written by him, directed by him, headlined by him and recreating “the worst night of his life from 2002”. Also, it was shot in a single take with one camera, and was live-broadcasted to over 550 theaters at the same time as it was shot, on January 19, 2017. On top of all that, it was an heartfelt roller-coaster with a great confessional story, and was so funny that at 2AM my 92-year old mom woke up next door and burst into my bedroom, when - forgetting where I am - I loudly screamed (at the shocking vomit scene at the club toilet...). A technical marvel! (Also, I didn’t know that he was a serious Chess player).

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I was delighted to discover a few excellent Lebanese films. Director Ziad Doueiri's West Beirut was his extremely well-made 1998 debut film. It starts on April 13, 1975 when a busload of 31 Muslims were massacred by masked terrorists, right in front of the protagonist’s school. This real event sparked the civil war that divided Beirut into Christian East Beirut and Muslim West Beirut. Surprisingly warm and authentic story about two high-school friends who wake up one day to find themselves in a war zone.

Shout-out also to his later film 'The Insult', George Peter Barbari's brilliant debut 'Death of a Virgin and the Sin of Not Living', and 'Heaven without people' by Lucien Bourjeily.

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How is it possible that you could recognize a piece by Ennio Morricone by hearing the first note, asks Hans Zimmer in Ennio: The Maestro from Giuseppe Tornatore. Morricone, the most popular and prolific film composer of the 20th century, was so much more than a film composer. This documentary makes a strong assertion that he was actually one of the greatest film-makers that ever lived.

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One of the many films with a score by Morricone that I saw for the first time was Gillo Pontecorvo's 1966 The battle for Algiers. Classic anti-colonialist, a powerful neorealist piece about the Algerian revolution and the guerrilla war for independence from the cruel occupying French regime.

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“Give me a child until he is seven and I will give you the man”…

I finally got to watch all 9 films of the riveting British The Up series, “one of the most important documentaries ever” This once-every-seven-years project, which followed the lives of a random group, 10 boys and 4 girls, from 7 to 63, was captivating from the very beginning, and I binged it in 2-3 days. What started as a one-off sociological study of the British class system, turned into a philosophical process of observing change in real time. It got me to think: If somebody summarized my life in a similar fashion, I would appear to distant viewers as a complete and unpredictable freak.

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Yasujirō Ozu's Equinox Flower and Floating weeds. Roger Ebert wrote about Floating weeds: “Sooner or later, everyone who loves movies comes to Ozu. He is the quietest and gentlest of directors, the most humanistic, the most serene.” My promise to myself for 2023: Go over his entire canon.

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A new discovery for me was the works of “Kogonada”, who was inspired to chose his pseudonym from a screenwriter who frequently had worked with Ozu. His dreamy debut feature, Columbus (2017) was an intimate, modern Ozu-adjacent tale about spaces, deep and quiet and emotionally fraught. Strangely, I looked for it on movie-lists for architecture nerds, and didn’t find it on any. Pure & unforgettable. He wrote it and edited it himself, beautifully.

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When I studied film at the University of Copenhagen in the late 70′s, I picked Michael Cacoyannis’ classic masterpiece Iphigenia (1977) as the topic of my final paper. Iphigenia is one of the original Greek tragedies by Euripides, and the film is still as magnificent as it was 45 years ago. With unforgettable score by Mikis Theodorakis. 10/10.

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François Truffaut magical L'Argent de poche (Small Change) has not only always been my all-time favorite movie about children, and my favorite Truffaut movie (Even more than his ‘400 blows’ and ‘The last Metro’) - it’s probably one of my top 50 films of all time. With another 2-second Truffaut cameo at the beginning. “Gr��gory il a fait boum!”…

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Because I don’t watch nearly any SciFi movies, I can’t tell how innovative the 2018 Swedish Aniara high-concept adaptation is, but for me it was amazing: Philosophical, poetic and unusual, it reminded me of Ingmar Bergman existentialist dramas - in space. A luxurious spaceship carrying settlers to Mars is knocked off course, and is destined to fly indefinitely toward interstellar space. Based on a 1956 book-length epic science fiction poem written by Swedish Nobel laureate Harry Martinson.

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But my favorite science fiction film of all times is World of tomorrow, Don Hertzfeldt’s Oscar nominated mind-bending, surreal masterpiece.

American Icon and genius animator Don Hertzfeldt had uploaded to YouTube this “One of the greatest short films in the history of movies”.  It is about an innocent 4 year old girl who meets an absurd grown-up third-generation clone of herself contacting her from 227 years in the future. A lighthearted philosophical joke with deep, melancholic emotions.

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Everybody builds their own hierarchy of favorites. YMMV.

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My 2021 summery with 885 movies - Here.

A simple Google spreadsheet with the raw data for both years.

(A copy of the same post to r/movies...)

All the reviews HERE.

Mercy Bow Koo.

[aki-appeared-and]

Love the player (streamers) hate the game (their chat)

[brainfilehasstoppedworking]

Takaaki is way too skinny in canon to be alive. What the fuck 😨

His beta design has more meat on his bones than his final design. HOW????

I'M WORRIED????? HE'S SO SKINNY, THERE IS NO MEAT, JUST BONE...

He's still a smash

[cyancherub]

I posted 15,980 times in 2022

That's 6,186 more posts than 2021!

8,361 posts created (52%)

7,619 posts reblogged (48%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@cyancherub

@prettyboykatsuki

@scummy-simp

@uppermocns

@kentoangel

I tagged 15,680 of my posts in 2022

Only 2% of my posts had no tags

#cherub.mail - 2,996 posts

#talky cherub - 1,988 posts

#thotbox - 1,295 posts

#cherub.anon - 1,156 posts

#csm - 885 posts

#jjk - 769 posts

#thotmail - 745 posts

#menthol - 622 posts

#to cherub - 516 posts

#psycho pass - 495 posts

Longest Tag: 79 characters

#𝖈𝖍𝖊𝖗𝖚𝖇 𝖜𝖎𝖑𝖑 𝖈𝖗𝖚𝖘𝖍 𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖒 𝖚𝖓𝖉𝖊𝖗𝖋𝖔𝖔𝖙 𝖑𝖎𝖐𝖊 𝖆 𝖇𝖚𝖌

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

genesis | hayakawa aki

this is part one of the series menthol.

PAIRING.  aki x bff fem!reader

PLAYLIST.  nightdrive + sesh

SERIES SYNOPSIS.  after a string of casual dating mishaps leaves you unsatisfied, you find that the grass is greener in the front seat of your best friend’s car.

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1,849 notes - Posted October 13, 2022

#4

menthol | hayakawa aki

— SERIES MASTERLIST.

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1,916 notes - Posted October 13, 2022

#3

i dont want a man who plays hard to get i want a man who crawls on his hands and knees begging for my attention. i want a man who cries and grabs my ankles. i walk and he just hangs on and gets dragged along wherever i go like a decorative train on a dress 

2,158 notes - Posted September 19, 2022

#2

the hatred ppl have for x reader is so funny

3,937 notes - Posted November 12, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

irl tumblr meetup with the mutual circle but no one says what their url is so u have to guess who is who

26,966 notes - Posted September 28, 2022

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[aki-on-the-walkie-talkie]

About my Blog Name

In 2015, I discovered the anime "Noragami" and fell head-over-heels in love with it (I was especially in love with Yato). And when I was in love with a show, the next step was to roleplay online. After posting on a forum about my desire to join a Noragami roleplay, I was invited to join a group who based their story in feudal Japan. Every god and goddess was based on actual Japanese gods and goddesses; I followed suit and based a character on the Japanese goddess of autumn, Akibimi.

I was so proud of how I was developing her - she became my entire muse. I went on to make "Aki" my name on Discord. The name took on a new and precious meaning when I heard my online friends use that name for me during our many calls. Aki. That was me. Although I had no qualms with my name irl (and I still don't), there was something so special about becoming "Aki." Becoming Aki meant becoming someone's new friend. It was the name used in the honeymoon phase of friendship; the use of my real name marked the start of a new era of closeness.

In 2021, I was hired at an escape room. My boss told me that every employee has a code name to say on our walkie-talkies, because 1. it maintains our privacy around customers, and 2. it's just fun! I knew I wanted to be "Aki," and as soon as I said it, my coworker lit up and said how fun it would be for me to say "Aki is on the walkie-talkie" any time I got on comms at the start of each shift. I hadn't thought about that, but she was right - it was perfect!

As for this blog, I like to imagine myself sharing everything about my life over the walkie-talkie. It's a funny mental image, considering how long these posts are. Maybe it's better to associate the walkie-talkie with the TLDRS instead cx

TLDR: "Aki" is short for "Akibimi," the Japanese goddess of autumn who I based a character off of. I use the name "Aki" online and at work because the nature of my job encourages me to use the name! --OVER--

[aki16official]

*Aki stops time, knocking Coe out and actually attempting to kill themselves, then continuing time*

*talking to a walkie-talkie: @awobbles , i got coe.

*They sound sad and extremely guilty*

Coe, am so sorry for this.

Uh…what?

[akira-chaos-suta]

Why I ship and love 6927

Mukuro and Tsuna have always been my favourite pairing before I, myself watched the anime. I shipped them when my brother was watching the anime in the T.V room.

I don't know why people ship 1827/HibariXTsuna more than this.

It is canon that Mukuro hates the mafia, but doesn't hate Tsuna because he different from others. Another thing is that Mukuro isn't actually mean to Tsuna, he`s actually nice and polite to him.

He hasn't even hurt Tsuna at all.(Excluding their fight)

Tsuna is always worried about Mukuro and when he and his gang came back he's always asking Reborn if there okay. Even though Reborn keeps reminding Tsuna of all the horrible things Mukuro has done.(LOL, Protective Parental Reborn)

Did you all see Tsuna when he found out Mukuro was still trapped in the Vendicare Prison 10 years later, he was so sad and kinda disgusted that his 10 year older self didn't save Mukuro, when he had the power to.

Tsunas the only person to know of Mukuro's good side and is always the first one doubts him when he says he doesn't care about his comrades. So we know that Mukuro has done something to gain a good opinion from Tsuna.

Mukuro also trust Tsuna a lot to the point of asking him to protect his comrades, even though he felt crazy about it. So he defianly feels he can trust tsuna no mattering his affliation with the Mafia.

Also I think he knows Tsuna is kinda being forced to be a Mafia boss and withstanding torturous training against his will, so he kind understands;being experimented by the mafia against his will.

Mukuro and Tsuna also have a mental connection even since their fight, which allows Tsuna to sense when he's near or possessing anybody.

To me that connection seems stronger then the one Mukuro has with Chrome and I am sure that because of that mental connection, both can communicate with each other without being with each other face to face.

Mukuro can also most likely know when Tsuna is in danger because of that connection, similar to how he knows when Chrome is in danger.

Mukuro also has invaded Tsuna's dreams once in the Drama CD to tease him. Defiantly something we’ve all done to our crushes one in awhile.

All in all, to me Tsuna's sweet, caring, warm and accepting personality is what Mukuro needs to contrast and flush out his dangerous, broken, playful, arrogant personality.

To me they could have the fluffiest and purest relationship if it became canon, not a smutty and manipulative one as the fans previewed.

It would probably be a very teasing and pure comforting, relatioship full of pure love.

So this why 6927 need to be higher than 8059 and 1827 and number one.

-AkiraCS