#Electric Town

[emaadsidiki]

Akihabara Electric Town 📷🔌📹

[fortwitchprincess]

Actually, Lisa, I know from experience that Electric Town/Akihabara is a great date spot, you jerk. I no longer feel bad about making out with my boyfriend in front of your cishet ass.

[moriwanderer]

Akihabara (also Tateishi and Sarushima)

Akihabara! Tokyo's Electric Town! The city of neon lights, arcades, multi-story doujin shops, and a plethora of other wonders! The otaku paradise!!

Or... not? But first, we take a trip to the seaside, and then a trip to an island of monkeys! (sans monkeys, because reasons.)

Tateishi park, where my sandals became salted!

Across the peninsula there's a small park on the other coast called Tateishi. It's a pretty long walk from where I'm staying, but there's a nice sidewalk the whole way and it's pretty well shaded. It mostly features a beach somewhat protected by a rock that has a small shrine built-in. The whole time I was wandering the shore, my sandals were sitting up out of harm's way. After I was walking back out, a large wave came up and soaked them. I guess I didn't pray at the shrine hard enough, or something!

The Tale of Sarushima

A long time ago, someone was lost in Tokyo Bay until the ghost of a monkey appeared and led the poor soul to the safety of the island. It has been called Sarushima (Saru - Monkey, Shima - Island) ever since. Or so the story goes.

It's.. not as impressive as I had hoped. Most of the neat historical aspects were off-limits, the beach was closed for the season, and the route to the cave was closed off as well. One might have better luck in August. That said, the trip was totally worth it just for the ferry ride over, with the seemingly endless amount of moon jellies visible just beneath the water nearly the entire way.

Akihabara

The otaku mecca was... disappointing? There were a tonne of things to check out, but the main areas seem to have been primarily taken over by used cell phone and laptop shops. Like, everywhere. Then there's the fact that everything seems to carry an Akiba tax (ie, things there are about 2x-3x more expensive than elsewhere, outside of general food). I found plenty of neat things that I couldn't afford, and honestly very little that I could get to say, look! I've been here!

There was a small shop FULL of retro gaming goodness whose name I sadly don't remember; it was to the side of one of the many alleys located in the basement. It would have all of your PC-FX and Towns Marty needs, if they didn't cost your first born. Still, wonderful to be able to see them in person and play with them.

It was also an overcast, rainy day and we arrived late, so we got to see maybe a quarter of the area. We didn't even get to Gamers! This of course means that I have to go back.

Sega, where'd you go?

See you next time!

[peninsulaisms]

when i was a lil kid i thought these were the angels my nanna always told me were watching over me

[highsummonermercar]

秋葉原、東京・January 2024

[im-nauseated]

Perverts vibe

[reasonsforhope]

i live in the midwest US, right? and something that's been so fascinating to me is the fact that i spend equal time, roughly, in urban, suburba, and rural areas- and i'm seeing the same renewables growth in all three. solar panels, advertisements for EVs, charging stations, newly installed wind turbines, actual EVs and hybrids on the roads, i've even been able to witness solar panel installations in the city. the buses in my city's fleet are more and more becoming electric or otherwise more sustainable. i see farmers with portable solar and batteries by their houses. people in the suburbs are getting solar installed and bragging about new electric vehicles.

it's becoming more and more commonplace, and it's both affordable and popular to go green. that really gives me hope, honestly. seeing people who don't really care about the environment go environmentally-friendly anyways, because it's profitable, or cool, or cheap, or just because they like it. sure, it's sort of sad, but on the other hand it shows me just how widespread this change is. and it's not a huge thing either!! like i just see new solar or wind or the like and it's more of a "huh. neat" or "we need to look into panels for the house" than anything else. so much hope in the little things like that, in seeing the way the world changes when no one is looking.

having governments and activist organizations working for this is making a change, and it's so beautiful and i'm so lucky that i get to be alive to see the world changing for the better. and my area is experiencing unprecedented growth!! and i see so much of that come with solar. there's like, a gas-station style charging station near me. isn't that awesome? i can't wait to see more of it.

That's awesome!! Thank you for sending this in, that really is so full of hope, especially the fact that it's the midwest and it's happening equally across urban, suburban, and rural settings. That's so great to hear.

The renewables revolution isn't going anywhere, and it's because of just what you said: it's cheaper and easier and more profitable. And it's gonna change the world.

[subtlehums]

[gummi-ships]

Kingdom Hearts 0.2 Birth by Sleep - A Fragmentary Passage - Thundaja

[vaguely-concerned]

so glad we now know what the wardens do with the archdemon corpses after a blight is ended! and as with all grey warden stuff, the true answer is 'boy I bet you wish right about now you'd never asked huh'

[peaches2217]

The good news:

Snow!!! We never see snow here 🥹

The bad news: the electricity is out.

The good news: my camper runs on propane heat and the lights are hooked to a central battery, so as long as I use the smaller lights sparingly, we’ll have both heat and light until the issue gets resolved.

The bad news:

Binx will not stop screaming. He wants me to open his window. He does not understand why his cruel famther will not open his favorite window.

SON.

[emaadsidiki]

Anime streets of Akihabara 🎎

HEY 💎 💻 ⌨️ 🎮🔌 Akihabara Hirose Entertainment Yard 😊

[whitetrashkim]

Powerline valley.

[aheathen-conceivably]

Tiny Town Applicant One: Roan Mcgovern

Dreams of living off the land always seem mighty far away when land is just so expensive. So when Roan saw the advertisement for Moonwood Mill Tiny Town, submitting an application was a no brainer. Only cows and chickens and horses (oh my!) may be too big a dream for such a tiny plot, but that's something she'll have to worry about later.

*Although Roan rolled the horse riding skill, I am including all types of animal husbandry for her so that her gameplay isn't as tied to one world (Chestnut Ridge) and she can interact with Tiny Town more easily.

[peninsulaisms]

taken out the window in botanic ridge, the transmission towers that me and my best friend spent our childhood running under

[manitapaleta]

Art for @nark-week day 1: adrenaline/discipline

Larks first time flying Nicholas Air™️ lol