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foxwmulder · 11 months ago

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I just found my list of when I categorized every xf episode (mostly through s7) during quarantine lmao

MONSTER OF THE WEEK CATEGORIES

Cultural

Shapes

Fresh Bones

The Calusari

Teso Dos Bichos

Hell Money

Teliko

El Munda Gira

Theef

Prison or Military

Deep Throat

Space

Sleepless

The List

The Walk

Unrequited

Trevor

Religious

Miracle Man

Revelations

Grotesque

Kaddish

All Souls

Signs and Wonders

Millennium

Cult or Satanists

Gender Bender

Red Museum

Our Town

Syzygy

Die Hand Die Verletzt

Sanguinarium

Terms of Endearment

Nothing Lasts Forever

Lone Gunmen- or CSM-Centric

Musings of a CSM

Unusual Suspects

Three of a Kind

First Person Shooter

This

Skinner-Centric

Avatar

Zero Sum

SR 819

Brand X

Hollywood AD

Kitten

Arthur Dales’s Tales

Travelers

The Unnatural

Agua Mala

Scully Side Quest

Irresistible / Orison

Chinga

Never Again

Milagro

En Ami

all things

Home Again

Ghouli

Mulder, They Already Destroyed the Evidence!

Ice

Firewalker

Dod Kalm

F. Emasculata

Wetwired

The Pine Bluff Variant

Drive

Wait, It’s Actually Aliens?

Pilot

Jose Chung

Control the Elements

Fire

DPO

Soft Light

Schizogeny

Rush

The Rain King

Medical Anomalies

Young at Heart

Eve

Home

Small Potatoes

Postmodern Prometheus

Founder’s Mutation

Guys Who Need to Eat Weird Stuff

Squeeze / Tooms

2Shy

Pusher / Kitsunegari

Leonard Betts

Hungry

Switch Lives or Linked Brains

Lazarus

Roland

Oubliette

Paper Hearts

Mind’s Eye

Dreamland I and II

Fight Club

Plus One

Time Travel or Warp

Synchrony

Monday

Lost Art of the Forehead Sweat

Ghosts or Past Lives

Shadows

Born Again

Excelsis Dei

Elegy

Aubrey

The Field Where I Died

Triangle

How the Ghosts Stole Christmas

AI Is Out To Get Us

Blood

Ghost in the Machine

Kill Switch

Rm9sbG93ZXJs

Half Man, Half Monster

The Host

Jersey Devil

Humbug

Detour

Bad Blood

Folie a Duex

Chimera

Mulder and Scully Meet the Weremonster

All Monster, No Man

Darkness Falls

Fearful Symmetry

Quagmire

War of the Coprophages

Alpha

Arcadia

Field Trip

X-Cops

Magic, Psychic, or Lucky

Beyond the Sea

Clyde Bruckman

Unruhe

Tithonus

The Amazing Maleeni

Je Souaite

The Goldberg Variation

MYTHOLOGY CATEGORIES

They’re Closing The X-Files!

The Erlenmeyer Flask / Little Green Men

The End / The Beginning

Fight the Future

Uh…Samantha?

Colony / End Game

Talitha Cumi / Herrenvolk

Sein Und Zeit / Closure

I’m Literally On Board Already, Scully

Fallen Angel

EBE

Nisei / 731

Piper Maru / Apocrypha

Tempus Fugit / Max

Tunguska / Terma

Agent Mulder Is Dead! Or Is He?

Anasazi / The Blessing Way / Paper Clip

Redux I and II

This Is Not Happening / Dead Alive

Mulder…You Good?

Demons / Gethsemane

Biogenesis / The Sixth Extinction

The Syndicate Hates Scully

Duane Barry / Ascension / One Breath

Memento Mori

Christmas Carol / Emily

Patient X / The Red and the Black

Why Was This Made

I Want to Believe

Discarded Categories

Creepy White Guy Predator

This Is a Small Town, We Don’t Lock Our Doors

A Nice Trip to the Forest

#the x files #I remember pouring all my energy into this lol #categories

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saturnwisteria · 3 days ago

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"My Heart Is Inflamed With Burning Anguish"

(Yasutaro Soga)

For the HBO Rewatch Prompt Family, I introduce Bianca Umezaki. This excerpt of what will undoubtedly be a longer piece references Executive Order 9066, wherein all persons of Japanese ancestry living in the western parts of California, Oregon, and Washington, as well as some parts of Arizona, were forcibly relocated from their homes and incarcerated farther inland in various concentration camps. TW for period-typical racism and language, including the J-slur.

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It's not the first time she's heard it, and it certainly won't be the last. Always the same vitriolic disgust clinging around the single syllable, the ending plosive ringing in her ears.

"What the fuck's a Jap doing here?"

Bianca knows better than to respond. She's always been level-headed, knows how to reel in her emotions before they get the better of her. Unlike her fellow pilot, who's head whipped to the offender, eyes narrowing on her target. Rory is always ready to jump into fights that aren't hers by right--this is Bianca's problem to deal with, it's her neverending fight--and one day it's going to bite her back. Bianca places a firm hand on Rory's arm, ever the cool water to her raging fire.

She tells the sneering man the same thing she always does: "I'm an American."

It makes her want to scream. This churning mess of pride and fear and forced shame is one she knows intimately; she's lived with it since she was a child, running rampant through the streets of Oakland, California with her brother, Bill. She'd lived in a bubble then, surrounded by other Japanese Americans in what they lovingly called Lil' Yokohama.

She had lived on a little corner, sitting slanted midway up a steep hill. At the very top of which, if she stood between the buildings just right, she could see the Pacific Ocean. Her family owned a little grocery store on that corner, living in the apartment above. She loved how the evening light would slant through the windows, setting the crates of vegetables and fruits aglow. How her father would give her a boost up onto the sales counter when she was still too short to peer over it.

Her soft-hearted father, who wore his heart on his sleeve; the heart that was made of overripe fruit, and that only ever got bruised for his troubles. She'd lived in a bubble of Issei and fellow Nisei, hardly ever seeing a white person until she went off to college. Yet Bianca had still come face to face with prejudice in that little corner store.

Bianca had always wondered if people would have taken issue with her father if he'd just been a Black man; if the part they couldn't sit with had been that he was a Black man married to a Japanese woman.

Not everyone in Lil' Yokohama had minded. Plenty of their neighbors loved her father, and who wouldn't? He was shy and soft-spoken, but if you got him on the topic of whatever book he was reading this week, he could ramble for ages. He loved poetry and baseball, and languages. When he'd tuck Bianca into bed at night, one of her favorite stories was how he had met her mother.

I was walkin' down the quay when I heard the voice of an angel. She was laughin' with her girlfriends, it was pure music, Bebe. I didn't understand a lick o' what they was sayin' but I knew I wanted to listen for the rest o' my life.

He'd immersed himself into her mother's culture, learning her language, her traditions. And she had fallen for his determination to know her in her entirety. They shared pieces of each other in the salty air of the harbor, where she would ask him things about America that she'd been too nervous to ever voice before. She'd teach him basic bits of Japanese, and he'd help her learn how to read in English.

He had taken her mother's last name when they eloped.

Bianca's heart aches at the memories, but none of it makes a difference anymore. Both her father and that little corner store of her childhood are gone.

Bianca had been in her last year of college when it happened, right before the end of the semester. Pearl Harbor had sent shockwaves through the whole country, but it seemed only the people like her were dealing with the aftershocks. Friends looked at her with pity, with distrust, with suspicion. Most people side eyed her as if she was hiding something, as if she'd pounce on them at any second. Even professors wouldn't look her in the eye. It cut her to the quick, and she had prayed that this war would pass quickly.

Her naivety then made her laugh bitterly in remembrance, just a few months later. She still recalls the deep pit of dread that had opened up in her stomach when she'd read the order, posted on the walls of the lecture halls at Berkeley: "Instructions to all Persons of Japanese Ancestry..."

She had rushed to find a phone, dialed home and didn't breathe until she heard Bill's voice trickle through. Both she and Bill, as first generation Americans of a Japanese mother, were Nisei. But Bill was also a Kibei--a Nisei who had gotten a college education back in Japan before returning to America.

"I'm guessing you've seen the order?" He drawled through the phone.

"Yes, yes," her mind was still reeling, thoughts all out of order, "Can they really do this? Just-just move us somewhere else? Why?"

"Bebe, you know why. They think we're going to sabotage this war somehow. I'm pretty sure they think the Issei are going to pledge their undying loyalty to the Emperor and rampage or some shit," Bill sighs over the phone. He's the eldest, her big brother by a gap of four years.

"Does mom know?" Bianca chews her lip. Their mother was Issei, part of the class of Japan-born immigrants who had chosen to move to America. Some had gained citizenship, but some still held the status of resident alien.

"Yeah, she heard it from the Iriki sisters. She's figuring out what we can take right now. Listen," there's shuffling, and Bill must be taking the cord and hiding in the pantry, like he used to do when he was a teenager calling girls up late at night. Whenever she caught him, he would sneak her a cookie as a bribe to keep quiet. "I know things must be rough for you at Berkeley right now. But don't come home yet. Finish your degree first. You're too smart to drop everything at the last minute. They are letting you finish your exams, right?" Bianca hums in affirmation. "Good. Mom's worried about you, but I've been telling her you can take care of yourself. She's scared if you don't come back right now they'll keep us apart, but I've been talking with Toshi Mora and John Okada--you remember those guys?--and they say we should be kept together as long as I register us for evacuation. So please, take care of yourself. I'll let you know what happens as soon as I can."

"How can you be so calm about this? We're being asked to cooperate with the violation of our fundamental rights!" She was seething, hands gripping the receiver tight enough it creaked under her hand. On the other end, Bill sighed deeply, tinged with exhaustion. She could imagine him rubbing his thumb between his brows, same as he did when she would protest something as a young teenager, replying that there were things she just didn't understand yet.

"Bebe, I'm not okay with this anymore than you are. They're doing this because they believe we're disloyal because of our blood. If we don't go along with this, they'll just see it as a confirmation that we are disloyal to this country."

Bianca's heart had sunk in her chest, and then grown cold. Sometimes she's not sure it'll ever warm up again.

Standing in the middle of this shitty Officer's Club in Nebraska, eyes all around the room pretending not to eavesdrop on this exchange, she feels more tired than ever.

I'm an American. Maybe someday she'll actually be treated like one.

The lieutenant opens his mouth again, a leering smirk twisting his face. "You know what they say. A Jap's a Ja-"

He doesn't get to finish before Rory's fist connects with his face. She's half his height, but he stumbles back from the blow, hand coming up to touch his mouth, the blood welling up where her fist split his lip open.

"Don't talk to my copilot like that," is all she says, turning on her heel to walk over to the bar and order a drink.

She remembers how she had tried hard not to feel humiliated as she left her last exam with a suitcase in hand and made her way down to the buses. The diverse array of faces around her had made the whole thing seem surreal. Some were long and empty; some smiling while chatting with friends, eating the free food the Church had provided; some were bored or nodding off, as though their entire lives weren't being uprooted. But then, what was there to do about it?

She feels that same surrealness settle over her now. The band picks back up, filling in the shocked hush that had descended on the room, and just like that everyone turns away again. The lieutenant's friends come to lead him away, muttering about that rabid bitch.

There are some days where she regrets volunteering when the opportunity came around. Why fight for a country that can so easily strip citizens of the certain inalienable rights they're endowed with? It's hard not to feel helpless, and easy to feel alone. But then there are the days where someone steps up and shoulders part of the burden.

Bianca feels a little spark ignite, smoldering ash reawakening in the tundra of her heart. She follows Rory over to the bar, and takes a seat.

#i have. so so so much to say about her if im honest. her intro should be more like 100k long but. i think this is more digestible #feels like it got a bit textbooky in some parts there but oh well #bianca umezaki #mota fic #my fic

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todaysdocument · 2 years ago

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At the beginning of WWII, Naval Intelligence officers concluded that there were around 10,000 Japanese Americans who could pose a threat to the U.S.

Army General DeWitt used his authority to incarcerate 120,000.

U.S. v Korematsu, Exhibit Q, April 30, 1943.

Record Group 21: Records of District Courts of the United States

Series: Criminal Case Files

File Unit: United States v. Korematsu

Transcription:

Edward J. Ennis

Director

Exhibit Q

Department of Justice

Alien Enemy Control Unit

Washington

April 30, 1943

[stamp] DEPARTMENT OF [illegible]

SEP 1[illegible] 1951

DIVISION OF [illegible]

ATTORNEY GENERAL [end stamp]

MEMORANDUM FOR THE SOLICITOR GENERAL

RE: Japanese Brief

Last week with our draft of the [underlined] Hirabayeshi [end underlined] brief I transmitted to Mr. Raum somematerial which I thought he would find helpful in obtaining a background view of the context of this case. In particular, I sent him a copy of Harpers Magazine for October 1942, which contains an article entitled [underlined] The Japanese in America, The Problem and the Solution, [end underline] which is said to be by "An Intelligence Officer". without attempting to summarize this article, it stated among other things that:

1. The number of Japanese aliens and citizens who would act as saboteurs and enemy agents was less than 3,500 throughout the entire United States.

2. Of the Japanese aliens, "the large majority are at least passively loyal to the United States".

3. "The Americanization of Nisei (American-born Japanese) is far advanced."

4. With the exception of a few identified persons who were prominent in pro-Japanese organization the only important group of dangerous Japanese were the Kibei (American-born Japanese predominantly educated in Japan).

5. "The identity of Kibei can be readily ascertained from United States Government records."

6. "Had this war not come along at this time, in another ten or fifteen years there would have been no Japanese problem, for the Issei would have passed on, and the Nisei taken their place naturally in American communities and national life."

This article concludes: "To sum up: The 'Japanese Problem' has been magnified out of its true proportion largely because of the physical characteristics of the Japanese people. It should not be handled on the basis of the [underlined: individual], regardless of citizenship and [underlined: not] on a racial basis." (Emphasis in original.)

I thought this article interesting even though it was substantially anonymous. I now attach much more significance to it because a memorandum prepared by Lt. Con. X. D. Ringle, who has until very recently been Assis-

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tant District Intelligence Officer, 1th Naval District, in charge of naval intelligence in that district (which includes Los Angeles), and who was formerly Assistant District Intelligence Officer in Hawaii, has come to my attention. A comparison of this memorandum with the article leaves no doubt that the author of the Harpers article is Lt. Com. K. D. Ringle. There are many long passages in the first person relating to personal experiences which are identical in the two writings.

In addition I am informed entirely unofficially by the persons in the Office of Naval Intelligence that Lt. Com. Ringle in fact was lent to War Relocation Authority to prepare a manual on the background of the Japanese who were being evacuated from an Intelligence or security viewpoint, for the use of the WRA personnel. After this memorandum was prepared permission was obtained to abstract it and publish it anonymously in Harpers. Thus the Harpers article, which clearly indicates that the method of evacuation was wrong and that it would have been sufficient to evacuate not more than 10,000 know Japanese and that it would now be sage to release all but not more than 10,000 presently identified Japanese, was written by a Naval Intelligence officer who was on duty from 1940 until very recently in the Los Angeles area, from which approximately one-third of the evacuation came.

I have furthermore been most informally, but altogether reliably, advised that both the article and the WRA memorandum prepared by Lt. Com. Ringle represent the views, if not of the Navy, at least of those Naval Intelligence officers in charge of Japanese counter-intelligence work. It has been suggested to me quite clearly that it is the view of these officers that the whole evacuation scheme was carried out badly and that it would have been sufficient to evacuate the following three groups:

1. The Kibei.

2. The parents of Kibei.

3. A known group of aliens and citizens who were active members of pro-Japanese societies such as the Japanese Navy League, the Military Virtue Society, etc.

Since the naval officers believe that it was necessary to evacuate only about 10,000 people they could have identified by name, they did not feel that it was necessary to evacuate all of the Japanese. Presumably, they did not make this view known fourteen months ago for the reasons that Secretary Knox was at that time greatly exercised about the Japanese Fifth Column and that, since it was the Army's problem, it was safer to keep quiet than to brave the political storm then raging.

In retrospect it appears that this Department made a mistake fourteen months ago in not bringing the Office of Naval Intelligence into the

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controversy. I suppose that the reason that it did not occur to any of us to do this was the extreme position then taken by the Secretary of the Navy.

To have done so would have been wholly reasonable, since by the terms of the so-called delimitation agreement it was agreed that Naval Intelligence should specialize on the Japanese, while Army Intelligence occupied other fields. I have not seen the document, but I have repeatedly been told that Army, before the war, agreed in writing to permit the Navy to conduct its Japanese intelligence work for it. I think it follows, therefore, that to a very considerable extent the Army, in acting upon the opinion of Intelligence officers, is bound by the opinion of the Naval officers in Japanese matters. Thus, had we known that the Navy thought that 90% of the evacuation was unnecessary, we could strongly have urged upon Gen. DeWitt that he could not base a military judgment to the contrary upon Intelligence reports, as he now claims to do.

Lt. Com. Ringle's full memorandum is somewhat more complete than the version published in Harpers and I think you will be interested in reading it. In the past year I have looked at great numbers of reports, memoranda, and articles on the Japanese, and it is my opinion that this is the most reasonable and objective discussion of the security problem presented by the presence of the Japanese minority. In view of the inherent reasonableness of this memorandum and in view of the fact that we now know that it represents the view of the Intelligence agency having the most direct responsibility for investigating the Japanese from the security viewpoint, I feel that we should be extremely careful in taking any position on the facts more hostile to the Japanese than the position of Lt. Com. Ringle. I attach the Department's only copy of this memorandum.

Furthermore, in view of the fact that the Department of Justice is now representing the Army in the Supreme Court of the United States and is arguing that a partial, selective evacuation was impracticable, we must consider most carefully what our obligation to the Court is in view of the fact that the responsible Intelligence agency regarded a selective evacuation as not only sufficient but preferable. It is my opinion that certainly one of the most difficult questions in the whole case is raised by the fact that the Army did not evacuate people after any hearing or on any individual determination of dangerousness, but evacuated the entire racial group. The briefs filed by appellants in the Ninth Circuit particularly pressed the point that no individual consideration was given, and I regard it as certain that this point will be stressed even more, assuming that competent counsel represent appellants, in the Supreme Court. Thus, in one of the crucial points of the case the Government is forced to argue that individual, selective evacuation would have been impractical and insufficient when we have positive knowledge that the only Intelligence agency responsible for advising Gen. DeWitt gave him advice directly to the contrary.

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In view of this fact, I think we should consider very carefully whether we do not have a duty to advise the Court of the existence of the Ringle memorandum and of the fact that this represents the view of the Office of Naval Intelligence. It occurs to me that any other course of conduct might approximate the suppression of evidence.

As I have said, my information that the Ringle memorandum represents the view of the Office of Naval Intelligence has come to me informally. I feel, therefore, that we have an obligation to verify my informal information. I believer that we should address an inquiry to the Secretary of the Navy, making reference to the Ringle memorandum, and stating that we have been advised that this represents the Navy's view and asking the Secretary if in fact the views of ONI, at the time of the evacuation, coincided with Com. Ringle's.

The Ringle memorandum originally came into my possession from WRA and we noticed the parallel between the memorandum and the article in this office. Attorneys for WRA furthermore are among the persons who have advised us that the Ringle memorandum represents the official Navy view. In view of the fact that any other information which I have obtained is highly confidential, I would prefer to refer in a letter to Secretary Knox only to WRA.

I have prepared for your consideration a draft of a letter which you might wish to send to Mr. Knox.

Edward J. Ennis

Director, Alien Enemy Control Unit

Attachment

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benoitblanc · 6 months ago

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hey arwen, long time no see!! hope you're doing well! 💜

i know nothing about txf besides what i've gleaned from this hellsite which is a) mulder is a lovable idiot, b) scully both loves him (almost against her will??), and c) they literally invented shipping BUT tell me about your top 5 txf episodes!!!

hi mitali i have been EXTREMELY patchy on here lately haven't i lol. local woman appears on tumblr to write ten meta posts about the x files and then disappears again! i'm doing okay; my real life has been kind of chaotic (had to last-minute cancel a trip i have been desperate to go on for years so :/ but! on the bright side it means i get to see my flatmates sooner than i thought and i miss them even though i've been gone from my flat for like a week and a half lol). how have you been???

those are very accurate txf vibes but i will say that scully is a very active and willing participant in being in love with mulder even though he can be very very stupid at times lol. i hope you watch it someday- i think it would be right up your alley! kind of similar doctor who ecological niche of being weird, heartfelt, politically relevant sci-fi with no consistent quality or tone.

ANYWAY. top 5 txf episodes, bearing in mind that i've technically only watched up until the end of the fourth season so far; i'm just a ho for spoilers:

pusher (3.17)... what can i say about pusher that i haven't said already. a lot, probably, because every single day i log on here and i see someone's written new meta about pusher that makes the entire show make more sense. it's just... it's txf distilled to its barest elements. it's about trust and codependency and a supernatural force that is made all the more unsettling by the fact that at its core it is just some guy. it's funny and terrifying and heartfelt all at once. the russian roulette scene changed television

clyde bruckman's final repose (3.04) is also just so txf. darin morgan (the writer) tended to write episodes that were so absurdist they wrapped back around to satirical, but this is far and away my favorite of his because it's not too bonkers. i love coprophages and from outer space especially, but clyde bruckman is a little more grounded, and it manages to be sarcastic and sincere in equal measure. and i love when scully gets to solve the mystery

irresistible (2.13), which is famous for being pretty much the only txf episode where there isn't actually an x-file. and it's SO fucked up. it is hands-down the most fucked up episode of the entire sh- well. besides the episode that they banned from reruns for like a decade for being so fucked up, it's hands-down the most fucked up episode of the entire show

beyond the sea (1.13) and paper hearts (4.10) are thematic sisters so i'm keeping them together. they're both about choosing to move past grief instead of wallowing in it and choosing the future over the past. so what if a criminal says they can give you the answers you've spent your whole life chasing? what matters is that you're at your partner's hospital bedside when he wakes up from an injury, or that you save a little girl's life

right now? probably ice (1.08), because i just rewatched it with my flatmate (who is going through s1 for the first time and is almost as obsessed as i am). it's like if midnight doctor who and the thing had a baby. normally i think this slot would go to duane barry/ascension/one breath (2.05/2.06/2.08) or nisei/731 (3.09/3.10), which are the tightest, tensest episodes relating to the show's overarching mythology

honorable mention goes to elegy (4.22) because the a-plot is a very 90s depiction of neurodivergence and it's not the best-handled thing i've ever seen, but the character showcase of scully in the b-plot gave me fucking brain worms. i cannot stop thinking about it. it's haunting.

also, memento mori (4.14). vince gilligan and gillian anderson you're splitting my therapy bill

ask my top 5/10 anything!!!

#THAT WAS A RAMBLE AND A HALF #anyway as i move forward i think redux ii monday triangle and probably bad blood will be battling it out for some of these slots #but i'm not officially there yet!#thanks so much for asking!!!#answered #*mutuals #*mitali #the x files

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deathsbestgirl · 11 months ago

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favorite episodes

categorized & in chronological order — with repeats (under the cut because it's long)

season one

pilot

squeeze/tooms

conduit

the jersey devil

ice

fallen angel

eve

fire

beyond the sea

lazarus

e.b.e.

miracle man

erlenmeyer flask

season two

little green men/the host

sleepless/duane barry/ascension/3/one breath

firewalker

red museum

excelsis dei

irresistible

fresh bones

colony/end game

humbug

our town

anasazi

season three

the blessing way

clyde bruckman's final repose

oubilette

nisei/731

revelations

war of the coprophages/syzygy

grotesque

piper maru/apocrypha

pusher

avatar

quagmire

wetwired

talitha cumi

season four

herronvolk

home

unruhe

the field where i died

tunguska/terma

paper hearts

never again/leonard betts/memento mori

tempus fugit/max

small potatoes

zero sum

elegy

demons

gethsemane

season five

reduxes

detour

christmas carol/emily

kitsunegari

chinga

kill switch

bad blood

patient x/the red and the black

mind's eye

all souls

pine bluff variant

folie a deux

the end

x files: fight they future

season six

the beginning

drive

triangle/dreamlands/how the ghosts stole christmas

the rain king

s.r. 819

tithonus

two fathers/one son

agua mala/monday/arcadia

milagro

the unnatural

three of a kind

field trip

biogenesis

season seven

sixth extinction/amor fati

millennium

rush

the goldberg variation

orison

sein und zeit/closure

x cops

theef

en ami/chimera/all things

hollywood a.d.

fight club

je souhaite

requiem

season eight

within/without

patience

roadrunners

via negativa

the gift

medusa

per manum

this is not happening/deadalive

alone

essence/existence

season nine

trust no1

hellbound

provenance/providence

improbable

scary monsters

jump the shark

william

release

sunshine days

the truth (part 1&2)

x files: i want to believe

season ten

my struggle

home again

mulder and scully meet the weremonster

my struggle ii

season eleven

my struggle iii

this

plus one

the lost art of forehead sweat

ghouli

kitten

Rm9sbG93ZXJz

familiar

my struggle iv

mytharc

pilot

e.b.e.

little green men

colony/end game

anasazi/the blessing way/paperclip

tunguska/terma

tempus fugit/max

gethsemane/reduxes

the end/the beginning

patient x/the red and the black

two fathers/one son

within/without

this is not happening/deadalive

monster of the week

the jersey devil

clyde bruckman's final repose

home

kill switch

three of a kind

x cops

roadrunners

medusa

improbable

mulder and scully meet the weremonster

the lost art of forehead sweat

scully

beyond the sea

lazarus

irresistible/orison

revelations

wetwired

never again

christmas carol/emily

chinga

all souls

tithonus

milagro

en ami

all things

mulder

conduit

fire

oubilette

pusher/kitsinegari

paper hearts

demons

drive

sein und zeit/closure

mind's eye

the gift

per manum

the truth

mulder and scully

squeeze/tooms

war of the coprophages/syzygy

quagmire

detour

bad blood

how the ghosts stole christmas

the unnatural

field trip

hollywood a.d.

fight club

je souhaite

plus one

Rm9sbG93ZXJz

#the x files

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mysticdragon3art · 4 months ago

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Miku at Tanabata LA 2024's first of 2 weekends.

8.10.2024. Did some lighting adjustments thru my phone.

Los Angeles Tanabata 2024, in conjunction with Nisei Week 2024. Little Tokyo, Los Angeles.

Nendoroid Hatsune Miku natsutsubaki version.

#figure photography #nendoroid #nendography #hatsune miku #vocaloid #Tanabata #TanabataLA #little tokyo #los angeles

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nidailylife · 3 months ago

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8/18/2024. ikayaki from #Shinsengumi 🎋 #TanabataLA #Nendoroid #figurephotography #nendography #HatsuneMiku #Tanabata2024 #NiseiWeek #GoLittleTokyo #LittleTokyo

#nisei week #nisei week 2024 #tanabata 2024 #TanabataLA #Tanabata #little tokyo #los angeles #GoLittleTokyo #hatsune miku #vocaloid #Nendoroid #nendography #figure photography #ikayaki #shinsengumi hakata ramen

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noodlewaifu · 3 months ago

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Not to mention, I'm currently following a watch schedule in my head for the anime to ensure I can get caught up to Perfect Origin and Ultimate Muscle/Nisei-

Days that I work: 3 episodes per day

Off days: At least 4-6, depending if I'm busy/feeling well

By the end of the week, I should be a quarter way done (praying that I am).

Plus someone on here made it aware about the Ramenman spin-off anime, and jokes on you I already started watching that shit, on God.

#plus the ramenman in the spinoff is supposed to be his ancestor and isn't the same #he's still hot though #call me lovestruck because this anime got me all IN #y'all thought i wouldn't be slick?

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mysticdragon3md3 · 4 months ago

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🦁💙💙💙💙💔💸💸💸💸💸

see journal 4:51 PM 8/4/2024

excerpts about figure collecting:

Another wrench in my plans is the recent announcement of Good Smile Company's 1/7 scale figure of Dimitri Alexandre Blaiddyd. This is the first post-timeskip figure of Dimitri or Claude---the 2 characters that I have been dying to have more figures for, particularly in their post-timeskip versions. The only way to help give Claude chances of getting a post-timeskip figure, the only way to help give any FE3H characters chances of getting Nendoroids, would be to preorder this 1/7 scale Dimitri. Here's the problem: I AM NOT A SCALE FIGURE COLLECTOR. $200+ ON ONE FIGURE IS NOT SOMETHING I'M ACCUSTOMED TO DOING! Even now, I'm still unsure if I should preorder him or not. He's my second-favorite character. How can I justify spending OVER $200 on my SECOND-favorite character? Shouldn't that be a splurge reserved only for my ABSOLUTE favorite character??? But it's also possible that this 1/7 scale Dimitri may end up the ONLY post-timeskip figure for FE3H ever---and it's of one of my 2 favorite characters. If this ends up my only chance for a post-timeskip figure of either Claude or Dimitri...Then I need to get it. If this ends up a chance to increase Claude's chances of getting post-timeskip figures or of both Dimitri and Claude possibly getting post-timeskip Nendoroids...Then I need to get it. BUT $200 IS A LOT OF MONEY!

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How can I justify the cost of ONE $200 figure---when I'd be just as happy with a $40 Pop Up Parade or any $25 prize figure, of post-timeskip Dimitri---when that same amount of money could get me SIX Nendoroids! (For example, during Good Smile Company's 2024 Memorial Day sale, I bought a WHOLE SIX NENDOROIDS for around $200.) Mind you, I love Nendoroids more than scale figures. I do not like static figures. I prefer articulation.

Yes, I can afford this $200 Dimitri scale, but I think it would mean I'd have to give up on several other things I was thinking of spending on---including attending Tanabata. I wanted to recreate my experience shopping, wandering, and enjoying my family's Japan trip, by going to Little Tokyo. I wanted to do this to maintain the progress that our Japan trip gave me against my agoraphobia. But maybe I can't afford it, if I get this $200 Dimitri. Whenever I attend Nisei Week or Tanabata, I buy matcha ice cream, Takoyaki, okonomiyaki, sata andagi, and I wanted to try some other snacks this year too. And then I spend lots at Kinokuniya and Anime Jungle. Rumiko Takahashi released a new artbook, a few months ago, for the first time in forever. I didn't even bother looking for it in Japan, because I thought I'll just buy it in Los Angeles's Kinokuniya, like I always do with artbooks. But I expect it to be at least $60, and maybe that's something I shouldn't spend on, if I want to afford 1/7 scale Dimitri.

The big problem is that WE DON'T KNOW if there will ever be any alternative figures that also depict post-timeskip Dimitri (or Claude). This could be the one and ONLY. I don't want to buy a static scale figure. I think they're a waste of money. Very good quality, but I'm just as satisfied with Pop Up Parades, prize figures, and I'm even more happy about Nendoroids. I DON'T WANT TO SPEND $200 ON A STATIC SCALE…But it's post-timeskip Dimitri and we don't know if this is our only chance for a post-timeskip Dimitri (or Claude). I'm very conflicted about this, and in much turmoil. I'm just glad I have until near the end of October to decide on a preorder.

Also reiterating this venting from 8/3/2024:

If I get 1/7 scale Dimitri, I might have to give up on Pop Up Parade L sized Arsene. I’ve been wanting an Arsene figure for so long, but if they’re only offering L size, and it ends up expensive, like the XL sized PopUpParade Falin, I’ll have to regard it as inaccessible as any Arsene scale figure. PopUpParade was supposed to be affordable dammit! Why can’t we have normal sized Arsene?! I just wanted a normal sized Pop Up Parade Arsene, under $40. ;o;

#wallet dying #processing thoughts #figure collecting #fe3hfuukasetsugetsu #dimamityaAB #favorite characters #tanabata #nisei week #mental health #venting

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lboogie1906 · 4 months ago

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Daisy Tibbs Dawson (July 27, 1924 - May 26, 2013) She was born in Toney, Alabama to Calvin and Martha Tibbs. Her parents died, leaving her and her two siblings in the care of their uncle, Robert Tibbs, and his wife, Mary Leslie. She took classes from a diverse cohort of faculty that included both Black and white teachers and a Japanese music instructor who was interned by authorities after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

As a student at the University of Washington, she met Akiko Kurose, a Japanese American student who would become a famed educator. She met Floyd Schmoe, a forest and marine ecology professor and a popular Quaker who was committed to social justice. She became involved in repairing Nisei homes on the weekends after the government ordered the evacuation of the Japanese from King County.

She graduated from the University of Washington, she took a teaching position at Harbison Junior College. Schmoe contacted her about joining a small interracial and interdenominational group to help build houses in Hiroshima. She volunteered at the Hiroshima Memorial Hospital preparing food. She worked six hours a day, five days a week building new homes. She had assisted in building four houses.

She married Leonard Dawson (1950) and raised a family. She volunteered with the Head Start program and was hired as an assistant teacher at Colman Elementary School. She was promoted to Head Teacher. She served as a Supervisory Teacher, Volunteer Coordinator, and Education Specialist. She became the third African American woman hired as the Program Director of the Seattle Public Schools Head Start Program.

She served as President of the Washington State Head Start Directors’ Association and was appointed to the Washington State Committee for Early Childhood Education for Children. She served as President of the A & S League of the Principals’ Association of Seattle’s Public Schools. She was a lifelong member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority and the Madrona Grace Presbyterian Church.

She was recognized and forever memorialized in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence #deltasigmatheta

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