#and my struggles with japanese

[itagakimizuki]

9 BORDER 9ボーダー (2024) 1.01

[figureskatingpenguin]

Marin Honda (JPN): Faded | 2023 Japanese Nationals

marin on her last nationals:

"when i touched the ice surface, i was very thankful. since the warm-up, i saw many banners and realized how many people supported me. this gave me the strength to make it to the end.

i started skating when i was two years old, and i've made many experiences both in practice and competitions. the public practice was very hard, and i thought about changing the triple combination to a double. i'm very satisfied with my performance."

although marin was injured, she decided to not withdraw and give her last nationals (and likely her last competition) her very best. to the 2016 junior world champion and perpetual champion of hearts, thank you for everything!

[demonslayedher]

I finished posting the unabashedly educational Sword Fic.

It includes a detailed (but hopefully beginner-friendly) explanation of all the steps of making a Nichirin blade from a sunny mountain like Mt. Youkou, a touch of swordsmith and metalworker folk lore (including demons), meta about what must make Kimetsu no Yaiba's swordsmithing methods different from real life methods, some character exploration for Haganezuka and his polishing method, vocabulary and additional resources in the chapter notes, and hopefully, an endearing, silly POV character to learn this all through.

[saltysoulbean]

I NEED more, I’m so ready to forfeit my first born child to whoever makes more

[griancraft]

I'm struggling to word this but I'm finally ready to talk about it and I want people to listen.

I've noticed a type of racism in leftist communities I don't see talked about a lot. I am Quarter Japanese and I am visibly mixed, but a lot of leftists see "quarter" and assume that I don't have the right to an opinion on issues that effect me. The sentiment I've gotten from mostly white leftists is that I'm not "POC enough" for a lot of discussions.

There's this weird thing in a lot of leftist spaces where your appearance and percentage, not your experiences based on your race, are considered above all.

Meanwhile, in reality, all aspects of my identity are affected by my race and my family's experience with Japanese internment. An event which stripped them of any wealth they had acquired since moving to Canada over 50 years before the war.

An event that cause the intermarriage rate of Japanese-canadians and white Canadians to be over 90 percent post internment because we viewed proximity to whiteness as safety. An event which left them in severe poverty until my dad and aunt worked their asses off to get a degree. The generational trauma goes so deep my dad didn't want me transitioning because he was worried about what the government would do to me.

Because of my race I experienced negligence from authority figures related to pretty severe racially based bullying at 12. That negligence could have killed me. I've had to deal with microaggressions and straight up racism related to my last name on multiple occasions.

One time I was out with a friend and he grabbed my arm tight and dragged me to walk faster. A man wearing a white lives matter T-shirt was standing in the middle of the path looking directly at me when I turned around.

I'm pretty sure this wasn't based on me being feminine and goth that day, I live in a city with a decent amount of people in alt subculture and my friend was way more gothed up and queer than me. I was barely passing as a guy at that point so it wasn't because I was a man in a dress. I know this is a weaker point, but it made me realize just how unsafe I am in my own community even though I'm a mixed person in a heavily multicultural city.

Obviously, this isn't on the scale of someone who is less white passing than me and/or has more compounding marginalizations. However I've found that the fact I'm mixed race has been used against me to devalue my experience and knowledge regarding what it's like to be a POC in Canada.

I can assure you I am aware of how bad it is, and I am aware of how good I have it. I also want you to be aware that it's not all sunshine rainbows and bunny farts to be more white, it doesn't make the racism go away. It often just makes it more covert and easy to explain away because I'm "not really Japanese"

[yammoba]

And i still havent forgotten about the (not very many but still some) people who expressed their inturpritation of Togata from Firepunch being a transwoman...

one of the few extreamly explicitly im not sure how it could have been any more explicit really for real canonically transman characters.

Where the justification for it hinged on other character's inturpritation of Togata being reframed to be transphobic.... the very thing that apparently makes other transmasc headcannons bad some how....

[markbandanawitts]

Main 5 Pekoponian Character Intros in the 11.5 Guidebook

Crappily scanned and crappily translated ❤️

I mixed Koyuki and 623’s pages into one considering they were originally on different pages. The guidebook itself has volume summaries and such but this is just how they're introduced

the 11.5 guidebook in general is an info book that summarizes/recaps and adds some general information. it came out after the 11th volume, hence the name, in 2005

I got the translations as accurate as possible I hope, but if theres any issues or if someones even scanned these things before thatd be great to know before i inevitably end up selling my soul to do more

fuyuki and natsumi have 4 pages each, momoka has 2, and 623 and koyuki have those info boxes. mois and aki also have 2 pages each but i need to let my motivation brew a little more before dealing with it

[yazzydream]

[bl-bam-beyond]

MISEINEN: MIJUKUNA ORETACHI WA BUKIYO NI SHINKOCHU (2024, JAPAN)

Episode 9

A Time Jump

Minase Jin (MOTOJIMA JUNSEI) seems to be struggling since his separation from high school love Hirukawa Haruki (KAMIMURA KENSHIN) not realizing how close he is to his former lover.

While looking for something misplaced, Minase is drawn to a shadowy figure walking toward him. To his surprise it's Hirukawa.

Hirukawa walks by Minase at first...however he can't not talk to his sweet love Minase. Are their feelings still the same?

@pose4photoml @just-another-boyslove-blog

[puppetgearing]

wanderer isn't crazy about history, but he does reminiscent about it a lot.

he's not of or in inazuma anymore but it's still a big part of who he is, a part of him that as much as he wants to let go, he can't because it's already deeply intergrated into him ever since he was born.

being back in inazuma would bring him nothing but painful memories back (really guilty as i mained him and a lot of my commissions are in inazuma) but he can't help but enjoys the beauty of the nation and the way the cherry blossom blows along with the wind.

it's not that he hates inazuma as a whole but he does have complex feelings when the topic is brought up-- its very evident even in the outfit he wears he still somewhat hold inazuma close to his heart, even if he's not physically or considered himself belongs there anymore.

"I am not there anymore, but it is still an essential part of me"

oh on a topic of this-- ever since i read about his character story where he tried to recreated the doll and is now carrying it along with him in his sleeve, i just have this very big headcanon about him being good at arts and craft-- specifically creating dolls or small little trinkets, something that he shares with ei-- caring for the smallest details, making sure all and everything is as perfect as how his mind wanted it to be.

at first i think, when he was still in the fatui, its something he refrained himself of doing-- seemingly way too troubled by his past that doing any and all things reminded him of his estranged creator would bring him immense emotional pain-- however, now that he has gotten a new life, he begins to make that talent of his in his own way-- making it his own, his own way of crafting, his own technique, his own process-- all differs from her's because he refused to abandoned something he enjoyed just because of his past...

"I do not attach myself to it, but i do find fondness in doing it"

[fallloverfic]

Laughing so much we got a preview for the anime adaptation of one of my favorite scenes in the novel and manhwa. (New PV for Season 2 is up!) Choi Jongin just entirely ignored alkdjalj

[yellow-yarrow]

nothing is more humbling than doing english speech to text and the software writes "sink" when I say "think". okay you got me my pronunciation is bad. me no speaking english very good

[localgardenweed]

Also forgot to share this beauty i drew a few days ago

[cute-girls-from-vns-anime-manga]

That Ado and Imagine Dragon's collab song is much better than I thought it would be...

Though because the song is called "take me to the beach" and they repeat that line over and over I cant help but flash back to seeing Ado live back in March where she adorably tripped over pronouncing Santa Monica beach three times in a row!

AND NOW I CANT WAIT TILL JULY AND I GET TO SEE HER LIVE AGAIN!

[wildflowercryptid]

thinking about kieran again... particularly about how i feel like he struggles with a weak sense of self and how him identifying so heavily with ogrepon, (or at least the version of ogrepon he originally knew,) probably helped him stabilize how he saw himself, only to have something he considered so core to his identity essentially ripped away from him. not only that, it was by someone he seemingly wanted to trust and open up to, (which i doubt he does very often.)

i definitely think that the way he's handling things is far from healthy, but i can get why he'd have such an intense reaction to losing something that was so important to him and basically being betrayed by someone he wanted to consider a friend.

[beeftendergroin]

I forgive you Mother I can hear you, and I long to be near you But every road leads to an end Your apparition passes through me, in the willows and five red hens You'll never see us again

-Death with Dignity// Sufjan Stevens