#club book

[wanologic]

sorry danny, sam will never think you’re cool

[soliusss]

Funniest thing I’ve seen on tiktok are those sigma male boys getting mad that American psycho was written by a gay man and going “well I like fight club better” buddy I’ve got some world ending devastating news for you

[communistkenobi]

I know this isn’t a novel observation but I’ve been reading a lot of articles about colonial and imperial policy (specifically demography history papers) & one pattern that keeps coming up is that colonial/imperial governments try to institute what can reasonably be described as “good” social policies in colonised places (like vaccine programs, funding for schools, etc, things that are associated with the smooth functioning of a state), and these are often rejected by local colonised governments and people because like obviously they don’t trust colonial/imperial administrators wanting to become involved with their healthcare or education. And what often ends up happening is this backlash against “progressive” policies because they’re being pushed by colonial governments, so you get shit like the Catholic Church running all the primary schools in Ireland because they refuse to open British-funded state schools, or people refusing to immunize their children because those “public goods” are (rationally & understandably) associated with things like US imperial population management programs. And then these colonial & imperial administrators turn around and say look! These people won’t even accept money for schools and vaccines! Look how backwards they are! And paint colonised populations as Great Rejectors of Democracy which western populations then readily eat up. Just a really horrendous feedback loop of misery that generates a lot of ‘secondary’ death and violence on top direct colonial oppression and plunder

[maxgicalgirl]

Being a “Fun Fact !” kind of autistic is all fun and games until you get halfway through sharing an interesting tidbit and realize that it probably wasn’t appropriate to share in polite company and now you have to deal with the consequences :(

[catbrarian]

cats and libraries ۫ ꣑ৎ

[talesofwilsper]

One of my fave things to browse through during at my free time

Hidehiko “Brown” Uesugi pages from the Megami Ibunroku Persona club book (1997)

Next: Eriko Kirishima

Last: Yuka Ayase

Notes and certain translation explanations under read more -

Brown’s scribbles in case they are be hard to read:

I can’t just let you have a copy of all my secret data!

Birthday - Japan’s New Year. It’s 1/1, of course!

Sign - Asakusa France Club. My sign’s pretty old, no?

Blood Type - 4A-G. Seems like I have a car engine in me! Nah, the truth is I’m type-O.

Favorite Food - Hay. Though, I guess I also like hamburgers and curry.

Favorite Color - Brown, duh…

Fashion of Choice - I always look good no matter what I wear, unlike Mark.

Subscription - I read Bombom just to make fun of it! I swear!

Family Members - An ultra mom, dad, and king (me)

Hobby/Special Skill - Persona Wonderful Bomber

Personal Accessory - I feel I should trade the goggles out for something else soon. Though, I still love showing off my boots.

What do you do in your spare time? - I strive for world peace!

Wild how these boots neglected the tide of the times! They’ve withheld 62,000 kilometers!

I have such beautiful legs! Like that of a woman!! But that should be obvious, hmm? Hahaha!

Gotta wear a watch to make sure I don’t miss my date with a cutie!

Nothing beats my amazing style! Or should I say my good looks!!

Head: Well, I can’t lose to Mark. Bahahaha!!

Hair: You know my hair’s actually a wig, right? I gotta replace it with a new one every day. Maybe I’ll get a mohawk next.

Eyes: 200

Heart: Very healthy! Loving

Skin: My skin is so so so so so soft because I take great care of it every day! Why not give it a feel?

Body: Special Excellent Super Ultra Nice Body - Looks like I’m impossible to measure!! (Forgot to write this last part in; oops )

Height: 57 Meters

Weight: 550 Tons

Bust-Waist-Hip Measurements: 99.9/55.5/88.8 It seems I’m Fujiko Mine. Sorry… that was a lie.

Intellect: [Quick] <- crossed out

Underwear: Ah, so tight, I’m bulging out of this bikini bottom!! I’m a Calvin Klein kind of guy, could you tell? Pretty sexy, right?

Fujiko: Lupin <3

Foot Size: Jurokumon kick!!

Sock Color: Of course, they’re brown.

If it’s not brown, it doesn’t matter to the marvelous me

Super hero / Great Dangerous Cool Guy Brown-sama !!!

Star Sign Meaning: An old performing arts theater in the special wards of Tokyo. It’s mostly known for being a theater for various performances (mostly comedy) with the history of having originally been a strip theater. Brown here is making a pun in the original Japanese as the Japanese name for the theater is “浅草フランス座” which directly translated is “浅草 Asakusa (the location of the theater) フランス France (the name of the original strip club that was here; france is used a lot in various places in the world to symbolize sexuality and/or promiscuity e.g. french kissing) 座 Place”. The character 座 can mean both place or an ender for star constellations; like 天秤座 (libra). Brown is using the Toyokan theater specifically for this joke because it ends with 座 like star constellations do, while also alluding to something with a sexual comedic history.

Reading of Choice: monthly Japanese manga magazine targeted at elementary-school aged boys. Each issue was around 700+ pages. Was discontinued in 2007.

Hobby/Special Skill: a reference to “Super Ultra Great Delicious Wonderful Bomber”. A move by the character Rocky Hada from the 80’s manga The Burning Wild Man.

Foot Size: 16キック 16文キック（じゅうろくもんキック) The 16-sentence kick (Jurokumon kick) is a type of professional wrestling technique and is classified as a kicking technique. Famously used by Giant Baba. This is a joke playing with a wrestling name that involves a unit of measurement and the use of feet.

Above Name/General: Brown is writing these long titles to make him seem like a Shonen-hero, as in Japanese they often have very long exaggerated names.

[Page 2]

Koitsu/コイツ - a phrase Brown shouts in the Japanese version of the game which translated roughly to “Hey, you!” in a bit of a more vulgar, rough way.

[Page 7]

US Brad: I think Satomi is annoyed because Brown’s name is already in English and they could still use the same story with the Japanese “name” but they didn’t keep it.

[vampbloodx]

What Is Goth?

-Aurelio Voltaire, 2004

[marlsswrites]

Regulus: Effie said she’s on her way.

James: How do you know?

Regulus: She… texted me?

James: Why would she text you? I’m her son?

Regulus: Yeah well I’m clearly her favourite.

James: How-

Regulus: Look *whips out phone* she has TWO hearts next to my name.

James: WHAT?

Regulus: See.

James: I only have ONE??

Regulus patting James on the back: Shhh, it’ll be okay.

[wilsonmybeloved]

heard we were fiddlestanning

you know the drill..

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[simplyjustagirlsblog]

[51llything]

what am i doing

and a few doodles but tumblr gave me attachment limits!! hooray!! (the posts' images will be scrambled if i added more than 5 images. why.) ↓↓

please ignore the tags..

[wlwvampirism]

The desire to join a book club and make new friends and be social vs. Wanting to read what I want, when I want, at the pace that I want, without the pressure of deadlines

[melodysbookhaven]

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[communistkenobi]

reading blackshirts and reds. 1) having a great time 2) I remember Toscano in Late Fascism gives a bunch of definitions of fascism and one of them was that fascism is bourgeois class consciousness. applying that label to fascism seems to be pretty productive while reading Parenti

[hatepotion]

father's day gift from matthew or something