#get湯

[moonlight-at-dawn]

"When we get back, do you want to take a bath together?"

"You can get in the bath with just hot water"

[daily-dragon-drawing]

so excited to see this blog!! Maybe a soup dragon?

#3 -湯王 (soup king)- This silly guy is always happy to make soup for you! He might get too excited and burn it a little...don't be too mad... 🍲🥄💕

[danieyells]

UPCOMING CARDS

Tarot Kaito and Onsen Jin! (because Jin doesn't have enough cards!)

Character Card: The Fool(「愚者の誘惑」  "The Allure Of The Fool")

Skill: Bow Wielder(「弓の使い手」  "Bow Wielder")

Fully Awakened Skill: Noisy Ghoul(「騒がしいグール」  "Noisy Ghoul")

Warding Card: Friendly Lost Property (「身近な銀河の落とし物」  "Lost Property In A Galaxy Near You")

Feet for free! Unless you want the card then All Of Your Diamonds.

Character Card: Regal Sunset(「夕風は王の頬を撫で」  "The Evening Breeze Strokes The King's Cheek")

Skill: Private Resort(「貸切旅行」  "Reserved Trip")

Fully Awakened Skill: Million-Dollar Profile(「高貴な横顔」  "Noble Profile")

Warding Card: Waiting For Someone(「湯冷めしないように」  "To Keep The Water From Getting Cold"? May be 'to keep from getting chilly after the bath' but based on that they appear to be waiting for Tohma that doesn't make sense.)

Where is Tohma? We'll have to wait until we get the onsen Tohma to find out. . . .

Cosmic Bonds

Chosen Paths (「選んだ道の先に」 "At The End Of Chosen Paths")

The Carrot And The Stick (「躾とご褒美」 "Discipline And Reward")

Silent Strife (「静かな闘争」 "Quiet Battle")

You know the drill here

Units rerun! Gacha is gambling! Please don't spend your money recklessly if you don't get the unit you want! It will be back and you can try again!

I have no way of knowing which cards will be in which cosmic bond until they release

My Japanese is mid and my translations should be taken with a grain of salt

I feel like I'm forgetting something but I made the first two points into one point so I'm probably just confused

Good luck with your pulls everyone!!!

By the way would you want me to include the stats for the cards too? :|a

[yyh4ever]

Yu Yu Hakusho x Jalan CM

"I didn't see a hot spring for nothing!"

湯♨️湯♨️白書 (Yu Yu Hakusho) is a pun with the title! The kanji "湯"can also be read as "Yu" and it means "hot bath/spring", different from the kanji "Yuu" (幽, ghost) and "Yuu" (遊, play) of the original title 幽☆遊☆白書 (Yuu Yuu Hakusho). It seems Elder Toguro shapeshifted into that bucket where the cat is relaxing.

Jalan.net, a travel reservation site operated by Recruit, released a new web commercial with Yu Yu Hakusho. Many characters from "Yu Yu Hakusho" experience the limited time sale "Jalan Special Week", which is offering discounts and coupons for accommodations.

The content was exclusively drawn and recorded for this WebCM. The story, narrated by Nozomu Sasaki like a Next Episode Preview, depicts Yusuke Urameshi and his friends, exhausted from the fierce battles of the Dark Tournament, taking advantage of limited-time sales and enjoying luxurious inns and hot springs.

Yusuke is having fun with Puu...

...and taking Keiko out for dinner.

Daddy Youko is killing it!

It seems hot water changes Youko back into Shuuichi! And, we finally get to see some Kurama skin!

Hiei is also enjoying a good hot spring, boiling an Onsen Tamago with his black flames...

...and watching over Yukina.

Kuwabara is too cute! I don't think this cat is Eikichi, maybe it belongs to the onsen.

OMG, Elder Toguro is almost naked!!!

Additionally, to commemorate this collab, a campaign will be held on Jalan's official X account, where you can win special hand towels. The period is from January 31 until February 8, 2024. All you'll need to do is follow their account and repost the target campaign post.

This art is so beautiful, we need a remake of the anime!

[noticiasarquelogicasjaponesas]

Sean bienvenidos a una publicación un tanto especial, ya que os vengo a hablar de un lugar especial, además voy a aprovechar para hacer el especial 2450 seguidores y creo que este lugar merece ser conocido por más gente, además de aclarar dudas dicho esto empecemos. - Seguramente os estéis preguntando ¿De dónde vienen los Tulipanes? ¿Cuál es el país insignia por excelencia?, para responder a las primeras preguntas: los tulipanes son originarios de Asia, sobre todo de los montes de Mongolia, poco después desde donde empezaron su extensión junto al imperio de Genghis Khan, hasta llegar a los montes turcos de Anatolia y posteriormente a Nederland. - Me gustaría aclarar un par de cosas antes de entrar en el asunto de esta publicación y considero que es necesario aclararlo de una vez por todas. Cuando hablamos de Holanda no hablamos de un país sino de una región compuesta por 12 regiones de las cuales Holanda está dividida en dos: la Holanda meridional y la septentrional, por favor cada vez que veo manuales con ese nombre o cuentas que la mencionan con ese nombre me pone malo. - Después de este pequeño sermón, festival se llama Kamiyūbetsu y se localiza en Hokkaido en la ciudad de Yūbetsuchō al lado del río Yūbetsu a esta región llegaron en la década de los años 50 del siglo pasado, fue declarada parque municipal de tulipanes en 1988 por la Unesco. - Espero que os haya gustado esta pequeña Nederland en la prefectura de Hokkaido y que además haya resuelto el gran error de llamar a holanda a un país siendo una región, ya que hay gente que la sigue llamando así después de todo. Os deseo una feliz semana y nos vemos en próximas publicaciones de arqueología nipona. - Welcome to a somewhat special publication, since I am here to talk about a special place, I am also going to take the opportunity to make the special 2450 followers and I think that this place deserves to be known by more people, in addition to clarifying doubts, having said that, let's start. - Surely you are wondering, where do tulips come from? Which is the flagship country par excellence? To answer the first questions: tulips originate in Asia, especially in the mountains of Mongolia, shortly after from where they began to spread along with the empire of Genghis Khan, until they reached the Turkish mountains of Anatolia and later to Nederland. - I would like to clarify a couple of things before getting into the subject of this post and I think it is necessary to clarify it once and for all. When we talk about the Netherlands we are not talking about a country but about a region made up of 12 regions of which the Netherlands is divided into two: the southern Netherlands and the northern Netherlands, please, every time I see manuals with that name or accounts that mention it with that name makes me sick. - After this little sermon, festival is called Kamiyūbetsu and it is located in Hokkaido in the city of Yūbetsuchō next to the Yūbetsu River. They arrived in this region in the 50s of the last century, it was declared a municipal tulip park in 1988 by UNESCO. - I hope you liked this little Nederland in the Hokkaido prefecture and that it has also solved the big mistake of calling a country Holland as a region, since there are people who still call it that after all. I wish you a happy week and see you in future Japanese archeology publications. - ちょっと特別な出版物へようこそ。私は特別な場所について話すためにここにいるので、特別な2450フォロワーを作る機会もあります。この場所は、明確にするだけでなく、もっと多くの人に知られるに値すると思います。疑わしいとは言っても、始めましょう。 - 確かにあなたは疑問に思っています、チューリップはどこから来たのですか？卓越した旗艦国はどれですか？最初の��問に答えるには、チューリップはアジア、特にモンゴルの山で発生し、チンギスカンの帝国とともに広がり始めてからすぐに、トルコのアナトリアの山に到達します。その後、ネダーランドへ。 - この投稿の主題に入る前に、いくつかのことを明確にしたいと思います。そして、それを完全に明確にする必要があると思います。オランダについて話すとき、私たちは国について話しているのではなく、オランダが2つに分割されている12の地域で構成されている地域について話します。オランダ南部とオランダ北部です。その名前のマニュアルを見るたびに、その名前でそれを言及しているアカウントは私を病気にします。 - この小さな説教の後、お祭りは上湧別と呼ばれます 北海道の湯別川に隣接する湯別町にあり、前世紀の50年代にこの地域に到着し、1988年にユネスコによって市営チューリップ公園に指定されました。 - 北海道にあるこの小さなオランダが気に入ってくれて、オランダを地域と呼ぶという大きな間違いも解決してくれたことを願っています。皆様のご多幸をお祈り申し上げますとともに、今後の日本の考古学出版物でお会いしましょう。

[konjaku]

蓬[Yomogi] Artemisia indica

The grass grows to around 1.2 meters in height and blooms with modest flowers in autumn. It does not seem to care about the environment as long as it gets enough sunlight, and is commonly found in mountains, wastelands and so on. It is one of the so-called weeds.

On the other hand, it is used for a variety of purposes, such as moxa, tea, herbal wine, a medical plant, a wild vegetable, a dough for mochi sweets, etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kusa_mochi

Today, December 21, is 冬至[Tōji](Winter solstice) and there is a custom of taking a bath with 柚子[Yuzu](Citrus junos) called 柚子湯[Yuzu-yu]. Similarly, on 端午の節句[Tango no sekku](Boy’s Day celebration, on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, now May 5), people take a bath with 菖蒲[Shōbu](Acorus calamus) called 菖蒲湯. There are also other types of bathes, such as with the leaves of 菊[Kiku](Chrysanthemum) called 菊湯[Kiku-yu], with the leaves of 桃[Momo](Peach) calld 桃湯[Momo-yu], and in recent years, with the fruits of 蜜柑[Mikan](Mandarin orange) or 林��[Ringo](Apple), etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuzu_bath

And, there is also 蓬湯 with 蓬 in it. Although there are a variety of Japanese herbs, of those, I think 蓬 has the widest range of uses.

[lukkabloom]

Fun Facts abt the residents according to Ikevamp Radio (ヴァンなま) Part 1

Found a playlist of Ikevamp Radio that occurred multiple years ago so I decided to collect my findings about the residents in a list. I haven't seen anyone translate it or talk abt it so I decided to do it for a bit of fun. Anyways, here are episodes 1-3!!

Some quick things to note before:

Vincent/Aramaki Yoshihiko (Makki) is the MC, Sebas/Morishima Shuta (Morishi) is a guest (but he’s in every episode he might as well be the 2nd MC). They also have other people as guests in some episodes (other ikevamp VAs or others related to the game itself)

Episodes 1 & 2 occur before Ikevamp’s release

most of my findings are from a segment from the livestream where the residents (mainly Vincent and Sebas) talk to each other & ask each other questions about the lives while they spend some bonding time in the thermae. The segment's called "I love yu" which is a pun on "I love you" and yu (湯) which means "hot water" or "bath"

There are also other segments where the VAs draw based on a designated theme & the viewers vote on the best art (van Gogh's drawing section), and another one where the VAs read the summary of the game in their in-character voices (but the VAs interrupt and make it funnier & less romantic) called "Ikemen Vampire, a guidance for you" (I won't talk abt these sections much tho)

ALSO!! This is not a translation of the whole livestream, just bits and pieces of it. I don't have the time and energy to do that

Episode 1: feat. Leonardo's VA Tsuda Kenjiro

Question: Which historical figure/genius do you respect the most?

Napoleon: Oda Nobunaga

Mozart: Johann Sebastian Bach

Leonardo: Michelangelo (which I thought was interesting since real-life Leo and Michelangelo had some beef w each other)

Morishima (Sebas’s VA): Newton (bc of the apple & theory of universal gravitation), Edison

Tsuda (Leonardo’s VA): van Gogh

Aramaki (Vincent’s VA): Liu Bei, Zhao Yun (I think that's who he was talking abt? I'm not familiar much w/Chinese figures' names in jp---they're read differently in Eng)

The other VAs joke that Aramaki’s similar to Napo in the sense that they both admire soldiers/military commanders

Question: Favorite part of a woman’s body? (This sounds so wrong in both jp & eng)

Napoleon: from the neck to the shoulder, he's prob talking abt the shoulders to the neckline or vice versa（首から肩まで）

Mozart: voice (so he can understand what his partner’s thinking & feeling)

Leonardo: thighs (bc it’s soft & he likes lap pillows)

Tsuda said Leo’s a bit of a pampered/attention-seeking child (甘えん坊), and not an ore-sama (which he thought Leo would be), an unexpectedly cute reason considering how reliable Leo looks

Vincent gets a bit sad when he’s bathing alone

Leo can sing a song that he’s only heard once (as expected of a genius)

Sebas can be seen hanging the sheets outside from Vincent’s room

Leo’s unsatisfied that there’s only men in the mansion (this was before MC stumbled to the mansion)

Vincent doesn’t want women in the mansion bc he wouldn’t know how to act in front of them

Sebas thinks Leo is an expert in handling women, Leo is confused when he became one

Leo’s weak against Vincent’s pleas/suggestions (honestly who isn’t??)

Sebas thinks it’s impossible for a woman to stumble upon the mansion (foreshadowing)

Leo thinks that fate will play a trick on them, his mumbling confuses Vincent and Sebas (more foreshadowing)

Episode 2: feat. Jun, singer of Ikevamp theme song "Rouge"

Jun is a repairman who fixes things around the mansion… HE'S ALIVE IN THAT ERA???? (Idk if its canon)

He also sings “Rouge” while he works which means the song exists in the 20th century (again idk how much of this is canon)

Jun also sells milk in the mansion, acting as a different person as the repairman, although Sebas & Vincent are suspicious of him (he literally just enters the bath to sell milk to Vincent and Sebas lol)

Vincent and Sebas talk about MC, she has arrived @ the mansion

Vincent worries abt her since she is surrounded by vampires in an unfamiliar environment, but to Sebas, it looks like MC enjoys her life and is headstrong (aka Vincent is just nice to others, nothing new)

Vincent believes that Sebas is cool and can do anything, to which Sebas indirectly disagrees (he coughs)

Sebas is weak to Vincent’s innocent eyes (just like Leo from the previous episode, again, who isn't?)

Sebas breaks the 4th wall talking abt a popular romance game where you can fall in love w/vampire-turned historical figures

This is literally the beginning of how Sebas goes ooc (becomes weirder) throughout the series (is it even ooc if it’s basically approved by official??)

Sebas says that Theo is overprotective of Vincent, Vincent comments that he’s supposed to be the older one

they also introduce my fav segment (Can you tell me... your name?) where they have listeners vote on quotes they want the VAs to say, and they will say the line w/the listener’s names so it sounds like the VAs are speaking to them. Vincent's & the guest (if there is one) will have legit cool lines (like “(y/n), Don’t let go of me” or “(y/n), you’re the only one in my eyes”) but Sebas always has one funny line as one of his options (ex. “Hey, do you wanna have a takoyaki party?” or “Do you want to fry one more sanma?”) and every single time the weird line gets voted and ITS FUNNY AS HECK

Also in the same segment the viewers will sometimes submit funny names for the VAs (especially Sebas) to say & it adds to the laughs

Ex. for Sebas’s “Hey, do you wanna have a takoyaki party?” some viewers gave names of Anpanman characters (a children’s anime in Japan) so Sebas will literally say things like “Jam-ojisan, hey, do you wanna have a takoyaki party?”

There was also one whose name was Tako (octopus in japanese) so Sebas would say “Tako, do you wanna have a takoyaki party?” so he’s asking the octopus to have a takoyaki party where the octopus will be eaten (the irony as well as the dark underlying meaning behind it is very funny)

Also the way the other people are laughing while Sebas’s VA is trying to keep his cool is so hilarious

It’s predetermined and agreed upon the Ikevamp staff that Sebas (or Morishi) is willing to do/say weird things for the audience

This whole segment is a whole ride in and out of itself

Episode 3: feat. Leonardo’s VA Tsuda Kenjiro once again

Sebas once again breaks the 4th wall by referencing episode 1 of the show

Sebas teaches Leo the basics of manzai (a type of japanese comedy)

Leo says “Vannama” (the name of ikevamp radio) and “tendon” (the food and a manzai phrase)  in a weird accent further proving that he doesn’t understand Japanese (or maybe it's bc the two phrases are too specific idk)

Sebas tells Leo to ignore what he’s saying as he is saying metafictional expressions (メタ発言) basically how he is breaking the 4th wall, and Leo just accepts that as another one of Sebas’s quirks

Vincent comments that Leo’s very manly, Sebas further compliments him saying that Leo is a man amongst men

This episode has one of the funniest (imo) “Can you tell me… your name?” segments ever. Vincent and Leo’s VAs had amazing lines, but Sebas… oh gosh where do I even start. (ok Leo’s VA did say “Ushi (cow), wait for me by the bed,” and “Namamono (raw food), wait for me by the bed” & that was funny too but…)

One of the options for Sebas’s lines (and the one that was ultimately chosen to be said) was “Do you want to fry one more sanma (a type of seasonal fish eaten in fall)?” and the viewers got crazy with this one.

There were some legit names but most were for jokes, choosing names going along with the theme of fall foods and creatures (tuna, matsutake, karaage, grasshoppers, etc.)

There was “Akashiya, sanma mouipikki yaku?”(Akashiya, do you want to fry one more sanma?) which was the funniest one. Akashiya Sanma is a very famous Japanese comedian and it’s very genius of the viewer to connect the person with the food. I laughed straight for like 10 min when I first listened to this (I still laugh just remembering it. The double-entendre!!!)

Literally any episode with Tsuda is chaotic (this isn’t the last time where he shows up)

At the end of the episode, Vincent’s VA couldn’t stop laughing and messed up his lines multiple times (I don’t blame him everything is just so funny)

[thisonelikesaliens]

i picked on gaga's english subs last time but hey i think it redeemed itself?

赴湯蹈火 is another super common idiom

赴 (fu) = go to/attend

湯 (tang) = soup (hot liquid in general, hot being the key word here)

蹈 (dao) = step/tread

火 (huo) = fire

taken together it means willing to face any difficulties (nothing about actually getting "through" said difficulties though)

iqiyi gets the gist, but i do take issue with the "through"

viki's is probably most accurate in terms of general meaning, but i personally like the imagery of hot water and fire highlighting jin bao's earnestness

[kazooreal]

Hiraeth TL

(i have been translating a LOT recently, pleaaase ask me if u want my google docs folder! most songs in fictions are done + some of my older TLs from other albums! enjoy~)

ヒラエス　斉藤壮馬

hiraesu - saitou souma

Hiraeth - Soma Saito

たとえば、誰かとすれ違い　なぜだか

tatoeba, dareka to sure chigai nazeda ka

For instance, when passing by someone, why is it that

処理落ち　世界の時が止まったり

shori ochi sekai no toki ga tomattari

Unprocessed collapse, and the world’s time stops

どこかでなにかを忘れてきたような

doko ka de nani ka wo wasurete kita you na

As if somewhere, something had been forgotten

予感がふと訪れたら

yokan ga futo otozuretara

After a premonition suddenly visited

あるいは、木の葉が舞い散る季節や[1]

arui ha, hon no ha ga maichiru kisetsu ya

Or, the words of a book scatter, seasons and

風の音　ふとした戯言なんかに

kaze no oto futo shita zaregoto nanka ni

The sound of the wind, and suddenly; nonsensically, even,

どうしようもなくね　デジャヴがよぎる

doushiyou mo naku ne dejabu ga yogiru

It’s hopeless. Déjà-vu passes over,

毒が混ざる

doku ga mazaru

Mixed with poison

美しい記憶だわ

utsukushii kioku da wa

What a beautiful memory

なんて身勝手な

nante migatte na

How selfish

ぬるま湯に溺れて痛いな

nuruma yu ni oborete itai na

It hurts to drown in lukewarm water, doesn’t it

ダーザイン　ゆらいで

daazain yuraide

Dasein; swaying [2]

空を切るQはA

sora wo kiru Q ha A

Slicing the sky, Q is A

答えを求めて��るよ

kotae wo motometeiru yo

I need the answer, please!

ああ 掌からこぼれた

aa tenohira kara koboreta

Ah, it spilled out from the palm of my hand

幾億の祈りの残滓

ikuoku no inori no zanshi

The leftovers of billions of prayers

二度とは開けない　土の深い底

nido to ha akenai tsuchi no fukai soko

It can’t be opened again, the deep abyss of the soil

タイムカプセルは眠らせたまま

taimukapuseru ha nemuraseta mama

The time capsule has been left asleep

懐かしい場所ごと　星に還したら

natsukashii basho goto hoshi ni kaeshitara

If every nostalgic place were to return to the stars

バクテリアが食べてくれる

bakuteria ga tabetekureru

The bacteria would eat it

もどかしくもあるけど

modokashiku mo aru kedo

Although it can be tedious

不思議とどこか

fushigi to doko ka

In some way, it's fascinating

満ち足りたような気もするから

michitarita you na ki mo suru kara

Since there's also a feeling of satisfaction

さよなら もまたね も

sayonara mo mata ne mo

'Goodbye', and 'see you later',

言わずにこのまま

iwazu ni kono mama

Without saying, just like that

砕け散ってしまえばいいよ

kudakechitte shimae ba ii yo

If they end up smashed up, it's fine

ああ あのころに戻れないなら

aa ano koro ni modorenai nara

Ah, because I can't go back to that time

せめてこの身 焼き尽くして

semete kono mi yakitsukushite

Just, burn this body to the ground

整合性など

seigousei nado

Conformity, compliance and the like

捨ておけ だろ?

sute oke daro?

Cast it away, no? [3]

正当性など

seitousei nado

Lawfulness, and validity [4]

ああ

aa

Ah,

灰にきらめく過去を

hai ni kirameku kako wo

The past, glimmering in the ashes

日常が上書きしていく

nichijou ga uwagaki shiteiku

Our everyday was overwritten

きっと

kitto

Surely

もう二度とはない

mou nido to ha nai

It'll never happen again

名前も失くしてしまうよ

namae mo nakushite shimau yo

You'll get rid of your name, too

もう二度とはない

mou nido to ha nai

It'll never happen again

[Hiraeth: A deep grief or longing for something that feels like home.]

[1] 葉 (ha) means ‘leaves’, which would fit more with the ‘seasons’ mentioned in this line, but I opted for ‘words’ because 葉 is also present in 言葉, meaning ‘words’

[2] Dasein: a philosophical term roughly describing how humans uniquely engage with the world (rather than how objects, plants, etc. do). though it’s much more complicated, so do read on it! i love when souma-san teaches us philosophy!!

[3] a combination of the strong imperative おけ and the expression だろ, which usually conveys uncertainty.

[4] decided to provide two definitions for the 3 kanji words here. the line just feels too short otherwise. stylistic choice.

this song cuts deep :(

if nostalgia or longing is the theme of Fictions, then Hiraeth is the central song of the album (it is, by the way). this song is full of bitterness; memories that were created with joy grow into dull reminders of what once was. it only makes the present seem less like a gift. this song recalls the type of memory that feels so distant, so different from how things are now, and how you are now, that it's no longer something you can connect with.. and it just makes your chest hurt. i'm sure we all have one of those.

side note: I tried to not use pronouns because of how abstract and therefore impersonal the song is (which, paradoxically, means it can apply to a wide range of people), but felt like adding a couple for emphasis :P

thank you for another amazing song, Souma-san! he really is a genius T_Tttt

[pressurecookrecipes]

Get Recipe: Chinese Beef Brisket Soup (清湯牛腩)

Easy to make classic comfort food: Hong Kong Beef Noodle Soup. Tender juicy beef, flavorful daikon in umami beefy broth.

[beyourselfchulanmaria]

So what's New Year's Eve like at your house? Are there fireworks?

I can watch the fireworks at the top of my studio building on which festivals for silently. ( I took it few days ago there's a Tao-buddha temple played it. ) and Tonight will play fireworks from the port as years as always. In fact, fireworks allude to life just like this poem…

愛那麼短，遺忘那麼長。

love is so short, forgetting is so long.

─ Pablo Nueda’s piece “Poem 20.”

And

@thethirdman8 Friend, Wishes you have a very Very VERY

🐉 ░░H░A░P░P░Y░░N░E░W░░Y░E░A░R░2024░░🐉

Your question makes me feel ashamed. I have worked hard all my life and am over fifty years old but even don’t have a house of my own. However, I feel happy for myself because I have not kept even a cent of everything I have earned. All for the people I love. Not having a "house" means that I can fly away to watch fireworks at any time. Although I don't like to go to crowded places to join in the fun, the deeper meaning of "watching fireworks" is that I do my best to achieve the success of others. Life is as brilliant and beautiful as fireworks. I can see that their peace, joy and happiness are also equal to the peace and happiness in my heart!

I can celebrate "New Year's Eve" at any time, because I am a freelancer and I am the boss of my life; but because of this, I am always ready to work with my mind at any time, even when traveling. It is inseparable from my creation. I can't go home this week because I have a cold, and my family doesn't want me to go home. They're worried that it might infect my old mother, so my son wants me to stay in the studio to rest and sleep as much as possible. He and his aunt will take care of the family, so there is no need to worry. He hopes to go home after I recover. … .. . Strangely enough an old ballad came to mind right now :

"My Old Kentucky Home, Goodnight” written by Stephen Collins Foster, 1853.

🎼 此曲是「美國音樂之父」 史蒂芬佛斯特（Stephen Foster）的名作，表達了黑人對親人的愛的呼喚和對家鄉風物的深刻記憶。我相信特別是長期離家的遊子應當會有深刻的體會。有人說「肯塔基老家鄉」是一首令人心碎的史詩，描述��當時黑奴在肯塔基州因農業經濟轉型和部份奴隸主外移，造成黑奴過剩；奴隸主把過剩的黑奴或不願帶走的黑奴直接賣給深南諸州的大農場，或賣給掮客後沿著俄亥俄和密西西比兩大河(俄亥俄河是密西西比河的支流)運到紐奧爾良的奴隸市場。黑奴買賣曾經造成黑奴家庭永別的悲劇。「肯塔基老家鄉」的原名就叫「可憐的湯姆叔叔，晚安」 (Poor Uncle Tom, Good Night) 源自: author - 斯陀(Harriet Beecher Stowe)的小說 novel 「黑奴籲天錄」 (Uncle Toms Cabin)。

📌 PS. Always sleeping in the studio me feels like wandering, a wanderer living in a deserted time and space… by the way you have to try your best to born money. get it? XD But it's lucky I am not a slave to life, I am willing to work for the people and things I love and strive to give the people I love the best life! And you? in your 2024 New Year?

Chu Lan~*

[dinoplantsghost]

Abraxas Enceladus Malfoy - Character Sheet

Masterlist

Affiliation(s): Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, the Slytherin Quidditch Team, the Knights of Walpurgis, the Sacred Twenty-Eight, the Malfoy family

Character

Gender: Male (he/him)

D.O.B.: April 15, 1926

Health: N/A; no known conditions

Appearance

Height: 5'8" (172.72 cm)

Ethnicity: English and French

Skin Tone: Fair skinned

Eye Color: Blue/Ash gray

Distinguishing Features: Beauty mark on the left side below his lip

Hairstyle: Platinum blond at neck-length; wavy texture (2A texture for reference) - slicked back with gel

Accessories: Standard Malfoy Ring Inherited by his father, Henry Malfoy

Wand Attributes: 11", blackthorn wood, unicorn hair core, quite bendy

Quidditch Position: Chaser

Likes (susceptible to changes): routines, his mother, signing to the merpeople near the windows in the Slytherin common room, tea, orchestral arrangements, Quidditch

Dislikes (susceptible to changes): the outdoors, Eloise's constant need for a girl, the French language, exams, charms class, Quidditch practice

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Introduction Notes:

In his early childhood, Abraxas fondly remembers the days in France where his small family would constantly go back and forth from their manor in Val de Loire to their summer home near the country's border with Spain in Ariège. His mother would always tell him stories of magical creatures, starting the boy's fascination for animals despite disliking the Care of Magical Creatures class and the outdoors. When he was about 6 or 7 years of age, Abraxas and his family permanently moved to the main Malfoy Manor in Wiltshire, England.

Abraxas met Tom Riddle in their first year of Hogwarts, only getting caught in the boy's web by their third year in 1940. Tom had approached Abraxas with questions about the Sacred Twenty-Eight, which led to the boys sneaking off to the Restricted Section in the library and eventually discovering that Tom was the heir of Salazar Slytherin. Ever since that moment, Abraxas had been the 1st Knight of Walpurgis. The blond was also the first to be admitted into the Inner Circle, which also includes Miles, Orion, and Patrick.

When Saoirse first transferred to Hogwarts in October of 1942, he was admittedly annoyed with the girl. However, as more events unraveled throughout the year, Abraxas found himself a friendship in the most unlikely of places.

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Additional Images:

(i know his eyes aren't blue/gray but just imagine)

Picrew(s) used: 讓那愛熬湯

Every other picture is sourced from Pinterest

[daily-hyosatsu]

We’ve covered the name 加藤 Katō a few times already so today let's just focus on the right-hand name, 水出 read Mizuide, Mizude, Suide, Mizuite, Minade, Mizuide, or Izumi. HOWEVER, I much prefer to read it as a common noun, in which case it is みずだし, which means cold brew! Tis the season!

水 is read みず or スイ, and it means water. And 出 means exit, leave, go out, come out, put out, or protrude. It's read で.る, -で, だ.す, い.でる, い.だす, シュツ, or スイ.

So where do you get "cold brew" from "comes out in water"? Doesn't all coffee (or tea) use water? Technically yes, but Japanese (like Chinese) uses different words for 湯 hot water and 水 cold water, so no, not all coffee or tea is made with 水!

[danieyells]

Upcoming card!

There's only one today! Maybe they're hiding them so it's harder for me to give everyone previews. Sorry it's late I took my sleep meds a little early and forgot to check. You've got like 10 hours as of posting this before it rolls out tho!

Sure hope that's not sunlight. . .Ed can't even taste that food lmao unless it's specially made anomalous dango. . . .

Character Card: Idle Conversation(「遊惰な草枕」  "Indolent Overnight Stay") Skill: Your Home, My Home(「客間で我が物顔」  "In The Guest Room Like He Owns The Place") Fully Awakened Skill: Sensual Soak(「湯煙に溶ける魔香」  "Demon Incense Mixing With Steam") Warding Card: Human Pleasures(「現世満喫中」  "Enjoying Their Present Lives To The Fullest")

No new cosmic bonds either. Or the ones that got added are for the previous chapters lol.

The usual applies!

Gacha is gambling! Cards rerun eventually! Don't go crazy with spending if you don't get the cards you want!

My Japanese isn't very good so take those translations with a grain of salt!

Keep your vampires out of the sun.

[isoji512]

Countdown before GoodOmens2 distribution.

15 days to delivery！

(13 July)

Author: ばす太(@B_star109 )

https://twitter.com/b_star109?s=21&t=y0XkcSiSkiCbKL3Vj4JYLw

[konjaku]

山吹[Yamabuki] Kerria japonica

太田左衛門太夫持資は上杉憲政(政真)の長臣なり。鷹狩に出で雨に合ひ、ある小屋に入りて蓑をからんといふに、わかき女の何とも物をばいはずして、山ぶきの花一枝折りて出しければ、「花を求るに非ず」とて怒て歸りしに、是を聞し人のそれは「七重八重花はさけども、山ぶきのみのひとつだになきぞ悲しき」といふ古歌のこゝろなるべしといふ。持資おどろきてそれより歌に志をよせけり。

[Ōta Saemon-no Taifu Mochisuke wa Uesugi Norimasa(Masazane) no chōshin nari. Takagari ni ide ame ni ai, aru koya ni irite mino wo karan to iu ni, wakaki onna no nan tomo mono woba iwazu shite, yamabuki no hana hito eda orite idashi kereba, "Hana wo motomuru ni arazu" tote ikarite kaerishi ni , kore wo kikishi hito no sore wa, "Nanae yae hana wa sakedomo, yamabuki no mi no(mino) hitotsu da ni naki zo kanashiki" to iu koka no kokoro naru beshi to iu. Mochisuke odorokite sore yori uta ni kokorozashi wo yose keri.] Ōta Mochisuke is a senior member of Uesugi Norimasa(Masazane)'s family. When he went a falconry and got caught in the rain, he went into a hut to borrow a mino, straw raincoat. A young woman, without saying a word, broke off a branch of yamabuki flowers and offered it to him, then he said, "I did not ask for flowers," and left angrily. Someone who heard this said that (she must have conveyed) the heart of the old waka poem, "Seven and eight flowers bloom, but yamabuki is sad because it does not bear even a single fruit (Another meaning: I am young and look like this, but poor and alone, I sadly do not have even a mino, single straw raincoat. * 身の一つだに[mi no hitotsu da ni] could also mean "I am alone, so...") He was shocked and began to study waka poetry after that.

雪玉實隆の歌に、「雨にきるみのなしとて��山吹の露にぬるゝは心つかしを」、後拾遺和歌集、「小倉の家に住侍るころ雨ふり侍りける日、みのかる人の侍りければ、山吹の枝を折てとらせ侍りけり。心もえでまかり過て」、又の日「山吹心得ざるよし」いひおこせて侍りける、返しにいひ遣しける、兼󠄄明親王、「七重八重はなはさけども山吹のみのひとつだになきぞかなしき(あやしき)」。

[Setsugyoku Sanetaka no uta ni, "Ame ni kiru mi no(mino) nashi tote ya yamabuki no tsuyu ni nururu wa kokorozukaji wo", go-shūi waka-shū, "Ogura no ie ni sumi haberu koro ame furi haberi keru hi, mino karu hito no haberi kereba, yamabuki no eda wo orite torase haberi keri. Kokoro mo ede makari sugite", mata no hi "Yamabuki kokoroezaru yoshi" ii okosete haberi keru, kaeshi ni ii tsukawashi keru, Kaneakira-shinnō, "Nanae yae hana wa sakedomo yamabuki no mi no(mino) hitotsu da ni naki zo kanashiki."] In Sanjōnishi Sanetaka's private collection of poetry, Setsugyoku-shū, "Yamabuki, which has no fruit (no mino, straw raincoat, to wear) in the rain, does not mind getting wet with dew." And in Go-shūi Waka-shū, Later Collection of Gleanings of Waka Poems, "When Prince Kaneakira was living at his house in Ogura, one day it rained and someone came to borrow a mino, straw raincoat, so he broke off a branch of yamabuki and gave it. The person left without understanding why," and on another day (because it was on his mind,) he sent a messenger saying, "I do not understand the meaning of that yamabuki," then Prince Kaneakira responded, "Seven and eight flowers bloom, but Yamabuki is sad because it does not bear even a single fruit (Another meaning: I am a member of the royal family but living in the mountain and poor, so I do not have even a mino, single straw raincoat. * 九重[Kokonoe], ninefold, means the Imperial Palace) From 常山紀談[Jōzan kidan] by 湯浅 常山[Yuasa Jōzan](1708-1781) Source: https://dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/908050/1/10 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ōta_Dōkan

山吹[Yamabuki] and 山葺[Yamabuki](葺 means thatch, and this could also be read as an abbreviation for "Poor house in the mountain Ogura"), 蓑一つ[Mino hitotsu](One straw raincoat) and 実の一つ[Mi no hitotsu](Only one fruit) and 身の一つ[Mi no hitotsu](The body alone). Such a technique of expression is called 掛詞[kakekotoba]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakekotoba

Whether this is a true story or not is not certain, but it is a well-known anecdote. https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/cyw/id/351

The double-flowered yamabuki does not bear fruit. However, this is a horticultural variety. I do not know if it existed in the distant past. I think this expression perhaps mean that there are many single-petaled flowers. The single-petaled yamabuki produces inconspicuous fruits, though.