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Taira by Chieska Fortune Smith for SSAW Magazine November 2024

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Ōka-sai, Hirano Shrine by Discover Kyoto

When the capital was established in Kyoto in 794, Hirano Shrine has long enjoyed prosperous relationship with the Imperial family, and the two Samurai factions, the Genji and the Heike, that served them.

A sakura festival has occurred at the shrine every single year since 985, for over a thousand years.  This makes it the oldest festival in Kyoto that can claim to have continued unbroken for that long.

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Mount Yari, Taira, Omachi, Nagano, Japan

Marek Piwnicki

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recently read you and i are polar opposites, guess whos my fav

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La fidelidad de Kagetori salva a Yoritomo de la muerte

En el periodo Heinan (794 - 1185 d.C.), se libraron muchas batallas dentro de las llamadas Guerras Genpei, en las que se enfrentaron los clanes Taira y Minamoto. En uno de los periodos de las guerras, Oba Saburo Kagechika lideraba las tropas de los Taira, mientras que Minamoto no Yoritomo hacía lo propio en el ejército Minamoto. 

En una ocasión, ambos samuráis se enfrentaron en una acalorada lucha que obligó a Yoritomo a esconderse en un bosque con seis de sus soldados. En medio de la oscuridad y abrumados por la frondosidad de aquel lugar, no les quedó más remedio que esconderse en un tronco hueco y esperar a que los guerreros de Kagechika desistieran y se fueran. Siendo un hombre muy persistente, este ordenó a su primo Oba Kagetori que se adentrara en el bosque y no regresara hasta dar con Yoritomo, pues estaba seguro de haberlo visto junto con sus hombres internarse en el bosque. Kagetori sentía mucha pena, pues en el pasado había sido buen amigo de Yoritomo y deseaba que este pudiera huir de la cólera de su primo. Sin embargo, siguió su orden y se internó en el bosque.

Al cabo de unas horas, Kagetori se asomó en un enorme hueco que vio en el tronco de un árbol. Para su sorpresa, allí se encontraba Yoritomo junto con sus soldados. Apiadándose de ellos y con la intención de salvarlos, buscó a su primo y negó que alguien pudiera estar en el bosque. Kagechika no lo creyó e increpó a su primo: “Mis soldados tienen este bosque rodeado, yo los vi internarse en él, es imposible que no estén aquí. Vamos a buscarlos, los encontraremos, estoy seguro”. 

El ejército completo emprendió la incesante búsqueda a pesar de la oscuridad de aquella noche. Kagetori seguía a su primo en silencio, deseando que su amigo y los demás hombres no fueran atrapados. Pronto, Kagechika notó el tronco con un gran hueco. Se bajó del caballo y se dirigió a inspeccionarlo cuando, de repente, Kagetori gritó: “¡Alto, primo, ten cuidado, una enorme telaraña cubre ese hueco!”. Kagechika lo ignoró y se dispuso a hundir su espada en el agujero, pero dos palomas que surgieron de él lo evitaron y revolotearon violentamente sobre él. El aguerrido samurái concluyó que no había nada allí sospechoso y que definitivamente habían logrado escapar, así que emprendió la retirada. Tanto Yoritomo como Kagetori suspiraron aliviados.

Años más tarde, Yoritomo se convirtió en gobernante de Japón y Kagechika murió decapitado. En el sitio donde estuvo a punto de morir, el shogun erigió dos santuarios en honor al dios de la guerra, y las palomas se convirtieron en mensajeras de los conflictos bélicos. 

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Battle of the Gingers Wave 1 Preliminary Round #31

Whoever gets the most votes moves onto the next round

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Taira x Azuma ( Tairazuma)

Seihantai na Kimi to Boku (Agasawa Kocha)

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i decided to do a set of chibis for dra like the ones i did for sdra2, so i'm gonna start gradually posting those!

first up is akane !

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Who wants to betaread Through Lightning, Through Thunder?

Born to the Silent, a young Rabbit must take a leap of faith to discover who she is and where she stands. And when that stance forces her to flee the only place she has ever called home, she must roam, seeking a place she has heard of only in legends. But how can she know what to do, if words are like shifting sand and nobody can be trusted? An unlikely alliance may save her... or prove to be her downfall. When the fox scout, Paddy, comes upon one of those he is ordered to kill on sight, he has a difficult choice to make: obey Sheba, the general, or follow the dictates of his own kind heart? A wrong choice could cost the entire world the life they have always known, and doom every animal in Charian to chaotic uncertainty, as the dragon of legends, Darkness Rising, is returned to her true form.

This is a rough draft of a cover.

If I was pitching this novel, I'd call it Chronicles of Narnia meets Watership Down! It's fantasy, and around 100k. I've edited the first of about thirty(?) chapters so far, and hence I'll be looking for betareaders shortly.

[sigmaufo]

You Should Read "You and I are Polar Opposites"

I'm not sure when exactly I was clued into this super cute high school romance manga, but I've been a huge fan ever since. It follows a pair of high schoolers who are, as the title teases, polar opposites, but nevertheless are attracted to each other and make a good couple.

And then, slowly, you see another polar opposite pairing growing. And another is being teased.

I love that this series is absolutely mundane. There's nothing here that strikes a person as being wildly unrealistic. There's nothing supernatural, there's no wildly wealthy characters or stupidly powerful student council. There is angst, but it's realistic angst.

And it has this guy:

Meet Taira. You know how relatable a lot of people found Ishigami from Kaguya-sama? Taira is like that, but more realistic. He doesn't have that massive moment of trauma: he's experienced many little moments over the years, moments that taught him to keep his mouth quiet and do nothing to make people notice him.

He's come a long way since his first appearance, when he was saying some incel-ly sort of things, but he grew from that immediately. He's still got a way to go, but he knows he's got problems and he wants to deal with them, even if he has no idea how to.

Anyway, it's a great series, you should read it, here's chapter 1.

Edit: from a previous blog post, it appears that I started reading it October 2022. Thanks, me!

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Taira wears Christian Dior, photographed by Hugo Comte and styled by Ally Macrae for Vogue Japan January 2023

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for those who havent been here all that time and have no idea who taira is:

in short, taira is the name I use for a novel I first drafted November of 2022 (such a time ago!) which was originally based on Narnia and started out life as a Narnia fanfic ("A Rabbit's Trust", on AO3 and FFNET, you can probably find it, my username is where I got the cat bit of this name from). I developed it from that into the most joyful story I've ever written, featuring a centuries-old war that has shaped the entirety of that world, characters who are so in earnest it almost hurts, and explorations of where precisely morality falls in difficult circumstances. it's fantasy, the main character is a rabbit, and Paddy protection squad go brrrrr. Paddy is a fox and an oddball and a DARLING. I don't know what else to say about taira's story (or Taira, the white rabbit, herself) except that it owns my whole entire heart and I've only not been working on it because depression and I needed to be in a better headspace to work on it. It was really the last thoroughly joyful thing I worked on before depression got its claws into me, the last thing I wrote consistently high quantities of, and represents my life before severe depression (I was already depressed by then, but not to the extent that it made me almost unable to write as it has since).

so anyway that's taira. expect her to pop up a bit more now that I'm into editing her story.

main characters:

Taira - white rabbit, full of faith and hope. fairly clueless due to her upbringing. anxious

Nadia - black rabbit, Taira's sister, informs Taira and conveniently the audience of all the important things

Paddy - red fox, a bit full of himself, a dear hearted menace, too earnest. madcap. goals

Lilac - black fox, Paddy's love interest, her vibes are like 'will ye no come back again'. accidentally develops an ED while in mourning

Sheba - Canadian lynx, hard, ruthless, general of the tairen army (note: Taira is named after the same word, the meaning of which I forget in universe but the good guys), really pushes for doing anything to stop the alyen (bad guys)

Minna - Canadian lynx, Sheba's second-in-command, a moderating influence

edit: forgot SPRY - murder duck - amazing guy

there are probably more but I forget who and those are the mainest of them

also shoutout to the next gen bunch - Namesake, Andrey and the rest whose names I forget

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Heike Festival by Visit Miyazaki

In Shiiba Village, which is known as one of Japan's Three Unexplored Regions, a festival called the Heike Festival is held every November, based on a story that has been passed down for about 840 years.

This festival is based on the tragic love story between Princess Tsurutomi, a descendant of the Heike clan, and Nasu Daihachiro, a military commander of the Minamoto clan – two rival families.

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My brother was the lucky one to get all the handsomeness.