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[keinjournalist]

Appreciating the strength of life

I am ashamed of having survived like this.

But should I have died?

I had my reasons for coming back to life.

First and foremost, to thank the souls who loved me unconditionally without me asking.

Maybe that's why I died,

so that I would remember them.

But not like you remember something with gratitude when someone has given you something - I didn't know what that meant back then, but like death looks at life and envies life. But that was a different kind of envy. An envy that sees. And that's how I came to see how life gave me life for the first time. Then I looked inside myself and saw this life in my heart. Then I knew I had it. And that's how I survived.

Now I feel the urge to give these beings their immortality back.

Because love, believe it or not, is everything that exists.

Everything that was, is and will be. I have to show these people what they did back then so that they can live here and now in a world where a person lives who firmly believes that they have achieved everything that can be achieved in life.

I want to give them the feeling that they deserve:

to be finished and to live happily with me on this earth at the same time.

With someone who has been reborn, someone powerful.

Someone who loves unconditionally.

[savaralyn2]

Dungeon Meshi - Happy New Year 2024!

[valtsv]

anyone who thinks dostoevsky's writing is dry and humourless is missing out on passages like this

[greelin]

this is going to have me on my hands and knees dry heaving

[baravaggio]

one of my favorite facts about gekko hayashi (artist who drew gay erotica) is that he was straight guy who pivoted from sci-fi & monster stuff to illustrating for gay & bdsm mags at like 50 years old because he wanted to expand his artistic horizons, and compensated by lack of lived experience by setting up a phone line for gay men to call in & recount their stories so he could illustrate them...legend

[kristina100000]

topology might be my favorite mathematical study like where else could i find this. you are but a holeless cow

[kensatou]

meanwhile notes put up by the guy hired by my dad to help with foreign guests at his little ryokan in rural japan (“my english is not perfect,” said the guy earnestly. “but i think i can always get the meaning across.” “great,” said my dad. “that’s all that matters.”):

[deaddriv]

Translated with permission!!

Here's the author's Twitter (achu_0u0) and the original post!

Note from author: Wouldn't it be hard for half-foots to go to the movie theater?

[lemongogo]

dont forget what happened to icarus

[kilometresrufflefuck]

(miles edgeworth voice) cringe as fuck. not even camp

[savaralyn2]

[feral-ballad]

Margarita Karapanou, tr. by Karen Emmerich, from Rien ne va plus

[Text ID: “I would have preferred if you had loved me less and understood me more.”]

[hinamie]

mentor

[exilley]

I do sort of wish western anime fans would analyze anime and manga from a framework of japanese historical and cultural context. Specifically a lot of works from the 90s being influenced by the general aimlessness and ennui that a lot of people were experiencing due to the burst in the bubble economy and the national trauma caused by the sarin terrorist attack. I think in interacting with media that’s not local to our sociocultural/sociopolitical sphere it’s easy to forget that it’s influenced and shaped by the same kinds of factors that influence media within our own cultural dome and there ends up being this baseline misalignment of perception between the causative elements of a narrative and viewer interpretation of those elements. It’s a form of death of the author that i think, in some measure, hinders our ability to fully understand/come to terms with creator intent and the full scope of a work’s merits

[tisorridalamor]

Legendary mangaka Arakawa Hiromu is forklift certified!