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Princess peach showtime! #fanart

Ultraman says: It's Wash Your Water Bottle Wednesday! If you've forgotten for a while to give your water bottle a good scrub, today's the perfect day for a fresh start 💜

Blessing your feed with 90s pink overalls flex.

Topical reading: an amazing book on late mediaeval /early modern economic and cultural interactions between Greater Iran and the Deccan states.

Pulpy vampire from earlier this year.🦇

-Kinda fell off with the seasonals around '17/'18 -I had to check the date of quintuplets anime becasue WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT AIRED 6 YEARS AGO??? -Must fill important knowledge gaps of the 00s and early 10s. anime-sedai.egoist.dev

6mm. 'Al-Madina' with another two 10cm tiles added.

Hey! I have a new research paper out called "Yokomoji arerugī"! This study examines social beliefs about katakana among both Japanese natives and Japanese learners in the journal Japan Forum. And guess what, it's open access (you can read it FREE)! Check it out @ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

So maybe more like this?

Keisuke Itagaki also did these covers for a pair of intro to philosophy books.

"For remembrance: sixty views of sights and scenes in unique Japan" was a photo collection published by Japan's Ministry of Railways in the mid-1920s. The book featured hand-colored photographs of Japanese landmarks and cultural scenes, designed to promote tourism along railway routes.

A few years ago I tried adapting some Jucika comic into animation, this was all that was finished. It wasn't planned out very well so changing the movement timing would require I restructure the whole walk cycle again and again and I just thought it looked rubbish after a while.

Does Pinocchio’s nose have a fixed minimum length, or could he learn a truth so profound that uttering it aloud would cause his nose to prolapse and rocket backwards through his skull like a bolt gun, killing him instantly?

1991

Studio Ghibli was founded 40 years ago today, on 15 June 1985.

Why is the worldnews subreddit consistently more psychotic on middle east than twitter? It used to be fairly centre-ish five years ago.

Nothing to see here, just a chicken Oh, and the ONE THOUSAND year old Bowthorpe Oak, Lincolnshire Photo: Ed Parker

Kung fu puffin #birds #nature #wildlife #skomer #photography #ThePhotoHour #Nikon

A giant fake kangaroo posing with Australia's National Icon

Andre the Giant was born on this date in 1946.

“Raiders of the Lost Ark” was released on this date in 1981.

Still the greatest military headline of all time

A display of paper doves in a wish for peace on Earth, in the Church of the Holy Ghost in Munich. #photo #photography #church #germany flic.kr/p/2raDZYT

I wonder what percentage is Xi x Putin danmei

Inside this delicate pavilion at Caotang Temple, Xi'an, Shaanxi, is a small pagoda that holds a relic said to be the tongue of Kumarajiva (344–413). Born in the Kucha (now part of Western Xinjiang, China), Kumarajiva is considered one of Chinese Buddhism's greatest Sanskrit-to-Chinese translators.

This ancient looking Heidi website has pdf colouring books with scenes from the series and accompanying text (kana only) www.heidi.ne.jp/pg154.html#%...

Yes, jelly doughnuts. Very good.

Gashapon (or Gachapon) are vending machines found all over Japan that dispense capsules containing miniature toys and other items. There are thousands of different kinds. Here’s a thread of the best ones I saw on my recent trip. 🧵

Panel of experts

The fantastically named "Neoliberal" — decadent 'kasutori' magazine from the postwar years

Nintendo should get in on the action.

New S(ubstack)-Bahn post: on the very edge of Seoul, an urbanist paradise has been built from scratch: dense, high-rise apartments, manicured parks, dedicated walkways, and a car-free central promenade. Why are the residents here so mad, bordering on revolt? www.substack-bahn.net/p/urban-para...

A robin made a nest in one of my plant pots right outside my studio. The baby birds are hatching today.

RIP Forsyth. There was none better at thriller fic.

So did Hayashibara Megumi get radicalised by watching right wing Korean youtubers or was she like this from before?

The Patrick Galbraith interview video on Akiba is finally up on Pause and Select, and it's brilliant.

man with a movie camera linkin park what i've done