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she/her translator and PhD student in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 liker of media and arts, doer of hobbies 日本語でも可
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yeah babyyy

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

My letter to the Prime Minister. #immigration

submitted 16 days ago • 82 comments

He chose a name that it seems to me/reminds me of popes Leo I to XIII

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

new pope, who dis

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Starting the long awaited new season of Devil's Plan and can't get over how many contestants fit the mould of "high-IQ supernerd who was too hot to just remain at university with normies"

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

And finally it is out!

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

Absolutely beautiful piece about how translators aren't invisible and translation isn't just word for word. "Is translation an art or an action? The answer is both, depending on the original. Literary translation is the translation of art, and so it must itself be art." lithub.com/the-future-w...

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

Hate having to share anything related to that wretched woman on my feed, much less something where I'm forced to defend her. But this pissed me off, and since it's doing numbers, I wanted to let folk engaging with it uncritically know that it's largely bullshit.

submitted 42 days ago • 4 comments

Ready for round 2

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

I'm in

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

Some welcome news in the midst of, you know, everything:

submitted 62 days ago • 1 comment

please do NOT come to the US - whether it’s for tourism, conferences, events, business etc… especially if you are non-white. if they’re already detaining white British & German tourists, it is NOT safe for BIPOC or those from marginalized groups.

submitted 80 days ago • 5 comments

In my free time I'm a student and this is what I'm getting up to:

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

The poll will close tomorrow! Please feel free to join in! 🗳️

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

new micro-blogging site means new place to post my house valentines cards. go out and kiss your ghoulies.

submitted 104 days ago • 1 comment

Happened to look at a Twitter account and glance over at the current trending topics and uhhhh I think maybe things aren't all okay over there 😬

submitted 106 days ago • 0 comments

Let me tell you about the weird business that delivers art into our lives, and the impact it has on the long-term careers of artists. This is a thread prompted by yet another article on authors' incomes, and the inevitable reactions from the 'people-would-pay-if-it-was-worth-it-to-them' brigade. 1/

submitted 143 days ago • 8 comments

Nintendo Switch 2 officially revealed. Nintendo Direct - Nintendo Switch 2 scheduled for April 2 www.youtube.com/watch?v=itpc... NS2 Experience tour dates for the public: North America: New York, April 4-6, 2025 Los Angeles, April 11-13, 2025 Dallas, April 25-27, 2025 Toronto, April 25-27, 2025

submitted 132 days ago • 106 comments

One more for now! #utena

submitted 157 days ago • 0 comments

And here's another! #uruseiyatsura

submitted 157 days ago • 0 comments

A sketch I tried to return to and clean up a bit recently! #pokemon

submitted 157 days ago • 0 comments

The annual New Year illustration from Miyazaki is here, celebrating the Year of the Snake! www.ghibli.jp/info/013915/

submitted 147 days ago • 0 comments

Merry Christmas! Here's an old drawing

submitted 154 days ago • 1 comment

Merry Christmas! Here's an old drawing

submitted 154 days ago • 1 comment

As a Christmas present, here comes the final #GhibliSpotlight thread (before I repost the old ones), and it's on the topic I've put off for longest: the Nausicaä manga! His longest work, Miyazaki Hayao released Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (風の谷のナウシカ) on and off from 1982 to 1994. [1/15]

submitted 154 days ago • 1 comment

MERRY CHRISTMAS, NEW PANTY & STOCKING WITH GARTERBELT TEASER!!!

submitted 156 days ago • 1 comment

🎄 🍪

submitted 156 days ago • 0 comments

One more for now! #utena

submitted 157 days ago • 0 comments

And here's another! #uruseiyatsura

submitted 157 days ago • 0 comments

A sketch I tried to return to and clean up a bit recently! #pokemon

submitted 157 days ago • 0 comments

Life in this world revives. The Okami sequel is underway! The long-awaited project is now in motion. It might be some time until you hear from us again, but we hope you are as excited as we are for this project. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSoZ...

submitted 167 days ago • 128 comments

And now I just got another very cool thing to do! But my lips are sealed until it's out!

submitted 169 days ago • 0 comments