akumajoukamachi.bsky.social
American ex-pat, Japanese salary man, and vampire (not necessarily in that order).
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Don't do it! 😱
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Love them! 😍 Thanks for making them!
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à propos of nothing : "proud samus" alt version
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The other rebels don't trust Kaneda, but Kei tells them to leave him alone. Still, they insist on taking the boy with them. Kei is not happy about this! Neither is Kaneda, since it means leaving his bike (aka his Millennium Falcon) behind. Meanwhile, the scientist talks to the Colonel about Tetsuo.
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I hear you, but I also think it's great Cloud can go on a date with Barrett in Final Fantasy VII.
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"ロール: 1950代"
"Roll: 50's"
ロールちゃんはダンシングをしていますね。
Bonus art unlocked in Rockman 4 (Complete Works), when beating Original/Famicom mode on Hard.
Roll dancing like in Back to the Future or another film/TV show set in the 1950s.
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And her canonization in 1925 after WW1 was such a huge event, too (NYT headline and picture from another source).
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Or like this other famous 19th century figure (from Japan, he appears in some anime and things).
That's what I think about sometimes, how she suffered and passed away from the same disease a lot of young people her same age in the 19th and early 20th centuries did.
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The thing about the way she died, for me, is how many of her contemporaries died the same way (e.g., John Keats).
The Japanese poet I mentioned before, Miyazawa Kenji, also ended up passing away from tuberculosis. Such a dreaded killer.
A tuberculosis hospital in Japan was named for her, I think.
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Yes, between the photographs and her own writings, and who she was a person (stubborn, mischievous, clever, etc..), it's so easy to imagine her living here in this present moment. She's forever modern.
What's REALLY haunting is the stories of the WW1 soldiers who saw her in the trenches with them.
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And it's so funny, touching when she's like, "Sorry, you can't stay here in heaven with me and the other saints, time to go back to Earth and do more good work."
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In the end it's all about these sinful, guilt-ridden, broken male characters (e.g. the men Thérèse prayed for, Cloud) and the female saints who see through them like a laser, understand and still love them.
It's why male writers like Miyazawa Kenji and Jack Kerouac also loved St. Thérèse. 🤷♂️
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Yes, some fan (not me!) really made that anime-style art of St. Thérèse throwing flowers. 😅
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Advent Children literally ends with the institution of the Final Fantasy equivalent of the Sacrament of Baptism after the intervention of St. Aerith's prayers, too. And the humble way Aerith talks about her Holy materia she received from her mother maybe even recalls Thérèse's "Little Way." Etc...
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As you know Thérèse dreamed of being a martyr/missionary, whether she was playing Joan of Arc or thinking to go to Vietnam, I think it was? She's very popular in Japan as far as saints go, and so I often wonder what she would think of this flower girl/martyr character who seems clearly based on her.
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Oh, I don't know yet if I will formally publish it or just put it here or on a blog. My current state of life and *gestures around* all this makes it hard for me to know what exactly to do.
I'm just very haunted by Thérèse and the parallels are definitely there so I feel it has to be said somehow.
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Well, it looks like I should read it, since it seems relevant to some things I want to say about St. Thérèse and Aerith and the deconstruction of male heroism in Final Fantasy 7/Advent Children (the game and related media is partly a response to Sakaguchi's mother dying in a house fire in his 20's).
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Does he compare Villon to the "good thief" on the cross? I have a vague memory of someone doing that, but it might not have been Balthasar. It's a comparison that seems to come naturally out of his life and work.
Haha, when I put "Balthasar" and "Villon" into Google your article came up first!
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Oh! What does he say about Villon? Is it about the "snows of yesteryear?" 'Le grand testament'? 'Le Lais'? His criminal escapades?
Or all of the above? 😅
I used to read a lot of de Lubac back in the day, but stopped before I got to Bathasar like I planned to.
Someday I'll get back to him.
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As you might know, Bernanos also wrote 'Diary of a Country Priest," which made another great film.
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That's awesome! What about Rimbaud and Verlaine?
I've only read some of Baudelaire and Thérèse's things, since at the time I was more focused on medieval/early modern stuff like Chrétien de Troyes, François Villon, du Bellay, etc....Someday I'll get back to them.
'Manon' is a sequel to 'Jean.'
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"ロール: 1950代"
"Roll: 50's"
ロールちゃんはダンシングをしていますね。
Bonus art unlocked in Rockman 4 (Complete Works), when beating Original/Famicom mode on Hard.
Roll dancing like in Back to the Future or another film/TV show set in the 1950s.
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Yeah, the stuff that's impossible to translate can really teach you a lot about the culture and your own.
As someone famous maybe said, "The limits of my language are the limits of my world."
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I've forgotten a lot since I moved to Japan and focused on learning Japanese years ago, but I always plan to go back to my French and re-polish it.
Since French classical music, new wave films, bande dessinées, and St. Thérèse, etc... are still important to me. I love the medieval stuff, too.
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As for music, Poulenc wrote a lot of beautiful songs (settings of poetry), plus Dialogue of the Carmelites, a great Catholic opera (drawing on Bernanos, St. Thérèse), so those were also helpful to me.
And lots of Tintin and other bande dessinée.
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Have you tried any Antoine de Saint-Exupéry yet?
I also recommend Baudelaire's "Flowers of Evil" to help with vocabulary, since there's lots of English translations, and it's dope.
For movies, I hope you've seen 'Jean de Floret' and 'Manon of the Spring.'
TMI, I studied French in HS & college.