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J>E translator of creative works, lover of Meiji-Taisho Japan. Former horse girl, current cat dad. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️日本語ok. 💕@verminclub. Looking for work in Germany for summer 2025.
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spotted this at the gay bar in NOLA over the weekend and i’ll never stop thinking about it as long as i live

Next week, I was supposed to visit a public middle school in New Jersey (outside of NYC). Today I was informed that I'm not permitted to discuss books about gender, violence, or sexual orientation. Queer kids exist. Queer kids exist in middle schools. Erasing queer kids is cruel and evil.

what's wrong babe? you've barely touched your rarohire rochi terochichimomo

Finally!!! They’ve made it. These should hit our distributor in a few weeks and then start showing up on shelves in April.

I call this shoehorning a translation. If you find yourself doing linguistic gymnastics to make your TL work, you likely haven't properly understood the source text. Read your TL, and when you notice a weird leap in logic, go back to the source and re-assess the meaning.

Boycotts are taking hold. Protests are on the rise. Federal courts are hitting back. The Trump-Musk-Vance regime's popularity is plunging and DOGE is losing credibility. In these dark times, it's important to recognize that people are fighting back. Join them.

thanks michael

If you have a device that CAN run Apple Intelligence you need to turn this off as well as the general Apple Intelligence setting. Settings > Screen Time > scroll down to Content and Privacy > turn on Restrictions > Intelligence and Siri > turn off the first three options

also I must offer my opinion A lot of people look at manga and imagine a paradise. That paradise is an illusion. The artists who draw manga are working with a team of assistants. And even so, it is commonplace for them to work around the clock, continually without rest. and then they die at 60.

Woah, Hana. Woah. All I wanted to do was help people write letters. I didn't harvest their souls for training data.

Not making this up. There’s zoomers dancing to Evacuate the Dance Floor with Jujutsu Kaisen playing behind them.

My favorite twink is slaying in the club tonight. It’s Levi. He’s killing titans.

Didn’t expect to see the final season of Attack on Titan framed by a wavy chandelier and a pride flag.

If you told me 15 years ago that the local gay bar/club would be showing anime on Saturday night, I would have called you delusional.

Judith Butler: "Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?"

Me in sixth grade.

Still can’t believe we could get free sample episodes each month. It was so easy to own media back then.

There aren't strong enough words

My kickstarter set arrivedd @glacierbaybooks.com sooo stoked to read emmm

Do it right kids

Bisexuality was so new in 1995 that they hadn't yet invented bisexual lighting, and so were forced to light bisexuals as if they were b movie villains

One funny thing about researching anime history is that a lot of the people talking about it dictate a moment or era's importance because it was the moment or era in which they (them specifically) discovered anime.

me buying an egg with the money i get back

(Alt text for the Saqi Books statement I just RS'd ⬇️)

nothing funnier than seeing a bunch of conservatives bitch about the half time show and how "nobody there liked his music" when the whole stadium was shouting out the lyrics to Not Like Us lol

Proof-of-concept cels for the Takahata/Miyazaki series Pippi Longstocking (unreleased) These mock-ups reveal how the Pippi anime might have looked -- if it hadn't been canceled in the early '70s

Goodnight

Can’t wait to see Segway Clouds at conventions.

One of the things the ghouls in power in the US omit when they blame DEI for every evil they themselves have brought upon us is that it is commonly expressed as DEIA, with the A meaning “accessibility”.

I just… 😭😆🔥 (this anniversary year is going to be wild, huh)

If they don't make an Anthy that comes with extra parts for her & Utena to hold hands, the shes, theys, and gays are gonna RIOT.

Teen Vogue just killing it.

Very excited to dive into my recent haul of manga/graphic novels published by @glacierbaybooks.com! 🐧 Especially And the Strange and Funky Happenings One Day, Flashpoint, and Seaside Beta