I don't know who's doing the subs for Mars Red but let me give you major props because quoting poetry and books from the Taisho era is no easy feat. you: but it's a stupid vampire alternate history show!

me: and yet episode three has one of the main cast and his wife reciting poetry/literature to each other from the Meiji/Taisho eras.

Did another test for freelance stuff today (not in publishing or any of my usual circles, either). It's out of my comfort zone but I hope I pass and negotiate better pay since this seems really easy and chill. For the most part for the test I could shut my brain off and I need more work like that!

Man Japan still out here region-locking shit like it's still 2001. 🥴 Remember, kids: kpop prospered while jpop perished in the mid-aughts mostly due to access. Korean companies made things available legally worldwide while to this day Japan still gets weird about it.

Not @ me skipping 5 pages of this book because my brain is too tired from parsing the other 5 I finished today

why. this is just porn. why do I have to explain volatile organic compounds and other science whyyyyyyyyy I actually admire this author for daring to even go the intellectual route here, even if the material itself isn't what I particularly prefer. But as much as admire him I wish everything a very stop

Messed with part of my DVD shelf to calm down (another set of neighbors playing music). Managed to find all of Nadia for $30! I'm not sure if I should move her to the Eva shelf or not. Still thinking about it.

(This is maybe a third of the shelf btw!) Oh no am I at the point where it's time to do an Anno only part of this shelf aaaaaa

Reminder that Abe is absolutely a gross hawk who wants to do away with Article 9 and has an actual, honest to god political cult behind him so maybe don't do this whole "he's so cute" thing.

https://twitter.com/Birdyword/status/1123889179845328904

Let me elaborate on this. The LDP, Abe's party, is super right-wing and wants to dismantle the current post-WWII JP constitution. He wants nukes. He wants to return to the WWII Imperialist Japan model where the emperor is god.

The emperor that just stepped down us pacifist.

I've doing some serious reflection on friendships as of late, just generally.

So let's talk about that. Illness has a way of telling you who your real friends are. It's a litmus test, the most basic one.

Some will step up.
Some won't.
Some can't.

It's basic, something we should know in our cells. Genetic memory. The oldest question.