when life gives you lemons, you give half of them back and affirm that you are indeed eating and sleeping enough and will make an effort to visit more often, thanks love you bye

i'm pretty used to my parents sending me home with like ten pounds of pears from their garden every time i visit, but "bag full of lemons that the neighbor's tree dropped in their yard" is a new one. anyway, i'm forgoing a grocery trip today because my hands are full of So Many Goddamn Lemons

luna on her back with her head thrown back

this is a trap, don't even pretend lady

luna the cat sitting on my shins, head resting on an ankle

please let me get up luna i am begging you

still, if the worst thing i can say about kokuho is that it begs unfavorable comparisons to one of the masterpieces of our time? could do worse, and i appreciate anything that makes me nearly blurt out あらあら、龍が如くしてるわ

while the kabuki scenes are compelling, only rarely do they reflect the characters' overall drama. it is, according to my wife, "a sports movie," where kabuki could be swapped out for any other Activity and the central rivalry would remain virtually unchanged

finally got around to seeing KOKUHO. immediate thought: for a film about onnagata kabuki actors, there's a remarkable lack of Gender going on. makes me appreciate all the more what showa genroku rakugo shinjuu did in interrogating gender as performance, and performance as an expression of gender

They’re telling me a great empire will be destroyed if I attack Persia. Even the oracles who don’t like me very much, very nasty, they all said to me, “Sir, it’s one of the great empires, and it’ll be destroyed. And all because you attacked Persia.” That’s what they’re telling me.

strive to reach a level of comprehension in your L2 where you can sniff out which concerns about historicity in video games are rooted in a nuanced understanding of past atrocities, and which ones are dogwhistles from racist weirdos who don't think indigenous identity is real

thought about making pasta, decided that was too much work, so instead i ate a can of tomatoes with a pinch of salt and am pretty much satisfied

me after completing one task

the irony here is that my order today was so basic bitch that i can hear my ancestors rolling in their graves

being visibly asian in the local hole-in-the-wall chinese restaurant: all the white people come up to ask what you ordered because it looks good

sometimes i forget i'm the older one in the relationship but then my wife asks me "what's shakugan no shana" and i die a little inside

i say "us" but really i mean "people who aren't watching someone else's play through the gaps between their fingers
"

ink ribbon saves may no longer be a standard part of the bio experience, but fear not, the pennypinchers among us still get to agonize over not-crimsonheads

something i didn't realize i'd miss about the midwest: squirrels with giant fluffy tails. what do you MEAN californian squirrels aren't fifty percent tail by volume

wife soft and... actually not that warm, but that's okay because i overheat anyways

Ganado: ¿que carajo estas haciendo aqui? Leon, thinking: oh man, I knew high school Spanish would come in handy one day!! Leon: ¿donde estas the president’s daughter?

Leon: look, I know you’re upset it took me so long to save you, but lemme show you something cool Leon presents a tiny Leon keychain Ashley glares at it, she is not impressed

pupper!!

pubby

i love the cat even though she's dumb as bricks. perhaps even because of it. may she have the luxury of never having to think a single thought in the rest of her kitty life.

five golden kamuy guys naked in a sauna

thanks

like i said, bears

sugimoto golden kamuy holding up a sexy tanigaki photo

oh hey you know what i'm over five years behind on? bears, and also bears

rising urge to screech at the local wildlife until i get arrested for bird crimes

brain's current status is like, whatever the opposite of mindfulness is, like if you mixed pop rocks into grey matter and then tossed it into a deep fryer

i like my wife :)

turns out it doesn't have to be ass o'clock for me to be banned from posting :) too bad! wife is napping and can't stop me!