I bulk-archived 46,000 emails that were sitting in my Gmail inbox from 2020 to today…

dhuartson: Don't let anyone talk you out of spending $15 on a new hobby. That $50 will be the best $400 you ever spent.

This is not wrong.

We get it, Fyodor, you wanna run your little rat fingers through your henchmen’s long luscious locks.

What is the shampoo budget for the Rats of the House of the Dead/Decay of Angels dudes?

Rewatching Bungo Stray Dogs like okay Fyodor definitely has a type…
you have Ivan his lobotomized servant guy who has long pretty hair, Gogol also has long pretty hair, and then there’s Sigma who Fyodor created with the page from the Book who also has long pretty hair…

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I need to know what this means

Okay I misread something and the anti-Dazai-death protocol was actually a secret from Dazai

Imagine that follow up to the workplace AED and CPR recertification day. You’ve got the CPR dummies lying on the floor and the creepy robotic AED voice and then after that, everyone goes over the anti-Dazai-death protocol while Dazai whines at them about how they absolutely shouldn’t do any of this

Implied in the existence of this protocol is that BSD abilities exist in the brain… since the theory is that if Dazai’s heart and lungs can be resuscitated there will be a split second before his brain and therefore nullification ability come online when Yosano used her ability to heal him

Somehow the least surprising little reveal so far in the wild ride of a light novel that is Bungo Stray Dogs 55 Minutes is that the Agency, mostly Kunikida, has designed and trained on a “what if Dazai does actually manage to die” protocol to resuscitate him

Your fruit bathroom is adorable!!

dogweapon on tumblr: "the author's barely disguised longing for a kinder world"

Ooh hopefully my copy will be here soon…!

And I just got a message from my kimono teacher that I might be able to do my kimono dresser/instructor certification course this year after all. While I’m not expecting that to turn out to be a significant side hustle, it will be fun to be able to dress my friends 👘

So I got laid off from my job of nearly 8 years last week. I’m anxious about the future because the job market is really tough for everyone right now but I’m also excited about the possibility to do something else in a different organization…

I just tried to "up dog" my seven year old nephew.

"hey, do you have up dog?"

Him: "Yeah!" And runs off to his room.

He comes back with a toy: the dog from "Up".

"it's the Up Dog"

Damn he got me

What kind of curry are you trying to make? I make a pretty good vegetarian Japanese curry just using the curry roux blocks and whatever veggies I have in my fridge (I call it garbage disposal curry 🤪).
I’ve had decent results with Thai green curry using curry paste from a tub too…

Unfortunately these are kinda good

Happy deranged Easter candy to all who celebrate

BSD rewatch:
The Dark Era is still so fucking sad every time

I think I still have the hard drive where I torrented and never watched the old one…..

But also omg????!

"Here's what doesn't happen in war: there are no wondrous, climactic battles that leave the good guys standing tall and the bad guys lying in the dirt. Life isn't a World Wrestling Federation Smackdown. Even the people who win a war, who survive and come out the other side with the conviction that they have done something brave and necessary, don't do a lot of celebrating. There's very little chanting of 'we're number one' among people who've personally experienced war. I'm just a writer, and my main goal was always to entertain. But I've never let Animorphs turn into just another painless video game version of war, and I wasn't going to do it at the end. I've spent 60 books telling a strange, fanciful war story, sometimes very seriously, sometimes more tongue-in-cheek. I've written a lot of action and a lot of humor and a lot of sheer nonsense. But I have also, again and again, challenged readers to think about what they were reading. To think about the right and wrong, not just the who-beat-who. And to tell you the truth I'm a little shocked that so many readers seemed to believe I'd wrap it all up with a lot of high-fiving and backslapping. Wars very often end, sad to say, just as ours did: with a nearly seamless transition to another war. So, you don't like the way our little fictional war came out? You don't like Rachel dead and Tobias shattered and Jake guilt-ridden? You don't like that one war simply led to another? Fine. Pretty soon you'll all be of voting age, and of draft age. So when someone proposes a war, remember that even the most necessary wars, even the rare wars where the lines of good and evil are clear and clean, end with a lot of people dead, a lot of people crippled, and a lot of orphans, widows and grieving parents. If you're mad at me because that's what you have to take away from Animorphs, too bad. I couldn't have written it any other way and remained true to the respect I have always felt for Animorphs readers. K.A. Applegate"

"Here's what doesn't happen in war: there are no wondrous, climactic battles that leave the good guys standing tall and the bad guys lying in the dirt. Life isn't a World Wrestling Federation Smackdown."
K.A. Applegate, author of Animorphs, letting 'em know. hiracdelest.com/database/art...

I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake By A Horse Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me is hay and oats. But I am thinking it would be nice to have a different food. I am thinking I would like to try cake. Yes, yes. Cake. I know all about it. When humans eat cake, it is in glad times. It is the food for a celebration, such as when a woman becomes 47. I have seen cake on the Fourth of July. When humans have a cake, they stand around it and clap hands and smile and say happy birthday at each other. Sometimes there are beautiful markings on a cake, such as balloons or a pink shape. Sometimes the top of a cake is on fire and a boy must blow on the fire with mouth wind. This is the scariest cake. I do not want this kind. But I will eat any other cake. Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy. Please understand: I do not get money for doing work. I do not get to go inside the house. All I am either doing my horse job or standing in my pen or eating food off the floor. I always do these things. But I have never once gotten cake and I would like it very much. I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children. I am more helpful to the farm. Children do not move the heavy things like me or let anyone ride on them. And yet they get cake. Maybe the humans will realize this. Maybe they will say, "You know who deserves cake? That horse. That horse whose back we are always on." Every day I dream about what it will be like if I get to eat cake. Here is what will happen. First, I will walk to the cake and putt my nose at it like hrrfff to make and stomping my hooves to make sure it is not a snake. Then I will trot in a circle to show that I am a horse and I am large. After that, I will nuzzle the cake to …

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me.

It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

The apothecary diaries April fools artwork is everything to me

Two chapters into an audiobook of 人間資格 and I already feel like “ah, this is where BSD Dazai is coming from.”

so you're telling me that i have to work a job and also cook my own meals and on top of that cook my own yaoi

I wish I could get Japanese books from my U.S. library…
Might fuck around and try to listen to an audiobook of 羅生門 or 人間失格 on my work commute…

Megumi and Yuuji

I think the popularity of Jujutsu Kaisen and how narratively weak the Culling Game arc is has led me to be a lot less harsh on BSD. It may be Whackadoodle Time plot-wise in BSD but the storytelling is actually pretty tight, even if there are plot threads crawling out all over the place.