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Hello, Asra here 👋

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  • MA Dissertation T^T
  • learning kanji and katakana and improving ひらがな
  • learning Spanish
  • improve my web design skills so I can make my neocities site functional
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  • The Iliad (Homer)
  • The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
  • Braiding Sweetgrass (Robin Wall Kimmerer)
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• Noir (2001)

• Hellsing

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Characters R-L : L Lawliet (Death Note), Asagiri Gen (Doctor Stone), Hanji Zoe (A ttack on Titan/ Shingeki no Kyojin), Mizuno Ami (Sailor Moon), Edogawa Rampo (Bungo Stray Dogs), Maomao (The Apothecary Diaries/Kusuriya no Hitorigoto), Ishigami Senku (Doctor Stone), Kurisu Makise (Stein’s;Gate).

Posted on Jan 25, 2024 with 16 notes
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twenty books in spanish, tbr

for when i'm fluent!! most with translations in english.

Sistema Nervoso, Lina Meruane (2021) - Latin American literature professor from Chile, contemporary litfic

Ansibles, perfiladores y otras máquinas de ingenio, Andrea Chapela (2020) - short story collection from a Mexican scifi author, likened to Black Mirror

Nuestra parte de noche, Mariana Enríquez (2019) - very long literary horror novel by incredibly famous Argentine journalist 

Canto yo y la montaña baila, Irene Solà (2019) - translated into Spanish from Castilian by Concha Cardeñoso, contemporary litfic

Las malas, Camila Sosa Villada (2019) - very well rated memoir/autofiction from a trans Argentine author

Humo, Gabriela Alemán (2017) - short litfic set in Paraguay, by Ecuadoran author

La dimensión desconocida, Nona Fernández (2016) - really anything by this Chilean actress/writer; this one is a Pinochet-era historical fiction & v short

Distancia de rescate, Samanta Schweblin (2014) - super short litfic by an Argentinian author based in Germany, loved Fever Dream in English

La ridícula idea de no volver a verte, Rosa Montero (2013) - nonfiction; Spanish author discusses scientist Maria Skłodowska-Curie and through Curie, her own life

Lágrimas en la lluvia, Rosa Montero (2011) - sff trilogy by a Spanish journalist

Los peligros de fumar en la cama, Mariana Enríquez (2009) - short story collection, author noted above

Delirio, Laura Restrepo (2004) - most popular book (maybe) by an award-winning Colombian author; literary fiction

Todos los amores, Carmen Boullosa (1998) - poetry! very popular Mexican author, really open to anything on the backlist this is just inexpensive used online

Olvidado rey Gudú, Ana María Matute (1997) - cult classic, medieval fantasy-ish, award-winning Spanish author

Como agua para chocolate, Laura Esquivel (1989) - v famous novel by v famous Mexican author

Ekomo, María Nsué Angüe (1985) - super short litfic about woman's family, post-colonial Equatoguinean novel; out of print

La casa de los espíritus, Isabelle Allende (1982) - or really anything by her, Chilean author known for magical realism; read in English & didn't particularly love but would be willing to give it another try

Nada, Carmen Laforet (1945) - Spanish author who wrote after the Spanish civil war, v famous novel

Los pazos de Ulloa, Emilia Pardo Bazán (1886) - book one in a family drama literary fiction duology by a famous Galician author, pretty dense compared to the above

La Respuesta, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1691) -  i actually have a bilingual poetry collection from our favorite 17th century feminist Mexican nun; this is an essay defending the right of women to be engaged in intellectual work (& it includes some poems)

bookmarked websites:

Posted on Apr 18, 2025 with 169 notes
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there aren’t enough posts going around about the swedish cryptid known as the skvader which is a rabbit with pheasant wings and also a very good boy.

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like this one dude just made a fake taxidermy and spread it around as a hoax for a good ass while and it lead to this really cool fantasy creature and i am genuinely dissapointed that it never gets used in anything

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THE BOY

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Rabbirds, by the amazing @tkingfisher/Ursula Vernon (source).  

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The lack of skvaders is particularly frustrating when you realize it forms the third point of a wonderful cryptid trifecta.

You got the jackalopes, which are rabbits with antlers.

And you got the wolpertingers, which are rabbits with antlers and wings.

And then… what? Do you escalate? That’s unbalanced, those two rabbit cryptids don’t have the same number of extra things, the wolpertinger is clearly the jackalope But More.

BUT with the skvader on the other side, balance is restored. Antler rabbit, winged rabbit, winged antler rabbit. It’s a classic Venn diagram of imaginary lapine beasts, and it’s only complete if you acknowledge the fucking skvader.

Good thing Ursula’s got our back, at least.

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This is a really excellent point and I applaud your advancements in Cryptid Theory.

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Gentleman, if I might add:

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yes you may add this

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I think balance in crypdids is VERY IMPORTANT.

Posted on Apr 18, 2025 with 254,308 notes
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A very picturesque little shop today! The large text says 双木 Namiki, which is a name belonging to about 900 people.

双 is new to this blog! It means pair, set, or comparison. It can be read ふた, たぐい, ならぶ, ふたつ, or ソウ.

As a counter, it's read ソウ, and it's used for certain paired objects. Generally, though, it's much more common to use 対 【タイ】. Chopsticks are counted with 膳 【ゼン】.

木 should be very familiar. It means tree or wood. It’s read き, こ, ボク, or モク.

Finally, the small text. The noun 古美術商 【こびじゅつしょう】 means antiques dealer. Taking it piece by piece, 古 means old, 美術 means art, and 古美術 means antiques or old works of art. Throw 商 merchant on the end, and there you go! Antiques dealer!

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Unsolicited (that should start alarm bells pealing!) addition that is unrelated to language. I offer a cute display that I spotted in front of a landscaping business. Mom, dad and baby?

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Devils in Daylight by Tanizaki Jun'ichirō

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"Recently I have somehow lost interest in an ordinary life, and am no longer at home in my own skin. I have begun to feel that without some bizarre stimulus I cannot go on living."

"There are few things more insufferable than an overeducated lunatic trying to impress an ignoramus."

"Yes, it is true that, on the basis of her style and her taste in clothing, she would appear to be a geisha. The face too, I grant you, is the type of face one often sees on picture postcards of geisha. But did you not notice the strange expression hovering around those thick eyelashes — that frightful expression of cruelty and strength like that of a wild animal? What did you think of the cold cruelty of her lips, the bottomless cunning inscribed in the lines and colors of her face, somehow tinged at the same time with the melancholic luster of regret? Could there ever be a geisha with a beauty as sick as that? There are no doubt any number of women whose features would rival hers. But what geisha's beauty has a depth like that?"

"The more I thought about it, the more the whole affair seemed mysterious, as if some phantoms were at work. And yet even for a mystery it was too mysterious; and the lights were too bright for phantoms."

"A cruel murderer . . . yes, that's right. And she is also a beautiful sorceress. And yet to me her wickedness seems somehow abstract. It is completely eclipsed by her beauty. As I recall the scene from last night, all I can think of is what a tremendously beautiful monster she is, so ravishing — as to seem otherworldly. . . . She is a heroine ripped from the pages of a detective novel, a devil incarnate; a demon who has long been nesting in the fantasy world inside my head. She is the fantasy I have longed for, now manifested in the real world and come to comfort me in my loneliness."

"It's beautiful because it's frightening, silly! Don't they say that demons are just as beautiful as gods?"

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