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MarionetteCreep

@marionettecreep.bsky.social

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Cryptid. Weary Millennial. Occasional artist. Horror and monster enthusiast. English/日本語/Dabbling in français and norsk. May go on tangents about Japanese linguistics. 🚫Do not use art for purposes of AI training/ AI 'art' will blocked.

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MarionetteCreep @marionettecreep.bsky.social · Oct 18

Things I like for those who might be curious:
- Horror in general
- All kinds of monsters
- Terry Pratchett/Discworld
- Reading (broadly)
- Drawing/sketching
- Japanese linguistics/話せるからね
- Folklore/mythology
- Fighting games (particularly Darkstalkers)
- JRPGs
- Movies/video games/anime

MarionetteCreep @marionettecreep.bsky.social · 2d

This reappeared on my feed recently, and it's definitely a blast from the past.

Also, 中村屋！

中村屋

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MarionetteCreep @marionettecreep.bsky.social · 3d

Hard choice, honestly. I will however, defer to my formative years of anime viewing, where I watched the Spriggan trailer repeatedly in in the early 2000s.

MarionetteCreep @marionettecreep.bsky.social · 3d

I remember re-watching the opening news room segment of Dawn of the Dead at the height of the 'demic, and it knocked the wind out of me.

The effect is similar in this day and age.

MarionetteCreep @marionettecreep.bsky.social · 3d

Decided to keep up the momentum from Night last night with Dawn of the Dead (1978) as the next re-watch for this spooky season.

While some elements of Dawn haven't aged as well, much like Night, the social commentary definitely... hits hard in 2025.

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MarionetteCreep @marionettecreep.bsky.social · 3d

You may very well not be where you expected to be with milestones and progress. What's more important is to look at yourself as the sum total of your experiences, not your missed chances.

Be kind to others and yourself, find things that genuinely excite you about the world, and please, stay silly.

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 10d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

MarionetteCreep @marionettecreep.bsky.social · 4d

I can say without reservation that NOTLD has not lost its touch at all. If anything, given the times we're in, the social commentary and the horrific implications of the ending remain razor sharp.

Hell of a horror, and definitely unsettling in a new way.

MarionetteCreep @marionettecreep.bsky.social · 4d

Harry Cooper from Night of the Living Dead (1968) remains one of the best antagonists in all of horror cinema.

Arrogant, prideful, controlling, inflexible and ruled by a combination of fear and a desire to be in charge. Likewise, the sheer hubris of this man and its effects are profound.

MarionetteCreep @marionettecreep.bsky.social · 4d

It's been years since I've seen IT Remake Part 1. I remember liking it at the time when it came out. Not great, not terrible, with some fun sequences.

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MarionetteCreep @marionettecreep.bsky.social · 4d

Decided to rewatch an all-time favourite tonight for the ongoing, if so far sporadic, spooky season viewing.

Night of the Living Dead still remains a hell of a thing.

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MarionetteCreep @marionettecreep.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks for the suggestion!

I've got a copy of that waiting, but I want to build up my Kanji knowledge a bit more first, to make it a smoother experience.

In return, I can recommend the short story anthology 「ぼっちゃん」.

MarionetteCreep @marionettecreep.bsky.social · 4d

Made some fantastic friends, got involved in a few small communities, and I got the push I needed to start making art.

Also, I realised potential pathways to where I wanted to go with Japanese language learning, and the tools to achieve it.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 5d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

MarionetteCreep @marionettecreep.bsky.social · 5d

Following a recommendation from an article by @japanesetalk.bsky.social, I've started reading 「ずっと前から好きでした」and 20+ pages in, this is definitely looking like a fantastic text to bridge between manga and novels, and a good example of comprehensible input for anime/manga fans.

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MarionetteCreep @marionettecreep.bsky.social · 5d

If you're ever near Chayamachi, the Surugaya on top of the Maruzen Junkudou tower had a decent range, at least from what I saw last year.

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MarionetteCreep @marionettecreep.bsky.social · 5d

In short, we sometimes get so caught up with what we COULD do, rather than what we WILL be able to do with language learning. It's a journey.

その上に、『昔の能力』についてだけ考えたら、成長出来ないでしょう。この道は長くも、辛くても、頑張り続けたら、成長の可能性はちゃんと上がるでしょうね。やって見たら、一歩でも進めたら、もうすぐ『こんな事が出来るのか？！』のような一瞬は普通の経験に成る筈ですよ。時間が掛かっても、挫けないで、前へ進めましょう！

MarionetteCreep @marionettecreep.bsky.social · 5d

I have no illusions that I've got a LOT of work ahead of me, but the idea of reading a range of books in Japanese and engaging in historical/folklore research in the next 5-10 years is something I'm deeply excited about.

The 'peak' is yet to come, and will never be set in stone.

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MarionetteCreep @marionettecreep.bsky.social · 5d

I'm still in the wonderful, fun-derful intermediate plateau, but it brings a smile to my face to see how in the last few years my Japanese skills have kind of... blossomed.

It's required a lot of work, but I now have a broader skill set, and I'm working on being able to read a wide range of books.

MarionetteCreep @marionettecreep.bsky.social · 5d

Make no mistake, my career has dominated a lot of the years since, but back then I couldn't hold in-depth conversations, read fiction, follow complex conversations/audio in real time and respond, or use these skills to break down more complex texts.

My whole idea of being 'good' was narrow.

MarionetteCreep @marionettecreep.bsky.social · 5d

Thing is, and quite mistakenly, I assumed for years after I graduated Uni that this was my 'peak', and that my new career and its heavy demands meant this would just decline.

In hindsight, I got *very* good at coursework, but not using Japanese independently and fluidly, which is the path now.

MarionetteCreep @marionettecreep.bsky.social · 5d

The paper was decent, and looked at the pressure of the school system being an interlinked factor with other social issues, but it's the product of a semester.

I remember reading passages from a select range of Japanese non-fiction texts and struggling to translate articles online.

MarionetteCreep @marionettecreep.bsky.social · 5d

I did a fair bit of research into the Japanese school system, futoukou and hikikomori for my in-depth study papers in both Eng/Japanese. This included researching in both languages, but in hindsight, I was brute forcing it.

I was using the language in specific ways, not as part of a skill set.

MarionetteCreep @marionettecreep.bsky.social · 5d

During some spring cleaning today, I stumbled upon some papers from my first semester of pre-Honours Japanese from the late 00s. It was a mixture of course paperwork, pre-exam notes and translations.

For the longest time, I considered this my 'peak' with Japanese. My, how far I've come. 🧵

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MarionetteCreep @marionettecreep.bsky.social · 6d

We really are back to the early days of Google Translate in a way, haha.

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MarionetteCreep @marionettecreep.bsky.social · 6d

Felt like it was time to read some short stories for the spooky season, starting with Edogawa Rampo.

Cover of Edogawa Rampo's translated book Japanese tales of mystery and imagination.

MarionetteCreep @marionettecreep.bsky.social · 6d

Finished Silent Hill f today (endings 1-4), and it's definitely been a fantastic exploration of the greater concepts of the franchise, with some fantastic atmosphere and writing.

I will say though, the gauntlets and needing to finish the game 3.5 times to get the true ending does detract a little.

MarionetteCreep @marionettecreep.bsky.social · 6d

Techbro: Why bother learning a language when you can just get [mythical/magical machine-based translation service] to do it for you?

Machine translation:

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