Dr. Nyri A. Bakkalian
@riversidewings.bsky.social
Santaku Dynamics tachi-class combat doll and Your Favorite Historydyke (PhD UPitt '17). Public historian. She/彼女. An Anatolian bimbo by Daoist praxis. PGH via BEY, PHL, SDJ. Byline at Unseen Japan. 八幡信者. Opinions mine. Website at http://riverside-wings.com
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Here's the deal. Trying to focus on being less terminally online and getting more work done. I'm not *leaving,* it's just this is why I don't post as much as I did before.
I've got 3 different books (monograph, bio, novel) in the works. those words don't write themselves!)
to support that work:
I've got 3 different books (monograph, bio, novel) in the works. those words don't write themselves!)
to support that work:
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![If I became Prime Minister, I would get killed like Abe Shinzo [sic].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wptdund6nuvdzug3bgccb2a6/bafkreicakicyutwrwal32dqym52h2oyu47ixy7dyx5ppkhqpjsmrso3vki@jpeg)
For those who would like to support my work and are looking for a Patreon alternative: I've now got an option on my website for paid subscriptions. I'll be mirroring tiers and content there so that there's another option for those who so choose. Thanks for your support! buff.ly/AmGp3Ll
"North Star Forever!"
Homepage of Dr. Nyri A. Bakkalian
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November 25, 2025 at 10:35 PM
For those who would like to support my work and are looking for a Patreon alternative: I've now got an option on my website for paid subscriptions. I'll be mirroring tiers and content there so that there's another option for those who so choose. Thanks for your support! buff.ly/AmGp3Ll
As I retool for working on #FridayNightHistory Season 5 and its coverage of the Boshin War, I am curious-- what are *your* questions on Japan's Bakumatsu, a.k.a. late Edo, period? (For those unfamiliar with the term, this is from roughly 1853 to 1868) #AMA
a cartoon of a man in a red shirt and a man in a blue robe with a sword
Alt: A scene from the anime Bakumatsu Yankee
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November 25, 2025 at 10:20 PM
As I retool for working on #FridayNightHistory Season 5 and its coverage of the Boshin War, I am curious-- what are *your* questions on Japan's Bakumatsu, a.k.a. late Edo, period? (For those unfamiliar with the term, this is from roughly 1853 to 1868) #AMA
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Because a systematic, responsible, scholarly accounting of its complicated history requires more than Nietzschean buzzwords and Sakamoto Ryōma x Katsu Kaishū fanfiction:
#FridayNightHistory Season 6, coming 2027, will cover Shinsengumi.
Tell your friends.
#FridayNightHistory Season 6, coming 2027, will cover Shinsengumi.
Tell your friends.
a close up of a man 's face with a tree branch behind him
Alt: Hijikata Toshizō as depicted in the NHK taiga drama "Shinsengumi!"
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November 20, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Because a systematic, responsible, scholarly accounting of its complicated history requires more than Nietzschean buzzwords and Sakamoto Ryōma x Katsu Kaishū fanfiction:
#FridayNightHistory Season 6, coming 2027, will cover Shinsengumi.
Tell your friends.
#FridayNightHistory Season 6, coming 2027, will cover Shinsengumi.
Tell your friends.
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what if we kissed... under the missle toad
November 25, 2025 at 3:08 PM
what if we kissed... under the missle toad
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November 25, 2025 at 3:54 PM
re: "we're all drilling with muskets now." Here's Shinsengumi evacuating Nijo Castle in late 1867, carrying muskets with bayonets attached.
I would love for more depictions of the Shinsengumi in popular media to do justice to the fact that they carried muskets and rifles for most of their existence. Lots of sword masters, yes, but they were drilling with firearms constantly.
November 25, 2025 at 10:13 PM
re: "we're all drilling with muskets now." Here's Shinsengumi evacuating Nijo Castle in late 1867, carrying muskets with bayonets attached.
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My friend Nyri only needs $133 more to make her top-surgery down payment. Once that's submitted, she'll be able to schedule and reserve a date for the procedure.
Nyri regularly astonishes me with how hard and steadfastly she fights for the life that should be hers—let's help her make this happen!
Nyri regularly astonishes me with how hard and steadfastly she fights for the life that should be hers—let's help her make this happen!
There are a scant 20 days before I need to make a down payment on the top surgery I've sought for years! With your help, I can raise the remaining $133 out of $1000 I need via the links.
Thanks for helping me reclaim my mountains ⛰️⛰️
buff.ly/bWXC283
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Thanks for helping me reclaim my mountains ⛰️⛰️
buff.ly/bWXC283
buff.ly/A38jBVM
November 25, 2025 at 10:07 PM
My friend Nyri only needs $133 more to make her top-surgery down payment. Once that's submitted, she'll be able to schedule and reserve a date for the procedure.
Nyri regularly astonishes me with how hard and steadfastly she fights for the life that should be hers—let's help her make this happen!
Nyri regularly astonishes me with how hard and steadfastly she fights for the life that should be hers—let's help her make this happen!
The image of "Shinsengumi, steadfast last loyalists of the era of the sword" is so funny when you see Hijikata's "we're all drilling with muskets now" letters from 1864-65.
November 25, 2025 at 9:53 PM
The image of "Shinsengumi, steadfast last loyalists of the era of the sword" is so funny when you see Hijikata's "we're all drilling with muskets now" letters from 1864-65.
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Seen south of Pittsburgh. They really want you to get a Chevrolet in their Colussy.
July 30, 2023 at 11:55 PM
Seen south of Pittsburgh. They really want you to get a Chevrolet in their Colussy.
"Ssh. Listen."
November 25, 2025 at 8:32 PM
"Ssh. Listen."
Afternoon in Minamisanriku. A hina-type doll follows the causeway back up the seawall. She's shouldering her fishing pole and carrying a bucket of her catch, the little fish that teem in the Yawata River.
Not nearly big enough for a meal, but very good for her cats. #DollsOfMiyagi
Not nearly big enough for a meal, but very good for her cats. #DollsOfMiyagi
November 25, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Afternoon in Minamisanriku. A hina-type doll follows the causeway back up the seawall. She's shouldering her fishing pole and carrying a bucket of her catch, the little fish that teem in the Yawata River.
Not nearly big enough for a meal, but very good for her cats. #DollsOfMiyagi
Not nearly big enough for a meal, but very good for her cats. #DollsOfMiyagi
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One of the enduring mysteries of Shinsengumi is the identity of the lone young woman in Nakajima Nobori's Senyū Sugatae (Images of my Comrades in Arms) portrait series. The text simply reads "The younger sister of Hara Gorō of Aizu domain. Killed in action at 17."
November 15, 2024 at 7:07 PM
One of the enduring mysteries of Shinsengumi is the identity of the lone young woman in Nakajima Nobori's Senyū Sugatae (Images of my Comrades in Arms) portrait series. The text simply reads "The younger sister of Hara Gorō of Aizu domain. Killed in action at 17."
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Cyborg milves' slice of life, interrupted.
August 1, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Cyborg milves' slice of life, interrupted.
There are a scant 20 days before I need to make a down payment on the top surgery I've sought for years! With your help, I can raise the remaining $133 out of $1000 I need via the links.
Thanks for helping me reclaim my mountains ⛰️⛰️
buff.ly/bWXC283
buff.ly/A38jBVM
Thanks for helping me reclaim my mountains ⛰️⛰️
buff.ly/bWXC283
buff.ly/A38jBVM
November 25, 2025 at 4:41 PM
There are a scant 20 days before I need to make a down payment on the top surgery I've sought for years! With your help, I can raise the remaining $133 out of $1000 I need via the links.
Thanks for helping me reclaim my mountains ⛰️⛰️
buff.ly/bWXC283
buff.ly/A38jBVM
Thanks for helping me reclaim my mountains ⛰️⛰️
buff.ly/bWXC283
buff.ly/A38jBVM
Reading "Carve it on My Bones" by @shadell.itch.io and as another author of similar (trans, transhumanist, mecha) fiction, I am *hooked*.
November 25, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Reading "Carve it on My Bones" by @shadell.itch.io and as another author of similar (trans, transhumanist, mecha) fiction, I am *hooked*.
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Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back except that Leia secretly spikes Luke's bacta tank with space estrogen
November 25, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back except that Leia secretly spikes Luke's bacta tank with space estrogen
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November 25, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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November 25, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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even this many years after I clawed my doctorate from its grasp, the University of Pittsburgh continues to find new ways of fucking with me
November 25, 2025 at 2:19 AM
even this many years after I clawed my doctorate from its grasp, the University of Pittsburgh continues to find new ways of fucking with me
Back to the streets of Sotenbori for our exploration of Japan during the Bubble Era with #YakuzaZero! Follows help improve my reach, subs help me keep doing what I do. Come by and say hi! twitch.tv/riversidewings #TokiKitareri #時来たれり
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Local Combat Doll Goes Live
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November 25, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Back to the streets of Sotenbori for our exploration of Japan during the Bubble Era with #YakuzaZero! Follows help improve my reach, subs help me keep doing what I do. Come by and say hi! twitch.tv/riversidewings #TokiKitareri #時来たれり