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some weirdo over there | mediocre haskell programmer | amateur "linguist" | frugiferous/nuciferous plant enthusiast | terrible pun-maker | some other things | 狂死香が推し

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playing some rct2 to calm down
A steel twister coaster in OpenRCT2 (Roller Coaster Tycoon 2).
November 2, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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George Springer immediately after this game:
November 2, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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I love processing overripe damson plums
A bowl of pitted damson plum flesh
October 27, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Thatineau
'Thanatos' from Hades drawn in wplace over Gatineau, Quebec.
August 10, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Sanae over Mer Bleue? I... Guess that fits?
A pixel drawing of Sanae Kochiya on wplace (wplace.live) over top of Mer Bleue in Southeast Rural Ottawa.
August 10, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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sour cherry sauce
August 10, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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Or if they really wanted to swing for the fences, extend Line 4 along the old railway through River Ward, Nepean, Bells Corners, and into Kanata.
A theoretical schematic map of Ottawa O-Train Lines 2 and 4, with Line 4 extended through River Ward, Nepean, Bells Corners, before ending in Kanata North.
July 31, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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somehow remembered and found that time I tried to transcribe 'Feels so Good' for Shamisen.

I'm... not sure I remember what I mean by all the notation here, or even which parts of the song they correspond to.

anyway rip Chuck.
'Feels so Good' by Chuck Mangione, but transcribed to tablature for Shamisen. It was transcribed in Notepad, so it's pretty rough. The beats are marked by alternating -x-o at the bottom of the tabs. More of 'Feels so Good' by Chuck Mangione, but transcribed to tablature for Shamisen.
July 27, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Shagbark Hickory
A shagbark Hickory fruit, still on the tree. (Carya ovata)
July 22, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Japanese walnuts
A pair of green Japanese walnuts fruits (Juglans ailantifolia).
July 22, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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A small cross-section slice of a tree with an image of a horse burned into it. Below the horse is the phrase "The loneliest goat sees the last sunset last..." also burned into it.
July 8, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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yeah it's definitely better with the jp voice track
July 3, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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Got some plumcots.

or maybe they're pluots. idk
A plumcots, a green-speckled red-skinned cross between a plum and an apricot. It is partially cut open, exposing the deep red flesh within.
July 3, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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fuck I hadn't even considered that she dies in the main route by blowing herself up.

like, supposedly they didn't want to make any direct comparisons to any real-life wars, but... uh... this is pretty close to Japanese propaganda from WWII!
A section of the Wikipedia page for Yosano Akiko, a Japanese nationalist poet. In her poem "Citizens of Japan, A Morning Song" published in June 1932, Yosano embraced Bushido as she praised a Japanese soldier for dying for the Emperor at the First Battle of Shanghai as she described how the soldier "scatters" his body when he is blown apart as a "human bomb". Yosano called the "scattered" body of the soldier "purer than a flower, giving life to a samurai's honor". Unlike the Kimi, Yosano called for Japanese women to "unify in loyalty" for the "cause of the Emperor's forces". The American scholar Steven Robson noted that unlike the Kimi, which like the rest of Yosano's early poetry was extremely innovative, Citizens of Japan is cliche-ridden as Yosano used well-known phrases like "a samurai's honor" taken straight from the ultra-nationalist press without developing a vocabulary of her own. Yosano ended her poem by praising Bushido, declaring that the "purest" act a Japanese man could perform was to die for the Emperor in battle and urged the Kwantung Army forward onward in the conquest of Manchuria "through suffering a hundredfold" to "smash the sissified dreams of compromise".
June 23, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Though I guess Kyoshika's logo is more reminiscent of a plum blossom than a cherry blossom? Typically, cherry blossom emblems have notches at the end of the petals, but hers doesn't.

Maybe it's to make the connection slightly less overt.
Kyoshika Magadori's logo/emblem from The Hundred Line. It is a stylised Cherry Blossom Emblem/Mon/Design, with another Cherry Blossom (with visible stamens) overtop and counterchanged. A typical Sakura-mon, or Cherry Blossom Emblem/Crest. It is a stylised depiction of a typical (single-flowered) cherry tree flower. Note the notches at the ends of the petals. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%E5%B1%B1%E6%A1%9C%EF%BC%88%EF%BC%91%EF%BC%89.png A typical Ume-mon, or plum blossom emblem/crest. Unlike the cherry blossom crests, there are no notches at the ends of the petals. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Japanese_Crest_Ume.svg
June 22, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Hmm... #hundred_line
(spoilers, discussion of death/war crimes)
A section from the Wikipedia page for "Cherry Blossom", on the symbols relationship with militarism in Japan. During World War II, cherry blossoms were used as a symbol to motivate the Japanese people and stoke nationalism and militarism. The Japanese proverb hana wa sakuragi, hito wa bushi ("the best blossom is the cherry blossom, the best man is a warrior") was evoked in the Imperial Japanese Army as a motivation during the war. Even before the war, cherry blossoms were used in propaganda to inspire the "Japanese spirit", as in the "Song of Young Japan", exulting in "warriors" who were "ready like the myriad cherry blossoms to scatter". In 1894, Sasaki Nobutsuna composed a poem, Shina seibatsu no uta (The Song of the Conquest of the Chinese) to coincide with the First Sino-Japanese War. The poem compares falling cherry blossoms to the sacrifice of Japanese soldiers who fall in battles for their country and emperor. In 1932, Akiko Yosano's poetry urged Japanese soldiers to endure suffering in China and compared the dead soldiers to cherry blossoms. Arguments that the plans for the Battle of Leyte Gulf, involving all Japanese ships, would expose Japan to danger if they failed were countered with the plea that the Navy be permitted to "bloom as flowers of death". The last message of the forces on Peleliu was "Sakura, Sakura". Japanese pilots would paint sakura flowers on the sides of their planes before embarking on a suicide mission, or even take branches of the trees with them on their missions. A cherry blossom painted on the side of a bomber symbolized the intensity and ephemerality of life; in this way, falling cherry petals came to represent the sacrifice of youth in suicide missions to honor the emperor. The first kamikaze unit had a subunit called Yamazakura, or wild cherry blossom. The Japanese government encouraged the people to believe that the souls of downed warriors were reincarnated in the blossoms". Kyoshika Magadori in the Hundred Line: "The way of the samurai is a path that leads to death. I will die honorably!" Kyoshika Magadori in the Hundred Line: "My life will scatter like petals in the wind this eve. But I will not die in vain."
June 22, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Recently planted apricot (Prunus armeniaca) tree.
A young Apricot (Prunus armeniaca) tree, trunk less than an inch in diameter, with a significant number of leaves growing.
June 15, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Beaked Hazelnut (Corylus cornuta) fruit/beaks/nuts.
A young beaked hazelnut "beak" (a green sphere surrounding the growing nut, with a tubular "beak" extending out to one side). A young beaked hazelnut "beak" (a green sphere surrounding the growing nut, with a tubular "beak" extending out to one side). A young beaked hazelnut "beak" (a green sphere surrounding the growing nut, with a tubular "beak" extending out to one side). A young beaked hazelnut "beak" (a green sphere surrounding the growing nut, with a tubular "beak" extending out to one side).
June 15, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Raspberry
A green, unripe raspberry.
June 10, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Part of the issue is that "Get away" can be used to tell someone to run away to protect themself, but it can also be said to an opponent in desperation.

So either interpretation could work here.

But in the Japanese version, she uses 「逃げる」 (nigeru), which doesn't have the second sense.
The same scene, but in the Japanese version. Kyoshika: 来てはならぬ！ここから…逃げっ… Roughly "literally": "You mustn't come! Run away... from here..."
June 8, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Oh yeah, seeing points about occasional minor errors in Hundred Line's translation reminded me of this line.

Without spoiling too much, Kyoshika's fighting off an aggressor when Takumi arrives.

However, with the English translation, it's unclear whether she's talking to the aggressor or Takumi.
The Hundred Line Scene: Kyoshika Magadori is holding her sword with a concerned look on her face. She says "Don't come any closer! Get away...!" Meanwhile Takumi Sumino looks on in shock.
June 8, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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okay now i need art of Kyoshika cutting out invasive plant species
Kyoshika Magadori from The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy. She is saying: "I wish to protect all who are seen as weaker. Whether they be young, elderly, male, female, animals, or even plants...
June 7, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Yugamu Omokage from The Hundred Line.
June 5, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Strong Mad standing amongst a bunch of cubes. "Cubeland" is written in the top left corner.
June 5, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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#hundred_line
Tweet from papapishu.bsky.social, but with Yugamu Omokage and Darumi Amemiya from The Hundred Line added in. THERAPIST: you've started calling objectively awful things "insanely good" to protect yourself from how awful the world is ME: lol that owns In this case, Yugamu is supposed to be the therapist, looking concerned, while Darumi represents the author, with a huge shit-eating grin on her face with her fingers at the edges of her smile.
June 1, 2025 at 4:18 AM