BTW, "netouyo" (one "t") is an abbreviation of "netto-uyoku".

I'm fairly certain "netto-uyo" is a mistake.

I wonder how the Japanese right wing will harmonize their love of Trump with their (performative?) outrage at his friend Sen. Mike Lee earlier this year.

Trump, Lee and Alkonis are all 嫌日の不良外国人, no matter how one wants to spin it.

This is painful. The actual recording of Tollers is ... well, it's Tolkien, who's always interesting. But the original (BBC?) interviewer is awkwardly faded out, and the first 15 minutes are just some guy reading a Wikipedia-level bio of Tollers, whose name he keeps mispronouncing as "Totallin'".

Well, I guess I'm back here forever (or at least for the next four years) now that E-Line Mask's candidate has won the election and the hellsite is on track to get even worse🫠

Holy crap... Hbomberguy's new video is amazing! I really should have scheduled my viewing better, though😅

BlueBird Social has a setting where you can get automatic notifications of all posts from particular accounts -- does this site have something similar?

Been reading a lot of Shigeru Mizuki's manga lately. Good stuff!

This is one of the most famous pieces Kawanabe Kyosai did, and it is a warm-up sketch done of a few pieces of scrap paper that he pasted together to save money. It was never supposed to see the light of day.

Genji Monogatari
The Pillow Book
Taketori Monogatari
(Not sure about English translations, but if you’ll find the Tale of Tanabata, I also recommend the story)
Heike Monogatari (if you’re into war/historical clan theme)
Tosa Nikki