In The Hungry Ghost Realm The Rivers Are Made Of Sewage

IMO vampire can mean anyone and everyone who doesn't fit into the ideology of work and employment, which includes both feudal nobility and ppl begging for money at opposite ends of the spectrum, it can be exploited or exploiters, whats important is that they do not contribute to the homogenized social order (which is basically good even for the nobility)

I know vampirism is often used as a metaphor for the drain of the aristocracy but I think it would be fun to have more vampire characters who were just some guy before they got turned. You seek out the most ancient vampire in existence and find out he was a 40 year old wheat farmer in ancient Mesopotamia when he was turned 7,000 years ago and he hasn’t been doing much since then.

hmm

I wonder

it's perfect

yoru

it's interesting how Rose of Versailles makes the aesthetics of the monarchy and the revolution fit together in a coherent whole. IRL the revolutionaries didn't like the rococo stuff, but Ikeda has made it so that the rococo aesthetics have transformed to symbolize the intensity of revolution itself.

me when bara wa bara wa

HeightsのWutherする頃に

Always be sus of ideas that confuse the value of art with technical skill, talent, or hard work. There's a reason people used to think of it as 'divine inspiration' -- artistic success, is mysterious, arbitrary, and about getting possessed by supernatural organisms

it is unfortunate that English translations of her works are not more commonplace

甘い蜜の部屋　森茉莉 新潮社 装幀＝池田満寿夫

I hate all those youtube videos called like "This book is the worst" and they have some ooc suggestive or risky quotes on the thumbnail next to an npc loser affecting a shocked expression. It's so evil.

Please don't promote the idea that weird or explicit lines are a serious flaw in books

Dagashi Kashi is great because it's abt someone infodumping about their special interest and how awesome that is