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零Rei

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零Rei @othiym23.bsky.social · Mar 14

wishing I was there

key visual from Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny-Girl Senpai, showing Tomoe-chan with bat wings sitting in front of the main torii on the steps at the base of Enoshima leading up to the shrines

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Peter Fobian @peterfobian.bsky.social · 3h

Come to the just got an ass kicking Sanrio gacha machine in the next 15 minutes if you want an ass kicking.

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零Rei @othiym23.bsky.social · 14h

oh hey cool there's a new blawan

Jacques O'Lantern @ass.golf · 14h

the new blawan record sounds like a drum machine ate like six edibles (complimentary)

零Rei @othiym23.bsky.social · 16h

I like Miyuki Yorita's stories because they all look like they're going to become toxic but they never really do. Also she writes the second best disgruntled third-wheel characters in yuri (the GOAT is still Rokuroichichan).

Anime News Network @animenewsnetwork.com · 16h

Miyuki Yorita's Her Kiss, My Libido Twinkles yuri manga puckers up for a live-action film next month!

'Her Kiss, My Libido Twinkles' Manga Gets Live-Action Film on November 7

Film gets 1-week limited screening on November 7-13, will also stream with English subtitles

www.animenewsnetwork.com

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Anime News Network @animenewsnetwork.com · 16h

Miyuki Yorita's Her Kiss, My Libido Twinkles yuri manga puckers up for a live-action film next month!

'Her Kiss, My Libido Twinkles' Manga Gets Live-Action Film on November 7

Film gets 1-week limited screening on November 7-13, will also stream with English subtitles

www.animenewsnetwork.com

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零Rei @othiym23.bsky.social · 1d

in my (not very good) defense, I was out of state (at school) when that one went down

零Rei @othiym23.bsky.social · 1d

also they are not into you because they are into each other

零Rei @othiym23.bsky.social · 1d

this doesn't feel very unhinged, but IMO the best editors are YA and children's fiction editors, especially when they're working with authors who haven't gotten too big to be edited

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Saoirse Kenney; Antifa Cat Herder is a Clippy 🖇️ @saoirsekenney.bsky.social · 1d

Boosting with a pic for my friend

“The Portland War
a film by Ken Burns”

Shows a large inflatable frog against a beautiful sunset

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零Rei @othiym23.bsky.social · 1d

it's just that if you'd asked me what I thought of Reed from like '89-'92, I would have rolled my eyes. I was kind of a pain in the ass.

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零Rei @othiym23.bsky.social · 1d

lol see

I should say that a bunch of my classmates (I went to Lincoln) did end up at Reed, and later, after I moved to the Bay Area, several Reed alumni (many of them originally from the Portland area) ended up playing signifcant roles in my life, so it's not like my take was static

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零Rei @othiym23.bsky.social · 1d

I completely agree about KBOO, though. A vital part of Portland's culture of resistance and also uh Portland's culture of culture. It was extremely important to me getting plugged into non-mainstream scenes in Portland.

零Rei @othiym23.bsky.social · 1d

I haven't done any research so it's quite likely I'm wrong, but it felt like stuff like the Reverse Peristalsis Painters and other creative protestors were coming out of a different tradition that didn't overlap much with Reed.

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零Rei @othiym23.bsky.social · 1d

You're probably right, it's just hard to let go of my late 80s / early 90s biases where it felt (to me) like Reedies seemed more interested in partying than getting involved with Earth First! or the protests against the Oregon Citizens' Alliance or the Gulf War.

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零Rei @othiym23.bsky.social · 1d

A startling amount of Portland's alt.culture traces its way back to Reed in one form or another, but generally through several levels of indirection, and it's never really felt to me like it's a "Portland institution" the way that, say, Tom Peterson, or even Macheezmo Mouse (RIP) were.

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零Rei @othiym23.bsky.social · 1d

Speaking as a Portland Gen Xer, Reed was (and as far as I can tell) kind of off in its own little world. It was where you went to score acid, and whenever a bunch of Reedies were at a show, they were easy to spot because they more or less kept to themselves (& also were kind of obnoxious).

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零Rei @othiym23.bsky.social · 1d

Of course, that style of prank, which is reminiscent of what the Billboard Liberation Front was doing down in San Francisco at roughly the same time, *is* of that style of humor and resistance that you describe downthread. It was just deeper underground.

零Rei @othiym23.bsky.social · 1d

Frank Ivancie, Tom McCall – all of those white Democratic machine politicians who ran Portland like what it was, a trans-shipping hub for agriculture and timber – they were not interested in fun or tolerating much of a libertarian impulse among the public. That's the whole reason this hoax worked.

Hoax poster smuggled into a display case in Multnomah County Library in downtown Portland. On it is an infographic with text that reads:

IN CASE OF NUCLEAR ATTACK

1. REMAIN CALM (two people sit, one who has legs crossed while reading a newspaper)
2. AVERT EYES FROM FLASH (a person peeks through their fingers held in front of their eyes)
3. BRACE FOR BLAST (two stereotypically feminine silhouettes brace themselves in what look like ballet poses)
4. DUCK AND COVER / PLACE NEWSPAPER OVER HEAD (a person cowers under two bench seas, while another stands and holds a newspaper over their head)
5. RESERVE MEDICAL ATTENTION FOR HIGH PRIORITY EVACUEES (a figure in a hat walks away from a family, one of whom is missing part of a limb)
6. HAVE FOOD AND ATER FOR SEVERAL WEEKS OF ISOLATION (a crossed fork and knife are in front of cartons)
7. COMFORT THE DYING (a kneeling human figure has its hands on a a prone human figure, presumably dying)
8. ISOLATE CORPSES TO PREVENT SPREAD OF DISEASE (a stack of corpses, including a small one evidently meant to denote a child, are in a separate compartment from a standing human figure)

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零Rei @othiym23.bsky.social · 1d

I would say this poster, and Bud Clark's administration, were sort of the turning point for Portland (or at least that's how it works in my memory). Or at least it's when Portland started to become what people perceive it to be today.

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零Rei @othiym23.bsky.social · 2d

*accountant

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 2d

There's no "regular politics" anymore because you can no longer maintain the idea that we all agree on common goals but we only differ about the means of getting there or whatever. The guys in charge now are plainly amoral, sadistic nihilists. They delight in it! You can't civilly disagree with that

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零Rei @othiym23.bsky.social · 2d

Supernatural account who knows the date of all their clients' deaths.

"I've been thinking about getting a boat. You think that's a good idea?"

"You know what, go ahead and splurge."

Eize Basa @eizebasa.baby · 2d

i don't necessarily want to know the date of my death but you gotta admit it would be very useful for budgeting purposes

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jacky. @jacky.wtf · 2d

Gender roles really be ruining so much and the prisons they create limit so much of what folks can see of themselves

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零Rei @othiym23.bsky.social · 2d

I think at his core Trump still wishes he was doing blow with hookers in Studio 54 and complaining about how unfair Spy Magazine was being to him and he just gets tired of having to pretend to care about religion. I do not he believe he actually has a faith.

零Rei @othiym23.bsky.social · 2d

I've been to Japan a BUNCH of times (I've stayed in, like, a third of the 47 prefectures) and I'm fine outside the cities, because the hikes and whatnot I do are more or less infinite capacity (especially in the offseason, which is when I tend to visit). But in the cities, I could use some help.

零Rei @othiym23.bsky.social · 2d

This is sort of me riffing on all those "Tokyo for Locals" and "Ultra Hidden Special Spots in Kyoto We Totally Shouldn't Be Telling You About" guides that have proliferated over the last 10-15 years. My assumption is that at least half of what goes in those guides is stealth sponcon, but…

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