Dr. Nyri A. Bakkalian
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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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Years before she becomes a combat doll, one day in Deir ez Zor on the worst day of her life, a wounded Captain River Victoria Eginian is dragged off the battlefield by her sworn sister Lana Moretti.
What comes next in this tale of trans women and found family? Read on, in "The Tempest," a prologue.
What comes next in this tale of trans women and found family? Read on, in "The Tempest," a prologue.
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Happily gay married transhuman trans women, raising hell for the sake of a community of cyborgs in need. Check out Confluence via the link below or on Itchio at balanceofseven.itch.io/confluence
November 29, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Happily gay married transhuman trans women, raising hell for the sake of a community of cyborgs in need. Check out Confluence via the link below or on Itchio at balanceofseven.itch.io/confluence
writing a flashback scene where we see one of my characters taking her first HRT dose at age 16, and dammit, I'M NOT CRYING YOU'RE CRYING
November 29, 2025 at 5:35 AM
writing a flashback scene where we see one of my characters taking her first HRT dose at age 16, and dammit, I'M NOT CRYING YOU'RE CRYING
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Years before she becomes a combat doll, one day in Deir ez Zor on the worst day of her life, a wounded Captain River Victoria Eginian is dragged off the battlefield by her sworn sister Lana Moretti.
What comes next in this tale of trans women and found family? Read on, in "The Tempest," a prologue.
What comes next in this tale of trans women and found family? Read on, in "The Tempest," a prologue.
(One Heart Together) First Draft: "The Tempest" | Dr. Nyri A. Bakkalian
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November 27, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Years before she becomes a combat doll, one day in Deir ez Zor on the worst day of her life, a wounded Captain River Victoria Eginian is dragged off the battlefield by her sworn sister Lana Moretti.
What comes next in this tale of trans women and found family? Read on, in "The Tempest," a prologue.
What comes next in this tale of trans women and found family? Read on, in "The Tempest," a prologue.
In about half an hour (9:45 Eastern), we return with #YakuzaZero and an exploration of the Bubble years in Japanese history. Come by, say hi, subscribe to support my work! twitch.tv/riversidewings #TokiKitareri #時来たれり
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Novelist, historian, raconteuse, podcaster, Santaku Dynamics tachi-class combat doll, Your Favorite Historydyke. She/彼女. PGH via BEY, PHL, & SDJ. Staff Writer at Unseen Japan.
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November 29, 2025 at 2:22 AM
In about half an hour (9:45 Eastern), we return with #YakuzaZero and an exploration of the Bubble years in Japanese history. Come by, say hi, subscribe to support my work! twitch.tv/riversidewings #TokiKitareri #時来たれり
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Y'all. Add "-AI" to the end of your search query in Google and you'll get results blessedly free of Gemini nonsense.
And it didn't just remove the AI summaries. It significantly changed the results I was shown.
I cannot overstate how nice this is. It's like a breath of fresh air.
And it didn't just remove the AI summaries. It significantly changed the results I was shown.
I cannot overstate how nice this is. It's like a breath of fresh air.
November 25, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Y'all. Add "-AI" to the end of your search query in Google and you'll get results blessedly free of Gemini nonsense.
And it didn't just remove the AI summaries. It significantly changed the results I was shown.
I cannot overstate how nice this is. It's like a breath of fresh air.
And it didn't just remove the AI summaries. It significantly changed the results I was shown.
I cannot overstate how nice this is. It's like a breath of fresh air.
Reading Chapter 3 of "Carve it On My Bones" and once again delighted to have been introduced to this story. #amreading
November 29, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Reading Chapter 3 of "Carve it On My Bones" and once again delighted to have been introduced to this story. #amreading
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I realize my account goes from dollposting/cyborgposting to historical analysis to art to tiddyposting but I appreciate each and every one of you who choose to follow anyway 💙
I've got ✨️range✨️
I've got ✨️range✨️
November 28, 2025 at 3:38 AM
I realize my account goes from dollposting/cyborgposting to historical analysis to art to tiddyposting but I appreciate each and every one of you who choose to follow anyway 💙
I've got ✨️range✨️
I've got ✨️range✨️
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Sometimes the times require one to be quietly steadfast. Hang in there, my dears, mm? 🖤
November 27, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Sometimes the times require one to be quietly steadfast. Hang in there, my dears, mm? 🖤
One of my favorite things about writing scenes from this later chapter of River's life framed around the prequel WIP is the code-switching! this is a household where three different cultures and languages meet, and I'm enjoying getting to *show* that, especially in talking to her daughter.
Years after the events of Confluence and its prequels, Emi, daughter to River M59A1, discovers a memento from her mom's brief, disastrous career as a human soldier, and asks: "who are these women in the picture?"
What comes next in this story of 2 generations of trans women? Read on in "The Photo."
What comes next in this story of 2 generations of trans women? Read on in "The Photo."
(One Heart Together) The Photo | Dr. Nyri A. Bakkalian
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November 29, 2025 at 2:00 AM
One of my favorite things about writing scenes from this later chapter of River's life framed around the prequel WIP is the code-switching! this is a household where three different cultures and languages meet, and I'm enjoying getting to *show* that, especially in talking to her daughter.
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oh no, I just remembered that writing a comprehensive Boshin War history means I have to reread Donald Calman's work.
the guy had some good points and I even agree with him sometimes but he manages to drown it in a book that sounds like *this*:
the guy had some good points and I even agree with him sometimes but he manages to drown it in a book that sounds like *this*:
November 10, 2025 at 6:40 AM
oh no, I just remembered that writing a comprehensive Boshin War history means I have to reread Donald Calman's work.
the guy had some good points and I even agree with him sometimes but he manages to drown it in a book that sounds like *this*:
the guy had some good points and I even agree with him sometimes but he manages to drown it in a book that sounds like *this*:
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The land battles of the Boshin War…. Here’s part of my Shogunate army. I have painted like mad for months 😊
November 24, 2025 at 1:13 PM
The land battles of the Boshin War…. Here’s part of my Shogunate army. I have painted like mad for months 😊
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As I retool for #FridayNightHistory season 5, I'm improving my recording setup. Thanks to you I was able to acquire a new desk and computer components-- now I'm fundraising for a higher quality microphone, along with related equipment. We're already halfway there on the mic! Thanks for your support.
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November 28, 2025 at 9:06 PM
As I retool for #FridayNightHistory season 5, I'm improving my recording setup. Thanks to you I was able to acquire a new desk and computer components-- now I'm fundraising for a higher quality microphone, along with related equipment. We're already halfway there on the mic! Thanks for your support.
Random factoid from my last day of grad school Japanese seminar: during the Boshin War in Tohoku, the Imperial Army was paying the locals press ganged into corvee labor with money and hardtack.
November 29, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Random factoid from my last day of grad school Japanese seminar: during the Boshin War in Tohoku, the Imperial Army was paying the locals press ganged into corvee labor with money and hardtack.
the Meiji oligarchs get all kinds of undue praise for magically making Japan modern (read: western), but all of that new technology and methodology didn't appear out of thin air.
Here's an 1860s-era Shogunate police officer (yoriki) dressed for an arrest.
Notice anything?
Here's an 1860s-era Shogunate police officer (yoriki) dressed for an arrest.
Notice anything?
November 29, 2025 at 1:08 AM
the Meiji oligarchs get all kinds of undue praise for magically making Japan modern (read: western), but all of that new technology and methodology didn't appear out of thin air.
Here's an 1860s-era Shogunate police officer (yoriki) dressed for an arrest.
Notice anything?
Here's an 1860s-era Shogunate police officer (yoriki) dressed for an arrest.
Notice anything?
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The Boshin War was the means by which Satsuma-Choshu oligarchs imposed their vision for Japan at the point of a gun.
My PhD thesis about the Northern Alliance, one group that fought them, is free to read via the link. It was panned for "reading too much like a novel," so you should totally read it!
My PhD thesis about the Northern Alliance, one group that fought them, is free to read via the link. It was panned for "reading too much like a novel," so you should totally read it!
The Sparrow's Dream: The Meiji Revolution and Local Self-Assertion in Northern Japan - D-Scholarship@Pitt
Bakkalian, Nyri A. (2017) The Sparrow's Dream: The Meiji Revolution and Local Self-Assertion in Northern Japan. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh. (Unpublished)
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November 24, 2025 at 1:10 AM
The Boshin War was the means by which Satsuma-Choshu oligarchs imposed their vision for Japan at the point of a gun.
My PhD thesis about the Northern Alliance, one group that fought them, is free to read via the link. It was panned for "reading too much like a novel," so you should totally read it!
My PhD thesis about the Northern Alliance, one group that fought them, is free to read via the link. It was panned for "reading too much like a novel," so you should totally read it!
We go now to His Excellency the Shogun for comment
November 29, 2025 at 1:01 AM
We go now to His Excellency the Shogun for comment
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New pinned post
November 27, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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Years after the events of Confluence and its prequels, Emi, daughter to River M59A1, discovers a memento from her mom's brief, disastrous career as a human soldier, and asks: "who are these women in the picture?"
What comes next in this story of 2 generations of trans women? Read on in "The Photo."
What comes next in this story of 2 generations of trans women? Read on in "The Photo."
(One Heart Together) The Photo | Dr. Nyri A. Bakkalian
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November 28, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Years after the events of Confluence and its prequels, Emi, daughter to River M59A1, discovers a memento from her mom's brief, disastrous career as a human soldier, and asks: "who are these women in the picture?"
What comes next in this story of 2 generations of trans women? Read on in "The Photo."
What comes next in this story of 2 generations of trans women? Read on in "The Photo."
"Passing of the Armies" Chapter 5: "OH MY GOD are you seriously shit-talking MEADE now? Also holy shit I'm tired, all this marching and counter-marching." #amreading
November 28, 2025 at 10:05 PM
"Passing of the Armies" Chapter 5: "OH MY GOD are you seriously shit-talking MEADE now? Also holy shit I'm tired, all this marching and counter-marching." #amreading
For the dolls who are she/her like a ship! Your purchases help support an independent author-artist-creator stay afloat in tough times. Thanks to all who've been rocking these in the past year!
She/Her Like a Ship
"She/Her like a Ship!"
Featuring 1850s Japanese schooner Kaisei-maru, built at the Yamazaki shipyard on Sabusawa Island in what's now Shiogama, Miyagi Prefecture.
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November 28, 2025 at 9:33 PM
For the dolls who are she/her like a ship! Your purchases help support an independent author-artist-creator stay afloat in tough times. Thanks to all who've been rocking these in the past year!
As I retool for #FridayNightHistory season 5, I'm improving my recording setup. Thanks to you I was able to acquire a new desk and computer components-- now I'm fundraising for a higher quality microphone, along with related equipment. We're already halfway there on the mic! Thanks for your support.
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November 28, 2025 at 9:06 PM
As I retool for #FridayNightHistory season 5, I'm improving my recording setup. Thanks to you I was able to acquire a new desk and computer components-- now I'm fundraising for a higher quality microphone, along with related equipment. We're already halfway there on the mic! Thanks for your support.
coffee is good, but a day like this needs tea.
November 28, 2025 at 9:06 PM
coffee is good, but a day like this needs tea.
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Reminders:
1) It is entirely possible to have opinions about art beyond "love it!" and "hate it!"
2) With key exceptions (fascist mess, works bankrolling bigotry/abuse) tastes in art don't tell you anything about someone's ethics.
3) "Hm, not my thing" exists for works that are not your thing.
1) It is entirely possible to have opinions about art beyond "love it!" and "hate it!"
2) With key exceptions (fascist mess, works bankrolling bigotry/abuse) tastes in art don't tell you anything about someone's ethics.
3) "Hm, not my thing" exists for works that are not your thing.
November 28, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Reminders:
1) It is entirely possible to have opinions about art beyond "love it!" and "hate it!"
2) With key exceptions (fascist mess, works bankrolling bigotry/abuse) tastes in art don't tell you anything about someone's ethics.
3) "Hm, not my thing" exists for works that are not your thing.
1) It is entirely possible to have opinions about art beyond "love it!" and "hate it!"
2) With key exceptions (fascist mess, works bankrolling bigotry/abuse) tastes in art don't tell you anything about someone's ethics.
3) "Hm, not my thing" exists for works that are not your thing.
Shinsengumi history, and Bakumatsu history at large, is uh.
serious. very serious.
*pfffft*
serious. very serious.
*pfffft*
November 28, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Shinsengumi history, and Bakumatsu history at large, is uh.
serious. very serious.
*pfffft*
serious. very serious.
*pfffft*