Almond

Conveniently, this friend is described as “friend-looking” and occasionally lives in the trees. I have avoided looking at trees too carefully

when my kid tells me about their imaginary friend, I wonder if I’m giving energy to a entity that grows stronger with every acknowledgement. Having kids is great!

Year of the Fire Horse

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I’m already 14 pages out of 30 so I can’t give up now

I’m reading a short story in Japanese and why did I choose a time traveling one 😭 I’m constantly having to go back and figure out whose sending messages, the future version or the past version??

I speak very basic Japanese but if I mentioned I could to the service staff they were more than happy to switch over to Japanese and patient when I made mistakes.

I stopped wanikani due to life but will resume in the new year

Japanese speaking update: I’m good enough with my pronunciation that people think I’ve lived here but I need to work on listening comprehension and better vocabulary! 2026 goals?

Going to Japan again, going to buy all the stationary

Anyways I remembered I was put in ESL as a kid and was pretty much fluent after 6 months but kept going because they gave out starbursts for correct answers

3 months to complete but I did it!
Level 31 in wanikani

I mean even in English I prefer subtitles so this is a boon

Takarazuka + Japanese learners, I bought a magazine as a souvenir and when I was browsing through it found out they transcribed the entire play so you can find out which parts you didn’t understand!

But I used the ol’ razzle and dazzle point and 「お願いします」

I went to a sushi restaurant and refused the English menu only to realize I don’t know how to pronounce some fish kanji 😑

Thanks for the recommendation! I’ll have to check it out

Takarazuka Castlevania trip complete!

Saw my boyfriends in Tokyo and they had an event where you could marry them and take photo shoots. The prepared girlies wore white dresses and had bouquets

Rough translation: I finally go to try the horse hamburger and it’s 500 times better than those half assed family restaurant ones. I wanna give a Nobel prize to the person who created this

Found a wanikani word in the wild 中途半端 and this review made me lol

I’m still using wanikani but it’s going slow

I guess I’m gonna go see Castlevania Takarazuka

My favorite type of food influencer is when they get pissed at the lines and find an alternative

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370+ pages of disaster henchmen outrunning their own bad fates and falling in love along the way.✨

CLARIFICATION :

The Trevor Project's hotline will still be live. But basically this means LGBTQ people can no longer be connected to it through the US national 988 suicide prevention hotline.

They will need to be contacted DIRECTLY

So spread this around

They can be texted. They can be called.

I’m equally terrified and in awe of your mom

She literally switched to how she saw a tv program about Thai people visiting Japan and encountering ghosts in their accommodation

“Don’t hang out with this family they use a witch to curse people”
Ok - come on now

Every decade my mom casually drops more of her lore or leaves me with advice with no further clarification

I have been informed of a Japanese picross magazine ロジックパラダイス and I’m half tempted to start a subscription