Buket Akgun

Ginkgo tree lane.

A pedestrian street lined with white sakura trees whose boughs extend to the Meguro River.

A deep pink sakura tree in the middle of Minamiaoyama Cemetery.

Two white sakura trees which seem like they extend their boughs to touch one another across the street. There is a Lawson across the street. The photo is taken at night.

Been 4 months since I moved to Tokyo. The seasons have changed. The ginkgo trees, which had lost almost all of their golden leaves when I first moved to Japan back in January, are now clad in lustrous green leaves. Witnessed the ume, sakura, wisteria, azalea, peony and many more blossoming. 💗

david lynch shouting in a megaphone: "okay, let's try that again, but this time good"

the second full week of january:

Welcome boards at Haneda Airport featuring a kabuki actor, a geisha and the beckoning cat.

A ginkgo tree across a Lawson at night.

Kadomatsu, bamboo and pine decoration, in front of a company.

Tokyo Tower and skyscrapers seen from the grounds of Zojoji Temple.

Now for the more delightful news as promised: I moved to Tokyo in January 1st. ❤️

Wishing everyone a good winter solstice ~

Screenshot of a message received on Academia.edu, which reads: Jocelyne DeNunzio left a reason for downloading The Artistic and Religious Nature of Food in "Christ in the House of Martha and Mary" National Gallery Course

Fantastic!

I was too ashamed to reply as life got even more hectic and I couldn't read much yet.

Terrifying to anyone who cares about biodiversity. Or even human survival.

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2024 The Nobel Prize in Literature 2024 was awarded to Han Kang "for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life"

We discussed Han Kang’s “The Fruit of My Woman,” a positively disturbing work of ecoambiguity & classical reception, in my graduate course “Myths Retold.”
For her Nobel Prize lecture: www.nobelprize.org/prizes/liter...
And for the short story in English: granta.com/the-fruit-of.... 💚

Took an online Japanese language placement test today. The listening section especially was a rather humbling experience.

Umm.. Yes, please to all of them?

Would it be considered toxic consumerism if I voted for all of the above?

Happy to report that I got the apartment. Didn't have to wait for two weeks to hear back from the management company, either.

Brilliant.

I'll probably do the same. I'm barely restraining myself from binge-watching it.

I cackled when they had to explain to the teen what counter-clockwise means. That's what you get for never using an analog watch/clock.

A screenshot from Agatha All Along S1 E2. Agatha (Kathryn Hahn), with a smug face, is showing the list of names to Lilia Calderu (Patti LuPone). The utterly delighted teen (Joe Locke), who has just planted himself in the shot and the conversation, is grinning at Lilian, who is already taken aback by the list and is looking back at him. The three witches are standing in the middle of Lilian's kitchen which also triples as her living room and bedroom.

What a Three of Pentacles! Am totally bewitched by the cast of #AgathaAllAlong. 🖤

Sandra M. Gilbert, Co-Author of ‘The Madwoman in the Attic,’ Dies at 87 A poet, scholar and literary critic, she turned a feminist lens on 19th-century writers like Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë, creating a feminist classic.

"'A mantle, not a shroud,'" you wrote. Thank you for the "mantle[s]" you left us.

@bsky.app won't let me follow anyone at the moment. My attempts will continue.

What's it called when you turn on the radio while multi-tasking and then a second later wonder where that music is coming from?

Geri hoşgeldiniz. 😻

Sobe! Ben görüyorum. Invalid handle diyor. Birkaç kişi daha yazmıştı. Diğer taraftan toplu göç yüzünden genel bir teknik aksaklık gibi.

So happy to see you here. 🖤

Ppl making academia account starter packs r my heroes, thank you for the invisible service 🥹

I will try to share relevant starter packs below ⬇️🧵

The transfer went through, I received my documents, contacted third parties and made my application. It all happened back to back right before my doctor's appointment this morning. Now to wait for the result while I tackle the other items on my to-do list.

Alt-text A comic in black and white - with a series of metaphorical and literal images. Text is as follows: Elections, of course, have consequences. A path chosen, erases a possible future. As such, elecctions are a moment to reflect on where we’ve been and who we want to be - to consider our values, mirrored in the conduct of those we choose to represent us: They recognize, that while we’ve granted them great responsibility, they don’t stand above us, espousing their singular greatness. Rather, they stand with us, ever a public servant. Treating everyone with respect, never dividing between us and “them.” But bringing people together, and being there for all. Inset: Greek key to offset it: Greek myths warn of the dangers of hubris and the importance of hospitality.” On it’s surface, talk of restoring the greatness of bygone eras has obvious appeal. But for whom was this great? Without a critical eye, it’s no more than a myth. For history is still with us - not so distant. We don’t go back. Democracy moves forward. Evolving alongside our understanding, expanding as more voices are included. It changes because we change it. We cast our votes to hone those before us who made this experiment possible, and to ensure it continues for all who come after. Elections aren’t endpoints, but reminders that the work of democracy is ongoing.

My Brand new comic about the election and elections! #Vote
(Printable off my site here spinweaveandcut.com/election-202...)

Tiplere bak. 😻😻

CFP: 2025 AAS Annual Conference (1-4 June, 2025: Istanbul Bilgi University, Türkiye) - The Association of Adaptation Studies Abstracts are now being accepted for the AAS 2025 annual Conference, to be held in Istanbul, Türkiye

Proud to be part of the team bringing the annual Association of Adaptation Studies conference to Istanbul Bilgi University this June! Get those abstracts in by 1 December 📝 www.adaptation.uk.com/cfp-2025-aas...

Stuck at a stage where I have to patiently wait for banks to process a transfer so I can make further applications and in the meantime make myself sick worrying if someone else applies before I can. Been making some progress with my kanji studies, though. "Level 31. You’ve made it to the 地獄 levels."

I hope you are feeling much better.

Keir Starmer’s concerning decision to ditch Shakespeare’s portrait Politicians are said to campaign in poetry and govern in prose. In the case of Keir Starmer, he campaigned in the most uninspiring, plodding prose imaginable, and has now chosen to govern in what migh...

Upon which every night soon after 'tis struck twelve, a ghost in the form of the late playwright starts to appear in the room where his portrait used to hang but will not speak.

www.spectator.co.uk/article/keir...