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Less than a week left in Tokyo but managed to see @Licca_band perform live for the 6th time. Thank you for an amazing summer!!!! 📹 CC by 六花(Licca)

the stage lights looked like ❄️ which felt appropriate 😌

Less than a week left in Tokyo but managed to see @Licca_band perform live for the 6th time. Thank you for an amazing summer!!!! 📹 CC by 六花(Licca)

@rachelclif the lover by marguerite duras

I want to read an unputdownable novel about sex, love, secrets, and messy, beautiful humans. any recommendations?

@VectorOfBasis baby shoes, unworn. shoe collector AMA

@eshear @PrinceVogel @kevinlin another vote for beitou hot spring!

@PrinceVogel Take a road trip to the countryside, see the coast, go hiking to a nearby hot springs. I specifically recommend the one @kevinlin took me to whose name I can’t remember (Bei Tou maybe?)

What should I do while in Tapei?

@PrinceVogel freshly made scallion nougat crackers

@PrinceVogel did you watch apocalypto by any chance?

Human sacrifice is fucked up but have you read about the things the inquisition did, or any of the insane medieval-renaissance-reformation public execution shit I love western civ and the aztecs do seem uniquely fucked up to me still, but man no one makes an honest comparison

Chicen Itza, which may be Mayan but I'm sure was at least equalled by the Aztecs, is built to echo back *specific noises* at you when you clap or shout at it from particular locations

@anuatluru understanding that comes from sharing an occupation can be very shallow & also doesn't make up for one's insecurities or wounded pride. if you think about it, spontaneous and instinctual hatred is the typical reaction between vv similar acquaintances who have large/sensitive egos

one is fact and one is fiction, so without casting any judgment — there is a problem (or a problem as been allowed to develop) when a partnership with so much would-be understanding is destructive to self-actualization rather than additive

the Oscar-nominated film Anatomy of a Fall and The Cut article about divorce share a common theme: two people in a relationship with shared duties having separate and seemingly competing ambitions as artists, in this case as writers dramatic narratives but a fascinating dynamic

@visakanv and yet they often seem simple to other people. we should all do a random swap of a tough one and see how it goes, like secret santa.

at any given moment people are typically dealing with problems that they didn't know how to avoid or solve because if they knew how to avoid or solve it, it wouldn't be a problem they were dealing with

@Aella_Girl this is me and my bestie. she's a chill hermit whose presence rly calms and stabilizes me, and i think she finds my extroversion/neuroticism pretty entertaining

High extroversion and neuroticism people tend to be both driven and stressed; usually active, social, motivated, but also high anxiety; perhaps controlling. Low on both ppl tend to be chillax; low standards for living, happy alone, but also low stress, peaceful.

I read a book that argued that extroversion and neuroticism were actually pairs. Extroversion should be better understood as 'sensitivity to positive stimuli', and neuroticism as 'sensitivity to negative stimuli'. You can be high in both, low in both, or ofc high in one. 1/

@christineist what book is this?

relational posturing, sculpturing, and being brought up to date

closed vs open family systems and some systems games to play with that - Primarily playing with whether differences are accepted or cause elimination of self/others

@etirabys iirc the anglophone kpop fandom had a lot of overlap with 1d, supernatural, etc back in the day (giving away my age here) and hence supported terrible fictitious outcomes between strapping young lads of more than one ethnic background

I don't think this is particularly important context to add, but for reference these Anglophone fangirls frequently want terrible things to happen in fiction to these slender big eyed kpop boys

I'm not into kpop, but in fandom I unavoidably brush up against the huge numbers of Anglophone fangirls who are intensely attracted to the slender big eyed kpop boys are you East Asian? do you expect this is overall positive for East Asian men in the Anglosphere?

@noampomsky coffee or tea at damo in ktown, go to mid-city for tacos at mariscos jalisco & browse art books at arcana or used books at sideshow, circle back to LAX area for a show @SamFirstBar for live jazz or @donttellcomedy for live comedy, pick up in&out for the plane ride back

any recommendations for how to spend a day in LA? I’ve been here many times but still don’t know what to do with myself

@owenbroadcast mainstream christian music (eg Hillsong) is designed to be used for worship, like how children's music is more didactic than artistic. maybe a better example is that the house jazz band at a cafe is going to play "jazz cafegoers expect" rather than jazz that pushes boundaries.

as someone into: religion, america, and aesthetics (who also owns a car) i have naturally, on more than one occasion - asked: why is the christian music on the radio so bad? specifically, why is it “like that”? when you hear it, you know the vibe. a few thoughts on this topic:

@Bazoonga31 @NokooTV Ezekiel and Song of Songs are also pretty great

A person can do nothing better than to eat and drink and find satisfaction in their own toil. This too, I see, is from the hand of God, for without Him, who can eat or find enjoyment? ✍️ Ecclesiastes 2:24-25