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Buket Akgun
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English Literature and Media (Comics, Anime, Film and TV Series). Adaptation and Retelling. Witches. She/Her.

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bukakgun.bsky.social
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. 💗
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.
May 4, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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yeeeerika.bsky.social
the second full week of january:
david lynch shouting in a megaphone: "okay, let's try that again, but this time good"
January 12, 2025 at 4:42 PM
bukakgun.bsky.social
Now for the more delightful news as promised: I moved to Tokyo in January 1st. ❤️
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.
January 18, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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skullsandsheets.bsky.social
Wishing everyone a good winter solstice ~
December 21, 2024 at 5:15 PM
bukakgun.bsky.social
Fantastic!
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
December 13, 2024 at 8:52 PM
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caitlinrkiernan.bsky.social
Terrifying to anyone who cares about biodiversity. Or even human survival.
December 8, 2024 at 3:57 PM
bukakgun.bsky.social
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.... 💚
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"
www.nobelprize.org
December 8, 2024 at 10:48 AM
bukakgun.bsky.social
Took an online Japanese language placement test today. The listening section especially was a rather humbling experience.
December 7, 2024 at 5:38 PM
bukakgun.bsky.social
What a Three of Pentacles! Am totally bewitched by the cast of #AgathaAllAlong. 🖤
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.
November 23, 2024 at 5:43 AM
bukakgun.bsky.social
"'A mantle, not a shroud,'" you wrote. Thank you for the "mantle[s]" you left us.
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.
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2024 at 5:01 PM
bukakgun.bsky.social
@bsky.app won't let me follow anyone at the moment. My attempts will continue.
November 19, 2024 at 6:53 PM
bukakgun.bsky.social
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?
November 15, 2024 at 7:39 AM
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kaitlynugoretz.bsky.social
Ppl making academia account starter packs r my heroes, thank you for the invisible service 🥹

I will try to share relevant starter packs below ⬇️🧵
November 8, 2024 at 1:40 PM
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nsousanis.bsky.social
My Brand new comic about the election and elections! #Vote
(Printable off my site here spinweaveandcut.com/election-202...)
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.
November 4, 2024 at 6:02 PM
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cbkenkar.bsky.social
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...
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
www.adaptation.uk.com
October 25, 2024 at 7:40 AM
bukakgun.bsky.social
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."
November 2, 2024 at 4:20 PM
bukakgun.bsky.social

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...
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...
www.spectator.co.uk
October 21, 2024 at 3:43 PM
bukakgun.bsky.social
I had received Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves as a gift many moons ago. I can finally start reading it this spooky season. 🎃🍂
October 19, 2024 at 4:20 PM
bukakgun.bsky.social
"During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country. . ." —Edgar Allan Poe, "The Fall of the House of Usher"
Photo of Aubrey Beardsley's black and white illustration for Edgar Allan Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher." A man, wearing a long cape, is sitting down by the curtain. The caption reads "I listened, as if in a dream."
October 7, 2024 at 11:27 AM
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nachosinabox.xyz
Reminder:
You cant be punk and also be: Racist Sexist Homophobic or Transphobic It's impossible
September 19, 2024 at 2:34 PM
bukakgun.bsky.social
Using an IME keyboard to type in Japanese never fails to amuse (or frustrate in equal measure). #吸血鬼　🧛
Screenshot reads Vampire Noun 吸血鬼[the Japanese word for vampire made up of the three kanji meaning suck, blood, demon/oni respectively] The IME keyboard suggestions list three vampire emoji.
September 20, 2024 at 7:32 PM
bukakgun.bsky.social
What you need to know before... videos are the best kind of YouTube videos. On that note, always use an authenticator app instead of your phone number as 2-step verification method. Unless you enjoy updating your info on your every single social media account when you change your phone number.
September 12, 2024 at 7:33 AM
bukakgun.bsky.social
I have some private schooling for you both.
For you, fair Hermia, look you arm yourself
To fit your fancies to your father’s will
Or else the law of Athens yields you up (A Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1.116-119) #ShakespeareSunday
Four screenshots from the Buffy the Vampire Slayer S4E10 "Hush" scene in which Giles is sharing his slides on the Gentlemen. The slide Giles shares in the first screenshot reads "Buffy will patrol tonight" and features a hand-drawn Buffy, wearing an A-line dress and carrying a crossbow and an arrow. In the rest of the screenshots Buffy is demonstrating her discontent with the large hips Giles gave to the doodle Buffy, which was improvised by Sarah Michelle Gellar. Image source: Chris Albery-Jones's pin https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/hush-buffy-will-patrol-tonight-buffy-the-vampire-slayer--69735494200797033/
September 1, 2024 at 6:48 AM
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cbkenkar.bsky.social
AcaSky: AI is here to swallow your research. PASS THIS ON and email your editors, no matter what press is publishing your favorite journals. This is coming for all of us. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
Taylor & Francis AI deal sets "worrying precedent"
The publisher didn’t give authors any notice before selling access to its data to Microsoft for $10 million. The agreement could improve academic research, but it further entrenches the predatory natu...
www.insidehighered.com
August 22, 2024 at 6:46 PM
bukakgun.bsky.social
I am delighted to announce that thanks to a recent legislation, I have qualified for early retirement from Istanbul University, where I have been teaching for almost 25 years since I got my BA! So long, IU, and thanks for all the fish!🐬 More delightful news in 2025!
August 18, 2024 at 7:44 AM