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Dragons, Ninja, Swords, Giant Robots. Researcher of Occidentals and their culture.

Orientalism, Japonisme, Chinoiserie and the making of modern western fantasy.
Arbeiter Illustrierte Zeitung 1928
"Workers Illustrated Magazine"
January 20, 2026 at 9:01 AM
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「THE NEXT GENERATION パトレイバー」
January 20, 2026 at 5:57 AM
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Maybe the earliest Japanese SF story is about Japan invading Britain, as Eli KP William explains in this new essay .

Subscribe now (AUD30) to read - and get the July-Dec ebook with TWO exclusive essays! www.speculativeinsight.com/subs

(~GBP15 or USD19. Ish.)
December 20, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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January 20, 2026 at 4:26 AM
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January 19, 2026 at 10:50 PM
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January 20, 2026 at 2:42 AM
There's a 19c Irish Orientalist poem "Lalla Rookh" about a 'rose cheeked' Mughal India beauty caught in a political love triangle.

*Lalla is actually tulip, but mistranslated as rose often

Tomino's well read, so a possibility for Lalah Sune's namesake and stacks the rose theme.
January 20, 2026 at 5:01 AM
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After writing "Orientalism", Edward Said wrote about how 1930's Tarzan was SEXY, but the EMBOURGEOISEMENT of Tarzan kept on increasing the size of his loincloth + Jane's jungle bikini until Tarzan lost his SEXY.

Covered the colonialism too, but Said wants you to know how SEXY Tarzan used to be.
May 23, 2025 at 4:04 PM
The Coming Race's Vril-Ya are like 19c Na'vi.

Nature-tech dark skinned Native American Egyptian mashup living in Oriental Splendour & Quietutude. Evolved (not bible created) beings that survived the bible flood, destined to one day emerge and exterminate the hairy barbarians of Christian Europe.
January 20, 2026 at 3:18 AM
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Today's hawk: a young Red-Tailed Hawk leaps to an air-conditioner in the window of an apartment building. In NYC, air-conditioners and fire escapes provide convenient perching places for these urban raptors. 🪶
#Raptors
January 20, 2026 at 12:40 AM
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We're on the hunt for an experienced Miniatures Designer to help bring the brutal world of Trench Crusade to life through high-quality plastic tabletop miniatures! If you fancy joining us in the trenches, you can apply for the position via the link below:
www.trenchcrusade.com/careers/were...
We’re Hiring: Miniatures Designer - Trench Crusade
Are you ready to make your mark on the future of the dark and gritty world of Trench Crusade? Do you want to be a part of a growing, energetic, young game company? Are you an experienced plastic minia...
www.trenchcrusade.com
January 19, 2026 at 3:29 PM
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January 19, 2026 at 3:41 PM
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このポスター、今回京都でかなり目に留めていただけたのだけど、一番印象的だったのは「このポスターの絵の本はどれですか」と男性から尋ねられたこと。
「毎年年賀絵を描いてまして…今年の絵をポスターにしまして…」と説明した時のあのかたの怪訝そうな表情…申し訳ありませんでした確かにポスターって大体売ってる本の表紙絵とかですよね。
恥入りながらポストカードだけ差し上げました。
January 19, 2026 at 6:14 AM
Learning kanji radicals and their meaning uses the same visual memory part of the brain one uses for glancing at a 28mm miniatures sci-fantasy army and knowing what each of the similarly-funky-yet-subtly-different weapons do.
January 19, 2026 at 6:01 AM
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"I am a person whose negative aspects-brutality, resentment, hatred-are much stronger than other people's. Though have dangerous moments when my control fails, when I suppress my negative aspects and live my life normally, I am thought of as a good person. That is not my real character...
June 3, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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"Inside of Hayao Miyazaki is two pigs. One pig hates fascism, and the other pig loooooooooooooooooooves war machines".

"Which pig wins?"

"Both pigs are very very well fed, they crew a vehicle together as friends, that vehicle is called Hayao Miyazaki."

-Old Cherokee wisdom
July 7, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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White Dwarf 47 Nov 1983. Has cool fantasy Samurai from RPG Bushido.

The way the armor and cloth is imagined by folks who only saw samurai stuff briefly in movies, TV, or maybe a library book, is fun. Backwards grip katana, maybe from Zatoichi?
September 28, 2025 at 9:42 AM
more complete image of the Mark Gibbons Trench Crusade Sultanate alchemical griffon rider.
January 19, 2026 at 3:58 AM
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🌂👁️‍🗨️
#OC
January 18, 2026 at 2:14 PM
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チェシャ猫退治
January 18, 2026 at 12:48 PM
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🌹千年ダーリン🦾
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楽天ブックス
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honto(電子書籍)
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October 18, 2024 at 2:25 PM
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