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

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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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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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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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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
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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
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"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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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
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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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Been level 23 on WaniKani forever. Didn't have the time to do the lessons. Forgot most of the burned radicals, kanji and vocabulary because they no longer show up on reviews. So I made a radical decision and rest my account to level 1. Now to "Stay accurate, [to] stay vigilant!" as WaniKani says.
A screenshot of the homepage of WaniKani displaying Lessons, Reviews, Levels, Radicals, Kanji, Vocabulary and so on.
January 5, 2024 at 4:34 PM
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I've started watching Netflix's #Bodies (2023). What a brilliant adaptation, cast, crew and creative team. A must watch.
The cover page of the first issue of Vertigo's limited comics series Bodies. There is a young blonde woman wearing a 1940s dress and hairdo. The background is baby blue and there are blood spatters all over the cover. Under the title BODIES writes SI SPENCER, DEAN ORMSTON, PHIL WINSLADE MEGHAN HETRICK, TULA LOTAY. The poster for the Netflix limited series Bodies. On the left is the portrait of a man and on the right the images of the four detectives are stacked.
December 15, 2023 at 9:31 PM
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4 weeks until the end of fall semester classes. 🦇🦇🦇🦇
Count von Count smiling, kneeling on his left knee and holding up the four fingers in his left hand.
December 1, 2023 at 5:13 PM
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Happy 60th #DoctorWho! 💙💙 I've immensely enjoyed discussing in my undergrad & grad classes, presenting & writing about "The Shakespeare Code," "The Beast Below," "The God Complex" and "The Doctor, The Widow and the Wardrobe." Many more on my unfinished projects list. #DoctorWho60 💙💙
Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Royal Mail Stamp Set Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Royal Mail Stamp Set Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Royal Mail Stamp Set. The title reads "Terrifying Generations for 50 years."
November 23, 2023 at 10:46 AM
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I am thrilled that Janet Brennan Croft read and recommended my article "Doctor Who’s Ecocritical Revisit to Narnia." iupress.istanbul.edu.tr/en/journal/l...
Updates Janet Brennan Croft commented on your Spotlight 41m ago Janet Brennan Croft recommended your publication: Doctor Who's Ecocritical Revisit to Narnia 42m ago Buket Akgun added a Research Spotlight - June 27, 2023 - seen 60 times This article analyses Doctor Who Christmas Special episode titled "The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe" (2011) as a retelling of C. S. Lewis's The Magician's Nephew (1955) and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe with cross-references to the two books in the light of ecocritical theory. Ecocriticism, C. S. Lewis, The Magician's Nephew, The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, Doctor Who Doctor Who's Ecocritical Revisit to Narnia Article January 2023 • 16 Reads Litera Journal of Language Literature and Culture Studies Buket Akgun Download Save Share Janet Brennan Croft • 46m ago Is this episode of Doctor Who part of your annual Christmas viewing? A good article to give you more to look for when you re-watch it.
November 21, 2023 at 4:49 PM
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I've been regularly purging my library and donating the purged books. And I've been trying to go digital whenever possible in order to be able to access my library wherever I am. I'm about to finish this year's purge, which might be my last for a while. All in all it is quite liberating.
Two piles of books. All fiction and mostly fantasy fiction at that.
October 29, 2023 at 4:31 PM
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This last year was so extremely hectic that I could go back to watching Giri/Haji (2019) only now after almost a year. A masterpiece in every way possible.
An extreme long shot of a beach where 5 tiny figures are kneeling down behind a barren uprooted tree lying sideways on the sand. The background is mostly covered by a cloudy blue sky. A medium close-up shot of a middle-aged and an elderly Japanese women praying with their eyes closed in a crematorium.
October 28, 2023 at 4:46 PM
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A thank you gift from my twin fresh graduates, which includes characters from and references to almost everything we discussed in my undergrad classes in the last four years—featuring me in the middle as Kiki! One of the most meaningful and touching gifts I have ever received. 🖤 1/
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October 21, 2023 at 2:00 PM
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Happy Friday the 13th! The weather's out of joint today. It was below 15°C this morning, and above 24°C but felt way over 30°C by midday.
Sakata Gintoki saying "You might think things are difficult now, but in the future, it's gonna get a lot worse."
October 13, 2023 at 3:27 PM
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"[N]eed alone is not enough to set power free: there must be knowledge." This week we start discussing Le Guin's A Wizard of Earthsea in my Fantasy Fiction class. It'll be a balm to our souls in the wake of yet another preventable war.
A powerpoint slide with a quotation from Ursula Le Guin's A Wizard of Earthsea. The slide title reads "Magic." The slide reads: “‘You must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act. The world is in balance, in Equilibrium. A wizard's power of Changing and Summoning can shake the balance of the world. It is dangerous, that power. It is most perilous. It must follow knowledge, and serve need. To light a candle is to cast a shadow.’” The Master Hand in Ursula Le Guin’s A Wizard of the Earthsea
October 11, 2023 at 9:15 AM
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Fascinating photo! The silhouette of Torias looks like the shadow of Nosferatu in an adorable way. 🧡
The shadow of Nosferatu climbing up the stairs and the shadow of the balustrades reflected on an orange brown wall.
September 22, 2023 at 1:42 PM
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Happy #HobbitDay and a Happy #TolkienWeek! Happy Birthday, Bilbo and Frodo! May the hair on your toes never fall out!
J. R. R. Tolkien, Dust jacket design for The Hobbit, 1937, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY, USA. Two roads merging into one and going through the woods and then mountains and a lake leading up to the Lonely Mountain. The Lonely Mountain, standing in the middle of the image divides the sky into two. It is night on the left side with a single star and a crescent moon in the sky. Smaug the dragon is flying away from the mountain. It is day on the right side. Three gigantic birds are flying towards the mountain. It writes The Hobbit on the Lonely Mountain and also over the mountains to the right of the dust jacket. It writes Tolkien over the trees in the middle towards the bottom of the image and Gearge Allen and Unwin at the bottom. It writes by on the skirt of a mountain and J. R. R. Tolkien over the trees to the right of the image. The image is framed by runes written in back in over a green background. The image is in black, blue, white and green.
September 22, 2023 at 8:18 AM
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I'm on Bluesky now thanks to that incompetent, attention-seeking billionaire. I intend to be more active once I'm done with the hustle and bustle of the registration period.
One Piece Halloween 2017 purikura featuring Tony Tony Chopper donning a black Halloween costume with a red vest waving next to yours truly. The purple skyline in the background shows the Tokyo Tower waving the Straw Hat pirate flag with tops of castle towers on each side. There is a gigantic full moon on the top left corner and the silhouettes of five bats flying.
September 19, 2023 at 11:19 AM