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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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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. 💗
May 4, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Now for the more delightful news as promised: I moved to Tokyo in January 1st. ❤️
January 18, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Fantastic!
December 13, 2024 at 8:52 PM
What a Three of Pentacles! Am totally bewitched by the cast of #AgathaAllAlong. 🖤
November 23, 2024 at 5:43 AM
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
"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"
October 7, 2024 at 11:27 AM
Using an IME keyboard to type in Japanese never fails to amuse (or frustrate in equal measure). #吸血鬼 🧛
September 20, 2024 at 7:32 PM
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
September 1, 2024 at 6:48 AM
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.
January 5, 2024 at 4:34 PM
I've started watching Netflix's #Bodies (2023). What a brilliant adaptation, cast, crew and creative team. A must watch.
December 15, 2023 at 9:31 PM
4 weeks until the end of fall semester classes. 🦇🦇🦇🦇
December 1, 2023 at 5:13 PM
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 💙💙
November 23, 2023 at 10:46 AM
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...
November 21, 2023 at 4:49 PM
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.
October 29, 2023 at 4:31 PM
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.
October 28, 2023 at 4:46 PM
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/
October 21, 2023 at 2:00 PM
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.
October 13, 2023 at 3:27 PM
"[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.
October 11, 2023 at 9:15 AM
Fascinating photo! The silhouette of Torias looks like the shadow of Nosferatu in an adorable way. 🧡
September 22, 2023 at 1:42 PM
Happy #HobbitDay and a Happy #TolkienWeek! Happy Birthday, Bilbo and Frodo! May the hair on your toes never fall out!
September 22, 2023 at 8:18 AM
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.
September 19, 2023 at 11:19 AM