Guess I should consider streaming Cell of Empireo some of these days...

One of the quintessential childhood discoveries that I feel has left the spotlight is the acquisition of fire through lenses, the pedagogical equivalent of the discovery of fire for our historical ancestors ...

Something I thought today while reading Shimamura's Aoi Hana and, personally, what I consider something she excels at, how evoking victorian classics n taisho lesbian poetry she doesn't want to convey ideas of the novels themselves, but to interpret them through what it means for the characters ...

I feel ambivalent towards intertextuality in the sense that, while it's usually interesting to see the perspective through which a work directly engages thematically with another, at the same time, it can narrow it's own potential to a mere metanarrative trait

For some reason, the morning today dawned with a fragrance of cookies and cream flavored natural yogurt

Watching footage of HappySoft's 一 the same behind Hong Kong '97 一 Aum Shinrikyo PC-98 satire game, I had a jumpscare seeing this footage and immediately associating it with the one feature in Sans Soleil, but apparently all live-action recordings are ones of the cult itself, as far as we know...