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I just published a new article about turtles in Japanese folklore and culture including folktales, yokai, ghosts, and art. I really hope you enjoy it! 🐢
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#JapaneseFolklore #JapaneseArt
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#JapaneseFolklore #JapaneseArt
Turtles in Japanese Folklore and Culture
Folktales, yokai, symbolism and art
open.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:38 AM
I just published a new article about turtles in Japanese folklore and culture including folktales, yokai, ghosts, and art. I really hope you enjoy it! 🐢
open.substack.com/pub/curiouso...
#JapaneseFolklore #JapaneseArt
open.substack.com/pub/curiouso...
#JapaneseFolklore #JapaneseArt
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“A land acknowledgment is not enough. The land exists regardless of settler acknowledgment, which can only ever be the first step toward meaningful action. Next steps involve building relationships with that land as if it were your kin. Because it is.” —Joseph M. Pierce
Your Land Acknowledgment Is Not Enough
Land acknowledgment without action is an empty gesture, exculpatory and self-serving.
hyperallergic.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:32 PM
“A land acknowledgment is not enough. The land exists regardless of settler acknowledgment, which can only ever be the first step toward meaningful action. Next steps involve building relationships with that land as if it were your kin. Because it is.” —Joseph M. Pierce
considering how often I need to buy white paint, I propose that white should in fact be considered a color
November 25, 2025 at 11:55 PM
considering how often I need to buy white paint, I propose that white should in fact be considered a color
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In an increasingly numbed world, where atrocities are scrolled past and claims about power and resistance are further leeched of meaning with each successive repetition, this New York exhibition’s greatest success is in making those ideas viscerally, urgently present.
We Are History’s Ghosts
An exhibition on the Lower East Side turns to collective memory and reenactment to cut through today’s political numbness.
hyperallergic.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:44 PM
In an increasingly numbed world, where atrocities are scrolled past and claims about power and resistance are further leeched of meaning with each successive repetition, this New York exhibition’s greatest success is in making those ideas viscerally, urgently present.
J. W. Smith, Little Red Riding Hood, 1911
November 22, 2025 at 4:21 AM
J. W. Smith, Little Red Riding Hood, 1911
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i know asl but i can't always tell if someone is trying to say something to me or basically flipping me off
November 19, 2025 at 9:22 PM
i know asl but i can't always tell if someone is trying to say something to me or basically flipping me off
Theo decker vs Holden caulfield
November 18, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Theo decker vs Holden caulfield
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“I am the fiery life of divine substance, I blaze above the beauty of the fields, I shine in the waters, I burn in the sun, moon and stars,” Hildegard von Bingen wrote of herself — but she understood that such an invitation to infinity was true for all of us.
Hildegard von Bingen’s Eternal Garden
The 12th-century mystic continues to attract devotees among both Catholic clergy and New Age gurus, Christian traditionalists and radical feminists.
hyperallergic.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:37 PM
“I am the fiery life of divine substance, I blaze above the beauty of the fields, I shine in the waters, I burn in the sun, moon and stars,” Hildegard von Bingen wrote of herself — but she understood that such an invitation to infinity was true for all of us.
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What do you need for a game jam? “Two tables. Done.”
Game jams—accelerated game creation events—started as a way to develop video games, but they’re also useful for creating tabletop role-playing games, which have grown in popularity in recent years.
Read more: https://bit.ly/43qkkRQ
Game jams—accelerated game creation events—started as a way to develop video games, but they’re also useful for creating tabletop role-playing games, which have grown in popularity in recent years.
Read more: https://bit.ly/43qkkRQ
Jam Forever | American Libraries Magazine
Panelists shared ways for libraries to host game jams to help students and patrons of all ages create games.
bit.ly
November 11, 2025 at 5:12 PM
What do you need for a game jam? “Two tables. Done.”
Game jams—accelerated game creation events—started as a way to develop video games, but they’re also useful for creating tabletop role-playing games, which have grown in popularity in recent years.
Read more: https://bit.ly/43qkkRQ
Game jams—accelerated game creation events—started as a way to develop video games, but they’re also useful for creating tabletop role-playing games, which have grown in popularity in recent years.
Read more: https://bit.ly/43qkkRQ
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A collection of illustrated letters by the likes of Man Ray, Andy Warhol, and Winslow Homer is a time capsule of verbal and visual play, reinforcing connections between long-distance friends, family, lovers, and colleagues.
The Illustrated Correspondence of Artists
Before people were dropping GIFs into Gmail, letter writers were adding illustrations for that emotional or contextual punch.
hyperallergic.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:43 PM
A collection of illustrated letters by the likes of Man Ray, Andy Warhol, and Winslow Homer is a time capsule of verbal and visual play, reinforcing connections between long-distance friends, family, lovers, and colleagues.
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Well that’s a nice wake up surprise! This piece I wrote for @zocalopublicsquare.bsky.social is a finalist for a Los Angeles Press Club National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Award! www.zocalopublicsquare.org/romance-genr...
Happily Ever After Is for Everyone | Essay
The romance genre has a single set-in-stone rule: The main characters of the story will end up happily in a relationship. The HEA (Happily Ever After) or the HFN (Happy for Now) is the expectation of ...
www.zocalopublicsquare.org
November 4, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Well that’s a nice wake up surprise! This piece I wrote for @zocalopublicsquare.bsky.social is a finalist for a Los Angeles Press Club National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Award! www.zocalopublicsquare.org/romance-genr...
reading james michener is. a process
November 4, 2025 at 8:41 PM
reading james michener is. a process
bell hooks' feminist theory from margin to center: monoskop.org/images/f/ff/...
monoskop.org
October 29, 2025 at 7:23 PM
bell hooks' feminist theory from margin to center: monoskop.org/images/f/ff/...
Challenge accepted: A reader wrote a program to find fake references in books retractionwatch.com/2025/10/28/c...
Challenge accepted: A reader wrote a program to find fake references in books
Hermann/Pixabay Following our coverage this summer of a book with citations that did not exist, we asked you to send us examples of other books with similar issues. One reader took the request as a…
retractionwatch.com
October 29, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Challenge accepted: A reader wrote a program to find fake references in books retractionwatch.com/2025/10/28/c...
John Berger's Ways of Seeing: dn721608.ca.archive.org/0/items/ways...
dn721608.ca.archive.org
October 28, 2025 at 11:12 PM
John Berger's Ways of Seeing: dn721608.ca.archive.org/0/items/ways...
