Purrdence
@purrdence.bsky.social
I am here! Cats! Bucky Barnes! Cats! Dr Who! Cats! Ms Marvel! Cats! Star Wars! Cats! MCU! Cats! Japan! Cats! Knitting! Cats! Sumo! Cats! WW2 History!
You better believe that I’m going to be loud if you think using ‘Jap’ to talk about people from Japan isn’t casual racism. If you’re going to keep arguing it isn’t after you’ve been shown why, you’re either terribly ignorant, or comfortable with your racism.
October 11, 2025 at 4:05 PM
You better believe that I’m going to be loud if you think using ‘Jap’ to talk about people from Japan isn’t casual racism. If you’re going to keep arguing it isn’t after you’ve been shown why, you’re either terribly ignorant, or comfortable with your racism.
Ok Scottish or Scottish adjacent people I know ( @squilkie.bsky.social , @bethanyblack.bsky.social , @soozuk.bsky.social for instance): what the hell are Neeps?
October 5, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Ok Scottish or Scottish adjacent people I know ( @squilkie.bsky.social , @bethanyblack.bsky.social , @soozuk.bsky.social for instance): what the hell are Neeps?
Saw this, thought of @bethanyblack.bsky.social ‘s jammy dodgers…
March 7, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Saw this, thought of @bethanyblack.bsky.social ‘s jammy dodgers…
Let me introduce you to two Ukrainian sumo rikishi (wrestlers). Left is 獅司 / Shishi ( Сергій Соколовський/ Serhii Sokolovskyi) and the one of the right is 安青錦 / Aonishiki (Данило Явгусішин/ Danylo Yavhusishyn). Both are currently in the top division of professional sumo in Japan.
March 1, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Let me introduce you to two Ukrainian sumo rikishi (wrestlers). Left is 獅司 / Shishi ( Сергій Соколовський/ Serhii Sokolovskyi) and the one of the right is 安青錦 / Aonishiki (Данило Явгусішин/ Danylo Yavhusishyn). Both are currently in the top division of professional sumo in Japan.
I just saw a drongo on another social media platform demand that superhero movies should turn the clock back 20 years to when ‘the scripts were good’. So I googled ‘superhero movies 2005’…
February 21, 2025 at 1:36 PM
I just saw a drongo on another social media platform demand that superhero movies should turn the clock back 20 years to when ‘the scripts were good’. So I googled ‘superhero movies 2005’…
Before I forget *again*, I got the most delightful card recently from the lovely human @virginiam.bsky.social . I really appreciate it and it made my day! 💜
February 14, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Before I forget *again*, I got the most delightful card recently from the lovely human @virginiam.bsky.social . I really appreciate it and it made my day! 💜
Akemashite Omedetō! Happy New Year! Happy Year of the Snake!
December 31, 2024 at 10:41 PM
Akemashite Omedetō! Happy New Year! Happy Year of the Snake!
My Christmas haul. (Technically I haven’t got the Science Cats dress from Svaha USA yet; I got Christmas Money, so I ordered it today. That is not me in the photo.)
December 25, 2024 at 2:42 PM
My Christmas haul. (Technically I haven’t got the Science Cats dress from Svaha USA yet; I got Christmas Money, so I ordered it today. That is not me in the photo.)
Happy Jólabókaflóðið everybody! This is my haul for this year. (Rabble Books & Games in Perth is the place to go, peeps! Support your local independent bookshops!)
December 24, 2024 at 8:01 AM
Happy Jólabókaflóðið everybody! This is my haul for this year. (Rabble Books & Games in Perth is the place to go, peeps! Support your local independent bookshops!)
About to partake in a Traditional Japanese Christmas meal. 🤣
December 24, 2024 at 5:22 AM
About to partake in a Traditional Japanese Christmas meal. 🤣
The WW2 last book my high school library had that got me into WW2 history was The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank. While Gen & the books about Sadako introduced me to the Pacific theatre of war, it was Anne Frank’s diary that introduced me to the Holocaust and the European theatre of the war. 🧵👇🏽
December 19, 2024 at 11:59 PM
The WW2 last book my high school library had that got me into WW2 history was The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank. While Gen & the books about Sadako introduced me to the Pacific theatre of war, it was Anne Frank’s diary that introduced me to the Holocaust and the European theatre of the war. 🧵👇🏽
Volume 1 is about Gen and his family’s life in Hiroshima, in the last few months of WW2. There is little food to go around & life is made extra hard because his dad speaks out against the war. Then the atomic bomb is dropped on the city. Vol 2 Is about the immediate days after the atomic bombing. 🧵👇
December 19, 2024 at 11:39 PM
Volume 1 is about Gen and his family’s life in Hiroshima, in the last few months of WW2. There is little food to go around & life is made extra hard because his dad speaks out against the war. Then the atomic bomb is dropped on the city. Vol 2 Is about the immediate days after the atomic bombing. 🧵👇
While the main character Gen is a fictional character, many of his experiences in the multi-volume manga are based on Nakazawa’s own experiences, or that of people he knew. In 1993, only the first two volumes had been translated into English, but all 10 are now in English. 🧵👇🏽
December 19, 2024 at 11:33 PM
While the main character Gen is a fictional character, many of his experiences in the multi-volume manga are based on Nakazawa’s own experiences, or that of people he knew. In 1993, only the first two volumes had been translated into English, but all 10 are now in English. 🧵👇🏽
The next book is The Day of the Bomb (Sadako Will Leben!) by Karl Bruckner. This is also about Sadako Sasaki, and from my memory is closer to the truth. I haven’t read it since I was 13; it’s a lot easier to get one’s hands on Corr’s book than this one. 👇🏿
December 19, 2024 at 11:17 PM
The next book is The Day of the Bomb (Sadako Will Leben!) by Karl Bruckner. This is also about Sadako Sasaki, and from my memory is closer to the truth. I haven’t read it since I was 13; it’s a lot easier to get one’s hands on Corr’s book than this one. 👇🏿
After Sadako’s death, her classmates fundraised around Japan to have the Children’s monument built in the Hiroshima Peace Park with a statue of Sadako standing upon the top, holding a paper crane. (My photo) 🧵👇
December 19, 2024 at 11:10 PM
After Sadako’s death, her classmates fundraised around Japan to have the Children’s monument built in the Hiroshima Peace Park with a statue of Sadako standing upon the top, holding a paper crane. (My photo) 🧵👇
We’ll start with Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor Corr. This is the story of Sadako Sasaki, who was 2 years old when the atom bomb was dropped on her home town of Hiroshima on Aug 6, 1945. She was unhurt at the time, but developed leukaemia when she was 12 from the radiation.🧵👇🏽
December 19, 2024 at 10:49 PM
We’ll start with Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor Corr. This is the story of Sadako Sasaki, who was 2 years old when the atom bomb was dropped on her home town of Hiroshima on Aug 6, 1945. She was unhurt at the time, but developed leukaemia when she was 12 from the radiation.🧵👇🏽
I recently got a Swift darning loom from worthmending, cause @drhoz is wearing holes in his socks like it’s going out of fashion. This is my first and second goes.
November 16, 2024 at 7:55 AM
I recently got a Swift darning loom from worthmending, cause @drhoz is wearing holes in his socks like it’s going out of fashion. This is my first and second goes.
Read Gate to Kagoshima, Poppy Kuroki (@kurokibooks )! Time travel! Japan! Samurai! Kagoshima! Romance! More samurai! Famous samurai! Onsen! 21st century woman Isla (a Scot with Japanese ancestry), is mysteriously sent to Kagoshima at the beginning of the samurai Satsuma Rebellion in the late 1800s 🧵
November 12, 2024 at 3:40 PM
Read Gate to Kagoshima, Poppy Kuroki (@kurokibooks )! Time travel! Japan! Samurai! Kagoshima! Romance! More samurai! Famous samurai! Onsen! 21st century woman Isla (a Scot with Japanese ancestry), is mysteriously sent to Kagoshima at the beginning of the samurai Satsuma Rebellion in the late 1800s 🧵
Oh @bethanyblack.bsky.social , you will like what I got as an early Christmas present!
November 9, 2024 at 4:56 PM
Oh @bethanyblack.bsky.social , you will like what I got as an early Christmas present!
I have many words, so you get it as a screen cap.
November 6, 2024 at 2:02 PM
I have many words, so you get it as a screen cap.