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Writer • Rōnin • Philomath | mnchrm.co | Sludge is good, sludge is great | #merveilles | 日本語OK！

Screenshot showing a 450 day streak in Readwise
Rows of rental cubicles.
Selfie of me in front of the event signage
Kof13 screenshot
Chase Bliss guitar pedal
Wikipedia tabs for Retrocausality, JA Wheeler, Clovis Culture, Mammoth, and The Dreaming.
A big watermelon and a little watermelon at a supermarket
Sign for promotional corn dog featuring American baseball player Tyler Nevin, now with the Seibu Lions
Screenshot of Anki heat map showing a 365 day streak.
Mayonaka Heart Tune anime poster.
Massive mug shelf with massive mugs in non-descript living room.
Large page-a-day calendar above a desk, with some (dead) flowers, a plastic figure stand, clock, etc.
Lord of the Rings on 4k TV
Last.FM collage featuring Armand Hammer, Bruiser Wolf, and The Ink Spots.
Armand Hammer — Longjohns playing on an iPod in Tokyo
Strange object with headphones plugged in.
Iceberg meme of artists from my Last.FM
Boox Palma 2, Chinatsu wallpaper.
What kinds of lessons do we learn from our favorite pieces of fiction? Are they simply a means for escapism and environment, or can they also have a tangible impact on our lives? Having played nearly every RPG from developer Atlus, my answer to that last question is a resounding, "Yes." Metaphor: ReFantazio ponders these questions in both concrete and abstract ways through the lens of a politically charged fantasy RPG, further proving that there's real power in the stories games can tell. As familiar as it mav feel at times, it also treads new territory with a sense of clarity in its message and an empathy that ripples throughout its harsh world From its more intimate moments to the grand gestures in its main story, Metaphor makes a loud and clear statement - one that is both relevant to our world today and a timeless examination of the best and worst parts of humanity
Greg Girard image of Tokyo train station employee saluting passing train.
In theory I understand that a person's being is so rich that it can change and live out othe, inner aspects of the self, move in wholly new directions, but in practice my experience is that 1 am the same person and do the same things, think the same and feel the same as I al. vays have. During a therapy session 1 had with your mothe I said that I had found a method, one that worked for me, and that I didn't want to or didn't dare to change it. The ther- apist said with a smile that in fact the method didn't work since I was a deeply lonely person. ' But what if it feels good to be lonely?' I said. 'It is never good to be lonely,' she said. think she is wrong, but maybe I think so because that would threaten my story, who I am to myself, which I stick to in all weathers and every season, even if it means waking up de- jected every morning, and even if I am constantly harassed by feelings of guilt and shame, for despite everything it works, the way the shell works for the crab as it crawls side- ways in the darkness at the bottom of the ocean, or the way subservience works for the dog, that too is a form, some- thing fixed, to which it can therefore entrust itself. The story that is my identity, this crab-like carapace, this set of notions which I don't challenge, is the very opposite of literature, for while I am not interested in freedom on my own behalf, in my own life, and haven't been since I was a teenager, freedom means everything in literature that is its essence, and that is why I wrote that ruthlessness was the core and justification of literature, since freedom and ruthlessness are two sides of the same coin. In literature the simple story of the self encounters the complexity of reality, and this encounter is one of the basic structures of the novel, as in the meeting between the romantic selfimages of Don Quixote and I
Boy in a stroller yelling at pigeons
Haute42 T13 with Misaka Mikoto art
Screenshot of Shigemichi from Gnosia
Brewers holding mis-colored L flag
Anki screenshot showing I'm on my longest active streak.
MLB postseason bracket
Cup noodle pro at a Japanese grocery store.
2026 Hobonichi techo, various accessories on a wooden table.
Kehai clock in three colors
Big wagyu burger, thin-cut fries, and a ginger ale.
Google calendar screenshot
Krallice — Years Past Matter album cover
20221126 by Mac DeMarco, from "One Wayne G"
Teapot, black tea in blue teacup, and four cookies on a tiny plate on a wood table.
If the Pirates could land multiple hitters for Keller — starting with someone like the Chicago Cubs' top prospect, outfielder Owen Caissie — they still would have a wealth of young pitching talent to reinforce their rotation.
Screenshot from the anime adaptation of CITY
People playing on a shore in front of the silhouette of Mount Fuji.
A blue skied Tokyo street
Tokyo shopping street with large illuminated signs at night.
Help center page screenshot