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THIS YEAR'S 地味ハロウィン ("Mundane Halloween") IS UPON US AND I'M GONNA POST SOME HILARIOUS ONES I'M SEEING RIGHT NOW 🤣 twitter.com/MishimaKitan/s…
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If you're at San Diego Comicon, make sure to check out the Boys Run The Riot exhibition!!! 💖✨
The author, Keito Gaku, is a trans man and the English edition was localized, edited, and lettered entirely by a team of trans and/or nonbinary people! 🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️ twitter.com/AniTrendz/stat…
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~ Potentially useful JP fact ~
In Japanese slang アンモニャイト ("anmonyaite") refers to the instance where cats roll up like the pictured form and they look like an ammonite, the extinct marine mollusk creature. twitter.com/monamofumofu/s…
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Honestly, I'm not very knowledgeable about the gaming industry and I didn't know Kotaro Uchikoshi (@Uchikoshi_Eng) until now.
But it gives me hope (as a JP nonbinary person) to see him (an older cis JP man) defend nonbinary identity and say that nonbinary people exist in Japan. twitter.com/JohnXuandou/st…
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Hey, comic book creators!!!
Make More Comics has opened its application for a US$1000 micro-grant!
Application deadline is March 31st, 2023!
More info below!
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TW: transphobia
Currently, トランス女性 (JP word for "trans women") is a top trending topic in JP Twitter.
I advise all trans & nonbinary people to stay away from clicking it because most of the tweets on that topic are transphobic tirades about trans women in women's bathroom.
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頑張って! (Ganbatte!) can be interpreted as "You can do it!" or "Work harder!" (in encouragement) but you're usually saything this to others who seem to need a pep talk.
& it's one of the phrases the JP government advises NOT to say to people with depression/suicidal ideation 🧵 twitter.com/japanese_lunch…
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It creates a great deal of confusion when "hormones" written in Japanese is ホルモン and edible beef or pork offal (ie. intestines and such) are also written as ホルモン 🤣 twitter.com/WIFEMODER/stat…
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ウニは外敵から身を守るため、そしてカモフラージュのため、自然界では貝殻を使うらしい。
それを聞いた水生生物愛好家の人々が、3Dプリンターでウニ専用の帽子を作った結果がこちら ↓ twitter.com/todayyearsoldi…
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[Thread Rerun]
~ Queer JP historical fact ~
On the oldest surviving JP dictionary written around 934 CE (十巻本和名抄), there is an entry called 半月 ("haniwari")
The entry talks about a kind of person whose body was male for half of the month and female for another half 🌓
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Anyway, Japanese users seem to also be scrambling around to find the next social media to move to with current trending topics including Twitterサ終 ("Twitter's end of service"), Twitter離れ ("(People) leaving Twitter behind"), and クソ仕様 ("Shit ass system spec")
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~ JP Pun Explainer: Xmas Ver.~
In the last hour, メリークルシミマス (Merry Kurushimimasu) became a trending topic in JP Twitter.
It means "Merry I-will-be-suffering" & was posted by people harboring bitter sentiments about Christmas, not in a religious way, however.
Continued↓
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According to this news report, a driver stopped his car because he saw a shadow on the road and by the time he knew it, he was surrounded by approximately 30 tanuki.
(Neither the driver nor the group of tanuki was hurt.) twitter.com/livedoornews/s…
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Discord利用者への注意喚起:
3月27日より適用されるDiscordのプライバシーポリシーが音声通話・ビデオ通話・チャンネルの記録とスクリーンシェアによる配信のデータを運営側が保管できる様に変更されています。
また昨日DiscordがAIの試験運用を発表。
ユーザーデータが搾取される可能性あり
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everyone please look at this frog artwork by Japanese painter Itō Jakuchū (2 March 1716 – 27 October 1800) that was created in 1790 twitter.com/washoking/stat…
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I'm losing it right now because the caption is like, "Good morning, with an Ophelia-esque capybara." 💀 twitter.com/capybaracamera…
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He first reached stardom in 1957 when he sang the Japanese cover of the French song "Méqué méqué".
His trans feminine beauty drove people wild. Mass media called him the "Sister Boy" (シスターボーイ). Writer Yukio Mishima called Miwa, "The Beauty of Heavens" (「天上界の美」).
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~ Potentially useful JP fact ~
It will never not be funny to me that uvula (the thing at the back of your throat) is のどちんこ (nodo chinko) in Japanese, which translates to "throat dick" 💀
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~ Potentially useful JP fact ~
_(:3」 ∠)_
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This guy specifically has a name in Japanese & the name is たかざわじゅんすけ (Takazawa Junsuke), a name commonly identified as a male.
Note:
Takazawa = family name & Junsuke =name because it's written in typical Japanese name form. twitter.com/lovesickdoe/st…
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If you are nonbinary and looking for resources written in Japanese, the below group (ノンバイナリー研究会), comprised of nonbinary Japanese-speaking people, has an official website with articles that may be helpful for you! twitter.com/nonbinary_0714…
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🌈 ACADEMIC PEOPLE INTERESTED IN JAPANESE QUEER MATTERS!!! ✨
A very interesting public academic article titled "Gendered Trajectories to Tolerance: Men’s and Women’s Changing Attitudes toward Homosexuality in Japan, 1981–2019" by JP scholar, @reinakalse!
Link below!!!
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英語圏のお絵かき界隈で今日流行ってるやつ ↓
目の中にデカい靴履いたアモングアス描くと悲しいアニメキャラの目を簡単に描けるとめっちゃ話題になってる twitter.com/NenekHani/stat…
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a very skilled wire technician, hard at work!!!
twitter.com/TheBest_Viral/…
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🏳️🌈 GREAT NEWS FOR QUEER LITERATURE FANS!!!
University of Michigan Press released "Queer Subjects in Modern Japanese Literature" edited by Stephen D. Miller!
The book contains literature pieces about male-to-male love, intimacy, & sexy things translated into English!
Links! ↓
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Thanks to the OP for tagging me in his thread to let me know that the Japanese version of Harvestella uses the word ニュートラル ("Neutral") when the English version uses "Non-binary" for the 3rd option.
To me, this seems as a deliberate choice by the studio.
(Continued ↓) twitter.com/StarKirby/stat…
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