#hiromi lee

[catsandpens]

Lawyer!Higuruma Hiromi is a simple man who is sick of the injustices of the world, but Stripper!Reader makes everything clear for him.

“So you keep the good guys from going to prison?”

“I..I. guess, well I try to, but it’s not as easy as it sounds .”

“Hmm. So what do you think about girls like me ? What do you think girls like me deserve?”

“ I can’t speak for every girl, but I know you deserve everything my precious jewel.”

( face credit: lee soohyuk )

#jujutsu kaisen imagines #jujutsu kaisen #jujustsu kaisen x reader #jujutsu nanami #jjk oneshot #jjk imagines #anime imagines #higuruma hiromi #jjk higuruma #higuruma x reader #higuruma smut #moodboard #lee soo hyuk #poc friendly #jjk x you #Spotify

[duckymcdoorknob]

𝓣𝓲𝓬𝓴𝓵𝓮𝓽𝓸𝓫𝓮𝓻 𝓓𝓪𝔂 3: 𝓒𝓾𝓭𝓭𝓵𝓮𝓼

Miya my son my baby my child

This made me so soft oh my god I need me a shadow so bad 😭😭

Tags: @giggly-squiggily @chrimsss (THANK YOU FOR THE INSPIRSTION)

—This do have tickles below the cut ngl—

Miya had to admit, hanging out with his friends was his favorite part of the week. The meetings were never planned, more-so just an impromptu event that took place. Today’s particular celebration was about Langa’s slow-rising report card grade! So, as they usually do, they gathered at Joe and Cherry’s place and celebrated till the cows came home.

The hustle and bustle of the celebration was immaculate, and poor Miya was positively exhausted.

At least, he should have been.

Instead, the poor kid was staring bug-eyed at the ceiling from his position on the couch.

He tossed and turned, overstimulated by the noises in the (should be quiet) room. Reki was snoring rather raucously, Cherry and Joe were engrossed in a gentle conversation, which didn’t much bother him, but it still added to the sound; not to mention the damned ceiling fan that squeaked every six seconds— oh yes, he counted.

The boy sighed and rubbed his burning eyes, subsequently covering his ears with his pillow and turning over on his side. His whole body felt ungodly heavy, and it almost hurt to breathe. He needed to sleep now.

Miya grimaced in exasperation, ready to make a pleaded announcement, until he felt a gentle brush of a hand along his forehead.

The young skater opened his bleary eyes and was met by the patient smile of Hiromi. The orange-haired male only mouthed something to him, since the boy was too tired to comprehend the noise that emitted. Whatever Hiromi offered was probably better than being where he was now, so he nodded, oblivious to whatever was said.

Hiromi wordlessly scooped the exhausted boy into his arms, letting his little head rest atop his shoulder. Miya wasn’t sure what the tall man had said, but he felt the rumble of speech beneath his torso. Soon enough, Shadow was leading them both down a secluded hallway.

When Miya saw the spare bedroom, he swore he could’ve cried in relief. He did sigh heavily, however, when he was carefully laid flat on his stomach. Hiromi exhaled fondly and sat next to the young skateboarder, gently tracing shapes up and down his back.

Miya’s shoulders gently heaved as breathy giggles filled the room. As the orange-haired male’s fingers neared the boy’s sides and neck, he would flinch a little.

“Everything okay, little buddy?” A whispered check-in filled the room.

“Y-Yehehes. Tihihihickles.” Miya hummed, unmoving.

Shadow’s lips screwed into a pouty smile as his brows furrowed. ‘So precious…’ he thought. He gently raked his blunt nails up and down Miya’s back, scribbling little patterns into it.

“S-Shahahadow—ehehehe— tihihihickles.” Miya’s giggles grew in volume, but no attempt to block the ticklish feeling was made.

“Shhhh, just relax; I know you’re exhausted.“ Hiromi cooed in a whispered reply, letting his fingers drag up to Miya’s neck.

The boy squealed and shrugged his shoulders. Hiromi chuckled a bit and stopped what he was doing, opting to lay down on the bed himself.

A sudden, gentle weight was pressed against his chest. The scent of strawberries filled his nostrils as black hairs tickled his nose. Hiromi opened his eyes to see that Miya had settled down atop of his torso, and had laid his head over the bulky skater’s heart. “Keep going… please?”

Hiromi smiled with a pout once more, continuing to trace the boy’s back and causing little giggles to slip out.

“Thahahanks.” The little guy was curling in on himself occasionally, causing the larger skater to stop every so often. “Nohohoho, ihihihits okahahahay. Feheheels gohohohood.”

Hiromi cradled the boy’s head and drew gentle circles on his back, hoping to gently lull the boy to sleep.

Shadow got his wish after ten minutes, for little Miya fell asleep silently with a big smile on his face.

🎃————♡︎✞♡︎✞♡︎✞♡︎✞♡︎✞♡︎✞♡︎✞♡︎✞♡︎✞♡︎————🎃

#t content #augtickletober2023 #sk8 #skate the infinity #sk8 the infinity #Miya #Miya Chinen #shadow sk8 #sk8 shadow #hiromi higa #Miya sk8 #sk8 Miya #sk8 the infinity tickle #sk8 tickle #lee!miya #ler!shadow #ticklish!miya

[lotusfartstwice]

Some art fight pieces I did ✌️

#farty art #hiromi hyuga lee (oc) #gaara #nejileeten #nejinaru #Hanabi Hyuga #juushika

[alumort]

hiromi's bday is today! she wears lee's jumpsuit to be strong and neji's jacket

shes like 16 here or smt idk

#hiromi hyuga lee #oc #naruto oc #art

[feather-rose]

A Girl's Secret.

....

Hiromi Tachibana(Stood shocked with her dropped jaw.): No way! You really did that?

Mao Chen(Proud of herself.): Yup. I sure did!

Hiromi(Still shocked as her eyes went big.): You've really scared Kai, back then?

Julia Fernandez: You scared the iceman of the club?(Snorted a gasp of laughter.)

Back away a guy with dark grey hair had slipped through his long scarf nearly choked him off to death. Which scared a few kittens away.

Emirii Watoson(Clapped the pinkette's back, proudly.): She sure, did!

Hiromi(Trying to understand as she pointed the pinkette, shaking a bit.): You mean--

Mao:(Waved off to the brunette and leaned back to her chair with her drink.) Relax, Hiromi! I've never had implants as a kid. Never. I've just filled them up with toilet paper in order to scare guys off---

Hiromi: How did the guys reacted? I mean like: Lee?

Mao(Faked up a pout): My big brother was angry with me for a while.

A male gasp was heard from a far and had been heard that he rushed up at the bathroom, like a crazy falling star.

Emirii: But Rei?

Mao(snorted up a giggle as her cheeks were getting red.): He was close to collapse from a nosebleed..

Then a guy with long and tied dark hair spite out his drink as a few guys tried to cheer him up as they patted his back as he coughed, a few tables away from the girls.

And the girls laughed together as they were having fun and cheered themselves up with theirs drinks.

.......

#mao chen #hiromi tachibana #emirii Watoson #emily #julia fernandez #bakuten shoot beyblade #girls talk #girls talk boys #rei kon #lee chen #kai hiwatari #funny moment #funny stuff #girls making fun of boys #beyblade ep 09

[grandpa-kita]

Random Beyblade characters going sightseeing during the World Cup

Ming-Ming

Julia and Raul

Rei and Mao/Mariah

Lee

Kai

Takao and Hilary/Hiromi

Rick

Brooklyn and Garland

Tao (Romero is driving)

Daichi

#beyblade #beyblade gifs #takao kinomiya #kai hiwatari #mariah wong #mao chen #rei kon #garland #brooklyn #daichi sumeragi #rick anderson #ming ming #julia fernandez #raul fernandez #hiromi tachibana #hilary tachibana #tao #romero #lee chen

[wornoutspines]

Shogun | Trailer

I expected something good for the first trailer for #Shogun but this looks epic. The production value is amazing, it's a beautiful trailer. I can't wait to actually see the show. Premiering this February on FX and Hulu/Disney+

Writer: James Clavell (Novels) Creators: Rachel Kondo, Justin Marks Stars: Hiroyuki Sanada, Cosmo Jarvis, Tadanobu Asano, Anna Sawai, Yûki Kedôin The production value of this show is insane. This already looks epic. I cannot wait to see it. Coming February 2024 If you want to support this site, help by getting me coffee from the link below:

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#Adventure #Ako #Anna Sawai #Based on a book #Based on a novel #Book adaptation #Book to TV #Caillin Puente #Charlotte Brändström #Cosmo Jarvis #Drama #Emi Kamito #Emily Yoshida #Emmanuel Osei-Kuffour #Eushin Lee #Frederick E.O. Toye #Fumi Nikaido #FX #Hiro Kanagawa #Hiromi Kamata #Hiromoto Ida #Hiroto Kanai #hiroyuki sanada #history #Hulu #James Clavell #Jonathan van Tulleken #Junichi Tajiri #justin marks #Kengo Hashimoto

[bleach-your-panties]

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Thank you and Godspeed,

Higuruma Law Firm

Hiromi Higuruma, Attorney at Law

@yuujispinkhair @wakashawty @yfneccentric @seireiteihellbutterfly @prettybraat @sacredwarrior88 @chrollohearttags @fictionfordays @bakugosbratx @strawberrysun15 @krenee1drful @mynewobsession @stygianoir @smackabitchfortacos

#14 arrows💘 #byp 🌹announcements #byp🌹

[gentlemewn]

Teehee TCR Cake and Fionna Au??? 🤭

I couldn't help it- I thought of Baron being Simon and Louise being Betty when I kept repeating that scene of Simon and Betty saying their goodbyes 😭😭

I also thought about Raine and Eda being like Betty and Simon too 🫠

I'm still working out who can be who, like, Haru as Fionna? And Hiromi as Cake maybe? Lune as Gary (aka Prince Bubblegum) and Yuki as Marshall (Aka Larshal Lee)?? I dunno but it's an idea 🫠

PLEASE I NEED THIS WRITTEN RN-

LITERALLY WOULD HIS OTHER VERSION- I dunno whisper of the heart Baron or comic Baron BE WINTER KING 😭 I would LOVE to see that interaction be having winter King personality combined with Baron’s ｡ﾟ(TヮT)ﾟ｡

Ooooo we could have a buff Haru from the farm world universe 🤭 Baron crushing frfr /j unless 😏

Anyway, LOOK AT THE METALY ILL KITTY HUH! ISN'T HE ADORABLE WITH GLASSES? :D

man lost his wife from a wish and is desertply trying to get her back and is depressed with anxiety and has presently brought his fanfiction alive and went on an adventure into different au’s of themselves trying to get power back into the fanfiction world and also attempt to bring his wife back all in all trying to make himself none existence

He's a little mess up but he's perfectly fine ;D

#the cat returns Au idea #the cat returns #au #The cat returns au #tcr baron #baron humbert von gikkingen #Best au in my part 😎 #pulling on heart strings frfr #Baron loses his wife again smh #Sassy Baron possible #Simons sassy too so maybe #Cake and Fionna au #cake and fionna #fanart #Who would be Prismo?? Me ofc uwu /j #WAIT WHO WOULD BE SCARAB #prismosblog #soxsodi

[newestcool]

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[brandonshimoda]

THE BOOKS I READ IN 2023

*I read it before

**I read it more than once this year

Aaron Caycedo-Kimura, Common Grace

Adania Shibli, Minor Detail, translated from the Arabic by Elisabeth Jaquette

Ahmad Almallah, Bitter English

Alison Lubar, It Skips a Generation

Atef Abu Saif, The Drone Eats With Me: A Gaza Diary

Brynn Saito, Under a Future Sky

Camonghne Felix, Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation

*Carolina Ebeid, You Ask Me to Talk About the Interior

Chanté L. Reid, Thot

*Christina Sharpe, Ordinary Notes

Christine Shan Shan Hou & Vi Khi Nao, Evolution of the Bullet

Christopher Okigbo, Labyrinths (with Paths of Thunder)

Cristina Rivera Garza, Liliana’s Invincible Summer

Dionne Brand, Chronicles of the Hostile Sun

*Dionne Brand, No Language is Neutral

Dionne Brand, Primitive Offensive

Édouard Louis, Who Killed My Father, translated from the French by Lorin Stein

**Emily Lee Luan, 回 / Return

Erin Marie Lynch, Removal Acts

Fady Joudah, Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance

Farid Tali, Prosopopoeia, translated from the French by Aditi Machado

Gabriel Palacios, A Ten Peso Burial For Which Truth Is Sign (coming out 2024)

Ghayath Almadhoun, Adrenalin, translated from the Arabic by Catherine Cobham

Hauntie, To Whitey & The Cracker Jack

Hervé Guibert, To the friend who did not save my life, translated from the French by Linda Coverdale

Hiromi Ito, Tree Spirits Grass Spirits, translated from the Japanese by Jon L. Pitt

*James Baldwin, No Name in the Street

*James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name

*James Baldwin, The Devil Finds Work

James Fujinami Moore, Indecent Hours

Jami Nakamura Lin, The Night Parade

Jawdat Fakhreddine, Lighthouse for the Drowning, translated from the Arabic by Huda Fakhreddine and Jayson Iwen

Jed Munson, Commentary on the Birds

Jennifer Hayashida, A Machine Wrote This Song

Jenny Odell, Inhabiting The Negative Space

Jenny Xie, The Rupture Tense

*Joy Kogawa, A Choice of Dreams

Joy Kogawa, A Garden of Anchors: Selected Poems

**Joy Kogawa, From the Lost and Found Department: New and Selected Poems

Joy Kogawa, Gently to Nagasaki

*Joy Kogawa, Jericho Road

*Joy Kogawa, Obasan

Joy Kogawa, The Rain Ascends

Joy Kogawa, The Splintered Moon

*Joy Kogawa, Woman in the Woods

Juan Felipe Herrera, Akrílica, eds. Farid Matuk, Carmen Giménez, Anthony Cody

Kamo-no-Chomei, Hojoki: Visions of a Torn World, translated from the Japanese by Yasuhiko Moriguchi and David Jenkins

Keorapetse Kgositsile, Collected Poems, 1969-2018

*Kiku Hughes, Displacement

Kōno Taeko, Toddler-Hunting, translated from the Japanese by Lucy North

Leila Khaled, My People Shall Live: Autobiography of a Revolutionary, as told to George Hajjar

Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, Kaan and Her Sisters

**Lindsey Webb, Plat (coming out in 2024)

Lisa Hsiao Chen, Activities of Daily Living

Liyana Badr, A Balcony over the Fakihani, translated from the Arabic by Peter Clark with Christopher Tingley

Lucille Clifton, An Ordinary Woman

*Lucille Clifton, Blessing the Boats

Lucille Clifton, Good News About the Earth

Lucille Clifton, Good Times

Lucille Clifton, Two-Headed Woman

Mahmoud Darwish, The Butterfly’s Burden, translated from the Arabic by Fady Joudah

Mahmoud Darwish, If I Were Another, translated from the Arabic by Fady Joudah

Mahmoud Darwish, Palestine as Metaphor, translated from the Arabic by Amira El-Zein and Carolyn Forché

Maya Abu Al-Hayyat, You Can Be The Last Leaf, translated from the Arabic by Fady Joudah

Maya Marshall, All the Blood Involved in Love

Michael Prior, Model Disciple

*Mitsuye Yamada, Camp Notes and Other Poems

Mitsuye Yamada, Full Circle: New and Selected Poems

Mohammed El-Kurd, RIFQA

**Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear

Mourid Barghouti, I Saw Ramallah, translated from the Arabic by Ahdaf Soueif

Mourid Barghouti, I Was Born There, I Was Born Here, translated from the Arabic by Humphrey Davies

Mourid Barghouti, Midnight, translated from the Arabic by Radwa Ashour

Na Mira, The Book of Na

Najwan Darwish, Nothing More to Lose, translated from the Arabic by Kareem James Abu-Zeid

Natsume Sōseki, Kokoro, translated from the Japanese by Edwin McClellan

Nona Fernández, Voyager: Constellations of Memory, translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer

Noor Hindi, DEAR GOD. DEAR BONES. DEAR YELLOW.

Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human, translated from the Japanese by Donald Keene

Osamu Dazai, The Flowers of Buffoonery, translated from the Japanese by Sam Bett

The Palestinian Wedding: A Bilingual Anthology of Contemporary Palestinian Resistance Poetry, edited and translated from the Arabic by A.M. Elmessiri

R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Kappa, translated from Japanese by Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda and Allison Markin Powell

Salim Barakat, Come, Take a Gentle Stab: Selected Poems, translated from the Arabic by Huda J. Fakhreddine and Jayson Iwen

Samih Al-Qasim, All Faces But Mine, translated from the Arabic by Abdulwahid Lu’lu’a

Samih al-Qasim, Sadder Than Water: New & Selected Poems, translated from the Arabic by Nazih Kassis

*Saretta Morgan, Alt-Nature (coming out in 2024)

Satsuki Ina, The Poet and the Silk Girl (coming out in 2024)

Sawako Ariyoshi, The Twilight Years, translated from the Japanese by Mildred Tahara

Shailja Patel, Migritude

Sham-e-Ali Nayeem, City of Pearls

Sharon Yamato, Moving Walls

Shivanee Ramlochan, Everyone Knows I Am a Haunting

**shō yamagushiku, shima (coming out in 2014)

Shuri Kido, Names and Rivers, translated from the Japanese by Tomoyuki Endo and Forrest Gander

*Solmaz Sharif, Customs

Stella Corso, Green Knife

*Taha Muhammad Ali, Never Mind: Twenty Poems and a Story, translated from the Arabic by Peter Cole, Yahya Hijazi, Gabriel Levin

Terry Watada, The Game of 100 Ghosts (Hyaku Monogatari Kwaidan-kai)

Victoria Chang, Obit

*Wong May, Superstitions

THE BOOKS I'M CURRENTLY READING, THAT I HAVEN'T FINISHED YET

Chi Rainer Bornfree and Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, The Portal (not yet published)

Elaine Castillo, How to Read Now

Eqbal Ahmad, The Selected Writings

Essays, ed. Dorothea Lasky

Fadwa Tuqan, A Mountainous Journey: A Poet's Autobiography, translated from the Arabic by Olive Kenny

James Welch, Winter in the Blood

Lan P. Duong, Nothing Follows

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Touching the Art

Preti Taneja, Aftermath

Wanda Coleman, Wicked Enchantment

[youngestdaughtersyndrome]

lee! what are ur favorite books

im not at home so i cant go through my full list rn </3 but off the top of my head (and mostly ones that ive read/reread recently lol), john steinbeck's east of eden, hiromi kawakami's nakano thrift shop, sandra cisneros' the house on mango street, jayne anne phillips' black tickets, nabokov's lolita, danez smith's homie, and always anne carson's autobiography of red <3

#i am DEFINITELY missing some but oh well #hollyws #ari! #asks

[alumort]

Hiromi baby, wanted to solve the lack of texture in her hair

I gotta do another ref tbh

#hiromi hyuga lee #naruto oc #fankid #oc #art

[misiwrites]

Mayblade Day 5

[previous: chapter 1 & 2 | chapter 3 | chapter 4]

CHAPTER 5 prompt: crane characters: hiromi, mao, rai, rei (+ an implied gaou in there), garland, brooklyn, max pairings: --

Two days later, against her better judgment, Hiromi found herself at the gym with the wushu club hours printed next to the entrance.

What am I doing here…? she wondered while stepping into the unknown; her knowledge of martial arts was limited to tacky movies and other such dramatized interpretations, making her expectations non-existent.

What she saw upon entering the gym was four people standing in a row, their backs towards the doors, doing what looked more like meticulously choreographed yoga or a dance class than some Bruce Lee-esque action scene to her. They were moving their arms back and forth, slowly, then lifting one knee and balancing on one foot, equally slowly, while holding the pose. When a guy significantly larger than the rest moved aside – stumbled, actually, but Hiromi knew she wouldn’t have done any better herself – she realized they were following the lead of Mao who stood in the front. They were all imitating her moves, all in perfect harmony apart from the big guy's blunder.

Hiromi stood frozen, cowering by the doors, staring at them. She hardly dared to breathe while watching the scene unfold. She’d specifically come here to check things out, to let Mao tell her about the club, but the atmosphere in the gym was so unique and bizarre, so quiet and still, she didn’t dare approach and ruin it. There was something ritualistic about the slow, deliberate dance. It was hypnotic to watch.

And the next moment, she nearly jumped out of her skin as a voice that clearly didn't carry any of her deep insight into the scene boomed by her ear: “Oh, Tachibana! What brings you here?!”

The immersion of the moment was destroyed. The wushu clubbers stopped, they all turned to look; Hiromi whirled around and saw Garland, one of the guys from her class, standing there with a gym bag flung over his shoulder.

At the sight of the other girl, Mao immediately abandoned her post and rushed over to her. “It’s you! You really came! Good choice, good choice, congrats!” And before Hiromi managed to utter a single word, Mao was already introducing her: “Guys, this is Tachibana Hiromi from A! She’s got no club, so she came to see ours.”

“Hello,” Hiromi greeted gingerly and gave a little bow for some reason unknown to herself. This club just had such an elegant vibe, she felt obliged to follow suit.

“So, you do martial arts?” one of the boys inquired in a condescending tone that she didn’t like much. He eyed her with imminent suspicion.

“Well, no,” Hiromi admitted and dropped the meek act; this guy's attitude and sour face had drawn out the feisty side of her in approximately five seconds, she couldn't help it. “Mao asked me to come check you out. And here I am.”

Her response evidently didn’t please this guy with a wild dark mane of hair. He turned his back on her. “Right. Then we should get back to practice.”

“Oh, don’t be an ass, Rai-nii,” Mao denounced him. “I told her we could teach her – wouldn’t hurt to have newcomers in the club every now and then.”

“We already got newcomers,” the boy grumbled.

“Ugh, you know what I mean! Sorry, that’s my elitist idiot of a brother,” she then added to Hiromi.

“I’m not an elitist!” Mao’s brother roared, offended.

“Not denying being an idiot?” said another boy who stood next to him with a sneer of barely contained laughter. This one looked vaguely familiar to Hiromi; he had strikingly long, purple hair that trailed after him like a tail, a trait hard to forget once spotted in the corridors sometime. His long fringe was parted in the middle with a red headband.

“Um,” Hiromi then injected, not terribly interested in witnessing this awkward family bickering unfold in front of her, “I didn’t mean to be spying on you, I just didn’t want to interrupt the… well, whatever you were doing just now. It looked impressive, by the way. Really, uh, beautiful.”

“Yeah, what’s today’s style?” added Garland, who obviously hadn’t made it to join the day's practice in time. Hiromi had already known him to be a kung fu guy but hadn’t connected enough dots to figure out he must have been what essentially was the kung fu club. Now it seemed so obvious.

“The White Crane,” Mao explained with a proud puff of her chest. “It is a beautiful art! It was developed by a woman, after all.”

“Crane? Is that why the…” Hiromi attempted an – undoubtedly poor – imitation of how they’d moved their arms and hands just now, in slow arcs, and one leg raised, bent in an angle. “It’s like the form of a crane?”

“Exactly! It mimics a bird’s pecking, and how a crane would flap its wings.” Mao displayed a much more adept example. “The legend says the founder of the style came up with it after seeing two cranes fighting!”

“Wow, really?” The word legend immediately sucking her in, Hiromi’s heart lit up with excitement.

“Yes! She tried hitting a crane with a stick but it kept evading her, and its moves gave her inspiration for a martial art style!”

“Is it typical to have legends like this for the styles?”

“Oh, definitely. And the crane is one of the main symbols in Chinese mythos. There’s a whole concept of animal styles in wushu, named after the most important animal motifs.”

“Are we going to continue practicing or not?” a gloomy Rai intercepted this passionate interchange. Just when it was getting good, too. “She’s not interested in joining the club, right?”

“I could be,” Hiromi retorted, though she was not. If anything, she had just now developed an interest in making a trip to the library – or the internet – for more information on Chinese legends and animal motifs. She was familiar with the zodiac, obviously, but those didn’t include a crane.

“Would you mind starting over?” said Brooklyn who’d appeared from somewhere, at some point, without Hiromi noticing him at all. “So we could join too.” By we, he evidently meant Garland and himself, the only 1-A guys present. The others must have been their seniors.

“Yeah! And Hiromi can watch if she wants. Alright, back in line, boys.” It was rather amusing, watching Mao herd this group of six boys like cattle as they obediently took their positions behind her.

Hiromi sat aside and politely watched them practice the White Crane Style for nearly half an hour, all the while low-key reading some encyclopedia pages on her phone. Then she quietly excused herself; the club was still not done, but she’d already spent more time there than any other club yet.

On her way out, eyes fixed on the article about the legend of Fang Qiniang from the Fujian Province who tried to hit a white crane with a stick, she almost bumped into someone outside the gym doors. It was a boy, one that Hiromi had just seen a couple days earlier, the blond one from the engineering club.

“Sorry,” the two of them told each other in unison; somehow, Max managed to look just as puzzled by her appearance as she was by his, despite his station by a window into the gym with a direct view inside. She’d walked by this interior window only seconds ago.

“What are you doing here?” the question leaped out of her mouth, rather out of surprise than wishing to know.

“Watching,” Max only said with a shrug.

“Oh.” Well, what else was there to say? As if there was some function other than that for a window. “Okay. See you.”

“Yeah, see ya.”

And she walked right past him. Would they even be seeing each other? Hiromi doubted it.

#mayblade #mayblade 2023 #my writing #fic update

[kierrasreads]

2023 Reads!

Thank you to everyone for joining me on my book journey! I'm looking forward to another year of good reads! If you have any recommendations, please let me know.

Without further ado, here are my reads for this year!:

Howl's Moving Castle, Castle in the Air, and The House of Many Ways by Diana Wynne Jones

California Plants: A Guide to Our Iconic Flora by Matt Ritter

The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood

Look Alive Twenty-Five by Janet Evanovich

It Happened One Summer by Tessa Bailey

I Am a Cat Barista (Volume 1) by Hiro Maijima

Koe no Katachi/A Silent Voice (Volumes 2-6) by Yoshitoki Oima

Karakuri Odette (Volumes 1-5) by Julietta Suzuki

Komi-san wa Komyushou Desu/Komi Can't Communicate (Volumes 23-26) by Tomohito Oda

Cannery Row by John Steinbeck

Horimiya (Volume 1) by Hero

Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku (Volume 5) by Fujita

Kakuriyo: Bed & Breakfast for Spirits (Volume 1) by Waco Ioka

Kiki's Delivery Service by Eiko Kadono

Skip & Loafer (Volumes 1-3) by Misaki Takamatsu

Skull-face Bookseller Honda-san (Volumes 2-4) by Honda

Toshokan no Daimajutsushi/Magus of the Library (Volumes 3-5) by Mitsu Izumi

Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories by Sherman Alexie

Strange Weather in Tokyo by Hiromi Kawakami

Saint Young Men Omnibus (Volume 1) by Hikaru Nakamura

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

Insomniacs After School (Volume 1) by Makoto Ojiro

Kubo Won't Let Me Be Invisible (Volume 1) by Nene Yukimori

The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert

Twisted Love (Twisted #1) by Ana Huang

Wind/Pinball: Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball by Haruki Murakami

Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future by Elizabeth Kolbert

Killing Floor (Jack Reacher #1) by Lee Child

Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas by Megan Shepherd

Muffin but the Truth (Bakeshop Mystery #16) & Catch Me If You Candy (Bakeshop Mystery #17) by Ellie Alexander

A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of Four, A Scandal in Bohemia, The Red-Headed League, A Case of Identity, The Boscombe Mystery, The Five Orange Pips, The Man with the Twisted Lip, The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle, The Adventure of the Speckled Band, The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb, The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor, The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet, The Adventure of the Copper Beeches, Silver Blaze, The Yellow Face, The Stock-Broker's Clerk, The Gloria Scott, The Musgrave Ritual, The Reigate Puzzle, The Crooked Man, The Resident Patient, The Greek Interpreter, The Naval Treaty, and The Final Adventure by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks (audiobook)

Gokushufudō/The Way of the House Husband (Volumes 1-3) by Kousuke Oono

Grand total: 90

#kierra's reads #bookblr #admin kierra #admin k #manga #fiction #nonfiction #2023 reads

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Loz Reads 2024 Roundup pt 2

(cont'd from pt 1)

I am an avid reader. Here's Storygraph links and my reviews to some of my faves that I read this year.

Shadow Life by Hiromi Goto

Riveting and charming. I loved the art - such a way with fluid space. A great story!

The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison

I loved this. Fucking politically convoluted and consonant packed names, but wow, so deeply emotional and desperately fascinating. Definitely recommend!

Pageboy by Elliot Page

Really open and moving, sometimes horrifying and too often relatable. I now aspire to their grace when reflecting on my own past selves.

Monstrous: A Transracial Adoption Story by Sarah Myer

Viscerally powerful. A deeply painful story told with clarity and hope, drawn vibrantly. I ached reading this, as another person who turned their (in my case mostly queer stuff) confusion on themself. I truly appreciate this story being shared.

In Limbo by Deb JJ Lee

Really good. Great art, with layers and density of story-telling. I am going to be chewing on this one for a bit.

In Transit: Being Non-Binary in a World of Dichotomies by Dianna E. Anderson

Truly excellent. A clear and well laid out exploration of where we are as nonbinary in our very specific snapshot of the world right now. A very good resource for any western wasp open to not being a bigot.

Chorus of Mushrooms by Hiromi Goto

An interwoven masterpiece. I couldn't stop thinking about this book when I wasn't reading and I know I'll be turning it over and over again finding new facets and puzzles for a long time. Hard recommend.

I Want to be a Wall, vol 1 by Honami Shirono

I absolutely thoroughly enjoyed this. Immediately went to procure the second. Thrilled to have read this!

Blue Giant Omnibus vols 5-6 (and 7-8 and 9-10 all in one sitting fucking amazing series tbh) by Shinichi Ishizuka

Reading this manga makes me so happy.

She Loves to Cook, and She Loves to Eat vol 1 by Sakaomi Yuzaki

Really really cute and sweet. A warm blanket.

#loz rambles #loz reads