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My relationship with Junji Ito's work.
I'll be honest with ya'. I haven't read that many manga books. But what I have read the most I think must be Junji Ito stories. And well, Berserk, but not in its entirety. Anyway, I just like horror in general, and Ito's imagination is one of a kind in that manner. What I love the most about him is that he's actually very sweet and mannered. There even are memes about him being so gentle and creating such horrific stories, next to legendary Hayao Miyazaki, who in real life is someone very stressful, and who actually doesn't deal that well with others (and his creations are some of the sweetest anime out there).
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In the summer of 2019 (I think), I went with some friends to Quilimarí, a little town next to Pichidangui, a little north from me, where we stayed at some friend's granny's house. We were just 4 guys. There, something really funny happened: we were posing for a pic next to a cliff, in the border of an abandoned bridge (we were young), and my cellphone happened to fall off the cliff, taking its last photo downhills, and being destroyed by the impact. Then, I was left uncommunicated from the rest of the world for a while...
All I had was my ethernet-less tablet, where I had downloaded a bunch of mangas (which to these days I have not still read), some of which were Junji Ito's "Tomie" series. They are not my favorite from the author, but the experience of being in such an isolated place (literally in the middle of the desert, next to the sea), with some friends at an old house, reaading these chapters, was actually beatiful.
"Tomie" revolves around a girl who is capable of manipulating men around her thanks to her beauty (mostly her long, black fringed hair, her iconic mole in her cheek and her white skin), which she uses for destroying them, and/or feeding her ego. I remember loving a lot his artwork, which represent dark, roaming ideas depicted through the black and white pages with an actual brilliance from the mangaka.
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I don't remember if it was after or before that, but I began to buy some manga books with his short horror stories, some of which have been translated (pun intended) to anime media, at Netflix. I remember having read some of this stories and actually having a lot of fun. Some of them had such an interesting artwork, like the classical snail-tongue girl one, or the one with the girl trapped in a family full of people with really greasy skin...
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In general, the stories I have liked the most have female protagonists in them, which can say a lot about the artist and myself I think, though in general feminity is vastly represented in horror media (there even are some video essays I've watched about this in youtube). There was this exception, where the protagonist was a boy who had to watch his town being emprisoned by some kind of mist, from wich a really sexy looking guy came from it, and called the girls from the town and then devoured them, I think (don't remember that well, just how hot that guy was jjj).
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So, as you can see, in Junji Ito stories you can see a lot about the anxieties of Japan's young people, focusing on small towns and their dark beliefs, joined with the sexual repression which creates literal monsters at the fog...
And THEN, you have the most sweet and funniest of them all: a short story about Junji Ito's struggle to cohabite his home with his two cats and his girlfriend. It has one of the most iconic panels of his artwork (the one with the cat biting his fingers and him screaming). I gave this one to a close friend of mine for her birthday (she loves cat as much as I do jj).
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I was beginning to read the classical, all-iconic "Uzumaki", a tale about a town cursed by the spiral... Everything in it becomes a spiral, even people. It has this panel with the girl and the eye being absorbed by a hole in her head. It's dark, heavy, and brutal. I've had this book for years now, but I hadn't opened and read it. Tonight would be one hell of a night to do it. But I gotta finish my last projects for the semester. When it ends, I know I'll finally finish it.
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By Jorge Leiva
pd: They'll finally make an anime about Uzumaki !! So cool !!!
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marcrocke · 9 months
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I'm not British, but love the article about me!
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watermelontheraphy · 1 year
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I. tears and ears.
i have been feeling so frustrated these days, i have kept the sorrows and thoughts solely within the comfort of my silence... but that silence has done nothing but make my mind drift into daze, and little did i know, i was falling into a dark pit of my hay-wired rumbunctious subconsciousness that drags me deeper down the hell hole. making me feel as awful as i could ever felt in my entire life.
i was trapped. trampled by the voices that i thought would be better off unsaid...
maybe, in some ways, it'll be better to stay silent... but little did i know, the fire within me started to perish.
they're persistent to tear me down, my thoughts.
and finally, a breath of fresh air... i finally let go of the voices that were ramming the walls of my chest.
there was a companion whose persistency never faltered, just as i almost lost my will... they were willing to listen.
i couldn't even hear myself, yet alone find the right words to say. but the tears fell off, and they told the story... i was tired, exhausted, unwilling to live.
and god knows how big of a relief it was to feel listened to.
ctto: @deaddolly1 from pinterest for the image above !
no capitalization intended.
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akhileshmishra · 1 year
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What to reply to the client when he says that your design charges are too high?
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Last week a client came to me who had to get 5–7 backdrop designs done. He saw my portfolio and showed me some of his previous samples which he had gotten done by some other designer but he liked my designs very much and asked me for the design charges. 😃
I told him the best price according to his #design sample and #quality requirement and my hard work. 🙂
After listening to the price, the client said that your design charges are very high. 😕
I asked him some questions and after that his answer was ok you start making the design and I am transferring 50% advance to you.
𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬: 👉 Is this price more than what I have experienced in my 7 years of corporate life? 😊 👉 Is it more than the investment that I used to get instead of actual earnings? If I used to work for 100 rupees then I used to get 3% of that and the rest 97% company kept with them that 97% every year investment only I did it to gain experience. Is my price higher than that? 😊 👉 Is the price too high for you compared to the design quality I am offering you?😊 👉 You can compare all these, I leave the rest to you, and you decide for yourself.😊
🖕 Here is a #lesson to all of you, instead of #comparing with any other designer; you should talk about your #experience and the value of your design quality. The client is not wrong, just if he wants work of the right #value in exchange for his #money. 😊
👉 If the #client comes to you for the first time, instead of telling him how creative you are, tell him how much your value is, what is the value of your experience, what #creative you can do with your experience, and how to solve the problem. You can handle it, I can say with #confidence that no client will copy your price from others. 🤩
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max-rainet · 2 years
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Book for sale * Memoir of Elizabeth Jones (1838) Little Indian Girl River Credit Mission Canada https://www.ebay.com/itm/385033648715
Personal account of living in Upper Canada in the mid 19th Century. Native life of the First Nations peoples and territories.
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peacelilies-world · 2 months
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Life is all about change. Change can be related to material things, it can be related to emotions, it can be related to situations, most of all it can be related to people. You see, there was this girl, I grew up with her. For others she was a shy,quiet kid. But For me, She was literal embodiment of rainbows and unicorns. Always seeking new things out, trying new fun activities, she was SO full of life. My sweet baby. We played in the garden of my grandparents' house. We would play in the soil all the day, sowing new seeds and watering the plants. Basically, we naturally learnt gardening while playing. For years she and I were inseparable. We would literally count the days till we meet again and I would die to see her. As the years passed we grew into our own unique personalities. She became more sensitive, I became more careless. She became more observant, I became more lively. And a year came in which I neglected her in the name of school and studies. I broke her trust, I treated her badly, I left her when she needed me just because I was going through shit. And she too never spoke about the growing distance between us . And then there was no going back. Mostly, I was at fault here. I know that. But my mistake cost me my bond with her. I know she can never EVER trust me again like she did. When we met again we sorted it out. But even then I know I can't earn it again. So yeah. People change y'all. That's the rule of life.
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livelifeintentionally · 11 months
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Unveiling the Shadows: My Journey from Manipulation to Liberation
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spokanefavs · 1 year
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Tracy Simmons writes part two in her series on why she is a #Buddhist
"My family used to call me a ‘hot head.’ I was quick to anger and would express it by balling my fists, gritting my teeth, yelling and sometimes even throwing things or punching walls. I can hardly picture that old me anymore.
My spiritual practice has helped me find tranquility."
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newstattoos · 1 year
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To find the perfect job, many people have to go through a lot. To achieve the desired result, you must be stronger. Asya Teryaeva says that the most important thing is to keep moving. Her career started as a tattoo artist in St. Petersburg is a city of inspiration. Asya works today in top European tattoo studios and can still recall her first s...
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justinotherteablog · 2 years
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Blissful state using @steepedapp to guide my session of 2018 Ai Lao Shan from @puerist.co 1️⃣I wrote a review of Steeped App. It’s up on the blog. 2️⃣For those that would rather not “follow external link” I read the post out loud. #puerh #puer #puerhtea #puerhaddict #puerhcha #rawpuerh #shengpuerh #teablogger #justinotherteablog #appreview #teareview #newapps #writersofinstagram #writerscommunity #personalstory #personalstories #teameditation #teadrunk #chaxi #chaqi #tealoversunite #teasession #gongfucha #teaforone #teaism #houhin #tealife🍃 (at FiveStar) https://www.instagram.com/p/CfFVcs6OTa_/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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Kimi ni Todoke, age-gap relationships and shoujo sins
Kimi ni Todoke is probably one of the most popular shoujo romances of the late 2000s/2010s. The story follows Kuronuma Sawako, a 15 year old girl who cannot seem to connect with people around her due to her gloomy appearance and her name being similar to the character in The Ring—Sadako. As the series progresses, we see her being able to form deep bonds with those around her, including her crush, Kazehaya Shouta.
Personally, I love it. I think Sawako is a very special character who loves deeply and sincerely cares about the people around her, and it’s great to see how she starts to develop her communication skills to the point everyone can see her as the genuinely kind person she is by the end of the story. However, Sawako (and her relationship with Shouta) is not what I would like to discuss today.
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There are other characters to Kimi ni Todoke, and each is enticing in their own way. You have Kurumizawa Ume, Sawako’s love rival; Yoshido Chuzuru and Yano Ayane, Sawako’s first and closest friends; Miura Kento, a hard-to-describe-but-eventually-kind classmate; Sanada Ryuu, Chizuru’s best friend (and eventually, a love interest) and close friend to Shouta; Arai Kuzuichi, the homeroom teacher also known as Pin; among others. Today, I want to focus on Chizuru and Ayane.
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Ayane (left) and Chizuru (right)
Chizuru, a somewhat dense but loyal girl, has known Ryuu all her life, due to them living in the same neighborhood and spending their childhoods and teenhods together. Ryuu explicitly tells Sawako that he has feelings for Chizuru when they find themselves alone—however, he knows it’s pointless, because she has feelings for his older brother by eight years, Tohru.
When Chizuru reveals her crush on Tohru to Ayane and Sawako, they support her, without putting into question the fact that she is just a 15 year old girl and he is a 23 year old grown-ass man with a job, a driver’s license and a mortgage to pay. And I don’t blame them, honestly; at that age, we don’t tend to question the power imbalances in romantic relationships between teenagers and adults (especially between teenage girls and grown men, the most common example of this phenomenon), let alone in the 2010s, as it’s very normalized in both Japanese society and here. It’s a whole can of worms.
When Tohru comes back home for a quick family visit, Chizuru stumbles upon him at the Sanada residence, and she’s excited to show her how much she’s grown and her ✨womanly✨ side that she’s been working on. However, he walks in with his fiancée: a woman his age who he’s fallen in love with and expects to spend the rest of his life with.
Chizuru is, of course, devastated—she had been living with that crush ever since she was a little girl, slowly fueling it as she grew older, hoping that eventually the years that separated them wouldn’t be a problem when she eventually proved hershelf to be a woman and not just his little brother’s friend. But Tohru had seen her grow up, hadn’t he, next to his little brother as they caught bugs and played in the grass.
Next is Ayane, a very feminine girl who isn’t afraid to speak what’s on her mind and is also incredibly loyal. At the beginning of the show, it’s revealed that she has a boyfriend: an older guy, specifically a university student, that we don’t get to see the face of.
This relationship ends in disaster, because the guy grows jealous of the time Ayane spends without him—he’s jealous of her friends, of the fact that she’s still a high school student, and hates that she can’t devote every second of her life to him. When she tries to break up with him due to this behavior, he hits her in the face. She doesn’t let herself be intimidated and breaks up with him, though.
When the rest of the gang finds out, I personally believe there wasn’t too much outrage for what was done to Ayane, but I digress. That’s neither here nor there.
She then tries to date guys her age—you know, other teenage boys and not adult men—as she admits she’s never dated anyone who isn’t older than her, and she attempts it twice. It was futile, sadly, as she couldn’t actually manage to catch romantic feelings for either of them, despite how badly she wanted that to be the case with the second boy.
However, she starts developing a crush on no one other than her nemesis: their homeroom teacher, Pin, who is a bit of a gym-bro, incredibly hyper and also nosy as hell. The two spent a considerable amount of time butting heads in a myriad of situations, but Ayane was also aware that Pin genuinely cared about all his students and tried to help them as much as he could.
Ayane really curses herself for catching feelings for Pin, as she knows it would never be possible, and she believes it’s karma for dating the second guy without actually having feelings for him and giving it a shot knowing she could never reciprocate.
Pin, despite his odd behavior, is very aware of the fact that he’s a teacher and that he’s responsible for the students, so he never even slightly entertains the idea of dating any of them. In fact, he directly and consistently opposes the idea. There’s a misunderstanding earlier in the story, where Pin, being overconfident and conceited, believes that Ume’s feelings are directed at him and not Shouta. He doesn’t give her time to explain if that is or not the case, because he immediately starts to shut her down. Pin flatters himself, saying that it’s only natural for people to fall for him, but Ume is a ‘brat’ and she should be worried about dating ‘other brats’, not older guys like him. A consistent character trait of Pin is that he will never, ever, look at a student that way.
There are three different age-gap relationships* in Kimi ni Todoke, involving two different characters, and I think it’s there to explicitly state that, when it comes to teens and adults, things don’t work out.
Shoujo catches a lot of smoke in animanga circles, and one of the criticisms I see is the normalization and romantization of age-gap relationships. And, as a shoujo enjoyer myself, I can absolutely see that! One of my all-time favorite series is Fruits Basket, and my biggest beef with it is how they really go out of their way to portray age-gap relationships between literal kids and grown ass adult men as something good. Like, these dudes can literally buy a house and the girls can’t even vote at that age. You see it twice: first, with Katsuya and Kyouko, the protagonist’s parents, who were a teacher and high school student respectively, with an eleven-year gap that met when the girl was just 15; the second time, with one of the protagonist’s best friends, who falls in love with and starts to date a 26 year old man as a 17 year old. I have another guy in there under surveillance as well—Kazuma, you ain’t slick!
Hell, I can even see it a little bit in Lovely Complex, when Risa was feeling defeated after being rejected by Atsushi for the gazillionth time. She starts to force herself to like their new English teacher, Maity, solely because he looks like the main character of an otome game—which I can respect, by the way, because it’s girl math. Anyway, she isn’t the only student with a crush on him, and at one point, to help Atsushi realize his feelings, he even plays along with the whole liking Risa thing. And no one thinks it’s weird that a teacher is involving himself like that in teenagers’ business. And I am perfectly aware it isn’t serious, honestly, but I can still see this problem present in one way or the other even if it’s not actually being seriously considered as an actual plot point.
I’m someone who went to an all-girls school, and I saw first-hand how my friends got into relationships with guys who were way too old for them (hell, 8th grade girls dating 12th grade guys who were a couple of months away from being 18), and I can assure you that all of them ended in disaster. Now that we’re in our early 20s, wiser due to our prefrontal cortexes being closer to finishing their development, they can see how messed up their relationships were because they were at a disadvantage from the start.
I think Kimi ni Todoke does put in the effort to denounce these situations, and it’s something I appreciate from the bottom of my heart. Tohru loves Chizuru deeply, but he can only see her as a little sister and he makes it clear that she’s family to him. Ayane’s first (shown) relationship is with an older guy and it ends in disaster because they’re in completely different stages in life and want different things. And he’s also, like, a major asshole. And Ayane knows Pin would never look at her that way because he’s made it indisputable that that’s his position.
And, eventually, things work out for these girls. For the most part. All well that ends well.
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Francisca Salgado. ☆
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koitoikol · 2 years
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A unique creature found in my upcoming series! Ekheins! Commonly found around forestry and open plains,they love soft fruits such as watermelons,peaches but if you give them a coconut it makes the species oddly aggressive to the giver. Ekheins are not hostile unless provoked,Some humans have tamed these animals and have used them as travel partners due to their huge size and ability to defend itself with its strong back legs and sharp claws. Ekheins can run a max of 65 mph — #species #closespecies #oc #orignalcharacter #artwork #personalstory https://www.instagram.com/p/Cc_CUZHJt_E/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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spinningjupiters · 9 months
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// Much better //
Much better
You said
My scars
Are much better now
They don't show
The rip anymore
Much is replaced
By tissue intertwined
Like a best kept secret
What a view
You say
Can't even tell
If the struggle
Ever existed
Immaculately you think
All is held
By these glass fingers
What you don't know
Are the silent cries
Hours of self negation
A monologue
That never ends
It isn't easy
Convincing yourself
To survive
When you never belonged here
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pamelaaminou · 6 months
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Monday's Photography Inspiration- Ed van der Elsken
Ed van der Elsken also known as the ‘enfant terrible’ of Dutch photography was not just a photographer. He was a visual poet who composed vivid stories with his camera. His lens wasn’t just a tool; it was an extension of his heart, capturing life’s myriad emotions, and his work resonates with a timeless intimacy that invites viewers to delve into the core of human existence. Born on March 10,…
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deepblueeyess · 2 years
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Cerita Bulan Juni
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(little fun game ; ada yang bisa spot tiga tanggal di foto ini?)
Halo, teman-teman semua. Selamat akhir bulan Juni!
Bulan ini, ceritanya adalah tentang 2T.
2T ; tentang Tanggal dan Tangerang.
Setiap kali aku melihat tanggal di sesuatu ; di bawah sebuah video di youtube, di pojok kanan atas atau pojok kanan bawah halaman pertama buku yang kubeli, atau di postingan instagram, atau postingan tumblr, and even in my own diary, atau jurnal-jurnal dan buku agenda lamaku, atau di jurnal-jurnal dan buku agenda lama mamaku, atau di struk-struk belanja lama, atau di tiket-tiket bioskop jaman bahela yang sudah pudar warnanya,
aku selalu merasa sesuatu.
Semenjak kepindahanku keluar dari kota, aku pun bertransformasi menjadi pribadi yang sangat sensitif. Bukannya aku tidak sensitif sebelumnya, tapi kini tingkat kesensitifitasanku jadi kian esktrem, ya terutama pada hal-hal ini ; tanggal dan Tangerang. Setiap aku melihat sebuah tanggal, apapun, dimanapun, refleks aku melayangkan pikiran, wah, tanggal segitu, bulan segitu, tahun itu, aku pasti lagi gini-gini-gini di Tangerang.
Sebelum teman-teman mengira bahwa aku sangat biased or fanatic or heavily obsessed with this city, let me make this clear. It's not about the city, teman-teman. It never was. It’s just about how I've spent all my life there and suddenly having to move out without wanting to at all.
So ya. I just go crazy about dates, i became very sensitive about it, diiringi dengan the feeling of wanting to go back. Kayak, ya ampun! Aku mau balik lagi ke hari itu tanggal segitu, disitu. Aku pengen ngerasain itu semuanya lagi. Aku ga pengen disini. Aku ga pengen disini, dan aku ga pengen disini.
Dan dari situ jugalah segala ketidakwarasan saya bermula.
Saya jadi pribadi yang-well, suka playing victim. Berkoar-koar, saya ini korban keadaan! Jangan salahkan saya atas semua yang terjadi. Ayo dong, kasihan sama saya, simpati sama apa yang terjadi sama saya. Jangan jahatin saya, ya, karena saya udah cukup sedih. Awas aja kalo jahat, tak doain balik ke kamu semua kejahatannya.
Kedua, saya jadi pribadi yang, well, tidak berkembang. Saya sedih berkepanjangan, tanpa berbuat apa-apa. Diem doang kaya orang tolol yang nungguin rezeki nomplok dari langit, kali ya. Alhasil saya bener-bener makin stuck dan kualitas diri sayapun semakin merosot dalam berbagai aspek.
Teman-teman, disini aku bukan berbagi cerita tentang apa yang terjadi. Ini adalah bahasan-bahasan kecil tentang coping mechanism-ku yang agak tolol, dan lalu bagaimana teman-teman bisa jauh-jauh dari hal demikian.
Pembahasan pertama. Ternyata punya victim mentality when you're not necessarily a victim is so wrong in soo many ways. Itu jahat, karena kita melimpahkan blame-blame yang tidak seharusnya kepada orang lain. Kita tidak bersyukur dan tidak mau menerima kenyataan. Kita tidak mau mengambil tindakan atas apa-apa yang menimpa kita, alias kita pengecut. Kita enggan disalahkan, panik, lantas bilang, 'aku korban, jangan salahin aku!' Padahal yang nyalahin juga kaga ada. Intinya, aku ga mau berbuat apa-apa dan terus-terusan menyalahkan keadaan. I learned the hard way that this, is indeed a very poor mindset to have.
Kedua. Sedih berlarut-larut. Sedih berkepanjangan. Atau apalah namanya. I'm still struggling so much with it untill today, dan susah sekali untuk tidak sedih. Rasanya setiap hari ada saja yang mau disedihkan, ada saja hal-hal menyedihkan. Dan itu terjadi dalam jangka waktu yang panjang, jadilah berlarut-larut, ya kan. Dampaknya ke kita? Well, kita jadinya ga kemana-mana. Ga beranjak dari tempat. Ga bisa menemukan solusi. Ga beranjak dari ambang kesedihan itu sendiri. A total waste if time. Ujung-ujungnya nyesel, kerjaan ga keurus, semua urusan ga ada yang beres karena waktunya dihabiskan untuk bersusah hati.
Dan, teruntuk teman-teman pernah atau sedang berada di titik ini ; self-victimization & sedih berlarut-larut, I encourage all of you to free yourself from this! Dan buat yang belum pernah, that's great dan jangan sampe.
So let’s affirm this together ; percaya bahwa setiap proses yang kita lalui sudah direncanakan dengan sempurna oleh-Nya, yang penting selalu ikhtiar maksimal, terus berdo’a dan paham bahwa dibalik hal-hal berat yang kita lalui pasti ada hikmah yang bisa diambil!
Akhir kata, thank you so much for reading it this far. Have a nice day wherever you are in the world! See you :)
with love,
Nadia.
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(everything that I write here is a message for myself first before a message for everyone)
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