It's Funny Because Everyone Died

Where am I. Who are you people. What's going on. What time is it.Writing blog at puppet-king.tumblr.com

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you will never in a million years guess what the next line is if you've never seen the OVA this is from.

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#hint: it's the 'is this the episode where he loses the house' OVA

THE WHAT-

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Yknow, this one

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A poor investment

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Something that gave H.P. Lovecraft nightmares is the work of my favorite artist. In "At the Mountains of Madness" he specifically mentions "the strange and disturbing Asian paintings of Nicholas Roerich."

This is what Roerich's paintings look like:

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#hp lovecraft thought penguins were grotesque and horrifying#he was not a difficult man to frighten

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Shiki's inversion impulse activates and all that changes is he starts crying because he wishes he was a girl

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"Decolonize Everything"

“When the last tree is cut, the last river poisoned, and the last fish caught… then you will realize money cannot be eaten.”

Anti-colonial graffiti seen in Pensacola, Florida

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"Canada, the most affluent of countries, operates on a depletion economy which leaves destruction in its wake. Your people are driven by a terrible sense of deficiency. When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can’t eat money."

-Alanis Obomsawin, Abenaki, 1972

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I have a suggestion

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I also have a suggestion

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I think I'm in love with you

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I wish humans had monkey tails (most likely tail we'd have ngl) because it would be so cute. There's an alternate world out there where people are dying their tails and buzzing patterns into them and getting tail accessories and tail piercings. God could you imagine

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Does anyone else understand

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Hello friends we need to talk about this twitter account:

You might know him from a thread where he was getting wowed by free appetisers in a Mexican restaurant.

Firstly: He is doing a bit pretending to be a wandering samurai. It's a joke and his posts are all made up. This is very obvious if you actually look at his account and website:

He does purport to be Japanese but based on some of the other content he posts there's reason to believe he's British.

Which brings me to my second point: his Samurai content is interspersed with posts like this:

And this:

He is not cute or funny. Stop platforming him.

[penny-anna]

The chips and salsa thread went viral in June and his website seems to have gone live in July. This confirms what I suspected which is that said website with it's explicit disclaimers was made in response to the big viral hit.

Consequently, back when he first blew up it was potentially a bit harder to figure out that his stories are fictional. That said, the New York Times worked it out so I'm comfortable accusing outlets who ran the story describing him as a Japanese world cup tourist of legitimately terrible journalism.

[penny-anna]

Regarding some comments in the notes:

Yeah this is also the guy from the truck thread going around. That's what prompted this post and in retrospect I should have said so explicitly.

He claims he just uses AI to translate his posts from Japanese. He also says the art on his website isn't AI generated. I think he is full of shit on both counts.

I only gave a couple of examples but even on a brief look through his twitter it was apparent that he posts a LOT about UK politics to the point where he's quite patently British. He is a Restore supporter which is a party that split away from mainstream far right party Reform due to feeling they weren't right wing enough.

It might not surprise you to hear he does not seem to know shit about Japan? Both the salsa story and the truck story failed the smell test for people who are familiar with Japan. There's also a story about going to a potluck where he seemingly couldn't come up with a single Japanese dish for the character to cook??

Yeah his whole bit is racist and it is troubling that so many people took a guy badly roleplaying as a medieval samurai to be a 21st century Japanese tourist.

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turns out the creator yugioh the abridged series, littlekuriboh, goes by she/her now. trans women make literally everything on the internet

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adding prev's tags for further information

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I have a new favourite batshit rail idea

Please build it for the funny please please please

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You're right. I SHOULD be able to take the train from Minneapolis to Berlin.

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evolution: hey mammals i got a new problem for ya, what's your plan for this one? mammals: okay i got it evolution: actually wait no mammals: what if i secrete evolution: i'm sorry i asked mammals: a thick fluid evolution: why are you like this mammals: full of proteins and fats evolution: you and the fucking hagfish mammals: from a gland evolution: yep. yep there it is.

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