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Jen | 35 | she/her | Tokyo | theme cafes are my love language | my ideal date is spending the day collecting 御朱印

[musubi-sama]

A rice ball's corner of the internet

Hello and welcome!

My name is Jen and I am a tired millennial who is reclaiming her "missed" youth and embracing something of a (married-and-parenting) fujoshi life. I am currently deeply obsessed with JJK, although there is plenty of other fandoms and nonsense you'll find around here (looking at you Fruits Basket, FFXIV, Hakuoki, Gokuragkugai, KNY, Fate, etc).

Updated 8/21/2025

Writing

You can find me on AO3. My bookmarks are my story recommendations!

JJK:

Shoko Ieri "Classmates" ch1 | ch2 | ch3 | ch4 | ch 5 | ch 6 Ah the age-old assumptions that a pair of women are just classmates. (Chapter 7 in-progress)

Gojo Satoru Game of Chicken Satoru invited you to a club to see his favorite band play. But you have a boyfriend, so surely you can win this game of chicken?

Geto Suguru Impatient Are you hungry? Horny? A little demanding, perhaps impatient?

Thunderbolt and Lightning An after-dinner walk fulfills one of your hidden fantasies. Where the electricity is both metaphor and diegetic.

Look At Me In Desire Coming back from a mission, you arrive at the compound where you, others, and Suguru live but there's a moan coming from your room.

Kento Nanami Papa Mama, Kiss! Pure fluff. Nanami Kento, girl dad, and how the small commands an almost-2year-old can etch into his heart.

Shopping With Kento A happy little shopping trip with your dear husband and some suggestive banter.

Multi Rainy Day Drop-off Fluff and cute. How some of our favorite JJK men would handle a little downpour and getting your toddler off to daycare.

Anime/Game Collections

Jen の jjk merch - As I post more of my modest merch collection. Currently mostly stickers, clear files, and acrylic stands. Jen の anime merch - I shop for animanga and game merch quite regularly and I'm happy to show it off. If there's something you like, let me know and we can perhaps arrange something! Jen の theme cafe - I love theme cafes, and on average I go to at least one a month. Coasters and placemats are the typical collectible.

Culture Collections

Jen の goshuin - I love receiving goshuin. I am not the best at taking photos of them while at the shrine or temple, but I'm trying to get better.

Life

Jen の diary - Random life blabbery. Jen の art - mostly coloring with fancy markers. Eventually I may get the courage to post actual creations.

[boyimjustaloserforyourlove]

does writing by hand (with a paper and pen) have any actual effect on the quality of writing? The wonderful actress who played Professor Trelawney in the Harry Potter movies seems to think so, and Stephen Colbert seems to agree with her. This question made my mind go in an entirely different tangent, and I will discuss it now.

The only real antithesis to generative AI seems to be doing the tasks you would assign to it yourself.

Anyways, reading books and writing and learning and making art— no matter how bad— seems to be the only way to fight this plague, and a plague it is, for it has killed people and will continue to do so as it uses our resources.

To fight it, you read a lot, and then you write, and then you read and write some more. That is all there is to it.

You put tags at the end of your searches on google to ensure you aren't fuelling Gemini. You look for answers in textbooks instead of GPT, and you pester your professors and peers when you do not understand what it says.

You make notes on the edges of your textbook. You learn by writing, speaking, by explaining things to someone.

You do it when its inconvenient. And then perhaps, in doing so, you save your mind. You save your ability to read, understand, pester humans; you save your ability to connect.

It takes time. It is simple. It is not wasy, however. It is exponentially harder than putting a prompt in an app with hoards of information on its fingertips. But the ease is not worth turning twenty and realising AI use over the past two years or so has caused you to be unable to write half as well as you did as a middle schooler.

Recently, I had to make a film for an elevtive class of mine. I shot it(with the help of a friend!) and thought of getting it edited via AI. Instead of going forward with that idea, I instead got in touch with a friend I had not talked to in a while. She was so, so generous to do the editing for me! She really didn't have to. And neither do the fanfiction/ original work authors on ao3 and tumblr have to do what they do. Neither did the cavemen and women have to make their paintings on the caves of the walls they lived in. But they did nevertheless! They do, nevertheless. Because we are human, and that is what we do.

I admit, I am ashamed of the quality of my work recently (as I picked up writing again)

Or maybe I'm actually just trying to delay studying for my exam tomorrow. But that is beyond the point.

Because AI will never be a human, a nurse or a teacher or an engineer or a paramedic who works all day and finds time for creativity in the evening.

I am human and I can think and care and create art, bad as it may be. I can meet other humans through that creation! @kintsukoi and @rubbys-domain come to mind. Extremely cool people who rejuvenate my belief in human creativity.

Anyways, we will not let the fascists control our minds. They want us thoughtless. They want us unable to express ourselves when we do think.

We will not them them! We will not let them have us.

[kintsukoi]

This was so thoughtful and well-written, dear @boyimjustaloserforyourlove 🤩💕. YOU are extremely cool and creative and an amazing writer. Please do not be ashamed of the quality of your work because it is incredible and it is clear that you are highly adept at your craft. I think it takes a lot of bravery and will to say no to AI when all the tech that surrounds us on a daily basis seems hell-bent on trying to push us into that direction, especially at a time when it is absolutely crucial that we are able to think critically for ourselves. Knowing how to properly fact-check instead of accepting what we see at face value has always been a crucial skill. It also doesn't come naturally. We must work at it, and it takes major effort. But it is worth it in spades. And I applaud the steps you have taken to hone your own skills in that manner.

The connection that you speak about is, in my opinion, absolutely key. Part of the reason why online spaces like this one are so great is because it allows us to connect with people we probably wouldn't otherwise have come across in our lifetime. And in doing so, we learn so much from each other. Reading and writing, learning and teaching, creating art (of all forms!) and really digesting and appreciating all the time and detail and skill that went into making something from nothing is a form of connection. The fact that someone poured a piece of themselves into what they're putting out into the world is something AI cannot replicate. It is inherent in the fabric of our common ground as human beings. And it is also the reason why I personally believe that art (once again, in all its forms!) will always survive, no matter what 💕

[nesting-dreams]

I don’t know why but in bustafellows. Shu’s route makes me feel like I’m dating Gintoki from Gintama.

This is the same person.

[kintsukoi]

Would take them both. At the same time. Shu alone owns my whole ass

[chitaka45]

京都　妙心寺派の塔頭「長慶院」　🟣藤の花🟣

Kyoto Chokei-in Temple, Myoshin-ji

🟣 wisteria flowers 🟣

[imsoofuckingsad]

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[schizsune]

i love when women clearly have something wrong with them

[kanashiki79]

[thebirdroads]

the best trope in media is: “characters turn on the lights, see the monster, and immediately turn the lights back off”

[birdnerd18]

[dr-algernop-deactivated20220313]

[mandywondering]

[sixpennydame]

A Little Bit of Happiness

What’s bringing you happiness this week? For me, it’s:

The smell outside after rain (we’ve needed rain so badly)

The freckles on my cheeks are making their summer appearance

New records and dancing in the kitchen

My new Miffy strap I have hanging on my favorite canvas totebag

Petting every neighborhood cat during my evening walk

Your turn! Tell me what’s lighting you up this week 🤍

@amywritesthings @littlerequiem @mrsackxrman @nightthawkss @alizha @levislolita @thechaoticarchivist @lordalastar @levisbrat25 @pmkln @deliriously-donna @urbandeity @ohmypawsandwhiskers @jlle-marie and anyone else who’d like to share!

[pmkln]

I like this. This is a good idea. Thank you for the tag Sé ❤️

What brought me happiness this week:

· My kids. Being divorced and not seeing my kids everyday is a double edged fucking sword. It's good to have more time to myself, but I miss them loads. So seeing them again and spending time with them brings me extra happiness.

· My boyfriend. I feel blessed to have met him every single day. Again, double edged sword because long distance fucking SUCKS. But he's such a steady constant even though we don't see each other often. He's still one of the reasons I enjoy life a bit more than I used to and I have a little more hope for the future (feel free to throw up).

· The weather. More sunshine. It does wonders. Even though warm...

· There is probably more. But brain is tired and migraine -y so I'll leave it at this.

Tagging: @thatfanfictionchick @forgive-the-sea @iisasarcasticlittleshite @jafndaegur @kintsukoi @massivelynervousprincess @nanamikentoseyebags @bjorkshire-pudding @thesumofherwords

[kintsukoi]

Thank you so much for the tag @pmkln! Am sending big hugs your way 💕

Things that brought me happiness this week: ⭐️ indulging in the most delicious lemongrass bahn mi sandwich ⭐️ beautiful weather with lots of sunshine (totally agree with you, Kali, when you say it does wonders)! ⭐️ jogging at night because it's so much more peaceful to be able to zone out with fewer people on the street to maneuver around ⭐️ meeting up with a good friend I haven't seen in a while ⭐️ making gains at the gym ⭐️ hanging with my fams 💕

Tagging (only if you want to play, no pressure! 🤩): @musubi-sama @xdarkpillowx @kldgo @icyshadewhisper @alebrasil0101 @franzkafkagf

[musubi-sama]

Thanks for the tag @kintsukoi!!!

Things that brought me happiness this week:

Made it to the FF14 art exhibit. Incredible to see the fight with the Endsinger in panorama and haptics. I wept during the entirety of the Elpis section.

I got a new tag for my name on Discord - MILF

Seeing all the brushbuddy fanart

And I have been feeling the itch to get back to all my abandoned longfics, ideas, and OC writing!

Tagging @hayakawalove @blkkizzat and anyone else!

[immaneedaminute]

I had a thought

Edit:

(Not my idea !!)

[qiffreyz]

i am a certified low quality silly goofy brushbug enthusiast for life

[valtsv]

time to make a post on tumblr. surely no one will interpret it to be as offensive and bad intentioned as possible.

[valtsv]

by talos this cant be happening

[runabout-river]

[musubi-sama]

Definitely want to pick up these two mega acrylics

[boomer-mythology-destroyer]

[hijkio]

🛁

[mafuyuh]

let's copy papa

[gnomebutch]

there’s no such thing as tmi. let’s overshare together ❤️

pads

tampons

cup

birth control that stops periods

free bleeding

crumpled up toilet paper or whatever else works just shoved up there

gnome

Voting ended onMay 26