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[oyanachi]

Rien que parce que c'est le Speak Your Language Day, j'ose ! J'ose un petit post.

Je viens juste de réaliser que Reki (Sk8 the Infinity) et Keito (Tamon's B side/Tamon-kun ima docchi!?) ont le même doubleur...

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Tout ce potentiel d'UA Idol pour Reki 🤯 ou de Keito en skater 🤯 genre, il est idol pour subvenir aux besoins de sa famille, mais en fait, son plaisir secret, son vrai hobby, sa vraie passion, c'est le skate 🤯

Bon, en vrai, j'ai jamais été fouiller les fanfics de l'un ou l'autre des fandoms sur Ao3. Ça doit bien exister. On parle d'Ao3, quoi !

[oyanachi]

Now, I can't wait for the bloopers and bts of this new episode. til then, I'll watch it over and over again, engraving in my neurons every detail of it~

[no-passaran]

Now that gift season is approaching, here's a reminder that local independent bookshops in many countries are organized in websites so you can order whatever book you want and have it delivered. Like Amazon but instead of your money going to a billionaire who mistreats the workers and lobbies politicians to get away with more human right abuses, the money goes to local bookshops. So even if you didn't find what you wanted in your local bookshop (though it's always still worth checking out and the shop keeper will be able to recommend you an alternative or order the one you want!), you can order from a wider range and not contribute to making Amazon a monopoly.

In the UK and USA: Bookshop.org. In the UK there's also Hive.

In Spain: todostuslibros.com

In Italy: bookdealer.it

In France: Librairies Indépendantes and LaLibrairie.com

In Portugal: RELI (Rede de Livrarias Independentes)

In Aotearoa (New Zealand): BookHub

In Bulgaria: libristo.bg, book.store.bg, and knizhen-pazar.net (thank you @samodivas!)

In Germany: genialokal.de (thank you @lazzerot!)

In the Netherlands: libris.nt (thank you @maramontwrites!)

Add yours if we're still missing it! ^^

[oyanachi]

And even if you're looking for books in another language, ask your local bookshop! They might know or be already working with a specialised supplier!

E.g. My manga shop can actually provide books in Japanese if I ask them.

[oyanachi]

Shouting into the void of Internet how much I love the Sanders Sides serie, how helpful it is 😌

[oyanachi]

Still shouting into the void how much I love this series 🩵

I don't care how much time Thomas and his team need to make the next episode. Take all the time you need! Will it be next month or in twenty years, I'll be there. In the meantime, I'm still enjoying every other episode, bloopers, and extras. I'm still clapping my hands, flipping my feet, giggling at every pun and smiling fondly at every character, every line, every song.

(And I also realised that absolutely no one around me, no one, was it virtually or IRL, knows that I watch this series nor how much I love it and it keeps me afloat.)

[oyanachi]

I've just received mine and gifts for friends. They're so beautiful, with this little shine on the clothes part 🥰 Thank you @prideknights

[prideknights]

European Citizens' Initiative

Give your support !

EVERYONE(!) I’m blazing this post because at this pace we might barely hit 1,000,000 signatures—or just fall short. PLEASE reblog this post, no matter where you are from, so we can reach as many EU citizens as possible and end this horrible practice!

[oyanachi]

The Singing Neanderthals, a theory by British archaeologist Steven Mithen, which offers to think about singing as a language for our neanderthal counterpart.

I don't know if Brandon Sanderson has ever mentioned this as an inspiration for Singers but it really feels like there's some inspiration here. And if not, it's a very lucky and funny coincidence!

[oyanachi]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 5/5 Fandom: Super Sons (Comics), Batman - All Media Types Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Jonathan Samuel Kent/Damian Wayne Characters: Damian Wayne, Jonathan Samuel Kent, Original Non-Binary Character Additional Tags: Slice of Life, Growing Up, In their thirties, OC being the main chara, but everything is about Jon & Damian, Not Beta Read, Zatanna Zatara appears, Mentioned Cassandra Cain Summary:

When Maylo, a teenager from Gotham, found out one of the Wayne had a farm for animals in need, they thought it was the perfect plan for their school assignement. They would get three days into the countryside, preferably for free, around animals and/or plants. Now, they only had to find a way to convince Damian Wayne, the landlord, to accept them.

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Just a silly thing I wanted to write about Damian and Jon in their thirties 🙂

[vvevelur]

Brothers *°▽°* Thank @oyanachi for the inspiration!

[oyanachi]

Oh, damned, my heart! 😭😍

Look at them. Look at those precious boys~ I want to hug them.

Thank YOU for drawing them like that! (And so quickly o.O)

[oyanachi]

Son of Man from Tarzan makes me think of 10 years old Jon. The vibes. I clearly picture him trying and testing his powers and failing.

[thedailylifeofdamianwayne]

HELLO!

First I just wanted to take the time to thank everyone for the support and kind words so far! This has legitimately been something I wanted to do for a while and seeing the response has been wonderful and encouraging!

And second, I will now be uploading The Daily Life of Damian Wayne on TAPAS alongside with uploading here on Tumblr! At first I was a bit nervous cuz of copyright infringement but I saw other fancomics on Tapas and I figured I ain’t gettin Gabriel Picolo numbers as far as views so I should be good.

I uploaded all the current pages there and I’m just really happy and excited!

Here’s the link:

Check out The Daily Life of Damian Wayne on Tapas

Your home for the world’s most exciting and diverse web comics and novels. Discover stories you’ll love from all genres, only on Tapas!

I hope to see you there!

[thedailylifeofdamianwayne]

THE DAILY LIFE OF DAMIAN WAYNE IS NOW ON WEBTOONS!

I figured out what I was doing wrong the first time I uploaded it to webtoons and now it looks better ☺️

Here’s the link if you’d like to follow along on webtoons:

Daily Life of Damian Wayne (FANCOMIC)

THIS IS A FAN COMIC, ALL RIGHTS BELONG TO DC COMICS. After another near death experience, Bruce would like for Damian to have some normalcy

[oyanachi]

Just got my big baby 🥰 (4.6lbs! 😱)

[chamiryokuroi]

The french version of B:WFA gets the Belen Ortega art as cover 😭 the jealousy is eating me

[oyanachi]

With the inside cover so you can see Cass and Jason

[oyanachi]

It's always so sad to find out there's no physical copy (nor it's planned, as far as I know) for a great story you've read 😭

With tears of frustration in my eyes, let me introduce you to the wonderful webcomic, Icy Copper by @toivoshi ! I love the art, the design, the lore behind the story, both protagonists (and pretty much every character), the characterization, the character development, and the core lesson of the story. Pretty much everything, actually 😅 It was a delight to read, and I've rarely be this sad to know that I won't have the joy to turn pages of my own copy.

Here's the official website 👇

Icy Copper

webcomic

And in my case, I've discovered and read it on Webtoons 👇

Icy Copper

All inhabitants of the Land of the Sun develop the power to shapeshift by the age of five—all except one. Still waiting for his powers even

[oyanachi]

I'm just connecting the dots now: I love Damian and Jon for the exact same reasons I love Sherlock and John.

Damian and Jon are my DC's Sherlock and John.

[hexenmond]

Webcomic Wednesday: The Witch Door

Well, I've been thinking about this the whole day now, and I'm almost frustrated that I can't seem to put this into words so easily. What's great about The Witch Door? Well honestly, what isn't?

I thought about Anni's other comic (Transfusions) and how I'm finding that easy to sum up – vampire BL with explicit scenes. I mention those few words and most people will have a fairly good grasp of what to expect and whether they might like it or not. (I personally hesitated a long time before reading it, because this is actually NOT something that's right up my alley. Turned out to also be good though.)

For The Witch Door, I can't seem to find an easily digestible handful of descriptive words like that. I feel like it is very much the sum of all of its intricate details, and it doesn't fit any simple bill. So I'll resort to reviewing my favourite bits about it…

It has great characters

Seriously, all of them are well thought out and engaging, not a single dull person among them. I love all of them so much that I have actually put ALL of them in my fanfiction (except for the Lintukoto people as they belong to the main canon storyline, which I'm not touching on). That includes Ulriikka, the fluffiest plot device ever.

Tangential to that: it has great representation

There's young people. Old people. Thin people. Fat people. Light-skinned people. Dark-skinned people. Live people. Dead people. Bird people. Ummm… a cat who is definitely also people. And other assorted… humanoids? And oh, sexualities for every letter of the alphabet!

The worldbuilding is intriguing

I'd roughly call the setting "urban fantasy", but that could mean so many things really. In a world much like the one we know, there are witches with differing magical abilities, some powerful, some almost mundane, but most importantly there is this one simple, cool thing that opens up so many possibilities, and that is the concept of the Witch Door: each witch has a special door that can lead to any other witch's special door. So even though our protagonists live in Turku, we have already spent an afternoon in New York and one in Kyoto, without anybody breaking a sweat.

… but it's also kinda slice-of-life

I really love the way that protagonist Katariina – non-magical, bog-standard human who works as a nurse – accidentally stumbles onto her neighbour's secret (he's a witch with a witch door), but her life's still lifing, so it's not all just magical discoveries and fun and games from then on. More like her world gets expanded, but that also means that on top of her own, mundane everyday problems she now learns about things happening in the magical community that are possibly even more concerning, and even less actionable. Katariina deals with all those new experiences with curiosity, wonder, compassion, delight, and occasionally overwhelm, and she feels so real for that.

It's about friendships

The more I think about it, that might be what I love most about the comic. We meet a whole bunch of people and all the relationships and interactions are just gold. At the heart of it, there's a lot of people caring about other people in quiet, everyday ways. Everyone is allowed to have their own struggles, and people are so supportive of each other. And there's also snark and banter, delicious!

I nearly forgot: It also has villains!

I do feel I've managed to avoid spoilers in all my rambling here, so I won't say too much about the antagonists. Just this: they exist, they are still a bit of a delightful mystery (we're in chapter 12 as I am writing this), and I fully believe they are just as complex and well thought out as all the other characters. I love to hate them.

Conclusion

If I've managed to pique your interest, why not take a look at the 6 page prologue? And then take the plunge into a completely different kind of mystery with chapter 1 🙃 where we're introduced to both of our protagonists separately, and then to the magic of the fluffy plot device.

Or, if you're unsure about whether reading this comic will bring joy to you and you don't want to just take the plunge and check it out (which I can relate to!), feel free to ask me questions about it!

[oyanachi]

I was thinking about making a post about The Witch Door comic since I really appreciated it and would 100% recommend it. But everything has been very well said in this post!

[zenodotus-0010]

Huh. So, in SK8, three different characters that I've found on a cursory glance are named after major places on Naha, where the story is set. The most obvious one is probably Joe, whose family name Nanjo comes from Nanjō City, the smallest city on Naha, famous for its castle ruins. Nearby is the town of Chinen, where we get Miya's name from, and to the south is Cape Kyan, where Reki's name is from.

These are probably remenants from the Ryukyu kingdom, when upper-class Okinawans would get their family names from the places they ruled or came from. Families living there at the time of annexation under the Meiji dynasty would also have been added to the name register under their places of residence. This means that Miya, Joe, and Reki's families have been in Okinawa for a WHILE, and that there's a pretty good chance they're descended from the upper-class families who were allowed to have kamei (家名) for names.

Shadow's family name Higa isn't a place name, but it is the most common surname in Okinawa, (maybe to signal to viewers that he isn't very "rare" or talented, or to make his plainclothes character seem all the sillier,) tying him pretty strongly to the island. Langa's name, Hasegawa, is also not a direct placename, but it's a common name among the Ryukyu islands and certain parts of eastern Japan, and would hold a distinctly "Okinawan" or "Beach-y" vibe to Japanese viewers.

In contrast, Cherry's surname is pretty unique. I don't actually speak Japanese, so I can't read the articles that came up when i searched the kanji, but given that his character page was the eighth to come up in search results and the second to come up when i searched the kana, I'd wager that it was made for the show. Maybe in-universe, his family invented it during the annexation? Or maybe it isn't an actual family name, and is Cherry's "pen name," as it was, for his art. It's a very artistic sounding name.

Again, though, I don't read Japanese, and most of what I know about Okinawan family names comes from Wikipedia trawling. If anyone has better input, I'd be happy to hear it.

[oyanachi]

I made a quick investigation on Cherry's surname in Japanese. According to the two first websites I checked (see link below if you want), it is a super rare surname but not made up! It's apparently the surname of 100~ people in Japan, most of them located in northern prefectures such as Hokkaido, Ishikawa and Aomori (so exactly on the other side of Japan from Okinawa!). And it might be from the Edo period (1600-1868).

It's a very quick search, though 😅 but if it could be of any help!

桜屋敷さんの名字の由来

名字由来net｜桜屋敷さんの名字の由来

「桜屋敷」(さくらやしき)さんの名字の由来、語源、分布。 - 日本姓氏語源辞典・人名力

桜屋敷: 北海道、青森県、石川県。事物。桜と屋敷から。石川県珠洲市正院町岡田ではサクラの屋号を使用していたと伝える。推定では江戸時代の屋号による明治新姓。青森県青森市花園に分布あり。…