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Novelist, historian, raconteur, podcaster, Santaku Dynamics tachi-class combat doll, Your Favorite Historydyke. Bimbofication as Daoist praxis. She/彼女. PGH via BEY, PHL, & SDJ. Staff Writer at Unseen Japan. Opinions mine.

[bak3lite]

Comterm Polycom

[riversidewings]

Afternoon in Akiu. A hina-type doll and her katana-class combat doll girlfriend go diving in the pool at the Akiu Great Falls.

The hina floats.

The katana sinks, walks all the way to shore, and sloshes into the mud giddy and laughing.

[verity-hollow]

A group of Kokeshi-pattern dolls dove in a few days ago and decided to stay, but everyone thinks they're just decorative buoys.

[mephistoic]

live laugh love slickedbackhaircina

[riversidewings]

"Yeah we're still getting the blood out of the deckplate. That guy was bad fuckin' news, but even he couldn't outrun the JAG corps and the battalion S-4 shop."

[riversidewings]

"Oh I am going to enjoy breaking you for what you've done. You have crossed the corps and you have crossed me, and left a trail of dead pilots in your wake because of this carelessness. You are going to wish you never met me."

[riversidewings]

"Lieutenant, you want my advice? Shape up before you wind up on the omninet in an installment of that Handler Shaming series, the one that keeps leaking fragments of transcripts and whistleblower testimonies."

[riversidewings]

"You junior handlers are the reason why the company commander drinks and is going gray. For fuck's sake, grow up a little and bother trying to adhere to doctrine."

[bannertanks]

[ghosthierophant]

[riversidewings]

"What? To shreds, you say? Well, that's what he gets for mouthing off to the battalion S-3."

[musashi]

Hey can you guys reblog Cheeseburger so he can take a sunbeam nap on lots of blogs. No other reason I just want you guys to see him.

[riversidewings]

"Good. Very good. Maybe you are actually understanding what the personnel regulations are there to safeguard. Keep it up and you might salvage a career out of this trainwreck just yet."

[postit-mikus]

[postit-mikus]

[riversidewings]

Friday Night History #149, Spotlight on the Sources, Part 7: At the Edge of Empire, by Michael Gardiner

Once again, we have to reckon with a book that is, unfortunately, part of the historiography. At the Edge of Empire is a 2007 biography of Thomas Blake Glover, noted Scottish drug runner and gun dealer who helped arm the Sat-Chō alliance during the Boshin War and then went on to help build modern Japanese capitalism. He had a hand in everything from drugs to mining to gun running to shipbuilding…

Friday Night History #149, Spotlight on the Sources, Part 7: At the Edge of Empire, by Michael Gardiner

[riversidewings]

Friday Night History #148- Spotlight on the Sources, Part 6- "Shinsengumi Saito Hajime no Subete"

Some people are a nexus of connections. Before we begin, I’d like to once again thank you all for your patience, as I get back into the swing of things on the podcast. The past few weeks have been a whirlwind of burnout, sore throat, and exhaustion, and I’m glad to be back, and working in a new, more sustainable framework to forward our efforts on this project. Now, let’s get started, shall…

Friday Night History #148- Spotlight on the Sources, Part 6- "Shinsengumi Saito Hajime no Subete"

[toumii00]

Lady in a suit🙏

[clxrissxz]

trying to show the other lords love too but its more obvious that I don't draw them as often [2/4]