Overthinking the apocalypse

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A blog about nerdy Japanese things, linguistics and luddism in the end-times. Playing old lesbian videogames on the deck of the Titanic.
Why do I care so much about lesbians in my stories

The other day I was reading Emily’s Inheritance, which deeply disappointed me because it's that bait-and-switch where a story that looks ...

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Avocado toast your way to your thesis?

I was describing to someone the way that charming little European cafés are absolutely the ideal environment for me to write my thesis (a...

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An imaginary SaGa Frontier fixhack

Based on my unreasonably obsessive dives into the themes of Asellus from 1997 SaGa Frontier, background lore, prototype concepts, multive...

Overthinking the apocalypse
A kendō player's notes about sword techniques in SaGa Frontier (PS1)

I thought I would take some notes of how SaGa uses kendō terminology, but Sevon already did most of the job. I still have a few remarks ...

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Early GL/yuri/lesbian games, part 3: Lady Asellus, or the terror of becoming like men

https://wordsmith.social/overthinking-the-apocalypse/early-gl-yuri-lesbian-games-part-3-lady-asellus-or-the-terror-of-becoming

Sweets! at the Heidelberg Hbf

Once at a Hbf there were some immigrant-looking folk (Turkish, as it turned out) selling traditional candy like, in a super pushy way, an...

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Today's struggles with computer addition

I'm just thinking aloud with the keyboard here, I don’t think this is interesting to anyone but dunno. The tentacles of addiction are al...

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List of definitions of “yuri”

The other day I was reading The Yuri-ika special issue on yuri culture (Yuri-bunka no Genzai; #12, December 2014), and thinking of how th...

Overthinking the apocalypse