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NOT gentle reminder that Abed Nadir’s father is canonically Palestinian, his grandfather lived in the Gaza strip, and his cousin Abra visits from Gaza in season one. You can not be a Community fan and a supporter of Israel.

and let the history books name joe biden, rishi sunak, justin trudeau, emmanuel macron, ursula von der leyen and every other world leader who did not step in to prevent the genocide of palestine as cold-blooded murderers. may they face a shred of the immeasurable pain and suffering they allowed to be committed against 2.2. million innocent lives.

and let the history books name joe biden, rishi sunak, justin trudeau, emmanuel macron, ursula von der leyen and every other world leader who did not step in to prevent the genocide of palestine as cold-blooded murderers. may they face a shred of the immeasurable pain and suffering they allowed to be committed against 2.2. million innocent lives.

JJK is full of fruity characters, and their all are dumb idiots who's oblivious about their feelings.

Summer 2022 KFP gijinka studies ~

Once again thank you to NOT use and repost my art, really, I’ll see it.

Leah is the moment omg

Update

hello everyone i would first like to apologize for not being constant with updates. I have had a lot of family issues and work is taking a lot out of me. i still am going to try and participate in the koreadathon but i can’t promise a lot of updates. once again im so sorry.

See you next time

Promises and Pomegranates by Sav R. Miller

I'm sorry everyone but I have to DNF this book. Promises and Pomegranates is the worst book I have read in a long time. This review will contain spoilers about the part of the Promises and Pomegranates book I read. Promises and Pomegranates are supposed to be a dark contemporary romance based loosely on the story of the two greek gods Hades and Persephone. While reading this book I was able to get up to page 136 before I finally decided to stop torturing myself. This book has literally put me into a reading slump. Our main characters Kal and Elena are very insufferable. Both Elena and Kal are obsessed with their genitals and each other. Kal's entire personality is he is supposed to be dark and mysterious, he treats Elena more like a child than a lover. Kal constantly calls Elena little and throughout 136 pages of the book there is a heavy emphasis on their age gap, Elena is either 18 or 19 and Kal is 32. The entire relationship is super weird, Kal constantly views Elena as nothing more than a sex object to tease. Maybe it's just me but this is truly not a romantic book at all, at certain points he just leaves her alone in a big house or unknown area with no idea what to do. They truly only view each other as hot people they want to have sex with. Now maybe the book gets better the deeper you read but I truly just didn’t want to waste my time. I give this book two stars because the forced sexual or “romantic” scenes of the book were funny but I’m positive that this wasn’t supposed to be a comedy. If you like dark contemporary kind of weird slightly manipulative books then this is the book for. But, the rule of thumb is always look up what a book is about when its recommended from booktok

Joke’s on me for buying books recommended on tiktok without reading the plot. 

Now I’m stuck with mafia romance…

Promises and Pomegranates Update

So far I am 73 pages in and I already hate everything about the book. Our two main characters are truly insufferable. Kal our love interest makes me want to rip open my chest and pull my own heart out and light it on fire while I feel every inch of pain, and that would somehow be better than dealing with this man. Elena is just weird, she shames herself for liking him and being aroused by him but any chance she gets she is down on her knees for him, it’s frustrating in all honesty. Kal also has this habit of calling Elena “little one” which grosses me out, I feel like thats what you call a child not someone you are sexually attracted to. So far I am not rooting for the romance and I truly just want to light my brain on fire. I’m trying so hard not to dnf (did not finish) this book so I will let you all know how it goes

After thinking about it I have decided to put off reading A Little Life. So far all the reviews on this book are saying that it is really sad and there are so many trigger warnings, so i think i’m going to wait. I have decided to start promises and pomegranates

(1)this is something I thought when I read no longer human for the first time 2 years ago and just remembered now, I thought the real Dazai, or maybe just the character Yozo, was very sexist. Might have to do with the abuse he faced as a child (I'm not sure about this part, it's been a long time). The only woman he ever appreciated was Tsuneko, who he attempted double suicide with. It seemed to him that all women were liars and Tsuneko had become superior to them when she said she was not happy.

(2) I’ve noticed the same thing when I read his short story Tanabata. Any thoughts on this? If you answered this before please just give me a link. I Love what you’re doing with the quotes/meta, thanks 

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It is true that the Yozo, the protagonist of No Longer Human, was sexually abused as a child by a female servant at the house. And the real Dazai has hinted at being abused as a child in his first famous publication, “Memories,” so there is a similarity there. But I don’t think that he was sexist. 

^ Dazai and Michiko with their daughter Sonoko

*Caution: this post includes some mature topics. If you do not want to read PG13 rated material do not read this post*

Women in Dazai’s Life

Dazai Osamu was very attached to his aunt and a nurse maid who helped raise him, Take-san, and actually considered both of those women to be more like a mother to him than his own mother. His real mother was in very poor health and was regularly away relaxing at onsens for health reasons. 

After his idol Akutagawa’s suicide in 1927 Dazai turned to spending money on clothes, alcohol, and prostitutes. As Dazai grew up he fell in love with a geisha, Hatsuyo, and ran away with her only to be disowned by his family because of it. 

Nine days after being disowned he attempted suicide by drowning with a waitress, Shimeko, who died while he survived. His family intervened so he wouldn’t cause trouble with police investigations regarding the incident. 

Then Dazai basically forced his family into paying off Hatsuyo’s debts so he could marry her. He believed that she was still a virgin when he married her and was devastated when he learned that wasn’t the case. On top of that, while he was in the mental institution recovering from drug addiction, from when he was taking a morphine-based painkiller at the hospital being treated for acute appendicitis, Hatsuyo committed adultery with his best friend, an artist by the name of Zenshirou Kodate. Dazai and Hatsuyo then attempted a double suicide by taking sleeping pills, but it didn’t work. Instead they divorced. 

Shortly after that his writing mentor Ibuse Masuji helped him to marry a middle school teacher named Michiko. After marrying Michiko his women troubles consisted of him getting another woman, Shizuko, pregnant and a year long relationship with a hairdresser, Tomie, who he later succeeded in a double suicide with. 

*No Longer Human spoilers ahead*

Keep reading

No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai

After reading this book I can fully agree with many of the reviews, yet I don’t necessarily think that it is a very sad book. This book definitely has sad parts but in of its self is not sad. While I read this book I also heavily annotated it through color coordination. Most of my tabs were pink in the beginning and proceeded to be blue and purple toward the end, even a few were orange. Pink represented relatability, Purple represented wtf moments (basically moment in which I was questioning whether or not this was a character I wanted to relate to), blue represented sad, and orange represented interesting questions and beautiful writing. While reading this book I constantly felt guilty about relating to such a complicated man, it allowed me to come to terms with problems I have within myself. I believe that if Yozo (our main character) had left Japan he might not have felt so entirely isolated from society, he might of realized that its okay to be different, but because he stayed in Japan he never got to explore and see all of humanity, I also believe that if Osamu Dazai had left Japan he might have seen an entirely different side of humanity. If you are curious about Japanese literature I definitely recommend this book but you should only read it if you are in a good mental space, I personally didn’t cry but some people did so tread carefully. I plan on giving a spoil filled review tomorrow or maybe during my February wrap up. 

March

In march I will be participating in the koreadathon. I will update more about that after I finish no longer human. BTW some of the books that I am supposed to be reading this month will probably be moved to march because I heard a little life is very dense and I work three jobs so... but I’ll let you guys know

Update on No Longer Human

I only have 50 pages left of the book and I am going to keep my thoughts on the book to myself until I finish it. I plan to have this book completed today and start a little life today as well. So I will see you all in a few hours maybe 

語彙 「ごい」 Vocabulary！～

国 「くに」 Countries:

アイスランド : Iceland

アイルランド : Ireland

アゼルバイジャン : Azerbaijan

アフガニスタン : Afghanistan

アブハジア : Republic of Abkhazia

アメリカ : United States of America

アラブ首長国連邦（しゅちょうこくれんぽう）: United Arab Emirates

アルジェリア : Algeria

アルゼンチン : Argentina

アルバニア : Albania

アルメニア : Armenia

アンゴラ : Angola

アンティグア・バーブーダ : Antigua and Barbuda

アンドラ : Andorra

イエメン : Yemen

イギリス : United Kingdom

イスラエル : Israel

イタリア : Italy

イラク : Iraq

イラン : Islamic Repubic of Iran

インド : India

インドネシア : Indonesia

ウガンダ : Uganda

ウクライナ : Ukraine

ウズベキスタン : Uzbekistan

ウルグアイ : Uruguay

エクアドル : Ecuador

エジプト : Egypt

エストニア : Estonia

エチオピア : Ethiopia

エリトリア : Eritrea

エルサルバドル : El Salvador

沿（そい）ドニエストル : Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (PMR)

オーストラリア : Australia

オーストリア : Austria

オマーン : Oman

オランダ : the Netherlands

ガーナ : Ghana

カーボベルデ : Cape Verde

ガイアナ : Guyana

カザフスタン : Kazakhstan

カタール : Qatar

カナダ : Canada

ガボン : Gabon

カメルーン : Cameroon

韓国（かんこく）: Republic of Korea (South Korea)

ガンビア : Gambia

カンボジア : Cambodia

北（きた）キプロス : Northern Cyprus

北朝鮮（きたちょうせん）: Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea)

ギニア : Guinea

ギニアビサウ : Guinea-Bissau

キプロス : Cyprus

キューバ : Cuba

ギリシャ : Greece

キリバス : Kiribati

キルギス : Kyrgyzstan

グアテマラ : Guatemala

クウェート : Kuwait

クック諸島（しょとう） : Cook Islands

グレナダ : Grenada

クロアチア : Croatia

ケニア : Kenya

コートジボワール : Côte d'lvoire

コスタリカ : Costa Rica

コソボ : Kosovo

コモロ : Comoros

コロンビア : Colombia

コンゴ共和国 （きょうわこく）: Congo

コンゴ民主共和国（みんしゅきょうわこく） : Democratic Republic of the Congo

サウジアラビア : Saudi Arabia

サモア : Samoa

サントメ・プリンシペ : Sao Tome and Principe

ザンビア : Zambia

サンマリノ : San Marino

シエラレオネ : Sierra Leone

ジブチ : Djibouti

ジャマイカ : Jamaica

ジョージア : Georgia

シリア : Syrian Arab Republic

シンガポール : Singapore

ジンバブエ : Zimbabwe

スイス : Switzerland

スウェーデン : Sweden

スーダン : Sudan

スペイン : Spain

スリナム : Suriname

スリランカ : Sri Lanka

スロバキア : Slovakia

スロベニア : Slovenia

スワジランド : Swaiziland

セーシェル : Seychelles

赤道（せきどう）ギニア : Equatorial Guinea

セネガル : Senegal

セルビア : Serbia

セントクリストファー・ネイビス : Saint Kitts and Nevis

セントビンセントおよびグレナディーン諸島（しょとう）: Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

セントルシア : Saint Lucia

ソマリア : Somalia

ソマリランド : Republic of Somaliland

ソロモン諸島（しょとう）: Solomon Islands

タイ : Thailand

台湾（たいわん）: Taiwan

タジキスタン : Tajikistan

タンザニア : United Republic of Tanzania

チェコ : Czechia/Czech Republic

チャド : Chad

中央（ちゅうおう）アフリカ共和国（きょうわこく）: Central African Republic

中国（ちゅうごく）: China

チュニジア : Tunisia

チリ : Chile

ツバル : Tuvalu

デンマーク : Denmark

ドイツ : Germany

トーゴ : Togo

ドミニカ共和国（きょうわこく）: Dominican Republic

ドミニカ国（こく）: Dominica

トリニダード・トバゴ : Trinidad and Tobago

トルクメニスタン : Turkmenistan

トルコ : Turkey

トンガ : Tonga

ナイジェリア : Nigeria

ナウル : Nauru

ナゴルノ・カラバフ : Nagorno Karabakh/ Republic of Artsakh

ナミビア : Namibia

ニウエ : Niue

ニカラグア : Nicaragua

ニジェール : Niger

西（にし）サハラ : Western Sahara

日本（にほん）: Japan

ニュージーランド : New Zealand

ネパール : Nepal

ノルウェー : Norway

バーレーン : Bahrain

ハイチ : Haiti

パキスタン : Pakistan

バチカン : Vatican City State

パナマ : Panama

バヌアツ : Vanuatu

バハマ : Bahamas

パプアニューギニア : Papua New Guinea

パラオ : Palau

パラグアイ : Paraguay

バルバドス : Barbados

パレスチナ : Occupied Palestinian Territory

ハンガリー : Hungary

バングラデシュ : Bangladesh

東（ひがし）ティモール : Timor-Leste

フィジー : Fiji

フィリピン : Philippines

フィンランド : Finland

ブータン : Bhutan

ブラジル : Brazil

フランス : France

ブルガリア : Bulgaria

ブルキナファソ : Burkina Faso

ブルネイ : Brunei Darussalam

ブルンジ : Burundi

ベトナム : Vietnam

ベナン : Benin

ベネズエラ : Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela

ベラルーシ : Belarus

ベリーズ : Belize

ペルー : Peru

ベルギー : Belgium

ポーランド : Poland

ボスニア・ヘルツェゴビナ : Bosnia and Herzegovina

ボツワナ : Botswana

ボリビア : Plurinational State of Bolivia

ポルトガル : Portugal

ホンジュラス : Honduras

マケドニア旧（きゅう）ユーゴスラビア共和国 （きょうわこく）: Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

マーシャル諸島 （しょとう）: Marshall Islands

マダガスカル : Madagascar

マラウイ : Malawi

マリ : Mali

マルタ : Malta

マレーシア : Malaysia

ミクロネシア連邦（れんぽ） : Federated States of Micronesia

南（みなみ）アフリカ : South Africa

南（みなみ）オセチア : South Ossetia

南（みなみ）スーダン : South Sudan

ミャンマー : Myanmar

メキシコ : Mexico

モーリシャス : Mauritius

モーリタニア : Mauritania

モザンビーク : Mozambique

モナコ : Monaco

モルディブ : Maldives

モルドバ : Republic of Maldova

モロッコ : Morocco

モンゴル : Mongolia

モンテネグロ : Montenegro

ヨルダン : Jordan

ラオス : Lao People's Democratic Republic/Laos

ラトビア : Latvia

リトアニア : Lithuania

リビア : Libya

リヒテンシュタイン : Liechtenstein

リベリア : Liberia

ルーマニア : Romania

ルクセンブルク : Luxembourg

ルワンダ : Rwanda

レソト : Lesotho

レバノン : Lebanon

ロシア : Russian Federation/ Russia

Actors and their favourite books

Tom Hiddleston - Any human heart

Hiddleston mentioned in a tweet, that this was one of his favourite novels.

Colin Firth - The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

"I don't think I've ever read such descriptions of what it would be like to lose your grip. He has a vision that makes you less sure of your surroundings—and I find that stimulating."

Natalie Portman - Cloud Atlas

"This was the present I gave everyone I knew for three years. It's six different stories told in different time periods and genres: One is historical fiction, another is a '70s thriller mystery, the sixth is a post¬apocalyptic story"

Daniel Radcliffe - The Master and Margarita

"It's now my favorite novel—it's just the greatest explosion of imagination, craziness, satire, humor, and heart."

Timothee Chalamet - And then the End will come

Chalamet mentioned in an interview, that he really loved this book

Morgan Freeman - The Poisonwood Bible

“Some of the best writers are women writers – Barbara Kingsolver, Joyce Carol Oates. They just don’t get enough play.”

Margot Robbie - The five poeple you meet in heaven

I love that book. It felt very different, moving and heartfelt. It made me think. It’s a quick read, it’s a good one to recommend over the holidays.”

Cate Blanchett - The true history of the Kelly Gang

"Carey is one of my favorite writers. In Kelly Gang, the narrative voice is so unique. We Australians all know about Ned Kelly, but what Carey does is get inside his character's mind in such an illuminating and heartrending way. Aand there's not a trace of sentimentality in it. I so admire that as an actor, because I realize how difficult it is to do."

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February TBR

No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller(reread moved it to march)

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

The Poisonwood Bible by Barabara Kingsolver

The Awakening by Kate Chopin(reread moved it to march)

Promises and Pomegrantes by Sav R. Miller 

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Prince of Thorns by Mark Lawrence 

Human Acts by Han Kang

Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami

The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater(reread moved it to march)

Reading Slump

In the month of January I was in a really big reading slump. I had read some books but never finished them so in this month of February I will be posting my tbr and my honest reviews of what I have read.

Meeting me

Hi my name is Raven, the reason I am making this blog is to be an inspiration to other studyblrs and to post my book reviews.  I am hoping to be a future lawyer or teacher I am 19 years I am currently taking a semester off of college to collect myself and figure out what I want to do in life lol I will be posting about the languages I am learning and the books I am reading and how I feel about them I am learning Spanish, Korean, and Japanese Its really nice to meet all of you