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“the essence of true transformation lies in the willingness to let go of who we’ve known ourselves to be, for the possibility of who we might become”

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I hope you believe that you can still make a beautiful life for yourself even if you lost many years of it to grief, or darkness, depression, or a wound that wouldn't close.

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Kosuke Kindaichi is about to become my new weirdo fictional detective , joining Poirot, Sherlock and many others

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Finished reading the Kosuke Kindaichi (translated) novels I recently got my hands on and God I love this Jap chap. Set in wartime and post war Japan, the novels follow the detective adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi and Inspector Isokawa.

Kosuke unlike the other stalwarts in the field isn't very sophisticated: neither in appearance nor in his methods. Unlike other seasoned detectives who aren't drained of color at the sight of a dead body and have a 'i know it all' aura around them, Kosuke frequently gets shocked at the sight of a corpse and most certainly mishears, misinterprets and misjudges. One cannot really describe him as a funny little man (like Poirot) ; he isn't all that funny and he isn't little either. He first appears as a 25-26 years old man, 'shockingly indifferent to his appearance' in worn out hakama pants and kimono, with a head full of unkempt and disheveled hair in the Honjin murder case and his appearance remains somewhat similar even after coming back from the war. He stammers (slightly so) and has this most irritable habit of scratching his hair. Former drug addict, Kindaichi claims to be immune to female beauty (but proves himself wrong lol).

His cases, mostly set in wartime and post war Japan are,however, awfully gruesome. Almost all the murders that occur could have been prevented if not for the war. This probably shows how Japan's defeat in the second World War had been not only been a severe economic and political blow but it shook the country's existing social and cultural values and robbed it's people off their morale. With male heirs of the families serving in the war, Japan's existing family system was absolutely jeopardised. This is evident from the motives of the murders as well. The reasons for the murders are so unbelievably grotesque they remain unfathomable even after finishing the story. Anyways, what makes Kindaichi different from others? It's that even if he's able to catch the criminal he's very certainly unable to stop the crimes from happening. That shortcoming on his part probably makes his stories seem more real. Kindaichi is no hero, he's only a detective.

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#SeishiYokomizo

#Japanese

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Book 34, 2023

Kindaichi, the detective solving “The Honjin Murders” as well as other mysteries by Seishi Yokomizo (most famously “The Inugami Clan”), is the perfect scruffy weirdo for people who love Columbo but want a traditional technically solvable (Yokomizo namedrops “The Murder of Roger Ackroyd” in-novel) mystery novel. Tight, no fluff, under 200 pages, just a weird little guy wandering into a crime and some family drama partway through events. Love a little weirdo.

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The Honjin Murders

By Seishi Yokomizo.

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a few satisfying brushstrokes & details to finish off this painting for an exhibition 🥳 she's for an exhibition themed Dreamland Awaits

for inquiries about this painting: sherri@coreyhelfordgallery.com

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🎵 blue wednesday - cascadia

prints | tutorials | my artbook

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If you find yourself absolutely unable to concentrate, record yourself reading the course material out loud from a textbook as if you're making an audiobook. You won't stop because that'll ruin the record. I did that a lot of times and it works, somehow

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You! Have been visited by the gnome of executive function! Reblog to send them along to make sure they visit the next person in need!

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“I am, like everybody else, a product of my time and my culture. And I remember, there’s a really beautiful commencement address that Adrienne Rich gave in 1977 in which she said that an education is not something that you get but something that you claim. And I think that’s very much true of knowledge itself. The reason we’re so increasingly intolerant of long articles and why we skim them, why we skip forward even in a short video that reduces a 300-page book into a three-minute animation — even in that we skip forward — is that we’ve been infected with this kind of pathological impatience that makes us want to have the knowledge but not do the work of claiming it. I mean, the true material of knowledge is meaning. And the meaningful is the opposite of the trivial. And the only thing that we should have gleaned by skimming and skipping forward is really trivia. And the only way to glean knowledge is contemplation. And the road to that is time. There’s nothing else. It’s just time.”

— Maria Popova

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The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People's History of Ancient Rome, Michael Parenti.

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what they don't tell you about making friends is you gotta be a lil annoying. you gotta push past the fear of "what if they don't want to talk to me" and simply ask someone how their day is going, send a meme. you cannot connect to people if you're both just awkwardly waiting for the other to start.

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I don't know what to do. I'm so lost in life I feel like I've made all the wrong decisions.

Let me ask you this: Did you get an instruction manual before you were born? Or attend a class titled 'how to live your life'? because I sure as hell didn’t — and neither did anyone else.

We live, we make mistakes, and we learn. We wander, we wonder, we make turns that don’t make sense until years later — if ever. Feeling lost is not only normal — it’s almost inevitable. There are so many paths, so many roads to take, and yet no clear map or lighthouse to guide us. So please, give yourself some grace. Be kinder with yourself.

You’ll likely never know for sure which road is 'right' or 'wrong' — and maybe that’s not the point. What's within your control is how you walk each path. What kind of person you choose to be along the way.

Try to do good. Try to be good. That's where your power lies.

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Hey. Your brain needs to de-frag. Literally it needs you to sit there and space out.

If you want your memory or executive function to improve, stare out a window at the skyline or sidewalk or trees or birds on the electrical wires for like 20+ minutes per day. (With no other stimulation like a podcast or TV if you can manage but hey baby steps innit). If you're fortunate enough to have safe outside with any bits of nature, go stare closely at a 1 meter square of grass and trip out on the bugs and shapes of grasses and stuff.

Literally this will make you smarter. Our brains HAVE TO HAVE this zone out time to do important stuff behind the scenes. This does not happen during sleep, it's something else.

That weird pressurized feeling you get sometimes might be your brain on no defrag.

Give your brain a Daily Dose Of De-Frag.

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enemies to lovers but it's me and myself