#TOTON

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Toton autumn/winter 2021

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[yant2k]

did this meme :)

tried filling it with more recent favs!

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incorrect quotes of ミステリと言う勿れ by me ^-^

(part 2)

[leovalentines]

Totonou 💙

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bad day for curry

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Has anyone watched this TV series? ＼(٥⁀▽⁀ )／

[animehouse-moe]

Don't Call It Mystery Volume 3-4: Family Affairs

A little late to the party, but I recently read the latest volume of Don't Call It Mystery. Remaining such a unique concept, it continues to deliver on the promise of its name, and of Tamura's writing style as we get into full swing with the mystery of a family's fight for inheritance. Oddly enough, not a world of stuff I want to discuss, but more than a bit that I think can sway potential readers.

First and foremost, it's deliverance on the concept implied by the title. It's, simply put, wonderfully executed upon. In the very first panel where a mystery "starts", you are already clued into who the perpetrator is. There is no attempts to "mask" the mystery or mislead the reader as to who or what could be behind the scenes.

Instead, the focus remains on the character arcs of those involved. Casting a wide net, Tamura delves into the hearts of all the characters through the mystery. Rather than the mystery unraveling, it's the exterior of the cast as layer upon layer is peeled back to expose the deeper inner workings of each individual and how it relates to the mystery.

A girl frustrated with the death of her father and how her cousins treated it, the son that despised his absent mother, the daughter bearing the weight of family upon her shoulders. Each of the cast has their own past, their own troubles that exist and are expressed through their actions and personality, and it's beyond excellent. The characters are explained so succinctly yet explored so deeply it almost feels paradoxical.

Perhaps the best of all the points however, is how the characters continue to be a vehicle for the self-projection of Totonou. Not every moment is a callback to his character, but there are very much moments where he begins to speak and it's understood that he's overlapping his trauma and past with that of the characters involved. It's honestly such a clever way to create depth for his character while allowing the focus to remain on the rotating cast in front of him. Tamura drip feeds readers bits and pieces of his past through the characters that appear in front of him. How he views his father, the struggles that existed with his mother, his experience in school and with people. It's incredibly well written.

Speaking of well written, the mysteries themselves. They're not really mysteries but with how deeply they're written and expressed, surely a great deal of it goes over the heads of readers at times. Tamura writes these stories with 2,3, even 4 layers of information and references before you can catch onto the first. Thankfully, Totonou explains all these layers rather effectively, but nonetheless it creates truly impressive re-read potential to see just how these snippets of references and information relate to the characters surrounding them.

At the end of it all, Don't Call It Mystery is an incredibly therapeutic work, thanks to a pair of promises that Tamura makes with readers: that it's not a mystery, and that the characters will be thoughtfully explored and opened up through the process. It creates something devoid of the typical tension and weight of a mystery, and instead replaces it with the thoughtfulness of a passionate conversation, of which Totonou engages in many throughout this volume. An endlessly satisfying and oddly relaxing read, I'm quite looking forward to the next volume(s).

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So I'm reading your Midnight Espresso fic even tho I've never seen supernatural because I love your Soldier Boy series, plus size latina reader, that's me!! And then the "shouldn't you know about latin american myths" made me roll my eyes, like I am centroamericana y no sabía, because I've only grown up around caribbeans and my only non carribean friends are mexican (and they're still puertorican) and argentine, like so many gringos really think we are a monolith, like when I visited El Salvador recently my family would look at me in shock when I used Carribean slang that is accidentally a bad word, and I think a lot about the time my abuela got in trouble for using the Spanish word for pest (which is also a lovingly used word by salvadoreans for kids) y las viejitas carribeñas were so offended because this word means "penis" in carribean spanish, to the point where for my colombian sister it's just the word for pest but she doesn't use it because she has the carribean connotation for it, whereas my mom and abuelita called me this word when I was little, so like I don't swear in spanish because of an intergenerational family curse that caused a lot of trauma and the only way to combat it was propriety, but it's the only "swear" word I will say while I'm singing along to bad bunny

Anyways this is super off point, and I don't know how I got to this point (the long story telling in many stages is a salvadorean gene like the way uncle colm from Derry Girls tells stories), but I love your writing, and found the "I'm cuban, not guatemalan" line to be funny because yeah while speaking spanish with different people I gotta take off my "proxy carribean" hat or my "centroamericana" hat

Hola, mi amor!! 😘

First of all, thank you for reading "Midnight Espresso"! That one is very special to me, being a plus-sized Latina myself. 🌶️💅🏽

I'm also working on a Part 2 to that fic, tentatively titled "Shall We Dance." 😉

But getting into your actual comments below:

It's pretty hilarious how often I've gotten asked if I'm [insert brown ethnicity here]. Believe me, it's run the gambit. I guess I look racially ambiguous. 💁🏽‍♀️

But yes, a lot of people assume every Hispanic/Latino culture knows everything about the other, which is why I chose to make this reader Cuban (like myself). I couldn't accurately tell your Salvadorean experience, for example. Like of course, I can research a culture to write a character, but it wouldn't feel as natural or authentic for me to write as I did writing from my own multicultural experience.

So Dean's line:

“Shouldn’t you be an expert on this already?” Dean teases as you rifle through the pages. “I thought Latin American legends were right up your alley.”

It's tongue-in-cheek, but you're right, it's pointing to a larger issue about how most Americans view Hispanics/Latinos as a whole. 😂

And omg I could tell so many stories about me or my fam/friends getting in trouble with words other Spanish-speaking cultures don't use, or it has an entirely different meaning lmao.

For example, my Cuban ass was talking to my Dominican friend (I'm Dominican as well, but I tend to speak more like a Cuban). Cubans tend to "eat their 's'" on the ends of words. So I said something like, "aw, damn, I'm really liking the look of those tostones." Which of course, is just a fried plátano.

What her Dominican ass heard was "totones." Which for the English speakers in the room, is a woman's pussy. (Or translated more literally, multiple pussies.) 😂

I'm so sorry you've been scarred from cursing in Spanish, because it really can be so colorful and inventive. 😂😂

But I freakin' love Derry Girls!!! And I'm so glad you enjoy my writing, amor. Thanks so much! 😘❤️❤️

[selfmaderibcageman]

I watched the live action. He’s cute.

[caremark103]

The Heart of Compassion: Understanding the Role of Care Homes

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[yant2k]

Totonou about to enjoy his curry

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incorrect quotes of ミステリと言う勿れ by me ^-^

(part 1)

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Gihon Marel ft. Jacson Zeran X Toton Caribo ~ Yang Punya [Indonesia 🇮🇩]

More Gihon

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Jemaah Haji Asal Kabupaten Serang Meninggal Dunia di Tanah Suci

SERANG – Kabar duka menyelimuti kloter haji asal Serang. Salah satu jamaah, Toton Fatoni bin Rasan, menghembuskan nafas terakhir di Madinah pada Minggu (19/5/2024) sekitar pukul 04.30 WIB. Almarhum yang berasal dari Desa Cimaung, Kecamatan Cikeusal, Kabupaten Serang, dikabarkan meninggal dunia saat menunaikan ibadah haji. Jenazah Toton Fatoni rencananya akan dimakamkan di Tanah Suci sesuai dengan…