I FEEL EVERYTHING POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE ABOUT HIEI AT ONCE. I WANT TO HOLD HIM IN MY HAND AND ALSO PUT HIM IN ONE OF THOSE MACHINES THEY STICK CHRISTMAS TREES ON TO SHAKE THE LOOSE NEEDLES OFF OF THEM. he would be so clean after, so fresh. ugh. i love hiei
hiei’s influence cannot be overstated. like on me but also on History? no one else was doing it like him until everyone was. now every shounen has a sauceless hiei. every single one.
i projected onto hiei a lot way back when because he’s like the fear that no one loves you because you’re rotten taken to the absolute extreme. i never went to that extreme but it was easy to relate to i guess? at the time.
he should have gotten bullied more. more people should have followed yusuke’s example and pointed out that he’d have to stand on a stack of phone books to check out at the konbini. god can you imagine hiei in a konbini. he would hate everything about it but then do a 180 and want to go there all the time. just to stand there. and buy meiji baby choco for yukina.
i want him to be happy and loved and i also want him to be teased into hell by his three best friends and his deeply bonded frenemy keiko
Lunar New Year Love Story by Gene Yang, art by Leuyen Pham. First Second, 2024. 9781250908261. 352pp.
Val has a year to find true love, or Saint Valentine wants her heart. (Their friendship started off as an imaginary friend / real friend sort of situation back when he presented as a winged cherub, but later he appears to her as a creepy old spirit). The complications: Val's sad father, who told her a huge lie; her grandmother, a pushy but hilarious woman who always wants to feed Val and take her to church; and a super cute guy who likes her but doesn't really seem to want to be her boyfriend. Plus that guy has an awkward cousin, whom she once embarrassed (or something) with a Valentine. Along for the ride is Bernice, Val's friend who dates lots of boys and draws on her shoes. There's a ton about lion dancing in the book, which Val gets good at. Scenes of lion dancing, along with the rest of the graphic novel, prove that Pham is one of the best artists working in comics.
I suppose I should no longer be surprised that I enjoy YA romances occasionally. This is my favorite of the year, a book I plan to gift to many folks on my list.
Shishi Gashira Borg (Super Festival Osaka 4 version)
by One Up Pico Pico
Taken by nuo2x2 with Olympus EP-5
might be my most fav sofubi line during my last time living in Japan, the Shishi Gashira Borg sofubis... they re imagined Japanese traditional lion dance costume to mecha style, and this might be the best colorway ever...
plus the design make it possible for the sofubi to be displayed in normal or standing mode, representing the lion dance movement, pure genius!!!
大年初六!祝大家六六大顺!Amber 到那拜年去了?🧧 Day 6 of CNY! So many CNY open house today! Wishing all Heng! ONG! HUNG ahhhh!!!! 🍊 #amberchia #rafflesiaqipao #rafflesiapearls #liondance #cny2023 #cnyopenhouse https://www.instagram.com/p/Cn7Rpn0Jx_T/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
Another common sight during the lunar new year festivities would be the lion dance. People perform lion dances at Chinese festivals or big occasions to bring good fortune and chase away evil spirits. The lion dance is one of the most important traditions at Chinese New Year. . Watch the CNY2023 episode: https://youtu.be/FWYj_3OjHa8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . #illustration #skech #sketchbook #sketchbookskool #linework #linedrawing #スケッチ #스케치 #urbansketchers #usk #urbansketching #moonmanm2 #sketchwalker #alfdoodles #sketch #sgartist #sketchingpeople #peoplesketch #liondance #chinesenewyear2023 #lunarnewyear (at Singapore) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoCmtHaymAx/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
For the past weeks Hawaii has done a grand celebration for Chinese New Year! Blessing all the shopping malls and centers with colorful and amusing performances from multiple lion dance groups. Such a wonderful and fun activity to see with your family, with the loud pounding of the drums and the playful lion dancers! Surely you can't miss such a culture celebration.
Choy Lee Fut Familia Chan www.choyleefut.ar #kungfu #liondance #chanfamily #chanfamilychoyleefut (en Biblioteca Del Congreso De La Nación, Alsina 1835, Buenos Aires) https://www.instagram.com/p/ClQ710luErO/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
Day drinking instead of dealing with emotions like a normal person. Knocked out 6 lion dance performances in between that and grabbed some pupu’s at Moani’s & Foodland wine bar.
Then day drank at my nephews and I’s birthday bbq at the beach.