#sumidagawa

[muratagawa]

Sumida River, Tokyo, October 2023

[osakiakiko]

ふと気がつくと今年も残り20日を切っていて、びっくり！ お会いする人が年内はこれで最後ですねーとか、そうなんだけど、そうなんだけど、そうだった！みたいな。 ホント寒くならないからって、どんだけ油断してたんだ自分！ 2022年も残り19日。 １日１日をしっかり過ごさねば！と思って、自分への喝のためのポスト。 とりあえず今日は、撮影終わりにタイ料理屋さんで食べたガパオライスが、過去最高の美味しさでブラボー！（長友風）でした🤣 #sumida #sumidariver #sumidagawa #riverside #隅田川 https://www.instagram.com/p/CmEevfOvKbu/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[audiophilefreak]

[parkstone-international]

Hiroshige - One of the the most famous Japanese artistic productions

Hiroshige - One of the the most famous Japanese artistic productions

[grijakultur]

Just watched the Tokyo MER : Sumidagawa River (2023) special episode (as a promo tool for the Tokyo MER Movie [2023]). What an episode! Still battlefield boyfriends/first responder doctor husbands up to the very end. Going to assume the movie may be totally comphet for the general audience; they had to separate these two during the whole movie.

[hetamata]

rivers as water sources, rivers as freshwater sources, rivers as food sources, rivers as historical sources, rivers as vital resources, rivers as sources of destruction, rivers as cradles of civilization, rivers as waterways, rivers as trade routes, rivers as invasion routes, rivers as roads from the mountains to the sea, rivers as connection, rivers as an origin, rivers as moving water, rivers as wards against evil, rivers as sites of baptism, rivers as sites of purification, rivers as purifying sites, rivers as boundaries, rivers as boundaries between people, rivers as boundaries between life and death, rivers as boundaries between civilization and the unknown, known rivers, unknown rivers, rivers as neutral geographic features that we have ascribed meaning to, rivers that invoke something meaningful in us.

[kurosagileo]

if anyone is curious, the hotarubi cards are probably them taking a trip to Asakusa together!! The river Haku is at is likely sumidagawa and the temple is probably Sensoji

[gacougnol]

"Sumidagawa Suijin Forest"

Tsuchiya Koitsu ~ 1934

[colourme-feral]

Shared + spotted in: Koi wo Suru nara Nidome ga Joto / Love is Better the Second Time Around and Jack o' Frost

As pointed out by @blmpff

IRL: Chuo-Ohashi Bridge as seen from Shinkawa Park (Sumidagawa Terrace), 1 Chome-32 Shinkawa, Chuo City, Tokyo 104-0033, Japan

[the-cricket-chirps]

Utagawa Hiroshige

The Sumida River (Sumidagawa), from the series Cutout Pictures of Famous Places in Edo (Edo meisho harimaze zue)

1857

[bvrriers]

Ito was practically hopping from one foot to the other as he stood on the beach with Deidara. The sun was low in the sky and the fireworks were about to start - that is to say, the two of them had been left unsupervised and had decided to kick off the festival fireworks on their own.

Steven was competing in the Aevum Olympics and doing other things that piqued his interest. So, there was no one to keep the other two in check. Thusly the pair had spent hours crafting their own fireworks, Deidara adding his own special touch now that he had some of his power and supplies back.

"Come on, it'll be dark soon!" He tried to hurry Deidara along as the sun sank below the low the horizon. He knew it was art but he wanted to get to the fun part.

This was going to be way better than any fireworks at a Sumidagawa Firework's Festival.

@chaoticclaybomber // Sunflower Festival , Fireworks

[mothmiso]

Sumida-ku / 墨田区 (2) (3) (4) by KMrT

Via Flickr:

(1) Sumidagawa Shrine. (2) Chozusha. Mimeguri Shrine. (3) (4) Kofuku-zen-ji Temple gate.     

[2dkapsddr]

December 31st, 2023 - IIDX 31, DDR A3, Arcaea, PIU Phoenix, ProSeka

NOW IT'S THE REAL GRAND FINALE!!! And what better way to celebrate than getting permission to pay Round 1 a lil visit?? (Granted at the cost of paying breakfast at my workplace for my whole family during one of their busiest days, i still feel so bad...)

since i had just eaten a chocolate croissant and 1 (one) pancake, i started off slow and warmed up with my favorite game to play on a full stomach (not really): IIDX EPOLIIIIIIIIIIIIIISS (dan dan dada daan dan dada daan dan dada daan dan dan dan)

stiiiill doing the usual of practicing with RANDOM, but getting more comfortable with using hard gauge! only problem? i forgot premium time (and lost two credits to it)

meh, i'll do better next year (i think)

now, this part was the biggest part and the greatest change of plans i've probably had. originally, since the cab was empty, i was gonna go play sdvx to continue warming up and since i didn't wanna throw up my breakfast still. but then i decided, "yea, i feel fine enough. to the ddr cabs! (also i have sumidagawa karenka stuck in my head please help)"

and what i found at the cabs as a result was... a new year's eve tourney i had no idea about!! hosted by the one and only hambones!!! and (almost) EVERYONE was there to game!!!! sign ups were still open, and a friend from there was Really pushing me to sign up, so i signed up and did a warm up set at first before moving on to the qualifiers!

set A of the qualifiers consisted of Dancer in the flare ESP-13 (DDR A, banger), Like A Star ESP-14 (DDR A3, way harder than i thought it'd be), and Electronic Dance System Music (DDR A, i set my scroll speed too low). Once I did it, it was... very dissatisfying. I could've had better MA, but I struggled finding the timing window and had poor EX score overall.

set B though? KILLED IT. it consisted of Going Hypersonic ESP-15 (DDR A20, very technical rhythms), Black Jackal ESP-15 (DDR A20, more of an MA challenge), and Firestorm CSP-16 (DDR A20, chart added in A20 PLUS, hope you like shocks!), and since I'm a huge fan of uppers charts, I had a blast putting on a show for everyone waiting to get the tourney on (since i was the last one to arrive and last one to finish my qualifiers). Got an AAA on Going Hypersonic and 2g on Black Jackal, and also a really neat upscore on Firestorm!!!

when all was said and done and the tourney scores were tallied, i ended up 5th place overall; barely falling short of the top 4 that would play a new set of two 16s and a 17 that were all really fun... but i was pretty satisfied with my score regardless!!! while i waited for the tourney to end and the results to be announced, i remembered arcaea was having their new year's 100 memories promotions, i finally claimed it for the first since since i downloaded the app 5 years ago!!! ...only to find out that the memories expired 2 days after claiming them (literally Why)

as soon as i got them, though, i Instantly knew what i wanted to buy. that's right. OVERDRIVE!!!! played it three times while everyone else was playing: first attempt was a 69% gauge fail, second attempt was an almost-AA 9.49M, and third attempt was a sick 9.63M jump!!! def worth the impulse purchase

anyways, back to the tournament: after everyone played the three songs, the scores were tallied once more and the victors were called up one by one to claim their prizes. after the top 4 were announced (ambones obvs being 1st), the Hambones Award for Rising Star of the Tournament was announced; pulling ahead by 1 singular vote, it was... ME!!!! 2DKAPS DDR RISING STAR!!!! i was so happy to receive it, and even happier (sorry) when i saw the prizes, which were INSANELY COOL!!! a MAX 300 badge, a Valkyrie Bloom sticker, and some sick shades!!! (and $6 too somehow LOL)

as much as you'd wanna think this post is over now with everything i had written before, NOPE!!! the tournament may have ended already, but i STILL had time to play some extra sets before leaving!! (gotta make up for missing that banger tourney set)

also holy shit tumblr is lagging because of the sheer length of this post LMFAO so we gotta be QUICK!! ROLL IN THE BANGERS!!!

Roppongi A 996k GFC!!!

ELECTRONIC SPORTS COMPLEX ESP-17 GFC!!! (AAA Never)

Death by Glamour ESP-14 AAA!!!

MENTANPINDORADORA AAA!!!

HOU DSP-16 FIRST TRY CLEAR ON FLARE V!!! I SAVED THE BIRD!!!!!!!!

decided that wasn't enough and wanted to close out the session with an extra set, which i Immensely regretted (i was in no shape and no fullness to play sadly)

after all this, i went home to take my Last Shower of 2023:tm: and take it easy for the rest of the year over at my sister's house... but i still had my phone to play on and some proseka to wrap up the year with!!!

so, with all of that writing and all of this buildup, i finally present to you: my last two scores (one append score and my very last AP) of the year! a really wonky and kinda lame year overall, but there was def a lot i wanted to talk about and def a lot more i'll write in the soon-to-come year recap document (along with a 2024 goals post tomorrow!!!), but i'll end it off with these scores and come with more in the next year! thanks for everything in 2023, everyone!!!

[jiannguo]

Tasogare Weibo Update 230110

The first ray of sunshine in the new year is the time to have coffee together. The Spring Festival is approaching. It is advisable to share the gift of the year, and it is also advisable to share the heart.

Sumidagawa Coffee and the global brand spokesperson @X九少年团肖战DAYTOY send New Year blessings and hope that the Year of the Rabbit will still drink coffee together.

[angelselene]

BNHA Comfort-Tober 13

Prompts: festival | first crush | “Like an angel in disguise”

Shouto looks absolutely amazing in a yukata, and Toshinori feels like a lecherous old man for all the very naughty thoughts he’s having about his partner while they attend the Sumidagawa Fireworks Festival. Last year, Shouto had to work, but he’s off this year--as much as a pro hero ever is off--and they were able to make a date night of it.

“So... I have a question for you,” Toshinori says.

“Oh?” Shouto asks, tilting his head back to look up at him. Nearby, Toshinori hears a couple of girls giggle as they recognize Shouto--Toshinori doesn’t get recognized much these days--but Shouto ignores them.

“I was talking to Midoriya and the topic of a first crush came up. I was wondering who was yours?”

The question earns him an adorably confused expression. “Why do you want to know?”

“I’m curious,” Toshinori admits. “And I want to know everything about you. I thought you’d know that by now.”

Shouto smiles and shakes his head, the barest bit of a blush on his cheeks. “You know it was you, right?”

“Oh?” Toshinori asks. “Surely not.”

A sharp finger pokes him in his ribs. “You were everything I admired and wanted to be.”

“Is that really the same as a crush?”

This time, Shouto is definitely blushing. That’s interesting. Then he glances up at Toshinori with a wicked grin. “Ask me again when we get home, and I’ll... explain more clearly.”

That’s very promising. His partner may look like an angel, but he’s definitely hiding a very tempting fiend underneath.

Complete Prompt List: [x]

[donutwares]

Short Story: Canyon and Sumida

I wrote this story during some downtime when I was prevented from my more important work for FreeLunch.my where I post select pieces. It’s a 600 word mini story centered around Japan and its culture. May be my final short story on Dogblots. Sensing a call to do other things by start of August. This waterless afternoon, more writing to come. Want to do a few k words on 4 Weddings Act 2.