Eggstential Loafing

Moss Necklace Giveaway

Hey folks! I’ve decided to do a little giveaway for a moss specimen necklace!

These moss specimen necklaces - as are all of my pieces - are each handmade and one of a kind, containing a small frond of moss hand-picked sustainably from the forests and meadows of rural Western Massachusetts, and each come mounted on a piece of card stock onto which I have hand-typed the species name using a vintage typewriter.

I am also happy to type out extra notes, messages, quotes, etc on the back with the same typewriter if you’d like to give one as a gift:

To enter this giveaway, simply reblog this post and tag it as “entry”. Please be 18 years or older and please have your inbox open.

I’ll be drawing a name tomorrow evening. Thank you so much!

saw the partial eclipse yesterday in portland. the eclipse itself wasn’t very exciting, but i noticed that during transit the light coming through the leaves became crescent shaped…

For people who don’t know anything about japanese history like me.  I really know nothing so hopefully everything’s in check. 

This is Watatsumi Shrine. This is a shrine located in Kochi, which is Sakamoto Ryoma’s birthplace (Mutsunokami’s owner). Ryoma is seen has the hero of Kochi and is admired and respected by its people, which led to the construction of a bronze statue of Ryoma in 1928. It currently resides near the shrine. Also the maple tree’s leaves can mean “precious memories” in flower language! The leaves can turn red from October to December, and Ryoma died in December.

This is the battle of Aizu. A remnant of The Shinsengumi fought in this battle in favor of the Tokugawa government. Kane-san’s and Horikawa’s owner, Hijikata Toshizou, participated in this battle. Although in the end the faction he was part of lost.

This is from the battle of Hakodate, which takes place after the battle of Aizu. Here Hijikata joins the battle too and fought long and hard, but was killed in the end. Also Hijikata was killed by a gunshot wound, maybe the hole in the Shinsengumi flag was made by a bullet?

This is the Honnouji incident. This is where Yagen’s owner, Oda Nobunaga, died by committing suicide after being surrounded by the opponent’s troops. The fire consumed the Honnouji and Yagen vanished during it, supposedly lost to the fire. (he’s prolly watching over Oda as the fire consumes him too ;_;)

This is the Ootaki castle. Tonbokiri’s owner, Honda Tadakatsu, founded and partially ruled this castle. He died during fall, and you can see it’s fall during this scene. Also these leaves are from a Ginkgo tree, in flower language they can mean “repose of souls”.

This is the Shimotsuki incident, which took place in December. One of Tsurumaru’s owners was a young boy called Sadayasu from the Adachi clan. During the incident, the Adachi clan ended up being exterminated thanks to the Hojo clan, and Sadayasu was killed. Tsurumaru was buried together with Sadayasu, but then came in Hojo Sadatoki who wanted to own Tsurumaru, so he exhumed Sadayasu’s grave and took him away. (there’s some discrepancy between the real life events and game events about this just fyi)

This is from Sakamoto Ryoma’s assassination. When Ryoma was attacked he reached for his sword, Mutsunokami, and used it to block the opponent’s attack. In the process of doing this, the sword’s scabbard broke and the opponent’s blade reached him. In the end he lost the fight and died. 

AHHH!!! This is so so cute~♡

“Octopus,” she said, all curls and smiles.

“And what kind of animal is an octopus?” I asked.  I was looking for “fish” or “sea creature” but I would have accepted almost anything–”weird,” “gross,” even “slimy.”  “Underwater” or “it lives in the ocean” would have also been acceptable. 

She looks me right in the eye and says, happy as a clam, “It’s a cephalopod.”

Until powerful translations roll out, I can’t give any nitty gritty details because I, too, lack them, but just from my very meager knowledge of Japanese and contextual cues:

At the start of the event, who we thought was Nobunaga was actually Nobuyuki disguised as her and using her name.

Under the identity of his older sister, he gets in an argument with Hijitaka Toshizo, Vice-Commander of the Shinsengumi.

The Real Nobbu appears and gets Very Angry at Nobuyuki for using her name and identity, especially to cause TROUBLE.

However, Nobunaga was not going to take this shit from Hijitaka, even by proxy, so she took issue with it, because she’s STUPID.

Okita Souji, Commander of the Shinsengumi, also STUPID, wasn’t going to take this defensiveness from Nobunaga (by double proxy) and so she also took issue.

Nobbu and Okita REALLY escalate it.

They turn to you, the protag

No matter your choice, you bathe this fire with oil and it escalates further

It’s war.

It’s a legit fucking war

‘cause you STUPID

The war ended

Nobbu won

but just when you thought it was over, Nobuyuki did Something and Stole Something

Nobunaga was like “hey what the fuck man”

Nobuyuki was like “sorry onee-san but fuck you”

He reveals his two ACCOMPLICES

It’s fucking Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla.

Nobuyuki had them IMPROVE on the design of the mass production Chibi-Nobbus to create the powerful Meka-Nobbu and NobbUFO, in addition to the new Nobbusengumi and Guntank Nobbu models.

Oda Nobuyuki, Edison, and Tesla create a powerful trio, and they have an army of Nobbus.

This triggers a second war, them versus Nobunaga, Okita, and Hijitaka.

Who also have some Nobbus of their own

Tomorrow, there’s a THIRD war scheduled.

Nobuyuki did all this. He directly caused two wars, one after the other.

By dressing up as his sister.

He’s not even playable

Fucking hell, Nobuyuki.

Hey guys! @pandacath and I are back at it again this year with the Baeblades 2.0 Touken Ranbu 101 Panel at Anime Boston 2017! 

Musical Touken Ranbu ~Mihotose no Komoriuta~ - Nikkari Aoe (Araki Hirofumi)