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Linux User stamp I made. Very basic, feel free to use. Reblogs appreciated. Recolour is fine. (I should prob make those user and guidance bars like some people do for web graphic requests...eventually.)

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Rat Experiments Lain - 4/11/26

If you ever think you are annoying just remember that people watch TikTok with their sound up on buses

araragi is good at math. it's one of the few things that he's been able to rely on, in fact. so it's safe to assume that numbers are something that feel natural to him

but here, and in other places, numbers are all written in kyujitai kanji. these aren't numbers that bring him comfort—they're just another use of language to isolate him, to make him feel like he has no place in this world. it's the same reason that so many place and character names, even most words, are written in katakana. araragi feels like a foreigner in his own home

I didn't know this until my wife pointed it out, but in china, these characters are used in financial contexts, such as on checks and in bank notes, because their high stroke counts make them difficult to alter. for example, if you wrote 一 on a check, someone could just add one stroke to make it 十, and the amount will have increased by a factor of 10. so 壹 is used instead

I'm not sure if this is the case in japan as well, but if it is, that would add an additional implication to their use here, wouldn't it? these numbers would have a connection to the world of finance. in addition to representing araragi's alienation, they would also symbolize his disillusionment with capitalism and economics. we can already see this in some cases. araragi's family is rich, but he doesn't seem to comprehend money, or have any sense of scale for it. when oshino asks araragi for 5 million yen, araragi pays it off without much trouble

Glass Beach > nobodyratgirl

4/31/26 - 5/07/2026 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

A week ago, my favorite band broke up. Glass Beach got me through so much in my life. I would blast bedroom community during church sermons in my beaten up hand-me-down 2008 wired earbuds. Play "Glass Beach" on repeat after drawn out arguments kept me up all night. bawl my eyes out to "orchids" in the allotted 1 minute moment of silence after the album ended. I went through a lot in the period of time Glass Beach was together, found out I was a trans woman, had my parents try and force me to be cis, which led me to some dark places, but eventually Glass Beach pulled me back out, Id find my girlfriend on the Glass Beach discord server and we would run away together. Its still hard sometimes, but me and her have been through worse. And we will make it out of this, someday we will be there, safe on the shore, the seaside of Malibu. Each page is inspired by a glass beach album (or adjacent) as well as a song.

Credits to the album designs by go to @daxeart As well as J, William White, Jonas Newhouse, and Layne Smith, the former members of Glass Beach.