be humble, be noble

Le Diplomete Journal d' Albert Herrera - illustrations

Drawn by Mahiro Maeda but in universe drawn by Albert himself

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me: yeah whatever. i don’t feel shit.

5 minutes later: dude i swear i just saw cassandra clare post an incest fic

Mikiko Noji

Why do we have to die

Hanmerhead shark 🩷

"Who are you, Louis?"

For @ldpdlweek2026 day 4 - guilt | reconciliation and forgiveness

An interesting game where you are presented with 10 artifacts from the MET. You have to place where the artifact is from and what time period it is from. Each artifact scores up to 10,000 points, and you lose points the further away your guess is and how far off in time you are. You can only play once a day. Thanks to @baebeylik for showing this to me.

Today I scored really well. Yesterday ... not so much.

I was able to do this because I was already familiar with the words, just not how they’re written in kanji. This is why previous vocabulary knowledge is so important! Even learning how to write a word in hiragana is helpful - it builds the foundation for the kanji later. And by tying previous knowledge to new knowledge, the memory of that previous knowledge gets stronger, which improves recall.

Because this is a comic and uses visuals, I was able to guess that 屋 was pronounced や (パン屋 = bakery) and that 初 was pronounced はじ (初めて = first time, one’s first) based on the context: a) the events in this comic are happening in a bakery, and b) the person is just helping himself to the bread and eating it before paying, so he’s clearly never been to a bakery before. I was also able to guess that 客 was pronounced きゃく (お客さま = customer) because this is how retail customers are addressed in Japanese, and お and さま are indicators of polite, formal language. Lastly, I was able to guess that 当 was pronounced あ because I was familiar with the colloquial phrase 当たり前でしょ! already (あたりまえでしょ!) and I already knew that 前 was pronounced まえ.

It’s like playing Hangman: if there’s a series of letters you already know to be a part of a word, there’s a good chance you can guess what the rest of the word is.

The only phrase I didn’t recognize was 見殺し (みごろし) which is a colloquial phrase that apparently means letting (someone) die without helping. In the context of this comic, I think this phrase has the nuance of “Thanks for nothing!!!” because it was this person’s first time in a bakery, and the staff person didn’t give him any help at all. I looked up this phrase on Weblio, and it says: “To stand by and watch someone being killed or in distress, and not intervene, or to be unable to help and leave them to their fate.”

Title: パン屋初めての人

Comic text:

ちょっとお客さまおやめください!!!

えっ?

これって食べちゃダメなんですか?

当たり前でしょ! えっ? パン屋初めて?

はい･･･

入口にあるトングでパンをトレーに入れてレジで買ってください!

えっ? トング?? トレー??? なんだよこの店!!!! 初見殺しすぎるだろ!!!!

Let's sing an endless song. For me, for you and for them.

LINDA LINDA LINDA (2005, Yamashita Nobuhiro)