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riversidewings:

After she came out as trans, the erstwhile heir apparent
to the august Isawa line had confused more than a few
people with her choice of a new name.

Why ‘kasu’? they would ask. That’s not usually a name. Doesn’t that mean ‘dregs’?

Because I relate to the dolls the world chewed up and spat out, was Isawa Kasu’s ready reply.

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riversidewings:

I see some of my Armenian siblings out there posting “Save Christian Armenians” in response to the renewed Nagorno-Karabagh crisis, and with all due respect: don’t predicate this on religion. Those of us who are Christian aren’t even all the same kind of Christian.

It should be “Save Armenians.” Period. We all deserve dignity and safety.

I, one of your Shintoist kinfolk, beseech you.

riversidewings:

Namahage: In Japan's Akita, Demons Ring in the New Year - Unseen Japan

The namahage are wild, Krampus-like New Year's mountain gods of Akita Prefecture. But what's the story behind the horns and straw coats?

Unseen Japan

Happy New Year to one and all! Here’s my latest from Unseen Japan about Akita’s namahage bringing in the new year with exhortations for diligence and service.

riversidewings:

Bearing the Most, Bowing the Lowest – Balance of Seven

balanceofseven.com

On 1 January, I become the new Managing Director of Balance of Seven Press. Follow the link to read my introductory post and learn more!

riversidewings:

The holidays are coming, and books make good gifts– why not give the gift of trans lesbian scifi?

Paperbacks of my books Confluence https://shop.sweetreadsict.com/products/confluence-a-person-shaped-story and Grey Dawn https://shop.sweetreadsict.com/products/grey-dawn are available through the wonderful @sweetreadsict bookstore!

riversidewings:

On Friday, it will have been 17 years since I left Sendai.

Every year, this anniversary gets a little harder. I don’t know what it’s going to take to come back, but I have tried to live my life “pointing” in that direction.

Perhaps, gods willing, the day will come that I succeed.

riversidewings:

君の手の
握りし太刀に
なりたくて
慰みになり
奉公なさむ

kimi no te no
nigirishi tachi ni
naritakute
nagusami ni nari
hōkō nasamu

A sword
grasped by your hands,
that is what I wish to be.
to become a comfort
and serve well in turn.

riversidewings:

Wielder and blade: one heart together.

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riversidewings:

This post of mine from Mastodon made it to Facebook, and people thought I was making a point about worshipping Jesus as a kami rather than what I was actually fucking doing, which was satirizing this Great Season of Kringlefuckening and Christian cultural hegemony from a Shinto POV, as @jewwhohasitall does in the #MedinatAmerica hashtag from a Jewish POV.

nice to see the birdsite isn’t the only place where nuance goes to die, I suppose.