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Any/All🇵🇭🇯🇵 || Writer, Performer, and Producer in the TTRPG space || Aspiring Voice Actor || Avid Enjoyer of Nerdy Things

Some news: I'm starting a blog dedicated to critical writing about Actual Play! It's called Critical Bearings, and my first post is up. I talk about my relationship to criticism, AP, the shape of current critical landscapes in Actual Play, and my hopes for this project. :)

Getting Our Critical Bearings

Welcome to Critical Bearings, a place for critical engagement with the art form of Actual Play. I’m Esther, and I love Actual Play and media criticism. My relationship with criticism began to take sh...

criticalbearings.com

I was in a video call and we were all introducing ourselves, and it was someone else's turn. Right when they said "and I use they/them pronouns," I involuntarily made a very annoyed face. And that will forever be their first impression of me. Why, you ask?

Hokkaido, now indisputably Japanese, has only been part of the Japanese mainland for 150 years. The name "Hokkaido" is a modern creation, applied when the island joined Japan in the Meiji Era. For far longer, it was known as "Ezo" (蝦夷), kanji meaning "shrimp" and "barbarian."

The Colonization of Hokkaido: How a "Foreign" Frontier Became Japan - Unseen Japan

How a mysterious frontier island peopled by "barbarians" became one of the four main islands of Japan - and how the original inhabitants suffered as a result.

unseen-japan.com