GIRL, 20, FOUND ALIVE, COVERED IN SNAILS

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Bible
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 
Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien 
Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger (and I probably never will…)
Middlemarch - George Eliot
Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
Bleak House - Charles Dickens
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens 
Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
Emma - Jane Austen
Persuasion - Jane Austen
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
Animal Farm - George Orwell
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy (I’ll never understand the fondness of these lists for Thomas Hardy…)
The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Atonement - Ian McEwan (started; won’t finish)
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Dune - Frank Herbert
Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck 
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 
Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
On The Road - Jack Kerouac
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie 
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
Dracula - Bram Stoker
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
Ulysses - James Joyce 
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
Germinal - Emile Zola
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
Possession - AS Byatt
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
Charlotte’s Web - EB White
The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
Watership Down - Richard Adams
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole 
A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
Hamlet - William Shakespeare
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

(Source: antoinetheswan, via codenamecesare)

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mugichacha:

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mugichacha reblogged your photoset: Miscellaneous food. I did not buy, nor have I…

top righthand plate…! Isn’t that horse shoulder from Musashi…downtown Kyoto?!?

HOW THE HELL DO YOU KNOW THIS? I believe it is Musashi, but I don’t recall the name. Two story…

Last summer? Like summer 2011? I was TOTALLY here! Bwahahaha! Too bad the timing was all wrong. Having somebody to fangirl with in Japan would be awesome.

Btw, your user name has been cracking me up from the first time I saw it.

As for the uma, I had basashi back when I was an exchange student in Fukuoka. After I got over the emotional hang up, I developed a taste for it.

Daaaang, son! The times we could have had…! If you were out for Obon or ever spent an evening in either Teramachi or the Sanjo bridge area, we probably passed each other right by and never even knew there was another Cherik fan walking around…

Speaking of tastes developed while being Japanese exchange students (lol), I used to hate mugicha. Then my host family gave it to me every night with dinner, and now I love it. Nothing else compares to that particular sensation of drinking smoke. But how are you supposed to eat basashi? I just remember the horse sushi being really chewy and not having much in the way of flavor. Is it a Fukuoka thing, or is there a special way Fukuoka people prepare it, or…?

IT IS a Fukuoka thing. (Or should I be all correct and say it is a Hakata thing?) You have to get it at the right place. A friend’s father was a butcher (major eta warning there) and I had basashi he prepared special because I was a guest. So, at that point you can’t NOT eat it. And it was amazing with shoyu and green onion and so soft that it was almost like tuna! So what started off as slightly traumatic ended with being completely won over. 

Musashi is a great place, but I wasn’t really impressed with their uma. 

Pffft! Yeah, we likely crossed paths back in July or August out at Sanjo! (I live on Kujo, two blocks from Toji.) That’s crazy. There’s another former Kyoto-fu person into First Class fanfic writer on Tumblr, too: Caradeelife.

To make things far more strange: before I left America, she and I were just one city over from each other!

Wow, a butcher?! A meeting like that would be the dream of Asian anthro students everywhere… But that basashi does sound pretty good. Sometimes I get suspicious of raw non-sushi foods in Japan, everyone’s claims of “Japan doesn’t have food contamination! Japan’s soooo safe!” notwithstanding, but I would probably eat that.

I can’t believe there were so many foreign fangirls out there in Kyoto just waiting for a serendipitous encounter… aaghh, the opportunities lost! I guess there are so many foreigners in Kyoto that there’s no way to keep track of them all. Well, I might actually be back in Kyoto over the summer, maybe we could grab a bite (at Musashi, heh) or something!

Lol, also I love your 京都府組 tag there…

euphorbic:

euphorbic:

mugichacha reblogged your photoset: Miscellaneous food. I did not buy, nor have I…

top righthand plate…! Isn’t that horse shoulder from Musashi…downtown Kyoto?!?

HOW THE HELL DO YOU KNOW THIS? I believe it is Musashi, but I don’t recall the name. Two story…

Last summer? Like summer 2011? I was TOTALLY here! Bwahahaha! Too bad the timing was all wrong. Having somebody to fangirl with in Japan would be awesome.

Btw, your user name has been cracking me up from the first time I saw it.

As for the uma, I had basashi back when I was an exchange student in Fukuoka. After I got over the emotional hang up, I developed a taste for it.

Daaaang, son! The times we could have had…! If you were out for Obon or ever spent an evening in either Teramachi or the Sanjo bridge area, we probably passed each other right by and never even knew there was another Cherik fan walking around…

Speaking of tastes developed while being Japanese exchange students (lol), I used to hate mugicha. Then my host family gave it to me every night with dinner, and now I love it. Nothing else compares to that particular sensation of drinking smoke. But how are you supposed to eat basashi? I just remember the horse sushi being really chewy and not having much in the way of flavor. Is it a Fukuoka thing, or is there a special way Fukuoka people prepare it, or…?

euphorbic:

mugichacha reblogged your photoset: Miscellaneous food. I did not buy, nor have I…

top righthand plate…! Isn’t that horse shoulder from Musashi…downtown Kyoto?!?

HOW THE HELL DO YOU KNOW THIS? I believe it is Musashi, but I don’t recall the name. Two story kaiten sushi place near the intersection of Shijo and Karasumadori.

Shoulder and neck, actually. Have you lived here or are you currently local?

Wow, talk about natsukashii rush! I spent last summer at Kyoto Seika College (about twenty minutes north of the Kokusaikaikan stop) and we used to go to Musashi for decent sushi. But yeah, it’s a two-level place on Shijo and Karasuma - it was great because it was right in the thick of downtown, right? I remember eating the uma plate on a dare… and I knew two boys who swore up and down that eating the jouhin maguro at Musashi was paramount to a religious experience.

Whereabouts in Kyoto are you? Isn’t it a great city?

euphorbic:

Miscellaneous food.

I did not buy, nor have I ever eaten, whale. Japan’s official stance on whaling is that they only do it for ‘scientific purposes’. Hence my disgust every time I see whale bacon in stores.

Hey, I recognize that top righthand plate…! Isn’t that horse shoulder from Musashi in downtown Kyoto?!?

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genichirou:

BEST LOKI EVER

I am laughing so hard. I CAN’T

OH MY FUCKING GOD

crying with laughter!

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A girl who cannot become a princess is doomed to become a witch.

-Revolutionary Girl Utena.

Just marathoned this masterpiece; a postmodern fairy tale about altruism, femininity and breaking the cycles of abuse and learned helplessness.

Heartbreaking and empowering.

YES.

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mugichacha:

+ nursery rhymes

+ ravens

+ the Hope Diamond

+ broccoli rabe (MEIN SCHONER)

+ Beauty and the Beast

+ numbers higher than 8 but lower than 12

I don’t get the “broccolli” raven. What has a vegetable to do with Erik’s nickname for Charles?! oO

:D Hee hee,…

IS THIS REAL LIFE?!? DID SUBTILIOR HERSELF ACTUALLY REBLOG ME?!?

I feel that I may die at my leisure now. This… this is the greatest day.