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How to Make 1 Dollar Indomie Taste 5 Dollars by FutureCanoe: Happy Indonesian Independence Day! The algorithm brought this to me and since I'm always thinking about ~elevating~ my Indomie breaks, I thought I might as well click it. XD It's a 10-minute video where OP shows popular Indomie recipes they found on the internet. The Sudanese one was interesting!

Songs that hit you hard (2023) from All Songs Considered (Spotify playlist here): I haven't finished this yet because I have the awful habit of switching out of podcasts even when I'm in the middle of them, but Kristine from 7th Grade was an excellent and unexpected addition. I was dubious until I got to the line We went to a good school, Kristine which is the exact thought in my brain whenever I happen upon the bewildering social media posts of people I went to school with:

Watch on YouTube

I'm not really sure what to say / Kristine from the seventh grade / The anger, the all caps / And all the pseudoscience / The misspellings, they must be on purpose / We went to a good school, Kristine / So what would you imagine I might / Take from this deluge of memes

Excited to go through to the Spotify playlist once I'm done with the episode!!!

Btw my personal off-the-top-of-my-head submission for this would be Quiet Light by The National and 平凡的一天 by Mao Buyi which hollow me out in different ways. (Neither is from 2023, though this extended version of Quiet Light appears to have just come out last year.)

Offline TV Guess the Asian Person: I was invested because there was a person who claimed to be Filipino in the mix and I didn't trust Michael Reeves's Filipino radar and needed to judge for myself. XD

Art/comics

你的工作&你的休假 (Your Work & Your Vacation) vol1 by 日輪

nichirinko
18+ BL comic with a love triangle between the main character, personified Work, and personified Vacation, now available as a digital comic on Bookwalker TW! The comics are by a Taiwanese artist and on a Taiwanese site, so text is in traditional Chinese. *adds to the pile of digital comics I want to get*

nichirinko: "if you can become immortal by eating the flesh of a mermaid, can a mermaid become immortal by eating itself"
Full webtoon 隔壁同學是人魚 My Classmate is a Merman (BL) is on LINE webtoons (haven't read this one, but it looks cute)

Twitter thread: 19 fiction books by Palestinian authors: novels, short stories, and folktales

Twitter thread: free assets for graphic designers by

studio_aaa
Mostly textures and light grunge effects

FF7 fanart: "Hanging out in the mall with your favorite person" (Cloud and Tifa: 80s edition part III) by

HTSA_art

Book Clubs

Publishers for Palestine
Join us for an international #ReadPalestine week, starting Wednesday, November 29, on the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. (Free downloads from Nov 29 - Dec 5)

Journey to the West groupread: substack | tumblr | #jttwdaily tumblr tag
An online groupread for Journey to the West (bring your own book), with 2-3 chapters a week—I'm not participating but the tag seems pretty active with interesting discussion and notes.

Youtube/Videos

mariyum: website | instagram / tiktok / youtube
Palestinian baker/recipe blogger who has been recently posting their mother's recipes (but also has a large back catalogue and a written blog)—I think their Instagram might be the most updated video recipe repository right now. Videos are in English.

Video essay: Is Laufey jazz? by Adam Neely
Filed under "videos that helped me get work done"—I like Adam Neely's video essays even though I know nothing about jazz or musical theory, especially since he’s very conscientious about attributing the history and community that continues to breathe and thrive (and thus challenging Laufey to do the same). I’ve also only ever listened to Laufey casually on music platforms and had no inkling of her MVs, marketing, internet presence, or audience (though my brother was definitely in the concert that was shown in the video—PH crowd is the best crowd ahaha), so it was really cool to see the ~story~.

Video essay: The Musical Moral of Into the Woods by Sideways
As someone who has never seen any version of Into the Woods—I'm not entirely sure I'm a Sondheim kind of person either—this made me really want to watch a stage version. ;___;

Abi Marquez (youtube.com/@lumpiaqueen)
Recipe shorts by a Filipino cook! I don't cook, but hers is the rare cooking content that makes me want to get cooking. Her humor/personality + recipes are all very approachable, and a lot of times familiar, with brands/ingredients that are legitimately pantry staples (I too am a canned corn enthusiast), as well as easy snacks and hacks. Recipes are in English, with occasional humorous asides in Tagalog/Taglish. She has full videos too but I mostly watch her shorts. For quick and easy Filipino street food, see: banana cue, cheesy corn in a cup

A super rough transcript/translation of the post-canon VR game that I did during the holiday break and forgot to post!

~~If anyone can tell me what Shi Guang says at 01:47 in the first video, that would be great. XD~~ Edit: Apparently "等等，我跟不上你的思路" (thank you so much, 50percentcharge!)

Video links:
Full game + Ending 1
Ending 3 + Ending 2

Translation (EN):
( Full Game + Ending 1 )
( Ending 3 )
( Ending 2 )

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