Today’s deck is the Hanafuda Tarot.
So this one is interesting because it only has the Major Arcana… and the court cards. Not only that but it has two copies of each. The illustrations are super neat, it’s kinda like you’re getting the reverse version as an individual card, it’s just odd in general.
There was a conversation today where E observed how I’ve gotten better at controlling my emotions. Today’s reading reminded me of that topic as a whole.
Today was Revenge Going To Element L day.
There were some things that had to be done before then, though. including a general stop by Nipponbashi where I left some pics at the Volks shop and we scouted the area for Proseka merch E didn’t already have.
After we were done, E wanted to try “something new” so we stopped by a Nagasaki Chanpon shop and oh my God it was so good. I was already tempted to go to Nagasaki but if the food is this good then hell yes I will expedite the idea.
On the way to the bar, E comments on how trying to communicate in Japanese in any way makes her anxious, like the perennial anxieties get pushed a dial further.
Which made it all the more hilarious when we haven’t finished sitting down at Element L and FRAME ONE someone tries to practice their english with her.
The start of the night was mostly me hearing her and this other client talk, with me interjecting here and there whenever language gaps needed to be filled.
To be honest, I’m not super fluent but in the land of the blind and all that…
I took Luna with me today. I briefly considered one of the girls I took to the studio, but I could just hear Luna being like “YOU TAKE THAT FIEND AKANE BUT NOT ME?!!!!!”.
I got praised for the posing skills, speaking of which, when the Studio posted their pics of my session they made a comment about my posing skills too (shout outs to “Pojingu Chikara”) and how they convey each girl’s personality, which is very VERY encouraging since that’s like… something I practice and seek references for constantly.
I literally have a bookshelf full of gravure books that I study religiously as reference material.
One funny thing about being in a doll bar is that the conversation turns just as quickly to photography and the like.
Also, apparently the bar being full to the brim yesterday was an anomaly. The owner expects it to get crowded next week because there’s gonna be a doll event in Osaka, but she didn’t expect that to happen yesterday.
Seems like it was a single group since 10 people or so went in at once.
After a very nice night there we returned and then Fer had a bad time in the apartment because his stomach started throwing a tantrum.
It’s an understandable tantrum though, the daily pace in general has been chaotic, my meal times and volumes are all over the place, I went from hitting bar an average of once every two weeks to twice per week… the Flushing System of the body had a lot of things to Flush.
I’ll survive, it’s just the consequences of my actions.