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Anne Ishii
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the “pa” in neon signs for “pachinko” tends to break bc of the letter’s intricate tube design, leaving us with a lot of neon signs for “chinko” (dick)
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【疑問】パチンコのネオン看板、なぜ「パ」だけが頻繁に消えるのか？
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修理業者によると「パの“○”の部分は管を曲げるので割れやすい。割れると“ハ”にも異常が発生し、一緒に消えてしまう」という。
A large Manhattan construction crew all just harmoniously laughed when one of them pointed at me and exclaimed “she look like that designer on The Incredibles!” And I mean…ok fine.
QUEER JAPAN (2020, Altered Innocence) Best Poster Ever by
Get it on your streaming platform of choice please!
I hate how when moms sing to their babies in the movies it’s all low key depresssing slow and sad.
I wanna see the real shit. I’m not about bringing my baby down. I’m out here singing theme songs from Duck Tales and Pokémon.
I woke up this morning to amazing new about My Brothers Husband by winning an #EisnerAward in best US Edition of Asian Material. I am so honored and staggered by who we were up against.
My cat has gently placed a hand on me so I won't be leaving the house today
Why do suspense thriller fans like techno?
Because of Koontz Koontz Koontz Koontz
Where was all this economic sophistication and nuance about declining birth rates ten years ago when literally every one of you was writing about how Japan’s birth rates plummeted because: asexual neutered otaku zombies internet ramen.
Ugliness.
I still think it's vital we see the full splendor of the Asian masculine. Especially the queer Asian masculine.
As someone who's negotiating for time to write/craft before babygeddon, this strip was kind of brutal. GB Tran writes about quitting his comics career so he could raise kids to reach for the stars.
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Day 2 with Fruit Punch hair and I shocked my reflection in the mirror.
Still getting through announcements and emails but here's the official word. Hello, Philly!
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We are thrilled to share with you the news that we have hired a new Executive Director, Anne Ishii! Anne is a writer, editor and translator, who for the past ten years has worked... asianartsinitiative.org/in-the-news/as
WHERE DO I BEGIN TO ADD TO THE #TucaAndBertie PRAISE. Awkwafina boob. Bird pron. Sobriety and hot plants and the surrealism and camp and John Early cat and entire cast really and and team deserve every medal on earth
I interview for on a crowded Amtrak about empowered bottoms, topp(l)ing hierarchies in BDSM, what was then (October) the beauty of Tumblr, and potential #mybrothershusband spin-offs.
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Oh boy. Husb got me these earbuds for xmas and son did this. Brings me the input and says “this is for your ear, mama.”
Also...It’s 2018 and anyway even if it were 1278, if you’ve been given a list of names well in advance, “I’m sorry if I get your name wrong (long pause) mangled pronunciation” isn’t acceptable. Learn how to say the names that aren’t John Doe! FFS
My mom reminded me that I haven’t posted about the emmy on this account. Movers and Makers and WHYY PBS TEAM baby!
I did not consider that the places I wanted to get published in would shut down before I got a chance to get good enough to be in them.
I don’t know how to respond to the anti-Asian violence in this particular media cycle. This shit’s been endemic to the USA since Day 1 of our presence.
I will say, though, I hope Andrew Yang regrets having told us to be more “American” and turn our cheek last summer.
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GENGOROH TAGAME IS THE SUPREME GOD OF MANGA ALL OTHERS SHALL KNEEL BEFORE HIM AND also please support queer art/erotica sex rules.
Steve Ditko pausing “artists rule and writers suck” on Twitter. A true hero.
Our friend Hikaru Toda is funding post-prod on an amazing doc abt a Japanese LGBT law firm & minority oppressions
I’m literally reading Ferrante in Italian while drinking cheap wine, watching the sunset from my Roman bnb and FINALLY understand how all those white dudes feel when they IG themselves wearing yukata w their new girlfriends, drinking vending machine chuhai, quoting Murakami.
I’m honestly stunned when people tell me I use big words implying it’s a bad thing. It makes me sad.
For them.
I have this very unfortunate brain that sees my son sleeping like this (and yes, laughing in his sleep), which makes me think of a frame from Arena, by
My cousin’s friend
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Takumi Ponzan, the mascot of
Shigaraki town in Shiga Prefecture, Japan, is a ceramics craftsman tanuki (raccoon dog), complete with oversized testicles.
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My 2.5 year old just came up to me, held my finger, looked me in the eyes and said:
deep breath, deep breath…musica.
You’ll find me sobbing in the ocean, thanks.
What I keep learning in therapy is that those things I am petrified of happening to me have already happened.
Who Ishii
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Hilary Mantel’s new essay collection is called MANTEL PIECES. What’s yours? Mine would probably be most fairly titled “Mixed Forrest”. twitter.com/lithub/status/…
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To wit: as someone who has accepted the award multiple times on behalf of Osamu Tezuka (lol, RIGHT?), NOTHING compares to this. Even as I "accept" the award remotely and out of sync, it's a very rare occasion for a translator to be invited alongside the artist. So thank you.
Can please do a segment on the inability of closed caption writers to keep up with them. I can practically see the stenographers giving up mid-sentence.
But also, “John Totoro”? 🤣🤣
What color will the ribbon for this be? The rubber bracelet? It’s probably naive to think we’ll come out of this unified in anything, much less a color spec on the inevitable ephemera of charity-as-late stage capitalism. amishii.substack.com/p/what-color-w
In Japanese, the ankle is a “foot neck,” the wrist is a “hand neck” and the nipple is a “breast neck.”
The more you know 💫
(the less I do)
Taylor Steele took the most amazing pictures at Feeling Asian LIVE! a few weeks ago and I am going to show you my new fave headshot (🙏she made me a 10 for a fleeting moment🙏), and the pic that had me sobbing laughing for a full five minutes. Please enjoy both. Equally. I hope.
ngl it my fave profile pic
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Anne Ishii from MASSIVE GOODS will talk about gay manga, queer art, and sex in design on the #ICON10 Mainstage
In Japanese, an “okama” (rice pot) is slang for a gay. An “onabe” (soup pot) is slang for a lesbian. “Okoge” (burnt crisp on a rice pot) is slang for a beard.
If dutch oven were Japanese it would be slang for a bisexual but unfortunately it’s not Japanese.
No but where are you *from*?
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What’s the most popular thing people say to you when they find out where you’re from?
Novelist Twitter: I’M DYING gnnAGH I AM LITERALLY DYING. MY MANUSCRIPT HAS MURDERED ME.
Comics Twitter: OMG writing is the best it is so much easier than drawing it’s the best I’m gonna eat a sandwich yay freedom.
husboy and i are currently window shopping beds and came across this, which...i can only imagine how i’d feel if i were led here to bone, the death i would die from laughter because it no doubt comes with a “Sadness Part Deux” by Enigma soundtrack.
In keeping with the “Akira happens in 2019” meme, say hello to Dario Akira Ishii Galuppi.
Christian and I are happy sleepy and whoooaaaa
I went to facebook for the first time in months to delete my account but was then notified of a tag: the most thoughtful endorsement of #MyBrothersHusband by Samuel Delaney...I literally almost gave birth when I saw his post.
STOP PUBLISHING “JAPAN ISNT MAKING BABIES” EDITORIALS. IT’S “JAPAN HAS FUCKRD UP IMMIGRATION LAWS” EDITORIALS YOU NEED TO PUBLISH{%>,^}+=]!!
Happy May Day to Asian and migrant sex workers.
Thanks to all who purchased #AsianLove tees from MASSIVE.
We’re donating $1160 to straight from proceeds.
I want to punch a wall except I want the wall to be my desk and for it to sound hollow and everything on the desk to fly off and for my hand to feel good and to keep doing it till i cum.
A really cool thing just happened.
I was walking outside in mask and MASSIVE hat, and was stopped by a young black man wearing a mask who said “Ummm I love your hat!” I say thanks. He says “Jiraiya is the best.” I say “omg yah!” Then he keeps walking but he stops short and turns.
his supporters wanted a salt of the earth prez and the gop gave them an assault of the earth
Sending love and support and rage energy to the women who can’t report what feels like “mere” emotional abuse, social violence, abusive gaslighting, transactional male innuendo and other hostilities that you can’t quite name but which hurt you, have crippled you.
I LOVE YOU ALL
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Queer Japan's North American premiere at #OutfestLA was a total blast! Composer @bathsmusic (Will Wisenfeld), director Graham Kolbeins, and co-writer @ill_iterate (Anne Ishii) on the red carpet. Thank you to everyone who came to our sold out screening!! #QueerJapan @Outfest 
You think you look normal until you are sitting next to a news anchor.
(I didn’t realize I have resting bitch shrug)
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Young man says “Oh! Have you read My Brother’s Husband by cuz you should.” I say “yes!!” and he screams a high pitched scream. “IT IS SO GOOD!!!” and turns to keep walking as he says to himself almost “Im gonna read it again tonight.”
Wow! ’s My Brother’s Husband has won the first Global Lit in Libraries prize for work in translation for younger readers!
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Let the celebrating begin! @penguinrandom @ill_iterate @FeministPress @lawrenceschimel @PushkinPress @Flatironbooks
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This is the best news to wake up to (I fell asleep last night before I could get West Coast news directly).
やったね〜！ twitter.com/TanekaStotts/s
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Tom believed in me like absolutely no one else. With the entirety of his heart. My condolences to everyone he touched.
Derrida loved Taco Bell🌮🔔🌮🔔🌮🔔—from ’s Stay True. Get your copy and come see his talk with Ryan Lee Wong on Friday 10/21
Now instead of sobbing I just visualize myself exploding like a dandelion in the wind.
I desperately want to dance like this. Even a fraction of this level of awesome would make me the happiest
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She’s too nice with it!
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I’m at a coffee shop that coffee shops so hard—mismatched mugs, crooked paintings for sale on brick walls, bagels from the supermarket with homemade hummus… But I’m here with an asymmetric haircut writing in my journal so I have out-coffeeshopped the coffee shop.
I’m living my life like it’s golden (drinking clearance sale wine, club soda from catered event, leftover shrimp, clean apron, and the only hat that won’t dent my hair atm, all from my second hand smoked south philly back yard)
Make 's dreams come true and do this GFM thing to make her Diskette Press blast off into galactic mode. From sex work to porn to comix ecosystems, she is making everything she touches so friggin good.
You guys. You are not going to believe this but I picked a kick drum off the street today. A few months ago I found a snare and hi hat with stands. Today a kick drum. THE UNIVERSE IS SCREAMING AT ME.
So...the presenter for in Best Manga didn’t announce the nominees, making our trip here utterly pointless. Being nominated is half the privilege so to be acknowledged as such is most of the joy of being here.
Please don’t forget to announce the nominees!
Anne Koyama is a global treasure and I am honored to call her a friend. I wish her and hers the best in the next chapter of unfettered generosity and support. twitter.com/anniekoyama/st
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A really good writer just read my manuscript and called it devastating and big. Can someone help me sell it please please please.
I want to be published in 2022 as an original writer.
(I have two books coming out as a translator which I'm stoked for but I really want to be Anne Ishii tout simple.)
"I want it all!"
Thank you, , for the profile . *Follow us at *
My underwear were bunching up uncomfortably and I just assumed it was the combo heat and the fact that i last did laundry in a different house, but I just discovered a mask in here.
Every single thing you’ve ever bought or used that isn’t biodegradable, still exists. Capri Sun sacs, shoes, old appliances, every pair of leggings. It’s not just toothbrushes and plastic bottles.
I've learned something important about myself I want to share because I think it's relevant to many people I know in the culture space.
I'm obsessed with being a container for obscure cultural information because I for so long believed I was obscure cultural information.
Reminder that there is no widely accepted culture of mental health support in Japan. TH will be a gigantic risk for anyone without therapy
If you told me ten years ago that I’d regularly expose my nipples to complete strangers every day, I would’ve believed you but not realized they’d also be squirting milk.
Congrats to on his book “The Loneliest Americans” which was on my stoop today in a box that was clearly torn open before the thief decided to let me keep it. Their loss really.
The Japanese Cartoonists Association awarded ’s “My Brother’s Husband” the prize for outstanding achievement!
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【お知らせ】マンガ『弟の夫』、2018年度 第47回 日本漫画家協会賞 優秀賞をいただきました♪ ありがとうございます (^^) nihonmangakakyokai.or.jp/?tbl=event&id=
the women sitting directly behind me on the bus are discussing the virtues of the name “Anne with an E” and how “unpleasant” the name is without an E.
DO GO ON
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and now I can own my full personal bias: part of what makes me emotional is that as a Korean-Japanese person with a father who was homeless for years, ther is actually a book about the rest of us who identify as Japanese without being Japanese.
This is the only day in the year you can use this emoji 🎏🎏🎏🎏
Happy Kids Day! Hang your fish loud and proud!
Tom Spurgeon would tell me I matter and my work is worth hard days and he would promise to kick anyone in the teeth who broke my heart. I would do anything for that emotional embrace today. Kick em in the teeth for me, Tom.
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I miss Tom Spurgeon today.
I swear peaches are my heroin. I am chasing a dragon I will never find. Nothing beats the first peaches I ate that grew in our yard when I was a child. Everything since has completely failed by comparison.
Just learned my grandma called all her grandkids “terebi” (television) because they were so much better than television. Tonight, I couldn’t agree more.
The pure sound of people in our neighborhood right now is amazing. So happy for the Phillies and South Philly right now
This was such a fulfilling interview. Pax & I talk about porn, creative impetus, existential dread, broken dreams, romance, France, Japan, Philadelphia. I quote Lacan, , , and the Phantom of the Opera. Give a listen and follow @PaxLillin
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