Desaturation in Snow [Daily Photo #969, #970]

#969, 25.11.18: Snow-frost lowered the saturation in the world outside.

The crystals shone brightly on the branches.

A Plush Battle [Daily Photo #968]

*intense staring*

Lichen and Bark [Daily Photo #967]

The beautiful shapes of rough bark and lichen.

Salad, Tea and Salt [Daily Photo #964, #965, #966]

#964: Carrot and kohlrabi salad.

Solar Patterns [Daily Photo #963]

A solar lamp casting shadows.

Yarns and Funs [Daily Photo #961, #962]

#961: Found yarn that is almost like the nonbinary pride flag! =D

At Luckiefun's, once again!

Lights, Books and Flowers [Daily Photo #957, #958, #959, #960]

Daily photo digest for 13-16.11.18!

#957: Got new books from the library!

The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty (fantasy)

and

The Cutting Season by Attica Locke (crime)

Curry, Yakisoba, and Ghost Pepper [Daily Photo #954, #955, #956]

10.11.18: Red curry and potatoes.

11.11.18: Yakisoba!

Gothic November [Daily Photo #951, #952, #953]

Today's daily trio is gothic themed! It is pretty gloomy outside most of the time, and the colours fade more and more every day...

Japanese Rock and Metal

A few years ago, when I started learning Japanese, I realised that being a fan of Japanese bands could help with my studies. Watching interviews with them, reading their tweets, etc. would be great practice with new and exciting studying material coming all the time! And that would certainly be much more fun than grammar books. So, I went to YouTube and spent a lot of time looking for rock and metal bands from Japan. At first I wasn't very lucky – the easiest to find mainstream bands didn't grab me. But eventually I found Janne Da Arc, BUCK-TICK, exist†trace, and D'espairsRay, and my 'listening to lots of Japanese rock and metal' era began. ^u^

Last year, when working on my Women of colour in rock and metal Twitter thread, I revisited a few Japanese bands that I knew had women in them, and some of them I became a fan of! And then I just kept finding more and more cool bands that I liked, with or without women, and now I don't even know how many Japanese bands I listen to! =D So, I figured it was time to make a post featuring some of my finds! There's something special about Japanese metal, and I love how many all-female bands they have! Also, I used to be mostly indifferent to guitar solos, but I enjoy so many Japanese guitar solos now – perhaps I just didn't like what kind of solos I heard in European metal and not the guitars themselves? After all, my favourite guitarist is you from Janne Da Arc! ^u^

These are all bands I started listening to no more than a year ago, in no particular order.

And no, I didn't become fluent in Japanese yet, but my knowledge of attractive Japanese musicians is pretty vast now haha.

Aldious – We Are

Mary's Blood – Marionette

Innocent [Daily Photo #950]

Volkopodushk: “Help! HELP!”

Coins [Daily Photo #949]

Living in EU means seeing coins from all kinds of countries. ^u^

The Greek owl is so cute!

Flowers and Noms [Daily Photo #946, #947, #948]

#946, 02.11.18: Vegan chia snacks with fruits!

Miyako's Gifts [Daily Photo #944, #945]

#944:

“Hello, my name is Miyako!”

“I have something to show you.”

Autumn or Spring? [Daily Photo #943]

According to some of my plants it is time for active growth, not sleep! =D My Monstera deliciosa has new leaves, Spathiphyllum – new flowers, and Pilea peperomioides made more plantlets.