2026-05-03 22:42 UTC
@apc@starside.social "on bowing"
I get to link one of my favorite series of all time to the most "you should be watching" current this season, in that all rakugo performances begin and end with a prominent bow to the audience. (And occasionally that's just what you gotta to beg to become an official apprentice, or offer thanks FOR your official apprenticeship.)
Now go drop everything and watch Akane-banashi, it is @akane-banashi_global@www.youtube.com, ARE YOU GOING TO FORCE ME TO DEDICATE ANOTHER "THIS WEEK" TO IT?!!?
I deeply bow from my cushion (zabuton), fan (sensu) squared precisely in front to implore you... WATCH, DAMMIT!
(Wait, that wasn't terribly polite.)
PLEASE WATCH, DAMMIT
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@cthellis@urusai.social 2026-05-03 23:05
@apc@starside.social However, the biggest "bowing" effect I can think of, with all the various stations attached, comes most-levelled for me out of the multiple contexts conveyed in Apothecary Diaries. Stations and "subservience" and safety, from red light district to imperial courts. Procedural to instinctual to special-circumstance pleading. It is stitched into the unfortunate fabric of this society. I'll keep it low to prevent me from just filling up 20 posts with Maomao pics, which I could totally do, and so should everyone. Nevertheless, there is so goddamn much bowing, all over the place.