Next Year - Blog Posts

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anya gets her degree (she invited the crew to the graduation)

Federer after loss "Usually you learn more when you lose, just in the sense that you analyse losses harder, deeper at times. That's where you learn a lot about your game, about your attitude, about your fitness... Not always. Sometimes you just walk away and you forget about it."

The 2015 US Open final: Roger Federer vs Novak Djokovic

H2H: 21-20 

US Open meetings: 3-2

Grand Slam finals: 1-2

Making life-changing decisions in your 20s should be illegal.

IMPORTANT!

It’s the no-internet dinosaur’s birthday!!

Turn off your internet! He has a hat!!

And with that, 2024 comes to a close...

It's been a good year! I got into college, met some new people and overall yeah some games have been great this year!

On the other though...I feel like I've done nothing. I barely scraped by for my grades in high school and only 1 video ever came out this year when I was intending for more. Plus my mental health kept going back and forth.

But hey even if this year hasn't been much, I can try to be more productive in 2025! And I suggest you do the same too!

For those who are witnessing this post, please try to have a good next year! It may be tough but I know you can do it!

Look after yourself, do that thing you want to do and try your best! We're all here whenever you need us!

See you next game!

Temples on the high street: Kyôto Teramachi and Shinkyôgoku

A typical Japanese covered high street, right? Yes, there are lots of shops left and right, but this is Kyôto, a millennial capital and centre of cultural and religious tradition in Japan. So what happens when a modern high street encounters a centuries-old temple, bearing in mind that it would be very bad form to ask the priests to sell up?

Well you leave the temple alone and build around it. So, in between the big name drugstores, Animate, clothes shops and cafés lined with the street's signature bricks and tile floor, here's the entrance to Seishin-in, with traditional wooden doors and tile roofing. It is also just visible in the first picture - see if you can notice it.

Seigan-ji is easier to spot, further illustrating the contrast. Online maps show that this temple even has a cemetery in the middle of the next block, completely encircled by shopping streets and businesses.

It's a similar situation for Tenshô-ji, though, this far up the high street, the commercial tissue becomes less dense. These temples seem a bit larger and own more land. Still, we've gone from a towering, mineral, covered street in the top photo, to an open path with low buildings and plenty of vegetation, with no transition.

These scenes of coexistence fascinated me when I first visited Kyôto in 2016, with a hotel in this area, so it was great to see them again on my brief return to the city in 2023. More fascinating still is the fact that one of these "just off the high street" temples is not only very old, but hugely historically significant... and I'm yet to mention it!

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more artfights !!!

and actaully heres another one but the characters owner doesnt allow art of their oc to be posted