I understand that keeping the author's explanation of the Japanese meaning of "dilly-dilly" in an English translation is a bit redundant, but I couldn't think of a way to alter the paragraph without just cutting it entirely. And, hey, maybe someone today learned what "dilly-dally" means in English.
Ah, it all makes sense now. Youkai Fashionista Alice
Also it looks like Rakugaki-Biyori is starting an original 4koma — this might be their first non-Touhou thing ever? If no one else does I can upload this post (two images) after going through this list of appeals.
I will say this: This is too beautiful art, I added it to my favorites here and in the gallery, but it is always missing somewhere. And other works by this artist are very good
The kanji there is "厄", which pretty much means "misfortune". The fact that it's repeated in that wavy pattern makes me think that this may indeed be, in fact, a Jojo reference.
