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rd0265667 · 2 years ago

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Kazuha X Reader: If there was an afterlife

TW!: Dead Reader, Suicide

A/N: There will be stuff in chinese at the end since I kinda based this off a quote that you guys will see later, so I know it's not true in real life, but for this story, let's assume Kazuha knows Chinese

Kazuha walked out from her room, stretching as she yawned. She was still stuck in her half asleep stupor, walking mindlessly towards her members at the dining table as Sakura was handing out breakfast, Eunchae and Yunjin heading to the TV.

As she mindlessly listened to Chaewon and Sakura discussing some of their usual shenanigans, suddenly, something on the TV caught her attention.

"Eunchae-ah, could you change the channel back again?" Kazuha asked, moving towards the TV hastily, Eunchae a little confused at the question but doing as she was told

On the TV, a solemn looking news reporter and a picture of a person Kazuha had not seen in a long time

"We are saddened to announce that Celebrity Y/N L/N, known for the 2025 film "Espionage" has sadly passed. Sources reporting that after a long battle against depression and anxiety, they committed suicide."

All eyes in the room fell to Kazuha, who sat stunned, staring at the TV

Whispers and murmurs filled the room, slowly suffocating Kazuha, who ran to her room, slamming it shut behind her.

"Is she going to be okay?" Yunjin looked worriedly, glancing at Chaewon to see what could be done.

"Just give her some space for now girls. I think we all know what Y/N meant to Kazuha" Chaewon whispered, as the girls nodded in agreement, all feeling a little distraught at the news too. In a way, they felt they were indebted to you.

Kazuha curled into a ball in the corner in her shared room with Sakura. Were you really gone? Just like that? As she buried her head into her arms, there was a timid knock on the door, and a voice Kazuha recognised to be Sakura's rang out

"Zuha, there's someone here for you"

Without an answer, Sakura quickly opened the door, fearing something had happened to Kazuha, only calming down when she saw Kazuha.

Beside Sakura was an older, maybe middle aged man, someone Kazuha didn't recognise

As Sakura beckoned Kazuha to step out, Kazuha obliged, dragging her feet as she sat at the table, opposite to the middle aged man.

"Good Afternoon, Miss Nakamura. My name is Pak Hyun Shik. I'm the executor of Y/N L/N's will. I'm sorry for your loss, but I'm here with you to handle an affair. Y/N has granted you 25% of their properties to give it to a charity of your choice, also, this." He slowly set an object on the table

"I understand Mr Pak. I will get back to you soon." Kazuha bowed, grabbing the object and quickly scurrying to her room, setting the object on her bed

On Kazuha's bed laid a box all too familiar to the idol, for it was hers, a long time ago.

A beautiful maroon blue box, designed like an ancient chest rested on the idol's bed, as she reached forward, tracing the ornate design on the box, slowly opening it to see 7 items, 6 familiar to her, one she wished was not, as well as a scroll above them.

Kazuha chuckled softly to herself, you always loved these fancy scrolls, it made you feel royal, you always claimed.

Taking a deep breath, Kazuha undid the bow over the scroll, unravelling it to reveal a letter.

我最爱的和羽：

如果你正在读这封信，那就意味着我已经选择了去胆小鬼的出路了。很抱歉，我现在要向您发送这些东西，我知道这可能��垃圾，您甚至都不记得了。

My Dear Zuha:

If you're reading this letter, it means that I've taken the coward's way out. I'm sorry that I'm sending you these things now, I understand it's probably junk that you don't even remember anymore.

"Wrong" Kazuha thought to herself, the things in the chest were things she still had vivid memories of.

The Test Paper.

Kazuha slowly pulled out a dusty exam paper, a Chinese test that she still recalled taking. her tidy handwriting and a 100% score adorning the top right hand of her paper still made her feel a little proud.

Kazuha was always horrible at Chinese. She wondered why she took the damn language as her third language in the first place when she already was fluent in English aside from Japanese and Dutch. But she didn't really have a choice, groaning as she repeatedly banged her head on the table, her materials not free from the full frontal assault. Suddenly, she felt her forehead collide, not with cold metal, but a warm hand. Looking up in shock, she turned to see your concerned face looking at her, confused. "Are you okay?" You asked, as Kazuha turned her head in confusion, muttering some nonsense about looking like an idiot. "May I?" You asked, giggling as you gestured to the chair opposite Kazuha. She quickly nodded, as you took the seat opposite her. "So, what troubles you?" Kazuha groaned and passed you the document in her hand. You looked it and stifled a chuckle, Kazuha puffing her cheeks up in mild displeasure at your reaction, before shooting you one of her "judgemental face", though she claims it's just her normal face "Don't be offended, I'm not looking down on your score, I'm just laughing because I've found another fool who chose to take Chinese as their third language. I got lucky since my mom's Chinese, guess you don't have that fortune do you?" Kazuha shook her head in despair, before crashing her head onto her hand again.

"Tell you what, how about I tutor you? I've been told I'm a great tutor." You offered, as Kazuha looked at you in disbelief. "You would do that?" You quickly nodded, as Kazuha quickly turned to skepticism "Why are you doing this? Are you usually this nice to everyone?" She asked, to which you only shot back a goofy grin. "Nope, only to pretty girls." Kazuha couldn't help but blush, looking downward to hide her rosy cheeks, mumbling "flirt" under her breath Regardless, she took you up on your offer, and thus began a friendship that would not last too long. Every week, before class started, you two would meet up, studying and hanging out, and as time went by, Kazuha found her chinese improving, and her feelings growing.

One of those days, Kazuha could recall you being extra nervous, something that didn't escape her notice. A little prying from her revealed that you intended to ask her out on a date, to which she replied snarkily, "If I can ace a test, which I can promise you won't happen, sure!" She would soon eat her words, as you hosted a day long intensive revision session that somehow, someway, got Kazuha full marks on her test.

The look on your face when Kazuha handed you her paper, priceless. She still remembered it to this day. "Guess I owe you a date. Don't disappoint me and there may be more." She said teasingly, before leaving you in a state of shock

The Movie Tickets.

Kazuha pulled out two ticket stubs from the box, the afternoon showing for "Infinity War" at the theatre near where the two of you used to study. She never understood the hype around those silly Marvel Movies, but you insisted that it would be a good film to watch, even for someone who had never watched any of the Marvel movies before. She was inclined to agree, though the company was better than the film

Kazuha stood outside the movie theatre, holding two tubs of popcorn and a drink, looking around impatiently for you, who had disappeared a minute ago to locate a toilet. As quickly as you disappeared, you reappeared and relieved Kazuha of the popcorn in her hand, entering the theatre together with her as the two of you hurriedly found your seats in the darkness. As the movie went on, despite not knowing any of the characters, Kazuha found herself tensing up whenever any of the main characters were in danger, squirming in her seat, before she found an effective way to curb the nervousness. As the Red Robot with a glowing stone in his head got impaled through the back, Kazuha jumped in her seat, her right hand moving out and finding it's unintended location. Your left hand. Drawing your attention away from the movie, you looked at Kazuha, who was trying to nonchalantly act like nothing happened, and you smiled, lightly squeezing her hand in reassurance, an action that did not go unappreciated, as the light of red witch's magic illuminated Kazuha's beautiful smile.

As the movie went on, you suddenly heard a light shuffle toward your left, as Kazuha lifted the arm rest back, instead opting to move closer to you, leaning her head slightly in front your shoulder, an action you reciprocated by putting your arm around her shoulder and pulling her close, feeling her get comfortable against you.

The movie went on as the two of you held each other, Kazuha still remembers how you had to comfort her because the insect guy turned to dust. After the movie, Kazuha took you by the hand, an action she had previously deemed, only for people in serious relationships. You two never really said anything, but this was the end of your friendship, and the beginning of your relationship.

The Membership card

Kazuha pulled out a small card from the box, a faint inscription on it showing a laundromat. Your parent's laundromat, that is. Your parents ran a small laundromat, nothing too big or fancy, but good enough to help them live comfortably and get a child through the education system.

Kazuha still recalls how weird she initially found it when you handed her a membership card to your parent's laundromat card. Kazuha would hang out with you there, helping out when necessary, but mostly the two of you would be seating around, just chatting and joking around, regulars at the laundromat calling you two a lovey dovey couple, an allegation you wore like a bag of honour while Kazuha loved it, but was still shy about it. There was once when your parents were away for a gathering with some old friends, leaving the running of the laundromat to both you and Kazuha. Surprisingly, the two of you were efficient and great at it, you even joked that if both your dreams failed, the two of you could run the laundromat together (You guys can kinda see where this one is going can't you)

The Letters

From the box, emerged another, this one sloppier and less intricate then the bigger box, filled with small pieces of paper. Paper with words that had since faded, but words that remained etched in Kazuha's mind

Kazuha had missed you. Dearly. She wanted nothing more than to call you, her beloved, but her phone was off limits, only available on the weekends, at least according to the trainer for HYBE. Few months prior, Kazuha had passed an audition to become a Kpop trainee. What she did not anticipate was how tough it would be, especially since you wouldn't be able to frequently contact her or meet up with her. To counteract this, you came up with a brilliant scheme, as you loved to call it. The day before Kazuha went to become an official trainee, the two of you went for dinner together, where you handed her a small box. Inside the box was treasures beyond Kazuha's greatest and wildest imagination. She still chuckles as she reminisces about it now. You were always such a dramatic. What was in those boxes, were letters, handwritten letters that you had wrote for Kazuha, 20 to be exact. Letters for Kazuha to read in any situation. Her personal favourite? "Read this when you miss me."

In that letter was you writing about how she could "not miss you as much", ideas like hugging the jacket that you had given her, looking at your pictures together, and contained sweet nothings about how Kazuha was the greatest and was the love of your life. Kazuha read that letter so many times she could basically recite it from heart.

The letters for Kazuha helped her through the tough times of being a trainee, and it would keep her sane enough till the weekends, where she was given one free day to go out, a day she would often spend with you, you being sure to clear your weekends up too, a task made difficult by trying to make it big in the film industry, but you made it work, for her. When Kazuha debuted, she handed the letter back to you, along with another small stack of hers.

A single red rose

From the depths of the box, Kazuha pulled out a rose, plastic to stand the test of time, but well made it enough that it could be passed as a legitimate rose.

Kazuha recalls finding it in her bag at her debut performance at music bank, realising that you must have snuck it into her bag the last time you snuck into the LeSserafim dorm. The other members knew of you of course, Chaewon initially disapproving knowing the repercussions if the two of you got caught, but ultimately supported the relationship, as long as you two didn't get caught. She wanted Kazuha to be happy, after all. The night before the debut performance, Kazuha found herself cuddling into your arms, shaking with nervousness at her debut performance, filled with terror on what would happen if she messed up. Nothing that couldn't be solved by your love and affection of course. Kazuha smiles as she remembers the pride on your face when you claimed that your kisses were magic, a kiss from you scaring away any bad thoughts that dared invade your beloved's mind. As she slowly vented to you, you were sure to comfort her, whispering sweet nothings into her ear to calm her down, something that proved effective as she slowly fell asleep in your arms, you carrying her to her bed being the last thing she remembered. What she would only find out at a later year was that as you left the room, you were intercepted by Chaewon and Sakura, both with worried expressions on their faces. Their manager was growing suspicious of your relationship, and you would have to be more careful. Before heading out for her dance, Kazuha quickly took her phone out, recording a short message thanking you for the cute gift. She didn't know it, but that message got you through some tough times, even after the incident. She also gave you the rose, as she insisted it served as great decoration in your room

A Bracelet

A small bracelet, it's magnet long grown rusty, rests in the box as Kazuha picked it up, an identical pair lying in her bedside drawer. She couldn't bear to throw it away

This was the gift you had gotten Kazuha for your second anniversary. While it seems pretty underwhelming, you had actually made the bracelets yourself, spending hours on it in your free time. Kazuha loved it, she was never one for expensive gifts, preferring gifts that hit her close to the heart. Kazuha loved that bracelet, wearing it almost everywhere except for MV or commercial shoots, always keeping it on her person. You also always wore it, incorporating the bracelet into the outfit of whichever character you were playing at the time. It all went well, so you thought. As the days went by, Kazuha's manager grew more suspicious, then one day, she spotted the bracelet that she always saw Kazuha wearing, on your wrist. This prompted her to confront Kazuha. Kazuha cringed, that night was horrible. After much probing and Kazuha trying to deny, Kazuha finally admitted to dating you, something that did not bode well with her manager. The company had a strict no dating policy, and after the manager reported it to HYBE, an ultimatum was delivered and Kazuha had a week to decide

The 4 leaf clover

The final object emerged from the box. The object that reminded Kazuha of the worse night of her life.

You had successfully snuck into LeSserafim's dorm once again, clutching in your hand a small trinket. As you entered your girlfriend's room, you were surprised to see her with a frown on her face, as opposed to the smile she always had plastered on when she saw you. You didn't pay it much heed at that point though. As you climbed into the room, you set the trinket onto the table, a 4 leaf clover, you wanted to gift Kazuha a good luck charm, as Kazuha beckoned for you to sit next to you. She had thought of every possible outcome, bargaining with management, quitting to be together with you, anything, but there was only one way this could ever really go. "Management wants me to break up with you, and cease all contact with you." She quickly spat out, shutting her eyes tightly, unwilling to look you in the eye

You sat there stunned, unsure of how to respond to that. "They've threatened my members, Y/N. If I don't do what they want, they're going to disband the whole group, something about group image. I'm sorry Y/N." She muttered out, tears dripping from her eyes "So we're done? And you're not going to fight for us?" You lightly scoffed, still in disbelief at what was going on. "I'm sorry, Y/N. I can't sacrifice my group member's dreams, or my own, just for you." Kazuha mumbled through her tears, as you slowly got up, grabbing the clover and shoving it into your pocket. "I guess I'm just not worth it then..." You whispered spitefully. You knew this had to be done, of course. If you were given this scenario, break up with Kazuha or her and her members would suffer, you knew that you were the right choice to let go. But that didn't make it hurt less. It wasn't easy for Kazuha either, and you could see that, your comment making her break down even further. " I guess you were right all those years ago, 童话里都是骗人的( Fairytales are a lie)" You said, moving to leave through the window. "Y/N, I still l-" Kazuha could barely spit out, before you interrupted her. "I hope this is worth it. Goodbye." You said, turning to look at her one last time, tears streaming down her face and your face too. Closing your eyes, you muttered out a last, "I love you.", before climbing out of the window and heading back to your dorm. Kazuha was inconsolable that night, crying in Sakura's arm through the night, as the rest of the members heard what had happened from outside the door, powerless to do anything about it.

Finally looking through the items in the box, tears coming back to Kazuha's eyes, memories she had buried 3 years ago now bursting to the surface. Through her tears, she continued reading the scroll

随着岁月的流逝，我非常高兴地看着你的事业蒸蒸日��，我真的为你感到高兴。我想你可以说我的职业生涯也相对顺利。我能够让我的父母退休，过上舒适的生活。但我很抱歉你不得不这样看待我。我希望你知道，即使到最后，我都在努力战斗，为明天而战，为迎接明天的决心而战，但我已经筋疲力尽了，和羽。媒体每天都以他们可以编造的任何理由抨击我，我不能走出家门而不受到不喜欢我的粉丝的威胁，仅仅因为我不是他们的最爱。我累了, 和羽，太累了。我好希望你能现在在这里和我在一起。你不知道这些年我有多么想念你，多么想靠在你的肩膀上哭泣，多么想在累了的时候靠在你的身上，多么想有一个人来疼爱我。我要说的话，请你理解，我说出来，是不想因我没告诉你而后悔。虽然我们两个的事业很成功，尽管你那天打破了我的心，我想告诉你，如果有来生，我还是会选择和你在一起，报税，开我父母的洗衣店。我很希望我们能做到，但现在已经太晚了。虽然我现在要走了，我希望你会永远自得。你拥有了我的心，我是会永远爱你的。您的最爱，Y/N

(As the years have gone by, I've watched with great joy as your career prospered, and I'm really happy for you. I guess you could say my career has gone relatively well too. I was able to retire my parents, and live comfortably. But I'm sorry you have to see me in this light. I hope you know that even till the end, I tried to fight, fight for the next day, for the resolve to face the next day, but I'm exhausted, Zuha. The media blasts me everyday for any reason they can concoct, I can't step outside my house without being threatened by fans who dislike me simply because I'm not their favourite. I'm done, Zuha. I wish you were here to be with me. You don't know how much I've missed you these past years, how much I've wanted to cry on your shoulder, lean on you when I felt tired, or have someone to love me. What I'm about to say, please understand that I say it as I do not wish to regret you not knowing my feelings. Though we both have successful careers, and even though you broke my heart that day, in another life, I would have loved to spend it with you, paying taxes and running my parent's laundromat. I always wished we could do that, but it's too late now. Though I'm gone, I hope you will always remember, that my heart is yours, and that I love you. Forever, and always)

Your love, Y/N"

Kazuha couldn't hold it anymore, breaking down into a sobbing mess as Sakura, hearing the commotion, barged into the room, running to hold Kazuha, her other members following close behind

"It's not fair! It's not fair! I miss Y/N! I want them back now! Please! Please!" Kazuha could only scream in her desperation, tears streaming down her cheeks as punched her bed, Sakura and Yunjin holding Kazuha tightly as they tried their best to console her, the other members trying what they could to calm the heart broken girl down.

Truth is, she wanted it too. If she could go back. She would have loved it too. She would have loved just running your parent's laundromat with you, doing taxes with you, growing old with you.

You would have loved her, and she would have loved you.

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alln64games · 5 months ago

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Pokémon Stadium

JP release: 30th April 1999

NA release: 6th March 2000

PAL release: 23rd March 2000 (AU), 7th April 2000 (EU)

Developer: Nintendo

Publisher: Nintendo

N64 Magazine Score: 90%

One of my strangest gaming choices as a kid was picking Pokémon Stadium. I enjoyed the show, but I wasn’t a fan of the Game Boy games. The problem with Stadium is that it’s mainly a companion piece for Red, Blue and Yellow, so your experience is hampered by not having them. I did try using a save file I found online, but it didn’t have that many high level Pokémon (although it did have a surfing Raichu).

One thing I did enjoy was the minigames. There are only nine (with a few duds), but you can have a lot of fun with friends. The Lickitung one especially is great, where you have to eat the most sushi. For the tournaments, you can borrow rental Pokémon from the game – choosing any of the first 149 Pokémon (Mewtwo and Mew can be unlocked, too). However, these aren’t as powerful as the ones trained by yourself, and you can’t modify their abilities.

The battles themselves feature 3D models of all the Pokémon, and they’re all wonderfully animated, along with their moves (although the Pokémon don’t directly hit each other). It was a great way to see the Pokémon you trained on your TV, especially so if you and a friend both have the Game Boy games, as it provides an easy way to select your team. Stadium also allowed you to play the Game Boy games directly on your TV, too. I do find it odd that Nintendo never released a “Game Boy Player” to work with the Transfer Pak.

As a companion piece to Pokémon Red, Blue and Yellow, Stadium is a wonderful bit of software. Without the Game Boy game, however, and the game is much more difficult due to the rental Pokémon not being as good.

But it’s not just seeing the Pokémon brought vividly to life that makes Pokémon Stadium such a joy – it’s watching them take part in the gut-tightening battles that unfold on screen. On the Game Boy, the various fighting moves looked as cute and harmless as the monsters themselves – in glorious 3D, they’re truly frightening. Giant balls of electricity sparkle, hissing beams of pure ice are thrown around the arena, fire roars across the screen, and eerie light shows play behind Pokémon as they execute hypnotic attacks.

- Mark Green, N64 Magazine #41

Remake or remaster?

With the Pokémon games now being on Switch, the features of this should be part of the main games.

Official Ways to get the game

There is no way to buy a new copy of Pokémon Stadium, the only official way to play is to rent it via the Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pak. It should also be noted that it has no Game Boy compatibility, so you’re stuck with the rental Pokémon.

#N64 #N64 games #nintendo 64 #pokemon #pokemon stadium

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starcwrld · 1 year ago

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STARCLUSTER: THE FIRST ALBUM -- REWIND

01 ditto 02 twilight zone 03 cool with you 04 soul to soul 05 lorelai 06 pung 07 rewind 08 remember summer days 09 telephone number

the album. era highlights. the vlog series moments. san fransicso. moments. styling. stages. promotional events. photocards

"REWIND" marks the debut studio album from the acclaimed K-pop group Starcluster, celebrated for its enchanting city-pop sound and nostalgic atmosphere. The album stands out with a triple title track structure, with each title track featuring its own set of B-sides.

In Tape One, the title track "Ditto" shines for its cinematic brilliance and poignant storyline. The narrative follows the girls' journey from carefree teenage years to adulthood, delving into the fears of growing older and highlighting the solace they find in each other's companionship. The associated B-sides, "Twilight Zone" and "Cool with You," received their own music videos. Shot with Kodak film strips and old Canon digital cameras, the vlog-like style of filming adds an intimate touch. "Twilight Zone" captures the girls exploring the town before their graduation night, while "Cool with You" showcases the significance of their graduation. "Ditto" serves as a summary, encompassing various essential memories from their youth.

Tape Two, featuring the title track "Soul to Soul," unfolds a romantic storyline. The music videos for "Lorelai" and "Lights" accompany it, portraying sisterhood and platonic love, respectively. Shot exclusively with Kodak film strips, Tape Two takes on a more film-like quality compared to the vlog-like style of Tape One.

Tape Three, titled "Rewind," takes a nostalgic trip back to the 80s. Featuring covers of "Telephone Number" and "Remember Summer Days" by Junko Ohashi and Anri, respectively, this tape offers a unique retro experience. While "Rewind" received an official music video, the girls took charge of filming for "Telephone Number" and "Remember Summer Days," reintroducing the vlog-like feeling as they showcase their everyday lives. The time-traveling camera in the "Rewind" music video adds an intriguing element to this journey into the past. Overall, "REWIND" encapsulates Starcluster's ability to deliver captivating music, accompanied by visually stunning and thematically rich music videos.

era highlights

↻ ◁ II ▷ ↺ not that expensive surprisingly even though each song got a music video… the three that really had the high budget were ditto, soul to soul and rewind. The b-sides were filmed and edited by the girls themselves to give that intimate like feeling. "

↻ ◁ II ▷ ↺ this got their first PAK and it got a good amount of music show wins. Ditto had the most performances with like 5 stages, soul to soul had like 3 and rewind had 2 so they were booked and busy ! "

↻ ◁ II ▷ ↺ some fans were mad though because the last two songs were covers and they were expected like 9 new songs …. "

↻ ◁ II ▷ ↺ ditto went viral on social media and the album’s filming style was the trend as well. Many people would do a compilation of clips similar to the style in twilight zone and cool with you. Old cameras were trending again too for the filters that were put on the video. "

↻ ◁ II ▷ ↺ a five video long vlog series went up with each girl documenting their experience with filming the music videos and their promotions. "

↻ ◁ II ▷ ↺ They also got a little reality TV show where they traveled to san francisco! "

↻ ◁ II ▷ ↺ there was a lot of cute interactions between the members and their fanbase really grew during this time as well. Hana and Soyi got the most new fans while Kiyoko began to get a lot of fan boys. "

↻ ◁ II ▷ ↺ overall a really fun era! Being very vague with the descriptions here because i’m planning on actually writing out a lot of their best moments during this era so this will be a multipart series kinda ! :D"

#fake kpop gg #fictional idol group #idol oc #oc kpop idol #fake kpop group #fictional kpop idol #bts addition #idol oc gg #nct addition #fictional idol community #kpop oc #oc kpop girl group #kpop female oc #oc kpop group #oc girl group #: ̗̀➛ 𝓼𝓽𝓪𝓻𝓬𝓵𝓾𝓼𝓽𝓮𝓻 ⊱┊𝓹𝓵𝓪𝔂 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓶𝓾𝓼𝓲𝓬 #: ̗̀➛ 𝓼𝓽𝓪𝓻𝓬𝓵𝓾𝓼𝓽𝓮𝓻 ⊱┊ 𝓭𝓮𝓿𝓮𝓵𝓸𝓹𝓶𝓮𝓷𝓽 #: ̗̀➛ 𝓼𝓽𝓪𝓻𝓬𝓵𝓾𝓼𝓽𝓮𝓻 ⊱┊ 𝓻𝓮𝔀𝓲𝓷𝓭

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game-boy-pocket · 1 year ago

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Today I beat the 1994 Gameboy game, Donkey Kong, AKA Donkey Kong '94. More magic added to the summoning spell for a new Donkey Kong game announcement this year.

For those not in the know, it appears to be a simple port of Donkey Kong 1981 to the Gameboy, but there's a bait and switch after you beat 100m, and DK gets back up to run off with Pauline, and what you have is a 100 level puzzle platformer that was the precursor to Mario Vs Donkey Kong, which will be getting a remake next month. I haven't played Mario Vs Donkey Kong for more than a little while on an emulator, but I much prefer the framing device here, making DK into a toy thief always felt like a weird move to me, but it beats kidnapping human women, especially when he supposely has Candy Kong waiting for him back at DK Isle ( assuming she's not completely retconned out of canon )

I still think this may be the best game on the game boy. It gives you 1ups like candy, which is a good thing because this game gets pretty tough at some points.

This game was made to showcase the capabilities of the Super Gameboy, which could allow you to play Gameboy games on your TV through your SNES. Some games had custom bezels, and some even had enhanced colors and sound. I don't have a Super Gameboy, and most emulators can only do the colors, not the sound. But my FX Pak Pro actually enables Super Gameboy mode, so I can play Gameboy roms with all the full capabilities of a real super gameboy.

This is definitely the way to play this game, the colors are enhanced, not to the levels of a gameboy color game, but it gets close at times. I thought at first that the only sound enhancement was actually just Pauline having a real "Help" voice clip, but when I beat the game, I was treated to a 16 bit rendition of the credits. Sound font was a bit like Yoshi's Cookie or Yoshi Safari. It was rather nice. But I have to wonder why only the credits got that treatment?

Don't sleep on this game if you have the option to play it, this will be a great primer for the upcoming Mario Vs Donkey Kong remake if you plan to pick it up.

#pocket plays #nintendo #donkey kong #donkey kong 94 #super mario #mario #mario vs donkey kong #game boy #super game boy #snes #super nintendo

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taperwolf · 2 years ago

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A thrift store find that I didn't buy, because it's more esoteric than even I could manage to use, and I'm trying not to accumulate large useless things:

This is a Muntz Stereo-Pak player. This particular model is the home version; Stereo-Pak was the first prerecorded magnetic tape format for car audio, released in 1962, and a precursor to the 8-track tape. Music came in cartridges, inside of which would be a long loop of 4-track tape; on the tape would be two streams of music, with left and right channels for each.

You're meant to slide your tape cartridge up against the magnetic read head inside, guided by the brass grooves on the top. I haven't read anywhere that there were different sizes of cartridges, but the different lines on the face and the lack of hard guides suggests that to me. Once it's in place, one of the levers on the right flips a rubber pinch roller up to pull the tape past the head, playing back the stereo tracks. The other lever is a switch that pops the tape head between its upper and lower position, so you change it to change which tracks are playing.

(There was prerecorded audio for cars before then, because some loons decided to install phonographs. Chrysler's "Highway Hi-Fi" (1956-'59), for example, played special 16⅔ RPM records. For obvious reasons, there were problems with skipping, and the higher-pressure tone arms that tried to alleviate that wore the records out faster.)

The format and the players were developed for Earl "Madman" Muntz, an LA businessman known for an eccentric public persona and oddball marketing campaigns (inspiring such successors as "Go See Cal" Worthington and the "Crazy Eddie" electronics chain in New York). He started out with used car dealerships but his real love was electronics; he started Muntz TV in 1947, and was the first to sell a TV set for less than $100, new. He was a self-taught electrical engineer, and got his TVs to be so cheap through a technique still today called Muntzing. He'd decided that most engineers were designing conservatively, building redundancies and safety margins into their devices, so when his employees presented him with a prototype, he'd go at it with a pair of wire cutters. He'd start just snipping parts out until the thing stopped working — and then tell the engineer, "Well, I guess you have to put that last part back in."

(His TVs were fine in the cities, where big stations had strong signals, but worked quite poorly out in areas where the signals were weak; the parts he'd remove were the ones that boosted performance out there. This wasn't by accident, though; his target market was the city dweller with limited funds, and Muntz was content to let RCA and Zenith and such have the high performance market.)

Anyway, Muntz TV went bankrupt in 1959 after various hardships, and reorganized without "Madman" at the helm. (You may be able to make out the note under the logo on the player that Muntz Stereo is not affiliated with Muntz TV.). Muntz himself was still managing to do well with cars and consumer electronics, so he decided to combine the two with the Stereo-Pak. He had a great deal of success for a while with it, but it was later outcompeted by the 8-track player (which won economically because it used less tape to store the music and had a simpler mechanism, and became hugely popular once Ford started offering the players preinstalled). Muntz ran the company that put commercial recordings on the tapes, and that led to probably his biggest unforseen financial problem with these. See, there'd be the new big radio hit, the new big famous musical group, and he'd rush their album out to all the dealers — and when the new hotness inevitably became yesterday's news, the dealers would send the unsold tapes back and expect to exchange them, straight across, for the next new big hit.

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queeniecook · 1 year ago

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It's Time for Cake - Part 1

I wasn’t sure how to tell Pak I was pregnant again, so I decided to start with Vera. Telling a toddler she was going to be a big sister took longer than I expected, I wasn’t sure if she fully understood.

“Baby mommy’s tummy?” Vera asked me, confused.

“Yes, sweetie. He or she will be your little brother or sister.” I explained softly.

“Mommy eat too much?” Vera asked me, before getting distracted by something on TV. Our neighbor laughed.

I shook my head, laughing a bit. It was kind of funny. I guessed Vera would just have to see with her own eyes over the course of the pregnancy and then, after the baby is born.

I got changed, getting ready for an appearance at a charity event for the local animal shelter that I had adopted Sabrina from. At least fame allowed me to help others. I loved that part about it. What I didn't love is that I was starting to feel nauseous. No fancy hors d'oeuvre for me at the event. I also knew I needed to tell Pak the news when I got back home.

I found him on our patio that night.

"Pak, I'm pregnant." I decided to just blurt it out. I had with Vera, might as well with the second baby.

I waited for his reaction. I half expected him to react the way he did the first time.

"Really?" He asked me in disbelief. It was kind of soon.

"Yes." I confirmed with a nod of my head.

Pak took off running, right off the patio. My eyes widened. I had not expected that reaction. I was worried.

Until he started diving in and out of the water yelling he was going to be a Dad again. That put all my worries to rest. He was excited. That made me happy.

Vera was excited about the ball pit we bought her. It was hard to get her out of it when we first got it.

I decided to do some fishing. Something I hadn't done in a few years. It reminded me of when I first met my husband. The night my world changed. We had met fishing on the docks by a bar. Memories like that are precious.

Vera and Salem continued their friendship. It was so cute. Salem had found his person, that was for sure.

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Oh yes I agree, most people on here have lost patience for long fics, the attention span and significantly decreased, I blame the ongoing trend of reels and tiktoks lol I too love REALLY long fics but sadly most of them on here have already been read by me and no new ones are getting posted because the demand just isn't there. I don't blame the writers, they are just catering to the demands of their readers but it does break my heart.

Not just fics, the shows have started having a lesser number of episodes 😭 I mean how did we go from 20+ episodes per season and at least on season every year to 8-10 episodes per season and 2 yr+ gaps between 2 seasons? It's really heartbreaking. I wish Indian TV shows had some quality because they literally never end lol

I have started watching Pakistani dramas lately because they are amazing and have around 30 or even 50-60 episodes. My only problem is that I am very vulgar and a proud horndog so I need to see the leads shagging the shit out of each other but in Pak dramas they don't even kiss, cultural reasons maybe, but the shows in general are amazing. Never tried Turkish or Korean dramas, heard good things about them, have you? 👀

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agreed abt shows getting shorter too :( as for dramas, i have watched some Turkish ones that i really enoyed! for example calikusu (lovebird) it used to he on netflix even

i admit i wouldn't have the patience for dramas anymore. the plot moves at a snail's pace. however series i still seek and i'm sad i haven't found anything good lately

i really loved yellowjackets, my most recent find. it's ongoing

#ask #🍟 anon

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haechannabelle · 1 year ago

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tagged by @cutieboos and @changbeens ty friends <33

last song: speed love by tripleS !! the drum & bass trend in kpop this year makes my dnb loving heart soooo happy (see also: super shy by new jeans, in bloom by zb1)

favorite color: red ! also grey. and my favorite color scheme is scarlet / teal / yellow ochre

last movie: i think it was barbie ? i’m more of a tv/youtube person tbh

currently watching: 30 rock (for like the 5th time. it’s my fave !). also lots of kennie jd, uncarley, and annamarie forcino on youtube

sweet/spicy/savory: savory. specifically i’ve been on an indian food kick for a couple months, cannot get enough

relationship status: engaged :) <333 with plenty of imaginary kpop bfs/gfs on the side because i'm delusional hehe

current obsession: kpop of course, but i’m also extremely into the app pokemon sleep !! it’s a cute and fun sleep tracker app that has actually helped my sleep schedule a lot, HIGHLY recommend !!

last thing googled: “kung chi pak chi meaning” lmao

tagging some folks i'd like to get to know better: @bandzboy @goblinvern @puppymocchi @seokmingming @ghoulhyeon @eoieopda @spoopy-boo @renjunniez 💕 (no pressure of course)

#tag games #i always love doing these hehe

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snappedsky · 1 year ago

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Fanatics 99.20

Everyone leaves the planet Tourney and returns home.

There will be a short break before the next- and final- chapter as I am going away next weekend and won't be able to post.

*Links to previous and next chapters in reblog*

The Greatest in the Galaxy Part 20

“What...a...show! I knew this would be the best competition we’ve ever seen, but I could never have predicted this! This will go down in history, folks, and I’m so happy to have presented the majority of it. Well, for all of us here at Tourney, and every competitor, thank you for watching The Greatest in the Galaxy! This is the AI announcer M1-C, signing off for the very last time.”

Across the galaxy, all televisions tuned into the competition channels lose signal. Viewers turn their screens off and return to their day-to-day lives.

On Tourney, the Resisty ship is parked in a giant parking lot, surrounded by other large ships. In its infirmary, the Battalion are seated on the beds, after having spent the night healing and recuperating. They also turn off the TV.

“That was a good show we put on,” Zim remarks.

“Too bad we couldn’t win though,” Gaz sighs.

“What do we mean?” Squee questions. “We did win. It was like a whole thing yesterday, remember?”

“No, I mean, the competition,” she replies, “we didn’t finish it so we couldn’t win it and get a trophy. We won’t get a trophy for winning a revolution.”

“No. We just helped free countless of beings from the Irkens’ tyranny,” Dib says, “but we won’t get a trophy.”

“I thought the whole point of this was we get a trophy,” Gaz grumbles.

“She’s got a point,” Tak agrees.

“I tell you what, we may not get a trophy, but those two over there can get an award for most injured,” Pepito grunts, pointing to Dib and Squee. Both of their torsos are wrapped up in bandages to cover their burns.

“Pepito, you really gotta let this go,” Dib groans.

“You’re just lucky with Shmoopy’s advanced alien healing you don’t need skin grafts,” he snaps, “I say we ban bombs from the team.”

“Whoa, whoa, whoa,” Squee says quickly, “this wasn’t because of my bombs. My bombs are fine.”

“You blew yourself up twice this week!”

“And that was not the cause of this injury.”

“Too bad those cam-bots are gone,” Tak grunts drily as the pair argue. “They’re missing some quality content.”

“I swear, if you two keep this up, you’ll be riding the ship home instead of using the teleporter,” Zim warns.

Squee and Pepito quiet down and grumble, their hands linked together.

The door suddenly opens to Kio, who’s smiling excitedly. “The Irkens are leaving. Do you guys wanna see them off?”

“Yeah,” Zim says and everyone quickly throws on some proper clothes, wincing from their still tender injuries, and hurry out of the ship.

The Massive is parked on the other side of the lot, taking up more space than anything else. Irken soldiers are filing inside, many of them cuffed. Civ and Viv fly around them, making sure everyone behaves themselves. At the back of the group are tallest- only in size now than in title- Red and Purple. Their hands are cuffed and their PAKs have plates drilled over them to keep them from opening. Rory and Zinather stand behind them, surveying everybody. Rory hurries over when he sees the Battalion.

“You got your work cut out for you, Tallest Rory,” Dib remarks.

“No doubt,” he replies, “but it’ll be worth it. It’s time for a major change on Irk.”

“There’s no one else I would trust with this project,” Zim says.

“I appreciate that,” Rory grins. “So when are you finally gonna rule your planet?”

“Eventually,” he replies, “why rush it? It’s not going anywhere, not as long as we’re around.”

“Well, I look forward to the day we become true planetary allies.” The new Irken leader steps back and bows regally. “Until then, my friends.”

The team smile and wave as he follows the rest of the Irkens onto the Massive. Zinather is the last to board. He looks back at Zim and nods. Zim nods back.

Everyone watches as the Massive lifts off, disappearing slowly into the atmosphere.

“Looks like everyone else is leaving too,” Squee says as he looks around. Around the parking lot, countless different species are boarding their various ships and leaving the planet. He spots the Swifs, particularly Nimbel. She meets his eye and he waves. She waves back.

“I guess it’s about time we leave too,” Kio says.

The team head back to the Resisty ship. Shmoopy is in the infirmary, putting together a kit.

“In here are all the salves you need for your injuries,” she explains, handing a duffle bag to Zim. “As well as instructions on how to use them. Follow it diligently, especially you two.” She points to Dib and Squee.

“Yeah, yeah,” Dib grunts.

Kio faces the team, smiling sadly. “I guess this will be the last time we all meet up like this, at least for a while. You’re all gonna be doing your own thing back on Earth.”

“That’s why we did this, right?” Squee asks. “One last hurrah.”

“And what a last hurrah it was,” Pepito adds.

“What about you?” Zim asks Kio. “What are you and the Resisty gonna do now that you won’t need to resist against the Irken Empire?”

“I’m not sure,” she replies, “we haven’t really had a chance to talk about it. I don’t think everyone here actually believes it’s happening. But I doubt we’ll split up. Many of the species on this ship don’t have a planet to return to. And even those of us who do might not consider it home anymore. I’ve been gone from Vort for so long, I don’t think I’ll recognize it.”

“You could always come to Earth,” Dib suggests.

Kio smiles. “I’ll consider that.”

An awkward silence fills the room as nobody knows how to proceed. Then Zim clears his throat.

“Well, Kio, Shmoopy, as always, it’s been an honour,” he says, bowing his head. They both smile softly at him.

“Why you being so respectful?” Tak asks suspiciously.

“It’s creepy,” Gaz comments.

“He’s just feeling uncomfortable,” Dib chuckles and the others laugh.

“Enough,” Zim snaps, “let’s go already. Ready the teleporter.”

“As you wish,” Kio nods and rests a circular device on the floor. It lights up and whirs with energy. “Battalion.” “Resisty,” Zim bows.

With a wave, one by one the Battalion steps onto the teleport pad and transport to its twin on Earth, in Tak’s house.

Johnny, Devi, Tenna, Colton, Carmen, Maddie, and Skoodge are there to meet them. Colton immediately hugs Squee, making him wince painfully.

“Owwwww I’m still so tender,” he whimpers.

“Sorry,” Colton says quickly, letting him go.

“So did we put on a good show?” Pepito asks cheekily.

“You guys were awesome!” Tenna cheers.

“It wasn’t the worst thing I’ve ever watching,” Johnny grunts, ruffling Squee’s hair.

“I cannot believe what you accomplished!” Skoodge exclaims, “you revolted against the Irken Empire! You ousted the Tallest! This is...inconceivable!”

“He’s right,” Devi agrees, “it was a helluva fucking show.

“Everything is going to change because of this,” Skoodge adds.

“Yeah, but not here,” Tak points out, “Earth will remain the same as it always has.”

“Maybe,” Gaz grunts, “but starting next week...we won’t.”

She looks up at Pepito and Squee, who glance at each other. A heaviness suddenly hangs over the air.

“Nah, we will,” Zim argues, “even with you three leaving, we’ll still be the same team.”

Just like that, the heaviness dissipates and everyone smiles because they realize he’s right. No matter what changes they go through, or where they go, they’ll still be a team.

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howwelldoyouknowyourmoon · 2 years ago

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Sun Myung Moon, anti-communism and the Japanese far right (1974)

▲ In 1974 Sun Myung Moon spent $350,000 on radio, TV, and other advertising to promote a major evangelical rally at Madison Square Garden to stimulate new support in the East. The event was held September 18 and attracted a large crowd of curious onlookers, hostile fundamentalists, leftist demonstrators, policemen, and atheists.

an extract from Korean Evangelism (1974)

The full article is available on WIOTM here:

https://whatisonthemoon.tumblr.com/post/720614563491561472/korean-evangelism-1974

... Reverend Sun Myung Moon, achieve notoriety when he announced last year in full page newspaper advertisements across the United States that President Nixon had been put into office by God and could be removed only by His will. Sun Myung Moon’s National Prayer and Fast Committee stuck by Nixon to the bitter end. (Thus did Moon inevitably meet Rabbi Korff, who then obligingly spoke before a Moon-affiliated organization on “The Fact of Communism and America’s Future.”10  

The Reverend Moon is a new phenomenon in America, but not in Asia where his following now totals nearly a million people, concentrated in Korea, Japan, and Taiwan. Moon found his calling back in 1936 when Jesus Christ approached him on a mountainside and asked him to devote himself to God’s service as an evangelist. Moon waited until 1954, however, before organizing a new world religion, the Genri Undo, or Unification Church, formerly called the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity. (Detractors claim he got off to a slow start because of three arrests for sexual offenses. [1946, 1948 and 1955]) 11  

Despite his wide following in Asia, and his whirlwind American tour last year, Moon has not attracted a wide following in the United States, where he can claim only about 25,000 supporters. Now that he can no longer lead the campaign to save President Nixon, Sun Myung Moon has fallen back on more traditional approaches. Recently he spent $350,000 on radio, TV, and other advertising to promote a major evangelical rally at Madison Square Garden to stimulate new support in the East. The event was held September 18 and attracted a large crowd of curious onlookers, hostile fundamentalists, leftist demonstrators, policemen, and atheists.12  

Once described as a ��Korean-style Elmer Gantry” but preferring the title, “God’s Hope for America,” the Reverend Moon preaches about the many dangers of communism along with his personal interpretations of the Bible. One Japanese source describes his movement as “less a religion than an anti-communist front group.” Rabbi Mark Tannenbaum of the American Jewish Committee observes that “Moon seems to be exploiting the emotional power of religion in order to indoctrinate his anti-communist ideology. The tragedy is that so many young people respond to this emotional appeal.” And he has predictably drawn fire from concerned clergymen, in the words of one, for his “seemingly cozy relationships with the dictatorial Park Chung Hee regime in South Korea.” In reply to these charges a Moon spokesman insists, “Many religions acknowledge the threat of Communism.”13

  Sun Myung Moon can afford to lavishly finance his propaganda activities. Time estimated his personal fortune at $15 million, derived from investments in a tea company, titanium mines, retreat ranches, pharmaceutical firms, and shot gun manufacturers. Recently his Unification Church purchased several estates and an old seminary in New York for about $3 million. The question remains: is this vast international effort just a personal undertaking?14  

Moon and his close associates are predictably silent, but disturbing evidence is emerging of his church’s close ties to anti-communist political organizations with less spiritual ends.  

For example, Moon’s closest associate and English interpreter, Colonel Bo Hi Pak (“God’s Colonel”), formerly a Korean military attaché, has strong links to both Korean intelligence and the American CIA. He heads the Korean Cultural and Freedom Foundation (KCFF) which operates “Radio Free Asia,” possibly an outgrowth of a project by the American organization, Committee for a Free Asia (now the Asia Foundation), funded by the CIA. KCFF also conducts propaganda operations in Vietnam. Its legal counsel is none other than Robert Amory, Jr., former deputy director of the CIA. In 1962 Amory almost became head of the Asia Foundation (he was turned down to avoid blowing the CIA cover); now he is a law partner in Corcoran, Roley, Youngman & Rowe, a firm which has long handled the legal work for CIA proprietaries.15  

The possibility of CIA involvement with a right-wing movement now entering the United States is frightening enough. But just as troubling are the close financial ties of Moon’s church to the world of wealthy neo-fascist Japanese capitalists, who seek not only a rollback of Communism but a new “Greater Asia” under the Emperor, based on the integration of Korea and Formosa into the Japanese orbit. In Japan, the chief financial backer and organizer of the Genri Undo is Sasagawa Ryoichi, the 75 year old former Class A war criminal. Back in 1931, with the notorious Kodama Yoshio, he formed a chauvinist patriotic party and intelligence organization that siphoned off enormous wealth from China during the Japanese occupation and ultimately provided much of the postwar financial backing for the ruling Liberal Democratic Party. In 1939 he set in motion the negotiations leading to the Tripartite Pact between Japan, Germany, and Italy; three years later he was elected to the Diet on an ultranationalist platform of southward expansion. His stint in the Sagumo Prison after World War II for suspected war crimes set back his career only a short while, for he and fellow inmates like Kodama Yoshio and former Prime Minister Kishi Nobusuke used their influence and time to plan the resurrection of the postwar Japanese Right.16  

Both Sasagawa and Kodama still exercise enormous influence in Japan, and are described as “kuromaku” – powers behind the throne. The New York Times description of Kodama applies identically to Sasagawa: “Yoshio Kodama is among the most powerful men in Japan. He was instrumental in founding the nation’s governing party, he has had a hand in naming several Premiers, he has settled dozens of disputes among top businessmen. He also commands the allegiance of Japan’s ultra-right wing and has strong influence over the yakuza, or gangsters, of the underworld here.”17 Both are dedicated to restoring the power of the Emperor and crushing opposition to the Right.  

Sasagawa, as president of the Japan-Indonesia Association and Japan-Philippine Association, both reminiscent of the prewar imperialist South Seas Association, has helped to spearhead the southward Japanese commercial advance in Asia. He funded the anti-Sukarno forces which organized the Indonesian coup d’état of September 30, 1965; he likewise supported the Lon Nol faction which overthrew King Sihanouk in Cambodia in 1970, and arranged for Japanese economic aid to prop up the new government. Currently he is active in strengthening Japanese ties with the strategic Arabian peninsula, through his Japan-Oman Association. Most significantly, Sasagawa has long been a leading light in the Asian Peoples’ Anti-Communist League, and was behind the recent organization of the World Anti-Communist League. With his vast fortune acquired from shipbuilding, gambling, and organized crime, Sasagawa not only influences the Japanese government but acts as a powerful force in all of “Greater Asia.” His support of Moon’s Unification Church is thus just one of many elements in the constellation of interlocking activities surrounding the Japanese, Asian, and world right-wing movements which still thrive in many forms. 

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Sources William Turner, Power Out the Right (Berkeley: Ramparts Press, 1971); Jane Kramer, “Letter From Guyana,” New Yorker (September 16, 1974), pp. 100-128; Cheddi Japan, The West on Trial (London, 1966), p. 307. 

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10. On Korff’s close relationship to Moon, see Washington Post, July 25, 1974; New York Post, September 16, 1974. Rabbi Korff’s latest project is to force Congress to impose severe curbs on the media, which he blames for President Nixon’s downfall (Washington Post, August 17, 1974).

11. Daily News (New York), September 13, 1974; Christianity Today, March 1, 1974, pp. 101-02; AMPO, Winter, 1974, p. 43; New York Times, September 16, 1974; Village Voice, September 12, 1974. Estimates vary as to the size of Moon’s worldwide following; Moon’s chief associate put the figure at over two million (New York Times, September 16, 1974).

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Sun Myung Moon found guilty in 1955; started two year jail sentence ]

12. New York Times, September 16, 1974 (including full-page advertisement on p. 40); Daily News, September 13, 1974; New York Times, September 19, 1974; UPI dispatch, September 19, 1974; Wall Street Journal, September 20, 1974.

13. AMPO, Winter, 1974, p. 43; New York Post, September 16, 1974. Moon’s organization has created a number of secular anti-communist front groups including the International Federation for Victory over Communism, the World Freedom Institute, and the Freedom Leadership Foundation. The South Korean Government sends its civil servants to an anti-communist indoctrination center in Seoul operated by the Church (Village Voice, September 12, 1974; New York Times, September 17, 1974).

14. Time, October 15, 1973, pp. 129-30; Daily News, September 13, 1974; Christianity Today, March 1, 1974, pp. 101-02. Moon’s church is worth “far more” than Moon’s personal $15 million (New York Times, September 16, 1974).

15. Village Voice, September 12, 1974; Steve Weissman and John Shoch, “CIAsia Foundation,” Pacific Research, September~October, 1972. One of Corcoran’s earliest projects for the CIA was representing Chennault’s Civil Air Transport, now Air America. CIA officials deny any ties to Moon’s Unification Church, but funding of the Church remains mysterious (Wall Street Journal, September 20, 1974).

16. AMPO, Winter, 1974, p. 43; New York Times, July 2, 1974; Don Kurzman, Kishi and Japan (Astor-Honor).

17. New York Times, July 2, 1974. Sasagawa has been implicated in recent Japanese election irregularities. See Far Eastern Economic Review, September 6, 1974, p. 28.

18. AMPO, Winter, 1974, pp. 43-5.

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Sun Myung Moon organization activities in Central & South America

1. Introduction 2. ‘Illegal Aliens Joining Moonies’ – The Pittsburg Press 3. Moon’s ‘Cause’ Takes Aim At Communism in the Americas – Washington Post 4. Moon in Latin America: Building the Bases of a World Organisation – Guardian 5. Guatemala 6. Nicaragua 7. Honduras 8. Costa Rica 9. Bolivia 10. Uruguay 11. Paraguay 12. Brazil

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Politics and religion interwoven

Contents  1. Shadows on Rev. Moon’s beams. Politics and religion interwoven.  Chicago Tribune – Sunday, November 10, 1974 2. Howling at the Moon – Chicago Reader Weekly Friday, November 22, 1974 3. Messiah Sun Myung Moon on the Run 4. The Unification Church: Christian Church or Political Movement? – by Wi Jo Kang (1976) 5. Moon’s Sect Pushes Pro-Seoul Activities – by Ann Crittenden . The New York Times, May 25, 1976 6. Panel Told Seoul Used Followers of Sun Myung Moon for Protests . The New York Times, June 7, 1978 7. Unification Church Protected by the Regime in South Korea . 週刊ポスト Shūkan Post magazine October 15, 1993 8. American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit  in the House of Bush – by Kevin Phillips (2004) 9. Missing Pieces of the Story of Sun Myung Moon – by Frederick Clarkson (2012) 10. Sun Myung Moon was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002. It seems the manufacture of Moon’s ‘Autobiography’ was an attempt to promote Moon for the Nobel Peace Prize. However, the publisher of the book was jailed for four years for fraud – for buying books from stores to push the book up the best-seller list, and for other financial crimes. 11. ‘Privatizing’ Covert Action: The Case of the Uniﬁcation Church Dr. Jeffrey M. Bale Lobster #21. May 1991  Introduction

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The Sun Myung Moon church – Jane Day Mook & Hiroshi Yamaguchi (1974 & 1975)

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They linger in the handshake a moment longer, long enough for Sidney to get an up-close look at the way Sam’s eyes light up with his grin and to feel his own smile grow in response, a feeling of recognition like the heat wave before a storm building between the two of them.

Sometimes, Sidney thinks, all it takes is a new context to make you see something that’s been there all along.

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Sam Pak and Sidney Freedman run into each other in Tokyo. Sparks fly. Set sometime around season 3.

Words: 1506, Chapters: 1/2, Language: English

Fandoms: MASH (TV)

Rating: Mature

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Sam Pak, Sidney Freedman

Relationships: Sam Pak/Sidney Freedman

Additional Tags: First Time, Banter, Friends to Lovers, Flirting, Safe Sane and Consensual, period typical content

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meditativedeer · 1 month ago

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todayagainandagain

this is a list

hair in a plait

three deadline extensions

heavy rain

mushrooms on toast

two coffees interluded by herbal tea

blue knitted socks

smelly hiking boots

YouTube on the tv

buses and trains

arguing

new bedsheets

scripts

dvds

advent calendars

pak choi

climbing shoes attached to my bag

soup

#wlw #wintering #climbing

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tfgadgets · 2 months ago

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bucketofdeltav · 1 month ago

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Reblogging to add Kiwi terms (Locked Tomb fic writers take some fucking notes).

New Zealanders get enough American and British TV that we usually understand your terms (and use some of them) but a) it's hard to predict whether we'll have settled on US or UK for any given thing and b) we have our own terms for a lot of things.

Gas - petrol or diesel, you say you're going to 'fill the car' or 'get some petrol'. 'Gas up the [thing]' means something different and would be silly to say about a vehicle.

Gas station - petrol station, regardless of whether it's staffed or not. Still called a petrol station if it only has diesel. In that vein -

Truckstops are very often JUST a petrol station that only has diesel, we don't have the long-haul trucking like the US or even UK, so truckstops don't support life.

Truckstops on highways that have a McDonalds or a cafe or bakery and toilets attached are service stations.

License plate - number plate

Diner - bakery. Yes we have bakeries that mainly do baked goods, but we also have 'bakeries' (one chain is called Bakehouse Cafe but nobody calls it 'a cafe') that you can get prepared food from a cabinet or a large, cheap, simple hot meal from. Also usually have really good frappes.

Fast food - takeaways. Fast food places where you're expected or allowed to eat in are rare and getting rarer.

Motel - we have motels and hotels and the distinction is that in a motel your room opens directly into the carpark, and in a hotel it opens into a hallway.

Oh yeah, parking lot - carpark.

Cab - taxi. We do NOT have black or yellow cabs. Most taxis are white Toyota Priuses.

Cop - we use cop or police officer interchangeably. Police cars used to be white Holden Commodores and are now white, red, or blue Skoda hatchbacks.

SWAT - Armed Offenders Squad, AOS. These are the only police that regularly carry firearms, and it's a big deal when they get called out. Normal police cars just have a shotgun locked in the boot and have to justify (after the fact) taking it out.

Yes yes car trunk - boot, car hood - bonnet.

Antenna - aerial

Fall (season) - autumn.

Bill - banknote or cash. We have polymer notes, not as brightly coloured as Australians, but pretty loud. Notes are $5, $10, $20, $50, and $100. Cash machines usually only give $20 or $50. I've seen a $100 exactly twice in my life, both times at bureaux du change. Coins are 10c, 20c, 50c, $1, and $2. Unlike Britain, ours are all round.

So ATM - ATM is comprehensible but usually cash machine or money machine.

Drug store - chemist or pharmacy. You call it a chemist if what you're getting requires you to speak to the pharmacist, and a pharmacy if it doesn't. You cannot usually get food and drink at these places.

Optometrist - optometrist, but it's more common to just use the name of the chain, OPSM, Specsavers, &c.

Primary care physician - GP. You will see a GP and not a paediatrician even as a small child. Paediatricians are specialists for problems that are related to your being a child.

Paediatrician - old people use the ae spelling (see also, encyclopaedia), young people generally don't. Part of this is because of autocorrect. Colour always has a u in it.

Social security number - don't have. You'll have an NHI number for medical stuff, but most people don't know theirs, and an IRD number for financial stuff. We don't have a mandatory national identity scheme. It's possible but unlikely to reach adulthood without having any kind of ID or national identification number.

Liquor store - liquor store. They pretty much only sell alcohol. You can buy beer and wine and some low-strength RTDs in supermarkets but you have to go to a liquor store for anything stronger.

Store - shop

Thrift store (UK calls it charity shop) - op shop. (Short for opportunity)

Target/Walmart - supermarkets sell food and a very small selection of overpriced home goods. The supermarkets are (in ascending order of fanciness) Pak N Save, Four Square, Countdown (now reverted to Woolworths), and New World. For Target type general 'stuff' it's The Warehouse (wags call it Te Warewhare) or Kmart (Australian Kmart). Farmers is mainly a clothing and nice home goods shop. Briscoes is a home goods shop and it absolutely always has a sale on. Hardware shops are Bunnings and Mitre 10. None of these shops contains a Starbucks.

Superstore - don't have.

Shopping cart - shopping trolley

Yard sale - garage sale. Car boot sale exists but is something different.

Attorney - lawyer. Barristers represent you in court if you REALLY fucked up. Solicitors do non-court legal stuff, and can also represent you in court (many solicitors are also barristers). Barristers who are not solicitors work the same as UK ones.

Janitor - caretaker. Caretakers do not usually have cleaning responsibilities. That would be a cleaner.

Fries - chips. Helpfully, we also call the crispy fried potato food that US calls chips and UK calls crisps, 'chips'. We also call tortilla chips chips. See also ghost chips.

Intersection - still an intersection

Highway - we have state highways which vary in size from a six-lane motorway down to a two-lane country road. It's sometimes possible to tell when you've left the state highway and sometimes not. We don't have interstates. 'Expressway' has a distinct meaning, but most people don't know what it is.

Overpass - overpass

Turnpike - toll road (very rare, I think there are like 3)

Windshield - windscreen

Truck (like large cargo truck, Mack or similar) - truck BUT

Truck (small pickup truck, Ford Ranger) - UTE.

Sedan, blowout - see UK

Sidewalk - footpath. Always alongside a road. Note the different meaning to UK 'footpath', which is not necessarily along the side of a road for cars. Our word for that is a 'walkway'.

Subway - don't have any

Drapes - curtains

Pacifier - dummy

Diaper - nappy. Pull-ups exist but are not nappies.

Baby crib - cot. Babies may also be placed in bassinets, which is a basket you can fit a baby in, carry around if needed, use in isolation, or place inside a cot to help stop the baby rolling about.

Baby carriage - pram or pushchair. We do not observe the fine distinctions the Brits do here.

Trash/garbage - rubbish. It goes in a rubbish bag, which goes in a rubbish bin and is collected by a rubbish man driving a rubbish truck. Very simple. It then goes to a waste transfer station and then to a landfill, both of which may be called a 'rubbish dump' or just dump.

Mail is mail, which is handled by New Zealand Post. Parcels may be handled by a courier (Aramex or NZ Couriers). We do not meaningfully have FedEx. Mail is placed in the mailbox by a postie.

Movie - anything goes. The place is a movie theater or cinema, and the art form is a movie or film.

Floor numbers - the one on ground level is the ground floor, and the one above that is first, then second and so on. In Wellington there are lots of hills and thus lots of buildings with at least one entrance on a floor that is not the ground floor. Residential buildings do not often have more than two floors so this is a nicety mainly reserved for commercial buildings.

Sneakers are sneakers

Baggage is luggage or just bags, but at airports luggage is carried on a baggage trolley and collected from baggage claim.

A purse refers only to a small bag for putting coins in. It goes in a handbag, usually referred to as just a bag. Most of your money goes in a wallet.

A vacuum cleaner is a vacuum cleaner unless you're in Southland in which case it's a Lux. (Short for Electrolux, popular brand). You vacuum or lux the carpet. It's only a hoover if the actual brand of the device in question is hoover.

Sweater is a jumper or jersey. Sweatshirt is a kind of jumper.

Schools - School is mandatory from your fifth birthday unless you have an exemption (homeschoolers are the main user group for exemptions). You might go to kindergarten or playgroup or daycare before that, but they're more for childcare and socialization than education. You start school at Year 1. You go to intermediate when you're about 11, in year 6 or 7. That might be part of your primary school, part of the high school, or another school altogether. At the end of intermediate, you go to high school. High school is year 9 to year 13. You can leave at year 11 if you want to. In year 11 you do NCEA 1, in year 12 NCEA 2, and in year 13 NCEA 3. You can sometimes get into university without NCEA 3 but it's best to have it.

College is a fancy name for a high school.

Community College - polytech. You get a diploma. You might be able to get limited kinds of degrees.

University - University. Most of our undergraduate degrees are 3 years because we don't have Gen Ed requirements, you spend the whole time on your main subject. Professional degrees like law and engineering have an extra year called an honours year.

Semester - Semester.

Vacation - holiday

Flashlight - torch

Mr Rogers, educational TV for small children - Suzy Cato, program Suzy's World.

Wrench - we have pipe wrenches which tend to be more on the grippy side, and spanners which can be adjustable but you can't grip things with them.

Backyard is back garden. The less deliberate gardening has been done, the more likely it is to be called a yard.

Cookies are biscuits. Biscuits are scones. American 'scones' are a travesty.

Dude/guy (generic person) - fulla, bloke, cobber (old men say cobber)

John Doe - Joe Bloggs. Never used formally. Unknown corpses are 'remains of a person unknown'.

Cell phone is a cell phone, BUT cell data is mobile data BUT the towers are cell phone towers

Bathroom/restroom - toilet, loo, dunny. 'The facilities' is a commonly understood polite euphemism. Wharepaku will also be understood. Whareiti, although more common in signage now, will not.

Thanks - cheers, ta

Y'all - youse. Maaori has some handy plural pronouns and they would generally be understood if not widely used.

Hiking - tramping.

Memorial Day - we have ANZAC Day, April 25, which remembers the Gallipoli landings (a disaster), and has grown to include all other conflicts. We do not generally make as much fuss of veterans as Americans, and thanking a soldier for their service would be HILARIOUS.

We do not have Thanksgiving, at all.

Christmas is in summer.

Independence Day - we have Waitangi Day, February 6, which remembers the signing of Te Tiriti o Waitangi which is generally considered the founding of the country.

We do have Christmas, New Year, and Easter as holidays. We do not have weird 'war on Christmas' types like in the US.

Assorted slang and adopted Te Reo Maaori

The wop wops - back of beyond, middle of nowhere

Kia ora - this is not slang, this is just Maaori. It means hello. Generally understand.

Ke te pehea koe? - also Maaori. 'How are you?' Slightly less understood. People under 40 will pronounce it like Suzy Cato does.

Tena koutou katoa - formal 'hello everyone' for speeches. Generally understood but often pronounced like 'tin of cocoa car door' which is wrong. Most people will understand that if you actually SAY 'tin of cocoa car door' you are making a joke.

We don't say Sheila anymore.

Bring a plate - this is a potluck and you are expected to bring a plate OF FOOD TO SHARE.

Tucker, kai - food

Pipi, tuatua, kina, paua, koura - these are shellfish.

Southern Man - shorthand for a particular kind of masculinity, taken from the Speights Ale advertising character of the same name.

Eketahuna - this is a real place but it's used as an example backwater town. Someone saying they went to Eketahuna probably went to a town LIKE Eketahuna but not Eketahuna itself.

Pissed - depending on context, can mean drunk, angry, or urination. Always check the context.

Flat white - this was us, not Australia. We do have really good coffee.

Pavlova - this was also us, not Australia. Large marshmallow/meringue cake, usually served with whipped cream and sliced kiwifruit on top. Revolting.

Australia - when you're IN Australia or New Zealand, Aussies are arrogant and abrasive and generally the worst. When you're NOT, Aussies are basically from home and your best mate.

OE - Overseas Experience. About 20% of our population is overseas at any given moment. A significant proportion of New Zealanders have passports and have traveled extensively and lived overseas.

Whittakers - we also have really good chocolate.

Almost everything that has a European name also has a Maaori name and you can often use them interchangeably.

Goodnight Kiwi - after the little cartoon sequence that used to play at the end of each night's TV programming. Now mainly used figuratively, e.g. 'she walloped him over the head and it was goodnight kiwi'.

Number 8 wire - common fencing wire gauge, generally very useful. Used to refer to how New Zealanders were so remote we got used to doing stuff for ourselves and making do. Now mainly used by politicians wanting to recall that (e.g. number 8 wire mentality) but it's a lot less prevalent than it used to be.

American to English translation for fic

So I read and write fanfic, as do lots of others, and I've noticed that when it comes to British shows or movies, Americanisms or American terms crop up often. It's mostly because most don't know we have specific terms for things in the UK, and I've seen references here and there before, but I've decided to write one of my own. Feel free to add to it tho! I'm gonna put it up on Ao3 too and any additions, I'll reference the tumblr and link them on Ao3 too.

Anyway, here we go I guess.

Some Americanisms to English-isms

Gas = fuel/petrol/diesel (we tend to specify the type of fuel the vehicle uses, diesel vehicle or petrol vehicle for example)

Gas station = petrol/fuel station

Gas court = petrol/fuel court, or sometimes forecourt (not often with this one tho)

License plate = registration plate/reg

Diner = cafe

Fast-food = takeaway (this is sort of interchangeable. McDonald's is called fast food, a meal from a pizza place that delivers is takeaway)

Motel = hotel

Side-note: We tend to use specific named hotel chains like Premier Inn (or Prem-Inn for short) or Holiday Inn or Travelodge. We also have Britannia Hotels and several others. If the fic is based in a specific place, local hotels or famous ones may be better options. For example, in Liverpool, we have The Shankly or Adelphi.

Cab = taxi or black hac for a specific type of taxi.

Side-note: These are what you see in BBC Sherlock, for example, and are a UK staple. They're less popular or common-place nowadays but there are dedicated taxi companies that use them. There's on in my town that operates until 4pm each day. They are also usually more expensive than a car taxi but they have oodles of space and you can have a pram/buggy kept upright rather than folded-down in them which is brilliant.

Cop = police officer

Side note: more informal, colloquial terms include "copper", "the fuzz", "tit-head" (because of the nipple hat okay, just look up the hat, it's hilarious), "bobby", "rozzer" (pronounced r-o-z-er not Row-zer), and "the bill" (there's an actual show called this btw. It can be a good reference for anyone writing crime fic in UK). There's more but those are the most common. Older terms do include "peelers" and "old bill".

Second side-note: the police have a whole host of terms, colloquial and slang that can be a great thing to include in fic, which I'll link a glossary of here. It's not all UK centric but cross-country policing is a thing so that may just be a boon imho. Also the short-hand acroynmns used are useful so here's a link to the Metropolitan Police glossary of those too!

Patrolman = constable or police constable

Antenna = aerial or TV aerial

Fall (season) = autumn

Bill = banknote or specifically "tenner", "fiver", "twenny" (not "twenty"). We don't have single banknotes like a dollar bill. We have pound coins

Dimes, nickels, etc = pound coin, two-pound coin, fifty-pence, penny, two-pence, five-pence, ten-pence, twenty-pence (link here about the coin currency)

Drug store = chemist or pharmacy

Optometrist = optician

Primary care physician = GP (general practitioner) here's a link about UK medical terms for doctors etc

Side-note: here's a link about medical terminologies etc between American and UK

Social security number = national insurance number

Liquor store = off-license or, specifically, Bargain Booze™

Liquor = spirits (usually)

Store = shop

Target, Walmart, etc = honestly, it's probably gonna be Tesco, ASDA, Morrisons, ALDI or Lidl

Superstore = supermarket

Shopping cart = shopping trolley or just "trolley"

Yard-sale = car-boot/car-bootie/car-boot sale

Attorney = barrister or solicitor (solicitors you go to for legal help, barristers tend to be involved in actual court matters, like a the Crown Prosecution Service), here's a link that explains it better

Janitor = caretaker

French-fries = chips (although McDonald's French-fries are just that, French-fries)

Intersection = crossroad

Highway/freeway = motorway

Interstate = usually an A-road or a motorway, we don't really have interstates here)

Overpass = flyover

Turnpike = toll motorway

Windshield = windscreen

Trunk of a car = boot or car boot

Hood of a car = bonnet or car bonnet

Truck = lorry

Sedan = saloon car

Blowout = puncture or flat tyre

Pavement = road

Sidewalk = path

Subway = underground (like the London Underground)

Drapes = curtains (though we do use "drapes" we tend to say "curtains" more)

Pacifier = dummy or "dodo" or "dodi"

Diaper = nappie or a pull-up (if its like underwear for toddlers)

Baby crib = baby cot (though we do use "crib", we tend to say "cot" more)

Baby carriage/pushchair/stroller = pram or buggy (more specific type tho, here's a link about the differences)

Trash/garbage can = bin, dustbin, rubbish bin

Garbage/trash collector = binman/binmen

Mail = post

Mailman = postman

Mailbox = postbox

The movies = cinema or pictures

Movie = film (less common nowadays with influence of Americanisms but I still use "film" and a lot of people my age and older do too (25+)

First floor = ground floor okay, it's the ground floor because it's on ground level

Sneakers = unless they're Converse, it's probably just "trainers"

Baggage = luggage

Purse (as in the bag) = handbag, or "purse" but that tends to be the thing you put your money and cards in then put in your handbag

Vacuum cleaner = hoover or a specific brand like Henry Hoover™, which you'll find we tend to just call Henry (though I have a John Lewis hoover I got from George, ASDA that I've named 'George' and yes, I do say "I need to use George in a bit to hoover" regularly)

Sweater = jumper or, if it buttons up it's a cardigan or cardi

Closet = wardrobe

Elevator = lift

Call collect = reverse charges

Schools = we have primary/infants (11yrs)and secondary/high school (11-16yo) with some high schools have sixth-form college (16-18yo) or actual independent colleges for the same ages

College = university

Semester = term

Vacation = holiday

Kindergarten = nursey/reception

Flashlight = torch

Wrench = spanner

Backyard = garden

Cookie = biscuits

Chips = crisps (like Walkers™ or Lays™ in the States)

Pants = trousers

Cottoncandy = candyfloss

Dude = bloke/fella/mate

John Doe = John Smith

Exhausted (tired) = knackered

Cell phone = mobile

Cell data = mobile data/4G/5G

Bathroom/restroom = loo/toilet (informal term "bog")

Thanks = cheers

Soccer = football

Y'all = "you lot"

Fuck off/hit the road/go away = bugger off

Some slang phrases too

Bits and bobs = stuff, usually random

Take the mick/mickey = making fun of someone or over-exaggerating

Bob's your uncle = there you go, basically

Bog standard = typical, run of the mill kind of deal

Gutted = feel upset, disappointed

Dull as dishwater = basically really, really fuckin boring

Chinwag = basically "shooting the breeze" or just having a talk/chat

If you have any others that you think of or want added, reblog and add em! Tags too if you'd prefer but reblogs would be easier ☺️

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