#also yes ive been in japan enough times to see how toxic they are

[snowpeawritings]

I thought of this cute scenario when playing Persona Q. There’s an area called the group date cafe where you can get “married” with one of the characters series based on your choices. Naoto and Yuu’s interactions were so adorable! Could I get a similar scenario where Naoto and her fem! S/o were chosen to get “married” in the cafe. Naoto is all flustered by everything while s/o is romantically teasing and ecstatic at the fact they can have lesbian marriage. See a video for reference if you need 2

AAAAHH PQ MEMORIES!!!

BRUH MY FIRST TIME WITH THE MARRIAGE THING I PLAYED YU THEN GOT MINATO AS MY HUSBAND ASHKDHKA

Reader is female

CW (CONTENT WARNING): Japan’s taboo against the lgbt+

As much as how cringey this dungeon was, you were happy that you were able to explore this dungeon with Naoto. With the Valentine decor that littered the dungeon (hell, even the cringey as hell group date cafe was funny), you were glad that you were able to be with Naoto despite the obvious problem that you two show.

Now with a larger group full of people who were tired of the old ways, you and Naoto were free to just hold hands. You were free just to hold hands without causing an uproar and you two were happy about that.

... Still doesn’t replace the feeling of cringiness though.

Hearing the weird mechanical voice for your supposed love result, you sighed out of exhaustion. “Thank god, it’s over.”

Beside you, Naoto exhaled from her nose, a sign that she found your exhaustion amusing. “I thought you liked this place?”

You gave her a disgusted look. “Any sane person would get sick of the hearts, babe.”

“Well then...” The mechanical voice continued. “The time has come to announce your destined partner.”

As if on cue, the lights shut down. A drum roll soon followed as stage lights out of nowhere danced across your team. “Your destined partner is... lo and behold...”

Oh my god this is the cringiest shit I’ve seen.

As if the spotlights understood, your plight, they stopped on you and a certain individual. Seeing her familiar cap shining under the spotlight, you barked out a jovial laugh as you raised your arms in the air. Under the spotlight, your girlfriend blushed even more when she saw you celebrating.

Among your team’s coos and awes, she yelled your name. “Th-This isn’t anything to celebrate about! I don’t know what is the basis of this—”

Before she could’ve clobbered you, the floor opened beneath you two as you fell down. Your teammates worried screams grew farther and farther until your body hit grassy terrain.

Rubbing your butt, you looked around as you gaped at the seemingly vast field that stretched across the horizon. Hearing another hatch open, you looked up in the sky to see a falling high school student. Quickly running to where she was going to drop, you raised your arms to catch your girlfriend.

Naoto soon dropped into your arms with an oof, your arms struggling to carry her. “Sup, babe?”

She let out an embarrassed yelp. “P-Please put me down. And uh... thank you?”

You chuckled as you set her down but before she could recuperate, you grabbed her hand and swung it back and forth. She looked at you with a blushing face before the same voice rang out again.

“It seems you have reached your destination. This seems to be a path where lovers who met their destined partners discuss their love for each other...”

You immediately zoned out from its useless drivel, instead looking at Naoto with the dumbest look on your face. “This is everything that I wanted and more.”

She flushed once more, covering the bottom half of her face with her free hand. “You...! There’s not even a basis of what this conductor is implying! And why are you so nonchalant about this?!”

Your goofy smile still stayed but your eyes hardened with seriousness. “Naoto, when could we ever have an opportunity like this?”

That made her pause. She looked at you expectantly, realizing you were serious about what you were saying.

"Japan is shitty enough as it is." You continued, taking both of her hands in yours this time. "We can't go out without people assuming the worst of us. Here, we get to be us without anyone breathing down our backs!"

It was a fever dream, that you knew. You knew everything here was fake but even pretending that it was real was good enough for you.

"You..." Naoto trailed off, realizing what you meant. "But... We're still high schoolers! Why are you thinking of something like that?"

You smirked, pressing your forehead against hers. "I mean, I'm planning to anyways."

She choked, throwing her head back from you like it was on fire. "W-We're not children either!"

"I know I know!" You laughed, staring at Naoto's expression for longer. "But I'm serious. I really do love you, babe. And I really do hope we'll be together for longer until we actually do get married."

She still retained her blush but she did calm down after your confession. Her lips parted, wanting to say something that you assumed that she needed evidence for your claim but she pursed them. Instead, she leaned in closer, nuzzling your nose with hers as she sighed softly.

"New Zealand's flower fields are beautiful... I always wanted to go there with you when we're older."

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I know we're in hard times but for wanting to making things positive, Japan has made the first prefecture to have a law where it is illegal to out lgbt+. Granted its only in one prefecture but i think its a step forward for the country

[freebooter4ever]

So ive alluded to but havent really talked about the emotional roller coaster the past few months have been (aside from complaining regularly about housing search, sorry about that)

When i was house sitting and staying at the artist's house on the hill back in october, i was calling nick a lot, like a few times a week i think, my only excuse being i was super lonely living there alone. And he started talking about us living on a boat together again. He's mentioned this before - i believe it was a daydream of his early on when we first met. And you know how i am with good storytellers. Complete sucker. I think it was like the second time we went out on a not-date, after wandering around squirrel hill / sitting in te cafe talking for like five hours, he just started describing how he imagined me on a boat. Obviously in a more eloquent way than how im making it sound.

But anyway it sounded like recently he got an offer to rebuild (and own) a 1950's wooden sailboat and so he was spinning these grand ideas of what adventures we could have, and that i should join him on the east coast and we'd sail all over, living and working on this boat. And im totally crazy because i actually considered it, seriously thought about it. Ive been hating my life here for so long, that an escape sounded ideal.

I knew i would never - im too determined to make my career work whatever the fuck that means. And i think i know that if i give up and leave this city now i will literally never come back because i discovered i kind of hate it.

Fast forward to thanksgiving - the news broke about WDI moving to florida. i didnt think about it until while on a walk i unexpectedly ran into an old friend who pre-pandemic worked for WDI here and in japan and he confirmed that, yes, ALL of imagin**ring is being moved. (also that yes its definitely a power play)

Like you all know how obsessed i am with living in glendale, i still remember how i almost cried even just driving THROUGH glendale when i first came to LA in 2018. Just seeing that name on the damn freeway signs. Id only ever read that name in countless books on imagine*ring and the Parks. I dID get to live in glendale for a few years, and let me tell you it never got old putting that city down on letters and stuff. It was like i was SO CLOSE to this weird nebulous sort of daydream ive had since i was 10. I had this idea that id go out to california and live like the people did in those books - living in this mysterious glendale place, traveling worldwide for research, spending lazy weekends in the parks studying and observing like walt used to do. Obviously that didnt happen lol.

But now with this news of the move to florida...ugh. I think i might go back and rewatch justin's old old videos about releasing childhood dreams so you can find something better. Because that just killed mine. I knew the corporate culture at the mouse was becoming...toxic. Rumors abound. But there's also enough good things happening around it that i thought maybe that would be worth it despite the shit. But now??? Ugh i have a few friends who spent some time as imag*ne*rs in florida...they hated it. Said it was like living in tourist land 24/7. My one friend hated it so much he moved back to nyc. Yeah. He gave up sunshine and working a dream job to go back to snow and cold just so he could live in a 'real' city again lol.

I dont know what i want to do anymore. Without imagin**ring i dont even know why im here anymore. The founder of my research project i worked in after college idolized WDI too. He actually got the chance to work with them on some projects for VR back in the 90's. He's got a plaque in w* d* world in florida with his name and his quote on it commemerating him after he died. There's a photo of me and my research team all standing around the plaque proudly. But he always insisted he was first and foremost an academic, even if his childhood dream may have been more along the lines of being an imag*neer. And you know the whole time i was working with that project, and kind of keeping in the back of my mind my own end goal of how i wanted to live this magical socal imagin**ring lifestyle...i always kind of thought that he was an academic because he couldnt have made it as an imag*neer, just wasnt at that level. I never stopped to consider that it might have been a choice. I feel a little shitty for that now.

Anyway how do you cure a broken heart over dreams? And the answer is tragically not going to be go escaping with nick on some boat...that most recent phone call reminded me just how much he randomly turns on me in anger and i can never figure out wtf i did. I may admire him greatly for everything he is in life, but we wouldn't last two days alone together lol.

[nottsubakiichan]

i hate you. i hate you so fucking much. No matter how many screaming matches we have, how many sit-down discussions we have, nothing ever changes. you claim you’re going to change according to our feedback but you don’t. instead, you rub your “changed” behavior in our faces, flaunting it as if to say “sige, you wanted me to change right? here it is. o ano?". our "civil discussions" aren't even discussions either unless that's what you call invalidating the other party's experiences by twisting it to make yourself look like the victim and constantly making them doubt themselves. you're the same toxic person as ever and i know change for you is futile at this point. I don't know why our dad is stupid enough to keep running back to you even when you've made it VERY obvious that you want. him. dead. I would let my uncle know that he's got a toxic sister if it wasn't for the fact that he's indebted to you. it doesn't help that the rest of our relatives and your friends would all side with you.

It's because of you that I'm socially stunted and backwards. I can't make decisions for myself. I want to become independent so badly but you won't let me. Because to you, my sister and I are incapable fucks who can't handle themselves. I lack so many basic life skills thanks to this. Fuck you.

It's also thanks to you that I'm now too afraid to like what I like. Every interaction with you feels like I'm trying to cross a landmine. No matter what I get into you'll always find a way to use it against me. It's been this way since I was an 11-year-old who liked anime and you blamed Naruto for my mistakes in life. Now you’re out for my idols. My sister and I have posters but we’re now too afraid to hang them up on the wall because you threatened to fucking rip them apart. I still keep the recording of the time you spat on them and referred to them as “mga putanginang babaeng yan” and harshly questioned us if we were lesbians-- your tone sounding like a punishment was in order if we said yes. Every time I think back to that day I feel like breaking down and hiding all my merchandise somewhere you won’t find it. And then you wonder why we dont ever talk to you anymore. I should not have to go through this. Fuck you.

I thought things would be different when we finally traveled to Japan. But it wasn’t. A lot of things would not have been so fucking stressful and anxiety-inducing if you weren’t there. That trip was supposed to be for my 18th birthday gift and yet you made me want to jump in front of the next train within the span of a few days just because you bought a scarf i did not fucking ask for and you took major offense when you overheard me complaining about it to my sisters. That trip was my only chance to do the shit ive always wanted but it was all ruined thanks to your manipulative attitude. The way I see it, it was a flop. Next time I go back, it will be without you. Fuck you.

You’ve gone through ridiculous extents to have the house blessed by a priest, even arranging our decor according to Chinese Feng Shui so “there won’t be any bad energy here”. Well let me tell you something. No matter how much you pray, how many charms you buy or how often you practice your beliefs, as long as you dont make an effort to change your toxic personality, nothing in this shitty hellhole will get better. There will always be fights and everything will remain the same. A toxic person is a toxic person. I can’t wait until I have a steady income so I can move the fuck out of here and prove that I won’t be like you.

I hate you mom fuck you fuck you fuck you fUCK YOU

[covid19updater]

COVID19 UPDATES 03/27/2020

Livestream of FDNY radio traffic for a taste of the battle being fought: LINK

WRAPPING UP WEEK 2 OF FULLTIME TELEWORK, THIS CAPTURES THE NEW NORMAL:

RUMINT (PA): Hospital INTEL (eastern PA). Currently on 14 day quarantine from work in the ER. Hospitals running out of everything. Don't go outside. Getting bad out there.

US: U.S. coronavirus cases: - New York: 37,738 (385 deaths) - New Jersey: 6,876 (81 deaths) - California: 3,718 (78 deaths) - Michigan: 2,856 (60 deaths) - Washington: 2,580 (132 deaths) - Illinois: 2,538 (26 deaths) - Massachusetts: 2,417 (25 deaths) - Louisiana: 2,305 (83 deaths)

France: BREAKING - A teenager has died from #COVID19 for the first time in France - the 16-year-old patient died in the Paris region, confirmed the French Health Minister.

NYC: NEW: Five hundred more cops called in sick Thursday — leaving NYPD without 11 percent of its officers who patrol the city streets as the coronavirus continues to disrupt staffing in the department, The Post has learned.

Georgia: Georgia's worst-hit hospital fills 3 ICU units with 'critically ill' coronavirus patients. LINK

RUMINT (Massachusetts): Update on my family member. Started showing symptoms on Monday.He took a turn for the worse today started having severe coughing fits and his temp jumped to 103. His wife called the hospital, they assigned her a number when his number is up an ambulance will pick him up. Took about 20 to 30 mins before an ambulance came to get him. His wife is also symptomatic they have been married for just over 60 years. It's a sad day. This is where we are now in MA.You have to wait in line at home before they come and get you. This is going to get so much worse.

Michigan: Michigan 2856 cases 60 deaths

World: With Few Willing to Fly, Airliners Are Transforming Into Cargo Planes LINK

US: Potential impact of idiotic Spring Breakers. LINK

World: Covid-19: Up to 10% of recovered patients test positive later, say Wuhan doctors LINK

RUMINT:  Nurse here, boots on the ground checking in: Seeing a lot of patients come in for rule out of course. The sickies who are looking septic and need respiratory support (from NC to high flow to vent) are often young--ive seen 20s-50s. A few have "poop colored" sputum...not rusty, but brown. I've had a truly shitty day as a few on my team (that covers the entire hospital including ER, ICU and COVID unit) arent being as diligent and are putting myself and others at risk. They think I'm being over anxious and micromanaging. Suit yourself...but since 98% of patients whether covid, rule out or not have barking coughs and need oxygen...I'm not taking chances. Its disheartening and I came this close to either flipping out or walking out. And yes, PPE shortage is real as hell and too scary. Our hospital system actually approved a pattern for cloth masks to be sewn. We are encouraged to seek out our own respirators/N95s as the current supply will only go so far and only last so many uses.

Iran: Iranian media reports nearly 300 people have been killed and more than 1,000 sickened by ingesting toxic methanol across the Islamic Republic out of the false belief it kills the new coronavirus - AP

UK: The Government has written to all local authorities in England asking them to house all people sleeping rough,those in hostels and night shelters by the weekend in a bid to protect people during the covid-19 outbreak

Spain: Spain Returns 1st Faulty Batch Test Kits To China As They Failed To Work; Spanish Association Of Microbiologists (Seimc) Warned That The Testing Kits In This Batch Performed With An Accuracy Level Of Under 30%

UK: Prime Minister Boris Johnson tested positive for Covid 19

Spain: SPAIN'S HEALTH EMERGENCY CHIEF SAYS 9,444 HEALTH WORKERS TESTED POSITIVE TO CORONAVIRUS

Italy: HEAD OF ITALY'S NATIONAL HEALTH COUNCIL SAYS ON THE BASIS OF THE DATA IT IS INEVITABLE THAT ITALY'S LOCKDOWN MUST BE EXTENDED BEYOND CURRENT APRIL 3 DATE

Massachusetts: 8 Boston Police Officers have tested positive for Corona Virus. LINK

UK: UK HEALTH SECRETARY HANCOCK TESTS POSITIVE - SELF ISOLATING AT HOME, SYMPTOMS MILD

RUMINT (New York): My cousin is a nurse in New York, she texted me this. I haven’t personally taken care of any covid patients yet thank god but I’m being transferred to a covid unit on Monday which I’m not looking forward to.. more worried about my family than myself, I don’t want to infect anyone when I get home. But what you see on the news is real, lots of people being ventilated, it’s so sad/scary and the hospitals don’t even have enough masks/ protective gear for us it’s so terrible; can’t wait for this to all be over!! New York is truly a mess we pretty much are on lock down.

RUMINT (Mississippi): Good morning! Sipping my coffee getting ready to go to work. Got word last night that due to low census, they are CUTTING nurses in the ER by 4. I cannot tell you how this is going to crush the morale of the already stressed out nurses I work with. I no longer feel guilty about leaving. That place is going to kill people with their incompetence. They cite "budget" reasons. Um, you've already budgeted for the minimal staffing for the year, which is 12 nurses a shift, so that shit doesn't fly with me. One day the people will come back with a vengeance and the nurses will be the one's to suffer, not management. Fuckers. The non-emergent people have heeded the warning to stay away from the ER unless you are having a CVA, MI, Bleeding or have a bone showing. The drop in census is about 50 pts a day which is not that much to me, but the suits think it's significant. That's 2 pts an HOUR. It goes to show the bullshit that usually packs the waiting rooms. Maybe people will realize they can live without running to the ER for stupid stuff that they can treat at home, but I digress. We've had 6 deaths in Mississippi so far. Since we've started testing our cases have steadily gone up. Scary for this sparsely populated state, but I kept telling them it was coming. Nobody seemed to listen or care until it was on their doorstep.

Connecticut: UConn Health doctor arrested after allegedly coughing on medical employees intentionally LINK

NYC: The NYPD has lost their 1st member of their department from the corona virus.

World: Two sailors aboard another aircraft carrier, Japan-based USS Ronald Reagan, have tested positive for Covid-19: U.S. officials The naval base outside Tokyo where Reagan is currently pier-side has now been put on lockdown through the weekend.

Italy: Italy Cases +5959 in last 24 hrs. Deaths +919 in last 24 hrs.

NYC: From listening to the FDNY radio traffic livestream (link at top of today’s post) since 6am this morning, I have personally heard a LOT of calls go out for respiratory distress that have then been upgraded to CPR in progress. Not good.

World: WHO'S TEDROS SAYS A VACCINE IS AT LEAST 12-18 MONTHS AWAY #CoronavirusOutbreak

NY: #NewYork to build eight temporary hospitals to meet an expected surge in #coronavirus patients: @NYGovCuomo

California: California Governor Gavin Newsom: "We project that roughly 56 percent of our population -- 25.5 million people -- will be infected with the virus over an eight-week period."

UK: BREAKING: Birmingham Airport (#UK) confirmed as temporary mortuary site to house 1,500 bodies in #coronavirus pandemic.

US/World: #BREAKING: 4 dead aboard Holland America Zaandam. Ship is currently off the coast of Panama and intends to dock at Port Everglades next week.  There are reports from Panama that the Zaandam has been denied crossing the Panama Canal. That could be why it appears to be holding right now.

Michigan:  Mental breakdown of crying ICU nurse from Michigan hospital after 13 hour shift. War zone conditions. LINK

Italy: The list of doctors who died for Covid-19 from north to south Italy is growing hour by hour. The total reached 51 deaths, learns from the Federation of doctors' orders.

China: China Shuts Down All Cinemas, Again

NYC: More than 500 members of the NYPD have now contracted the coronavirus, a spokesman said.- 486 uniformed officers  - 71 civilians employees. The number of cops out sick was not immediately known.

NYC: DELIVERY TRUCKS REFUSING TO ENTER NEW YORK CITY ON CORONAVIRUS FEARS: MSNBC

New Jersey: Lakewood Police, where the most #coronavirus cases are in Ocean County, break up another wedding, @OCPONJ files charge as state & @NewJerseyOAG get serious about large gatherings.

Texas: Woman describes sister’s battle with COVID19. LINK

Texas: 36% of hospitalized patients require admission to the ICU, Dallas County officials say

California: It’s incredible and eerie at the same time. A MASH unit being set up by the Air @CalGuard; at the Santa Clara Convention Center. This is for the expected surge of #COVID19 next week. 250 beds for those discharged by hospital but still ordered to isolate. LINK

France:  LATEST DEATH TOLL IN FRANCE FROM CORONAVIRUS STANDS AT 1,995 DEATHS (VS 1,696) - PUBLIC HEALTH OFFICIAL

World: Holland America says 53 guests and 85 crew have flue like symptoms on the Zaandam.There are 4 doctors and 4 nurses onboard. The 4 guests who passed away were older, the cruise line says. The cruise left Buenos Aires on March 7th. No one has been off the ship since March 14th.

Ohio: Citing @ClevelandClinic, @GovMikeDeWine says pandemic will "kick in much harder" in about 2 weeks, & peak may not come until mid-May. State will likely have to triple its hospital capacity.

RUMINT (Rhode Island): Some backwoods intel that the National Guard is on the RI-CT border on RT 95 stopping cars from NY and NJ from entering RI

NYC: NBC News: Right now the FDNY has approximately 170 calls holding, which means that if you don't have a serious medical issue you may be waiting awhile for an ambulance.

Turkey: BREAKING - Turkey’s President is about to give a national address about #COVID19 following two rapid acceleration days taking the coronavirus case count past 5,000. Rumors of a shutdown.

California: #BREAKING: In less than a week, LA County has more than tripled in its number of confirmed cases, according to Los Angeles County Public Health Director Dr. Barbara Ferrer.

Ohio: (@GovMikeDeWine) If you don't believe that we could see 10,000 new cases a day -- We've tried to describe what the science tells us. Hospitals looking at the modeling and say that this is coming. It's here.The evidence indicates that cases will double every six days. This is a train that is moving. It starts slowly, but it will start moving faster and faster and faster.

NY: COMMANDING GENERAL OF U.S. ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS SAYS PLANS ON HAVING 2,900 ROOMS READY FOR NON-CORONAVIRUS PATIENTS IN JAVITS CENTER NEW YORK BY MONDAY

World: Coronavirus damages the heart after attacking the lungs, new study reveals LINK

California: "It's difficult for me to imagine that it won't happen here," says @MayorOfLA Eric Garcetti who predicts we're six to 12 days behind NYC in terms of #COVID19 cases. @KNX1070

South Carolina: SOUTH CAROLINA GOVERNOR ANNOUNCES THAT ANYONE ENTERING THE STATE FROM NEW YORK, NEW JERSEY, CONNECTICUT AND NEW ORLEANS WILL BE QUARANTINED FOR 14 DAYS - WMBF

Massachusetts: Boston to open a First a Responders only Covid-19 testing site at Suffolk Downs. LINK

China: Fighting erupts at Chinese bridge between Hubei, Jiangxi provinces. LINK