#and also. buy the keychain once we figure that out lol

[not-exactly-laborious]

Ashley gave me permission to put the charms as stickers on my redbubble! check it out here

The shaker keychains are coming together! I commissioned Ian @not-exactly-laborious to draw up my idea, and we worked together to come up with a design :D here’s a mockup, it shows 3 sides but all 6 boys will be available.

ISNT IT CUTE?

[shwoyo]

can we get tsukishima and kuroo x figure skater gf headcanons pls?

skater gf hcs ! ﹫kuroo ; tsukishima

🏷️: fem!reader, skater!reader, fluff, not proof-read :))

wc: 536

a/n: sorry for the long waitt! honestly i wanna be a skater girl so bad but the second i'm on one i'm screaming. also, if there's any grammatical errors or wrong spellings, this is NAWT proof-read so i'm sorry

𝜗𝜚 TSUKISHIMA KEI

he's neutral about it

he talks to yamaguchi about how cool you are me thinks

is also worried, but keeps to himself most of the time

will always say "keep safe" when you leave to skate

when you bring him to watch you skate, he'll be smiling brightly when watching you

BUT will drop his smile once he sees other people near him LOL

will take videos of you skating and puts it on his story to flex you :3

i feel the other first years will find out about you, and of course ask tsukki about it

"hey hey! i heard your girlfriend skates" hinata says

tsukki will keep his response short though

"hm, yeah, she's very good at it," he says stoically

"how is she? does she get injured a lot? can she teach me some tricks?" hinata asks

"she's fine, and rarely gets injured. and no, she cannot" he replies

would keep entertaining hinata's question though, cause he gets to show you off

his ig feed would probably just consist of volleyball & you, skateboarding, or just with you with your skateboard

if ever your skateboard breaks, he'll probably save up and buy you a new one on your birthday

if you get injured though, he's worried

"are you okay? are you stupid" "tch, you should've been more careful" he says as his eyebrows furrows

he's not angry no, he's just vv worried okay !!

he would take care of you until your injured part heals

would already know what you're craving & would buy it immediately

would do your errands as well !! willingly !!

when you recover, he'll watch you 24/7 when you skate

but he'd probably not let you skate right away

"dumbass, be careful! do you wanna get injured again?"

𝜗𝜚 KUROO TETSUROU

he gets so worried sometimes

"don't do that, it might harm you baby" with a pouty face

but all in all, he's okay w/ it! he just wants you to be safe.

will talk to kenma about you, he'd boast about how good you are

will have the biggest grin if you master a trick

"you're so cool baby! do that with caution, though."

at some point, would also wanna try skateboarding...

"teach me, baby, please!" "i'll be fine, promise!"

but once he's on a skateboard, he's screaming n crying LOL

"maybe... i'll just leave you to it... never again."

when you get injured though, he's reciting everything he says about safety

"i told you to be safe!" "you should've done that carefully" "don't do it so carelessly"

he's only saying those because he's worried !!! ok !!!

he would take care of you until your injured part heals (2)

will do anything you ask of and will buy you your favorite food (or current cravings)

once you recovered, he's not letting you skate yet

"after a month! what if you get injured again?"

again, he's only saying this because he's worried !!

and after that happens and he lets you skate again, he'll be watching over you 24/7

"be careful, y/n!"

will calm down eventually

but whenever you leave to skate, will always remind you to "be careful" and "watch your movements carefully".

OH and random thought, he would buy you both skateboard keychains & phone charms !!

© shwoyo, all rights reserved

[earthbovndmisfit]

11, 12, 19, 21, and 24!

Fandom/fanfic asks! - @icouldbemoreclever

11.- Most unique merch you have for a fandom? That would probably be my old Captain Commando figure from the MvsC series by Toy Biz. I don't know how "unique" it actually is, but I've seen it going on sale for waaayyy more than I paid for it brand new at the time, so it kinda looks like it's not too common. Plus, other than the games and the 2 volume manga, there's very few official merch of that franchise! :c

12.- Craziest thing you've ever done as part of a fandom? I've mentioned this one before, but I once attended to a Megumi Ogata (YYH's Kurama's seiyuu) concert in my country while wearing a Karasu (YYH) cosplay lol. I was also on the second row! Just about 2 meters away from her. It was quite the experience lol. It was also not that planned really! ((Story time ahead)) The concert was held inside an anime convention and which was also located in another city (around 4 hours from where I live). Said anime convention used to give free entrance to most cosplayers at the time. I went with my sister, a couple friends, and a bunch of guys we met during the trip and also met with an online friend I had at the time and her girlfriend. At the time, my sister and I were kinda broke bc we had just attended to that con the past November (this one of the concert was on February, just a couple months later), so we'd had many expenses already from then and also from buying bus tickets to get there this time, local transportation tickets (bus and subway), food, etc so any pennies we could save to buy merch would be great! I also used to cosplay every time we went to those cons, plus, I already had the Karasu cosplay ready since that was the first cosplay I ever made and I also still had my hair long by then since I was planning to cosplay as Kuronue at some point too (spoiler: The Kuronue cosplay never came to fruition :( ). I also had a hunch they would have Kurama merch on sale for that con due to Megumi Ogata's concert (YYH merch was difficult to find, and even more so Kurama's because it would be sold out before we even got there), and I was right because that's where I managed to snatch a Kurama Banpresto keychain I'd wanted for years! So it was a win/win all around with the moneys I saved from that free entrance lol

19.- Fanfic you read again and again? I don't have a specific one that comes to my mind tbh, partly bc I haven't read any fanfics in a good while and partly bc my memory is awful. I like plenty that I occasionally re-read every now and then tho! Most of them were written by HamonHugs because I really like the way they portrayed and stayed true to Jonathan and Speedwagon.

21.- Favorite fic trope? I'm a simple man who loves Friends to Lovers stuff (bonus for "Enemies to friends to lovers" which, coincidentally, pretty much fits Jonawagon lol). "Fix-it" fics where some of the characters with canon deaths survive the horrors (like the "Jonathan lives AU" stuff in Jojo for example). Romance stuff, fluff, stuff like Mutual Pining, a bit of Drama and Angst here and there (pretty sure the Hurt/Comfort thing fills this bill but idk?), bits of humor sprinkled here and there to give the story a wider range of emotions (thus making the sad and the fluff feel much more pronounced too). Some whump and violence can be good too depending on the story. AUs are also nice when done right. I like some of the "Modern AUs" I've seen for Jonawagon. Same with reincarnation stuff and so on. I suck at naming tropes tbh, so I totally missed stuff here.

24.- Funniest fandom-related story? Probably the story I mentioned earlier about the Megumi Ogata concert lol. Other than that I can't remember anything in particular, save for the times Reki Taki-sensei (one of Araki's former assistants for the manga and also part of DavidPro's art staff since Stardust Crusaders) drops some likes on some of the art I retweet or on some of the random Speedwagon posts I make on twitter. As a bit of a side note: He also sometimes likes some of my Jonawagon ship-ish posts too 😁

[dreaming-of-assclass]

Happy New Years!! 🎉🎉

This year has been such a rollercoaster for everyone, I’m sure. A lot of things happened, but I’d say my experience with AssClass and the fandom has been one of my favorite parts of 2020! I’m so glad I joined the BigBang and met lots of new creators, eventually gaining the courage to make my own blog. And now here we are! I love this blog and interacting with all of you so much ❤️

I’ve been a bit messy lately lol...a lot actually omg. This month was packed with a lot of family and school stuff. My biggest New Years resolution is to improve my organization for sure. The next month, I want to empty out my inbox. And I’ll get to posting all the now-late Christmas fics hahaha.

And now to celebrate, here are some headcanons of what the AssClass characters’ resolutions are!

Karma: He tells everyone that he’ll try to be less prideful or whatever. But in actuality, he plans to get more creative with pranks and specifically make Terasaka’s life hell.

Nagisa: Wants to get out of the house and hang with his friends more, get space from his mom. Also wants to improve his sociability and speak up more for himself.

Kayano: Get revenge on that stupid girl who stole her role in- well, that’s a minor one hehe. Her biggest resolution is to honor Aguri and Koro’s legacies, and move on after everything, get her life back in order.

Okuda: Speak up more and get out of her comfort zone! Also take Karma’s advice and get a little wilder with her experiments. After all, science is all about possibility. Go big or go home~

Kanzaki: Beat up some punks with video games, as usual. Rebel against her family, fuck shit up. Basically, to embrace her inner badass all the way. Also start her own little flower garden.

Sugino: Practice his pitching! Also get his grades up because according to Shindou, “Jesus, Sugino, even my 97-year old grandpa could write this essay better than you.” Yeah...the boy needs to improve his academics if he wants to succeed jdhdjej

Gakushuu: Conquer his father of course! Be the best in his school. One-up Class E, although we know that’ll be impossible. Also he WILL adopt that Pomeranian he saw the other day.

Terasaka: He really needs to actually figure out what the politics are like in Japan lmao. He knows nothing, he just said it in the moment to screw with Koro and Karma. But yeah...the boy realizes now what he actually said lol.

Muramatsu: He’s gonna fix the ramen recipe. Damn his dad and whatever tradition they have, it’s so bad, he needs to. Also he’s gonna practice learning more fish recipes since he wants to do fishing more often.

Hazama: Try and stay away from her mom. Get that really nice witch book she saw in the store. Fuck it, she’s gonna go all out with the goth aesthetic and change up her wardrobe.

Nakamura: Thinking of dying her hair a cherry pink. Also will make it her goal to annoy Karma and Asano as much as she can. Tells everyone she’ll try to focus less on gossip and blackmail, but it’ll quickly be a broken promise lmfao.

Fuwa: Get her hands on an actual sword. Buy some more video game and manga merch, like keychains and such. Might tell herself to be more grounded but she knows it’s like impossible.

Kataoka: Improve her backstroke just a bit more, it’s been a little sloppy lately. Work on her self-control...specifically try to calm down the urge to deck Okajima whenever he’s being himself.

Hayami: Adopt a cat. Volunteer at a cat shelter. Pet more cats. Adopt another cat...Maybe try a new hairstyle. A deeper resolution would be to speak up more and make her opinions known. Also to relax a bit more.

Maehara: Maintain a steady relationship for once in his life. When that inevitably fails, his next goal would probably be to give more focus to grades and soccer. Wants to concentrate more on his future tbh

Okano: Working on her temper and insecurities. Will try and be more patient with others...mainly just the boys lmao. Gonna try to remember and stretch more often before she jumps into gymnastics stuff.

Korosensei: Be. Less. Of. A. Perv. This is what everyone assumes is at the top of his list. But no...his number one resolution is to honor Aguri and keep improving as a teacher and person, for the sake of 3-E. He truly wants to better himself for them, and do something meaningful for what little time he has left.

Irina: Do more online shopping. It’s way less work and she can just sit in bed, browsing through lingerie while eating ice cream and crying over Karasuma. Wait. That’s another resolution. Improve her love life. Also...be nicer to the students...I GUESS she yells loudly to nobody.

Karasuma: Eat less junk food, try to cook healthy actual food. That’s gonna fail though. Connect more with 3-E and make sure he’s doing the best he possibly can for them. Save the world. You know, the usual stuff.

This is all I can think of for now lol...hope you enjoyed. I mainly just did my faves jrhrhdjeke.

[yulmoldauer]

its better not to say such things out loud (Tyson Jost/OC): Chapter One

part 2

Story summary: Mason Wright was recently traded and because an Av. Sometimes a fresh start with a new team across the country is what a guy needs, right? It seems to work out, going to a place where no one truly knows you. That is, until someone finds out what you’re desperately trying to hide.

Chapter 1

Summary: Mason’s had a rough game, to put it simply. It was never the best idea to get into a fight with someone bigger than you. They won even with him taking a five-minute major for fighting halfway through the third period. The team goes out to celebrate his 23rd birthday post-win and Tyson takes care of getting him home and to sleep safely.

Warnings: None, I believe! Just some drinking mentioned and there’s a drunk character if that makes you uncomfortable. There’s also a slur against lgbt people used.

Words: 1,968

Notes: The title is from The Stigma (Boys Don’t Cry) by As It Is. This is the thing with the LGBT main character that I’ve had a few different people tell me they’d be interested in :) I’m having a lot of fun writing and plotting this so far, so let me know if you enjoy!

There were perks to being smaller than most other people in the league. Being an extremely fast and skilled defenseman was one of them.

Being outmatched in every possible articulation, being compared to a chihuahua yapping at a pitbull, everything like that. Which is how he ended up in the penalty box for five fucking minutes, the asshole in the box next to him chirping him the entire time, it seemed like.

“What are you, a fag?”

That was what Mason heard fly by him, aimed at Jost who wouldn’t get into a fight to draw a penalty. Mason knew for a fact that’s what the guy was trying to do. He still took the bait when Tyson didn’t.

Mason was smaller than nearly every player he knew. Watching him get into a fight was exciting yet painful at the same time for anyone with a brain. The other guy was at least six-foot compared to the five-foot-eight Mason. To say it was outmatched…

Mason was going to be lucky if he didn’t come out of this with some scrapes and bruises. A broken nose was pretty likely as well, once he thought about it.

But hearing that word ignited something in him that overtook the reasoning section of his brain and both of them were dropping gloves. Sure, he’d definitely have a black eye tomorrow, but he’d gotten a few good licks in as well.

They still won the game, which was nice.

“Dude, you gotta at least get into it with guys in your weight class.”

“You’re funny, Landeskog. Whole fucking league is out of my weight class,” Mason huffed as he stripped his padding off of his lean torso.

“Yeah, kinda the point,” Zadorov shrugged. “Not your fault you’re smaller, just the way it is.”

“I get it, I’m short,” he ran a hand through his wavy helmet hair and reached down to unlace his skates. “Z, you can fight for me, then. I’ll run my mouth and you can do all the hitting.”

“With you? Don’t take it, man, Wright can go on and on for hours,” Tyson chirped from across the room. That earned him a glove chucked at his face.

“Fuck y’all. I don’t even have a good comeback.”

“Because it’s true!”

Okay, maybe it was true. Mason was just a talker, it’s how it was.

Tyson gave him endless shit about it, but really he didn’t mind. He actually enjoyed just being able to turn his brain off and absorb whatever stuck from what Mason was going on about. Usually it didn’t even matter--ranting about how a show got robbed of some award that doesn’t even matter, spewing information about whatever book he was reading, going off about whatever asshole did something stupid during his day-- Tyson would just let him go until he ran out of steam. Conversations were nice, too, when he was in just a talkative mood as well.

Mason did know how to shut up, though. Sometimes. (Hint: that’s what made him the favorite out of the Wright/Zadorov best friend duo. He could be quieter than Z. They’ve threatened to separate the two on multiple occasions, though.)

“What’d that guy even do to rile you up? You looked pissed,” Nate broke Mason out of his train of thought.

“Just called someone something stupid. I’m not gonna repeat it.”

“He called me a fag because I wouldn’t take the bait for the penalty,” Tyson said soon after. “He’s just a fucking moron because he got a longer penalty than any of us.”

There was an uncomfortable moment as that sunk in, then a few “what the fuck” or “that’s gross” phrases before people moved on to heading to the showers.

Mason was about to sneak away when Tyson called out his name.

“Hey, I wanted to catch you before you hit the shower. You got a second?”

“Yeah, sure. I just have to do some pt kind of stuff before I shower. What’s up?” he offered with a friendly smile.

“I just wanted to thank you for sticking up for me. You definitely didn’t have to, but calling him on it drew a ton of attention to it. I think it’s really important to start weeding that shit out of the sport, y’know?”

“Yeah,” Mason smiled. “I--thanks, man. That means a lot to me.”

“‘Course,” Tyson gave a nod. “And you know if you were, like… y’know, gay or… anything, really, I wouldn’t care. And neither would anyone else on the team. It’d totally be okay.”

Mason wanted to give him a reassuring “I know” but couldn’t. Hockey was definitely not the environment known for welcoming lgbt kids and turning them into well-adjusted, accepted adults.

“Thanks,” Mason murmured. “Really, that means a lot.”

“Of course,” Tyson breathed, like he was getting a huge weight off his chest. “Um, yeah. I’ll let you go do your physical therapy stuff now. I’ll see you at the bar after everything’s done here?”

“Yeah, I’m not gonna ditch you for my birthday, idiot.”

With an excited smile, Tyson turned and headed in the opposite direction.

Once he reached an area to chill out while waiting for the showers to clear out, Mason sighed, plopping into a chair and resting his head in his hands.

Obviously he knew why Tyson brought up starting to call out homophobia and other bigoted shit they were all used to just overlooking. But why did he bring up the whole ‘we’d accept you no matter what’ thing?

The thought of ‘he was very sensitive to a slur so maybe he’s gay’ never crossed Mason’s mind. That would simply be too easy and rational.

Did Tyson know he was different? What exactly did Tyson know? There was no way Tyson would out him, but still. Trusting people to keep a secret was hard. It was just easier to bottle everything up.

God, he needed to figure this out.

Maybe he’d get drunk enough tonight to just forget for a little while. He didn’t get drunk or even drink all that often, he could let go every now and then.

At the beginning of the night, Gabe took his keys, promising that he’d give them to whoever would be driving Mason home. They all knew for a fact Mason wouldn’t drive drunk, it wasn’t even in the realm of possibilities. Honestly, they were more worried about the newly twenty-three-year-old losing them or putting them somewhere so he’d ‘remember where they are later’, which was proven ineffective at the last gathering Gabe threw.

“If you can’t figure out where the stupid keys are, he can come get them in the morning or I can drop them off to him or something,” Gabe rolled his eyes.

“You’re sure you don’t remember where you put them?” JT triple-checked. He’d been the designated driver for a few of them, including Mason, Tyson, and a couple others who had already gotten out to the car.

Mason shook his head. “I’m not even that drunk,” he insisted.

“Uh-huh. Gabe, just let me know if you find ‘em and we can work something out for him in the morning.”

Twenty minutes later, Gabe sent a picture and “anyone know who these belong to?” in the group chat. It was, without a doubt, Mason’s keys, adorned with a keychain reading “DETROIT” in graffiti lettering. He was from Detroit, and everyone knew that he refused to take that keychain off until it literally fell off for some sentimental reason, most likely.

‘Lol where’d you find it?’ someone texted back.

‘My dishwasher. His wallet was there too’

Mason has still never heard the end of that. No matter how hard he tried to explain that when he put them somewhere, it meant that he wouldn’t lose them or buy something stupid online (last time that happened, he bought a thing to hang on a window so your cat could sit on it and sunbathe. Mason has not owned a cat at any point in his life.) and he’d remember where it was once he sobered up.

Of course he still gets relentless shit for it. He wouldn’t expect any different.

Currently, Mason and Z were arm wrestling over a table in the back of the bar, people beginning to call it quits and going home. And with his pride hurt that he could not beat Z in an arm wrestling match, Tyson stole the other’s keys and wallet from Gabe, saying goodbyes and forcing Mason to as well.

“You are blasted, man.”

“Mmph,” he shrugged and laid his head against the passenger window. “I wanna lay down and sleep.”

“You can when I get you home. Gimmie your seatbelt so I can buckle you in.”

Mason followed the order with a small pout, not drunk enough to the point of incoherence but… definitely a little fucked up. Tyson had done this before: dealing with the mopey friend at the end of the night. Mason was definitely one to get mopey or clingy once they left the main event.

“My face hurts.”

“That checks out, buddy. I’ll get you some ice for it back at your place. What?” Tyson continued to ask when Mason stared out the windshield all angsty.

“Still can’t believe I couldn’t beat Z.”

“That guy could slam most of us through a table, don’t beat yourself up.”

“Can’t. Someone already did.”

“You’re full of jokes, huh?”

Mason just grinned sleepily as they pulled into the apartment complex and Tyson had an arm wrapped around his friend to keep him steady. Getting a drunk person to go to bed was usually one of the hardest parts of the night.

“Would you just--”

“I got it,” Mason huffed, fumbling with his keys near the lock of the door.

“Dude.”

“Shut up, you’re gonna wake up my neighbors,” he grumbled, finally getting the door open with a triumphant “see? I’m an adult.”

“I see. Go be an adult and get ready to go to bed,” Tyson rolled his eyes, taking the keys out of the door and locking it behind them.

“I don’t wanna sleep,” he replied quickly.

“You’re drunk, what do you mean you don’t want to sleep?”

“Not tired,” he flopped down on the couch.

“At least get out of your clothes. That way if you fall asleep it’s in pajamas.”

Mason was sprawled out, already clicking through Netflix.

“Fine, I will go get you pajamas. Here,” Tyson pressed a cold compress to a bruise on his face and headed to the bedroom.

“Thanks for driving me,” he heard from the other room.

“‘Course,” Tyson called back. “Here, put these on,” he tossed the clothes at Mason.

“Are you staying here? You can take the guest room, if you want.”

“Sure. Probably easier than trying to get home this late,” Tyson shrugged and headed for the kitchen. As he heard the rustling around of what he assumed was his friend changing, Tyson got a glass of water and painkillers for when Mason woke up.

“I can drive you home tomorrow,” Mason slurred even more heavily as he began getting more tired. He’d managed to get his jeans off and a pair of shorts on before moving onto the shirt. He’d just pulled his shirt off when Tyson walked back in the room with the water.

“Woah,” he said quietly, stopping quickly.

For whatever reason, he’d never realized that he had never seen his teammate and friend shirtless. That was weird, especially when you played sports together for a living. He assumed it was due to the faded scars along his chest, almost in a u-shape under each pec.

He didn’t even know what kind of injury would cause that kind of surgery.

“When did you get surgery?”

Fuck was all that ran through Mason’s head.

[angrylizardjacket]

take me to your heart

Summary: Lola's never had a proper Christmas, and after this one, she still hasn't, but Tommy's a surprisingly good gift giver. Set during the tour with Roxie, but well after she's departed.

A/N: Written on my phone, v Christmas. Warning: Lola n Nikki give each other dirty gifts but the fic is sfw. Tommy-centric. Also idk if he's genuinely greek orthodox, he might not be idk

[run to paradise]

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"Sharise wants to do something for Christmas," Vince sighs, his heels resting on the table of the tour bus. Lola, at least, looks up from her magazine with a frown, though she seems to be the only one paying attention.

"She's in LA."

"We'll be in Phoenix by then, its not that long of a flight," Vince answers quickly, and Lola goes back to her magazine. "I don't know what to get her."

"A six-pack and edible panties," comes Nikki's answer, half distracted where he was trying to write lyrics. Vince's expression, however, wrinkles.

"Have you ever bought a present for a lady who wasn't Lola?" He snaps, crossing his arms, and though he can't see Lola's amused expression, he hears her snort of laughter.

"Yes," Nikki responds flatly, finally looking up, "but incase you haven't noticed," he gestured around to the bus, which was filled only with the band, as well as Doc and Lola, "none of them are still here."

"That's correlation, man, not causation -"

"You know what? Fuck your five dollar words, man, I was trying to help." Nikki snapped, picking up his notebook in a huff and heading to the back of the bus. Silence fills the air, Vince sulking a little, Tommy just looking between Lola and Vince. Mick, who was trying to nap, sighs deeply and shifts in his uncomfortable seat.

"Is that all you've ever gotten for Christmas?" Tommy asks and Lola's response is surprisingly honest.

"Zero expectationsl, zero disappointments; drink, eat, fuck, like any other day." She does give pause there, the magazine rustling as her grip tightens just a little, and when she lowers it, there's amusement in her eyes. "Also, grape is the best flavour."

"What?"

"For edible panties."

"You guys are absolutely no help." Vince declares. Mick just laughs at that.

Lola's never been too bothered by not having a proper Christmas, she and Nikki live a pretty secular life when they weren't dabbling in Satanism, and the others were usually too busy doing their own things around the holidays to notice the pair's lack of any sort of traditions. Usually they'll buy each other booze, or some sort of joke present, but its never been a particularly sentimental time for Lola, not that anyone had really noticed her apathy enough to care.

Until now.

The holidays have always been a sentimental time for Tommy, and though he'd strayed from his Greek Orthodox roots, he still took it as a chance to show his family how much they meant to him, and now he was feeling like a fool for leaving his band-family out for so long.

What the hell could he get them that they didn't already have?

Nikki was easy, as it turned out. One quick phonecall home, his father spends about twenty minutes rifling through the junk Tommy had left from hia teenage years, and a poster, heavily creased and golden with age, is waiting at their next hotel, express shipped. Nikki didn't want or need any fancy packaging, so Tommy bought a big, yellow envelope and put the poster inside, along with a lighter he'd bought at a gas station. It looked cheap, a bit rough around the edges, but he was pretty sure Nikki would appreciate it all the same.

Mick was a little more difficult, seeing as he was almost guaranteed to throw out any joke gifts, or amything he didn't want. It feels like a cop-out, to just give him booze - expensive booze, mind you - instead of something sentimental. As luck would have it, Tommy finds himself scoring blow in an alley beside a pawn shop, and once the deal's done, he spots an iridescent alien-head keychain. He tapes the charm to the bottle of booze, amd slaps a bow on it, and is satisfied.

He and Vince have been exchanging Christmas presents since high school, as long as they were in the same town. Mostly they're joke presents. Tommy's had this year's picked out for months; a Malibu Barbie he'd repainted himself with Vince's stage make-up. Vince he didn't need to worry about.

Lola was a different story. She lived her life in the shadow of the band's, her existence, her belongings, were a patchwork of their leftovers; her creature comforts were consumables, and while she always took whatever she could wherever she was, it was because she could, not because she wanted things. What can you get for the girl who seems to want nothing, and still gets everything?

"Lola doesn't want things, she wants experiences, opportunities," Vince is the one who Tommy finally goes to for advice, and was the only one who Tommy knew would be actually helpful. They're in Vince's dressing room now, Tommy polishing off a bottle of Jack while Vince touches up his own eyeliner. Tommy's frowning, still at a loss, and he lowers the bottle. Their eyes meet in the reflection of the mirror, and Vince visibly hesitates before speaking again.

"Have you ever heard her play piano?"

Christmas rolls around and they're stuck in a hotel in Arizona. They're finishing the tour in LA just days before New Years Eve; the end is so close they can all almost taste it.

Sharise invites them all to dinner, well, she invites Lola when she learns that Lola's never had a proper Christmas dinner and 'the rest of them can come too if they want'. Tommy feels like Santa, laden with gifts, as he gets to the private room they had booked at the nicest resturant in town that was still open. He'd spent the morning organising Lola's gift, and was glad to have a break to eat before he gave it to her, or more accurately, took her to it.

"We were meant to bring presents?" Lola looks immediately panicked when he steps inside with a rather full backpack. She starts patting down her pockets as if hoping to magically find a pile of gifts there. "I didn't- I mean like I didn't bring them- its just drinks- nice drinks -" she clarified, but Tommy grins brightly.

"It's chill, Lols, I just saw this stuff around and thought it would be nice, its not a big deal," with that he laughed a little self consciously, "and dude, I'm sorry but I don't even have a thing to give you."

Lola can't help but be a little put out by that, still strangely childish in ways that continue to baffle Tommy, but he hopes she'll appreciate his gift, even if he can't give it to her with the others.

They do exhange gifts; Tommy gives Sharise champagne, and she seems more amused by his gift to Vince than Vince is. Vince, for his part, gives Tommy an ornate fountain pen, which has Tommy confused at first, while Nikki roars with laughter, pulling out an incredibly cheap ballpoint with a bow on it.

"You guys are fucking assholes," Tommy scowls once he realises, though by now even Lola's snickering. The scar from where Roxie had stabbed him several months ago begins to ache, just a little.

Mick, like Lola, doesn't have any gifts either, but he passes her a lighter and gruffly tells her he found it on the bus, that it was her's and that this isn't a gift. He does, however, smile at the keychain Tommy gives him, and in a few days, Tommy will see it looped around the handle of one of his guitar cases.

To no ones surprise, Nikki puts a six-pack and a pair of cheap, grape flavoured, edible panties on the table, and slides it gracelessly across the table to Lola wearing a shiteating grin. Mirroring his smile, Lola reaches into the inner pocket of her jacket, and flicks him a little cardboard package. Its unmarked, nondescript, and absolutely no-one at that table trusted Lola to have put something appropriate in that box. Everyone waits with a sort of morbid curiosity as Nikki shakes the box, giving pause before opening it.

"It vibrates." Is all Lola says as he holds up the bright purple cockring, smile on his face giving away how genuinely amused he was with it.

"Presents are cancelled," Sharise declared with faux exasperation, but Tommy's already protesting, holding out his own gift to Nikki.

Sharise hands Lola a small present as Nikki unwraps his. For Lola, its new black lipstick and eyeliner, and for Nikki, its an old poster of his band, London, and a cheap lighter. Nikki's expression is unreadable, blinking slowly at the poster, the room's gone quiet enough that everyone can hear it crinkle in his hands as he looks up at Tommy's smile.

"It's the one I used to have on my wall, man; my folks kept all my old posters, I thought you might wanna burn the shit out of this one." He gestures to the lighter, nervousness bubbling in his stomach, unsure of how Nikki feels about it, his face still a little shocked.

Little by little, Nikki's lips turn to a smile, a bright, beaming, genuine grin. He practically launches himself across Mick to wrap Tommy in a hug, fierce and bright. Mick grumbles, but Nikki just crows about how weirdly cool it was.

"Yeah, i figured arson and petty revenge are like, two of your favourite things," Tommy babbles, hugging Nikki back, quietly pleased with himself. Its a strangely endearing moment, and when Tommy looks over at her, he catches Lola's adoring smile as she watches them, but its gone quickly.

Dinner is fun, between the bottles of rum they finish off between them and the lines of coke they have for dessert, which Sharise mostly abstains from, they don't really get out of line. Except for when Nikki sets the poster on fire with the candle in the middle of the table, and he ends up getting kicked out.

Whatever, he was mostly done anyways.

After dinner they all go their separate ways, but Tommy catches Lola before she gets too far. She's tipsy, grinning in the cold night air, happy to let Tommy lead her where he may. Lacing her finger with his, her free hand swings the six-pack Nikki had gotten her, while she hums a tune Tommy recognises but can't place.

They come to a stop outside of the Hall where the band were due to perform the following night, their equipment bus parked and quiet beside the building.

"Nothing's in there yet; we're bumping in tomorrow morning," Lola says, her hamd still in his. Tommy just grins, pulling a set of keys from his pocket, jangling them enticingly.

"So we've got the whole night."

Inside, in the middle of the stage, lit by a single warm, golden spotlight, sits a grand piano. The whole building is empty, save for the two of them, and Lola's grip on his hand tightens. All words leave her, eyes going wide and surprised.

Walking forward, she heads towards the piano, but she doesn't let go of his hand, gently tugging him along with her. His name leaves her lips, a disbelieving, reverential utterance. The lid is already lifted and she carresses the keys with her free hand.

"You didn't have to-" she turns to him, expression awed, but he gives her hand a squeeze.

"Merry Christmas, Lols."

Stepping up to him, her hand is gentle on his cheek, far more gentle, more tender than he was used to her being. Leaning in, they kiss softly, in sync, fitting together as they always had, as they were always meant to. Pulling away, Tommy's grin is fond as he kisses the tip of her nose. Untangling their fingers, he gestures wordlessly to the piano.

Lola sits, hesitates, listening to Tommy's retreating footsteps.

"Where are you going?" She asks quietly, fingers dancing across the keys as she plays a quick scale.

"Vince told me-"

"That snitch." Lola laughs softly, before adding, "'told you I don't like an audience, didn't he?" Tommy agrees, still paused halfway to the door. Lola is quiet for a moment, and she stops in her movements, but then she starts up again, and Tommy's heart is in his throat as he hears thw opwning bars of the song he'd been working on for almost a month amd a half now. The song's not yet finished, but he'd know the opening to Home Sweet Home anywhere.

"Can you stay?" Lola's voice is barely audible above the music. "If you want to, I'd like you to stay." And she doesn't know the lyrics, so she keeps playing what she's heard him play a hundred times over.

"I didn't know you knew this that well," Tommy finds himself smiling, walking back to the piano, to sit down beside Lola where she's shifted over to make room for him. She's smiling too, genuine, actually a little bashful, and she's still playing when she admits her thoughts.

"It's shaping up to be one of my favourites."

[riotneko]

Get to know me!

Idk if this is supposed to be through reblogs/notes or whatever so ill just answer them right now. Deleted some that I don't know that's why the numbers are weird.

Feel free to rb with copy/pasted questions and ur own answers :)

1. What is you middle name? Don't have one.

2. How old are you? 17.

3. When is your birthday? December 31st.

4. What is your zodiac sign? Capricorn.

5. What is your favorite color? Green, purple/pink. Closely followed by red and blue.

7. Do you have any pets? 2 cats and 1 dog

8. Where are you from? Zurich, Switzerland

9. How tall are you? 5'6 or barely 5'7

11. How many pairs of shoes do you own? 4

15. Favorite song? Midnight City by m83, lila wolken by material lovers who uncover/ not in love by crystal castles are some of them.

16. Favorite movie? Zootopia and judge dredd

17: Sexuality and gender? Bi and cis boy.

18. Do you want children? Maybe. Depends on how my mental health develops.

20. Are you religious? Nope.

22. Have you ever got in trouble with the law? Nah.

27. Would you like to be a big celebrity? I don't think I could handle the huge attention and expectations of being perfect all the time.

28. What type of music do you like? I really like experimental music, rap, witch house, rock, indie pop, stuff like PC music. All kinds of stuff.

30. How many pillows do you sleep with? Two.

34. Have you ever fired a gun? Yeah and it was fun.

35. Have you ever tried archery? Yes. Was fun as well.

36. Favorite clean word? Too many to choose from.

37. Favorite swear word? Probably cvnt because of how raw it sounds in both English and German.

38. What’s the longest you’ve ever gone without sleep? Two or three days. Was a mistake lol.

39. Do you have any scars? On my lip from slipping on a big rock as a kid.

40. Have you ever had a secret admirer? Yeah it was actually was a girl that unironically bullied me. Either due to peer pressure or to get my attention. Either way I wanted nothing to do with her after what she and the others put me through.

41. Are you a good liar? I guess I could be.

42. Are you a good judge of character? Usually.

43. Can you do any other accents other than your own? Yeah but not that believable.

44. Do you have a strong accent? Nope I don't think so. Especially when speaking English compared to other people whose first language is German/ swiss German.

46. What is your personality type? Shy but not a pushover, rather feminine I guess, sarcastic smartass.

47. What is your most expensive piece of clothing? A jacket that was like 150-300 bucks

51. Are you scared of spiders? No they are cute uwu

52. Favorite food? Kfc, kebab or ramen.

58. Do you have much of an ego? Sometimes.

60. Do you talk to yourself? When I need to think really hard. Idk why but it makes it easier.

61. Do you sing to yourself? No.

62. Are you a good singer? Bigger no.

63. Biggest Fear? Used to be school.

66. Do you like long or short hair? I have had long hair since I was like 10.

68. Favorite school subject? English or art history

69. Extrovert or Introvert? Introvert.

71. What makes you nervous? A lot of things. Seeing people I used to go to school with? Even if we used to be friends and they are always nice to me idk why. Also I have anxiety so yeah there's that. Oh and I guess also being near places that I have terrible experiences with. Like the before mentioned school even though I don't have to interact with it.

73. Do you correct people when they make mistakes? Depending on context.

74. Are you ticklish? Yes, extremely. I was always (still am but not as often) the main tickle target in my friend group/ family. If there was a chance to pin me down and tickle the crap out of me with no mercy they took it. Often to also verbally taunt/ tease me about the situation I'm in or to get me to say embarrassing stuff. My mom saw me being tickled by friends once and even cheered them on, gave em tips and thought it was funny. ”take his socks off and really get his bare feet and he'll talk in no time! That's the best method of tickling him.". It was all in good fun tho I'm not angry or anything. Also at Family gatherings I'm usually still guaranteed to get tickled helplessly like that at least once tho & this Christmas is another one... At least I'll get to laugh?

75. Have you ever started a rumor? I don't think so

77. Have you ever drank underage? A few sips. But here most alcohol is ok if you are 16 and some like vodka is 18+

79. Who was your first real crush? A girl that stood up for me when I got picked on when I was 9 or 10 lol

80. How many piercings do you have? None

82. How fast can you type? Gay speed

83. How fast can you run? Sonic wants what I can

84. What color is your hair? Natural is dark brown but I've had it dark red (red red not orange red), orange/brown and currently black.

85. What color is your eyes? Dark Brown.

88. What do your parents do? Mom works with kids and my dad did some shady military/ government stuff that he never specified. Not sure what he does now.

89. Do you like your age? Yeah.

90. What makes you angry? Bullying/injustice and old people starting at me on the bus.

91. Do you like your own name? It's Ali and yes but people sometimes don't believe me because I don't look Arabic at all.

93. Do you want a boy a girl for a child? Both would be ok.

94. What are you strengths? Strong sense of justice, loves to help people, creativity are some.

95. What are your weaknesses? I overthink a lot of stuff and am bad at dealing with trauma/ letting go of the past.

96. How did you get your name? My parents picked it or something idk

97. Do you collect something? I like creepy and cute stuff. Cute stuff is easier to find here and so far I guess I have a small hello kitty collection. 5 plushies, few patches, ice cream machine, shirt, figure, keychain. It's not even because I specifically collect hello kitty it's just that I find her so cute that if she's on it chances are ill like it enough to buy it.

100. Color of your room? I'll make it green. Not a very strong shade though.

[phantumpoftheopera]

Okay, here’s the LONG birthday post I was too busy to make over the weekend!

So while I was at work Thursday, three packages were delivered to me. I didn’t know who the first one was from, but I knew the other two were from Inry and Robert. I was planning on streaming Hiveswap when I got home so I was in a hurry and had to set up for the stream and also try to open the packages at the same time once I finally got home and in my room.

So I logged into Twitch first, then decided to open the boxes…and that was my first mistake, because after opening them I absolutely did not want to stream anymore, lol.

The first box was from Amazon and did not have a name attached, but it contained a VERY cute Alolan Vulpix plush, which I LOVE and need to give a name. I had to send a thank you not through Amazon in order to find out who it was from, and it was from Salem! Thank you so much, she’s the cutest!

The second package was from Robert, and I wanted to save the one from Inry for last. It was SUPPOSED to be just a card, since that’s what he original TOLD me it was. But it was actually a rather large box, so I opened that and read the beautiful, upside-down card first, which was signed by several of my wondertag friends! Thanks guys!

Then I went to see what the gift inside was…and I pulled out a Nintendo Switch box. My FIRST reaction was, of course, to be like “WHAT THE FUCK,” as several people can attest to, because I was reacting in real time in multiple servers and in a DM convo with Robert. Then my second reaction was to assume the box was holding something else and it was a fake-out. I put the box to the side for a second because I saw there was something smaller under the packing peanuts, and pulled out a Switch screen cover and Splatoon 2. So NOW my reaction was again “WHAT THE FUCK” because I am horrible, why would anyone get me a Switch??

Turns out that was purchased by Inry, Wynn, Sai, Cass, and Robert, and I was literally crying and I am crying right now thinking about it because holy shit, that is…so sweet, y’all, that’s so nice and I there was no way I was gonna be able to get one for myself. And I LOVE IT and I wanna go home and play right now.

Then I opened the third package, which was from Inry, which I also love! Inry’s card alluded to the Switch so I wish I had opened theirs first, lol, but oh well. I got some cute Love Live! Keychains, a Riko figure (my fave Aqours girl so yay!), some super cute socks, a pen, and Kinder chocolate.

So that was Thursday. I had to stream after that and Hiveswap was being a jerkface so I didn’t get to do that, but I DID finish my mystery egg run of Pokemon Sun!

Shiny also got me Persona 3 and Tales of Hearts R for the Vita!

Friday was my actual birthday, so I drove up to Maryland. I left around 12:30 and arrived around 5:30. We had dinner reservations for 6 at Olive Garden, so I picked up my mom and grandma and booked it there, arriving around 6:10. And I’m impressed I managed that considering I had to fit my mom, grandma, my mom’s wheelchair, AND my grandma’s walker in my car. For reference, my car is a fuchsia Mitsubishi Mirage. Color isn’t relevant, I just want you to know it’s fuchsia because it’s super cute. But VERY SMALL. Still, I managed to do it.

Boska and Rachel also hosted pokemon giveaways in honor of my birthday, which was awesome! I still need to pick those pokemon up. And April made me a super cute drawing of Gatomon!

We met my brother at Olive Garden, but somehow they lost our reservation. As an apology, the manager took 25% off our bill and gave us a free appetizer. Plus I got a free dessert! Tiramisu, mmmm!

I stayed at my grandma’s this weekend. Saturday was my best friend’s daughter’s birthday party so I went there, after stopping to buy her some books for her birthday. I got a 20% off educator’s discount because I work at a college, so that was cool. The party was at Discovery Station, a hands-on family-friendly museum in Hagerstown. It’s in a very old building and it smells like it, lol. But the kids had fun and there was some cool stuff there. We laughed about the Titanic replica having a picture of Jack and Rose at the bow of the ship.

I saw my other grandmother briefly on Saturday but I was tired so I went back to my grandma’s early. I played a little campaign mode in Splatoon 2 and also some Tales of Hearts R. I also played the Danganronpa V3 demo and fell in love with one character and that’s dangerous in this franchise.

Yesterday I hung out with my grandma some more and went through old pictures (you may have seen the ones I posted, lol) and took some with me because my grandma is worried no one will take them when she passes. I got home around 8 PM last night and FINALLY got to play Splatoon with Cass and Wynn. I also played a bit with Sai and Wynn this morning before work.

So YEAH it was a GREAT birthday. Oh also, a few days before my birthday I got the package containing a Pocket Sai (a Sableye they crocheted!) and chocolate from Sai and that was awesome!

So thanks everyone for making my birthday really great! My last two have been amazing, which more than makes up for like…15 years of awful birthdays, haha. It’s also my last one because I will never acknowledge turning 30 next year. I hate the number 3 and I can’t bear the thought of a decade of 3s.

[kitto-toberu-sa]

DigiFes

It’s a long day folks. We were up at 5 to get to the venue by 7. You aren’t meant to line up until 8 and goods weren’t meant to go on sale until 10.

Heaps of people were there earlier in a somewhat orderly fashion. But management decided to fuck us all around and said we needed to line up from the opposite end of where we were. This may not seem like a big deal, but remember items are limited and resellers are a thing. This was a chance for people who arrived later to get to the front.

There was a literal stampede. People were screaming and being shoved. I was separated from my group numerous times, and only got back with them due to shoving others and the kindness of other fans who clearly realised I was with the other foreigners.

To get to the other side, management made us go in a complete circle. It was unnecessary and quite frankly, a little dangerous. It didn’t stop people who were there earlier from being close to the line, or help those who arrived on time be rewarded. It was just bad planning.

Of course, then it started raining. Umbrellas went up and if I hadn’t of been wearing glasses I would have been poked in the eye more than once. To say it was unpleasant would be an understatement.

The line slowly shuffled along. Every now and again people behind us would start pushing like mad, despite the fact that the line wasn’t moving. It was 35+ degrees Celsius, no air con, everyone was a bit hot and bothered. These jerks were not helping or doing anything to get the line moving faster.

If you follow my snapchat and/or twitter, you may have seen me mention the kindness of fans. This specifically refers to one lady in line who let me stay under her umbrella with her and who talked to me when I was separated from my friends. It also refers to another girl who kindly returned one of my badges to me.

You read that right. The lines and shoving were so bad, numerous people were having items ripped off their ita bags.

I don’t care where you’re from, that’s disgusting. It’s unnecessary, rude and disheartening. We’re all meant to be fans of the same thing and we all know some of these items are expensive or rare. The fans who were helping others get their things back were the MVPs of the day. Everyone who pushed and shoved can eat dog food for the rest of their life.

Goods started being sold early, at 9. Most likely due to the feral crowd. We were only a little over 100 people into the line, but by the time we got there, all of the keychains had sold out, as had some other items. On the other hand, by the time the first session finished, most items were sold out yet the amount of tshirts left was overflowing. Whoever did the math in the product department really needs to be fired. So many goods were gone, and the badges being so limited was honestly appalling. They want our money and Tri is a pretty blatant cash cow to the point it’s disgusting, yet they limited the badges (among others), one of the few things people are happy to buy quite a lot of, to such a small amount. Very bad planning. Lots of people were disappointed and trading was mediocre as a result.

We left the building just after 12. We’d spent around five hours lining up, buying goods and trading. We went to a supermarket and got some food, and since we had our trading stuff still out, a little girl came over to talk to us. I was with people who got Meiko badges (so many people did) and they didn’t want her, so they gave the badges to the little girl and her brother. A new set of Digi fans in the making???

I ended up trading the Koushirou acrylic stand to THE Koushirou fan. She lost her shit. In exchange I got ‘frontier no debu’ (the frontier fatty). She couldn’t remember Junpei’s name ;;; I also traded something else (Omegamon?) for LadyDevimon which is an A++++++ trade, tho the other girl was very confused as to why I wanted LDevimon. I SO regret not ordering that figure it’s sooooooo beautiful!!!! They had the prototypes for the sibling figures as well, and I can’t wait until the Yamakeru one is mine, they’re so cute!!!

For seats, I was in the fifth row, pretty much in the centre. Before you went in they had the life size AguGabu duo. One kid was like ‘um, no thanks!’ when his mum made him have a photo with them and I ended up sitting next to him. The girl on my other side was there for the first time too and pretty much cried the entire time haha

So first up was a talk and the reveal of the twitter poll. Nobody believed Jyou has a girlfriend – everyone thought that scene was the funniest moment. This happened a few times during the conversation. Every time it came up, his VA would just stand up, shrug and go I DO TOO HAVE A GIRLFRIEND.

Meiko got a lot of support – Junko (iirc) said she supported Meiko because ‘she moved to Tokyo from the country’. As someone who lives in rural Japan, I can totally relate! Literally nobody supported Yamato lmao

I apologise that it’s short, but it was funny and interesting, but I can’t remember a lot of specifics sorry ;;; Fans and staff were shocked Leomon died. Like, have y’all ever been involved in this franchise????

Mini live – Miyazaki then AiM. Most people are only familiar with adventure stuff tho, which is kinda sad. It is also the main focus of fes so it’s understandable.

Next was advertising. Basically the figures, Agumon being in Appmon etc. Unfortunately, they showed a lot of this pre-show while we were waiting, so it was pretty dumb and pointless unless you came in just before the show started :/

The trailer, obviously online now, made people excited. I’m hoping Hikari goes dark either because of Taichi, or she tries to fight Takeru and Taichi gets in the way and gets hurt hehe~ Nobody really spoke about it tho.

Next was the drama segment. Essentially, there’s a singing contest and the winner gets an all you can eat buffet with them and friends. Obviously, with nine kids and mons, that's a great prize! Yamato wasn’t there due to his VA being ill, which came up a few times.

They all sung their chara songs, which was a little dull tbh. If it had been last year, it would have been great promo for the cds, but this year it feels too late and they didn’t want to put effort into a full drama.

Jyou ran off because the pressure made him have a bad stomach. Gomamon tried to bring him back and failed. Gabumon tried to bring Yamato in but failed but Gabu sung. Most of the cast didn’t sing. Hikari and Gomamon sung. Takeru did as well, Patamon blew him out of the water since it’s Seiyuu was jumping around and being cute.

Mimi sung I wish iirc and then started with Super Girl. AiM came out and they duet’d. It was pretty rad and you can hear how close new Mimi is to AiM’s Mimi. Palmon was like ‘wow two Mimi’s!!’ and Koushirou was ??? a little confused by past and present versions.

Agumon’s seiyuu ROCKED Agumon Sunba and then  Agumon Ondo (fit will since it’s matsuri and obon season). I would drink with her any day of the week. The seiyuu and lifesize Agu Gabu all joined in to dance, and it was cute how some of them had no clue what they were doing.

Meikuumon also sung. Weird to see the VA do the voice change so quickly. And she’s so tall??

Anyway, Agumon won and Mimi was low key pissed. “I lost to Agumon? That’s kinda…”

Then, the new song. Aikotoba. Holy shit it’s pretty. It’s very soothing, their voices work so well together. Please buy a copy of the CD!!!! I haven’t heard a single person say they didn’t like it. Wonderful song and lyrics.

Of course, everyone sang Butterfly. They had Wada-san’s performance from the time when they announced tri, which was special. Everyone gets kinda emotional. It’s definitely a moment where everyone feels like family.

In the group photo, I can’t be seen but I can see my light stick lol Most people had red or blue, so I chose green to represent Mimi (no point in representing Yama if he isn’t there lol). So it was easy to figure out where I was haha

By the time we left it was 4ish, and by the time we got home it was 9. A very, very long day, but a mostly eventful and amazing one <3

[lia-nikiforov]

Spring Amiami Haul: YOI goodies and other stuff!

Remember how I keep saying that I’m unemployed and poor as dirt? Well, I still am both things, but money’s not gonna save anyone when the Orange Overlord kills us all so I’ll have my YOI merch with extra avocado pls. Thought it would be cute and funny to let you in on my road to financial self-destruction and maybe convince you to buy some of these things and throw money at Yuri on Ice becuse it might be officially and irrevocably the best selling anime of 2016 but this is Sayokan and she needs ALL THE MONEYZ to make that movie this isn’t quite how anime is made but i believe in principle the more money that gets thrown into any series’s products in any capacity, the more money will get thrown into its production see Attack on Titan. In this post we’ll look at my March and April purchases and cry over how beautiful these things are and how poor I am.

Starting with the March set, which is comparatively smaller

First we have the Yuri!!! on Ice school calendar which I bought basically because I wanted a calendar and the MAPPA one was too costly with shipping charges and I thought I couldn’t make that expense (how innocent I was). It’s a cute lil’ thing, with a few funny things in it and also a bit of design laziness which is a bit sad. To get the bad stuff out of the way first, as you can see, the cover illustration is completely original and our boys are looking very smart in those suits, nothing wrong with that...

except half of the calendar pages are just the same illustration, just individually. So we have Victor alone for one page (June-July), Yurio alone for another and Yuuri alone in the last one. I would’ve rather they used other official illustrations instead of recycling the cover thrice over ):. THe remaining three illustrations are cute, I particularly like the one for December-January, Yuuri looks so pure :3

What’s weird and funny about this calendar is they decided, for some inexplicable reason, to have it all in Russian. The names of the days and months are ALL in Russian, and cyrillic to boot. Idk what they were going for but it’s quirky and unique, so I like it. It’s not like I actively use calendars anyway, I just use them to tear them apart and stick the illustrations on my walls. The calendar is available on amiami

On to the next item

A relatively simple phone cleaner strap, nothing much to say about it. It’s punipuni like Yuuri’s off-season chub (still can’t believe this is a canon thing) and works good for a quick clean of your screen if you’re not home. This one is currently sold out on Amiami, but they might restock eventually (wow that cost more than I remember, I was so liberal with my money when I had job lol)

The last item from the March haul is this acrylic accessory stand that depicts Yuuri at the end of his free skate in China. I don’t even own or wear any jewelry or accessories, but I just had to have it, it’s so beautiful ;----; Cup of China Yuuri is very important to me, ok? You can see I’m using it to hold my kanzashi and an ear-pick lol. Ngl I thought it would be big enough to hold my smartphone, but it isn’t and I don’t care, he’s beautiful. He’s still available on Amiami, and there are other designs to choose from too. If a girl like me who wears no jewelry could find room for it, I’m sure you can too!

Now, onto the April stuff

Firstly there’s these two cleaning cloths depicting Victor and Yuuri from the first Key visual which I love. I’ve also tested them and they’re really effective, even without cleaning liquid. They’re a bit more plastic-y than the one I had before so they don’t leave any fuzz on the screen, which is gr9. These were kind of a spur of the moment purchase half of my YOI stuff has been spur of the moment purchases because I thought amiami would flat-rate EMS and since I expected the box to be big given how it came with two figures and a coin case and a keychain, I thought SAL would be like 1800ish (what I paid the last time I had a figma and Nendoroid shipped together) and EMS 2000 and figured 200 yen would be worth not having to wait three months for the items to arrive, so I could have the luxury of making it a true huge haul. Turns out 1) There isn’t a flat rate on EMS 2) SAL was only 1300, so I went for SAL and it arrived so fast it was like a Golden Week miracle.

Aaaanyway, these are still available on Amiami, as well as a Yurio variant and they’re also pretty big –you can see they cover the figure boxes-, I recommend them if you’re looking for a new cleaning cloth or smth.

Next we have this adorable Victor keychain which is waaay bigger than I thought it would be I really need to start paying attention to sizes (for reference, from skate to skate he’s about  1 cm shorter than a Nendoroid). I don’t particularly understand the buzz for “Pinched” character goods, but this one I bought at a time in which I was restless because I wanted to throw money at Sayokan but the BDs weren’t affordable at all –even now, counting ALL the YOI shit I’ve preordered, and I’ve shit PO’ed up til August, I don’t even come close to what buying all the BDs would’ve cost- and these keychains came out for preorder and I loved how Victor had his legs so dramatically extended, so I impulse pre-ordered him lol. Of course, I’m not actually gonna use it as a keychain because I’m afraid his legs would break given what a rough treatment my keys go through, but I’ll hang him from a shelf and he’ll look cute :3

He’s still available at Amiami along with Yurio, Yuuri and Makkachin and I’m fairly certain there are also cellphone strap versions if that’s what you prefer.

And last but not least (since I forgot to take individual pics of the figures and I haven’t even unboxed them yet, I’ll do those in a separate post) we have this beautiful beautiful beautiful coin case!

Like I just don’t have any words, it’s just so beautiful, it completely surpassed all my expectations. It has so many little details I want to cry.

The synthetic leather is so soft and the baby blue color is adorable and the print looks even better in person than in the prototype, it’s such a lovely pattern too.

What made it a deal-breaker for me was this little depiction of the hair-poke, literally end my life

I’ll admit this isn’t my favorite type of coin case because I feel it’s prone for dropping money, especially if you’re carrying a lot of coins (not a problem for me since I don’t have money at all :’D), but I literally couldn’t care less, it’s so beautiful and perfect I will treasure it forever. I can’t possibly overstate how in love I am with this thing.

Playful Mind company has a variety of designs of different items such as phone cases, card cases, ticket holders etc, with this and other cute patterns, so I totally recommend you check them out, most of them seem to still be available on Amiami :D A+++ recommend, I honestly feel tempted to buy another one with a different design just because they’re so pretty.

 BONUS

Yes, if you thought I wouldn’t take this opportunity to once again flaunt my beloved calendar, light of my life, my everything, you were WRONG. Like I said before, I originally didn’t intend to buy it because the shipping costs were so insane at CDJapan, but I succumbed when preview pictures started flooding in and turned out to be way more beautiful than I ever expected orz.  Barely scraped in the last few days of preorders, and now it’s sold out af.

Also, I originally planned to get the Yuri on Life guidebook and take it to be autographed to the convention –in case you missed it, see my report of this most momentous occasion here- but the guidebook was delayed (and has been delayed three times as of this writing, still have it PO’ed though) so this beautiful calendar became The Chosen One. I love it so much, literally bury me with it when I die.

That’s all for this season, next one probably won’t be until late August when I’ve gotten both Nendos cos there’s no point in separating them. I’d hoped this would be longer and include the Animestyle, Yuri on Life and Go Yuri Go books but since the latter two got delayed yet again and I’m too poor to afford separate shipments, it’ll all have to wait til late fucking June *sobs* But hey, the summer haul is gonna be monstrous *my YOI wallet sobs*

Like I said, who’s gonna need money when the Orange Overlord kills us all. I just hope he holds off until I get my Yuuri and Victor Nendoroids though

It’s four am I’m sorry I’m in highkey idiot mood.

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Japan Trip June 2016 Day 2: Pokemon Center, Laforet in Harajuku, Sailor Moon exhibit, meeting Misako Aoki, Closet Child Ikebukuro

Day 2 was our first full day in Japan and it was full of activities!

The view from outside our hotel window!

My bf and I decided to try the ticket machine restaurant that was right next to our hotel called Matsuya, mostly for a convenient breakfast that was cheap and fast.  We ended up liking it a lot and eating here multiple times during our trip whenever we wanted food in the early morning or late night and didn't feel like walking anywhere LOL.

I've never eaten at a ticket machine restaurant before!  The way it works is that you choose what you want to order at a machine (it looks kinda like an arcade machine LOL) and insert your money (cash only) straight into the machine.  The machine gives you a ticket with your order on it, which you give to the attendant who will make your order and bring it out!  Really fast and efficient!

The tickets!

I ordered a pork belly rice bowl and bf ordered beef with curry.  I ended up liking the beef more than my pork LOL they both tasted pretty good though and were filling with was nice!  The meals all come with miso soup too.  They give you a lot of food for a low price! 

Afterwards we met up with my friend and her bf and we were on our way!  

Since our hotel is so close to Sunshine City we decided to cut through there on our way to Ikebukuro station.  Sunshine City is a pretty big mall that has a lot of attractions in it!  The highlights are the Pokemon Center, two small indoor amusement parks called Namjatown and J-world, an aquarium, a planetarium, and an observatory.  They also have a lot of cool shops and restaurants!  I'd definitely recommend visiting here if you ever go to Tokyo since there's so much to do.  I got lost in Sunshine city a few times because it's so huge but by the end of the trip I think I managed to be able to navigate it somewhat lolol.

The escalator leading to the Pokemon Center was decorated with Pokeballs!

We found the Pokemon Center!  It's actually the largest Pokemon Center in Japan.  My bf ended up loving this place so much lol by the end of the trip he had bought hundreds of dollars worth of stuff.  

They had a collection called PokeNeco Dolce which is really pastel and girly and CUTE.  It was my favorite thing at the Pokemon center!  You'd never see this kind of cute Pokemon merchandise in the US lol ;_;

My bf and I ended up getting the matching boy and girl Pikachu plushie keychains lol his is hanging in his car now and mine is sitting in my room since I don't wanna get it dirty.

There were a lot of cute Pokemon things around the Pokemon center too like this wall with all the Pokemon and some arcade machines we couldn't really figure out lol.

We looked at some other shops and cute things around Sunshine City and Ikebukuro while going to the station!  Exiting from Sunshine City actually puts us right in the middle of a street with a bunch of arcade machines and shops in Ikebukuro!  So it's convenient to cut through the mall especially since we were there in summer and it was humid and hot outside.

We stopped at this cute store called Sanrio Vivitix that had a lot of Sanrio products (obviously)!  I didn't buy anything but I got an outfit pic in their mirror bwahaha.

We took the train from Ikebukuro to Harajuku!  First train tickets and first time riding the train!  It was really cool to see how fast and efficient the trains run.  I was nervous to ride the train and it was a bit difficult to buy our passes at the train station since we had to look up where we were and where we wanted to go and figure out how much money to put in the machine.  

HARAJUKU!  It was really amazing to get to experience the ~famous~ Takeshita Dori even though it's mostly tourists now lol.  When I first saw the Takeshita Dori sign I felt like crying tears of joy LOL so silly.  

We looked around the shops briefly, but didn't buy anything.  I was excited to see a Wego since I'd bought some stuff from there online, but it turned out to be kinda silly since there are Wego stores EVERYWHERE in Japan lol it's kinda like the Japanese Forever 21?

We stopped for a famous Harajuku crepe!  It was delicious but pretty small lol.  There were so many choices but I think we just went with a strawberry crepe to share.  In Japan it's rude to eat while walking so you're supposed to finish eating before you start walking again.  Something I didn't know before this trip!

After walking through the length of Takeshita Dori we went to Laforet!  It's a huge mall with somewhere around 7 or 8 floors and a ridiculous amount of stores.  They have a lot of J-fashion stores!  I wanted to explore here but we didn't have much time since we were meeting up with Mika's friend Mary again. 

LOOK AT ALL THE PRETTY LOLITA DRESSES ON DISPLAY AHHH

The stores I knew I wanted to go to were Swimmer and RoseMarie Seoir and I went to them both!  I wanted to check out some lolita stores too but I didn't think we'd have time for me to browse since I'm a super slow shopper and need lots of time to make decisions LOL.  The stores are all pretty small and aren't actual invididual stores like in American malls.  They're more like huge booths with partitions separating each other.

I bought a cute waterbottle from Swimmer!  Convinced myself it was a practical purchase since I wanted a waterbottle to carry around while walking so I wouldn't get dehydrated.  I also ended up buying a dress and accessories from RoseMarie Seoir (formerly known as Syrup) lol I really wasn't expecting to spend so much so early in the trip but it's one of my favorite brands and a dress I was eyeing for a while so I tried not to feel too bad.  It's their cats and teacups print in the Marie dress cut!

Me with my shopping bag!

We looked at a few more stores around Harajuku and then went to the station where Mika's friend Mary showed us how to get train cards/Pasmo so we didn't have to buy the individual tickets every time lol.  It was really helpful!

What you do is load up the card with money (I think we put in 5000 yen initially) and whenever you go to the station just scan your card at one of the entrances.  Then you can board whatever train you want and when you exit at that station it automatically calculates the price and deducts it from your card!  Super neat.

We took a selfie in front of a vending machine in a station LOL

Afterward we went to Roppongi to go to the Sailor Moon Exhibit in the Roppongi Hills Mori Tower!  It was a lot of walking and it was pretty humid so I felt kinda gross and sweaty by the time we actually got to the building lol.  

The outside of the Roppongi Hills Mori Tower!

The Mori Tower is a very tall building in Roppongi that I believe has an art gallery/museum and a place where you can enjoy the view of Tokyo from high up!

We went inside the Mori Tower and bought our tickets to the Sailor Moon exhibit!  We had to take a long elevator ride to the get to the floor the exhibit was located on, which brought us super high up in the building.  

Our tickets to Sailor Moon Exhibit included access to a museum of Sailor Moon art and merchandise, access to a shop of Sailor Moon goods, and entrance to the Chibiusa Cafe!

The exhibit was full of a lot of really cool things!  I'm not a hardcore Moonie but I watched Sailor Moon as a kid and enjoyed the exhibit for the nostalgia factor. I've always admired the wands and other props, they look so beautiful in real life ;_; I don't collect them myself but I understand why people would, they're so detailed and pretty!

Past the exhibition of merchandise, wands, etc. there were displays of artwork from Naoko Takeuchi!  It all looked super ethereal and beautiful. I love the distinctive style of her art!

The view out of the windows was also amazing!  It was pretty cloudy/foggy that day but the view of Tokyo was pretty cool since we were high up.  You can see Tokyo Tower!

This display of Princess Serenity and Tuxedo Mask was so beautiful!

I went inside the gift shop but then left after looking around a bit because I had to go to the bathroom.  I didn't realize that you were only allowed in the gift shop once and it totally sucked because I wanted to get a souvenir but I wasted my chance LOL I was pretty bummed out about it but I ended up getting a Sailor Moon souvenir later on at the bottom of the Mori Tower so it was alright!

Anyway we were feeling pretty thirsty from the long walk and all the walking around the exhibit so my bf and I decided to get in line for the Chibiusa Cafe.  We joined up with the rest of the group before going inside although it was pretty hard to explain in my practically non-existent Japanese that we were meeting up with people and needed a table for 5 people lol

They had display models of all the food near the entrance to the cafe so you could see what you were ordering!  They also gave out menus to people in line.  All the food was super cute so I had trouble deciding what to order lol.

Sailor Moon burger with chicken nuggets and some fruit salad thingy?

Tuxedo Mask spaghetti with rose petals!

Outer senshi curry!  I wish I had ordered this lol.

They also had cute themed drinks and desserts!

My bf and I shared the parfait and the burger!  I wasn't feeling that hungry I guess but if I could go back I would totally order everything LOL.  The burger and star-shaped chicken nuggets tasted really good!  

I also liked the parfait and it was super pretty to look at LOL and humongous.  My favorite part was the sorbet on top!  I wasn't too big on the jelly stuff at the bottom but it was still good overall!

An amazing and totally coincidental thing that happened while we were eating was that we saw a girl who looked /exactly/ like Misako Aoki who was waiting in line and sat at the table next to us.  Then we really she was the ACTUAL Misako and my friend Mika and I started freaking out and wishing we had dressed in lolita fashion that day LOL.

With help from Mary we managed to ask her for pictures!  Ahhh I can't believe this amazing coincidence LOL my lolita dreams came true. I got really flustered and totally embarrassed myself fawning over here OTL we were both super giddy and giggly afterward which must've been kinda uncomfortable for Misako lolol oops.  She was super nice about it though!  She’s also really tiny and young-looking in real life like damn she was super cute LOL

Afterward we left and started heading back to the station!  At this point we split up with Mary to go back to our hotels.  We also got some ice cream and drinks at vending machines (of course lolol).

I didn't get any pictures of this part because I was holding a lot of shopping bags and was pretty tired LOL but after we got back to Ikebukuro we visited the Closet Child!  It wasn't too crowded but there was a pretty big selection since it's not as picked-over as the one in Harajuku.  I tried on some dresses and ended up getting an Emily Temple Cute dress and some smaller items.

Afterward we all decided to retire at the hotel since we had to wake up early to go on a tour the following morning.  The tour required us to be at the bus stop by 7 AM so we decided to wake up at 6 and since we were still fighting jet lag we decided to go to sleep early.

That wraps up day 2!  It was a really fun and eventful day.  The highlight was definitely the Chibiusa Cafe and meeting Misako Aoki!

Japan Trip June 2016 

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Loot from Anime Los Angeles 2017, this past weekend.  ^_^

-  Sengoku Basara The Last Party artbook -  Nendoroid Emiya Shirou -  badge ribbons -  Ranma 1/2 keychain figures -  commemorative hotel room key -  [S.H. Figuarts Bruce Lee for my cousin]

ALA is a relatively small convention---despite the con growing exponentially and my brother and I meeting I guy who thought the con was *enormous*!  (We had to tell him about Anime Expo right then and there.  ^_~  Spreading the word!)  So since ALA is smaller, with less shopping options, I tend to waste my money on a bunch of stuff I didn't have an "undying need" for, just so a lack of loot doesn't make my con results feel empty.  

Still, I had kind of wanted that Sengoku Basara artbook...!  *o*  It is the last artbook I needed from Production I.G.'s 2009 Basara series, after all.  Anyway, I went into this con expecting to not find anything I would want to buy, so I had decided beforehand that I should blow money on this artbook...which I had seen and passed up at Animebooks.com's booth, at every con that I had attended for the past year or so.  So I was shocked to find that their booth at ALA2017 did not have the one artbook that I was determined to throw my money at.  Fortunately, after asking one of their clerks about the book, they said they would bring it to the con, the next day.  ^_______________^!  Thank you, Animebooks.com booth!  ^u^  Not only that, but the book turned out to be waaaaaaay under the $60 that I was expecting from artbooks these days.  Sure, artbooks cost around $35 back when I collected them avidly, but the last time I tried to get back into artbooks, the Claymore artbook I wanted was $60.  x_x  But this Basara artbook was only $45!  ^v^!!!  And soooooooooo many drawings of Sanada Yukimura and Date Masamune...!  *u*  Even more so than the artbook for the TV series' 2 seasons, I think.  o.o  It was beautiful, from a favorite series, and a great buy.  I thought it would be all I needed from this con.

But then I ran into Nendoroid Emiya Shirou once again.  When I first saw his pre-order announcement, I thought his outfit would look great on my Nendoroid Date Masamune &/or Sanada Yukimura.  But I had already bought 8+ Nendoroids of characters I didn't know, just to give DateSana wardrobe options.  @u@;  So I had been telling myself to avoid Nendoroid Emiya Shirou.  ...But I wasn't spending my money on much else at the con...and his outfit is really versatile...and his elbows have joints for more posing options in figure photos and figure comics...  So I caved.  x_x;  I was hinting for my brother to talk me out of it, but he didn't catch on.  Then 10 minutes before exhibit hall closed, when he asked me if he could borrow all my money for 2 S.H. Figuarts figures, I blurted out, "Aw, I was thinking about getting Nendoroid Shirou...", and he decided to leave me with my money and sped off to buy just 1 S.H. Figuarts.  No going back now.  Now I had to get Nendoroid Shirou, or denying my brother 2 figures would have meant nothing.  So at the very last minute on the last day, I went to my usual, reliable GSC partner, and threw down the $40 for Shirou.  (Not a bad price for a 2-year-old Nendoroid.)  The clerk almost got Emiya Shirou, but then thought better of it and almost grabbed No Game No Life's Shiro instead.  "No, the other Shirou.  The one with the last name," I laughed.  I actually already have No Game No Life Shiro, and I can understand why any clerk would think I meant her.  She's beauuuuuuuuuutiful. ��*.*  But Shirou Emiya is going to be awesome for my DateSana figure photos.  Especially that blushing embarrassed face on Yukimura...!  LOL

There's a story behind the Bruce Lee figure too, probably more so because I didn't get it for myself.  But it wasn't a simple matter of my cousin telling me he was interested it in and asking me to buy it, like you usually hear from people shopping for friends during cons.  About 2 months ago, I had gone to Bluefin's warehouse sale in Anaheim.  Bluefin is the official US distributor for Bandai's Tamashii Nations figures.  I snapped photos at that warehouse, akwardly for an hour, with hardly anyone else there, and all the clerks' eyes on me, while waiting for my friends/family to reply to my social media posts, to tell me if they wanted me to pick up something for them.  But it wasn't until several hours after the warehouse sale that my cousin saw the posts and asked me to get the S.H. Figuarts Bruce Lee for him.  Not that long ago, I had gotten him his first high-end figure: Figma Bruce Lee.  He joked that the way I was giving him tips about figure maintenance and spotting bootlegs, implied too strongly and unrealistically, that he would be getting more high-end figures.  So I thought, "He must be happy with just one Bruce Lee figure.  Surely, he's not interested in the S.H. Figuarts which looks almost exactly the same as the Figma."  Wrong.  "Ooh!  Another Bruce Lee figure!  Can you get that one for me?  I'll pay you back!"  -.-; "Another".  What a dark hole of figure collecting I've dragged my loved ones into.  x_x;  It was $10 more at ALA2017, than the price at the warehouse sale, but he was still ok with it.  And when my brother and I returned from the con, the package of 2 yellow track suit S.H. Figuarts Bruce Lee figures had just been delivered; to be split between my brother and my cousin.  ^^;  I don't know if I'm proud of my cousin for his 3rd high-end figure, or if I should be ashamed of the #walletdying I've introduced him to.

Also out of nowhere, I found these adorable Ranma 1/2 chibi keychain figures.  ^o^!!!  Where is this revival of Ranma 1/2 merchandise coming from?  I know that Bandai Tamashii Nations is in the midst of releasing some S.H. Figuarts (and an Figuarts Zero Genma) figures for Ranma 1/2, but I didn't think other companies would make merchandise too.  Does...Does that mean there's some kind of Ranma 1/2 reboot or new OAV or a Rumiko Takahashi event on the horizon?!  *O*!!!!!!!!  That would be great!  (Because that live action Ranma 1/2 special from 2011 wasn't exactly the reboot I was looking for.  ^^; )  Anyway, usually keychain figures look derpy, even when they aren't bootlegs.  But these were so astonishingly cute-faced that I had to shell-out the cash for them.  

The rest of my loot is some con memorabilia: commemorative hotel key and badge ribbons.  The theme this year was "pirates", so even the lanyard was smudged up like an old treasure map.  I usually don't actively hunt down ribbons, a few always seem to find me.  First, some figure collector-related ribbons that my brother gives out. Then, from attending panels.  That's usually all the ribbons I get.  But this year I checked out the con's manga library and they gave out these adorable "Shhh" ribbons!  ^.^  Then while walking around, assuming that Natsume's Book of Friends might be too obscure of a series for anyone to recognize my Hiiragi cosplay, a mysterious girl gave me a Triforce ribbon because she loved Natsume Yuujinchou and Hiiragi.  ^-^  As the day progressed, I was glad that so many people recognized my cosplay, because it meant they knew Natsume Yuujinchou.  It was nice to chat about Natsume and commiserate over how no one seems to know the series, even though it's SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO GOOD and even getting a SIXTH season!  How come this series isn't more popular!?!  Or at least well-known?!  (Truthfully, I'm a little glad, because I'm shy, even though I cosplay.)  But it's such a good series!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  ^O^!!!  

Well, I think those are all the stories attached to my ALA2017 loot.  It'll be fun to look back on this in a few years and relive the con memories.