#and yes I think thanking people with songs is becoming a theme 😂

[storiesofaot]

Hey, anonymous user here! I think your blog is really cool, and your writing is peak. You seem a little shy about your posts, but I thought you should know that it's always fun to see them, whether it be drawings or your writing bloopers, and that your rambling is cute and always welcome. I just find you to be a cool person overall. Keep being you.

Hiii Anon - oh my goodness, you have no idea how much finding your message in my ask box made my day!! 🥺 Thank you so much for all the sweet and lovely words, it really means a lot! 🫶🏼

I do get a little nervous before posting, that's true - especially because I don't want to bore people with my rambles hehe. But I am glad you don't mind them 🤭 (Oh yes, the writing bloopers - proof of my sometimes a little scattered brain xD)

How Deep Is Your Love by the Bee Gees is a song which feels incredibly light, weightless and without any worries to me. It might not be everyone's cup of tea haha, but maybe you'll enjoy it!

Thanks so much, dear Anon - this was such a lovely surprise!! 🧡 I hope your day is going well, thank you for brightening mine! And I wish you all the best! 💫

[roxy206]

Trixie & Katya Watch Love Is Blind Season 4

watch here

I’m watching this like 7-8 hours earlier than planned because TRIXIE SMACKING KATYA’S ASS

I’m sorry Katya’s smile?? Like, idk, particularly great in this intro !

No. We’ve watched this together. You’ve seen her

The hand patting the arm 😭

Might as well get married for tv — way to kill my buzz lmao

Alright they’re being touchy I’m good, I’ve recovered lol

Honk shoo mimimi

I love Katya asking Trixie questions about this series as if she’s never seen it herself lmao

Although, you fuck with the lights off

Zesty? Creamy Italian?

I love this show! And you can’t stop me!

Grabbyyyyy

Here we go, baby! Here we go, baby!

It is terrible rejecting people. It’s the worst thing ever It’s much easier to be rejected Absolutely

I just. Trixie’s FACE. The way she looks down at Katya’s ass. Before smacking it. Her hand on Katya’s thigh. Please do not ask me how many times I’ve watched this.

I’m so glad ILTW is a weekend thing because frankly I don’t know how to function after watching that

The. Hand. Holding.

That’s also context dependent

I sing in the car. At the top of my lungs. I’m alone — me sitting here picturing another T & K road-trip & the two of them singing along to songs together because Katya is so comfortable with Trixie that she doesn’t care how she sounds. And Trixie being all heart eyes over it

She’s like an evil Snooki 😂😂😂😂😂

Can’t fight the moonlight Can’t fight the moonlight — I fucking love how much this song gets quoted lol

I love a creative read

Honestly from the clips alone I also don’t like Irena

If he fucking sings, Jennifer, you’re never gonna see me again — Trixie naming her next album Jennifer if this becomes a reoccurring thing

Their faces omg

Do I look gorgeous & hot? Yes

He’s cursing her!

The awareness is so sickening

Girl, you don’t have to get married to do a photoshoot

Save the date? Save the date for what, an orgy?

All his friends are hot

Marriage sucks. It is so hoaky & corny & tired & played out I want everyone to have the right to do it Sure But I think it’s corny

If I’m with you forever it’s not because I got the state of California involved Hello, thank you

I love how Trixie is so into the couples who seem in love & Katya is into the mess of it all

Ahahahahahahahaha both of them getting up off the couch

What would your wedding song be?

It would be a Reba themed wedding & everyone has to wear a little red wig

The unenthusiastic great

Oh my god. Straight people are so wild

[gatheryourships]

I mean... Yeah, that's true, lol. I'm just a bit embarrassed I don't have my character figured out as much as you and others is all. Although part of that is that I haven't spent much time thinking about her. But I think you've inspired (and certainly encouraged!) me to not just think but write more about her. Thanks for that btw! <3

Lmao, ain't it just? Hahaha. That's true. But her mom is just trying to make sure her daughter is set up and okay. She's just trying to be good mom. And as far as anyone there is concerned, who realistically expects a fellow commoner from their hometown to become a huge, well-known hero known across the land? Literally no one. And it's because of idolizing heroes from stories meant for children that she's even like that to begin with. It's a grown woman still clinging onto childhood in their eyes, not a future Hero of Faerûn.

Oh, nonono. Not an arranged marriage. Just the normal "Hey, it's time to find someone and settle down with. Just make sure they're good and responsible and hopefully already have a job of some sort (like a farm or a profitable profession of some sort)."

It only sounds that way because I have so little I've fleshed out for her and the dad thing I had only come up with the previous bit I wrote before scrapping it and starting all over again. Also, I was very tired, lmao. I promise she has a good relationship with her mom. It's just buried under all that busy house work. 😂

Yeah, and also I can't help with tragic drama, lol. But, more importantly, she can't be a hero yet. Not before BG3 events. 😉 I also wanted her to be a bit wet behind the ears, so to speak, hero-wise at the start of BG3 events. She's just a woman with a sword, who only knows how to use it in a basic sense. Barely has any experience at all. And through BG3 events better learns not just how to use her sword but how to be "hero".

That and I really liked the connecting theme of using I Want To Live (the song everyone lowkey associates with Astarion) with her via the playlist I made for her. A "nice" little low moment, where she feels alone and hopeless in comparison to later when she's in a(n actual) relationship with Astarion. Two people's own loneliness and helplessness coming together in solidarity and companionship.

Oh. Um- Yes. Lol. There's a couple main ones for her set within the game's story. And then there's plenty that... well, aren't. 😂 Not entirely sure within all of them if they're exactly her, but close enough they count I suppose. I'll talk about the two main ones here. (If I don't scare you off by horrible and dark they are lmao, oof.) But let me know if you want to hear the other, many AU ideas I have that I will probably write one day (maybe in another millennium or two lol).

The first is obviously Durge!Rosenna. Resisting Durge, of course. I imagine it’s pretty similar to main Rose. Grew up pretty similar, wanting to be a hero, all that. Albeit with a slight, ever growing dark bloodthirsty edge to it all. Gets in a fight with her mother. Leaves. The same.

When she wakes up, on the mindflayer ship, she barely remembers herself. And with a little bit of time that’s all she remembers. Fight with her mother and going to leave. Except as she learns/remembers later is that in her anger she let her dark urge completely consume her. And she went wild. Basically if anyone were to ask about that little hamlet today, it doesn’t exist anymore. It’s a complete ghost town.

From there she went to Baldur’s Gate like she always planned and instead of a hero’s path instead leaned further into her dark urge and Bhaal, eventually teaming up with the other two Dead Three avatars. It’s not until BG3 events she gets mentally knocked back to a morally good, wanting to be a hero version of herself again that things change, thankfully for the better - for her and for everyone else.

The second is spawn!Rosenna. Part of my role reversal AU for her and Astarion, where Rose is the vampire spawn and Astarion (not a vampire spawn, literally just a normal elf - not pale, at least not abnormally pale lmao) is a hero/adventurer type. Think a mix of British Victorian vibes/looks mixed with a Spanish roguish swordbuckler.

Rose has the same backstory (again lmao), except that was 200 years ago. She went to Baldur’s Gate to be a hero and took a job that ended up turning into rabbit hole of one thing after another. Which lead her… straight to Cazador. About to unravel his plans and ultimately possibly reveal him as a vampire (she hadn’t quite gotten there yet, but was quickly getting to that point), he knew he had to deal with her. And with her little rabbit hole adventure, he realized how clever and smart she was (aka: useful). Also, what’s more cruel than to turn a hero into a monster themselves, the very thing they live to fight and destroy.

Instead of a more suave, sex-forward approach like main game Astarion does, she goes for a more innocent, demure (almost romantic) approach. (I suppose a better way to explain it is instead of masquerading as a tempting seductress, she pretends to be an innocent, inexperienced pure maiden instead.) Which our wanna be big hero Astarion unfortunately falls head over heels for when she pulls it on him in order to assure her safety with him and the group. (A Hero and his poor damsel in distress! The story writes itself! …doesn’t it? 😒) (In fairness, this version of him is literally 39. He doesn’t have the 200 years of trauma and distrust he learned from it all. Instead, Rose has that.)

Also, something I realized the other day, was that I had accidentally created a perfect, heartbreaking parallel theme between the two. The wanna-be Hero and the folk hero who’s live was taken too soon and never became the Hero she wanted to be. Where as time goes on, Rose finds herself not just caring for Astarion but trying to warn him against such a path he’s so determined to take. But in turn it helps teach Astarion how to become not only a better person himself but a better hero. And maybe who knows, maybe she ends up being a Hero after all. Even after BG3 events. 😉😭💖

So, because @gunslingerorchid asked, here's a post about my self-insert Tav, Rosenna.

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I’ll be honest I don’t have a whole lot about her fleshed out. And even trying to write this up for you, so much got changed and rewritten a number of times, and even this response is a complete start over from the very long and honestly confused lore bit I wrote.

Basically what I wrote for the fake BG3 intro post I reblogged on here is pretty much all I got, lmao. But I’ll try to give some more info, as much as I got nailed down right now. Maybe some more that’s not so concrete yet either.

Um, so. Rosenna is an only child, born and raised by a farmer and his wife (last name undetermined) in a little hamlet (also name undetermined) located along the Chionthar river a little ways down from Baldur’s Gate.

Right around that little nook maybe, where the red dot is. I still haven’t decided which side of the river it’s on. But around that area. So that’s it’s between the Fields of the Dead and the Woods of Sharp Teeth.

Rose (for short) lived a nice, little life with her parents. Helped her mom with house chores and what not as commoner daughters do. Also helped her dad a little with the farm - probably a bit less common for daughter to do, but eh. She likes helping and only doing house chores drove her crazy. And it’s something different so she was fine with it, despite getting a little dirty sometimes because of it. Also it was spending time with dad, so… That’s nice. xD

From a young age, Rose had been immersed with stories about heroes. Not necessarily intentionally mind you. Just parents telling their kid stories, censored versions of course. And from there, as she grew up, just got into reading stories about heroes herself.

And between having a good, kind, caring heart and just being a feisty, determined woman who only wants to do right she naturally felt an inclination towards such a life.

However… her mother had another plans for her. Not out of ill-will, just normal life plans that a commoner daughter would typically live. Help her mother until she (Rose) found someone to marry, which her parents were starting to push that onto her, except Rose didn’t have much interest in that. (Yet, anyways. Hero thing first, romance later possibly, ya know.)

What Rose did have an interest in was going to the docks and rubbing shoulders with people who came from Baldur’s Gate and even elsewhere afar, wanting to hear real stories of adventures and journeys from real people that they’ve had, especially recently.

Now it’s here where I’m unsure whether to spin it off as how she picked up some sense of handling a sword. One way is that because going to the docks and rubbing shoulders with strangers is obviously a terrible, dangerous thing to do and her father (and mother) become worried for her and so her father (who’s also maybe part of the citizen militia for the little hamlet - no standing army) decides to teach her (in secret/aka behind mom’s back) so she stops trying to go to the docks (and possibly end up kidnapped or worse one day). Fun, nice, gets interaction with her dad. But like, I just realized it’s the same as the other self-insert for another character I like/liked. So, since I’m already doing that plotline with another character, I’ll probably go with the second option then lmao.

The other one was an idea I had before but was unsure about it (then not now) where she does meet someone from the docks. Not a romantic interest, but thankfully a friendly and honorably decent person. He obviously realized that she’s young (20s, since I didn’t mention that before) and a bit starry-eyed, but she means well and was looking for more in her life, more than this little hamlet could give her. He befriended her and indulged her in giving her stories of his travels and interesting little adventures and happenings he found himself in every time he came into town (only ever stopping by, as did anyone else whoever found themselves at the docks there). Eventually, he himself buys her a sword and trains her how to use it.

From there to BG3 events however… One day it’s too much. Rose’s reckless immaturity has become too much for her mother. So Rose and her mother got in an argument. Her mother had not been oblivious to Rose and her love of heroes, but had hoped that Rose would grow out of it as she got older (she didn’t, it only grew stronger). And enough was enough. It was time to be a grown woman, look for a partner, and settle down and become not just a wife but mother herself. To say Rose was unhappy about this would be a completely understatement. After a yelling match with her mother, Rose quickly packed some things (including her stashed away secret sword) and left home. She got on the first ship to Baldur’s Gate and that was that.

For a year, Rose tried her best there. She got jobs. But they weren’t great. Didn’t pay great. By the end of it, things were… pretty bleak, mentally speaking for Rose. (In my playlist, as confused as it is with this summarization of character, I literally have The Parting Glass (Walking Dead version) followed by the instrumental version of I Want to Live from BG3. I think that says plenty.)

The next morning as she’s going about town is when the mindflayers come and she gets unfortunately (or technically speaking, quite fortunately) snatched up. (Only way to become a hero is go on a crazy adventure right? 😉)

[jenanigans1207]

Idea for Discriminating Taste

Okay, please hear me out—this is a long one but a good one. Here’s my last comment on your fic:

“I'm imagining Deku's PR team looking at him sternly, saying "sir. sir do you know what you have done" regarding the playlist (they blush & their eyes go impossibly wide at some songs) Deku's PR team: *mumble mumble mumble* we don't have to confirm or deny anything. it's just a playlist A member of the team: *nervous, almost hysterical laughter* of course it's JUST a playlist pfft (very sarcastic) I mean, what if the PR teams catch wind of Deku's feelings first before Katsuki does? Then they suddenly realize how big of a hole they unknowingly dug themselves into. Or they unknowingly stepped into the biggest landmine in PR history (how hilarious would it be if Michael tells them it's now their job everything goes smoothly. "we do damage control, not fucking mATCHMAKING" "matchmaking is now part of damage control")(also, I imagine Deku's PR team is similar in personality to Katsuki, bc Katsuki's PR team is similar in personality to Deku)

I realize this would make the story even longer and maybe unnecessarily convoluted, so you can scratch that. I just wanted to share bc I think it's hilarious 😂

ALSO I forgot to mention in my previous comment: Kotaro's small act of heroism! Deku is so proud 😊”

NOW. I have a continuation of that! (I’m anon on ao3 bc I’m too paranoid to stay logged in all the time and too lazy to log in every time. Sorry for the inconvenience) I’m submitting it here bc if, IF you choose to use it—and I mean it, you don’t have to—it’s a huge chunk of plot. Here it is:

I imagine the media (social media? mass media? idk) stirred the pot a liiiittle too much that Michael got wind of what was happening (unless he was watching all along and only decided to move when things were starting to get really out of hand. Your character, you decide ).

Here's the scene: In Michael's office, with Michael, Deku, Deku's PR team, & Dynamight's PR team (the 2 teams are there bc they need to coordinate). No Katsuki. They're there to talk about Deku's Feelings™ (sadly, it's become necessary).  They HAVE to plan bc the fallout could be catastrophic, esp for public morale—what if the Dynamic Duo break up? It doesn’t matter if people know or don’t know why they split—it would crush them. Deku & Dynamight come as a set—they are the very definition of “Do NOT separate them!!” Anyway, continuing:

Michael is calm but steely-eyed. You can see it in his eyes--he's strategizing, he's weighing the outcomes, he's analyzing the situation. Did he know all along they had feelings for each other? That Izuku was aware but Katsuki was not? How long had he known? Was he only waiting for the right time to act? You decide—I like his air of mystery, that you never know exactly what he’s thinking. And I am still technically a reader, hehe). He says something like: Deku's feelings were bound to come out one way or another, with how attached to the hip he & Dynamight are. (Michael: "And they (feelings) are unlikely to change, am I correct?" Deku: "...yes.") What concerns Izuku will eventually concern Katsuki, and vice versa. It really was only a matter of time.

Izuku feels bad/guilty that he has burdened the team/caused trouble for them. He loves Katsuki, he doesn't regret it, but he hates that he became an inconvenience to others bc of it.

Everyone assures him he's no burden and as his (& Dynamight's) PR team, it's part of their job to handle matters like this. That, AND after spending cooking time getting to know the two like never before, they genuinely care about him (& Dynamight) and they're willing to do whatever they can to help (exasperated, but fond & determined). It's a very shounen "You can leave it to us!/We got your back!" scene. (Parallel to the "How we ALL became the Greatest Heroes" canon theme)

Izuku is so touched & grateful he almost cries. He's very thankful for all of them.

I know this heavily skews towards Gen but I think it could be well-incorporated into the fic (esp with how fleshed out Michael & Kotaro are, god I love them. Even Hanaku & Hiroto are excellent supporting cast).

I like worldbuilding, okay? Your fic has given me an explosion of ideas. You don’t have to use them, I just wanted to share how your idea continues to spawn many other ideas with other people!

P.S. Their ending/outro song is Blinding Lights by The Weeknd. Bc I'm corny

[seabluetranslations]

2021′s Best 3! Saito Madoka

Ocha no Madopi!

It’s OCHA NORMA’s Saito Madoka!

Everyone, thank you so much for your likes and comments🙏🏻💎

Thank you so much for reblogging as well!

I read all the comments on yesterday’s blog too~!! 😙

After reading the comments...

“I started this game because of Madopi’s influence!” - there were many people who said that...

I’m very happy to hear it! 😆

Maybe... I’ve done a successful job promoting it...?! 🥺

Also, there were some people who noticed that in yesterday’s selfie I was wearing The Idolmaster: SideM T-shirt! 🤣

I will write about SideM some other time, so please wait for it! ✍🏻

Little by little, I will write about my recommended works!

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Today as well it’s “Hello! Project Year-End Party 2021 〜 GOOD BYE & HELLO ! 〜”!

At the moment, the Juice=Juice Premium has just finished!

The first concert Tsubaki Factory Premium was also fun! ✌🏻✌🏻✌🏻

At today’s last concert (this year’s last concert as well❗️), the Morning Musume ‘21 Premium, we’ll also be appearing~!

Today too I could see Sea Blue penlights and T-shirts!

“I’m sooo happy!”, is what I thought!

Thank you for watching the live broadcast too~!  🙏🏻✨

Yes! In yesterday’s comments some people wrote that they waved Sea Blue penlights at the live viewing! 😭💎

I’m super duper happy 〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜〜!

Please come and wave it in person sometime 😢

If it’s difficult, try waving Sea Blue penlights at home 🥺

But I am really happy that you all want to support me! Please take it easy...!

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Here!!!!

It’s Madopi-like 2021 year in review ranking~~~~~!

Let’s look back at the top three ✌🏻

[3rd place] 🥉 High school graduation

In March 2021 I graduated from high school! Some of my classmates have been with me since elementary school and I couldn’t recover for a while after graduating 😢 lol

I think I was blessed to be in an environment where I had close friends who supported my activities in Hello! Project and with whom I got along with...

Speaking of which, when I posted my first blog I got a message from a friend saying “Congratulations on revealing your oshi!!”  🤣

[2nd place] 

🥈 Hello Pro Kenshuusei Unit was able to do a solo show

“Hello Pro Kenshuusei Unit 2021 ~LIVE AT THE BOTTOM LINE~” is in second place~~~! The first solo live of the Kenshuusei Unit back when there were 4 of us!

I vividly remember practicing for our solo show in the midst of other schedules......... 💦

It was our first and last solo concert as the Hello Pro Kenshuusei Unit, so I will remember this day even long after I become a grandma! I would like to do a solo concert as OCHA NORMA someday...

This picture is...

Of a cake gifted by the Ishiguri family~~~! It’s the same picture that we showed you at the Nagoya event on 12/14. I was really happy to get this cake as a surprise!!

[1st place] 

🥇OCHA NORMA’s formation!

This is the biggest thing that happened. It hasn’t even been a month since we became OCHA NORMA, but I am living a different life now.

I’ve been able to start this blog where I can communicate with you all, and post on Instagram and Twitter!

All since becoming OCHA NORMA!

In July Nakayama Natsume-chan, Hiromoto Ruli-chan, Nishizaki Miku-chan, and Kitahara Momo-chan joined the Kenshuusei Unit, which broadened our activities.

In addition, Sumire (Tashiro Sumire-chan) and Roko (Tsutsui Roko) joined OCHA NORMA, making us 10!!!

The two of them are still new to Hello! Project so... We’ll do our best in 2022 to make OCHA NORMA a relaxing tea room for the two of them and all of you!

This year has really flown by 、、、、、、😂

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🍵 Announcements 🍵

“Hello! Project 2022 Winter 〜LOVE & PEACE” will be starting from 2022/01/02

I will be performing as part of Team LOVE 💙🤍

We will also be performing at Team PEACE concerts, so I would be happy if you could come and see us 🎶

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For “Ramen Daisuki Koizumi-san Second Generation! 2022 New Year SP”

OCHA NORMA singing

🍜 “Ramen Daisuki Koizumi-san no Uta” 🍜

has been chosen as the theme song!

It will be airing on 2022/01/08 from 14:45 on Fuji TV!

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 For the drama “Mayonaka ni Hello”!

OCHA NORMA’s song

🏃🏻‍♀️"Koi no Crouching Start”🏃🏻

has been chosen as the opening song!

It will start airing on TV Tokyo on 2022/01/13 from 00:30!

🍵

The solo singing video of “Suki Sugite Baka Mitai”

It was my first solo singing video, so I was nervous, but I would be happy if you can check it out ✌🏻

Click here to watch the video:

https://youtu.be/_7R6jweER6I

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(Another talk about Ansuta 、、、、)

Ansuta’s “Scout! Tiger of the Fifth Earth Star”, even though I pulled this event’s special attack... I thought I couldn’t get any more 5 star cards! “I’ll ask someone” is what I thought. I asked Guri-chan (Ishiguri Kanami-chan) to do 10 strokes on my device, and she got me the special attacker Leo-kun 😭😭😭

Guri-chan is too lucky!!! (She got me the card I wanted last time too.. lol)

Thank you so much 🥺💖

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Have a happy New Year everyone!!! 🐯

I’ll be counting on you in the next year too! 🥳

Thank you so much for reading all the way until the end ♡

See you! Today too nobinobi(carefree) Madopi! 👋🏻

Source: https://ameblo.jp/ocha-norma/entry-12718659259.html