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[keiki702]

Buddies~

[choicescommunityevents]

Thank you for joining our first Choices Picnic! It was a lovely event!

Here is how our picnic turned out:

10 fandom members contributed to

28 MCs, OCs, and LIs joining the event who brought

15 different types of food

10 different types of drinks

21 different types of desserts

15 different games/activities

[Event prompts and info] [Full list of community prompts, polls, and quizzes]

Who joined the picnic? [x]

@cadybear420

Aiden x Evie

@dr-colossal-pita

Ethan x Oliver

@gutsfics

Noah x Devi

Thomas x Avalon

@jerzwriter

Ethan x Kaycee

Tobias x Casey

@lovealexhunt / @theartoflovingthomashunt / @storyofmychoices

Bryce x Olivia

Keiki

Mal x Daenarya

Thomas x Alex

@masked-alien-lesbian

Aislinn x Verity

Hana x Raelyn

@peonyblossom

Ajay x Matty

Emmett x Brooklyn

Ethan x Sydney

Thomas x Jackie

@pulpitude

Mia

Lia

Joss

Linc

Abel

@trappedinfanfiction

Ethan x Celia

Trystan x Sophia

@tveitertotwrites

Derek x Charlie

Ethan x Claire

Thomas x Brooklyn

Tobias x Adelaide

What will we be eating + drinking? [x]

Food

Banana Chips with light maple syrup

Buttermilk Fruit Scones

Charcuterie Board (2)

Chips

Fresh Baked Bread

Fresh Vegetable Quinoa Salad

Gamja-Salad

Grilled Meat Skewers

Ketchup Chips

Korean Fried Chicken

Pasta Salad

Pizza

Pineapple

Sandwiches (2)

Strawberries

Trail Mix

Drinks

Alcoholic Drinks

Cabernet Sauvignon

Chocolate Milk

Coconut Custard Pie

Fruit Salad

Nanaimo Bars

Non-Alcoholic Drinks

Orange Infused Cold Brew

Sodas

Strawberry Lemonade

Sweet Cocktails

Sweet Iced Tea

Wine selection

What are we eating (desserts) [x]

Apple Pie

Berry Pinwheel Pasteries

Coconut Cake

Cookies

Fresh Fruit Popsicles

Fruit mixed in pudding, yogurt, whipped cream

Golden Griddle milkshakes

Haupia

Honey Cake

Lemon Cake

Mint Ice Cream Sandwiches

Pie

Pup Cups

Red Velvet Brownies

Red Velvet Cupcakes

Rum Cake

Strawberry Cheesecake Parfait

Weed Brownies

What are we playing/doing? [x]

Badminton

Capture the Flag

Charades

Drink Mixing

Enjoying flowers

Frisbee / Disk Golf

Frisbee with pups (2)

Horeshoes

Karaoke

Kite Flying

Lawn Chess

Nature Crafts / Flower Crowns

Paint and Sip

Toss + Catch

Volleyball

What's our picnic playlists? [X]

What 3 things are a picnic must? [X]

How will a little rain impact the event? [x]

How did MCs, OCs, and LIs document the event? [X]

What else was submitted?

I was going to make a masterlist, but since most entries were just reblogs to the community posts it seemed silly... especially since all the extra entries were mine 🙈. Felt weird making a masterlist for just me! If more individual works are added, I'll make a separate masterlist.

@lovealexhunt / @theartoflovingthomashunt / @storyofmychoices

Bryce x Olivia picnic (art)

Bryce x Olivia beach picnic (edit)

Mal x Daenarya beach picnic (edit)

A Late Night Picnic (Mal x Daenarya) (writing)

Thomas x Alex Hollywood sign picnic (edit)

@peonierose : Art on the Beach with Bryce x Luna

[monstergili]

Poor Tide and Elmer! 😟 I don't blame them for being overwhelmed, considering such a situation would be quite disorienting and their own bad experiences fuelling their discomfort. I'd hope that the others would be supportive of them if they were also shrunk down too. If they were somehow shrunk down to being smaller than a human, I'd imagine things would not go as well.

On the upside, I think being able to try all sorts of things at a human-size would be fun to see. Like imagine being able to see your much smaller friends up close! Being able to see their face up close and all the scars/moles/freckles/tattoos etc. It would probably be quite emotional if they were particularly close to that friend.

Or interacting with instruments or art supplies. Or trying out a cake for the first time. So many opportunities! 🤔 (I'd show off my small rock and fossil collection of they didn't mind me rambling about paleontology facts I know.)

As for their reaction to the Disney film, I love it! 😄 Tide cheering for Ursula got me cackling! He wouldn't be the first to cheer on the villain in these films. (Gorm's reaction there is priceless!! 😂) Now I'm wondering how they would react to Finding Nemo or other Disney Princess films?

Speaking of reactions, I have thought of other scenarios:

Apparently there are people who dress up as mermaids as part of underwater shows and it makes me curious if how your mer PCs would react to that. Would they find it funny or distasteful?

What about Snuffy reacting to the various dragon films like HTTYD, Dragonheart or something more obscure like Flight of dragons? (The fact I haven't asked a question about Snuffy until now is a mystery, since I love dragons!)

Hypothetically, if any your characters stumbled across a giant child, in a similar vein to what Keiki was, who would be most able to handle such a situation?

Hello, I got a couple more fun scenarios to offer you! 🙂

We've seen several characters vary in size but most of them are obviously bigger than the average human. But imagine a flip-around, probably from magic, (maybe some of the cast are closer to human size or even smaller...) Who would enjoy being smaller? Who is not having a good time about the situation?

How would some of your merfolk react to films like the Little Mermaid? Who'd like it and who wouldn't?

I could add more but I'm pretty tired when I wrote this. 😅 Hopefully you will find what I've sent so far fun to imagine! I might send more of you like... Once I get some sleep!

Heyo! Thanks for ze scenarios~

1) Most of them would be stoked about being human-sized! They'd get to interact with interesting things, see phones, read books etc. Or get some proper tactile affection, like a hug. Trying out food would also be a big bonus, cause they'd get a proper bite and the texture lol!

It's easier to call out the two that'd freak out about suddenly being small: Tide and Elmer.

Elmer is quite nervous and fearful of humans. So being big in comparison gives him a feeling of control. It makes him feel less vulnerable, which being small would make him feel. So he'd try and hide away.

Tide would feel extremely vulnerable too. He's always felt that his strenght and size were the only useful things about him (thanks to the foster pod for hammering that into him). If that was suddenly taken from him he would have a small existential crisis I think. Also being the same size as everyone would mean that they could be physically closer. He already gets easily flustered and don't know how to handle physical affection. He'd just panic.

2) If we're talking the Disney version, where she doesn't turn into seafoam in the end, they'd have fun watching it. Most of them. Cetus can't see very well so he wouldn't pay any attention to the movie itself. Tide would cheer for Ursula, to everyone's dismay. After the movie they would probably end up having a discussion about what they'd do if they got legs magically while also thinking it'd be strange to have them. xD

Also during this scene:

Something something a huge octomer with an unhinged grin xD

[purenguyening]

sweet, sweet federalism

An idea taught in US civics/Advance Placement United States Government and Politics (AP US GoPo) is the relationship between the federal government and the state government. How their relationship should be described is called federalism. From 1789-1933 the relationship between the federal government and state government were split and independent of each other. This was called dual federalism, the term is sometimes layer cake federalism. The idea was that their roles were separate, like a layered cake: From 1934 to the present day the relationship between the federal government and state government became much more intertwined due to the Great Depression and a lot of functions will overlap and both levels of government will become dependent on one another. This is typically called cooperative federalism (since both state and federal government have to cooperate with one another), an alternative name for this is called marble cake federalism: A third, and as far as I'm aware, less commonly taught type of federalism is picket fence federalism. This conceptualizes federal, state, and local governments being at equal level: Why Keiki? It should be self explanatory at that point.

[kursed-arcana]

Takeuchi Naoko's Chocolate Christmas Review

Chocolate Christmas is an adorable romantic comedy that feels in tune with classic rom coms such as You Got Mail and classic Christmas movies, while also having that delightful Takeuchi touch. Reading this is a real treat, considering it was her first published work.

The two leads are actually in love with eachother without knowing it. After spending a lonely Christmas eve listening to the radio Ryoujo happens to catch the debut broadcast of a lonely hearts style show, Choclate Night. Learning that the DJ, Choco,a lso feels alone and that it's his birthday, she decides to deliver a Christmas cake to him and proclaims herself his first fan. Over the next year l, she regularly listens to his program and sets out to bring love to others, much like him. The story then picks up with her getting a job at the same radio station as him, hoping to meet him. She has fallen on love with the man herself, and her cake and declaration last Christmas ignited the same feelings in his heart. Without knowing it the two are drawn together, both in their everyday school life and their life at the station, all without initially realizing who the other person is.

Does this mysterious type of love ring any golden bells?(read the story for the reference!) That's right it plays out similarly to the initial love story of Tuxedo Mask and Sailor Moon! If you're a fan of the dynamic between Uasagi and Mamo them you'll probably be a fan of this story. Much like how sailor moon begins with them bickering, yet being drawn to eachother, so too does this love story.

Their status as the person special to the other, isn't revealed at the same, leading to some great romantic tension as they impact eachother in significant ways. Ryouko and Choco (real name Keiki) continue to influence eachothers behavior and build eachother up into better versions of themselves. By the end of the series, they have both developed a new found appreciation for eachother, Christmas Eve and the Chocolate Night program,

What can I say other then Takeuchi truly has that special gift to write a compelling romance. Its a shame she hasn't released a true blue long running rom com. This is a great holiday read and is sure to illicit feelings of satisfaction in her eternal fanbase.

Her art is as stellar as ever, and her character designs attractive and fashionable. There's not much to dislike in the story that gave this book its name.

I do recommend reading it carefully though. The fan translation available on mangadex is a little shaky in some spots and I think the dialogue was switched for the two leads on page 53 of one of the abailable translarions. At least it appears to be in the wrong word bubbles to me. I also recommend temporarily switching to a alternate translatiom due to the fact page 5 is missing from one, and instead features a page from near the end of the manga in its place. However I believe the fan translation is overall better on on the other. I would say the sites hosting the translations I recommend using but I don't think that's allowed.

Fingers crossed that we one day get an official release or an anime movie!

Now to briefly mention the second story in this vollume release. Wink rain is a fun bonus but I honestly don't have a lot to say. It's not bad, but it didn't really resonate with me personally. Part of my issue with it is the 2 fantranslations I found for it both appear to have a fair amount a faults. Or maybe it's just the way the story unfolds that sometimes makes things a little confusing. I found it less rom com, more teen angst over being the third wheel ina. Friend group after two parties get together. There is a love story unfolding for the main girl but it kind of ends anticlimactically. Or it felt that way to me due to the fan scanlation.

It's definitely worth a quick read regardless. It has great art as usual and cute characters!

[bryceslahela]

what kinda youtube content do u think the oph characters would watch

this was hard 😭 but i hope u enjoy it!

aurora - baking tutorials

• as i said before, aurora loves the methodical nature of cooking. it calms her.

• when she feels really stressed, she’ll search up cake making tutorials and go to the corner store and buy all the ingredients and attempt to make the cake.

• she’s a perfectionist so she has to get absolutely everything right, she also loves to see the reactions of her roommates, bryce and raf when she gives them slices.

sienna - youtuber vlogs

• she likes to see how the rich and famous live, none of the other can understand it but she adores it.

• she’ll also watch those vogue makeup tutorials with her favourites.

• she likes watching the process 🤷🏾‍♀️ she also likes watching mukbangs too especially with foreign foods.

bryce - music videos

• he thinks that the art of a music video is underrated.

• you already know which music videos he’ll have playing. he knows his megan baby!

• he usually plays them out loud when he attempts to clean and keiki wakes up to the sound of freak nasty on a sunday morning, and she sighs and picks up some cleaning products.

jackie - true crime

• she watches shit like buzzfeed unsolved, everyone else says its weird but it relaxes her. she likes to attempt to solve the crime before it’s revealed.

• she’ll have a box of treats and will reward herself on getting the answer right.

• it’s a whole process for her, she’ll change into loungewear, wipe off her makeup and sit down to watch them with her favourite snacks. no one disturbs her.

elijah - gameplay videos

• wbk he likes video games, he also wants to be the best at whatever game he does. it’s his main hobby outside of work.

• likes gamers and watches twitch streams too.

• phoebe has a twitch stream and u absolutely bet that he donates money or whatever u do on there.

rafael - asmr

• he has a hard time falling asleep sometimes and adores rain sounds, and those soap-cutting videos.

• he likes to close his eyes and lie on his bed to relax, he plays those long 10 hour ones.

• but most of the time he prefers netflix for actual content.

[outsideworldoccultism]

Episode 4 is here! the whole thing is just one big WBaWC spoilercast, so tread with caution!  

topics: oh!, move over seiga there’s a new bastard in town, zun’s fakeout, buddhist cosmology portals, the furry yakuza, surprise plotdump, nostalgia for old game manuals, uh oh there’s politics in video games, inhuman morality, there’s power in a union(even if that union is the mob), todays theme is: themes, first impressions matter, trapped in an ikea with akyuu, future plot hooks?, we finally discuss the new bastard, cursed replygirl otter spirit, beast metropolis, fairy hair buns, mayumi, secret cyberpunk, antique robots, time for cake, introducing the idolmaster, an okina digression, lesbian art teacher vibes, cyberpunk hexagon slabs, oh!, the primate garden, keiki’s battle, we forgot to talk about danmaku, UNLIMITED POWER, shin megami touhou, nice is not good, mom energy, free range organic humans, automation and ai domination, connections to other touhou works, YEE CAW, the second worst concept in this episode, miko’s gonna take her horse to the old town road, Unmatched Leg Strength, farmhouse crimes, a horse invading hell, where’s her arm?, leg day is every day, the gods of touhou, rarepairs, create!

Next week we talk about Wild and Horned Hermit, so send in your questions about that or anything else you want us to talk about! 

[budaallmusic]

Keiki Midorikawa ‎– Five Pieces Of Cake #OffbeatRecords 1975 🇯🇵 Japan Alto Saxophone, Flute – #YoshiakiFujikawa Tenor Saxophone – #HiroakiKatayama Trumpet, Marimba – #TadashiYoshida Drums – #ShojiNakayama Art Direction – #TakayasuHoriguchi Bass – Keiki Midorikawa (tracks: A2, B1, B2) Cello – #KeikiMidorikawa (tracks: A1, A2, B3) Composed By – Keiki Midorikawa Liner Notes – 禾火成 Producer – Makoto Shiraishi Recorded By [Sound By] – Hiroshi Sakazume https://www.instagram.com/p/B8T91P8pUrx/?igshid=bs3ptyehpqk2

[keiki702]

Mr Ring-A-Ding!

[oh-my-otome]

One of the other blogs here told me that Cybird's game Ikémen sengoku has the same characters/same era as slbp, so I was wondering if you had any brief historical info for a young pleb such as myself 👀

Cybird’s Ikemen Sengoku has a similar premise to their game Destined to Love: you’re out somewhere minding your business and then you mysteriously do the time warp again.

The starting point of the Sengoku period can vary depending on who you’re talking to, but for most it’s 1467 when the Onin war (1467-1477) broke out over who would be next in line after shogun Ashikaga Yoshimasa. And for others, it’s 1490, the year Hosokawa Katsumoto, a deputy of the shogun, snatched up power. 

At this point, the samurai have long since stepped in to keep order. The introduction of the first Europeans to arrive in Japan, the Portuguese, changed how battles were fought. In particular, was how clans Oda and Tokugawa combined forces, using their European arquebuses to decimate the Takeda by staggering reload and firing times. In no time at all, Japanese smiths were able to reproduce the mechanism in the muskets and manufactured similar firearms.

The Portuguese also traded goods from China with the Japanese, such as silk, porcelain, soap and tobacco, among other things, which was forbidden by the emperor due to the many attacks by pirates. This was called the Nanban trade.

By the way, the Portuguese slave trade also extended to Japan, with the Portuguese purchasing slaves and sending them to other nations including Portugal. Large amounts of Japanese women, and girls as well, were purchased for sex and sold as slaves.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi was livid with this practice, wanted the enslavement of his people to end. He wanted the slaves who were sold to be returned, and wrote a letter to Gaspar Coelho, a Portuguese missionary and leader of the Christian contingent in Japan. Hideyoshi had him scared up in the middle of the night to answer for it. Hideyoshi made it clear that Coelho and the others were to get out of Japan.  

Unfortunately, it didn’t end there, and there is so much going on around this time, so instead let’s go to the men of Cybird’s Ikemen Sengoku:

Click here for eargasm. I have no idea what Nobunaga and Mitsuhide said, but they can say it again and again.

There are three men who are considered to have unified Japan. They are, in order: Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and Tokugawa Ieyasu. 

Before his death in 1582, Nobunaga was able to conquer a third of the daimyō. In 1590, Hideyoshi unified all of Japan and became its first leader. And in 1603, Ieyasu set himself up as shogun, founding the Tokugawa shogunate

A famous idiom is “Nobunaga pounds the national rice cake, Hideyoshi kneads it, and in the end Ieyasu sits down and eats it.”

Below: Oda Nobunaga on the left and Tokugawa Ieyasu on the right:

Oda Nobunaga was the second son of Oda Nobuhide and his legitimate successor, being the oldest legitimate son. He had a penchant for ignoring his societal rank and enjoyed playing with children his age across the social strata.

With the death of his father, the were a power struggle in the Oda clan, which was under Shiba Yoshimune to begin with. When Nobunaga stepped in to rule, his uncle, Oda Nobutomo, had Yoshimune murdered for his support of Nobunaga.

Nobunaga would spend much of his live trying to attain, maintain, and exert military control in his attempt to unify Japan.

He found himself betrayed many times, but it was his trusted ally Akechi Mitsuhide who finally got the drop on him and it is not known if Nobunaga was killed in Akechi Mitsuhide’s ambush or if Nobunaga committed seppuku. This was known as the Honnō-ji incident.

Tokugawa Ieyasu spent much of his young life as a hostage of both the Oda and the Imagawa.

Nobuhide proposed killing Ieyasu, who was 5 at the time, if Tokugawa Hirotada, Ieyasu’s father, did not cut ties with the Imagawa clan, but Hirotada refused. Rather than killing Ieyasu, Nobuhide kept him as a hostage of the Oda clan and sent him to Nagoya where he remained in a temple for three years.

With the murder of Hirotada by his own men, and Nobuhide succumbing to an illness, Oda Nobunaga took power. In agreement with Imagawa Sessai, who promised to draw his armies back if he was given Ieyasu, Nobunaga handed the young boy over, thereby making him a hostage yet again. This time Ieyasu was taken to Sunpu where he remained from ages 9-13.

While he did have occasional conflict with the Oda clan, Ieyasu would become one of Oda’s strongest allies.

After becoming shogun, Ieyasu made his power inheritable, and in doing so, established a military government that would last for almost three hundred years. 

Cybird’s Destined to Love features his descendant Tokugawa Yoshinobu (Keiki), the last shogun Japan would see.

Below: Takeda Shingen on the left and Uesugi Kenshin on the right

A descendant of the Minamoto clan, Shingen, who was given the name Harunobu at his coming of age ceremony, would be called Minamoto Harunobu in imperial records. He received the dharma name Shingen after the completion of his Buddhist training. The kanji for Shingen can also be pronounced Harunobu, so in a sense, he received the same name twice.

Ashikaga Yoshiharu, the 12th shogun, gave a character from his name to Shingen, which was an honor, and Shingen attained the second one through his own merit.

We don’t know the exact reason why Shingen, the firstborn son, rebelled against his father, but it’s thought that his father, Nobutora, may have wanted to give power to his second son, Nobushige. Nobutora was forced into retirement and sent away to be under the watchful eye of the Imagawa. This formed an alliance between the Imagawa and the Takeda.

Strife in the Takeda clan did not end there, as not only his first cousin, but his own son plotted to take his life.

Shingen’s feud with Kenshin began with Shingen’s attempt to gain control of Shinano. The warlords in the area were already involved in a battle and, making the most of the confusion, Shingen did not have much trouble in winning.

Upon adoption into the Uesugi clan, Nagao Kagetora changed his name several times before becoming known as Uesugi Kenshin. He had control over the Echigo province, which was afforded a better standard of living due to Kenshin’s increasing the growth of local trade.

He believed in Bishamonten, the Buddhist god of war, and was even called his avatar by his followers.

Legend has it that Kenshin burst into Shingen’s war ten on horseback and attacked him. Caught off guard, Shingen successfully parried Kenshin’s sword with his war fan.

Below: Sanada Yukimura on the left and Sarutobi Sasuke on the right

Yukimura’s actual name is Nobushige, after Shingen’s younger brother. Historically, he was never referred to as Yukimura. Novels and plays written about him in the Edo period refer to him as Yukimura, though.

Although the Sanada army was small, they succeeded in winning many battle. With the death of his uncles, his father inherited the clan. However, with the destruction of the Takeda clan, the Sanada surrendered to Oda.

After the Honnō-ji incident, the Sanada had no masters, as so tried to find their place serving a number of clans including the Uesugi, Hōjō, and Tokugawa, before becoming vassals of the Toyotomi.

Yukimura himself was known by many colorful names including The Crimson Demon and Number One Warrior in Japan, among others.

Sarutobi Sasuke was not a real person. He is part of the fictional Sanada Ten Braves, who helped Yukimura in battle, in novels written by Sanada Sandaiki.

The fictitious Sanada Ten Braves, are:

Sarutobi Sasuke

Kirigakure Saizo

Miyoshi Seikai

Miyoshi Isa

Anayama Kosuke

Unno Rokuro

Kakei Juzo

Nezu Jinpachi

Mochizuki Rokuro

Yuri Kamanosuke

Below: Toyotomi Hideyoshi on the left and Ishida Mitsunari on the right

Upon Nobunaga’s death, Hideyoshi was successful in ending the warring states. Although he rose through the ranks from humble beginnings, he placed restrictions on who could become a samurai after gaining power. The period of his rule is called the Momoyama period and is named after his castle.

He is responsible for the death by crucifixion of twenty-six martyrs, three of whom were young boys.

Ishida Mitsunari, whose childhood name was Sakichi, was a military commander and leader of the bureaucrats under Hideyoshi.

Below: Akechi Mitsuhide on the left and Date Masamune on the right

Mitsuhide was the first under Nobunaga to receive a castle. After betraying Nobunaga, Mitsuhide’s rule as shogun lasted only 13 days before his death. He is believed to have been killed, although there is a rumor that he lived out his life as a monk.

Masamune became the leader of his clan at the age of 17 following his father Terumune’s retirement.

Under Hideyoshi, the new ruler, Masamune found the size of his land reduced and even feared execution. He dressed in his finest clothes expecting to die, only to have Hideyoshi say that he may be of some use. 

At the behest of Katakura Kojuro, Masamune supported Ieyasu, who in turn, increased the size of Masamune’s land.

A patron of the arts, Masamune founded the city of Sendai. Due to his ambitious and aggressive nature, he was sometimes viewed with suspicion, but he served both Hideyoshi and Ieyasu faithfully.

Below: Kōsa, also known as Hongan-ji Kennyo (or Ken’nyo)

The Hongan-ji refers to several things. Ken’nyo, as Cybird spells it, was an Abbott who Shingen turned to for aid against his rivals, Oda, Tokugawa and Uesugi.

[keiki702]

Happy 20th anniversary to one of the greatest cartoons, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends!

I would always watch an episode or two while eating cereal before school, I loved this show so much and it'll always have a special place in my heart. <3

[keiki702]

Pop Star Pikachu!

[keiki702]

Very excited for Donkey Kong Bananza!

[keiki702]

Goodra!

Wanted to try draw one in my art style. What Pokemon should I draw next? :)

[keiki702]

Do you remember The 21st night of September?

[keiki702]

it was recently Sylvester's 80th birthday!

sufferin succotash!