#how have I never seen thiiiiiiiis

[english-history-trip]

Katherine of Aragon and Henry VIII with Saints Catherine and George, from a choir book commissioned by Emperor Maximilian I in 1518.

[13thalcoragent]

My Stepmother and Stepsisters Do Not Pick On Me V

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Cinder: Despite being an orphan, the Glass family has adopted me.

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The Characters:

Cinder Fall-Glass - Our Heroine who was adopted

Amanda “Ama” Glass - Older Stepsister with Curly Hair

Lenalee “Lee” Glass - Older Stepsister with Straight Hair

Laura Glass - Stepmother and Madame

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Cinder: This is my first night here.

Cinder: This room is huge and very clean...

Cinder: There used to only be rats in the attic and spiders in the mosquito net, I couldn't think of anything else. This bed is very soft too...This isn't bad at all...not bad at all...I can't sleep! An impeccable and perfumed ceiling and a bed that covers my whole body, I can't sleep because I've never had anything like this...! Besides...

FLASHBACK

Orphanage Staff: I'm sorry, Children. These not enough bed for each person, you're going to need to share.

Rude Orphan: I don't want to share a bed with her, she's weird!

PRESENT DAY

Cinder: I'm sorry...I just remembered a bad moment. This room is huge...I'll go to the bathroom to calm my mind...I hope it's not a problem if I wander around. *slowly opens the door*

Lee: *forces the door open* Just as I expected.

Cinder: Eeeeeeeeeehh??

Lee: We already knew you might get lost in the building anyways. *pulls Cinder along*

Cinder: Really...?

Ama: It's really cold at night so you should cover up. *drapes a coat around Cinder's shoulder*

BATHROOM

Lee: Well, I'll wait for you here, I don't like walking alone in the dark corridors anyways.

Cinder: Hey, wai-...E...Eh...Eh?!

Ama: So your big sister doesn't like the dark, huh?

Lee: Shut Up!

GUEST ROOM

Ama: Here we are.

Cinder: T-Thank you very much...

Lee: We have to get up early tomorrow, so you should go to sleep early, too.

Cinder: Ah...

Cinder: At this point...I can't tell them...That I can't sleep because I'm nervous.

Cinder: ...Yes.

Lee: Haaaa! I don't like people who don't speak clearly. *leaves with Ama*

Cinder: I've troubled Big Sister Lee and made her angry! Even though my sisters were so nice to me, I made them feel uncomfortable, how...how foolish of me! ...No, I still have time, I have to apologize for my actions! *prepares to leave the room*

Lee: *returns with Ama*

Cinder: Eh?

Both Sisters: *prepares extra pillows next to Cinder's on the bed*

Lee: If you don't like someone, you can tell us. We'll help you.

Cinder: Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeehhhh?????!!!!!

Lee: If you can't sleep, just stay awake until you feel sleepy.

Cinder: Eeeeeeeeeeeh???

Ama: Are you hungry? I brought cookies.

Cinder: Eeeeeeeeeeeh??? What's all thiiiiiiiis?? Eeeeeeeeeeeh??? Eeeeeeeeeeeh???

Cinder: Hey...sisters.

Lee: What? Are you sleepy already?

Cinder: Thank you very much.

Ama: Fufu.

Lee: You're welcome.

Laura: *bursts into the room* Girls! What are your doing up so late?

Lee: UWAAAH!

Ama: Mommy?!

Lee: Where did you come from, Mother?

Laura: I can go anywhere without any trouble. MY room has a secret passage to all the other rooms.

Cinder: There was something like that...?!

Laura: On the other hand...So the Glass Family's daughters are having a slumber party, huh?

Lee: Mom...

Laura: I'll teach you all about pillow fights and tell you some love stories.

Cinder: Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeehhhh??!!!!!

Laura: Strict punctuality is the basis of everything.

Lee: Sorry.

Cinder: I never thought Mommy would be up late, too...

Ama: We've never seen her sleep.

Cinder: Mom, just as I expected...I fell asleep with my sisters.

[diegeticdivinity]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

THIS THIS THIIIIIIIIS

The misunderstood servant of the people, driven to drastic measures out of love for beings infinitely smaller than him. The benevolent overseer. I wrote a big ol’ essay about G’ loving humanity yesterday hold up-

“We tend to think of humanity as close to the end, constantly, but it is far more likely that this is just the beginning, and as an entity outside of time who perceives time non-linearly, G would know this because, well, he has seen, and sees, it all himself. He sees us now, at the beginning of our story, a civilization in our infancy. He sees us struggling, sees us hurt ourselves like a child hitting its head against the wall, an action bound to teach us its own futility simply by existing, for he knows we will eventually learn from our mistakes. He sees us learning, slowly but surely, through trial and error and hope and curiosity and experimentation that will never die. He sees us show compassion to things that do not think like us, to animals and machines and imaginary constructs. He sees us letting everything we have ever created grow alongside us. He sees us reaching for the stars, learning everything we could about the vast universe around us. He sees us in the distant future, seizing things that were once only distant dreams, and which our dreams and hope made possible. He sees us branching out, adapting, evolving to new environments, become even more diverse than ever, and love all the same. Perhaps, he sees us alongside other civilizations, forging bonds, friendships that will last eternities. He sees one little universe full of hope, and, in perceiving time non-linearly, he sees all of it, all at once. How can a being like that not fall in love with humanity? How can he not want to help us even if his Employers see us as too small to worry caring about? How can he not see us as the beginning of something beautiful, perhaps one of the most beautiful things he has witnessed in eternities of existence?”

Also @bunny-heels look at the truth OP speaks. Just look at it.

No. Fuck you. G-man loves humanity. He wants them to succeed. He wants everyone to be happy. He was never the villian, and he should not be labeled as one. I mean, he put Gordon in stasis just so he could help humanity later!!!!!!! G-man loves humans!!!!!!!!!!!!

[feferipeixes]

Light quarantine - Mabel noticed the small clues, an occasional pine car refresher that appears in her backpack, or whispers in her dreams, gibberish, but familiar. Or the beat up old star hat stuck in a tree across the street. She saw her brother die, but she wonders, maybe it wasn't what it seemed. After all, magic was everywhere now. She makes it her job to know everything about the supernatural, the dead, and Bill Cipher. She's going to find out what happened, I matter who thinks she's crazy

(other posts about Quarantine AU)

!!!! YESSSSS ANON I LOVE THIS

Dipper goes around leaving small clues for Mabel to find, not necessarily because he thinks she’ll figure out what’s going on (and certainly not because he thinks he’s worth being loved again) but because he just wants to help her out and do nice things (and ignore the voice in his head that says well if you care about her so much then you can’t really be such a monster right?). But you’re totally right, Mabel’s a smart cookie, she’d notice something was going on.

That time a skunk crawled into her car and died under the seat so the entire car smelled of skunk (and even though Stan insisted he was a tough guy who could handle anything, it still made him feel like puking)? A bunch of air fresheners appear in the car smelling of pine needles, because that dork isn’t subtle and likes to stick to his motifs. All those times Mabel was so close to getting impaled by a unicorn in her dreams, only to be saved by a dark figure who refused to make eye contact with her? She always felt like it was whispering something like “I miss you” but that made no sense right? When Acacia gets gum in her hair on School Photo Day and was thiiiiiiiis close to shaving her hair off just to save the embarrassment? A hat with a star on it appears in her locker, and it’s old and beat up but she likes it a lot and is very proud of the picture. She takes it home to show her mom who’s flabbergasted -- she hasn’t seen that hat for so long.

By that point I think she’s deeply invested in researching the paranormal. This is great, actually, because without Dipper around and being a demon, she has less reason in light Quarantine to be so heavily involved in the paranormal, but the fact that little clues and favors that seem to be related to her brother keep popping up... that’s gotta get her curious. And that starts long before she has her kids, but the thing that absolutely cinches it is when Willow is born safe and sound -- the doctor told her it’d honestly be unlikely that there wouldn’t be a birth complication with triplets, but somehow everything was fine. And later on she develops fire powers and complains about headaches from seeing colors and well at that point the supernatural research isn’t just for her curiosity, it’s to make sure she can best provide for her daughter’s needs.

(Sidenote; my hc is that Willow survives in light Quarantine even though Henry and Stan never make the deal with Dipper, because he saves her using excess power that he gets from deals. And he blames himself all the while saying that he’s being selfish and he’s just playing up this foolish act of pretending to be a nice person, but when Mabel finds out that he was the one who saved her daughter’s life she’s OVER THE MOON with joy. Not only is her beloved brother alive but he’s the reason she didn’t lose a child. Meeting up with him again is the happiest day ever.)

I’m getting off track lol but yeah basically, early on Mabel notices this stuff and gets curious. Maybe this is why she moves to Gravity Falls. She never had a falling out with her parents in this timeline but she’s so gosh darn curious, all these clues have to mean something, and where was it that this all began? Gravity Falls -- it’s where Dipper died after all, heck it’s where Ford lives, likely the most knowledgable person in the world about the supernatural. So after high school she moves to Gravity Falls against her parents’ wishes. They don’t think it’s safe there -- I mean, how could they, after what happened to their son? -- but they can’t stop her. She’s an adult now. She’s going to live with family. She got into a school there. And she’s full of fiery hot curiosity.

Mabel tells Ford about all the weird stuff she’s been noticing. About her theories about Bill, and Dipper, and the Transcendence. About how she sometimes still feels Bill’s presence late at night. About how she keeps seeing Dipper out of the corner of her eye in her saddest moments. About how she knows these things are linked and she just needs to find out how, and could she borrow his journals pretty pretty please? Ford doesn’t tell her anything about the demon he met right after the Transcendence, nor what person that demon bore a striking resemblance to. He gives her journals 1-3, but not 4, the one he started to document his research on the paranormal -- particularly demons -- since the Transcendence. Unlike in the show, he never really learns the lesson that “trust no one” isn’t a philosophy that works out. That really comes to bite him in the butt in this timeline.

[trenchcoatkitten]

Kiribaku 23

Kirishima/Bakugou #23 “Will you kiss me?”

from thiiiiiiiis

hope you enjoy! 

xxx

It's a beautiful, beautiful night.

Kirishima isn't sure he's ever seen a more beautiful night. The sky is a brilliant shade of violet, bleeding into red and orange where the sun is setting, clouds painted against it, the sunset hitting them and turning them pink. The hills in the distance are just shadows, stark contrasted against the sunset, making everything seem kind of unreal. The light from the sun blows everything into this beautiful gold haze, like maybe you're looking through a sheet of gold-tinted glass.

Bakugou stands next to him, watching the sun go down with narrowed eyes. Kirishima wants to watch the sunset, or the birds swooping from tree to tree, the long grasses swaying calmly against each other, but he finds that he can't. He can't look at anything besides Bakugou in his golden halo, his hair lit up, his face softened and warmed. He either doesn't notice Kirishima looking or is ignoring it, his eyes focused somewhere far in the distance.

Kirishima wants to pull him close and nuzzle his face into the boy's neck. He wants to bury his fingers in blond hair and feel how soft it is. He wants to press his whole body against Bakugou's, feeling the hard lines of his muscles and the soft edges that he tries to hide. He wants to trace his fingers down the edge of his jaw, feeling the angle of the bone, and then press his fingers against a racing pulse. He wants to sit down on the ground here, just leaning against each other and enjoying the breeze. He wants to press his mouth to eyelids, to nose, to ears, to cheeks, to fingers, to lips. He wants to discover, and to be discovered. Even here, standing in this field at the end of a hike that had been just a little bit too long, and they still have the walk back, which they're going to have to do in the dark. Even now, when he's pretty sure Bakugou doesn't feel the same way. Even now, he wants. He wants Bakugou.

Bakugou finally turned to him, raising an eyebrow. “What?” He says, his voice sharp as ever, but his face softer than it had been in a long time. Maybe it's the sunset, maybe it's something else. When Kirishima doesn't respond right away, Bakugou furrows his eyebrows. “What do you want?”

Interesting choice of words, Kirishima muses. “I don't know,” He says quietly, “You just look good in this lighting, man.”

Bakugou stares at him for a long moment, eyes narrowed. He holds Kirishima's gaze, and Kirishima can't even imagine wanting to look away. Red searches his soul, as though Bakugou can see right through him, straight past every wall and into the depths of who he is. He doesn't move much, just shifts his body so he's angled more towards Kirishima. Kirishima's pretty sure this is where Bakugou will swear at him, the moment will be broken, and they'll turn and go home.

But he doesn't. Instead, he says, quietly, “What do you want, Kirishima?”

And as though those eyes are needling him, pressing on the place in his brain that makes him tell the truth, Kirishima finds words tumbling out of his mouth. “I think I want you to kiss me right now.”

He goes still, and Bakugou continues to stare at him. Kirishima curses himself, sure that's he's ruined it. He's gone and let himself ruin a great hike, a great day, a great friendship, just because he can't really help sometimes how gay he is for the boy next to him. He wants to take the words back, wants to look at the sunset and stop talking, but the words are out now, hanging in the air between them like mistletoe, and Bakugou can either choose to make an excuse and move away or follow through with an age-old tradition.

After an endless moment, Bakugou shifts uncomfortably, and Kirishima feels his heart plummet into his toes. He doesn’t wait for Bakugou to give an excuse. He frantically searches for one of his own first. “Look,” He manages, “I'm sorry, I just didn't really think-”

Bakugou shakes his head, removing one of his hands from his pocket, and scratching the back of his head. “No, I... Fuck, look. Will you kiss me? I've just...” He trails off for a moment. Kirishima stares at him, unable to believe the blush spreading across his cheeks. He doesn't look at Kirishima in the eye again, he keeps his eyes focused on his chest. “I haven't before, and I... I don't want to fuck it up.”

Kirishima is frozen – bluescreened – Kirishima.jpg will not load – and Bakugou blushes deeper. “Ah,” he grunts, starting to turn away, “Fuck, never mind, fuck-”

“No,” Kirishima says quickly, too loud. Bakugou jumps a little bit, his eyes on the hand that's come up to grab his arm. Kirishima pulls him back, until they're face to face, right in front of each other. Kirishima holds him there for a long moment, just drinking him in. Up close, he's not hard lines, he's not anger or explosions, he's just soft edges and warm curves and soft lips.

And when Kirishima kisses him, the blond melts in his arms, gathering Kirishima up against him and getting as close as they possibly can be. They stay there together until the sun is down, until it's time to head home, and then a little bit longer.

And nothing has ever been more perfect.

[daughterofsinsloth]

I heard from a friend of mine that you are suggesting great fics of soukoku! Everyday I always go to AO3 and look for Dazai Osamu/Nakahara Chuuya tags to find interesting stories but recently I dont feel anymore of enthusiastic when I see updates, probably just stress from school. If its okay do you have any skk amazing fics that you like to recommend me or some you read?

hello anon-chan!! and hello to your friend too!than k you very much for your words! they makle m e really happy!

now! I kinda understand what you mean. maybe coz lately there are more angst fics? also school can be a major reason! i freak out a lot too! neh I will give you some fluuf and romantic  or action fics so you can realx and forget all about school okay?

lets see!

first some great writers, that you will definatly enjoy, are:

ReaperStygian 

setosdarkness

photography_tea

Memos

Witheryvine

Avi_pizzapopolis

AnonLearnsToWrite

Konoha79

sodenoshirayuki_23

izanyas

stargazerlilith

SoukokuParadise

hellosweetie17

gureshintrash

TheGreatCatsby

hybridempress

Lake_Toya

Kohaku69

okay now some am amazing fics that my heart always skip a beat reading them!

Mother by WhisperingWinds99:

a really heart warming fic! Kouyou narrate skk life and we see her mother sight! well written and overwelming emotions . one shot

Movie Nights and Lazy Mornings by evie_maria:

a cute little one shot abouot skk weekend! pure fluff and calm feelings.

Seven days to show you my love by holdinglucy:

It takes Dazai seven days to prove Chuuya he’s still his partner in the things that matter. one shot and absolutely lovely! Im jealous of chuuya here! its nice seeing Dazai as a caring boyfriend who tries to find happiness and Chuuya deserve some too.

Chuuya’s Secret by Anonymous:

Chuuya’s behavior has become strange lately, but Dazai, with his insight, is certain he can figure it out. a hilarrious fic! one shot and a fluffy one! its mpreg too and its funny seeing Dazai as these dork dads!

Fire in the Night by ChubbyHippo:

I love this one. its one shot and AU. brothel!Chuuya and solder!Dazai fell in love under the bright moon and my hearet stopped!its lovely, romantic,bit sad but overwelm ing and leaves you full.

Five more minutes by counter_illumination:

from morning to night their typical day. cute and fluffy.crak makes an apperance too coz we are talking about Dazai.a really nice feeling in it. one shot

Shared Gravity by writingfromtheshadows, ZODIACHUUYA:

mind the writes too. multi-chptrs. the writers take turns with the chptrs leaving no hoe init and giving you the emotions open to see. AU!high school and reallyyyyy good.The first time they slept together, Dazai and Chuuya were little more than academic rivals thrown together in a haze of dancing and alcohol.Every time after that, well, they just seemed to be drawn to each other. its an awesome fic

A Hearts Desire by Kaokita :

AU and multi-chptrs.Chuuya works in a brothel when he meets Dazai, a journalist. Dazai thinks he can save Chuuya but Chuuya doesn’t need saving. The one who needs saving is the one who longs for a reason to keep living. Chuuya and Dazai end up saving each other. this two are like magnets and when they connect they are explode. Chuuya thinks that they are different but they are not really. A+++ for Oda being alive.

Feel My Love by eunrihae:

multi-chptrs, one going, mpreg.they are just in  love and noone thoought that Dazai was serious about Chuuya. but boy they are wrong. coz in the end of the day they will always be in love.

Five Times Dazai Didn’t Stay, and One Time He Did. by kidspawn02:

I honestly loe this one. its well written, well built and over welming. emotions bear for you to see and feel . it has smut b ut not graphic but its about Dazai and Chuuya don’t really know how to deal with sexual tension, and Chuuya doesn’t think it’s fair that he’s fallen in love and that Dazai leaves every time they share a bed. it hurts but the ending is perfect. one shot

Strangers and Painkillers by TheEnigmaticPhoenix:

thiiiiiiiis fic!!!!! best absolute perfect! fluff and light angst but its great! Chuuya has no right as a stranger to make assumptions that the man sitting in front of him is hurting more than he is, despite the huge bloody gash running down the length of Chuuya’s arm.So, in an attempt to become less of a stranger, Chuuya lets the man drag him to the hospital to get his arm treated, hoping that he’ll answer Chuuya’s questions.What Chuuya doesn’t realize is that it’s not that easy to get a certain Dazai Osamu to open up. (part of series)

(i believe) i think i said goodbye to my soul tonight by iskendaris:

this one has smut but I choose it for what it represent. the raw emotions and the writting just bring to light words and promises long buried and very much needed by afraid to be said. true emotions that no one wanted to say but they are not bad and its great how the writer portain them. Dazai OP is “This isn’t sex as much as its an interrogation. Whatever Chuuya wants from him, he doesn’t know why but he knows he can trust Chuuya not to fuck him up.Or rather, he knows why, but he doesn’t think about it too much about baseless trust issues, because therein lies hell and damnation.” and its nice seeing through him

Temporarily by prettypurplegirl08:

cutness overload and a very much needed happiness.multi-chptrs and you dont want it to end.In Dazai’s arms was a small child–Chuuya would guess he was probably around 3 or 4 years old–with, surprisingly, silver white hair staring at Chuuya with those wide purple-yellow mixture orbs of his. The little kid was only wearing an over-size white shirt–well it’s definitely oversized for the small kid. Chuuya fell silent as his gaze never left the child who was thumbsucking in Dazai’s arms, part of his brain trying to figure out where he had seen the kid and another part trying to fathom why Dazai had come to his apartment with him in the first place.//or Atsushi gets turned into a child and Chuuya and Dazai has tot ake care of him, Akutagawa is somehow involved?

I’ll Hold You Close, and Half of Us Closer by doubleblack :

multi-chptrs, on going, mpreg. a lovelly fic. a very needed fluff. “This is the baby.” The doctor smiled. “They look like a little spot right now since you’re not far along. And that is their very strong heartbeat.“Chuuya and Dazai smiled as they looked at the ultrasound of their baby. The doctor printed out the ultrasounds of their baby. She prescribed Chuuya prenatal vitamins, told him he was 10 weeks along, and that he would be due early December. Chuuya and Dazai were now on their way home, and Dazai held Chuuya’s hand as he was driving home.“If Mori finds out…”“He won’t.” Dazai stated. “And even if he did. I will not let anyone hurt you or our baby. Ever. I will destroy the whole Port Mafia before I ever let that happen.” its cuuuuuute. its a journey that i would love to see.

Lips by SilentSoukoku:

cut and unexpected! “My dearest Chuuya, do you even take care of your lips? Look at how cracked they are!” did you died yet? coz I did! one shot

Waste of Bandage’s by ChuuChan1994:

hilarious, cute, amazing! one shot. Chuuya is getting along better with the ADA, that still doesn’t mean he’s willing to put up with Dazai’s bullshit. Where Akutagawa was use to the sight, Atsushi was left gaping at the sight before him.

Just like we agreed by codenamecat:

I will say on thing : Yosano is a b adass  Goddnes. thats all. one shot and smut sorry but its funny and fluffy  too. “I’ve been giving you excuses to leave since the very beginning, why won’t you just do what we’re both waiting for and take your gross ass away from here?!”Dazai tilted his head, his expression suggesting that he suddenly forgot his mother tongue and didn’t understand a word of what Chuuya just said.“Who said that it’s what I want?”

bounded by fate by Nekito :

super interesting multi-chptrs, AU!!! kouyou never took chuuya in and chuuya never joins the mafia, thus never meeting dazai when they were kids; instead chuuya lives 22 years a normal life until he mets dazai; dazai’s connections with the port mafia however soon causes problems on going.

Without Gods, Without Guidance by dancing_dazai :

another super interesting AU but with Gods! niiice and very promising!Without gods, without guidance, By the window, a woman has passed on; the white sky is blind, the white wind is cold.-The Hour of Death, Chuuya NakaharaTwo lost souls find their way to Quindecim with no memories of who they are or how they got there, and they’re determined to get their lives back. No matter the cost. multi-chptrs and on going

centrifugal/centripetal by TopHat69 :

my absolute favorite! majestic, powerful, overwelming, lovelu, lovely fic! multi-shptrs, omegaverse, on going their story from the begging but they are true mates. problem is that its more than they can handle. it what they need but Chuuya is not good at this and Dazai is too afraid. Chuuya wants to learn, to reach Dazai and Dazai want to be free and filfull a promise.

Cover Up by Satquael:

one shot and beautiful! It wasn’t long after they’d first met that Dazai noticed the tattoo. It was on the back of his neck, a bunch of letters and numbers that didn’t make any real sense. A serial number, of sorts.Chuuya had tried to hide it, understandably. Under his clothes, and then makeup. These solutions didn’t really work. Not in the long term, anyway. Clothes shifted, and makeup rubbed off.Dazai had a better idea.

lastly, will be too bad of me to share my works? I think that you may mostly like this fic:

Can you sew my suit? : Akutagawa and Atsushi are getting married and who is a better person to be their best man, but Dazai Osamu? Unfortunally, all guests has to wear newly sew suits, but Dazai missed the deadline for the order!Now, eight days before the wedding, Akutagawa sends Dazai to his last resolt; his good friend’s tailor shop, Nakahara Chuuya.However, his Dazai’s suit will not be the only thing fixed.Ch1.: the prologueCh2.: the meetingCh3.: a bonus

aaaaaaaaaand thats some of my favorite and amazinf fics i LOVE! hope you like them and happy reading! tell me what you think okay?

be well! :)

have a nice day!!!

[sailolee92]

Honorable mentions for top anime/manga list.

Fairy Tail.

This series started off very promising. It gave us a cast of characters who basically started off kicking ass and being able to hold their own against the villains as opposed to the usual get murdered and train until you can only squeak by. In particular the Natsu and Gajeel fight was very impressive. It just...after a few seasons I couldn’t do it anymore. It became a very basic, incredibly repetitive shonen anime. It was boring and predictable.

Wolf’s Rain.

Also known as ugly crying the anime Wolf’s Rain is beautiful and incredibly moving. It also feels likes it’s incomplete. If there had been a better,more fulfilling ending it would probably be on the main list.

Bleach (seasons 1-3)

Oh Bleach. So much promise and then a dead payoff. Seriously this anime as the shit when it first came out. So intriguing and different, very gripping and with an original story. But somewhere along the way it lost sight with what it was and became lackluster and unfulfilling. Probably at the same time the mangaka admitted he had no clue what he was doing anymore. Planning my dude, planning. You can’t just wing such an expansive series.

One Piece

Honestly the only reason this isn’t on the main list is because it got so far ahead of me I have no chance of ever catching up. From what I did watch One Piece was a very nice show. But annoying for me personally. Plus I know you killed my favorite character, Eiichiro Oda. No mercy for this atrocity of a character waste.

Another

A short, violent horror anime about a curse class being killed one by one in the most gruesome and imaginative ways. I came across this anime after watching a ‘Top ten most gruesome anime deaths’ with the teacher death scene and knew I had to figure out what the fuck was going on for myself. While very nice and with a decent plot twist there is a lot unresolved at the end of the series.

Zombie Powder (manga series only)

I have to mention this because it’s by Tite Kubo, the creator of Bleach. It was a very interesting manga series that I read a while ago. I thought the story was great, the characters engaging and I was ready to dive deep into this series head first. And then it abruptly ended with having exactly 0 resolution. Tite Kubo really likes to sabotage his own work I guess.

Tokyo Mew Mew

I DIDN’T COUNT ON THIIiiIiiIS. BEFORE MY VERY FIRST KIIiiIISS.

Oh the dark age of 4kids anime. What an absolutely atrocious opening for what should have been a great magical cat girl series. And it is! But predictable and with weird names (who names their kid Lettuce that poor child) Though still enjoyable if you read the manga or watch the subbed version. Never the dub. Never again.

Voltron: Legendary Defenders

I’m adding this as an anime fight me. I LOVE Voltron. I love all the characters, the space adventures, the animation, the suspense all of it. Well except one thing: the fandom. YA’LL NEED TO CHILL DAMMIT.

Dragonball/ Dragonball Z

Screaming the anime! It’s too expansive, it’s never ending, the plot holes, PAN, the never ending cycle of die, return, die, return oh jesus make it stop! Still enjoyable though for some reason, but more as background noise than seriously watching. Except the Cell Games, best season because my boy Gohan gets to shine yeeeah!

Full Metal Alchemist/ Brotherhood.

I watched the original FMA with one of the oddest manga divergences that I’ve ever seen that still managed to work and make sense while staying mostly true to the source material. Then Brotherhood came and we got the true FMA series which...why not do that first? Oh well,great series but sometimes the tone can be all over the place to me. Also killing Lust off super fast was a whiplash moment for me since she was such a big character in the first series.

Magica Madoka

A good magical girl series, but for me a bit predictable. i knew what was going to happen in episode 3 because death flags were REAL in that  episode. Also I didn’tlike the ending at all,it felt like they were trying too hard to be ‘smart’ and ‘deep’ when they didn’t seem to have any real idea what they were talking about.

Kill la Kill

I’m not a fan of fan service at all. I understand the context of it in the show and why it’s there, I just eh. Coupled with the weird incestuous, rapey yuri moments going on and it really squicked me out. Great original series though and I did enjoy most of it.

Psycho-Pass

FINISH YOUR STORIES! Psycho-Pass was so good and I’m super upset that it ended on such a low note. You had so much potential, a huge fanbase WHAT IS YOU DOING?!

Inuyasha

Repetitive, borderline abusive main relationship and underwhelming conclusion. Sound familiar? I find that a lot of long-running anime don’t end well.

Baccano!

Oh my god. What a half ass ending. Seriously I’ve never felt so let down except with Naruto. You were doing amazing! You had a great series, a great cast, amazing animation and then you end it like THAT? FINISH YOUR STORIES.

Death Note

Again this comes down to a shitty ending for a great anime. I don’t understand how so many anime/manga can do amazing for so long and then choke on the ending. Is it a mangaka curse?

Scry-ed

I need to rewatch this. I saw it as a kid and absolutely loved it but for some reason can’t remember 99% of it? But everytime I think of it I love it? It’s confusing for me too.

Yu-Gi-Oh

I watched every. Single. Episode. Of the original series. All of them, but I’d have to say the Orichalcos was my favorite season. Then I watched GX then most of 5D’s. But during 5D’s it just got too complicated. The cars did. I shouldn’t need to roll a dice, do math, and flip a coin all for the same effect card. I’ll stick with my Dark Magician family deck thanks.

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Beating Around the Bush: Nine Months in South Korea.

Well hello there. 

My last blog post was about five months ago, and since then I have really been getting a grasp on Korean culture. Honestly, it takes a long freakin’ time to truly understand a culture. I’ve been to Portugal. I’ve eaten Portuguese food. I traveled with Portuguese friends and even muttered a line or two in the language (THANK YOU SPANISH FOR BEING SO SIMILAR), but... I really have not experienced the full, or even half of the effect of Portuguese culture. Do you see what I’m saying? BEM.

I have summoned you all today to my amateur and rambling blog post to share with you some very interesting aspects of Korean culture. Now, this is not your average -- Koreans like kimchi, Koreans speak Korean, Koreans like Kpop-- type of post. Oh no. These four things I am about to share with you will have you thinking KAJA TO KOREA, I KNOW SO MUCH MORE NOW.

Let’s get weird.

Culture tip hana (1)~ The Knock Back

  You ever been in a restaurant and need to do ole number one or number two? “Excuse me, I need to use the restroom.” You get up. You gracefully walk to the restroom. Wind in your hair. Everyone looking at you. Please.. please no pictures!

Wait where am I?

Oh, so you arrive to the restroom. You see all the stalls are closed, BUT is anyone in them? You knock on the stall. You hear one of many things “ONE MOMENT!” “OCCUPIED” “YEAH?!?!?”. Ok, I must wait. 

-- Different scenario --

You’re the person in the stall and hear someone knock. “ONE MOMENT!” “OCCUPIED!” “YEAH?!?!?”. Crisis adverted.

Koreans don’t vocalize the fact that they are in the stall. Which honestly I found relieving when I arrived because I had no idea what to say so I probably would’ve awkwardly let out some weird, loud grunt. “Me here! You wait!”

Koreans do the knock back. After you knock on the door “tok, tok”, a Korean will knock back at you if they’re in the stall “tok, tok”. I honestly found this hilarious and maybe took it as a joke at first. Some of them even knock back the same way you knocked on the door. In this case, it’s difficult to quit knocking. Just once I would like to see how far it goes. Then again, they would probably think I was some weirdo. I am.

This actually goes for any small public space you occupy, like dressing rooms.

Woooow. NEXT.

Number dul~~ “Asking” for favors indirectly.

Thiiiiiiiis one. This one grinds my gears, but only because the US has become such a straight-forward place in the past few years. I try to keep it positive and think of it as a nice brain exercise.

You need a favor? Need someone to make a call for you? Need someone to come over and help you with something? Here’s the etiquette: beat around the bush.

Example time (I’m terrible with examples, but I can try my hardest for my loyal blog readers): You’ve tried cleaning something in your apartment that you know a professional reaaaaallly should clean. After using up all the elbow grease you got in you (half a pint in my case), you realize...frick. I’m gonna need the big guys to get in here. There’s one problem: you don’t speak Korean outside of telling people your name. Great. So, it boils down to A) Praying someone speaks English at the business or B) asking someone to call for you.

Now comes the brain exercising. You see, it’s “more polite” for you to kind of hint to what you need instead of being like “HI I NEED A PROFESSIONAL CLEANER SO CAN YOU CALL, YEAH?” Instead...strike up a little convo. “Oh man, you know my *place object here* was soooo dirty. I tried my best to clean it but it just wasn’t cutting it. I wish I could just get it cleaned.” At this point someone may say something like “Oh you can get it professionally cleans for X won. I can call if you like.” 

Boom baby. Next thing you know your brain has the biceps of a god and your household item is about to be spar-ka-lay.

Although this is not always the case, as I’ve directly asked people for things before, I’ve heard numerous...nuuuuuumerous times that beating around the bush for a favor is the BEST way to go.

Moving on.

Number set~~ The abrupt hang up

You ever witness something that just makes you stop and shift your eyes back and forth while trying to make sense of what just happened? The abrupt hang up, baby. 

Say your talking to someone on the phone. It can be about anything: work, gossip, family, anything. It can be between anyone: Korean to Korean, Korean to foreigner. You will experience this in Korea.

So, your having a conversation. It’s coming to a close and in the USA this is when you stat saying your goodbyes. “Ok, well I’m gonna go. Talk to ya soon. Ok bye!”

In Korea the end of the conversation is often met with a “neeeee” (kind of like, ok, yeah) and CLICK. This one threw me for a loop the first time I actually experienced it. I thought.....what did I say wrong? After listening to some coworkers answer the phone I realized this is common. Many times I’ve heard someone “have a conversation” by just using noises “eeeehhhh. eeeeeeeh. eh. EEEEEEEH. Neeeee.” CLICK. I’ve seen a Korean mid-sentence get hung up on because the other person thought the convo was over. Alas, for them it’s a normal thing, so this person just said “oh they’re gone” and went about their business unscathed. 

I was later informed that it really is just common culture. It’s more like “ok I know the info I need so now I will hang up” 

Neato.

Number net~~Non-confrontational people

From not only what I’ve heard, but seen and experienced in Korean people are extremely non-confrontational. Actually I thought I was like this, but the Korean culture is another level compared to myself.

Say you do something that really bothers someone. Where I’m from we’d be like.. “Ted, you know, that’s kind of rude really.” or maybe even “WHATS YOUR BLEEPIN PROBLEM?” Here I’ve seen and even experienced that Koreans won’t tell you that you’ve bothered them. Instead they will remain silent and hold a grudge against you and do little things to bother you until maybe you ask them “hey did I do something???”

NEXT. Thankfully, a situation like this has never happened to me, or in front of me as I doubt I will be able to contain my beast-like, aggressive personality. ha-ha. 

Anyways. If there is some sort of dispute in public, say.... a man beating a woman, or someone screaming for help, its very common for Korean people to do nothing and walk on by. Maybe even run on by as to not get involved with anything. This really surprised me, considering I would try to put a homie in a headlock, break my tiny wrist, proceed to use my other arm, break that one too then headbutt a player. I digress. 

You may be thinking -- what the heck, man. How can you just walk on by? I’d power drive a person so fast--- no my friend. Here, if you interfere and harm the attacker in anyway it’s possible that you’ll be punished for doing so. It doesn’t matter if it’s self defensive or if you’re even in the right. We were actually told upon arrival that many times “it’s not who started the problem, it’s who ends it.”

All I can say is I really hope I don’t find myself in such a situation. I’ve watched too much Sailor Moon to just sit back and let it happen. MOON PRISOM POWEEEER.

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So those are 4 interesting facts/differences?/cultural things I find pretty interesting about South Korea so far. I know that  not all Koreans are like this. Ma’am, Sir.. I know. I thank you for your deep insight.

Overall, my nine months here have been wonderful to say the least. I’ve been doing a little traveling. My job is great. My students are wonderful. That being said, I’ve decided to stay another year here in South Korea. My school is allowing me to move into the city and commute to work, which is awesome. They say they’ve been pleased with my work. Really the only thing missing is my family. Miss you!!!!

Also, since I’ll be moving apartments, I’m going to do a little apartment tour of my current one. It really is a great apartment, just not the ideal location. 

Stay tuuuuuuuuuned.

Fighting!