#i bought a plushy of their mascot afterwards

[sp1nnenlilie]

Went to my first ever ice hockey game a day ago. Recovering ever since.

Went there knowing nothing and left knowing they like to beat each other up for the slightest inconvenience ahhahad. I loved the atmosphere though and it was super interesting to watch.

(This was my home team’s introduction☟ it looked and felt like the whole place got set on fire)

At the end our team won wich was great (even though i really think the opponents team didnt stand a chance bc it was obvious our team was so much better. Teamplaying and tactics wise.. but again i also know barely nothing so if anyone wants to educate me 🤓☝️ feel free to do so(^^)v)

[lunulate]

Haven’t written for a while but my first day of class was okay, I got heart palpitations that morning worrying I’d miss the bus, which I didn’t. I finished two books at our residential college library and also called ông nội to wish him a happy birthday. 

I didn’t have anything planned for the weekend at first, other than a COVID-19 check-up mandated by the school and the movie night, but my roommates invited me everywhere. Yesterday we went downtown for a school event with Luis where we got coupons for free food. I went back a bit early, but we met later for dinner where I met one of the girls I ate with on Wednesday, Hannah. It turns out that she works at the dining hall and she gave me some tips if I ever wanted to apply. Unfortunately she missed out on the downtown event so I promised to give her my free ice cream coupon. Afterwards, my roommates, Luis, and I raced to catch a concert at one of the other residential colleges. We got there late, but just in time to see the last band perform. My roommates really liked them (even rushed into an impromptu mosh pit) but I couldn’t understand what the frontman was singing. And it wasn’t because some of the songs were in Spanish, he was mumbling the lyrics. I’m no vocal expert, but it seems like he was singing in his throat and very chesty.

Today we went to a social event our residential college was holding with our sister college. I unexpectedly won a raffle there and got a blanket and two face masks. I don’t use face masks so I gave it to a sophomore we met there named Aster (he majors in literature and actually lives at our hall) but I kept the blanket. It’s unfortunately a polyester one, but I was really happy. I’ve never won anything in my life from something like this...it’s rare that I’m so lucky. 

Afterwards, we walked to a shrine dedicated to our school’s mascot along with Aster, his dog, and his boyfriend. We walked for like twenty minutes uphill because we forgot the campus buses don’t run on weekends. It turns out the shrine was located on the balcony of three guys’ dorm room. We had to get access to their building and then go through their room to get there. The guy who let us in was really nice (I think his name was Dave?) and he explained to us how the shrine came to be. 

Apparently one of his roommates bought a mascot plushie and a rug and placed them both out on the balcony (the plushie on the rug), which is located right next to the elevator and visible to everyone on the floor. People started asking to visit so the guys headed downtown to buy crystals and make it as shrine. I might be getting parts of the story mixed up, but yeah anyways now people come by to take pictures and leave “offerings.” My roommates and I each left one, for me it was a postcard I decorated at a social event...it’s a little sad but I had no one else to send it to so I thought I’d just give it to our mascot.

Then we had a movie night whereupon we watched Pride & Prejudice in our residential hall lounge which was honestly just okay. I didn’t like the original novel in the first place but the film actually changed a few things which I felt made the plot even more nonsensical and magnified its flaws. But it’s one of my roommates’ favorite movies, and I wasn’t about to air my negative thoughts anyway. I forgot to say, but the movie night was actually a social event held by my roommates and a few people actually did come including two friends we invited—Luis and Lonnie. It seems everyone enjoyed themselves though (I feel guilty for eating so many of the snacks Luis and one of my roommates brought) and there was even talk about making movie night a weekly thing.

Because Lonnie has to hike all the way back to a distant parking lot to get to her car, we all walked with her there after the movie ended. And by we, I mean my roommates, Luis, myself and a girl we met at the movie night named Gabi(?). Not sure if that’s how her name is spelled but she kept playing music as we strode along. It was a really long and tiring walk, but I’m glad Lonnie got to her car safe. Then we all went back through a different route—Gabi was an orientation guide and said she knew a few shortcuts. We stopped to play on a carousel she pointed out and crossed over two bridges but we finally got back. I stayed behind to call mom (she made me promise to every Saturday) and write this post while the others continued along to a party Luis’s roommates told him about. The party is about a twenty-minute walk away, and it’s already pretty late so I’m a little worried for them...I’m realizing how I much I walk with them. I’d probably only walk a third of what I do if it weren’t for them. Honestly, it’s so sweet of them to try and include me in everything but they want to go to nearly every social event and I’m not sure I can keep up.

[shsl-shipper-gamer-fangirl]

Prompt: before ko turns into shsl despair, when they are in the academy. Maybe Chiaki invites Ko to go to a arcade with her?

A/N a very late birthday gift to my beloved friend @nanamemes-chiakiiz HAPPY BIRTHDAY YOU WONDERFUL FRIEND!!!

Lucky Catch - komanami

“I truly am honored to have been invited to escort you when surely there are others more fitting. From the bottom of my heart, I am touched that you would choose me.” Komaeda declared with his widest of grins.

“You’re exaggerating. I just asked you out on a date.” Nanami replied more casually in contrast to his tone.

“Huh? Isn’t that what I just said?” He asked with childlike innocence.

Nanami blinked at his genuine ignorance. Even though it’s to be expected, she still isn’t quite used to the way he’d describe certain things but it’s not a bad thing. It’s confusing at times and more often than not, he’s fanatically optimistic when he’s not downright self-deprecating. His words are a bit of a mouthful and she’s not sure if she fully comprehends what he says but then she just looks at him. Komaeda’s smile is more than enough to tell her what he meant to in words.

“Well I guess if you say so.” She easily smiled back and took his hand, intertwining. “Let’s go?”

There’s a sparkle in his eyes as he gave her hand an affectionate squeeze. “Lead the way.”

It’s a date or at least it’s the closest thing to a date that Nanami could think of. She’d always wanted to try an actual date and ever since she resigned herself to the idea that Komaeda wouldn’t make the first move, not yet, she asked him out first. He almost turned her down though but only because he kept downplaying his worth. But it’s alright since he agreed in the end and she even managed to talk him into planning the second one. He was surprisingly easier to talk into a second date than a first. He said something about the probability of the first one being a success was guaranteed since her hope would surely overpower his bad luck. She’s not going to argue to that if it gets them a round two date.

She’s a bit inexperienced though or rather, she has no in real life experience at all when it comes to planning dates. Whenever she tried to prod for information from Komaeda, he’d simply reply that he’d be willing to go anywhere and he didn’t have any place he particularly favored. Nanami’s geographic knowledge on the other hand only extended to gaming places. He didn’t seem to mind and she was relieved that they were going to a comfort zone of hers. But just because this was her territory didn’t mean she didn’t think of his side.

She dragged him and gracefully weaved through the arcade until they stopped at their destination.

“A claw machine?” He stated more than asked. It wasn’t quite what he expected when she told him that they were going to have fun at the arcade.

A whole slew of them was lined up although this one was the largest of them. His eyes discreetly searched for the number of tokens needed and confirmed his suspicion that this was in fact the most expensive of them all. They could play ten games at the rate. He turned to her face which was beaming at the challenge in front of her.

“Me first.” Nanami said without so much a glance at him, her eyes already trained at the prize before her.

They already bought tokens beforehand and she slid ten of them into the machine. The claw moved with precision as she expertly held the analog stick with a determined grip. She flicked it ever so slightly, bit by bit, as she stared at the inside and changed her angle every now and then, correcting the alignment accordingly. Without warning, she pressed the button and she maneuvered through the obstacle of prizes as the claw descended. Until finally, it was able to hook onto a tiny loop which was connected to a huge dog stuffed toy. And just like that, she had easily won the most expensive prize in the game.

The plushie was ridiculously larger than her as she held it, both of her arms could hardly circle around all of it. With a proud grin on her face, she peeked through her prize and challenged him, “Now it’s player two’s turn.”

Komaeda was almost at a lost for words. Her talent never failed to astound him and just now he bore witness to the more unconventional applications of it and it blew his mind. She looked so happy over it too that he couldn’t help but smile back. “Alright, wish me luck.”

Contrary to Nanami’s controlled and calculated approach, Komaeda didn’t put too much effort into his. After all, he thought that he didn’t have the talent for it so why bother? He did wonder how his luck would affect the outcome. Claw machines involved some luck after getting past the mirrors and skills. He vaguely remembered reading somewhere how there was actually a mechanism involved that regulated the odds of winning. According to that, it would take a certain number of tries after a win before the next win happens. Since Nanami had just won before him, the chances of him winning anything was close to zero now.

It excited him all the more not knowing how he could possibly lose horribly in this.

The claw hovered his target, the best prize second to the already taken dog stuff toy, a bunny mascot character plush. He didn’t even hesitate when he pressed the button and the claw descended– past the bunny and into the bags of candies that surrounded it. Miraculously, one was caught by the edge and dangled precariously. It was a horrible consolation prize but it was better than none.

Except it was dropped as the claw shook on its way to the bin. The bag fell right on top of one of the heavier prizes which threw it off balance. It then toppled onto the divider which just so happened to have some screws loose. For a long moment, nothing happened. The tension in the air was palpable as the two stared on in anticipation. They thought that his luck was pushed far enough since there was no movement for a few minutes. They almost gave up as they took a step back. Somehow the miniscule tremor from that was enough to trigger the collapse of the divider and so all of the prizes came pouring out of the machine.

“Amazing!” Nanami voiced her awe in all her enthusiasm. “As expected of a pro!”

Komaeda laughed at yet another display of how powerful his luck was. “I guess my luck has its uses after all!” He had won everything with his luck.

And then lost them all because it was suspected as cheating.

“Ah, I knew my luck is the worst. To win everything only for me forfeit them all is truly devastating.” Komaeda said outside with a smile that was far too cheery despite his circumstance. “Well it’s not like I can complain. It was either go home empty-handed or you get banned too.” He chuckled at this.

In hindsight, they were lucky that they let her keep her prize at least.

“Did you have fun, Nanami?” He asked her as they walked towards the train station.

“Yes. Very much so!” She nodded happily. “They let us play lots of other games afterwards. But I still think the best part was the claw machine. Your luck was so amazing! I couldn’t beat it at all!”

“But if we count the actual prizes I took home, we’d count nothing so this should count as your victory.” He corrected her.

Nanami stopped in her tracks and turned towards him.

“You used to have a dog.” She started, her voice was distant but also partly muffled from the plushie she was holding on.

“Pardon?”

“You told me that you used to have a dog when you were a kid and that it made you happy.” She continued and it was hard to tell what kind of face she was making as she said this since the plushie obscured her head. “I know this isn’t enough to replace him. And this might not even be the same breed but…”

From one owner to another, the dog was passed on to him.

“Here.” She said with a heartfelt smile, it shone more prominently due to the blush that dusted her cheeks. “I want you to be happy.”

For a moment, Komaeda remembered to try and get her that bunny plushie for another date.

His arms encircled both the dog stuff toy and her as he let out a blissful sigh. “Thank you, Nanami. I truly am lucky.��

And he was the luckiest for having her.