#i feel like i’ve been reblogging the same vibes since like 2015

[stickto-otherartists]

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[sankyeom]

thank you for tagging me june!! i love these things, i loved reading your responses and i love you cutie @buttabomma 💛

why did you choose your url?

my ult groups used to be ateez and seventeen, and my biases are san and dokyeom! so san + dokyeom = sankyeom. i’ve thought of changing it a few times bc i no longer ult those groups but so many people know me by sankyeom so i think i won’t change it

do you have any side blogs?

this is actually a side blog! my main blog is @sankyeoms-replies

how long have you been on tumblr?

i first got tumblr in like 2015 or 2016 for when i wrote fabrication for harry potter, marvel and more. i’ve had this blog for two years now!

do you have a queue tag?

i don’t! but i want to come up with a pun from lyrics to a kpop song, something like “say queue love me” like 0x1=lovesong by txt but idk if it’s lame lol

why did you start your blog in the first place?

because wattpad, quotev and other fanfic sites don’t have the community that tumblr has! plus there’s amazing creators that make gifs and other things that don’t really exist anywhere else

also i only had 1 irl friend who listened to kpop and i needed more!! now i have lots of lovely mutuals and at least 5 irl friends who like kpop

why did you choose your icon/pfp?

because i’m a giant hoe for ji changmin and he looks so damn handsome in black and white 😍

why did you choose your header?

i picked my ult bias and my most recent bias at the time!! plus changmin and heeseung have a similar vibe visually, if that makes sense? and once again, they’re so damn pretty in black and white

what’s your post with the most notes?

i think it’s my soobin fic he loves me, he loves me not! right now it’s sitting at around 1.7k notes which is literally insane, thank you guys so much 😳💗

how many mutuals do you have?

i have about 40 people that i consider my mutuals, but i’m a bit shy so i don’t talk regularly to all of them

how many followers do you have?

just over 3.5k!! once again, that’s crazy, thank you guys so much 😭😭💛

how many people do you follow?

i just checked and apparently i follow 400 people, which is a lot. i’ll probably have to go and update that soon but i do stan a lot of groups so that’s probably why! especially since i don’t just follow writers i also follow gif makers and other creators

have you ever made a shitpost?

i don’t think so

how often do you use tumblr each day?

i check my notifications really often in case i have messages or if i need to add people to a tag list, but i post less often than i check it

did you ever have a fight/argument with another blog once? who won?

i’ve never fought with other blogs but i’ve fought with anon hate before. i feel like the fact that some loser is taking the time to send anon hate means that i already won lol

how do you feel about those “you need to reblog this” posts?

in the context of raising awareness for social issues, i try to reblog them as long as they aren’t triggering. in terms of those posts about luck and money i just ignore them

do you like tag games?

YES !!! i love to read about other people’s lives and blogs and i love to share it with anyone who is interested in me in the same way! plus i love to be tagged 💜

do you like ask games?

even more than tag games!! especially ones about kpop songs or idols because my boyfriend likes to play along

which of your mutuals do you think are tumblr famous?

@kwanisms @chaoticdeobi @stealerz @lsangyeons @deobienthusiast @buttabomma

you guys all give famous vibes for sure i see you guys on everyone’s blogs all the time!! (also i’m a big fan of you 🥰)

do you have a crush on a mutual?

literally all of them and i hope they have a crush on me bc i’m a leo and i thrive on attention

tagging: @lsangyeons @uwu0clock @lilacdreams-00 @multihoe-net @httpsohnpouts @mochi-ficz @sunbrry if you guys are interested!! 💗

[noro-noro-noro]

thank u 4 tagging me kiwi ily <3 

1. Why did you choose your url?

one noro & 2 noros were both taken & tokyo ghoul was my big interest when i made my blog. now it’s my brand. i can’t not be noro!!! i wouldn’t recognize myself!!! 

2. Any side blogs?

design inspiration blog @machine-dreams! also my vent blog but we dont need to get into that ❤

3. How long have you been on tumblr?

since like late 2015

4. Do you have a queue tag?

i dont use a queue. fuck it all!! everyone will know when i’m online & when i’m not

5. Why did you start your blog in the first place?

one of my friends kept asking me to make one so i eventually did 

6. Why did you choose your icon/pfp?

ok well it couldn’t not be noro with this name. then i added the gun to threaten the homies & then i added the crab bc of that giant enemy crab post

7. Why did you choose your header?

i drew it for new years in 2017 & it’s got noro in it & i think it’s my favorite tokyo ghoul fanart that i’d ever done. also i forgot about changing it

8. What’s your post with the most notes?

a post about losing my horse in minecraft that got picked up by mojang-official & then circulated to the minecraft community at large. i think the numps post is in 3rd place. 

9. How many mutuals do you have?

i was really curious so i went through & counted. i have 48 

10. How many followers do you have?

1223

11. How many people do you follow?

384

12. Have you ever made a shit post?

ofc

13. How often do you use tumblr a day?

idk really often i think. i like pictures & funny sentences

14. Did you ever have a fight/argument with another blog?

not really? i think the biggest beef i’ve ever had with someone on tumblr was my old roommate nick & that’s because we hate each other irl. oh wait i remember i was defending that one mp100 fanfic that everyone was making baseless accusations against a few years ago & i got one person calling me a piece of shit child abuser in the notes or something like that, but they blocked me immediately so like idk if that counts? oh there was also one person who followed me a while ago that kept adding snarky & mean replies every time i made a personal post about something i was interested in, so i eventually softblocked them. this sounds like a lot, but these are the only 3 examples that i have over the past 6 years or whatever

15. How do you feel about the ‘you need to reblog’ posts?

depends if it’s funny or not. if it’s not funny it’s annoying & i do not reblog it. hope this helps 

16. Do you like tag games?

YES i love talking about myself!!!!! 

17. Do you like ask games?

i don’t usually get many asks, like it’s 2-3 randomly picked from the same pool of 10 people that interact with me (this recent pokemon thing was an exception), but i like them!!! i think they are cool & fun

18. Which of your mutuals do you think is tumblr famous?

spitblaze if you are reading this i like your posts & sometimes i go to your streams too & those are fun!!! also tickfleato i think your art & ocs & worlduilding are all SO cool i hope to read all of it someday!!! cryogenic-heat who is big in the off fanart community for their oc shortsen  & tomochingus who used to draw assclass fanart & now draws incredible fma fanart. sorry to namedrop people i just think you are all cool & sometimes i go “wow i can’t believe this person is following me”

19. Do you have a crush on a mutual?

a while ago ya but i’m normal now  

i’ll tag uhhh @toga-vibes & @pingo1387 & @whatthehaxx & @king-sxmething & @greengargouille. ok swag  ❤  

[mangoofthesea]

Took me a week but I'm here! I was tagged by @abstract-moth

1. Why did you choose your URL?

I decided to do a revamp of my blog last year after having the same blog url and set up for a few years.

I was really into this podcast called You're Wrong About at the time and they had a series on Jessica Simpson and during it they talked about some joke relating to her being made fun of for questioning why a can of tuna had the brand name Chicken of the Sea and i liked the sound of 'of the sea' as the name of something and subed in 'mango' because I really like mangoes and I thought the name as a whole had a cool vibe to it (made these choices all in about 10 minutes the same day I was setting up my new laptop)

2. Any side blogs?

Technically 2 but I don't pose much to them :supernatural-art and spacewordwasaimingforozai, both from different eras of interests

3. How long have you been on Tumblr?

pfffft uhh I wanna say since about 2014 since I've had an account which went unused for around a year then started using it from the beginning of 2015

4. Do you have a queue tag?

sometimes I use q but I will just occasionally queue things really

5. Why did you start your blog in the first place?

I saw loads of screenshots on fb and pinterest of tumblr posts and they made me laugh and I wanted to get in on that, as well as hearing it was good for fandom

6. Why did you choose you icon/pfp?

It was when I was doing the blog revamp and I had the picture saved in a 'to draw' file and thought it was a good vibe

7. Why did you choose your header?

same reason as above but a meme folder

8. What’s your post with the most notes?

This one that I made before falling asleep and woke up to find a lot of people could relate then its just kept going up

9. How many mutuals do you have?

At least about 20 I think, some I don't interact with or see active anymore so probably more like 15 that I see regularly

10. How many followers do you have?

694 wow nice c'mon guys get me to 700

11. How many people do you follow?

398. I honestly thought it would be more

12. Have you ever made a shit post?

Probably????

13. How often do you use tumblr?

Basically every day minus when I delete the app from my mobile for whatever reason for a couple days and only use it sporadically on my computer and am active less

14. Did you ever have a fight/argument with another blog?

Had an argument briefly with someone on a post of mine a few years back about an opinion I had for a show (supernatural) and what they were doing with the plot. I think I technically won it mostly by not getting aggressive and just repeating it was an opinion I had that could maybe happen, but I found it so stressful I deleted all reblogs I had done with the discussion on lol

15. How do you feel about “you need to reblog” posts?

I think its nice to do and personally I really like reblogging basically everything but get that other people don't. It's something that can be nice to do and feels very tumblr exclusive which is why I like it I think

16. Do you like tag games?

I love them! So thanks @abstract-moth it's been fun getting tagged in stuff again as it's been a couple years since that's been consistent for me

17. Do you like ask games?

Also love!

18. Which of your mutuals do you think is tumblr famous?

I think maybe akaashiscupofwater as they seem present in the hq fandom quite a bit and I got super excited when they followed me

I’m tagging @wonderlandmoonrose7 , @gats-puckish-rogue , @flannel-wearing-warrior (absolutely no pressure though), and anyone else that wants to do this :)

[razanartuk]

about me tag game thing

i was tagged by the wonderful @nothingunrealistic! thank you very much ily <3

under read more bc i was not capable of keeping my answers brief this time around

why did you choose your url?

this...was supposed to be a short explanation but it turned into quite a tale so strap in i guess because we are going on a ride. back in 2017 i was just getting into musical theatre rp and i was still feeling too shy to really talk to anyone ooc so i would just wait for people i wanted to interact with to post starter calls so i could just do things in character with them the easy way. So i did this with my friend cam, who posted a starter for me using a lyric from If I Could Tell Her. she linked the song so i could listen to it, so i did and i went ‘wait a minute, is that Ben Platt from Pitch Perfect?? (and other things too, but i only recognized his voice at the time bc of the acappella girl movies)’ and yes it certainly was.

i had zero idea what the plot of Dear Evan Hansen was about at that point, and for some reason based off Just That One Song and the poster art of who i assumed was Some Guy in a Polo Shirt i started to think it was about some jock guy who broke his arm and had an emo/goth friend who had either died or gone missing under mysterious circumstances. also i intuited that Evan had a crush on his friend’s sister but he couldn’t tell her that directly or his emo friend would kick his ass. so i was like mostly wrong, but a little bit right.

oh and i knew jared and alana were characters from the show bc cam said that they were i think?? but i had no idea what their role was. so after listening to if i could tell her, i listened to good for you and all i really got out of that was that evan the apparently not-jock guy had done...something... that really hurt jared and alana. and at that point i finally decided to go look up a plot synopsis and i found out i was waaay off base. but honestly this is why cast recordings should include scene dialogue in the songs bc otherwise you just get soundtracks like dear evan hansen where the songs have like. zero context. we really just go from waving through a window to for forever to sincerely me without like. any reason as to what is happening huh. It’s honestly not a surprise anymore that all those people on twitter had no idea the plot isn’t about gay teenagers.

anyways. cam was writing jared and she made a post at one point about wishing somebody would write alana and i was like ‘oh i could do that!’ (after i had actually Seen a bootleg and finally knew what the whole story was, of course) so i made a multimuse rp blog featuring alana beck, nabulungi hatimbi, chloe valentine and some other characters, and cam started sharing her headcanons with me that alana is trans, jared and alana were close friends when they were little kids but they sort of drifted apart as they got older and their priorities in life changed, jared was the first person alana came out to when she realized she’s trans, etc.

one night i started talking about wanting to pick a more theatre-relevant url for my blog and trans-[character name] urls were getting pretty popular, and at least 3 of the friends i made through rp had changed theirs to coordinating trans-[character name] and i think it was cam suggested i should make mine be trans-alana so i did. eventually i realized the unhyphenated version was available so i changed it to transalana with no hyphen and i have lived here ever since. sometimes i think about changing it but i feel like transalana has become a part of My Brand and i am not so great with coming up with cool names for things.

any side blogs? if you have them, name them and why you have them

in theory, i have sideblogs... i don’t really use them, but of the ones i do have, there is:

emsbookblog - this was supposed to be where i would post excerpts of the book that i’m working on, but i think i did that maybe one time roughly 2 years ago and then promptly forgot about it/got nervous about my writing and was scared to share anything else. the rest of the stuff that is there is assorted writing tips. i don’t really know what to do with it now. i probably should post all my little thoughts about em and anita and caleb there instead of infodumping on my main from time to time, but if i do that then i have to promo a sideblog and direct people over to it which is always annoying to me when i could just do it on this blog which is much easier

dearnovelhansen - this is basically no longer used, but was a sideblog i made specifically to talk/complain about the novel adaptation of Dear Evan Hansen which was about 3 years ago?? maybe? i can’t be trusted to understand the passage of time. but to summarize: i thought it was an honor just to have the story be made more accessible since many of us couldn’t see the stage performance, but i hated a lot of the creative liberties that were taken. my main grumbles are that everyone who isn’t evan or connor is done so dirty in the novel. connor’s still kind of done dirty in the book, but not as much as like. heidi, alana, jared, and zoe are.

horseisle3 - this one was meant to be a place where i could just enthusiastically post screenshots from hi3, but instead it turned into a blog where i occasionally reblog other players’ hi3 content and bitch about how bad the game admins are bc hi3 is the tumblr famous (infamous?) homophobic horse game. the game where it was once okay to call your club store the gulag bc according to their head of hr, ‘it’s just a russian word for prison’ but you can’t say ‘im gay’ without somebody accusing you of corrupting young children who play the game. unfortunately there aren’t very many good interactive horse games out there, so this one is still about as good as it gets. it’s either that or star stable and i don’t care about star stable.

mlaenie - i’ve had this url saved for i don’t even know how long. way way way back in the day when i wanted to escape from the clutches of the onceler fandom i abandoned my first blog where i basically had an alter ego i guess?? and i decided to just be myself on the new blog. i don’t fully remember who came up with it, but one of my sister’s mutuals suggested that if you scrambled the letters in your name you could come up with aesthetic-looking urls. so lauren’s url became lrauen, and to match with her mine became mlaenie, which i abandoned on tumblr after about a year or so? but have continued to use as my main username on twitter, reddit, youtube, xbox, steam, and discord. i barely ever use any of these accounts aside from twitter, steam, and xbox, but yeah. so i’ve decided to try and turn this empty sideblog into a place for video game thoughts maybe. we’ll see how long it lasts this time around.

how long have you been on tumblr?

i made my first tumblr account in december of 2010, but i didn’t understand how to use it at all or how to customize my theme to look cool and unique so i quickly abandoned it. i made a new account in september of 2011 after some kids at school and my sister told me i should and i have been trapped here with varying degrees of activity/inactivity ever since. i have witnessed the rise and fall of the lorax/onceler fandom, hyperfocused on lord of the rings, star wars and back to the future all at the same time, and for the past 4 years i’ve mostly been a musical theatre blog with assorted other fandom stuff mixed in. i feel i have seen everything and nothing, but mostly i’m just tired and bored.

do you have a queue tag?

no bc i don’t use a queue. i’ve tried using it in the past but i irrationally feel pressured to sustain a coherent theme to queued posts and my brain simply does not vibe with that so i just don’t use it at all anymore. Instead i instantly reblog or post several unrelated thoughts in succession and then don’t post again at all for 3 days. the way god intended

why did you start your blog in the first place?

my very first blog was intended to be a place for me to post all of my petz 5 animals’ profile info, but i didn’t have any understanding of how coding worked at all and i don’t think i really wanted to learn, either. so it just sat there, unused. my second attempt at blogging was as a classic rock fandom person, so as you can probably imagine i was pretty pretentious about ‘modern pop’ vs the beatles, the rolling stones, the who, the monkees, and so on. and then i slowly devolved into a lorax fandom blog and everything went to shit so i made a new blog for lord of the rings/the hobbit which later evolved to include star wars and back to the future blogging. and then for the past 4 years i’ve been mainly a musical theatre blog with other random stuff i like thrown haphazardly into the pot. wonderful.

why did you choose your icon/pfp?

because my url is transalana and two of my most prominent lgbt headcanons are that alana beck is trans and a lesbian. i gotta be shouting out @kinqmike though bc she’s the one i adopted the trans alana beck headcanon from in the first place!

why did you choose your header?

in 2017 i was hyperfixating on Dear Evan Hansen (and Be More Chill, but there weren’t many gif-able videos then considering it ran for a month in New Jersey in 2015 and there was only one yet-to-resurface 35 minute bootleg) so i just grabbed a random gif off of google. i really should get to replacing it with a new header of my own though. i just don’t know what i should do for it.

what’s your post with the most notes?

i have lost track of how many notes it has (i think it’s somewhere around 200 now?) but when Will Roland and George Salazar performed Two Player Game on Good Morning America, i posted a screencap of their Jeremy and Michael along with that one quiz answer meme that says stuff like ‘i want to see it grow up healthy’. i didn’t tag it with any ship names or anything because i was anxious about having it show up in the tags, but somebody who reblogged it from me did tag it as boyf riends and i firmly believe it took off because of that. i don’t think i make posts that are relevant enough to amass thousands of notes, even by accident. which is probably a good thing bc if i did i would have to block so many of them.

how many followers do you have?

on this blog? 175 according to the counter. how many of those are still real people and how many are bots and abandoned accounts? i have no idea.

how many people do you follow?

i try to keep it somewhere around 200. i think i’m sitting at 180 right now but i kind of need to go through and clear out the really inactive blogs.

have you made a shitpost?

let’s think about this for a second. i’ve been on tumblr for nearly 10 years. you might even be able to say i’ve made more than one. they’re just not what you would call...popular shitposts.

how do you feel about ‘you need to reblog this’ post?

that stuff makes me so incredibly anxious that i have to fight the urge to want to yeet my laptop or mobile device through the closest window whenever i read it, so i try very hard to avoid any sort of ‘if you don’t reblog this, i’m judging you’ posts. i find them very manipulative and not particularly helpful

do you like tag games?

yeah babey!! i just frequently forget to do them, but please know that if you have ever tagged me in a tag game i felt incredibly touched by the gesture and the @mention even if i completely forgot to do the thing afterward

do you like ask games?

i do! but also rip to literally anyone who has ever sent me an ask meme bc it takes me so long to answer them. i’m still working on a micro fic prompt from a few weeks ago. also, horrified to realized that it has in fact been a few weeks and not 3 days anymore.

which of your mutuals do you think is tumblr famous?

i don’t know that any are tumblr famous as a whole. but probably @neverheardnothing

do you have a crush on a mutual?

in any sort of romantic connotation? no. not that i’m aware of. there are mutuals that i have friend crushes on where i want to be friends with them but i get so anxious when it comes to meeting new people that usually nothing ever comes of it. i’m really not good at small talk or other casual conversation either which, as you may or may not be able to imagine, sucks. i just wanna skip over all of the awkward introductions and ‘hey how are you, how is life, what are you doing with yourself?’ stuff. not because i don’t care about it. i do, but i think most of my friends/the people i want to be my friends are also depressed and anxious so asking these basic questions about life tends to uh. make us all nervous. and i don’t do much with my life so i always have the most boring answers anyways.

i’m not tagging anyone officially bc the @ thing has just completely given up on me at this point, but if you want to do it, go for it. and then say i tagged you so i can read it c:

[secondhand-trash]

It’s 2am and I’m having thoughts but this might get rambly and long so I’m gonna put a read more here just scroll past if you don’t want to listen to me talk about blog things and writing philosophies etc lmao

Occasionally I think back to when I first started posting for real on this blog which should be around late February 2019 and how much purer I viewed this whole “tumblr” thing as. I made this blog sometime around 2015/2016 and I was only on here to read other people’s writing, I didn’t think for a second that I would end up posting my own shit because it was a time when I wasn’t writing at all.

I remembered how excited I was to get my first request ever around two years later and to have people send me asks (I say this liberally, I got like maybe two asks for those dozen ask games I reblogged lmao). I stopped writing for another two years after absolutely hating this thing I wrote for a request because it just sucked so much and made me feel like I couldn’t do this thing at all. Fast forward another two years and I posted what I would now regard as my “first decent fic” which was actually another request (if I think of it now, I got that one purely because it was a super new fandom at the time and little to know people wrote for it). I don’t think I’ve ever been as genuinely happy and excited as I had the next morning after posting to see that “99+” notif next to the tumblr icon because I really wasn’t expecting any notes at all. My last few fics got around 50 and I already thought it’s so much.

I still had little followers back then, by the way. It’s been 2-3 years since I posted for real and I had a little less than 100? Most of them followed because I was writing for a big fandom for the first time since I joined tumblr. But then I stopped writing for a few months after that because I just wasn’t inspired and there was fandom drama at that time. Later that year I wrote for a few other fandoms briefly and started writing for bnha in October (actually tmr would be like, my one year of being a real, active writing blog that doesn’t stop posting for several months at a time lmao).

It was kinda shocking that I did end up being in the fandom for a whole year tbh, I don’t think I’ve ever wrote for the same show for more than a month before getting bored the past few years. I also started actually talking to people and having followers etcetc.

If you look at it like this, tbh I have never really “blown up”? If you compare my growth rate just in follower count I gained very slowly but steadily (and a small chunk of ppl who follows me are from way before when I wrote for other fandoms hnnn I’m sorry if you’re reading this btw). Sometimes i think about it ngl, because everyone I know seem to have start later but get more interaction and gained faster. But then it’s like, this is the most successful any of my online endeavours had been? lmao because I’ve had many social media accounts that absolutely flopped in every shape or form. So it feels so silly that I would care about these things that shouldn’t have mattered at all since this is already way better than anything I have ever expected to come out of that one random idea I had in my head.

I’ll have to be very honest and say this whole string of thought have a lot to do with how I was really beaten up over how little interaction majority of my kinktober fics had been doing which I know, I know 100 or 200 is actually already a lot but it got me thinking about how differently I treat this whole thing I’m doing before or now when I wouldn’t shut up about that 100 notes I got a year ago?

I don’t... really like the way I’m treating this thing more and more “seriously” ngl. I don’t want to think about when to post to get more interaction or what to write that people will like better or why so and so seems to get more notes than me or who and who is also doing xyz. It feels like I’m managing this whole thing at some point and then when I was really running low on motivation to finish the 2 fics I had left, I was genuinely terrified that I had the thought of “what’s the point if this and the rest of the ones I already finished up are gonna flop anyways”. Like, no???? This was not supposed to be about that??? I write because writing makes me happy and it makes me wonder if I had gotten so used to posting like it’s some sort of business model that the same adrenaline and satisfaction of writing can be override?

It really got me thinking about what this is to me right now and what I want it to be, and I think that I like it better when this is just some cool thing I want to try out and see if there might be people who vibe with it. I kinda miss it when I get so hyped every time I join a new fandom after disappearing for months thinking I would get dust but still have people who did not know me at all just read my things lmao I think I used to regard everything much more simpler? And it seemed like everyone was also doing it because it’s fun too and how to know more people how to get notes what to do so people would actually see your stuff wasn’t much of a concern.

Idk, idk why I’m saying all of this but I just really want to get it out there somehow? I don’t even know if any of the above makes sense or sound coherent tbh. I think being able to say it can be like, my first step of going back to my old mentality and really just do this because it makes me feel good instead of worrying about my blog dying because I don’t post several times every week lmao

[ryuukia]

[Translation] Tsukipro Info: Interview with Mutsuki Hajime’s voice actor, Toriumi Kousuke

I actually had some older issues of Girl’s Style (December 2015) featuring interviews with tsukiuta voice actors. They talk about the third season of character songs. Toriumi talks about “Aah. Kami o Nadete, Hoho o Nadete, Omae o Aishiteyaru”

I saw most of them were translated already, but I didn’t find any translations (if I’m mistaken, let me know and I’ll delete it) for Toriumi’s and Kimura’s versions. Now that I also got the Tsukipro Info issue from Dec 2015, I can say that they’re the same interviews. Next up will be Kimura’s interview on Monochrome Sky. Many thanks to Miana for helping me proof this.

Please don’t repost/reuse my translations! Likes and reblogs are appreciated.

“I poured my soul into singing as Mutsuki Hajime.“

―— Please tell us your impression on “Aah. Kami o Nadete, Hoho o Nadete, Omae o Aishiteyaru” after singing it.

It was very difficult. Hajime usually gives off a drowsy feeling, but in comparison, singing his “Tsukiuta.” songs brings power. It’s because the music composition itself is like that, and I think this time’s tune follows the same pattern. Along with the kanji, they’re always many. It seems Machigerita-kun himself, who’s the composer, likes using kanji because it gives ‘Japanese’ vibes. I also heard that his preference for black and purple was something projected onto the character (Hajime). Both this song and the previous songs offer intense sounds, but despite that, you can feel the Japanese essence in the world view that emerged from the lyrics. I don’t know much about music genres, but I thought the finished song was slightly visual kei-like with intensely meaningful lyrics.

―— Tell us if there’s any episode worth mentioning that has happened during the recording.

The song was composed so that it would flow from a calm rhythm to ‘bam’, thus before the recording I had a detailed discussion with Machigerita-kun on how I was supposed to sing. He had a clear vision inside his head on how to sing it, so I poured my soul in order to follow Machigerita-kun’s direction and sing as Mutsuki Hajime. In the drama parts, Hajime’s voice is deep, but compared to the songs, I don’t have to strain myself that much when talking. During each drama recording session, it’s surprisingly difficult to hone in on the character.

―— Let us know if there’s a part in the song you want the listeners to focus on.

There are some parts here and there where I mix in sighs, whispers, and even some parts where I drop an octave on purpose. Not only that, but there are also parts where the song’s development rises, so please listen to those carefully.

―— What song has left an impression on you while singing?

As soon as I got the debut song, ‘Hyourin Shiki’, and saw how difficult it was, the first thing I said was “Hyaa!” (laughs). I was worried whether I could sing it. I generally give my best no matter what song I have to record, but for that one I really worked hard. The song itself is very cool, but the register was really vast and the composition was quite complex, so I remember we had several retakes for it.

―— Has there been any development in his character during these 3 years?

Hajime is smart, charismatic, and outstanding, and I think because of that, the other members felt a bit afraid of him in the beginning. Though spending 3 years with them has altered that sense of distance and made him show some human kindness. He’s now acting more like a leader than before and actively looks after those around him. If we also consider his outward appearance, he looks a little sharper now than in the beginning. He used to do his hair before but recently he started to let it down.

―— Have there been any changes in his relationship with his combi partner, Yayoi Haru?

He didn’t reach the point where he’d complain to him about things, but I think he started to be more open to Haru. Whether it’s about feeling anxious or having to give his all, those kind of topics are something he discusses only with Haru. He loosened that “perfect human” image he had in the beginning and showed he can be more human-like.

―— Please say a message for Hajime-san.

It’s fine to continue to do things of your own accord. If there’s something on your mind, don’t take it upon yourself and ask someone for advice once in a while. If you continue being direct and straightforward, you can’t go wrong. Don’t worry about anything.

―— Has Toriumi-san changed in these 3 years?

Since last winter I’ve been feeling healthier as I lose weight little by little. If I compare to when I started, I lost 14~15 kg. I’m not doing any kind of exercises whatsoever, it’s just that my diet is now centered on vegetables. I say that because I would indiscriminately eat meat and carbs, and I had no sense of a healthy diet. Seeing how much weight I was losing I started to wonder whether I was sick, but now I’m very healthy and my body feels as if it’s 26 years old (laughs).

―— Do you have any memory related to the month you’re in charge of, January?

I don’t remember any particular event, but there’s the New Year, the only period when you can turn off your body and feelings. Usually I have one day free, but thinking that the next day I have work makes me go into work mode fully. I want to take a break and think about nothing (laughs).

―— Lastly, please leave a message for the fans.

It’s been a while since the previous solo song, ‘Hyourin Shiki’. During these 3 years that passed, the characters have also evolved, so you will be able to hear fresh songs from them. There were also duet songs and unit songs, but in the end individuality is more pronounced through solo songs. I think you will be able to enjoy the individuality of all 12, thus please listen to Hajime’s song too.

[kaikiky]

getting to “aromantic”

ASAW 2019 Prompt 1 | February 17-18 | Discovery : How did you learn you were aromantic or arospec?

So, I’m really bad at participating in community things. I want to, but I have all this baggage in my past from when I would try to enter into something and then just get ignored until I drifted out again. So I became convinced a long time ago that there’s no point to being a member of anything.

But I saw the prompt for today and it made me want to write down my history regarding aromanticism.

(long post under the cut)

I don’t actually remember when I learned about aromanticism, but I’m guessing it was some time in 2013, maybe when I encountered the SAM. Since I can’t remember how I felt at the time I found it, I’ll just do a walk-through of how it all looks to me from my current perspective.

My asexuality has never been in question, because I’ve never wanted sex either on a conscious level or a physical level. But I have had desires for close, intimate relationships. When I was in elementary school, I had a best friend, and that was the person I felt closest to, the person I imagined being with the rest of my life. We talked about how when we had kids (we were like, seven years old at the time, so I could still talk about having kids in a hypothetical way without feeling viscerally repulsed) they would marry each other and then we could be siblings. I was literally imagining being best friends with her my whole life and it was awesome.

And then my family moved and she stopped contacting me, and I was devastated. It’s still a kind of trauma for me being dropped by my best friend, who I had been planning to spend my life with. To me, she was all I had, but she was popular and had a lot of people to replace me with. It destroyed me. It’s part of why I’m scared to talk to people who already have friends because I think, well, if they have friends already they don’t need me. I’m unnecessary.

I never wanted a lot of friends, I only ever wanted one best friend, because I’m an introvert. I don’t have a lot of energy to spend on people, so I wanted that one person who I could give all my social time and attention to. If I had to spread my social energy out among a bunch of people, there was no way I could get close to anyone. So in order to have enough energy to form a deep relationship, I needed there to be just one person.

But I could never find anyone who seemed right. I would have some school-friends, but no one who had the right vibe to them, the kind that made me feel like “this is someone I want to be with the rest of my life”, so I didn’t invest much in them. I was friendly, but I didn’t bother getting too deep because I knew we were going to move on from each other eventually.

And we did.

I went all through school and graduated high school without any real friends, and I was fine with that (college was a bit more complicated...). I was too busy studying to have time for friends anyway. And honestly I was happy being single - in real life.

Instead, I spent my time fantasizing about fictional characters, the ones who seemed like the kind of people I wanted to have those deep, intimate relationships with. Even in my fantasies I was still an introvert who only wanted one relationship at a time. And I interpreted these fantasies as “romantic”, because it felt like the way people described romantic feelings: the fluttery sensation in your stomach and heart, that feeling like you want to be with them all the time and you can’t stop thinking about them, the giddy happiness when you see them, the excitement of feeling like you found “the one”. I had that when I thought about these characters.

But in my fantasies, there was no kissing or hand-holding or much romance-coded behaviors. There was always a lot of quiet intimacy, like talking about anything and everything, feeling like there was something special between us that there wasn’t with anyone else, going on adventures together and trusting in each other when we fought villains (rather than one being the fighter and one being helpless and needing protection). We were equals in all things and there was just this connection like we were always on the same wavelength with everything, so there was never any awkwardness or miscommunication or fights between us. We trusted and respected each other completely and prioritized each other and cared deeply about each other. It was this feeling of perfect compatibility that had nothing physical about it and was mostly just about feeling completely at ease with each other.

That was the kind of thing I fantasized about and wrote stories about, and when I was younger I thought that was romance? maybe? Because I knew that no one else thought of “best friends” as something that intimate. Best friends were like, something you had when you were in school, but you were supposed to grow out of that when you were older. But my idea of a relationship wasn’t something that you grew out of, it was the most intimate companionship you could ever have, and so if the name for that wasn’t “best friend” then I guess it was supposed to be romance.

So I thought I had all these “romantic” feelings for fictional characters because I thought they would be perfect intimate companions for me, people I related to on a deep level and who I thought I would be able to talk to about serious, deep subjects and who I would feel comfortable being close to. I had the feeling that if I was in a close relationship with them, I would have found the one person I wanted to spend all my social energy with.

(And just to be upfront, all the characters I felt this for were male characters, because honestly I don’t relate to or like 99.9% of female characters, and I’m sure that’s because writers don’t know how to write female characters, but there it is.)

So I had been on Tumblr since 2011, but I didn’t join any fandom niche until 2015, and for a while I performed the whole “ecstatic fangirl” role by reblogging pictures of my favorite characters and replying with gifs and all caps fawning and tags like I was having a heart attack over how hot they were. And like, I do think the characters are aesthetically attractive, but I played it up to a sensational degree because that just seemed like what you were supposed to do. But deep down, it felt fake. I didn’t want to focus on how they looked, I wanted to imagine having late-night conversations with them when no one else was around. I wanted to imagine being their partner in a dangerous fight when we had to have each other’s backs. I wanted to imagine wandering alone in the woods together. I wanted to imagine listening to music together and singing along and dancing.

And then of course, there was all the shipping. People coming up with all sorts of outrageous ships or outrageous “proofs” and metas for why the popular ships were canon. But to me, they were absolutely not canon. Every relationship that I interpreted as deeply intimate in a nonsexual nonromantic way, fandom hijacked and put on a pedestal as the ultimate ship. It alienated me from fandom in a way that made me deeply resentful. I was honestly stunned. The yugioh fandom was my first real experience with fandom, so I had had no idea how big shipping was until I stepped in and saw it flooding everything. And it made me angry that the relationships that had always mattered to me because they felt like exactly what I was looking for—deep, close companionship that wasn’t physical or dramatically romantic—were being coded as sexual and romantic.

It hurt me and made me so angry that eventually I dropped the performance of hyper fangirl because I stopped wanting to be part of the fandom. I wanted to retreat back into my own shell where the characters and their relationships were the way I had always interpreted them, not tainted by fandom’s twisted imagination.

And I think that was around the time that I figured out that I didn’t even understand what the fuck romance was. To me, romance seemed to be the kind of bullshit you saw in romcoms. Romance was the factor that made people do stupid things and get into fights over unnecessary miscommunications. It made people paranoid and jealous and possessive in an aggressive way. It made (stupid, ridiculous) drama that distracted from everything in the story that actually mattered. Basically, romance seemed unhealthy and undesirable. So when I finally made that connection that romance didn’t mean intimacy or love but meant unnecessary stupidity and drama, it was easier for me to identify as aromantic and identify those things as what I was repulsed by.

The feelings themselves are harder to separate. Like, I don’t know exactly what romantic love specifically is supposed to feel like as opposed to any other kind of love, but I do know that I’m uncomfortable with a lot of romance-coded behaviors like kissing and hand-holding and grand gestures of love (especially in public) or candlelight dinners or lots of hearts everywhere. Those things turn me off in a big way.

I just want the feeling of intimacy, of feeling like I’m known by someone completely and loved because of who I am, and that in turn I know that person completely and love everything about them. I don’t want the relationship to be defined by the things we go out of our way to do (like setting aside time specifically to go on dates), I want it to be defined by a natural feeling of rightness, like we can exist together and it feels good, like we just kind of naturally gravitate toward each other because our energies are the same, our personalities are the same, our morals and values and likes and dislikes are the same.

There was a time where the term “quoiromantic” felt right to me because of that confusion over what makes romantic love distinct from any other, and I still think that term makes sense. But because of the cultural obsession with romance, I got to a point where “aromantic” felt like the better fit because I actively reject that obsession, I reject the idea that romantic love is the highest kind of love, and I reject all the trappings that come with love that is interpreted as romantic.

So I don’t think of the way I feel toward these characters as romantic attraction anymore, and I think part of what attracted me to these characters in the first place was always because interpreted them as not being interested in romantic relationships either, so it made us a good fit.

[saint-mosaicbrokenhearts]

tag, i’m it. I was tagged by @wearyourapology
(thank you so much I feel honored :)) Rules: tag up to 20 followers you’d like to get to know! Name: Micaela Nickname: Mac :) Gender: Female Star sign: gemini Height: 5'7 Sexuality: straight Hogwarts house: Omg I have never even read a Harry Potter book or seen more than 20 minutes of a movie (and when I was watching the movie I was writing Taylor swift lyrics in my note book) Favorite animal(s): Wolves, Elephants, rabbits Average hours of sleep: depends on the night sometimes I can stay up a full 24 hours (that's not cool get ur rest) but other times I can sleep for 7-9(I have a weird lenient schedule that allows me to screw up my sleeping habits :/ Dogs or cats: Dogs all the way cats are so unpredictable and moody when a dog just always wants to be your best friend, cats tho are adorable and I find myself wanting one sometimes! Blankets I sleep with: just a basic throw blanket in the summer and my comforter in the winter(maybe and extra cozy one bc my house is bitter cold in the winter and hotter than hell in the summer) Dream trip: Ireland 😍 or Montana in the winter When I made my blog: I made my blog a few months? Or weeks? Before my 1989 concert in July of 2015 but since the beginning of 2017 I've had some personal issues and family issues so I wasn't on as much and would reblog when I felt like it/ could but maybe since the beginning of July is when I've been back on my tay game Followers: they're amazing and beautiful! Why I made my Tumblr: to be honest to be around people who share the same love and admiration for this beautiful talented woman as I do. I just liked to reblog aesthetic pictures of Taylor and pictures of her lyrics and it's turned into so much more I fell in love with tay when I was a 7 year old dweeb and now I'm 18 and don't regret a moment spent locked up in my room on tumblr laughing at everyone's humor or crying over a lyric I related to so much. (It got deep) but point is you all love that too and it's important that I'm around that kind of vibe Reason for my URL: I don't know, it's like a mashup of "so you were never a saint and Ive loved in shades of wrong we learn to live with the pain mosaic broken hearts" Although I can't relate to that whole song that part reminds me of a relationship I went through with a guy where I just put him on a pedestal for years, and i just wasted so much time hoping he'd come around only to find he was a scumbag (so you were never a saint) and "learning to live with the pain" of knowing this guy I Once loved and saw a genuine future with is no longer gonna happen bc of what a ass he is I like how lyrics can mean one thing but mean something different to thousands of people so I took the poetic parts and made it into my URL BAM A DRAMATIC STORY FROM MAC I’ll go ahead and tag: @taylorswift @gretaswift13 @swiftchill @newronantics @swift-ness

[kldslnthedark]

*hey im going to my first atl concert next month, do you have any tips or what to expect happens, its a smaller venue too so yea anything would be helpful

Heyo! So I’ve only been to one ATL concert and it was at a venue that held over 6,000 people so I’ll try my best.

For some general concert tips: 1. You’re going to be waiting in line. For a long time. In the summer. It’s going to be hot. MAKE SURE to bring lots of water! I made the mistake of only bringing two small bottles of water… it was awful. When you think you have enough, add two more water bottles (or the same amount of people that’ll be there- so like three extra for three people etc.) I suggest bring them in a small cooler and when it gets to be about 30 minutes to open doors, send someone to the car to put the stuff away. 2. Eat! Eat before you leave and bring some small snacks to have in line as well. 3. If you have long hair, put it up please! You’re going to be smooched up against a lot of hot and sweaty people and loose hair will not fly with you or anyone around you. 4. If you bring a bag, make sure it’s the smallest you can get. A draw string bag is what I brought.

As for the show itself as an All Time Low concert… I would like to clarify again that I’ve only been to one of their concerts so I could be biased, but it is worth note.

There are going to rude people. There’s going to be people who will push and shove, people who will lie to get to the barricade, obnoxious people. But this is usually true for all concerts. Don’t become them, there’s enough already. Yeah, defend yourself and keep your spot, but don’t become aggressive as some of them might become. All Time Low fans can get pretty crazy, so if you start to feel overwhelmed, tell the people around you or your friends and get out of there. Remember: getting up front isn’t worth more than your mental and physical health.

My concert in July will be significantly smaller than the one I went to in 2015 (going from over 6,000 to 2,000). I’ve been in some pretty small crowds as well and have found that they are a lot more controlled than larger crowds, but this is All Time Low we’re talking about. Prepare for closeness, pushing and loudness. Hopefully the smaller venues will be slightly more chill and easier to deal with.

But overall, don’t be an asshole and have fun!! Every so often, close your eyes and just feel the music. Sway to it, dance to it, but concerts are about the music at the end of the day. Just try your best to enjoy yourself!!

Also, while I’ve been to more concerts since 2015, I’m unexperienced in All Time Low’s concerts and the vibes of other fans in concert settings. So if I said anything that wasn’t the best advice, I welcome people to reblog and add their own tips, especially for All Time Low!!

[elvesofnoldor]

So i legit reblogged 12 pages of star wars (well mostly tfa and rogue one) content on my blog in the last two weeks or so, while I have reblogged only 17 pages in an entire year lol--most of them happened within 3 months around the time tfa came out. I didn’t even have ANY star wars content before (epi 7) tfa’s trailer came out (that was 2015, two years ago). 

Even though by comparison, I got tens and thousands of spn content on my blog, there is still a bit more sw posts on my blog than usual, obviously. It does seem like ppl r unfollowing me because of that (not complaining, just observing lol). I didn’t count the number but I’ve got to lost at least 100 followers in the last 1-2 weeks, and didn’t gain nearly enough to hide this drop. 

I notice that all the mutuals I’ve been following r slowly hopping off the spn boat , or becoming inactive--kind of like me for months now (my” last 3 days” note counts went below 100 from 2k since the beginning of 2016, and it only went back to 1k couple of days ago bc i have been way more active than usual). So since I haven’t been a little shit lately--actually i barely talk anymore, I can only deduce that the recent drop is mainly caused by 

A. ppl deleting their blogs, ditching spn altogether and thinking i reblog too much spn for them, and 

B. people feeling that I don’t reblog nearly enough spn content for them. 

Here’s the thing, man, I don’t like losing followers lol, esp since I have gained thousands of them over the past 3 years, most of them came from the first 2 years. i know me losing followers right now is mainly caused by me having trouble figuring this blog out atm, but um, the recent dip tells me that i gotta figure my blog out soon lol. I changed my mobile blog pic--it’s a fanart of Charlie (beloved canon lesbian character in supernatural), wearing a jacket (A Gay Thing), with “Star Wars” written in Chinese on her shirt. Keywords: wlw, gay aesthetic, supernatural, star wars, Chinese, and I think these keywords really sum up my blog and esp the current state of my blog and who i am as a person kinda nicely. Lmao. I also changed my update bar and my about pages a little bit, and I’m currently trying to make a new tags page to better reflect current state of my blog, and um, I don’t actually want my content to be all over the place. 

Now, in regards to lack of spn content, I can technically follow more spn blogs to have more spn content on my dash, but um, frankly I dont wanna lol. The amount of spn I have on my blog on a regular basis is the maximum I can allow. Maybe I will generate some spn related content soon....idk....when the season comes back i guess. I have a few gifs and graphic ideas that I need to do anyways. Obviously I can’t and don’t want to have too much spn content on my blog anyways, so, lol. The other other thing is, I’m not sure i’m gonna be in the star wars fandom yet, as matter of fact, I have been trying to find a new fandom to be in since the beginning of 2016 and have failed to do that this whole time. Star Wars series is probably the closest thing to a new fandom to me--Steven Universe being the 2nd closest lol. I’ve got a new ship to be invested in (yet another non-canon gay ship smh), but most importantly a new character to be invested in (not a female character or--i hate to admit it--canonically lgbt, but he’s at least a character of color). However, I know i’m definitely not in the sw fandom right now since I haven’t even generated ANY sw related content (I HAVE IDEAS THOUGH). i just couldn’t stfu in the tags, and I don’t know any sw bloggers either. Also, I really need to re-watch original series and prequels and extended universe content (like the tv series that’s going on right now), and to get myself familiar with all these and maybe fall in love with these, before I can actually be in the fandom ok. Yet I’m more interested in reading the Poe Dameron comic right now than re-watching the prequels and original series again, since I’m more invested in SW franchise’s future, than...its past. 

i’ve never actually jump dramatically from fandoms to fandom before, it’s always been supernatural for me, so I have no idea what to do to actually feel free to put content I’m passionate about on my blog but doesn’t lose too much followers at the same time. (I tried my hardest not to spam people with star wars content by liking these posts first and storing them in my likes as long as possible, and it’s a really tiring process to look for posts in my likes ALL THE TIME, ok, lol, I don’t wanna do that forever ok!! lol!!) As a wlw person of color who’s less and less interested in the spn’s general vibe of...idk....White Americana (with its US centric narrative, sea of white American faces and imagery etc), and more and more disappointed with its continuous and seemingly permanent lack of poc and lgbt characters, I’m losing hope and interest in this show and its characters and even my OTP.  Idk what to do with my blog bc of my increased loss of interest in spn tbh, maybe I should just make a star war sideblog? Last time I made a sideblog, I neglect it for 6 months and I’m still neglecting it lol. So starting anew on tumblr doesnt seem to be what i’m good at. At this point, i’m rly hoping to weed out the ones that switched out of spn fandom completely and the spn bloggers that are unsatisfied with the amount of spn content on my blog, while getting more multifandom blogs to follow me by um...generating multifandom content. Maybe instead of refreshing my dash over and over again, I should just use my drawing pad again, or use my photoshop to make a graphic or edit again, or write a fic make some headcanons, or not procrastinate and finalize my grad school applications and prepare for the next semester. 

[dragonfly756]

Tagged by the lovely @the-golden-ghost!

Why did you choose your URL? I used to play this old online game that I've forgotten the name of, and this was the randomly generated dragon related username! I've stuck with it ever since, though it does seem.... Nondescript by Tumblr standards. (I've been thinking of changing it, just not sure to WHAT yet.)

Any side-blogs? If you have them, name them and why you have them. Not really, I do have a private blog for testing out a theme I'm trying to make. My HTML is super rusty and I didn't want to turn my main blog into some graphic-design-is-my-passion experiment. Yet.

How long have you been on tumblr? I'm genuinely not sure at this point, probably 2015?

Do you have a queue tag? No way, I don't even have a queue!

Why did you start your blog in the first place? Maybe this isn't the Good Tumblr User thing to say, but I just genuinely like the vibe of this place, as someone who worries about annoying people if I talk about my interests too much, it's nice to know that people can either A: Block me if it gets on their nerves, or B: Have the same interests and not block me!

Why did you choose your icon/pfp? I like jellyfish :D

Why did you choose your header? I don't have a header right now, it's to symbolize my lack of a head, and sometimes brain.

What’s your post with the most notes? The "No middle sliders in Monster Factory" one, I'm not very involved in larger fandoms so it was an honor to see it take off so much, I whipped out MS paint for it and everything.

How many followers do you have? 54!

How many blogs do you follow? 94, I could've sworn I followed more people

Have you ever made a shitpost? Other than meta posts that's basically all my *original content* dude.

How often do you use Tumblr every day? Hard to say, if I'm in front of a computer I usually have it open, but I'm usually doing other stuff and only check it occasionally. A bit like a morning paper that you carry around all day that also has people in it!

Did you have a fight/argument with a blog once? Nah, I'm too boring for that, which is good, because I'm also conflict-averse and extremely petty.

How do you feel about “you need to reblog this post”? I understand why people reblog them, but I often feel posts like that don't have A: Concrete ways to help with a situation. (Donation links, actions you can take.)  B: News/Perspectives that you can't find elsewhere.

Bottom Line, I don't want to reblog something just to make myself feel like a good person, especially since it often comes at the expense of talking over those effected. Plus I think my followers are smart people and can read the news without being guilt-tripped.

Do you like tag games? I do! It's nice to see a friend thinking of you. I've forgotten one about my favorite fictional characters by accident and now it's been a year and it would be weird to fill it out now, though, (Sorry guys! it wasn't meant as a snub!)

Do you like ask games? I haven't done any before, it might be fun though!

Which of your mutuals do you think is Tumblr famous? I'm not sure, maybe secretly all of them?

Do you have a crush on a mutual? Fun answer: "A Lady never kisses and tells, Gordon."

Realistic answer: I'm not of a strictly romantic persuasion, so no exciting secrets on that front, sorry!

Tagging: @oceans-foundfamily @theinconspicuouscaterpillar @korzoff and anyone else who’d like to try!