#intern correspondance

[heaven-s-black-box]

YIt's time to throw poison, what do you think of Miyuki? Sometimes when I see him I feel love/hate. It's like the guy is not very careful. I feel like beating him up, but with that cute little face I have to keep quiet.

I personally really like him, he's one of my favorite Daiya characters and he's only my second favorite catcher because of Chris (and my love of Chris is heavily influenced by his design, so without considering looks I'd say they're tied).

Tldr; He's bad at socializing, and if he wasn't he would be OP, but he grows and that's why he's not difficult to watch. Also, he doesn't get away with being a little shit when someone gets hurt, and we see him through so many characters eyes that you see all his best and worst facets.

Miyuki, like all of the Daiya characters, is a character with a lot of room to grow and a lot of growth. It's the subtle things, like him slowly winning over Tanba and inviting people into his room instead of being forced to socialize, and it's the big things like learning to be Captain. The show also does well at proving why characters acknowledge him, sure sometimes they tell us first but they always back it up so that we get to see what makes him so great. He's also called out for his short comings a lot, Zono calling him out on his handling of Nabe wanting to quite and the coaching staff dragging him for mouthing off in his first year.

But also, Miyuki is never intentionally an ass for the sake of being an ass. The best example is when Nabe and them consider quitting. I agree with his stance, making Nabe stay wouldn't have helped anyone, but I also agree with Zono that he was too harsh. But it makes sense because Miyuki has never had to handle this kind of situation before, he's not the most sociable person and he lives off snark and sarcasm so when he needs to be serious he's straight to the point.

Which ties into my next point; if he was nice and say, had a personality like Chris, he would be way too over powered. But, he's not nerfed the same way Mei is. Mei looks down on everyone, even if it's by putting himself above them. Miyuki's just unlikable because he's not used needing to be liked, he lets his skill do the talking most of the time, so outside of relationships like his and Kuramochi's his personality is more hurtful. He really doesn't get why his approach to Nabe wasn't the best, but even better is that not only does he get called out on it but he apologizes. This prevents him from becoming unlikable by being an ass, even unintentionally, and getting away with it because he's so good.

One thing Daiya does well is realism; a character like Miyuki, who's very lonely and never really had friends before Seidou, isn't going to be good at socializing like Sawmura or Kuramochi. And becoming the starting catcher in his first year, like Zono said, alienates him from his peers who really had to work to get there but the circumstances of gaining that position prevent him from getting a big head. Not that i think that would have happened anyways, Miyuki is a very grounded character where as character's like Sawamura and Mei have an outside grounder.

There's never a moment in this series where I would say I dislike Miyuki, I don't like the whole "Second years almost quitting" arc, but only because the tension in the team kills me. It's a wonderful and important arc both for Miyuki as a character and the team as a whole.

He's got some of the most amusing moments in the series, especially with Okumura and Sawamura (two characters who, i would like to add, are big parts of his growth acting as a reflection of his younger self and a goal to keep working towards respectively).

However, I can understand why people dislike Miyuki. Like I said before, he can accidentally be pretty hurtful and he can definitely be a little full of himself.

Anyways, I think that's all my main points. I've never really considered why I like him, because this is a show where I usually think of characters in relation to each other and the story and Miyuki is both integral to the story and has overall positive relationships that make it easy to see him from other characters perspectives. I don't think there's a single character in Daiya that truly hates Miyuki, yes even Shirakawa, and so it gives you a lot of positive and negative outlooks on him.

[piosyne]

Eagerly awaited sequel to spirit hunter: cutie mark- Bronyashiki

[myreitha]

I think everyone's gotten theirs by now, so please enjoy the linocut I designed, carved, printed on cards and sent out for February's International Correspondence Writing Month :)

[Image Description 1: A black linocut print featuring a moth with sparkling star eye patterns on its six wings and surrounded by a starburst of lines and small stars. End description.]

Some process and more details under the cut - including the other stamps I carved to go on the envelopes and inside the cards!

Please enjoy my chaotic printing station and my beautiful stack of shelves, baskets, and my baking racks being used as a place for all the prints to dry (well, most of them)

I also carved individual stamps of the starry eyeballs based off the eye shapes in the moth's wings. I love love love love how they came out, and also had a lot of fun with the variety of little star stamps I made to embellish things with.

[Image ID 2: A photo of my kitchen table overtaken by a precarious stack of wire shelves and racks that are covered in drying prints. In front of the drying prints is my printing surface where the ink, roller, and the linocut are visible. Image ID 3-4: Photos of the envelopes used to send the cards, they've got stars stamped on the front and a large starry eye stamped on the flap. The eyes are two different variations of a similar design and match the eye pattern on the moth's wings. End Description.]

For funsies, please also enjoy how gorgeous this design came out on brown paper

[Image Description 5: Another image of the same print, this time on brown paper intead of white]

[holespoles]

Hitoshi Otsuka, ‘Happy letter’.

"Wait a minute and I'll post mine. Postman, I'll take this too, please."

大塚均「ウレシイオタヨリ」

[workersolidarity]

🇺🇸🇵🇸 🚨

PROTESTERS DISPLAY MEMORIAL TO THE DEAD IN GAZA FOR BIDEN WHITE HOUSE

📹 Scenes from demonstrations in Washington DC, in the United States, where protesters displayed a memorial on a building to the over 140 journalists killed in the Israeli occupation's genocidal bombardment of the Gaza Strip.

The memorial was displayed for the Biden administration and American journalists to see during last night's White House Correspondants' Dinner.

#source

@WorkerSolidarityNews

[imavikingo]

Steve Rogers was a lot of things, but a two faced son-of-a-bitch he was not, have some respect for his mother Sarah. Thank you very much.

What he was though, is a liar.

He has lied plenty, more times than he can even remember.

Every time he arrived home with a new bruise before his mom, and stayed in his room until she was gone again he said he was A-ok, only tired.

All the times Bucky asked if he was fine after a fight, and if he was having fun after another rejection by a pretty dame. He said he was just peachy.

When he was on death’s door he said it was nothing.

He lied more than what he was willing to admit (Steve from New Jersey ring a bell?)

Every time people expected him to be the ideal man with a plan, THE Captain America, he just faked a smile and performed how they wanted him to.

Lie, after lie, fake smile after fake smile.

He was so tired of pretending. At least he used to lie for better reasons before, and for himself.

He was what they needed him to be now, and more times than not people didn’t need Steve.

No one seemed to see HIM after being defrosted either: Steven Grant Rogers, the person behind Captain America. They only saw what they wanted to see and expected to hear.

Thats why he didn’t try and be friends with his teammates after the New York incident. Thats why he let them do those shitty “educational videos” for high schoolers.

Thats why he stayed alone for the most part.

(Nick Fury didn’t let him be either, what an asshole).

They needed him, they wanted him. But not really, right? Because Captain America is an ideal, a superhero. It isn’t HIM really.

Steve Rogers is only a man after all, tired, lonely, a sad man out of time.

Who would need HIM?

Thats why he tried to contact Peggy and have a somewhat relationship with her again. He didn’t care if it was based on “what ifs” at this point and that she was old. He needed something, someone from his past, anything at this point that made him feel like Steven Grant Rogers, human again. Maybe she would need him in some way?

Once he knew she couldn’t even remember him for the most part, he went back to square one.

He missed her, the old her. The strong independent woman that she was, and sometimes he lamented the fact he didn’t give her the coordinates in time. Maybe he would have had a good life with her by his side. If he only loved her so…

Maybe he wouldn’t feel like dying in this new scary and terrifying world every single day.

Thats why he came back alive when he saw Bucky again.

Bucky was his home, his everything, always was, always will be. He never thought he would have another chance to be near him again.

So he once again became Steve Rogers. Sure before Buck he was friendly with Sam and he had a cordial relationship with Nat. But after knowing of Bucky’s existence in the present (he’s alive, he’s here) did he became friends with them.

He fought with tooth and nails for Bucky, because he wouldn’t let anyone tear them apart again. Not even the man himself (not matter what Sam said about co-dependency. What did he knew anyways?)

When Buck wanted to stay in cryo Steve wanted to scream and cry in his face. But didn’t, because he knew Bucky needed it, needed to have his own choices and for them to be respected.

So once again he started to lie. He didn’t want to make his friends worry about him after all, he was fine. Bucky was the one that needed all the attention, not him.

Then… The battle of Wakanda happened and…

Never in a million years Steve would have thought he would lie to himself without knowing.But he did, and for literal years until present.

See? Steve didn’t know he was in love with his best friend until he lost him for the sixth fucking time. He knew he loved him, but not that he was in love with him. He didn’t realize, but even then he couldn’t admit it. He was terrified, so he replaced his name with Peggys, even on his mind.

That was safer, more “normal”. He knew people weren’t that homophobic anymore but… he wasn’t a regular Joe, right? No. That would be a disaster.

Even if he didn’t have the mantle of Captain America anymore, he was horrified. He didn’t even want to think about Bucky that way. So he started to lie to himself.

He has lied to everyone else for literal decades, what was lying to himself now?

And well… talking about deluding himself and lying… he couldn’t let himself think that Bucky and Sam were… they weren’t! They could change things, they needed to bring them back. Bring him back.

So they planned and they succeeded, for the most part (Only at the cost of one of his best friends and people he cared about).

Steve was so happy once he knew he had Bucky with him again (he’s fine, he’s alive). But he couldn’t forget about what he now knew about himself. And couldn’t let himself be distracted by any of that, after all there was also a hole Nat and Tony left on his heart, on everyone's hearts and lives (And Wanda wasn't stable anymore, he needed to fix that too).

He wanted to lie again, be comforting to Bucky, treasure him, but he only seemed awkward and cold. He was uncomfortable with his own feelings and on his own skin, and didn’t know what to do to fix things with Buck. (I love you, I'm in love with you please forgive me, I’m sorry).

So he once again fucked things up and tried to bring back Nat, Tony and Vision with him. Only… he didn’t discuss this with anyone else so he had no back up, nor help. No one knew of this plan of his after all.

He was on his own. On a prison cell for what it seems. (For the crimes of creating new alternatives timelines apparently, huh. Who would have thought that fighting and talking with himself from 2012 would lead him here. Trying to bring back the others didn’t help either).

This place was bare of anything recognizable, it was ugly and cold.

He was a man out of time once again.

Bucky probably hated him now, Sam too.

What a joke.

Everything was fucked up

For what they told him a “Skrull” (what is even that?) replaced him and everyone bought it, even Bucky. (And no, no no no... Bucky would notice, he would know!).

And would you believe it, he wasn’t the only fucker that was here too, huh. What a weird place.

So yes, Steve Rogers is a liar and a disaster…

and what a good companion that would be for Loki, the God of mischief, no?

So both tried their best to escape that fucked up prison.

Together.

[historyforfuture]

When the criminal finds no punishment , he increases his crimes

The criminal netanyahoo and his gang with the criminal zionist forces spe. air forces which have no men bec. They kill and assassin but not fight .

[msmc-796-official]

-I managed to finally contact the HRA division with me to stop firing at your people. For the love of Christ-the-Buddha get your asshole commander away from me she won't stop screaming slurs in languages I don't understand at me over the comms channel we're stuck in

Who in the-?! Oh, wait, shit, that's right, I forgot you were still awake in there. Christ-the-Buddha Almighty, that scared me.

Are you sure that's still Kennedi screaming? She (or, rather, her unconscious - and hopefully not lifeless - body) and her molten wreck of a Caliban have been with us at MSMC-148's drop site for like two hours now, waiting for pickup. Slipshod managed to pry your casket outta that slag heap you used to call a Genghis Mk. 1 and get you connected to a "life support" of sorts on one of their backup generators, but if you can still hear Kennedi's voice screaming bloody murder at you, then your systems might be fried worse than we thought. (No clue if that sort of thing is fixable or not...)

Hopefully the Albatross will be here soon. Our distress beacon is still up and running, and they should more than have our coordinates by now. We'll all be out of here soon. (I hope.)

-- Angel

[dark-orca-dynasty]

Finally, my OG emo boy! I should have drawn him in a The Smiths t-shirt but NIN is sooo much easier. Yes I have drawn Alpheus in more or less this exact same outfit. Don't @ me, it's easy and I could not be bothered drawing a second pair of boots. Maybe both the Aronnax and Alpheus' squid sub just have floors designed for wetsuit boots, who knows! Also I didn't bother flipping his hair around like I did for Alpheus because at this point Cain does not care about how he looks. and I also just could not be bothered.

Cain: Yeah so I have a job now, but the bloke who arranged it for me warned me that my boss would absolutely feed me to the sharks if I did anything to her daughter Finn: lmao, what's your job anyway? Cain: I'm interning with Kaiko Nekton on the Aronnax Finn: [✓ seen]

Cain was the edgy bad-boy love interest in my favourite book series in high school, and much like with Tallulah, I have just been sticking him wherever he fits in everything else I've gotten into since then. I've even managed to fit the two of them in a HTTYD AU that I never got around to writing.

Anyway he's the other friend mentioned in Finn's bio, the one whose mother walked out on him. He's the youngest of three brothers, and about a year older than Finn. The two of them wavered between inseperable and estranged depending on how recently Finn had talked to his mother and therefore how jealous Cain was feeling about her continued if distant presence in the younger boy's life. Later, once Tallulah showed up and befriended Finn, Cain alternated between being jealous that she spent time with the younger boy and desperate for an in with her because he himself continually managed to offend her.

He eventually manages to win her over with Finn's help, as just a friend, but his ex takes offense to that and turns out to be a far better shot than her mother was when she was chasing after Cain. Finn had already made plans to leave Heckmondwhite at that point, but Tallulah gets pulled from school after being shot leaving Cain with no friends in town and only Finn messaging him. He is not doing so great emotionally at this point, and his father manages to get a friend (Tallulah's dad, who canonically is something of a naturalist and studies mollusks) to figure out a way to get him out of town. Cain does not realise his father's friend is Tallulah's dad because the man is built like comic book wolverine and Cain was picturing someone more along the lines of Loki.

Kaiko agrees to take on an intern because she could use some help keeping her workspace in order and doesn't want to force her kids to do it and end up making them hate the lab. Someone who signed up for it, however, is free game. She's not exactly happy that Liam told the kid about the assault charge, but she did kind of owe the man a favour after how often he covered for her in Uni.

[tofuart]

It’s an Aerogram!

Do you remember aerograms?  Aerograms were a single sheet of paper with gummed edges that had to be folded and sealed.   No enclosures were permitted, and you could not even use tape to seal them.  The cost was less than sending an airmail letter.   

In 1985, aerograms came franked with 36¢ postage.  It cost more than sending a postcard via airmail (33¢) but less than an airmail letter (44¢). The cost difference today seems quite insignificant even considering it was nearly 40 years ago.  But when you’re a student, you’ll always do something to save a few cents. 

You could fill the aerogram with as much writing as you could fit — write small or better yet, use a typewriter.  The rule was you just couldn’t put anything inside an aerogram. 

In the 1990s, as more people started having access to email, the aerogram was destined to become obsolete.  The U.S. Postal Service discontinued them in 2006.  In Britain they lasted until 2012. Very few countries offer them anymore. Australia still has them for sale.  At a recent San Francisco Correspondence Co-op meeting I found these unused aerograms on the swap table. I knew I had to take them to do a series of mail art. I wonder if some of my recipients will even know what aerograms are.

[heaven-s-black-box]

K They said Koshuu could be a foreigner or a mixed-race person, I thought he was just colored, I MEAN, HARUICHI HAS PINK HAIR and I don't see anyone debating that

Okay, but I also thought Koushuu might be half-Japanese because his design reminds me of someone, and I cannot remember who! I want to say like... Viktor from Yuri on Ice or Lev from Haikyuu? but that's not it. (I actually think it's the bartender from Death Parade, who isn't a foreigner but whatever) Anyways, for some reason I get the feeling he's half Russian and I cannot tell where/ why i got that idea.

I definitely don't think anyone is Daiya dyes their hair (except for when Mochi went through that blond phase), it's just a case of anime logic. But it is definitely funny that everyone's like "Pink hair, normal, but that white haired guy is definitely at least half-Japanese". Because I'd also like to point out no one bats an eye about Mei, and I'm pretty sure there's nothing about him being a foreigner/half-Japanese.

[felix-ravinstill]

felix what would u do if ur family ptu u in an arranged marriage with LIVIA CARDEW

I WOULD KILL MYsekfdhusjklkgfr

Sorry, the public relations manager that my great-uncle assigned me is currently trying to drag me away from thee keuboad hujlk;

It's funny fkjhde l,.k This is the mos reactupm I've gotten out of her since she started working for mehgjkl

[the-travelling-witch]

hi holllyyyy how are youuu i hope you're having a gooodd dayyyy ❤❤

i saw ur reblog of international online friends...and i saw your tags.....and i saw spaghetti ice cream and now i am kinda bewildered and intrigued at the same time now LMFAO

anyways STAY SAFEEEE have an amazing day / night <3

hi zeeeeeee!!! i’m doing good, my mental health has been so much better since starting my internship, it’s crazy!! also the prospect of posting my event soon makes me both nervous and excited (i think it came out okay but what if people think it’s ugly >.<)

okay listen up while i tell you about an important part of my childhood; spaghetti ice cream is (typically) vanilla ice cream (though people also order it with chocolate, hazelnut and the like) that’s pressed through a spaghetti press and topped with strawberry sauce and coconut/ white chocolate flakes to make it look like spaghetti with tomato sauce (often, there’s also whipped cream under the ice cream but i like to order it without that)

and it looks like this

could you just eat vanilla ice cream with strawberry sauce and call it a day? yeah but where’s the fun in that hshsh

i hope you’re having a great day yourself and are taking care of yourself!! also try spaghetti ice cream when you have the chance hshsh

[himblebo]

I have parasocial relationships with the old women in my historical sewing and primary source groups like you wouldn’t even believe

[trinitea-fics]

Almost 3 years ago I started penpal-ing with one of my elementary/high school friends to keep in touch. And now I'm keeping touch with 6 people via letter and some of those friends have started writing letters to their other friends.

I feel like an old lady influencer.

[quesadillaislandofficial]

MEMO: You are no longer to interact with TO15L.

just another thing you've taken from me. i don't care. it doesn't matter anymore. nothing matters.