#last pic is so special to me when he hits you with your native language 😩

[hey-hey-j]

can you believe it's been one whole month since I drew any Flickory art?? This simply won't do

(★ my Kofi) | (★ commission info)

[triananero]

Yuki Hayashi Birthday Project! 2019 edition

You might not have heard his name, but chances are you heard his music: this amazing Japanese composer is the genius behind the soundtracks for anime like Haikyuu!!, Boku no Hero Academia, Death Parade, Kaze Ga Tsuyoku Fuiteiru, Kiznaiver, One Piece Gold, Ballroom e Youkoso, Dive!!, DRAMAtical Murder etc along with many dramas. Hayashi-san really appreciates having people from different countries listen to his music (tweeting in English and, for example, asking how he can make his music more accessible for overseas fans), and he’s always loved it whenever we would come together to wish him a happy birthday (we’ve been doing it for 2 years, and each time he personally thanked the participants in his own way, and I can tell you that he was pretty emotional :). We decided to do it again this year, so if you appreciate wonderful music in your favorite anime/drama, please dedicate just a bit of your time to thank the hardworking person behind it!

We don’t have much time, since his birthday is December 31st, and yet we decided to make a video (if you’re too shy to record it/don’t have an opportunity, don’t just scroll down, please keep reading). You can participate in this project in 2-3 following ways:

— make a video (preferably);

— take a picture (if you are unable to make a video or if you’re too shy for it, for example);

— if you don’t have an opportunity to do either, but you still really want to participate, do contact me, and we’ll try to figure something out.

The pictures will also be a part of the clip, of course.

VIDEO: you have to make a video of yourself (10-15 sec) where you we ask you to speak about Hayashi-san’s music — how would you describe it, what does it make you feel, what it inspires/motivates you to do. Basically, we want to show just how much we appreciate his amazing music. If you have some personal experience with it, that would be absolutely perfect — the more unique your words, the better. You should speak in your NATIVE language, as it’d show how many fans Hayashi-san has from all over the world. Naturally, we will translate your words into Japanese (and add subtitles).

— the video should be 10-15 seconds long (can be shorter, CAN’T be longer — you can bypass the limit if you have a friend/someone who is willing to translate your words into Japanese (or if you can do that yourself — but please do speak your native language anyway));

— horizontal format;

— GOOD QUALITY (480p at least; if you can’t manage that, better take a picture);

— make sure that you can be seen clearly and that the video isn’t too dark;

— SPEAK LOUD AND CLEAR, preferably without background noise (it’s much easier for us to make your video quieter than make background music quieter so that we could hear your voice, so please, please speak louder);

— if you have an opportunity to record this video in a beautiful place, or near a famous spot of your town, that would be awesome (unless it’s too noisy);

— your pets can definitely take part in the video if you want them to, Yuki Hayashi himself loves dogs (but any pets are okay, really);

— you could also make a video near/with your musical instrument and maybe say something about how his music inspires you to play etc;

— you can use things somewhat connected to the anime that Yuki Hayashi composed music for (like a volleyball);

— please do not go anywhere near CDs/Youtube/any other illegal ways of listening to his music that you probably used in your short speech (unless you actually have CDs);

— please refer to the composer politely — Hayashi-san;

— send us a TEXT of what you’re saying along with the video as it will speed up the translation process significantly (the text should be in English if you’re speaking your native language).

PHOTO: you can take a picture of yourself with a piece of paper and write something nice on it (or you can paste something right onto your picture, but keep an eye on the composition). The content should also be about Hayashi-san’s music (described in detail in the video section).

— the picture should also be horizontal;

— please make sure its quality is high enough so we can clearly see&read everything;

— really shy people can take a pic of their pet instead, hide their face behind the piece of paper with their words on it, or draw something (but drawing is the LAST resort in this particular project);

— please also provide us with a TEXT you write/paste on the picture.

ALL PHOTOS AND VIDEOS should be sent to the following email address titled “Yuki Hayashi Birthday Project”: ksseniya777@yandex.ru

Please do not forget to send us the TEXT of what you’ve said/written along with the media material!

DEADLINE: the main one is December 1st. DEADLIEST DEADLINE is December 20th. This does NOT mean that you can wait all the way until the end of December to do it. Please, please try and understand us. Last time we did a video-project 2 years ago, we received around 80% of the entries between December 18th-28th, and let me tell you, that was hell. We would like to have enough time to edit everything properly and send it to the composer on time. If you can’t make it before the main deadline (December 1st), please let us know (here, on my Twitter or via email) so we know to wait for you. 

There’s also a special service available for airheads like me: message me on Tumblr/Twitter or email me, and I will put you on the “kicking list”, meaning I will remind you about the project from time to time until you send me the stuff (because you can simply forget about it in 2 months, trust me, I know).

EXTRA INFO: Here is Hayashi-san’s Instagram. He really loves his doggos, especially his “daughter” Chloe-chan (we often see her on OST covers). He adores it when people draw her~ A while back Hayashi-san used to do rhythmic gymnastics. 

I’ll be attending his concert in January, so if you’d like to send him a letter/present, hit me up!

If you have any questions, feel free to hit me up on Tumblr or Twitter! Also, if you’re experienced in making clips and would like to help, please do contact me, as we could use some more help!

Please, do not sit out on this and join us to make this simple, but heartfelt present for our favorite composer. It won’t be much of a trouble for you to participate, but trust me as a person who saw Hayashi-san’s reactions — the impact it makes is huge, and so, so worth it. Let’s connect and show Hayashi-san that his works are truly loved all over the world! :)

We would be really grateful to everyone who participates! ;>

[infinitiesofbooks]

Me rambling about S3 and being an emotional mess

Okay, I have feelings and I need to talk about them. This is not a constructive analysis or anything this is just me talking about SOME of my favorite clips from season 3 of Skam France because it's the end and i'm emotional.

I knew this season would be awesome from the second I saw the trailer.It was genius and I still watch it sometimes because wow.I love that we saw the I saw you the first day of school scene. I love that we were all fooled into believing it was Lucas. Because he's the main and i also think because of the clothes, that's something Isak could wear. But little did we know they were making their own thing.

"T'es pas comme les autres" + adding to this the minute par minute talk

Skam is a very emotional show, with very emotional scenes but I didn't cry cry as much as everyone did. And it's okay obviously. I teared up, thought I was going to die because of the pain, internally sobbed during the whole season. (For me it's 50/50 or I cry a LOT or I just can't because I just have too many emotions and my body is just dying, but it doesn't diminish the pain oh no) But the only two times where I really really really cried were during T'es pas comme les autres and the minute par minute talk. For mpm, I was expecting it. This is my favorite quote of the Skam universe, I use it everyday and it really helped me dealing with mental illness. I knew hearing it in my native language would wreck me. I was tearing up during the whole clip but I just bursted into tears when Lucas said it.

But I was not expecting the "T'es pas comme les autres" clip. I remember watching it, sobbing, thinking what the hell is happening to me. It's a mixture of Lucille's speech, the piano music (i tear up everytime i listen to it) and the images of Eliott. this.was.too.much.for.me. But I love this clip with all of my heart, and I cry as much everytime I rewatch it but I love it.

The piano scene

This scene. This freaking scene. It's unique,it's beautiful, it's a masterpiece. I have a thing with piano, it always gets me emotional and it's my favorite instrument, and I listen to piano music every day.But.this. this was incredible. And it's a scene nobody expected and wow it had so much impact. I can't find the words about how much I love this scene. And I won't ever be able to forget the T'es Suprenant. I remember not being able to sleep after this scene because I couldn't get over it.

Intervention

This is one of my favorite clip. First the acting, Axel how how how? I also love how it's as much as a sad clip as an hopeful one. Yes, it's sad but Mika and Manon are here for Lucas, he finally has support, and it's the clip where things are changing , Lucas starts accepting himself in the next clip and it's beautiful. And also some things that were said in this clip hit me so strongly and I think about them everyday.

Viens on en parle pas

god. Manon coming to Lucas? Her crying ? Him conforting her? And then when he started to cry my heart broke. This was powerful and I'm so glad this clip exists.

Also I didn't talk about Le premier, Combien de Lucas dans l'Univers, the painting/fucking, french o helga natt,not because I don't love them, because I freaking do, they're in my top 10,or even 5 clips (especially combien de lucas, if I did a top 3 it would be here with the piano scene and T'es pas comme les autres (this clip did something to me okay?) and the parallel universe talk with the music behind always get me so so so so emotional and tearing up) but because I've already talk so much about them and said pretty much everything I wanted to say.

Special mentions to Eliott following Lucas on instagram. So many of the instas udpdates are pure gold, so so so many, but I don't think I freaked out more in my entire life than the day Eliott followed Lucas. I literaly went home walking because I had too many feelings and needed to calm down.

Also a little list of my fav things from watching S3

-Lucas & the girl squad. Every. Single. Interaction.

-the millions french words the international fandom is now saying (please don't use them in french class)

-moi c'est Eliott + I can still remember Maxence and his chocolates bars on his insta story being so excited about the clip

-Lucas stalking Eliott

-the whole foyer subplot

-P. O. L. A. R. I. S

I got so emotional over a gifset the other day with the first kiss and O helga natt with the polaris quote

And the fandom becoming astronomers

-Alexia being a bisexual queen

-the dubstep is still making me laugh especially Lucas listening to it and saying he's into it to Chloé

-the unsubtleness. cf : how would you draw me

-Lucas and the marks on his cheeks during the foyer party

-i have an unhealthy obsession with the call your girlfriend scene, seriously, how many times can i watch a clip before it gets weird? Also when the music change when Eliott looks up ahhhhh

-Pas forcément une meuf (and the whole I want to be in a relationship thing ), I have a tattoo appointment to put this on my forehead.

-The whole Grillé clip was gold

-I love Pecholand too, it's so funny to rewatch because ahhh we knew it. Also just Lucas's voice when he's changing the subject from Eliott to something else. Everytime I watch it, I have this feeling, you know, when someone or something is brought up and you start panicking a little inside and you try to stay calm and like nothing is affecting but you're still trying to change the subject. It's a very specific feeling and he NAILED it, the tone of his voice is exactly exactly this.

-The beginning of Phase de Latence (ending ?? What ending?? This clip ends when Lucas steps out of the classroom)

-Emma and her lava lamp. Emma, my love. I see so much of me and my friends in Emma, and the more we have the more I love her. She just seems so real to me.

-The Isak reference

-Arthur&Basile + Daphné + Yann + Imane reaction and talk after Lucas coming out

-the J'ai tué ma mère ref. I knew it. I wanted it. They delivered. Thank you.

-the reaction to the mural monday morning omg. I really thought they were going to repaint it after. But these idiots didn't and they didn't even try denying anything. And I would have bet Daphné would have killed them but I'm glad she loved it.

-Eliott + Imane

-The boy squad Fangirl™ Moment to Elu. I wanna tattoo their faces on my face.

-Them hanging out in the park. This felt so nostalgic to me. It's exactly how I spent my 1ère afternoons in high school, lying in the grass with my friends, reading, talking and it's some of my best memories.

-Elu shotgunning omg

-Emma Manon and Lucas drunk = incredible

-Basile speechs and supporting Boy Squad

-Lucas and his mom AND THE FREAKING PIANO WHEN HE WROTE THE TEXT

-Him defending the mural, Imane being a queen and then Daphné after too

-Leave a light on hahahaha

-the realness of J'ai pas besoin de toi (just wanted to say, i'm still singing Joyce Jonathan every time, just because of the title, not any signification)

-Lucas and Eliott being THAT annoying couple

-All the drawings

-Raccons and hedgehog

-the acting. I just can't see Axel and Maxence, no matter how hard I try (i just tried it for the sake of this point and I just can't, they don't exist when filming)

-David making me cry with his instagram posts

-every single update from instagram

-David changing his profil pics and the fandom loosing it

-the scarf™

-Just everything the cast did. I could make a whole separate post for that.

-Wednesdays

-All the times we were fooled

-THE FREAKING JE T'AIME I'M STILL NOT OVER IT

-Eliott counting the minutes he's been appart from Lucas in the last clip, that dork

I feel like i'm forgetting so so many things, but I can't write down everything, especially the fandom stuffs and how much we freaked out over everything, and all the debates and theories but this has been my favorite part

I'm so glad for this season, and it had been an incredible ride. I also think i would not be this attached to it if I didn't discuss the clips with everybody on tumblr everyday. Thank you. You all made this special.

I wanted to start tagging people but the list was getting way way way too long and I'm afraid to forget someone and also the less people see my rambling the better it is. But if we talked even once,or if we’re mutuals, or If I liked your posts or you liked mine, i love you. So i'm just gonna thank my two friends I talk everyday with.

@praecise we've been talking since the beginning of the season and I'm so glad i was on that ride with you, you're the best

@aspewofnonsense we started really talking only after but i'm so so glad we did and i can't wait to meet you in may

I'm a really nostalgic person and I hate endings, and even if it's also a beginning because you bet i'm gonna follow S4 with the same energy ( I was already so hyped just by seeing Imane at the end of the last clip) , it's the end of Lucas pov and I will forever miss him. And seeing everybody in the tag saying goodbye and thank you to our boy ahhhh. Watching this season was an unique experience and it was so special. But i can't believe this is over. This morning i was listening to music when Remember attacked me without my consent and i started full on sobbing. The whole day i felt almost sick because i knew it was the end, in my last class i was really really feeling bad i couldn't do anything. But after the clip i was sad but also so much happy. I'm so thankful for this season and for Lucas's story.

(Also after the last clip, i was sitting on the ground in the train watching the landscape through the windows as the sun was setting, thinking about everything ,poetic cinema right there)

This afternoon I was like I should be less dramatic. But fuck it, I like being 300% invested in this. Being inside a fandom is my favorite thing.

I feel like I could never say everything I want to say, but (i was listening to music and my song just say i just wanna say thank you as I was writing this yes that's exactly this song) I just wanna say thank you. <3

[postcards-to-home]

Class is in Session

2/19/18

Yesterday was my first day of class. Here at ICMS it is apart of our dress code to wear either a skirt or dress pants, dress shirt paired with a blazer and our name tags. It creates this ultra preppy high and mighty professional look. Everyone seems way too important and busy to associate with each other. Thats okay because I had e-commerce + Digital marketing class with the Mirandas (there’s two of them) and it was pretty casual. I found the class extremely interesting while we discussed China’s digital market place and how Australia just got Amazon in December... I had to laugh when the prof asked how many people use twitter and I was the only person to use it in the whole class. Basically its only an american thing or used by people of the utmost importance. I think the most bizarre part was realizing the United States isn't the center of the universe. All our talks were about the world economy in respects to both China and Australia. It was as if America was as distant as China is to us. I also was mildly embarrassed when the prof caught me scrolling through facebook despite choosing a seat in the back but at least he knows my name now :)

2/20/18

I only have class Monday from 9-12 and Thursday from 9-4 with an hour break. This means theres a lot of down time as well as time to think and study. My internship doesn’t start until Friday. In the mean time I had to spend well over an hour to figure out how to use the printer. It sounds stupid but the Aussies are very much into the tap and pay concept. In Plattsburgh all I have to do is hit print and my stuff prints. Here I have to do some science and download the documents to a website, hit print, walk to the printer apparently then tap my card (Honest to god went off on the guy saying how the hell should I have known to just tap it instead of  swipe which pissed him off more because he thought I was a bimbo) and push some buttons and then it would charge me .40 cents to print a single page. Well shit my apologies to the nine people I had to ask to help me. Mind you before this i did spend two hours studying the textbook so theres that at least.

I know I am extremely dramatic. I get it, and i know I drank an entire bottle of wine last night but when my friend Mandy said I couldn’t use the washer with out cancelling my American iTunes account to download the washer app I almost lost my cool right there. This school is doing me dirty at the moment. 7.5/10 rating because I am extremely happy with life (one of the greatest times of my life) but I need clean clothes all the time. Let me back up my story.

So the squad had a brilliant idea to attempt Salsa dancing. Okay free shit I'm all about it right? No I didn't realize there would be like 40 people who were all confident in their abilities and knew what was good while I looked like a dancing skeleton in the back. So my roomie , god bless Alexis , came up with the best Idea to just leave and go into town. So I decided I was going to go to liquor Land and spend the 5$ on some wine and Live my best life. And guess what? I didnt regret finishing the bottle by the time they all finished their lessons. Life is amazing when you live in the moment, ignoring your feelings and just being yourself.

Thats the special thing about studying abroad. You can be yourself, entirely 100% yourself. There are no constraints, there is no one from your past life telling you how to act, or feel about any one thing at any particular time. You are surrunded by people, complete strangers at one point who develop into these beautiful characters that make moments feel infinite.There are those who are meant to foil our dispositions and  then  there are those who bring the eccentric energy that one is meant to congeal into this wondrous , chaotic group that is filled with nothing but laughter and joy , laughter from the bottom of my stomach. When’s the last time you’ve ever felt that sort of laughter ?just think about that..

2/22/18

Day 2 of classes. I already feel challenged in ways SUNY Plattsburgh could never offer. It’s exciting to sit in a classroom full of students both foreign and native and feel empowered by those who aspire to learn just like you. There are’t people in sweat pants snapping their gum on their phones nor kids with their feet on the desk snoring. Sure theres always someone e surfing the internet or online shopping but the majority of us are actively listening and taking part. For the first time in my 3 years attending higher education nI actually spoke in class BY CHOICE. I didn’t do it because I was forced to either. 

My first class was strategic management and it was honestly extremely interesting to learn about. I won’t bore anyone with those detail but those three hour I attended class flew by. Week one is always the easiest and although the work I have to complete in the coming months appears challenging I look forward to achieving and feeling the success of completing those projects. 

The classes here are small. With 18 kids in my first class and only 9 in my second class, Cross-Cultural Management, I felt at ease. In my second class i was one of two Americans which was strange to feel like a minority. Everyone else was from different countries as well. My group project alone is with a Frenchman  and Two Aussies. 

Funny little story about today. I sat down in class and this kid looks at my name tag-the frenchman and asks if I am french. My name tag reads “ Nicole Reine Casale” for some odd reason im the only person with my middle name on my tag. So the guy kindly asks if I know what my middle name means. Apparently it’s pronounce “Rain” which is not how i pronounce it. Anyways I replied no and he goes “  it means “queen”.” Like wow that made me feel like the baddest bitch in the room after that. Not really but it was a nice ego trip while it lasted..

Every day is always an adventure.There is almost never a dull moment. Like today when Alexis and i went into town to get groceries and our friend Jet offered to give us a ride back to school. So her and i both causally waited on what we thought was the passenger side waiting for him to unlock it and he just asked us if we were trying to drive home. It wasn’t even that funny but we cracked up laughing at how we can’t get used to the driver side being on the right hand as opposed to the left. Her and i always get into the stupidest shit. Just like how this morning I proceeded to wake her ass up at 730 am by knocking over the massive stand up fan on the desk  to which is crashed in to the ground and broke.

Lastly we finish everyday off by going for a run. It’s unbelievable what the hills here can do to your muscles. First I started running to the beach and then the hundreds of stairs near school. Alexis started to join me and she claimed i ran way too fast so we had Sabrina join to balance everything out. Theres going to be a pack of us by the end of the semester I reckon. Tonight the three of us ran to the manly cliffs and it was breath taking.God knows I love a good hike as long as Jaybae isn't puking on the way up like last time we attempted to hike giant!

.....And we raced all the ways back up the staircase in pursuit of happiness  ;)(Laundry to do).

2/23/18

My Internship started today.I was hesitant to take public transit from Manly to Brookvale where my internship is but it was the only possible way ad it was easy as hell. 

My internship is with Event Hire Services which is a company that offers a variety of rentals of furniture, linens ,crockery etc. I am working on the logistical aspects as well as monitoring the inventory and such. My first day was laid back as I was learning small basics and I went on a pick up with one of the guys there to check out how it all works. It’s exciting to not only learn from others on the team but to just learn from my manager and owner of the company as he is extremely knowledgable on not only logistics but as a foreigner himself offered a lot of knowledge and insight on the area we are currently living in. Little things like landline phone numbers are 8 digits and mobile are 9 technically ten but the 0 at the beginning of every line doesn't really “ count.” He was telling me that Aussies are rigid with their culture yet behind on adapting cultural things such as fashion and technology trends, however they use tap and pay as their most frequent use of payment which was interesting.

My work environment is very multi-cultural which his interesting because the class I am taking right now truly applies to my internship. People from all areas of the world work together and use english which is sometimes their second or even third language. I actually have to talk a lot slower for people to understand my language/ slang and often times have to explain what certain words mean. I also have to ask non native english speakers to repeat themselves or such and i find it slightly strange. We take something as simple as language for granted in the United States.People speak two to three languages across the world and i’m lucky I can speak english.

When I got a ride back from my internship i felt physically high on life. Whether it was my excitement for the weekend in combination with my lack of food intake for the day or what but I literally was bouncing off the wall. Life is spectacular I thought.  I don’t know who is blessing me this hard right now but I can only just feel grateful and hope everyday is as good as the last.

Here’s a few pics from last night to show some love to all my gal pals out there.Again the school had a bar party in the market place so of course we all had to find our way their. Unfortunately Kay had fallen ill the day before and couldn't make it out, but we missed her. Congratulations to Sabrina who also couldn’t make it but survived her first day of waitressing down under, we are proud!

Oh and i wanted to throw in a pic of these views! It’s very rare of me to take pictures so I am struggling to find any decent ones. It will always be a work in progress. 

I hope everyone is surviving & thriving at home! You are all missed dearly. As jay reminds me only 83 more days until my return!

Peace, Love & Enjoy the Adventure xoxo