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gaymershigh · 4 years

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Hello! I saw your askbox and open and read your rules and you are right, it's not often I see Male×Male reader inserts in the TWST fandom. So, I'd thought I'd request some to help the cause! If I may, can I request some headcannons of dorm leaders of TWST×Male!Reader who is in their dorm and has been noticeably stressed in their schoolwork and one night is seen super stressed out and the dorm leader's fellow students pull the reader aside and hand the reader over to the dorm leader because the reader refuse to listen to anyone else?

Of course you may! Tbh, this is such a nice request, I enjoy doing multiple characters, but it's so difficult for me to write for Azul and Vil in this hc for some reason??

REMINDER: Don't overwork yourself just because you don't think it's enough! The fact that you're trying is already amazing! Please remember to take care of your health because you matter! 💜

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Dorm Leaders dealing with a stressed Male!Reader

Ever since Riddle got a text from Trey and its about his boyfriend doing his schoolwork on ungodly hours he was worried, very worried.

He wants to come to you and make a 2 hour speech about how you shouldn't overwork yourself but he barely has anytime as well, he's a very busy man as well.

So he decided to order your friends, Ace and Deuce to tell you to not overwork yourself. Hell, he even prepared a script for them.

Of course, it didn't work. It was so obvious it was from a script because Deuce sounds so robotic and Ace kept correcting Deuce. Your stubbornness makes it even more awkward and worse.

He ordered Trey and Cater this time, with a whole new script too.

They did a good job and all, but it also failed because your ass is so stubborn and Cater is pretty impatient and kept using his phone.

This only made you stressed out even more because these mofos probably dont understand how you feel.

Deuce's dense ass noticed this and told Ace about it. And that's how Ace got a big brain idea.

You were screaming, usually, the ADeuce duo usually stays at your dorm to chill while you do your work and NOT drag you to their dorm.

They shoved you to Riddle's room and what you're not expecting was your boyfriend showing a very worried face.

He immediately hugged you tightly before you could say a word. He cupped your face and caressed your cheek.

“My sweetheart, please don't overwork yourself, it's unhealthy for you. From now on, only work yourself for 2 hours max. Come now, let's drink some tea together.”

He knows that something's up when you haven't been hanging out with him for a while.

He misses his herbivore so much, he misses cuddling his boyfriend but he's too prideful to admit.

When he found out you've been doing your schoolwork 24/7 by Ruggie, his response is indecisive but on the inside he's bothered.

Since he's too lazy to move on his very comfortable position, he threatened ordered his dorm members to convince you to stop overstressing yourself.

Knowing Savanaclaw, of course they failed, there was no hope to begin with. It was a disaster. They tried but they're way too intimidating for you to even listen to their words. Thank god Ruggie was there to bail them out so it wasn't too awkward.

This made Leona very moody. Not only he cannot snuggle with you, his plan failed and he now forces himself to sleep alone in pain. Boohoo.

Ruggie can't stand this man's temper tantrums so he just snatched you away from your dorm and toss you to a sleeping Leona.

The lazy lion woke up immediately when he recognized your scent. Since he's still sleepy however, he just pulled you to his bed and hugged you close with his tail wrapped on your leg

“Hmph, you chose your schoolwork over me and had the audacity to not meet up for the entire week? You're not going anywhere this time, especially with you in my arms.”

He won't blame you to be honest. He overworks himself too and ignore your warnings multiple times. However, that doesn't mean he's not going to do anything about it.

He at least has time to spend with you but you didn't. Of course that made the octopus upset and he's not gonna five up when it comes to you.

He stalks you everytime he gets the chance. Your stressed expression really displeases him. He wants to do something about this so bad but he doesn't want to disturb his already stressed boyfriend.

Jade caught on to Azul's bizarre behavior and he cam up with an idea to surprise both of you.

“Kidnapping shrimpy? Ok!” of course Floyd would say yes, it's Floyd.

You're screaming in distress and confusion. Just a second ago you were messaging your temples because you couldn't mesmerize what Mr. Trein taught you and now you're getting kidnapped by the Leech twins, what a surprise. An unwelcome one at that.

Azul was shocked when he hears your cries as the twins dropped you off his room, still tied in ropes and leaving like nothing happened.

Azul untied you, explaining theories as to why they would do such things, but when he does got the right answer, he blushed in embarrassment. He caused this.

He placed a soft kiss and holds your hand gently.

“I apologize for causing a huge ruckus. It's just I missed you when you barely replied to my calls and texts and you kept working and that made me worried sick! I'm sorry that I sound selfish but.. Could you stay here a bit longer, please?”

Oh dear. How could you say no to that?

Ok first of all how could you even ignore him? He always keep coming to you and basically screaming at you.

Your stress may could have took the you over and may accidentally snapped at him for being too noisy.

This made him sad and left the room. BUT HEY AT LEAST YOU GOT SOME PEACE AND QUIET AM I RIGHT?

But if you think that's gonna make him upset??? You're his wonderful boyfriend! His treasure! No matter what, just seeing thinking of you makes him happy again.

This didn't last as you kept ignoring his daily chat with you and his messages and calls. This wasn't okay.

This genuinely made him stressed as well, he probably doesn't even exist to you anymore. Despite it just being 2 days if felt like forever since you talk to him or even looking at him with a smile.

Kalim wanted to spend fun times with his boyfriend like always. Not just sit there and look at him groaning at the worksheet every now and then.

He missed you so much. Even though he sees you, it just doesn't feel the same.

He got less happier as the days go by, everyone got worried sick. Even Jamil felt disturbed about it, usually he would be living the life when Kalim's quiet.

Everything's the usual today. Kalim visiting you and he's quiet again. You of course felt bad but you really need to pass this test.

But out of nowhere, you kept getting text messages from Jamil screaming to you about talking to Kalim and how pathetic he looks when sad.

When you turned around, your heart shattered to pieces. There it is, a sad Kalim in tears, curling himself on your bed to at least have your scent on him.

You stopped what you're doing and hop on tour bed and press his face against the crook of your neck, muttering sorry.

“Ahhh! I miss you so much,habibi!(my love) please don't overwork yourself and ignore me! I love you so much and seeing you date your homework then dating me hurts me! Please dont leave me! I'll be the best boyfriend ever!”

Who do you think you are, to ignore your lover's calling just for a paper of misery? How foolish.

Vil understood that your future is important to you, but do you really need to worry when you're dating the Vil Schoenheit? The beautiful, rich man who spoils you every single day?

Not only that, stress causes wrinkles and you're also ruining your sleep schedule?! Unacceptable.

He kept ranting to you about how greasy your hair and how big the bags under your eyes are.

To the point you have to lock your door to refrain him for entering and rant. You're already stressing out and there's literally no way you're going to hear about your dramatic boyfriend moan about your appearance.

He kept calling and texting you and you also ignore that. If anything you gave good morning texts or either leave him on read.

And he's not tolerating that.

His job was easier to handle than the others. He can just ask Rook to kidnap you and he would oblige and do so in an instant.

And he just did that.

Unlike the others, you know exactly what's going to happen when Rook is violently dragging you to Pomefiore. He's going to put you in Vil's room, listen to him rant for a few hours and do beauty things or whatever.

Well, have of that did happen when Rook closed Vil's door. He did rant but what your not expecting was him being very gentle and sweet.

“I knew it, you got increasingly worse. Oh well, I will refix this mess later. But for now, you should rest right beside me. No leaving no matter the circumstances, you understand, potato?”

I mean, of course you're gonna ignore him, he's just a gross, weeby loser. There's no way he can impact your life positively in any single way. If anything, he probably causes trouble to his you anyway.

He doesn't really wanna stop you, he really cherishes you and your choices even if they're not good and losing someone like you is probably gonna take years to move on to.

Poor Ortho, he needs to hear his brother rant about his boyfriend not being able to see nor play games with because he's busy working himself.

But this made Ortho worry. Not only id his brother is sad but you're risking your health to do schoowork! That's no good.

This made you confused. Ortho kept muttering about your health status to himself everytime you pass by the hallways.

And everyday, your stress levels increase and your health is deteriorating.

He needs to make you rest at all cost but he knows your stubborn. So he has to do one thing that makes your knees weak.

His very own special puppy eyes.

Ortho innocently dragged you to Idia without either of you guy's knowledge.

When Idia finds out, he immediately apologized for the inconvenience he caused and you might have to be the one to comfort him.

“I'M SERIOUSLY SO SORRY! I just really wanted to play games with you and hangout with you like usual.. Eh? You will?? REALLY!?”

At first, the fae didn't even realise you are stressing despite showing a few signals.

Until you start ignoring him. Then you got a pouty Malleus. (aw)

He doesn't understand why you're struggling with Mr. Divus' homework, it seems so easy to him, why is it so hard for you?

That made you upset and he still doesn't know why.

He never had a boyfriend like you before so of course he's not gonna understand gen z struggles. Spare him please.

Lilia gave him some tips, only for it to be tricks and make you more upset. snide mf

Seeing a sad Malleus made Sebek upset, then mad.

He asked Lilia what's wrong with his young master.

And when he found out you're replacing him with your schoolwork and then for some reason 'stressing' about it??

How rude!

Sebek kept nagging at you to stop working and pay attention to your damn boyfriend but you couldn't care less about Sebek and his shenanigans.

You only start sweating when he suddenly yanked your arm and dragged you to Diasomnia.

And what you see is a pouty Malleus playing with his little game.

When you sat next to him, he immediately wrapped you in his arms.

“My darling, I plead for you not to pressure yourself in something that only destroys you even more. What progress you have done is enough for today but as of now, you need rest. Release all your negativity away, love.”

This is literally my second work but I already feel like a failure.

-𝕸𝖎𝖗𝖎

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fly-sky-high-bug-games · 4 years

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A little self reminder

I just realized how snail is a very fitting sona after writing the text. XD

But I’d like to add on to this.

Don’t take this as a great example of what you should do. Please do things your own way and under pacing you think is right.

I’m just very very slow. I learned during the quarantine a bit more about myself. When something bad happens, it hits me days, weeks even months or years later. I don’t react momentarily. I don’t learn things that quickly (unless it’s manual labor, apparently). I don’t memorize things until few attempts and some way to connect the scene to it.

This unusual slow pace affected my growth. I didn’t experience things some people do as early teens until after my (late) 20ties. I didn’t experience bad people (or it flew over my head that I did because I would just not interact with people that put me off and not think of them any further). I wasn’t abused. I’ve grown in a healthy, loving family with no pressure other than social one such as school and adulthood, the norms of it all.

When ever I try to pace myself to things around me, I start to make even slower progress, surprisingly. Or rather, it’s a quick but not good progress.

I can’t grasp some social ideas such as picking sides and without taking the understanding of why someone does something bad the same way majority of people do and this is a genuine issue for me I’ll try to resolve in the future with a therapist.

I don’t have high goals. I just want to do things I think I’m just okay doing. I don’t want to shoot for high if I’m improving. If I’m improving I don’t want to rush it. Same with learning.

Basically... I don’t mind being mediocre and if I progress further than that’s cool but this is just fine.

I know the world doesn’t work that way. I’m adapting it to my own ways. But I’m also starting to draw the lines a little different from before. I am setting the kind of priorities that some perusing a legit career in art wouldn’t. Unfortunately, when asked, I have no clear idea of what I want to do with myself regarding putting myself out there. I don’t want to be famous, rich or make an amazing, creative breakthrough in history of art. I just want to do the kind of art I think I can pull the best out of this tiny flame of mine, earn enough for a living, maybe learn some new interest if I take them on and that’s it.

And then... there are small things that make me happy. Something about freelance work is that commissioners appreciate the effort and making a person smile for that day alone stands out to me better than satisfying the need of a group like in school or work environment. Or when I talk about ideas or interests and others pick up on that vibe and it’s nice. Something about simple creativity and small satisfactions.

I like the feeling of accomplishment when deciding to do something on my own, even if decisions are as simple as “I’m putting this set of milk products to look like a pyramid even if shoppers don’t care as long as it’s a valid expiration date printed on them”. Stuff like that in art too. Try this type of coloring? Scene? How someone does this or that part of the face or body? Lineart? Wanting to learn more about animation? Do a very weeby 4min storyboard animatic no one would care about even if it’s a final project for uni? Because I wanted to do it, I can push it through. Again, as my tiny candle flame, with time, taking it easy...

I’m happy for artists that can blaze it, they really should! Burn like a phoenix or a dragon if they want to! It’s just not for me, though. Selfish as it is and understanding the world just doesn’t work like that, I want to put my health and happiness as top priority. I’m tired of having anxiety over other people’s expectations, or rather, expectations I LEGIT THINK others have for me even it can turn out not to be the case... I will try satisfy them IF I can satisfy myself with my work first. Which doesn’t hold water much because I’m simple and tolerable lol, I can have myself be happy for a simple doodle of two characters just being happy and snugly together, despite the quality of it. (can you guess now why I’d like to try do storyboarding?)

I won’t say my decisions aren’t faulty or bad, though. Heck, I could be missing out on greatest things in my entire life, something one would regret about later (but most often I don’t find myself doing that). Even so, reaching them with the struggles I have no energy within me would just burn me out too quickly and too painfully to put any passion in...

Time passes, people and things change, how things work and adapt as well... it’s not a giant puzzle for me. It’s a walk through the woods. I lose sight of things I passed before. I will keep passing by the things that seem cool from afar. I’ll make turns and detours depending on my own will.

There are so many paths. I want to enjoy the scenery and moment more than I want to see what’s so far ahead...

#sky rambles #vent #self reminder

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hentaiibb · 5 years

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・。◝ ( 20, she/her , female , kim yerim/yeri ) i just saw SUNNY KIM , sorry , **IBIZA leaving the headquarters , listening to OBLIVION by grimes . even though the DRIVER has been working for the crew for two whole years , i still wonder how did they end up here all the way from LOS ANGELES, USA ?? do you also think of petal pink acrylics turning the pages of kimetsu no yaiba, circle lens glares behind heart-shaped glasses, pouty lips sucking on mint juuls, and iridescent stickers when you see them ?? it must be because they're so assertive and energetic , but also kind of ditzy and obnoxious . ( joo , 20 , she/her , gmt-8 . )

owo what's this? hewwo this is ya giww joo bwinging the wowwd's biggest cwackhead n DAB, tanjiwo's futuwe gf : 𝓼𝓾𝓷𝓷𝔂 𝓴𝓲𝓶 >w< >w< you can find me on discowd at suck dick get hit #3474 ow dm me hewe.

u see, here's the thing abt sunny she's dumb.

and not just the "maybe they just need a little time" or the "she's faking it, there's no way someone can be that bad" she is DUMB. but that's what happens when you spend your freetime sneaking out of class to watch anime on your phone, trading in boba stamp cards every weekend, flirting with your calculus tutor instead of actually learning.

so why the fuck would someone that probably believes the earth is flat if an IG post said so be recruited?

- koreatown is boring because of all these dumb korean christian kids that only live for retreats, you live your fantasies through sexy anime mecha - you spend your days at the commercialized arcade playing rhythm games, racing games, and claw machines. people notice your fast reflexes, maybe you're onto something. - your bitchass gets into cosplay. they're terrible. people make fun of u and they r right. you become a little depressed, but anime's cousin, league, saves you. - high school kinda sucks 'causes you're broke as fuck but you wanna look cute like those dumb kids who think they're gonna be the next kpop star. so you stop shoplifting. haha fuccckkk capitalism - your friends are dumber than you and call you for help. you, who has forgotten everything on your driving test, push the pedal and rescue them.

- wow, you seem to be good at something.

- you become the getaway driver, speeding away in your 2002 honda civic. people are terrified that the car will blow up at die, but you aren't even aware how much damage you're doing. - your makeup skills are improving, your clothes are quality, and you can afford your 9-step k-beauty. word spreads on social media and underground. - people start hiring you for their personal getaway reasons ; your only demands are a nice car, some cash, and controlling the aux. - belle delphine becomes your idol. fuck college, stupid nerdy losers. you're making bank driving nice cars recklessly, streaming LOL, and watching all the anime you want. - you have talent, but you can't manage it, making poor deals that can leave you in danger or screwed. your quick reflexes from years of arcade and league are handy at getting out of situations, and you own so many cosplay wigs & contact lenses that it's hard to decipher what you really look like. - so the professor comes with an offer: work for him, shut down your twitch. in turn, you get to mod your own car, have premium anime accounts, and some money. - you're dumb, but not that dumb; you negotiate. you want a boob job for anime titty physics. - the professor stares at you. - you say that your decision is final. take it or leave it. - ok, boob job it is.

- when not on major heists, you're busy ranking in league, selling sexy cosplays on patreon, and thinking about tanjiro.

- selfish, dumb, and annoying. - “whERE’S MY JUUL” - human adderall, may or may not pop one before heists to have a little fun - will not drive "until we are vibing". aux has to be hers. will range from vocaloid, to questionable psychedelic ambient music. - kinda unreliable bc she's too busy binging something to respond - always wearing acrylics, will remind you "most people can't do ____ properly, but i can with claws." - materialistic for the wrong reasons ; will probably not know nor car about the heist goals, but will be excited at the prospect of buying a new wig. - will ask a lot of questions then interrupt you with fake knowledge that she made up. - will tune you out if you talk too long - will call you ahjussi/ahjumma if you're korean and older than 25 - ok she sounds really bad, but she's not terrible - she's a chihuahua ; all talk no bite - will cry if you're too mean to her - will deliver u food if it is convenient - very proud of minor accomplishments, like frying an egg - kind of like an overbearing child - self-conscious of her intelligence - at the end of the day, she just wants some support and praise, after being neglected all of her life - and yeah, she's not the kindest person or the most useful - but she tries her best sometimes, and that's gotta be worth something.

>>>

i promise sunny isn’t too overbearing !! but i did want to portray a weeby, attention-starved child who jus wants a little acknowledgement in life. her dynamics are fun to play with, so pls hmu ! ! i lov plotting.

#elusive:intro #𝙘𝙝𝙤𝙩𝙩𝙤𝙖𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙪𝙩𝙚 ; ooc

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buri-art · 5 years

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If you don't mind me asking, how come you're able to live and work in Japan (and China?)? Where did it al begin? I'm just really curious! Thanks!

I don’t mind, thanks for asking! Turns out I’ve been doing some advising on this topic lately. (Scroll to the bottom for specific advice!)It all began with Digimon…

I’ve always had a history of moving from one obsession to another, starting back with Barney the Dinosaur. Then when I was 11-years-old I found myself very curious about that weird Japanese show on Fox Kids, which looked so different from the Western cartoons I was so fond of. What I caught of it kept me surprised–my stereotypes about it were wrong, the characters and their situations were complicated, and plot had depth? What was this and why did it make me care so much??Well, once I decided I was hooked, I was hooked. Obsessed overnight. I needed to know everything there was to know about it, including the country it came from. Guess I better learn Japanese, I thought.

That thought didn’t go away. I generally got obsessed with anime and Japanese culture, anything I could get my weeby little hands on. Wanting to know everything about Japan led to curiosity about China too, because if you’re going to stretch far back in the origins of Japanese culture, eventually you’re going to get interested in the big collection of nations and time periods known as Ancient China. (Stuff like Fushigi Yuugi and the anime rendition of Condor Hero sure helped drive that interest.)I stayed obsessed with Japan all through my teen years (and started Japanese study in earnest when I was 16) and I chose a college where I could start studying Chinese. It seemed like the natural progression in my studies by that point, but I guess other people thought it was surprising. Or they called me a traitor. (I can tell you now that lots and lots of people wind up studying both.)

Anyway, I went in to college with a pretty wide knowledge of East Asia, but studying it from all sorts of angles, getting good advising in school from nerdy professors, and studying abroad certainly made my understanding more nuanced. Going to a small school where it was easy to stick out also helped me get a good handful of work-study experiences and special attention for my particular passions. (It helps that a couple teachers were enamored with traditional Chinese culture, another loved Heian aesthetics, another wrote a dissertation about the production of shoujo manga, and another loved to give students free food. Now those are my people.)What most people find surprising was that even though I had a heavier course load in Asian studies, my major was Economics. I was concerned about finding work with only nerdy Asian studies, and I felt like I needed to save the world by working at an NGO and sacrificing my personal happiness for the sake of the poor and underprivileged. (I still feel like that, but thankfully there are more ways to support NGOs than only by working in them.) In my research topics I usually had a special focus on developing nations in Asia, and I made sure to get a good understanding of the whole region, not just, like, Edo period gay samurai fanfiction (yeah, that was totally a thing).Well, anyway, I never worked at an NGO. I went to grad school to keep working on my Chinese while keeping up independent Japanese study (including the JLPT), then I worked for the one international company in my hometown doing stuff for their Asian side of business. It was cool if you had any interest in engineering, but I didn’t. I like culture. The weeb shit, as it’s known. All according to keikaku, I became a Coordinator for International Relations on the JET Program (it’s not all English teachers!), and had the time of my life in Matsue (my love for that place is seeeeerious). That’s when I took my wide knowledge of Japan and started getting deeper knowledge, by doing anything and everything, especially practicing naginata, tea ceremony, and competitive kimono dressing. (I like to say I broke the weeb scale a long time ago.) Even among CIRs, who all speak Japanese fairly fluently, I guess I was noteworthy for my nerdy knowledge of obscure pieces of local culture, and my enthusiasm for sharing it. That’s just me being my obsessive self, folks. But yeah, lots of JET Program participants are obsessive and eager to go out and experience things. Aaaahhh, my people. After that, I felt I needed more experience in China, so I got a teaching job (which is relatively easy to do, if you’re a native English speaker). Due to my work schedule and living in Shanghai as opposed to like, Wuyishan or even Hangzhou, I didn’t devote as much as to cultural classes as I originally planned on, but I did practice tea and martial arts throughout my time there, and I continued to work on my Mandarin and gaining obscure cultural knowledge, but especially gaining experience melding with society there. Although it was more overwhelming, I do feel much more competent with my Chinese skills now, and I still love a lot of the culture and have so much more traveling I want to do there. I can still nerd out so hard for so much there.Moving back to Japan felt like a very natural course of things. I know a lot of people who have been happy to be Japan-nerds from a distance, or do the JET Program for a while and then just go back to visit, but at least for now, I don’t see myself happy with only visiting. I have personality flaws, like being very inflexible, that make me work very well in a rigid society like Japan. I’m too used to good convenience stores to live happily without them. I enjoy speaking Japanese all the time instead of taking occasional opportunities. Also, my niche skill set is kind of useless in my part of the US. I did try to find work here, really. That being said, having niche skills means that when I’m useful, I’m super useful. Job searching from outside of Japan was a lot more challenging than applying for the JET Program (which any JET applicant can tell you is not a simple process, but once you’re in, you really appreciate how much they handle for you in matters of moving abroad). It was really, really nerve-wracking to turn down two very good corporate job offers in favor of a somewhat new hotel chain. I really wanted to enter the tourism industry because this feels like the only place (outside of academia) where I can use all my obsessive studies of mainstream and obscure but especially traditional culture, and where my gushing about how much I love stuff is actually useful. Plus, it’ll make use of all three of my languages, not just one or two at a time. I hope this will work out for at least the next few years, if not forever. I also hope that if I live in the US in the future to be closer to family*, then I’ll have enough industry experience to work in hotels here or start a tour company targeted at Asian clients. (*Family is the primary reason I still consider long-term life in America, and it’s a big one, and worrying about them is the hardest part about living abroad. Excessive humidity in a lot of Asia is another reason I might choose to live in the Western US.)But like, now my hobbies are my job. While it won’t be the bulk of it, wearing kimono and performing tea ceremonies is no longer something that makes me cool and special and unexpectedly useful, it’s going to be what I need to be professionally competent in (eeeeeeep). This is the kind of stuff that obsessive teenage Buri would have swooned to know, but also totally expected. Career-Buri is a little more level-headed about it and also very grateful to have these opportunities. So anyway, advice!!—If you think you want to do anything in China or Japan, START STUDYING THE LANGUAGES NOW. Yes, I know they’re difficult. No, there’s no perfect program. Whatever you’re going to use, just do it consistently. Fluency is not actually required for a lot of jobs, but hot damn, some language skills will help. (For reference, I passed N1 of the JLPT before starting JET, and passed HSK5 while I was in grad school. I studied for HSK6 while I was in China and would have had a 50/50 chance of passing, but chose not to because it’s not actually that useful for the price I’d pay for it.)–To get a work visa in either country, 99 times out of a 100, you’re going to need a Bachelor’s degree. Your major is not usually as important as simple proof of graduation. Many places will care about your grades, though, so try to keep them up. –Teaching is still the easiest way to get there. There’s a wealth of programs to recruit you, but I suggest trying to steer clear of places that only provide a stipend instead of a salary, or small dispatch companies with questionable reputations. The JET Program is probably the best way to teach in Japan because of the level of support you get, but I’ve known people who had good experiences on the larger dispatch companies like Altia or Interac as well. For more direct hires, there are English tutoring companies (like English First (EF) or Coco Juku) where you might have students of all ages, as well as companies that focus on very small children (where you’ll basically be a glorified preschool teacher). On that note, many kindergartens and other for-profit education companies (like what I did in China) will hire directly, but your experience can vary widely. Finally, you can also look into international schools, but your teaching credentials will be much more important. Any background in teaching, or TESOL certification, will be a boon to your application (and at some places, your paycheck). –All of these places will want to see that you are a dependable, flexible person. Getting experience abroad, being able to speak frankly about challenges you’ve dealt with, and showing a willingness to go anywhere and do whatever is needed will look really good on your interviews. I say this a JET Program interviewer; the people who displayed the most patience and maturity were the people we felt best about giving a high score to. Those are the people we like to send out into the communities. –As we like to say in the JET Program, every situation is different (ESID for short). That applies to every teaching situation you might yourself in abroad.–You don’t have to be a teacher (after all, I only did JET because of the CIR position, I loved it!!). But you’re going to have to be really competent in whatever else it is you’re doing. Headhunters, such as at Pasona Global (which has branches in many Asian countries), are really, really good to work with, but they are most likely to hook you up with corporate jobs in big cities. If that’s what you want, awesome. (I wound up finding my hotel through a Japanese job searching site specifically for tourism related work. Other industry-specific fields may have their own job hunting sites, possibly in English, possibly not.) Language competency will be a lot more important if you take this route. –If at all possible, STUDY ABROAD!!! Many people will get the experience they want doing this instead of dealing with the frustrations of working and residing abroad. It’s a good way to see how much you love it and decide if the frustrations are worth it. Plus, it really helps your job applications. –Even if you can’t work abroad due to your personal situation, PLEASE TRY TO TRAVEL THERE!!!! When you’re interested in another culture or a foreign language, it means so, sooooo much to be there, even if it’s temporary. I don’t just say this as someone who has chosen tourism as my calling (though I am more than happy to give travel advice), I say this as a passionate nerd. I feel you. I get you. You need this. –Back to studies and stuff though, if you’re going to major in some form of area studies or foreign language, it is difficult to get jobs with that alone. Consider double-majoring in something that will play into that, or which will open other career options. Money is kind of important, especially if you’re going to have to pay for flights across the Pacific.

–That being said, study what you care about too. You know how oddly useful my elective class about Non-Western Theater has been!?!? And if something in anime catches your attention, for goodness sake, you’re on THE INTERNET. If you liked Jubei-chan, go study samurai, if you like Fruits Basket, go learn to make onigiri, if you like Mob Psycho 100, then go—well—um—go work out, being physically healthy is also important!!

Well, anyway, that’s long enough. Good luck to all you nerds out there!! KEN TANAKA LOVES YOU and all that good stuff!!

#wow this got long #tl:dr #I'm a nerd and that might help you too

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jewell-chan · 7 years

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Why I ship Kaitouma/Oumota

I decided to copy/paste a few of my more popular and personal amino blogs here. Starting with this one, please keep in mind I wrote this before NISA’s translation so it may have some lines in the Japanese that were removed in NISA’s version such as instead of Kaito calling Ouma pure, he calls him naive. Spoilers under the cut:

Source: https://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=61976368

Hiyo once again, it’s no surprise that I absolutely adore the ship Kaitouma/Oumota. I constantly praise it on my blogs, state that I love Kaito and Ouma as characters individually and I often refer to it as the best and cutest ship.

I noticed that confuses a lot of people, particularly people who haven’t seen proper translations or mostly Momoharu and Oumasai shippers. Or just those people that hate Kaito or Ouma as characters to the point of refusing to ship them with anybody. And that’s perfectly fine, although people should keep in mind that there are good ships out there, even for characters I dislike.

The ship in general is incredibly misunderstood or dumbed down because the two characters strongly hate each other, even to the end and if you didn’t already know, it’s a killer/victim ship which I’ll get to. I saw twitter and instagram in particular don’t like it, even a recent confession claiming it was a toxic ship in the comments.

So with my constant ship posts recently and that recent confession getting a lot of flak, I guess it’s time to explore exactly why I love this ship so much. A little note: This is NOT a post to convince you to like the ship. There are dislikable aspects to this pairing such as just disliking rivalry pairings as a whole and Ouma needing someone who can figure him out step by step which Kaito refuses to do. It’s a post on why I personally ship it and not a persuasive post. You are perfectly fine with having your own opinion.

If you couldn’t already tell, a major spoiler warning for the game, all the way up to Chapter 5 which is each Danganronpa game’s climax. Also, some adult themes and coarse language may come up so be wary of that too if you’re sensitive. Now it’s time to get into C O M P L E X territory and get started. This is why i ship Kaitouma/Oumota… And yes, I don’t know where to begin.

Overall dynamic

Kaito and Ouma are rivals, dare I say the main rivalry in the whole game. A misinterpretation is that Ouma and Saihara are rivals which is clearly not a case and an attempt to compare Oumasai with Komahina again. Ouma doesn’t even antagonize Saihara outside out of the scrum debates and even obeys him judging from how Saihara scolding Ouma at the end of Chapter 4 got him to calm down.

Oumasai rant aside since I’ve done not one, two, but three posts on that, Kaito and Ouma heavily dislike each other to say the least. Ouma’s always screwing around with Kaito specifically to rile him up and very well succeeds in doing so. It’s kind of like an annoying little shit of a brother and a short tempered older brother. I guess you could consider Saihara the one normal middle child and Maki the stuck up sister that spends time in her room 24/7.

I personally love the dynamic between Kaito and Ouma. Even with Ouma screwing around with Kaito, what he says isn’t necessarily false. Kaito’s ideals really are simple-minded and telling the truth is harsh which Kaito needs to accept but he refuses to do so. Due to this, they’re constantly bickering throughout the trials and possibly even have the most interactions in the game. Even in the demo, Weeby News picked up on their interactions.

Interactions

I briefed over their dynamic since there’s a lot more to explore with said dynamic. One of those things are the specific interactions between the two during the killing game. And while I won’t go all over all of them, we’d be here all day, there are a few example ones I could mention which summarises how they interact throughout the whole game.

Back in Chapter 1, Kaito goes on his usual rant on how he’ll reach space and live there but Ouma jokingly says “Isn’t that how you’ll die?” which references Kaito dying in space in Chapter 5. Ouma obviously didn’t know Kaito was actually going to die in space but it’s a funny bit of foreshadowing. More Chapter 5 foreshadowing in Chapter 1 is Ouma’s reflection after Kaede’s execution has Monokuma compliment Ouma and predict he’ll last long in the killing game. Kaito then reflects himself and Monokuma treats him like an idiot, predicting Kaito will die quickly. This is incredibly ironic when Kaito ends up killing Ouma.

They have quite a few key interactions in Chapter 4 as well. Not once, but twice does Ouma twist Kaito’s speeches into making him say a sentence that resembles saying he likes Ouma in some way which gets Kaito worked up easily. When Saihara runs into Ouma, he says that Kaito ran into him and started lecturing him.

One of my favorite moments was during the trial, the two are constantly going back in forth like animals which results in a funny cross back argument where Kaito calls Maki Harumaki and Ouma responds in calling Saihara shumai, a joke on how Harumaki is a type of food in Japan in which Kaito responds in “Who the fuck is Shumai?”

During Chapter 3, when the revival book was handed out, Kaito was afraid of the idea of ghosts being around them, in which Ouma took advantage of and occasionally but quickly teased him over which got big reactions out of him. He plays with his dislike of the occult several times throughout the game and in other chapters too.

Their interactions go throughout the entire game like this, and when their rivalry is taken to a more serious level, there’s a lot more depth behind it than one may think.

How similar they really are

Despite their constant bickering and different methods of going about it, the two of them really are quite similar in both their ideals and their morals. The same could be said for Maki.

Kaito and Ouma both have a strong bias against killing, and think of the best way to avoid it. The difference is that Ouma prioritises his own life above most things which results in him being a coward and Kaito is self sacrificial and selfless.

In Chapter 2, Kaito suggests to Saihara that they should have shared the motive videos and he was thinking about doing so for awhile, in which Saihara points out that’s exactly what Ouma wanted to do but failed. Kaito is surprised but then says the two of them can’t talk to Ouma about it because he’ll likely brush it off with his supreme ruler talk again.

In the same chapter, when Kirumi claims Ryoma let her kill him, both Kaito and Ouma can see through her lie and while admit she’s noble, she’s still heavily at fault for her actions. They also called her out on trying to emotionally manipulate the cast into letting everyone die for her, which they also called out.

Their views on Kaede’s actions are also very similar, with the main difference is how much Kaito looked up to Kaede and saw her as a leader and Ouma, who thought Kaede was too naive and saw through her ideals to be a leader. At the end of Chapter 1, Ouma did admit he sympathized with Kaede but also said she was in the wrong for participating in the killing game in the first place, her ultimate cause of death. When Saihara is thinking about how he could have saved Kaede, Kaito reassures that’s not true and it was Kaede’s choice to participate in the killing game.

This shows an example that their ideas and ideologies are rather similar and their endgame goals are almost identical. However, they both do and don’t realize it which results in their actual approaches being different which also results in more bickering. In a way, they loath and respect each other.

Why Kaito dislikes Ouma

At first, Kaito hates Ouma for fairly obvious reasons. He’s a little shit who screams about enjoying the group’s suffering. For the first few chapters, he can tell he’s not serious or just doesn’t know any better but it’s obnoxious nonetheless. Especially for someone as short tempered as Kaito.

However, as the game goes on, it becomes the same reason Maki hates Ouma: Relatability. Kaito doesn’t act like Maki in which she uses her and Ouma’s similarities to project her self loathing onto him but he does show in Chapter 4 he has a huge bias against Ouma to the point of risking his and Saihara’s friendship over Saihara listening to Ouma.

By the time Kaito punched Ouma(since Ouma was claiming to enjoy the group’s suffering to an almost psychotic level) the two were constantly antagonising each other, and Kaito seemed to demonize almost everything Ouma did. He wants to go find the remembering light? Clearly, that’s awful(technically, it was but he didn’t know the story behind that.) Ouma says Gonta is the killer and all evidence adds up? Clearly, he’s lying.

Well, that last part was Kaito’s bias against Ouma and his jealousy of Saihara, but you understand the point. It’s like if Kaito doesn’t want to relate to someone like Ouma, or if he demonizes him to avoid relatability. And who can blame him?

Why Ouma dislikes Kaito

Ouma has an interesting reason to dislike Kaito like he does. He constantly criticizes how simple minded his way of thinking is and practically throws a temper tantrum against him in Chapter 4. Granted, Kaito was antagonising him but so was Tsumugi, whom Ouma paid no attention to.

However, the reason of this isn’t pure hatred but pure envy. Kaito, even with his stupidity compared to Ouma’s intelligence, is the person that Ouma strives to be. That is exactly why they’re so similar. Ouma wants to be selfless, Ouma wants to be a group leader, Ouma wants to socialize and connect with others.

However, Ouma is merely a coward. His trust issues causing him to shut away prevents him from being the figure he wants to be, and like Saihara tells him, it results in him being forever alone. As a result, Ouma watches Kaito accomplishing everything he wants, but fails too, and how confident he is about it despite how he’s not even the sharpest tool in the shed. It creates envy, which also makes them even more similar in a way.

Kaito feels jealousy for Saihara while Ouma feels jealousy for Kaito. It’s in different ways, but the two do feel envy and jealousy towards people that they want to be. Couple that with all of their other similarities and it’s what sets up this rivalry so well.

Ouma exposing Kaito in Chapter 4

At the end of Chapter 4, Kaito is understandably pissed at Ouma, but he temporarily ignores his behaviour in the trial. Ouma exposes Kaito harshly, but effectively. He punches him in the gut and teases him about it with a sadistic grin on his face until Saihara finally confronts Ouma who leaves.

When Maki and Kiibo come to help Kaito, it turns out the punch made him cough up blood, exposing the disease he’s been hiding the entire time from everyone. His lie he hid was fully exposed to the people who Kaito trusted the most, and he was left unable to explain things properly and similar to Ouma, ran off by himself. Maki following after him.

This moment is what caused Kaito to regret his behaviour in Chapter 4, with his attitude in Chapter 5 and giving Saihara the silent treatment being part of his reflection. When Ouma returns after a few days, Kaito chose to convince the group to trust his idea to try the death road again despite everything between the two.

When Kaito tries to fight Ouma despite how he practically had control of the whole area at the time, Ouma comments on how Kaito never seems to learn his lesson before knocking him unconscious with the exisal. When Saihara approaches Kaito in his “cell” he apologises to Saihara on his treatment of him, and admits it was all out of jealousy towards Saihara.

Kaito and Ouma’s plan in Chapter 5

There’s no way I can talk about this ship without referring to this. This was the exact time that Kaito and Ouma reconciled and set aside their rivalry to reach the ultimate goal that both of them wanted, and even fail with their initial plan, only succeeding afterwards through coincidence and the suicide notes.

Kaito obviously wants out of the chamber, so he asks Yumeno to retrieve a crossbow for him to try and restrain Ouma, in which she does. Ouma does come in the “cell” again, presumably to feed him, and Kaito confronts him with the crossbow. Judging from the CI and Kaito’s traits in general, it seems he used the crossbow to try and scare Ouma and make him back down, but when that failed, he decided to shoot Ouma in a non-vital area as a warning shot, his arm.

Ouma still resists and makes a break for the exisal remote which causes Kaito to go after him, and the two get into a tackle fight. Their fight is interrupted by Maki, who shoots Ouma and injects him with the torture serum(it’s referred to as torture serum more times than it is poison, so I’ll be calling it that) when he tries to run for the exisal remote once more.

After failed interrogation, Maki tries to kill Ouma in which Kaito jumps in the way and gets shot and injected to save the two of them. Maki freaks out and tries to get the antidote, and Kaito and Ouma are left alone for a bit while injected. Ouma used Kaito’s shoulder to get to his feet and close the exisal hanger, so Maki can’t get inside.

The usual happens where Ouma pretends to drink the antidote so Maki can fuck off, and then actually feeds it to Kaito. Something to note is that Ouma could have let Kaito and Maki die for his plan, but refused to. Despite how Maki and Kaito treated him, he still viewed them as friends, even if it was one-sided. He says such after Maki chokes him, heavily implied that he’s not lying.

As a result, he chose to let himself die instead of the two of them, even though Kaito was dying anyway and both Maki and Ouma don’t have the best relationship. Although, he does imply in this and the flashbacks that he’s willing to forgive Maki for everything since he’s grown to understand both her and how similar the two of them are.

When Kaito asks why someone like Ouma would save him like that, Ouma doesn’t seem to give a proper answer since Kaito doesn’t explain why other than his plan. Now onto the plan: With Maki screwing up his plan, he went for his backup plan. To create an unsolvable murder and have Monokuma break a rule, making the killing game a lie and the audience watching abandon the killing game.

Of course, Ouma doesn’t know what type of audience he’s up against, nor the truth about Amami and Kaede, but it’s a solid plan nonetheless. So solid that Kaito seems to really like it, which I’ll get to. When Kaito refuses to commit murder, Ouma reminds him that Maki had shot him and the serum was killing him as they speak, in which you get another “Ha ha ha I’m so evil” moment from Ouma before his laugh is interrupted by heavy coughing and asking Kaito to get this over with. Kek.

Of course, there’s Ouma’s infamous breakdown. When Kaito asks Ouma why he’d want to end a killing game when he enjoys it, Ouma starts stuttering and claims he was lying with his despair sprite. He then breaks into more tears and stuttering(presumably from both tears and the serum)about how he hates the killing game and all the suffering it brings. Kaito is understandably surprised by this reaction.

When Kaito is exposed in the trial, he doesn’t give any further flashbacks of that between then and Ouma’s death meaning you can headcanon anything you want happened between them during then… I headcanon Kaito pet his head or hugged him out of pity.

In the trial, Kaito starts to go on for a while for how much he liked Ouma’s plan and commented on how interesting it is. Kiibo even comments on this, saying it’s like if he and Ouma were close in a way in which Kaito responds to Kiibo saying he hates Ouma.

Despite everything, Kaito still told the group about Ouma’s breakdown, and then suggested he was lying to get sympathy from him. However, Kiibo said it would be more shocking if he was lying since he was on his deathbed, in which Yumeno denied and Saihara was unsure. Then they moved on.

Even if Kaito couldn’t figure out Ouma entirely, if he really was a paranoid kid with trust issues or just someone to who wanted to beat the mastermind at his own game not caring for anything else, he was leaning towards the former, which is why he told the group in the first place about Ouma’s breakdown. The two may have not come to like each other, but they did come to understand and respect each other enough to reconcile and meet the one goal the two of them both wanted from the moment the killing game begun.

Subtlety

Despite Kaito hating Ouma so much, there’s a lot of subtlety that shows he does care for him to some extent and that Ouma also cares about Kaito in ways, linking to the killing bias they both show.

In the bonus event between them, Ouma says that he feels Kaito and he will meet again in which Kaito says he dreads it, and when Ouma implies Kaito may care about him, Kaito is quick to deny it.

In the main game, Kaito saves Ouma from being killed by Maki several times. From choking him both times, to shooting him. He doesn’t want anyone to be killed. He also says in Chapter 3 that just because Ouma’s a little shit doesn’t mean he deserves to die, connecting to Chapter 4’s trial where Kaito says he refuses to let someone like Ouma make it out of the killing game alive.

Even in Chapter 5, despite Kaito being so sure Ouma was the mastermind, he refused to actually let him get killed. He didn’t do the deed himself until the obvious happened, and he still saved Maki and Ouma despite the belief of the students that the killing game ends once the mastermind dies. Ouma’s words to Maki could have made Kaito figure things out, but he seems pretty surprised in the flashback when Ouma says he wasn’t the mastermind.

And with that previous mention of Ouma saying Kaito was lecturing him in the halls before his FTEs also show that Kaito did want to try and convince Ouma to change his ways, showing that he does see humanity in Ouma and doesn’t 100% fall for his act.

A huge example of Kaito and Ouma having a subtle care for one another is Chapter 3. Kaito ends up calling Ouma pure, much to Ouma’s shock which puts him in a monotone state. If you look closely at said screenshot, the face Ouma has is a subtle smile. He then says that’s the first time someone has said that to a liar like him.

In Chapter 4, when Kaito punches Ouma, his fail turns down completely, showing Ouma in full despair. This is what links back to that scene in Chapter 3, someone who called him something like that punched him out of anger of his behaviour. While Kaito was 100% justified for punching him, Ouma did feel the impact of his behaviour due to this. Something he needed at this point.

Also, Kaito is a massive tsundere in some aspects. He starts going on about how great Ouma’s plan was in Chapter 5 and when Kiibo points out how much he liked it, Kaito reassures he hates Ouma before talking about the plan some more. When he tells the group about Ouma’s breakdown, he’s says it’s probably a lie to get sympathy, but if that were the case, why tell them in the first place?

The fanartists and fandom

A bit of a stretch, but the fandom for this pairing is amazing. It’s no secret that I’m an analyzer, and I don’t care for how much fanservice the game gives me(by fanservice, I don’t mean perverted fanservice, but genuinely things that pander towards the fanbase like cinnamon roll stuff and a female protagonist)like a lot of other people do.

A good majority of people who ship Oumota/Kaitouma also happen to be this case, and like to analyse the relationship between the two. This way, there’s no bias between them and they can regularly discuss things about the relationship the two share without getting personal. This results in massive praise of how Kodaka wrote the two of them.

The fandom is also small, so unlike Oumasai, Tenmiko or Saihamatsu, it doesn’t seem to bug any other sides of the fandom with their popularity and overemphasis from the fandom. I could say the same for Momoharu and Oumaki shippers, but not as much to an extent. I’ve seen a lot of bias for the former and the latter isn’t well liked.

Not only that, but the Japanese fanartists for this pairing are some of the best. Most Chapter 5 fanart is great anyway, but the Kaitouma artists really capture the pairing well, or just look great in general with distinct art styles. Personal favorites of mine are @_urcs and @zitsuhaudon on twitter.

Enemies to Friends to Lovers type of pairing

This is the exact definition of this pairing. This also relates into the fandom a little, since while the fanfictions on AO3 for this pairing are limited, they’re really well done and fit this theme perfectly.

I’ve always liked Enemies to Friends to Loves type of pairings, and I’m glad this ship managed to make quite a number of them on AO3. My favorite one in particular is the recent one of Kaito and Ouma in the afterlife, the name slipped my mind but it should be easy to find through the tag.

Overall

The best and cutest ship, and my favorite relationship in the entire series. Kaito and Ouma’s rivalry is one of the most complex and well written parts of entirety of NDRV3, and I will forever stand by that for the above reasons. It’s severely underrated by the English fandom and I will forever love their dynamic.

This could have been longer, but recently, both Comun and Shiro.Tru(who is a recent member, but I highly recommend her V3 blogs since they are amazingly written so far)did amazing overviews of Kaito and Ouma’s rivalry which I’ll link here. Both I highly recommend giving a read to:

http://kaibutsushidousha.tumblr.com/post/164506869694/what-compels-you-about-ouma-and-momotas

http://aminoapps.com/page/danganronpa/4630123/my-favorite-relationship-in-danganronpa-v3-spoilers

They’re both similar and different in many ways, have amusing interactions, a lot of depth between both their relationship and as individual characters and their relationship develops throughout the whole game until they decide to reconcile to meet their one true goal. It’s a perfectly written dynamic and I will forever give Kodaka praise for it.

Once again, this is not to force you to like this ship. Hell, this might just get you to appreciate the relationship itself but dislike the pairing. This is just my two cents on why I love this ship so much, and I don’t like how snubbed this ship gets in the west because of it being a killer/victim pairing or the two hating each other. Thankfully, I think this ship has gotten some appreciation on amino recently which makes me happy.

What else can I say? I love this relationship, I love Ouma, I love Kaito and I love blogging. I hope you enjoyed, and if you like this ship, I hope I managed to briefly do it justice for you.

#danganronpa #danganronpa v3 #kaito momota #ouma kokichi #kokichi ouma #momota kaito #kaitouma #oumota #ndrv3 #ndrv3 spoilers

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bluebuzzmusic · 6 years

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Great British Bake Off’s Mary Barry plays drums with Rick Astley: Watch https://ift.tt/2LunD4q

Mary Barry is best known as the utterly delightful judge on the Great British Bake Off, but her skills extend far beyond the kitchen. Case in point: did you know Barry can play drums? Attendees of this weekend’s Camp Bestival witnessed Barry’s talents first hand when she made a special guest appearance during Rick Astley’s set. As you can see via fan footage posted below, Barry joined Astley on drums for a performance of “Beautiful Life” from Astley’s new album of the same name.

Eat your heart out, Paul Hollywood.

My mum has just recorded a video of Mary Berry drumming for Rick Astley live.

What a timeline we live in. pic.twitter.com/44VjgIjbHb

— Weeby

(@WeebyMcWeebface) July 27, 2018

In one of the odder moments of @CampBestival headliner Rick Astley just brought out Mary Berry playing drums … this was them in rehearsal

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— Rob da Bank (@RobdaBank) July 27, 2018

Looking forward to playing @CampBestival tonight… Look who I just bumped into! The wonderful Mary Berry! For those of you at #CampBestival, I'll see you on the #CastleStage tonight at 10pm! – Rick x pic.twitter.com/hfu1toEVyM

— Rick Astley (@rickastley) July 27, 2018

July 28, 2018 at 03:33PM

#Music #songs #party

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noctlalune · 7 years

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Blueee

blue: what do you do when you’re sad? what are some things you do when you can’t sleep? what was the best (non-romantic) night you’ve had? what kind of covers do you have on your bed? who is the last person you told a secret to?

I’m sad like all the time so idk I just live life best as I can? Playing overwatch helps and listen to some musicals.

Usually watch something or quietly sing in bed (ew). Or study lmao. Sometimes I sit on the kitchen floor and ponder in the dark for a while.

Probably Halloween last year at Slices’ house? We were outside in the dark for hours and it was full of weeby memes and fake smoking weed with their brother (I’m sorry) and we did the toilet paper mummy game which almost ended up in setting their house on fire. Also cuddled my wife with a big warm blanket which was awesome ( ◠‿◠ )🌸. I was genuinely happy that night.

They’re white with like pastel blue and pink butterflies on them

Idk it’s been agEs.I usually talk about Radom stuff with my friend Bucky bc yeah they’re easy to blether to about random shite but apart from that :/ I don’t think anybody is interested in what I have to share dear anon. Besides, it defeats the point of them being secrets. Although I maybe have a few up my sleeve currently ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Merci beaucoup, anon!!!

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y0uc4n7kn0w · 5 years

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Life is hard for an Otaku: Back to School

Alright, this one goes out to all you kids that are muddling through school as a weeb. Or for those of you that want to remise about the cringy times, here it is. Being a weeb use to be the most terrifying thing at school, mostly because it’s not the norm. I didn’t have an older sibling growing up to warn me… that what I was wearing could be how my classmates would remember me for the rest of my…

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#anime #anime club #back to school #bento #blog #club #college #friend groups #highschool #life is hard for an otaku #live your best weeby life #nerds #otaku culture #school #studying #weebs

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unwriter-sc · 6 years

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So I was doing some writing.

Pre-warning, there might be some triggers concerning parental abuse in this one.

London was raised by her uncle, Maxwell Skye, instead of her parents for the majority of her life. There was a list of reasons that she had come up with in her head, but until she received the answer from her uncle, she was not going to settle on a reason.

Of course, it would be remiss of her to not describe her wonderful uncle. He was a man of many talents but could easily be explained in a few words: religious stalker. London was sure that it wasn't his fault, the man had grown up during The Troubles, which was enough to screw with the average person's psyche. Though what Maxwell did, aside from casually break his niece's privacy and check up on her every five minutes, was preaching at a church. He was known for being a tough, no-nonsense sort of guy.

As London stepped through the threshold of her uncle's house, she had found him in the middle of preparing a speech in his notebook, which was a dirty beat up leather journal that honestly looked like a crazy person's manifesto, then the book of a respected person. The only acknowledgement of her presence that her uncle gave her was tilting his head upwards and stopping his writing. London closed the door behind her and gripped the strap of her backpack with tense knuckles, it wouldn't be the first time she was going to have to forego dinner to avoid his wrath (especially if he was in a bad mood).

"I'm back from Victoria's place," London said, knowing that he would probably interrupt her if she spoke for much longer.

"I can tell." He said, "And you are ten minutes early." He added without even looking at his watch or a phone. "Could you please tell me what you were doing at Victoria's house?" He asked with a tone that was more suited towards a command. However, he was using manners, so he was in a good mood.

London walked up to get in front of her uncle, as he wanted her to do when talking to him. "I was doing much of nothing, just hanging out with friends, we watched a show on her laptop, and that was it." She answered, only telling a half-truth. However, there was no knowing how sour his mood would be at hearing about the agreement that was reached between the two girls.

Maxwell studies his niece's face, schooled into a neutral expression, looking for any sign of deception, "You're not telling the full truth." He says. "We both know that is a sin."

"We also talked a while, about life in general," London said, still omitting the truth. "The standard things that you do with your friends." though it was closer to the truth than her previous statement.

If Maxwell thought that she was lying, he certainly didn't say anything, though there was his look of slight doubt. He dismissed her with a wave, and it seemed that he was satisfied.

After a somewhat tense dinner with her cousins and he uncle. During which, he wouldn't stop staring at her. The only good part of the meal was her cousin, Jessica, who is a goddess of cooking.

About half an hour after dinner, London was in her room, the first thing she did was check for her diary, which was still in its hiding spot, thankfully her uncle had fallen for one of the dummy diaries that she had lying around. She could always tell because he wasn't the most subtle person.

The second thing she did was lock her door and put a chair underneath it just to be safe. She then put down her bag on her desk and emptied out her bag to keep a small supply of food in her room if she didn't get dinner on a later date.

The food was stored in a smaller ripped bag that she used to use before the straps broke off, while Maxwell believed that she had got rid of it, London was making sure of her eating at a later date.

London wondered exactly what constituted abuse, she knew that her uncle didn't hit her, but she was sure that the invading the privacy and the occasional denying of food wasn't exactly the things that caring guardians did. Sighing, London instinctively went for her laptop, but then remembered that her uncle took it away from her for a while as punishment for her looking up 'sinful subjects'.

London then reached into her pockets and pulled out her phone, typing into the search bar 'how to tell if you are being abused by your parents' with lightning quick speed.

Opening up the first result that was not an add brought her attention to an article about it, listing various signs that the parent is abusive. One stuck out quite well "The Parent Isolates The Child" she mumbled to herself as she read it.

Well considering the fact that she's had her laptop taken away from her for looking up stuff that might be considered unacceptable and the fact that he requires status updates as to where she is, she guesses she could consider it as abuse, in a way.

That actually made her pause, she wondered if she was just exaggerating, while her uncle wasn't the best for her, he was still trying to raise her, and she supposed that he still thought of her as a little girl who needed to be protected from the world's evils.

"It could be worse" she murmured to herself as she exited off the website on her phone, at least he didn't beat her. He at least trusted her enough to allow her a smartphone, even if he did periodically check up on her and he even allowed her to have a laptop, though Maxwell did take it away and monitored her internet usage.

London sat down on her bed as she thought about it, her uncle was kind enough to put a roof over her head and give her technology, but on the other hand, he monitored her and what she read in an attempt to shelter her. Could she really call it abuse when he had her best intentions at heart? Was it even abuse, London could just be misreading the entire situation.

There was a knock at her door, which was enough to prompt London to remove the chair, she knew that Maxwell wasn't the type to knock, which narrowed down the list of potential suspects to be Jessica. Opening the door confirmed her guess, revealing the rather mild-mannered form of her cousin, who still had her blonde hair in a ponytail.

"Hey, cos, do you mind if I come in?" She asked, London was always taken aback when someone asked before doing something, she was expected to do that, but her uncle was not the type who did that.

"Of course, make yourself at home," London responded, internally wincing at her words, of course, she would make herself at home, she lived here. Jessica sat down gracefully on the chair that was moved off to the side, which left London to sit down on the bed.

"Is there something wrong?" Jessica asked, clearly not wanting to mince words. She looked at London intensely, and London wasn't sure if her cousin was on her side or not.

"Nothing's wrong." London responded, trying to dismiss it. Though when she saw Jessica's face harden and her lips form into a frown, London knew that she had said the wrong thing.

Jessica made a non-committal hum "An absence of things being wrong doesn't make the atmosphere at home that tense." She said, "There is something wrong."

London racked her mind to think of something that she could say, something that she could use to deflect the issue away from the single question that was gnawing at her, well the several burning questions, but it was close enough. "I was wondering why exactly uncle feels the need to monitor our internet usage, I mean it's not like reading about something will make me do it."

Jessica looked mildly concerned at that "I know what you mean, he is a bit ..." she paused, looking for the right word, "overly protective. Though I can see why he does that, I mean there are a lot of odd things on the internet. Neopagans are one example I can think of." She added. "Another would be those weird weeby types." she muttered something under her breath.

"Though I think that he can sometimes be a little bit too protective." London responded, "I was researching some things about the LGBT community to reach out to them, but he took my laptop away because it was sinful." Admittedly, that was a bald-faced lie, she was researching it because she was trying to figure out what she was exactly, but her cousin would only have to know that after a while. London needed to take care of one more thing, "One thing, could you not tell uncle about this? Please?"

Jessica looked somewhat confused at that "What'd you mean?"

"Well, after I told you that Matthew was gay I wasn't allowed to talk to him." London explained, Matthew was one of Vitoria's friends and made for fascinating conversation, but since he was gay, London wasn't allowed to interact with him.

"I didn't tell uncle about that." Jessica said, her voice slow as she processed the implications "Did father eavesdrop on us?"

"He may very well have." London responded. She mentally added another thing to her worryingly long list of 'things that she needs to consider about Maxwell.'

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RULES: Repost and answer the questions, then tag at least 3 of your followers :)

I was tagged by: @the-damnedest-creature !! thank you!! //;;w;//

I’m not gonna tag that many peeps because I’m not solely a J-rock blog and not many people that follow me are solely J-rock blogs either I think hehe but um mebbe @romanesque-moon and @severemagazinementality idk ignore this if you don’t want to do it of course but we’re mutuals so yeh !! ;u; go for it if you feel like it, sorry for taggin out of the blue ///v// I have hardly any J-rock fan followers to be honest I think /;; ;))/

anywaaaaaays ヽ・ω・*/ﾉ

1. When and how did you get into j-rock?

jokesss it was animu as usual ahahahaa I was already listening to J-pop at the time like Arashi and Yuki Kajiura I also liked Perfume by that point too, around.. 2012..? somewhere around there ;w; I was 13 years old.

I actually can't remember who my first J-rock band I ever heard was ;;u ; I listened to a lot of anime intros and found a couple of artists from there.... the first J-rock song I ever heard was probably SID's Monochrome no Kissu huhuhu but I didn't actually listen to SID after that..... ting is is that I was painfully weeby at the time, the typically cringey child that would more listen to ... random american pop songs that I found on amvs, and all the classics like cascada's everytime we touch and the 'numa numa song' ,,...... //////v/// and I listened to a LOT of Vocaloid, all of it, I was obcessed, it’s literally all I would listen to for a year or so ﾉω`*)ﾉ I also found a finnish rock band called Indica through an amv and even bought one of their albums ;u; my music taste was a crazy mix of stuff I'd just found on Youtube really... I loved The Midnight Beast (reppin from uk) and I still do, Lemon Demon too.... and I downloaded official soundtracks from anime like Pandora Hearts and D.Gray Man and listened to those as well. I was also a big fan of Yugioh the abridged series and would listen to yugioh song parodies LittleKuriboh made ;; u ;

Only a small part of my music library was J-rock and J-pop at the time... but I think the first band that caught my attention was Buck-Tick, after I watched the anime xxxHolic somewhere in 2012. Then after watching Shiki a little later I recognised the same voice and looked kuchizuke up and was jammin, and for some reason I watched an interview with Aachan before getting distracted by that one video that everyone has seen of T.M singing dress with him, and listening to ABS instead because I knew them from the theme song to D.Gray man ///u// it was only until summer 2013 until I really found out who Buck-Tick actually was, I listened to as many singles as I could find and I fell in love with them in less than 24 hours hehe ´｡• ᵕ •｡` I actually didn't like rock music at all before then, b-t were the group that introduced me to being a rock music fan even though I still didn't like heavier sounds, like Gazette that my friend was into. Sometime later that year I listened to L'arc en Ciel for the first time too, I think I read about them in a magazine or something.. I can't remember //w// ((I bought the 'stay away' single at may mcm in 2014, my first J-rock cd :3c)) I still listened to a lot of J-pop during 2013 and Arashi had begun to dominate my life, so I didn't really get properly into J-rock and visual kei until early 2014 when I started listening to ancafe, because I'd heard of them from cosplayers on deviantart who had them in their ID section under music interests, and then subsequently finding out they were touring in europe :3c I was more partial to oshare and lighter pop-punk things around that time.. early days was LM.C and Alice Nine and Royz after that....

Kind of a long and patchy story (wow it’s really long why did I write so much I’m so sorry it’s so boring) but there isn't necessarily an exact moment I started listening to J-rock... only in the last year or so have I let Vkei fully consume my life so... back then it was only a side interest for me among all the other things ˊ꒳ˋ from 2014 onwards I just found more and more bands as well as listening to a lot of johnny's and J-pop stuffs... >w> and the rest is historyyyy

2. List your current most favorite band(s).

bakuchikuuuuu forever and ever every moment of my waking life alwaysss till I dieeee //w/// and Dog in the PWO >:3 two very contrasting groups to say the leest but I have a wide breadth of faves hehe ;;w; I fell in love with Doggu super quickly and have been following them ever since, I've known them for a year now and they are 100% in my top 5 favourite bands ever ;u ; dems are my two main faves as it is right now but there are too many others to list that I have a lot of feelings for /;;w;//

Currently I also like listening to Hakujitsu no Yume... Pentagon are my children.... Piglow in Gloomy are really amazing also ;w;;

3. How many j-rock concerts have you been to? (If you haven’t been to any, which band would you like to see the most in the future?)

not many becos I am a baby and I have never travelled out of my home country to raibus ;;v; my first ever was Ancafe in 2014, when I was a weeby mess, and most recently Versailles in January 2017 :3c inbetween I’ve seen VAMPS (and alexandros) at a shared live @ ‘Japan Night’ which was a lil concert organised by HyperJapan, a convention here in uk ..can I count bands that I’ve seen at Hyper too..? ;;w; I’ll just count Vaniru because they were aight while Yuto and Leoniel lasted as a couple heheh >w>> and I also went to SuG’s raibu in 2015~

so that makes 6 i guess.. I am a bebe ;;

//come on Merry where u at with this europe tour??//

there are so so so many bands I wanna see live, and I would go to a couple more lives in London here and there but I always get attached to groups that are very Japan-based and that are very unlikely to make any overseas appearances ;v; and I don’t wanna spend a lot of monies on bands that I don’t know as well that occasionally visit //3///

4. Which j-rock band do you think is the most underrated?

Daizystripper o´ω｀o They used to be a more popular with western peeps but I think a lot of people stopped listening to them a while ago an might not even realise that they're still active and tings ;; v; their debut with Victor might make it a little difficult for international fans though eheh but I wish they still had the support they seemed to have~ so many good jams ; u ;

And everyone from Planet Child Music records needs more recognition and to be invited to more events ///u//

5. Which j-rock band do you think is the most overrated?

If I had to I'd say Vamps hhhhuu I thought that they were v good up until recently ;;w; I dunno I feel like the couple of newer songs have lost their power and originality... and no matter what I'll always think L'arc are infinitely better but some people think not //vv/// Vamps are always over here and in other countries too, whereas L'arc I feel are neglected a lot with world tours and overseas promotion and stuff when they deserve more love than vamps ;3; I mean.. 25 years going strong //u/ why dis Hyde come back to uk without vamps this time hhhh

6. Who is your ultimate bias in j-rock? Optionally: Post your most favorite picture(s) of them.

ahhhhh .. Aachan got me from the start ;; ﾉﾉ*ФωФ ;;ﾉﾉﾉﾉ

7. What is your most treasured j-rock related memory?

Um.. not that much has happened to me personally that I can really mention hehe >w>

Hizaki calling me cute at Hyper's meet & greet last year was probably the best thing that's acc happened to me ;;;;w;;;;;; It was the end of the day and I looked like a wreck, Hizaki saw me as I came up for cheki and said 'kawaii~' ////w// best memory heckk I mean Hizaki---- being called cute by Hizaki ;;;;;u; why dis I do not deserve (and obvs taking cheki with him was part of that good memory too >w>)

An Cafe was my first live, and I'll always remember that my one of my favourite singles is 'My heart leaps for 'C'' and when they played it after the encore I went insane hehe ;;; u ; that was a treasured moment for me because it was kind of surreal like 'oh wow a band that I love is playing one of my favourite songs is this real??' and ... since I was an hyperactive 15 year-old that moment just made me really excited ;v; I was singing along (horribly) to every lyric and bouncing up and down like crazy and I would not let that feeling go for a while //w/ ah to be young again ~~

But SuG is probably the best raibu memory ever ever. they played a very very small venue in London and it was literally the most intimate thing imaginable, you could touch everyone and Takecchi almost hit his head a few times on the lights above him ;;u; and even though I was in like, three rows of people away from the front, Chiyu's hand grazed mine for a second and that was the most special moment ;;w; Shinpei leaned into the audience for a group hug and Yuji and Chiyu were high-fiving and ruffling people's hair ///;w;/ it was such a long farewell with everyone touching hands and patting heads and it felt so nice and close, I thought we were really lucky to get such an intimate show ⁄•⁄ω⁄•⁄

8. How do you support and enjoy j-rock the most? Buying CDs? Going to lives? Just full on going to Japan for it?

I buy Cd's if I can for bando that I really love and want to support, and at lives I buy at least one peice of merch every time too :3c and I'm trying to get into a habit of buying Cure if bands I like are featured >u> I accidentally end up following e v e r y o n e on twitter and just scroll thru liking posts if that counts as 'support' ? :'3

9. How does your family feel about this hobby of yours?

My parents don't really mind, I end up showing my mama photos and videos and she understands my hype at everyone I think hehe, and I play cd's often so my parents hear J-rock a lot but don't complain~ we all have our own music collections now it’s so cute 〃▽〃 I talk about J-rock a lot like, I just ramble on mostly to myself because I have no-one else to talk to in the house so ;;u; my parents don't really listen that closely but ye, they don't mind and they're glad I'm into something different I guess :'3c

10.What is the craziest j-rock fandom story that you have?

idk what j-rock 'fandom' story means exactly,,, like, you heard the story from the fandom or the story is about the actual fandom itself..? ;;w; well actually I guess this is both haha this is the only story that I have worth telling and I only heard it a couple weeks ago but ;//u.//

A friend of a friend has connections with Mejibray’s MiA, and he messages her and lots of other peeps I’d imagine as MiA prob does~ and on one occasion MiA was sent a cute little (I say little but) Intimate Image that the 1 and only Yohio took of his peen and decided to share it around so other people could enjoy it obvs >>>ww.>> and he sent it to said friend, nice one >;3ccc thank u for showing me too I feel very privileged, too many bants I was dying ahh ..//www//// why dis MiA why dis......... poor Yohio ;; v; u don’t need to send dick pics to impress your senpai, kids ;; /////; poor little child ;u;;

---yyyyeee I’m so boring das literally all I have apart from the most mediocre things like being jealous of people that get to go to meet&greets and have fun encounters and peeps that actually manage to catch picks at lives etc //u....///

Thank you for reading ♡

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