#the new song came out on the 17th and a post i made on the 15th is getting tagged as hozier presumably bc of the new song

[tethered-heartstrings]

I don't know much about Hozier myself and Eat your Young is p nice but I honestly think In The Woods Somewhere (my favorite) will be a lot more to your liking <: Even if only for the unsettling lowkey Hannibal vibes/imagery

ohhh noted! i do like unsettling and I do see hannibal in way waaaay too many songs. thank you!!

[1989stanz]

Karaoke at Xander's birthday

Sooo, this one been sitting in my drafts and I've been thinking if it's good enough for me to post. My immediate answer was “no”, but I kind of liked this one. A quick remainder: the year was 2009 and I just put songs that were trending at the time or were made before 2009. Hope you enjoy it!

Disclaimer: mentions of Nash Hawthorne, Jameson Hawthorne, Alexander Hawthorne, Grayson Hawthorne and minor cursing. The characters are not mine! They belong to Jennifer Lynn Barnes.

English is not my first language! Sorry if there's any mistakes.

Word count: 10K (it's acceptable, isn't it?)

December 17th, 13 years ago

It was December at Hawthorne House, which meant two things: Christmas and Xander birthday party. It was always the most busy month in the house—with employees walking around the mansion, carrying balloons, boards full of the most expensive foods, Christmas lights, and the decorations for the trees. Overall, it was the mess that came along with Alexander's birthday mixed with the mess that came with Christmas. Xander liked this time of the year, not just because it was his birthday and his favorite holiday in one month together. And definitely not because he used to make jokes that the employees looked like robots, focused on nothing else but doing what they were programmed to do. December was usually when Skye arrived, just to spend the holiday and go back by new year. She wasn't really present in her son's life, at least not in the way other mothers were, but she was there in December. She typically arrived on the 17th. In other words, in the day of Xander's birthday. That's why 5-year-old Xander was sitting in front of the library window. Three hours ago he got expelled from the kitchen because he would just sit there without any movement, waiting for Skye, and Nash found it depressing to see his youngest brother this way. Nash knew that it was very likely that she wouldn't show up, so he just expelled him from the kitchen, expecting that he would forget it. But Xander was a Hawthorne, wherefore he just found another window that led directly to the front door, where Skye was about to show up. At any second. But why was she taking so long? The house was already decorated for his anniversary, still, he chose to wait for his mother to start celebrating. Consequently, he waited. Waited. And waited. Waited a little more. And when he got tired of waiting, he just forced himself to wait even more. But there was no possibility she was about to show up. He looked up, glancing at the clock. 10:00 pm. He was looking at the window since 9:00 am, but he didn't catch a glimpse of Skye. “She's not going to show up” Xander thought, and hated himself for thinking it. Of course she was, she was his mother. That's what she's supposed to do. “She's not coming”, this time tears fell from his eyes to his cheeks, dropping and wetting the carpet. There was only one in the beginning, but quickly there were more than he could count. More than he could contain. So he just let them fall, without fighting. Skye had failed him—she should've been there. She should be wishing happy birthday to him, with a bright smile on her face. She should've had seen him blowing out the candles of his cake. Not only that, but she should kiss him in the forehead and ask, “What did you wish for, Xan?”. That's what she had always done, and he could practically hear himself answering his mother, “I cannot tell you! It will ruin my wish.” But his wishes were already ruined, because all he always wished was to Skye come back in his next birthday. He must have done something wrong in the last year—that would explain her absence. There is no way she missed her son's birthday on purpose. Crying, he held his head in his hands and just drowned in his misery, wondering what he did wrong to have such an absence mother when all his friends' mothers were all present—not only on their birthdays or in other special occasion. Suddenly, he heard footsteps behind him and fastly wiped his tears away, turning around to see who was coming. Jameson. “Hey, why are you crying? What happened?” At the age of seven years old, Jamie was already the biggest problem on the house, always mocking his brothers for anything. Sometimes, he made up scenarios just to mock them, like when he stole Grayson's clothes when he was taking a shower and mocked him for having a Disney princess towel. Yet, he knew when it was time to stop. Xander replied, “I'm not crying. My eyes are just sweating.” Jameson raised an eyebrow. “Eyes don't sweat.” 

“At least not yours” Xander said, except that his voice was shaky, his eyes tired, and some tears were dry in his face. Not to mention the headache that he had now. His brother sat down beside him, putting an arm around his youngest brother's neck. “So, why are your eyes sweating?” His tone was calm and gentle, also he didn't complain during the time that Xander took to reply. “She didn't come” he said weakly, his voice lower than a whisper. Jamie didn't have to ask who. She didn't show up for his birthday neither, but he pretended it didn't matter like he always did. “I know it hurts, but she won't be here for all your birthdays. She wasn't here for mine, but it's okay. You can still enjoy it. She'll be here soon.”

Sniffling, Xander acknowledged the elephant in the room, “Why she's rarely here?” Jameson arched his back, tense. He didn't know, and he didn't like to think about it—otherwise it would mean that she considered other things more important than her own children. “Maybe she's just busy. Why don't you spend some time with us?”  

Us as in Jameson, Nash, and Grayson. “I don't think I'm up to anything right now.” He stared at the ground, unable to even think straight. Jamie squeeze his shoulder, asking really quietly, “Not even karaoke?”

After a long time gathering himself, with Jameson telling him about that one time he put superglue on Nash's favorite cowboy hat, and he had to get a buzz cut after using it just to make Xander laugh through his misery, they knocked on their brothers' bedrooms. Nash and Grayson were both reluctant, but once they understood the whole situation, they just agreed profusely. Walking through the halls, they tried to not make too much noise to do not disturb the employees sleep. They had a really tiring day and needed rest. Once they arrived, Nash turned the lights on, revealing the karaoke equipment in the stage. Untouched. Brand new. Ready for the night. Jameson started to run to pick one of the microphones, but Nash grabbed him by the shoulder. “Hey, James, not today. It's Xander's birthday, he will choose the music. It's fair.” Jameson made a furious face at Nash. “Don't call me James. I hate it.” Nash tilted his head. “Then behave.” He looked at Xander, “It's your night, Xan. Choose whatever the hell you want to, and we'll sing it.” Xan. Skye started calling him this way because she wanted to have a different nickname for her son. It hurt to remember that. It almost hurt when he was called by Xan by his brothers, but somehow it didn't. “He's five. You're not supposed to say hell in front of him” Grayson complained, arms crossed over his chest.

“Don't worry, kid”, he side eyed Jamie, “someone taught him worse words than just hell.” It was true. Jameson one day selected all the cuss words in the dictionary, and ran up to Xander so they would found out what they meant. “So, what are we waiting for?” Xander asked, excited. “Let's see how noise we can make without getting kicked out of the house!”

Nash was the first one, and Xander meticulously considered the most unserious song for a cowboy like him to sing. Only one music popped on his head, and he put it in the karaoke machine with a devilish smile. “Nash,” he turned to his brother, “I think this one would fit you well.” Nash looked at the music author and raised an eyebrow at the name. “Taylor Swift? Who's her?” 

Xander was shocked, to say the least. “You never heard 'You belong with me'?” He asked, and Nash shook his head. Did he live under a cave? “Never heard about the woman, but I know this song.” Xander nodded. It wasn't as bad as it seemed. The intro started to play and Jameson already lost it when Nash did the phone signal with his hand. Grayson tried hard to not laugh, but he was cracking up in the bridge. Xander almost fell to the ground. He was dying of laughter. “Make him stop” Grayson said, taking spaces between the words. They all had to make spaces between the words because of how funny the scene was. Even Nash couldn't hold it anymore in the end of the song. “Give me an autograph, Nash. I'm your biggest fan!”, Xander yelled, and they all chuckled. “I love this song. I'll look up for the artist later.” Nash told Xander, and he was amused. “You'll love her work!” Nash smiled and glanced Grayson. “Definitely. But I guess someone's about to sing to us, isn't it, Gray?”

Gray had, technically speaking, a bass type of voice. In other words, his voice was so low it fit classic songs really well. In Xander's words, his voice fit Katy Perry perfectly. His older brother gave him a dangerous look when 'Hot n Cold' started to play. Jameson was pleased, to say the least. “Go, Grayson!” he shouted, his voice echoing through the walls of the room. They all got up to dance and make fun of Grayson. He, in the other hand, had an incredible voice, as expected. He'd spent hours and hours singing, trying to achieve the perfect tone and not missing one single note. If he did miss, he'd have to start over and over until it was carved on his mind. Nash was dancing some steps that seemed really bizarre, but exactly like how Xander thought a cowboy would dance in this situation. Jamie was rocking the non-dance-floor, and his youngest brother too. They all were laughing, for Gray's misery. When he was done, left the microphone and came to join his brothers. “Didn't know you are a fan of Katy. I could give you my vinyls!”, Xander said cheerfully. “You cannot”, Gray narrowed his eyes. Jamie passed by them, picking up the microphone. “Though I think that Gray would love your vinyls, Xan, It's my turn to show you how my voice is better than his”, he looked at Grayson, a challenge in his eyes. Xander altered his glance between them, excited. “So it's on?”, he didn't have to give other explanation. Gray analyzed the situation, pondering if he should agree or just kick his brother's ass for saying that he has a better voice. Slowly, he shook his head, “Bring the karaoke battle, little brother.”

The situation was: Grayson, with murder in his eyes, singing “Milkshake” with Jameson, who had a wide-eyed gaze. The tension was intense and Nash almost interrupted, but he didn't take it serious. It was impossible to take anything serious when his brothers were singing about milkshakes and yards. Grayson was shooting bullets at Jameson with his eyes, what made the scene even funnier. And Jamie answered each look with a Jameson Winchester Hawthorne type of smile—long, Machiavellian, twisted, and playful. Like he was not worried about the competition because he would win eventually. Gray just had a blank face, beside his eyes.

Once it ended, they looked at Xander. “So who's the winner?”, they asked at the same time. It was determined that he would decide who was the winner. Only if he thought there was one. Spinning and picking up the mic from Gray's hand, he calmly replied, “Myself.” 

“Yourself?” Jamie laughed. “You didn't even sing.” Choosing the music, he said “I'm about to,” He turned around, “but not only me.”

Tobias had bought four microphones and four mic stands for his grandsons, probably thinking that they were going to sing together at some point. The point never came naturally, but Xander saw the opportunity and took it. And the song of the night was “Just Dance.” Nash was sort of a country music fan, but when it came to Lady Gaga, he did not play. And Gray was having way too much fun for someone who claimed that “classic music is better than pop.” Dancing and singing, they didn't even bother to be in rhythm. But it was still beautiful, because it was real, natural, and imperfect. In fact, it was so perfectly imperfect. This moment—the happiness they felt and shared—would be remembered. At least, Xander will always remember how his brothers saved his birthday. He always “saved” them with his humor and genuine joy, but sometimes he needed to have moments like this in order to don't feel drained. Certainly, his brothers were more than happy to give these moments to him. Surely the whole house was awake because of the noise, but it wasn't a problem to them. Fortunately, nobody came to interrupt, leaving them to taste the magnificent and wonderful moment

[behind-the-screen-of-bangtan]

HOPE ON THE STREET VOL.1

Release date: 29 March 2024

Official page

Video teaser

Photo teaser

Announcement

Pre-order notice

Promotion schedule

HOPE ON THE STREET VOL. 1 on delivery

Preview Cut

Album Preview: PRELUDE, INTERLUDE

Highlight Medley

Dance videos: HIP-POP, POPPING, HOUSE

Official Youtube playlist

Official merch

The name is a reference to Hope On The Street, a series of videos where j-hope filmed himself dancing and talking about dance.

Here's the list:

Twitter (another one with Jaesang)

Youtube:

Hope on the street @150920

Hope on the street @151008 - 1

Hope on the street @151008 - 2

Vlive (now on Weverse):

160126 BTS Hope On The Street Live

160126 BTS Hope On The Street Live 2

160413 BTS Hope On The Street Live

The teasers for this project were released on j-hope's birthday, on February 18th. Concerning the picture, it's a photomontage notably using this stock picture taken in Itaewon and showing the Namsan tower. A plane has also been added as a nod to "Airplane" a song from j-hope's first mixtape Hope World.

Some text is also visible on the card box picture on the official page, a table of contents:

(Prologue) The beginning Chapter 1 Origin Chapter 2 Soul Chapter 3 Playground Chapter 4 Motivation Chapter 5 Art Just raw and real (Epilogue)

and a citation:

nobody came went up on stage just danced. moment was incredibly exhilarating and unforgettable. It was a great feeling to have all eyes and lights on me. And all reactions and cheers made my heart race. That moment led to where I am now

There are two versions of the album : Prelude and Interlude.

Tracklist

1. on the street (solo version)

Lyrics

See this post for the version featuring J. Cole

2. i wonder... (with Jung Kook of BTS)

Lyrics

3. lock / unlock (with benny blanco, Nile Rodgers)

Lyrics

4. i don't know (with HUH YUNJIN of LE SSERAFIM)

Lyrics

5. what if... (dance mix with JINBO the SuperFreak)

Lyrics

6. NEURON (with Gaeko, yoonmirae)

Lyrics

NEURON (with Gaeko, yoonmirae)

Official Motion Picture teaser

Official Motion Picture

Docuseries

Release date: 28 March 2024

Teaser Poster

Announcement

Teaser trailer

Main Poster

Main Trailer

Preview: #1, #2

Collage Poster

Behind-the-scenes pictures: Billboard, Hypebeast

The docuseries follows j-hope around the world as he meets various dancers and shares moves with them.

Army Film Club pointed out that the camera they chose allowed dynamic movement, adapted for filming dance sequences.

In the teaser trailer, we see these locations:

- Seoul:

Common ground (website) (0:15)

- Osaka - Paris:

Rue Marietta Alboni (0:42, 0:57)

Pont Alexandre III (0:44, 0:58)

Place de Varsovie (0:56)

45 Rue Claude Bernard (Main Trailer 0:37)

9 Rue de la Corderie (Main Trailer 0:37, 1:23)

Café Philippe (Main Trailer 1:01)

Pont de Bir Hakeim (Main Trailer 0:39, 1:22)

- New York:

Crossroad between Union square and E 17th St (0:47, 0:58)

200 W 48th St (0:58)

- Gwangju:

5.18 democracy square (1:00)

Promotion, interviews, and performances

A pop-up shop was opened in Seoul, at a location hinted by QR codes. The shop appeared in Naver maps with more details.

A mural was painted in Bushwick, in New York, to promote the album. It's the same neighborhood where Jimin filmed "Closer Than This" (src #1, src #2).

Official album release parties have also been organized in the United States.

[thgfanfictionlibrary]

Authors On THG Writing Hiatus Masterlist (10)

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***Active (on this blog) is defined as a blog/writer who has updated within the past year. Inactive (on this blog) is defined as a blog/writer that has not been updated at all in the past year+. On THG Writing Hiatus (on this blog) is a blog/writer who has updated within the past year but has not posted a fanfic in the fandom in the past year BUT they may return to writing in the future. Lists will be updated as needed based on activity. ***

Created: November 17th, 2023

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[jkpfr]

OC-tober Day 19: Inspiration

I’m queueing this post because I know I’ll be away from the 17th to the 19th – and because the theme is “inspiration”, I get to talk about my boy Hideki yet again.

(…Though it’s very likely that I won’t have talked about Hideki as part of this challenge yet, but I don’t know that for a fact since I’m writing this way ahead of time. What I mean is: I love talking about this. Strap in.)

When I first created my sweet boy Hideki, his name was Daniel and he was white. Horrible history, I know. I completely revamped this character around 2018-2019 for a Danganronpa RP (horrible history, I know) which gave me the perfect opportunity to keep the same basic layout but make it better, and accentuate some aspects, such as his relationship with being a top-student, a lot more.

One thing that hadn’t changed was my warm memory of the song that inspired this character in the first place. And that song was Animal I Have Become by Three Days Grace.

I created Daniel at some point when I was in high school. By that point, I already knew that song by heart. I’d discovered it via an edgy bloody anime girls montage on YouTube when I was like 10, and after years of listening to it via the AMV, I’d bought the album it was on, One-X, when I was in middle school. And for some reason, this was my go-to CD to put on when I was home alone and washing the dishes.

So it was one random day, as I was washing the dishes and listening to this song I loved, that inspiration struck and I came up with him.

I’m not going to lie, I still love this album unironically. Three Days Grace was never the same after their lead singer left – the new singer and direction never matched the raw and sincere frustration expressed in their earlier works. This album, generally, and this song were relatable as hell. When I listened to the song for the first hundred times, without really knowing what it meant and with English as my second language, I related this song to my personal experience of living in an abusive home (a theme explored in other songs on the album) and going to a school where I didn’t belong for many reasons. The “animal I had become” was, to me, the version of me that was too mentally exhausted to interact fully with the world, to be the real me I identified with. Years later, I could even add that the “monster” was my then-undiagnosed anxiety, which scared me and made me react in ways I didn’t understand. However, this song is ultimately about addiction. This is something I think I started to understand as my grasp of the English language gradually got better, and that I wound up confirming with a Google search.

It's with that personal relationship to the song and with that knowledge in mind that I came up with a character who had become someone they hated. A character who was a horrible version of themselves, but would internally beg for help, to be freed from this horror. I came up with a character who was initially a complete softie (in my more recent writings, I would make it obvious that he was too soft for his own good) and through abuse, confusion and exhaustion exploded one day and let himself become the worst possible version of himself. This “explosion” isn’t without the intervention of addiction, he lashes out on the person he wanted to build a life with, who then leaves him, and everything is interlinked.

(Of course, because I love a little bit of drama, there’s a misunderstanding with what really caused his boyfriend to “leave”. But that’s unrelated to any song. What matters to what is at the heart of what this song means to me, is what Hideki thinks happened.)

This was the gist of Hideki’s characterisation for a long time. Now, here’s the thing about that Danganronpa RP. Although Hideki was one of my most popular characters ever, and I went through a lot of effort to explore his characterisation as fully as I could within the limitations of that story, the person organising that RP, aka the GM, abused the shit out of me. Oopsie.

This post isn’t about me so I won’t go through the details, but taking advantage of the horrible mental state that I was in back then from going through undiagnosed post-traumatic stress disorder following my aforementioned situation of abuse, this person, among a couple others, made me go through hell and worsened my mental state to the point that I… went in shock one day from realising I had hit rock bottom a long time ago – that I had become the monster I’d feared all my life. This was accompanied by my own break-up, which was in fact what caused me to suddenly wake up.

And here was the inspiration for the second part of Hideki’s writing.

Funnily, my ex-partner had participated in that RP alongside me and had hated Hideki’s boyfriend for having left him, even if Hideki had in fact wronged him, because they knew that character knew what he was going through, and how dangerous it was to abandon him then. I shit you not my partner wound up doing the exact same thing to me. And it’s fine! I’d always defended the nuance in what Jun – the boyfriend character – was perceived to have done.

Here’s the thing, though: there’s a good ending to that story. Having suddenly opened my eyes to what was happening to me, I first went through so much shock that my mental health reached a brand new low and my life was in direct danger. And yet, this was a period in my life that was filled with hope. I was going through something extremely difficult, and that forced me to face the me that wanted to fight to the end. I’ll skip over the details – but after surviving this, having gotten some of the help I needed, having been faced with that strong ability to survive I had, I was able to take control of myself again. And I was free to be the real me again.

And that’s when it struck me that I’d never really conceptualised a good ending for Hideki.

My writing of Hideki kinda stopped in the middle of the conflict. As far as shoving him in different RPs where he would live through specific adventures went, that was perfect. But suddenly, I had a brand new experience, and something inside of me must have known just what made sense for such a relatable character as Hideki.

I know this is already very long, but here’s another song; one day, not too long after my healing had started, I was listening to some rock classics. One of those was Highway to Hell by AC/DC.

And very fittingly for Hideki, randomly, for no particular reason, I started to think about a character who was going to heal.

I thought about a Hideki who eventually reached the right time. Who one day felt like listening to music to help vent his frustrations, and by chance discovered rock, hard rock and metal. Who listened to Highway to Hell, felt something, and suddenly had something he wanted to do. Ideas like “attending a concert”, hope like “I will enjoy it” and “I will be able to blend in”, and that was the start of a messy journey, but a journey of healing nonetheless.

This is the start of an iteration of Hideki which I often joke about, dubbing him “metal Hideki”. He dyes his overgrown bright orange hair an ashy brown, he puts on an edgy t-shirt, and there’s something so fun about how silly it is and yet how much it means to his finally putting himself out there.

This inspired me to finish writing his and Jun’s stories, and I’m very satisfied with how I was able to draw inspiration from different stages in my life to write a compelling character, and by how a song was somehow the starting point both times.

There’s a lot more I could say about Hideki; his backstory and his future, which I never used in RP, in part because I have a full story to tell now! (And also because I’m never doing that shit again. Holy shit.) I’ll leave it at this recent cutesy doodle of him, which is directly taken from a song I felt like he would relate to.

[funhaversclub]

SUPER MARIO RPG!

...I know you've probably seen tiktokers and youtubers freak out about this already but this moment will never not be a moment to celebrate!

It actually happened. Never in my lifetime did I think I would see this day. My co worker, who also grew up playing SNES and this is his fav game, came up to me after watching the Nintendo direct and said...

"cary what is the one game we want to see a remaster of?"

I thought for a bit and really couldn't come up with anything (Mario RPG was so off the radar I didn't even consider it) So he was like...

"REALLY??? WHAT'S THE ONE GAME..."

He didn't even finish talking and I blurted out MARIO RPG??!?!?!?

Still now I hardly believe it's real. This is a game that helped define me. The guide book I have has worn out pages because I spent so much time drawing things from it. The first time I played it was on my dad's busted old black and white tv... I'm not that old we just didn't have a lot of money back then hahaha. This was the game that made me fall in love with Mario lore... and possibly lore in general. I even had Mario RPG songs on my MP3 players growing up!

I can't wait to play this! I can't wait to see all the unique characters again. The Axem Rangers, Jinx, Gaz and his dolls, Belome... my goodness this is amazing!

Here's one thing that stood out that made me happy:

As soon as I saw Mario do that pose with Mallow it reminded me of that picture of Mario finding the hammer from the guide book. Just made me smile to see the game come full circle and become the same as the old official artwork. Speaking of the guide book artwork...

I REALLY hope when you equip a new article of clothing you get to see it on the character. As a kid I always imagined the team wearing them!

To end this post I've heard a lot of people saying they hope for new content/dlc or something. I'd enjoy that but I'm okay with a true remaster. That being said, I saw two things I didn't recognize from the original game. One was Geno and Mallow on a rainbow road. I figured maybe that was some sort of change to star road's design? The other I don't remember at all!

...I don't remember any time when Mallow and Mario ride in the clown car? Maybe I'm wrong and it's around Boosters tower?

November 17th! Can't wait to play it!!!!

[faceglitchsworld]

It's the 17th of August here, which means that the best leader was born today.

Happy birthday Yonghoon 🥳

Have the collage I made for him 🥹

The P A I N I went through for finding the pics you have no idea 😭

Google tricked me idk how many times with Kanghyun, believe me. I searched his name and the Pingu fanboy came instead, I don't trust my eyes anymore 😭

Anyway, despite my official blindness, I'll leave the letter for him now.

Dear Yonghoon,

It's been a while since your last update from the military. I must confess, even though I know that next year you'll be back to us, it seems like it's been an eternity since you enlisted.

I remember the shock I had when I heard the news. It was inevitable at the time, I knew that at some point you should have gone but still, it looked like sudden news regardless. Onewe are incomplete without your voice, Yonghoon.

But I also remember how you cheered us and told us that you'll manage to keep in touch with us in a way or another. And you did it. You really did it, Yonghoon.

I remember how my eyes were on the merge of tears when I saw you singing for your colleagues at the training camp. Your hair was freaking short at the time, a true bald scalp 🤣 But despite that, seeing you singing Universe_ in front of your colleagues, receiving applauses and love for your talent made me relieved a little.

Then I saw some group pictures from the training camp and I saw how happy you looked and how you got along with your colleagues so easily. Honestly, I'm not surprised by that, you've always been Onewe's social butterfly to me and I will not be surprised if you made a new friend there.

And I remember how, when "Still Here" came out, you called Giuk during the live and you sang a little bit of the song. It was another moment where I really felt how much I missed you. And I thought I would have been strong enough to endure your missing.

I look up every message and post you left on the fancafé, every time you perform with the military band, I'm searching every clip just to hear your voice again. I even listen to the little audio bits you left almost every month. I don't even check up the translations anymore, I just listen to your voice and that's it because I really missed you and I want you back.

Almost a year ago I decided to give you the title of Best Leader because of these actions. Since then I have met other amazing leaders who work hard for their role and keep the group together. But you...you're always the best one for me. I can't wait to see you with Onewe once again.

2024 is very near and when I see you being discharged I think I'll be the happiest Weve in the world. This is my birthday wish for you today. I wish to see you healthy and strong when you'll be back.

I hope this day will be bright and you'll spend the best time ever with your colleagues. And eat a lot of food.

Happy birthday, Best Leader ❤️

[hotarutranslations]

WE CAN DANCE! 2nd Day, Yamanashi

Evening!

Today was 2 performances in Yamanashi🍑✨

The afternoon performance was peachy-peach like a peach (Homare),

I'm glad that I have worked hard to today, I can also work hard tomorrow, Such power being sent out at the live in the evening performance (Kita-chan),

It was realllyyyy fun😌😌

Speaking of Yamanashi,

I have a lottttt of memories from the bus tour Ayumizuki🩷💙 10th generation💛💙💚🧡

We did it here!

When it was Ayumizuki, There was no kabocha in my houtout… Everyone had taken it!!! I can't forget how angry I was lol

Today houtou, had lots of kabocha~~🧡

There was houtou with the catering, Since it was continuously kept warm, After the performance all the noodles had soaked up the soup, It became like a dango😂😂

Since the flavor was reallyyy delicious, It was delicious even after the performance😋❤️

I wanted to eat houtout even on the DVD with the 10th generation, Today as well, I made memories even with just the houtou

That's right, I liked the setlist for the 10th generation live..?🖤

Also, in 2014,

It was also the scene for the sleeping prank, at the foot of Mount Fuji, in Yamanashi🗻 Later on it came true that we had a live there, In a place where you have to shout, Fujiyama-- There was also the time I misread the "fu" as "tomi" and shouted that I'm really sorry about that parttttt🥲🥲 Its too memorable……

Its not Mount Fuji, but properly today, I had the momentum of Yamanashi--!🔥

Yamanashi! Thank you very much to everyone that supported us!

Today was still just the second stop of the tour, Also today was Ako-chan's first day, And I'm sure that for some of you, it was your first day🕺

Did you enjoy it!

I also had fun🕺

I saw various artists at Rockin' yesterday, in particular, I was really moved by Sambo Master-san and Ado-san, also with their MC🤍

All together, Loveit🐰🐰 Watch that tomorrow too, ok🐰🐰 Maria can will be really appearing tomorrow too

The excitement is high like, its really like that!🤍

Ikuta-san, Odan, They told me that I was in the wrong position, (But I didn't notice Ikuta-san's cues at all so I just ended up giving Ikuta-san a cool way of interacting with me) Excuse me,

Thank you very much😂😂 I was mesmerized by the audience..😕😕

I didn't take photos today! I didn't notice so I cut this out of a video and posted it

Yamanashi, thank you very much!

Beloved Kajisak Channel-san

Thank you very much for the ceremonial pitch, at Rakuten Mobile Park Miyagi⚾️

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Debut song 48th Pyoko Pyoko Ultra~

I danced a lot on my own..

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[grandmasterwolfeon]

Dear Rebel Pt. 1 🌟🏴

In today's post and my second/third post overall, I shall talk about Erina and how I developed unexpected feelings for her and, in turn, fell in love romantically for the second time in my life, which I didn't think was possible:

The first time I met Erina in this world was at GamesCom 2023, when I was lucky enough to play a bit of Persona 5 Tactica at the Sega/Atlus booth! At the time, I knew of her name after seeing the trailer for P5T on the interwebs and being surprised that the phantom thieves were back for another adventure, but getting to know how she played and seeing her in action, I thought she was really cool, just like Robin, and I was in awe, although I didn't have feelings for her at the time because me then didn't know what was coming until she counted down to the days until Tactica was released to the Nintendo Switch on November 17th, 2023. It was then that the day came, but it wasn't until the next day, November 18th, 2023, that I went to my nearest GameStop and picked up Tactica, excited to finally be hands-on with not just a Persona game but something from the P5 series of games, albeit Tactica being a spinoff like Strikers. As I booted up my switch and inserted the cartridge, there was the icon for Persona 5 Tactica right there on my screen. As I excitedly clicked the A button on my right joycon, it loaded, and the song Revolution in Your Heart, sung by Lyn, played as the intro started. I was excited to see my bestest friend Ryuji, but seeing Erina, I said, "Oh, Erina!" as the intro wrapped up and I went to the title screen. I was greeted by Ryuji's voice, and I started up a new game file. As I played through Marie's kingdom, I couldn't help but admire Erina as I remembered the talk of woman crushes with a friend of mine as I mentioned that Erina was being tied with Haru Okumura being my woman crush as she asked me why I explained that she looked so pretty and that I admired her spirit to help the people of her world fight back against Lady Marie and saying that might've ignited something because as the days of me playing Tactica went on, I couldn't stop talking about how pretty Erina was, even saying how much of a badass she was! As we got to the part of Marie's kingdom where Erina got shot by one of her legionnaires, it caught me off guard as I screamed, "ERINA NOOOOO!" Although she turned out alright, it made me worried and a bit sad that happened to her. It was then, jokingly, although my words would've eaten themselves later on, I said, "If I were attracted to woman, Erina turned me gay /j," since I identified as a heteroromantic demisexual at that time, I was questioning my sexuality because of the Rebel Corps Leader, as I said I was in lesbians with her like Scott Pilgrim said to Ramona Flowers.

Link to Part 2 here!:

https://www.tumblr.com/grandmasterwolfeon/737701763196551168/dear-rebel-pt-2?source=share

[nataliesnews]

17th day 24.10.2023

Some of you get letters from me both on whatapp and on gmail... sometimes I write when I am at my computer......sometimes when I am out and want to keep my thoughts together so bear with me

 I cannot keep up with all that is happening Monday evening  I attended the safest quietest demonstration and saddest I have ever been to . It was like a rehearshal  for a furneral. ife.  We were there from 6.30 to after 9.  At least 100 people. Most of the time I was on my feet although I had taken my chair with me.  But I could not sit.  We waited for the families of the kidnapped who after two weeks which feels like a lifetime were at last invited to sit with the wife of the president.  Where has she been these two weeks. So we stood and every now and again people would start singing very quietly hayikva and songs of peace and hope. And then the families started coming out calling to us not to forget them. And then one man came out and said shouting that we should shout ״NOW, NOW, NOW  And then the shouting started in English and in Hebrew.  Return them.  Return them

 all sorts of slogans.  They came out saying don’t forget u

s and we said we would not.  I was on my legs a lot.  I felt I could not sit when they were suffering and that afterwards I would go back to what is a normal life in these times. One lady I know from sheikh jarrah was there in her wheelchair and she made me place to sit with her in her wheelchair.and someone sent me this picture. But going back to the car I suddenly found I could not lift my leg to get on to the pavement.  That was personally very frightening for me.

Here also is one of the saddest pictures

Four women have been released. I have heard nothing of their captivity and doubt that they will speak as it may endangers to others. One can only hope that the families have been able to speak to them and hear something of what is happening, expecially with the children.

We are hearing terrible stories but I will not repeat them. It is possible that you overseas are seeing the horrors that we can only imagine.We hold vigil every night opposite the house of the president.

Neither Herzog's wife nor Sarah have visited one hospital or funeral or family personally. We are leaderless and the two women who should be with the people  are in their houses. One thing that did make me laugh was a post offering Netanyahu's house in Cesaria which is standing empty.....saying the two sons are overseas.....and offering it to people who have been evacuated. People who have been evacuated drove five miles only to find that there was no place for them. And yet there are those hardhearted enought such as these two hotel owners who refuse to open their hotels. They are hotels where I know family have stayed and I hope you boycott them if  you ever come to Israel

Two Jerusalem luxury hotels refuse to house Israelis struck by Hamas https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-10-23/ty-article/.premium/two-jerusalem-luxury-hotels-refuse-to-house-israelis-struck-by-hamas/0000018b-5bf9-d473-a5fb-7ff991c90000?utm_source=App_Share&utm_medium=iOS_Native

Someone sent me this picture while we were still at the demonstration which I afterwards saw apeared in Ha'aretz. 

We feel we have no leadership. Bibi rants and raves and says nothing. As one of my friends said, "We donot have a 

Churchill." We only have two Chamberlains. Or someone like Hirsch, You can see the pDF below about them but this picture tells it all

You see two hostages being supported by a Red Cross nurse and then Hirsch has pushed himself in and is gripping their hands even though neither of them are looking at him or even knew where he was. Also see that he is wearing a body shield while neither the nurse nor the women are. He had nothing to do with their being freed but these sycophants of Netanyahu have no pride.

Bennett says he too bears responsibility for failure that led to Hamas assault

Former PM is the latest senior official to acknowledge culpability; Netanyahu has so far refrained from shouldering any of the blame

And if you ask why no one asks Netanyahu were his sons are 

The prime minister won't interact with his nation's media, and by extension with the Israeli people, even at this dark hour urhttps://www.timesofisrael.com/after-blowing-up-ties-with-the-media-netanyahu-now-fears-taking-questions-in-wartime/

2And if you want to know what is going on on the West Bank, this is a report we got

This morning, 24.10.23, following the difficult news about Palestinian  Burin that appeared yesterday on the web. I called this morning first to Doha and then to Munir: Doha has never sounded so upset and asking for help from us and to anyone you can.

Doha: The prevention of the harvest is more violent than ever and closer to homes than ever. The soldiers and settlers with weapons dispersed among the village houses and demanded that people stop the harvest. The children were ordered by threats to enter the houses. The same goes for her friend's 9-year-old child.

Munir: A group of soldiers and settlers entered the village at 16.00 and threw stun grenades demanding to stop the harvest even next to the main road of the entrance to Burin. 300 olive trees belonging to the residents of Burin Shield Yitzhar were uprooted.

 I will send  you a link to a video  of how the settlers are now simply using bulldozers knock down olive trees

Four women have been released so far. Psychological warfare. I only came in on the end of the news so do not know anything about it as yet.