Felt the nostalgia today (thanks to an association-chain from Rock no Teigi). This one is an oldie but a goodie. Rainy~Ame ni Utarete~, better known to most as the song for Karate Man in some of the older Rhythm Tengoku games.
One of the things I very strongly associate with this song is also "One Step Closer" by S Club 8.
Meanwhile, one of the projects I need to get around to is the visual mashup setting One Step Closer to Iku ZYX Fly High visuals.
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Loved the last chapter! I'd love to know more content about the interview questions that weren't posted!
THANK U ANON! Here's what happened right after the interview <3
Words of love
sometime during season 3, after Radius is cursed
linked to Birthday surprise(s) - Chapter 8 of All that glitters is not gold
Two young people, walking hand-in-hand through luxurious gardens, with sunflowers blooming all around them. He stopped and moved to stand in front of her. He was tall, taller than her, especially with that heavy golden crown on his head.
She zoomed the video and saw a little smile on the girl’s lips. She couldn’t remember the last time she had seen her smile like that. Not at him.
The King took the Queen’s hands and kissed them reverently, then she said something. Something funny, because he started laughing.
His laugh was never subtle. The whole castle heard it whenever he roared in happiness, though she couldn’t remember the last time he had laughed like that in her presence.
The video continued with the interview. She knew every word by heart, she could recite them and never miss a word, or a pause, or a chuckle. She had seen it time and again. Especially in the last few years. Whenever she felt the need to revisit a feeling, to remind herself that once joy exceeded pain in her family, she turned to that specific video. Particularly to the parts that shouldn’t have aired. To the unauthorized footage. The scenes from before and after the interview, when the King and Queen were alone, and themselves.
Don’t go.
You know I have to.
You don’t have to.
A conversation she had heard hundreds of times: her asking him not to go, begging him to stay; him insisting he had to.
Luna … I’ll be back before you know it.
That’s a lie.
She couldn’t hear their words. Nobody could, yet she did hear them. In her heart. In the memory of countless other occasions like that one.
I’ll come back to you. To you both.
The King knelt. He wasn’t wearing his crown anymore. Nor was the Queen. He knelt in front of her, circled her waist with his strong arms, and kissed his wife’s small bump, before resting his head on her belly. Her pale hands stroked his hair. White on red. Like a solitary cloud in a summer sunset.
“We love you.”
“I love you, moonlight. Always.”
Those two sentences broke her, like they always did. She stopped the video and looked at them, at her parents: together, younger, happier, unaware of what the future would bring, of how unkind it would be to them, to their little family.
She cherished that video, everyday she thanked the snoopy camera crew for disobeying her father’s orders and recording that private moment, forever engraved in her aching heart.
Her parents loved each other once. Arranged marriage or not, they had come to love one another. She had come from an act of love. In nights like that, when depression struck and her own feelings threatened to tear her heart apart, when she couldn’t find comfort in loving arms, she looked for it in those images. And she always found it.
There was love between her mom and dad. There had been, at least. Though now they couldn’t so much as greet one another without it ending into a fight, Stella knew she would always have the memories: hers, flashes of her playing with them on the beach; theirs, from their own stories; old articles, photos, videos, and that interview especially. Because she never had to imagine how the conversation had ended, because that last exchange had been recorded as it was. Filled with words of love.
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A new place and a meeting
Today was your average work day, it seemed to go on forever, was yours like that? I looked up, it was 12p, then I looked up and I thought it was 3p, nope, it was 1p, then 2p, what happened?! I was very busy, so that should mean the day flew by and I didn’t have enough time to get what I needed to done. Nope, it was weird. I didn’t quite make my deadline, but I got a lot done, go figure!
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New Audio: Club 8 Shares Lush, Nostalgia-Inducing "Sucker"
New Audio: Club 8 Shares Lush, Nostalgia-Inducing "Sucker" @labradorrecords
Formed back in 1995, Stockholm-based duo Club 8 — Karolina Komstedt (vocals) and electronic music producer, artist and Labrador Records founder and label boss Johan Angergård — initially began as a recording project, before expanding into a full-fledged touring band.
Throughout their nearly three decade history, the Swedish pop outfit has a long-held reputation for being sonically restless and…
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This month I watched “the first wives club” (1996) Comedy/Drama
For me this movie hit at the perfect time. It was an excellent outlet for the extreme frustration I was feeling the day I saw it. The wives revenge on their awfully ex husbands is brutal and extremely satisfying. They get those bastards so good. The three friends had a great connection and I loved seeing them interact. It’s very funny and I recommend it to all the frustrated women out there.
8/10
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