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taegularities · 3 months
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Rid you're crazyyyyyyyyyyy
just finished cmi11 IM FUCKING CRYING holy shit that was so good oh god
first of all the conversation between oc and her mom made me cry so hard- it hit home for me, as a girlie with mommy issues, that part felt so real to me. Oc's courage to stand up for herself like that and tell her how much she hurt her own daughter is something i dont have in me. It broke my fucking heart, that yearning feeling, i cant believe you put that specific feeling into words rid [are u part of the mommy issues community as well🧐 or are u just that amazing, a true fucking artist (i saw that anon calling you the beyonce of ff and i agree 100%)] idk how to describe my feelings rn, that part definitely left a mark in my heart, ill never forget it
second the domesticity in these two dorks oh my goddddd they're driving me crazy, theyre so cute and in love and im in love with them and i want to cry bc i want what they have but bc irl men suck the hopeless romantic in me is gonna have to live through fanfics for the rest of my life and that makes me fucking miserable but bless the fanfic gods like you that keep my soul alive, idk what id do without you
lastly that scareeeeee oh god like i knew itd be a negative but it had my heart beating out of my ass (idk if thats a phrase) but the way they handled it oh god, the emotionsssssss the fears and insecurities, just reminded me that theyre human, even if theyre the most fucking adorable characters ever, theyre still human and i loved seeing such nuance. You really are doing an amazing job rid, not only writing the story, scenes and dialogue, but also the way you write these characters in such depth, its so fucking refreshing to see.
i want to kiss your beatiful head that holds your beautiful brain, seriously ive never ever been so enchanted by a piece of writing before (and i read so much fanfiction its like an addiction) you are by far my strongest fix. For real tho, your writing, and particularly cmi has touched me deeply and I'll never ever forget it. So thank you
Rest assured and stop doubting yourself bc youre seriously incredible and so fucking talented. Now rest up and take care of yourself, i imagine its not easy to birth such work (i mean 36k you monster, i loved every second of it but damn girl take a break before you burn your brain out) but no srsly i hope youre eating well, sleeping well and doing things that make you happy and relaxed. You deserve all the best of this world rid🫂🩷
sincerely ~ 🐼✒️anon
panda hi hello oh my gosh, sorry for being late, but you mentioned so many important things, so i wanted to take my time HELLO!! never stop sending these lovely af reviews 🥺
i know... she really is inspiring bc the courage to stand up against someone you feared for so long is admirable. i'm part of both the mommy and daddy issues community even though it's gotten a lot better lol like i wonder why it's such a recurring theme in my fics 🤣 i'm so sorry you could relate to oc :( but i'm glad you liked the scene so much.
and ahhh the domesticity 🤧 it's been so so fun and relaxing to write!! real life romance can be hard to find, yeah :') so i guess writing these scenes and chapters has been extra cathartic (although it drives me crazy, too — the next chapter has been making me so jejfhdjjsgd), but here's to finding a cmi jk irl soon :') much more to come!!!🕯️
the scare was one hell of a ride 🥺 i cried a lot!! and even i have been realising lately that i sometimes try to make my characters flawless, but that's actually not what i wanna go for. i always snap out of it and then try to make them flawed bc they're human, and i think the cmi couple, despite how endearing they are, is definitely vv flawed :') thank you for pointing that out 🥺
your strongest fix?? girl PLEASE ILL CRY 😭💔 i love you so much, you're so sweet for saying that and seeing me in such a way, pls i want you here forever <3 i rested a lot after cmi11! but ngl, cmi11.5 almost burned me out ksjdhehd gonna rest even more after that hehe. tyssssm, i hope you're well and healthy and i appreciate you so much for your kindness, reassurances and love for this series/me. love you so much 🤍
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teenagemilkshakefan · 11 months
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THINGS WE NEVER GOT OVER
my very first over 450+ page book that i could finish without getting bored!!!!
like srsly this book was absolute goals and obviously the characters were literally *chef's kiss*. knox got me panting while naomi gave the shy but badass vibe and waylay was like a literal cinnamon roll, god the gem of a guy stef is or godamn it the protectiveness (not to be mistaken for possesiveness) was so damn cute like gawd i am waiting for some time so that i forget the book and can reread it.
it was hilarious , sad, madenningly hot and amazing af...!!!!!
i am now literally bating my breath for lucian and sloane's story like srsly the banter they had and the stuff we know but kinda don't know is agitating (in a sweet way).
loves the whole honky tonk dramaaa. the period , the cold shoulder god this was srsly one of the best book i read this year.
now i know my very 1st statement had some of you rolling so please recommend me some gems like aforementioned to change that.
btw skimmed the 2nd part - things we hide from the light, can't say i loved it- it was ok-ok.
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peartato · 3 years
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Tracks the story of Roy and Riza throughout the years, from pre to post-canon. Read Chapter 1 here.
All reposts and translations done with the consent of the artist. Do not download and re-share. Original link here: https://twitter.com/PeartatoDraws/status/1366098065829036035?s=20
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ukaiknowsbest · 3 years
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Review: Tamayomi
[will contain spoilers]
Lately I have been pretty bored with the recent developments in Daiya no A and Oofuri. New Shonen anime stuff just don't appeal to me, so I bit the bullet and watched Tamayomi for at least one episode a day.
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Like me, people would normally think "HOW TF ARE THEY GOING TO PLAY BASEBALL? AREN'T THEY WEARING SHORTS??? IS THIS JUST FANSERVICE?? OMYGOD"
But I did it. I watched the whole thing. 12 episodes.
And I enjoyed it.
THE SETUP/PLOT
pretty standard fare
Pitcher Yomi Takeda accidentally reunites with her childhood friend who's actually a nationals-level in middle school catcher when they both end up in the same highschool.
School: former powerhouse located in Saitama, now baseball club is almost non-existent. Yomi and a few other will try to revive the team from scratch.
Basically Shin Koshigaya is a brand new team where they struggle to look for new members and majority are first years.
They have to face other stronger teams even when they have a few members and some decent players.
Demographic is SEINEN (like oofuri, last inning, one outs, etc.)
CHARACTERS
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Yomi Takeda as Main character and pitcher- skilled, resilient, funny, hardworking, does a lot of research which enabled her to perfect her form and hone her breaking ball. She keeps improving in a good pace too.
Tamaki Yamazaki former childhood friend of Yomi. Is a decent catcher in middle school. A bit well known. Good communicator.
Yoshino - team manager and coach. srsly she is a boss. She's not infallible but she tries her best.
and other decent players with adequate skill
For a sports anime they have decent cast. This is probably the closest we can currently get of a story where the girls are just focused on the sport, do their own strategizing/planning/training. All of them are cute but also serious about what they do.
There's no boys here so there's no talk about het-crushes and other distractions. It's a clamfest babyyyy.
I've seen a little of Major 2 (the one abt the son and his coed team) and I couldn't stand it because it was just slice of life in sportsy undertones.
There is also decent communication among all the players. It's pretty refreshing to watch. The catcher is well rounded and the pitcher is good. Everyone talk things out and there is not a lot of drama.
FANSERVICE
Wearing shorts to a sport that involves a lot of making contact with the ground is just illogical lmao.
Their school uniform skirt is pretty short
A little bit of their manager prodding the thighs of each person she meets but with good reason (she can tell how much muscle/exercise a person does just by a little prodding). It's a trope thing.
That's all. There are no panty shots, unnecessary locker room nudity, boob action, see through sweaty shirts. Most of the cringy things I've seen in other girls sports anime aren't present.
Eventually I even forget that they're wearing shorts or that it impedes their performance. It seems like it doesn't matter much to the characters so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I don't know if like the hugging or holding hands is considered fanservice. In my experiece we ladies just act like that irl. What they do is nothing out of the ordinary.
REALISM
3/5. They wear shorts and dont tie their hair up. The baseball part seem pretty decent though. The pacing of the story and matches was like watching IRL Koshien. It's all very clinical and straightforward.
Plus they include a lot of interesting baseball stuff which I haven't seen happen in early stages of other shonen anime like: specifically training the pitcher in other positions, showing what fielders yell to each other, letting other relievers start to reserve their ace (ppl can yell DnA did this but remember Tanba was injury boy throughout Act 1).
COMPARISON TO OTHER BASEBALL MANGA
based on technicality Tamayomi is prolly one of the top among baseball anime/manga I have seen.
Last Inning
Oofuri
Tamayomi
Daiya no A
Now don't chase me with pitchforks because of this ranking just yet. The fact that Shin Koshigaya coach's decisions and reasonings for plays and lineups are discussed makes the show at par with Last Inning and Oofuri. (we dont see DnA kataoka talk abt this sht like..ever)
Moreover Tamayomi has similar vibes to Oofuri/Big Windup but less dramatic. I do not think it's good for beginners too (especially with just 12 episodes). You need to have prior baseball knowledge to understand what the characters were doing.
However, this show is probably the most no-fuss baseball anime/manga I have watched. It does not rely on hype like DnA and it also don't have heavy topics like Oofuri and Last Inning. It's not wacky like One Outs and it's not uber slice of life like Cross Game. It's just baseball.
My minor complaint is that they don't give numbers when talking about things like pitching speed tho. It would've been more realistic if actual numbers were dropped XD
ART/ DESIGN/ANIMATION
A.k.a the thing most viewers complain about.
Character design is subpar. Everyone's faces are almost the same. You can tell who's the character not by face but by hair and height. Personally I don't mind this. I don't really look for realism in most things I watch. And I think the hair designs are cool.
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Lots of people drop this show because of bad animation. There are shots/scenes where it's like I'm watching fanmade AMV's in nicovideo/youtube from the early 2000's. Pitching motions and Batting motions look like character movements in rpg games.
It's not really a problem for me though. I think it's charming for some reason. I don't mind it. A lot of people do but I'm not them.
CONCLUSION
NGL I wanted more. 12 episodes is too short. I hope a better animation company picks this up. I'm rewatching the whole thing because I enjoyed it a lot. I'll even check out the manga if I have time.
If anyone's interested here's my tamayomi livetweet thread
This is one of the closest thing I could get to what a decent girl sports anime looks like. If the character designs, art, animation and the uniforms were just better this show would have gone pretty far.
Compared to Shonen types of manga this was relaxing to watch, especially before bed. I'd honestly recommend it you wanna watch smth that doesnt involve a lot of feelings and drama but still feel like watching an actual sport.
Girls are fun. Finally.
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[personal notes under the cut]
I get that people reading this would think I'm being too optimistic about a show they considered shtty but I kid you not, I dropped Bakuten (boys gymnastic's anime) coz even with it's wonderful animation i thought it was boring af.
I have dropped so many prettily animated shows coz i just cant get into the characters nor the story.
I've also said before in my Two Car review that I am actively avoiding shows with popular VA's. Idk much abt female VA's in anime, therefore watching Tamayomi was the perfect solution for me.
The reason I like tamayomi so much is that it gave me the same feeling of watching Summer Koshien 2021. I just think an anime that made me remember that kind of feeling was cool.
I'll rewatch hanebado next. wish me luck.
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markkuum · 2 years
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just finished watching bungo stray dogs (including the ova; movie; & wan) & ITS SOOO GOOD, MAN 😭 (i gush more under this cut)
so far, i think s3 is the best one imo.. (s2 a very close second) character wise, my faves are; ✨ ranpo, chuuya, dazai, kunikida, akutagawa, fitzgerald, & kenji ✨ i'm probably biased with ranpo bc i watched (& rlly enjoyed) saiki k. & they have the same seiyuu (hiroshi kamiya) so i often picture saiki in his shoes. other than that ranpo is so cool??? like he has no ability power whatsoever & he's just plain ass smart af 😵 chuuya? another badass character. dazai—i mean who doesn't like dazai? i was actually surprised to find out that dazai & tsukiyama (tokyo ghoul) has the same seiyuu, his voice is very familiar so finding this out was very surprising. kunikida,, a character we should look up to tbh 🧎 akutagawa, another cool as character & i actually like him more than atsushi 🤐 fitzgerald is arguably my favorite leader.. (i rlly like fukuzawa & mori but fitzgerald hits different..) like dude,, he has money as his ability. thats cool,, & also fitzgerald dilf. and kenji,, he's just a cute as character w a wicked ability 😌
i do have some iffy things/things i really dislike about the series. 1.) dazai attempting to suicide is one of the things i find "iffy" about it. ik he's not glorifying it/encouraging others/viewers to do it but i find it off-putting. though he has turned down the attempts as the story progressed so that's good ig. not really bothered by it that much, i kinda think it adds more character to him? but srsly we shouldn't take suicide as a laughing matter. 2.) the pedophilia. i was really bothered with mori & elise's relationship & throughout the series i continuously convince myself that they have a "father-daughter relationship". but for some reason mori is still a really likeable character & i'm baffled by the fact that i like a pedo character- 😭 3.) lastly the incest or at least the implied incest. i tried.. i really tried to like the two tanizakis but they're just SO weird. it's so... awkward & whenever they're on the scene doing whatever the hell they're doing i just cringe so much. i have a brother (two of them actually) & i'm NEVER this touchy/clingy with them. junichiro has a cool ability - not gonna lie about that but bc of his peculiar r.ship w his sister i just cant.. now, naomi... she literally has no personality whatsoever & a very "distinct trait" about her so far is that she loves her brother. & don't tell me it's just a platonic relationship w them being clingy, in one of the bsd wan episode; when dazai & atsushi were cleaning the lockers, they opened naomi's locker and lo and behold pictures of her brother. just that. again, its like her only trait. & when yosano lost her scalpel & she searched junichiro; naomi was jealous..? Like c'mon.. I don't think I'll ever wrap my head around them & say that i like them,, i just can't. sorry not sorry.
overall, I'd give it 7.5/10 (prob 8 tbh). please don't cancel me or fight me in the comments, this is just my opinion. & if you want to share yours feel free to do! including correcting me; maybe you can help me have a change of mind w the things i don't like ab bsd. or if you want to just gush over them,, go ahead! i really appreciate you for taking your time to read all this garbage i wrote 😅 i hope you have a splendid day!! stay safe n healthy~
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im writing this review while reading so yes
bruh i didnt know that just sitting there looking good would bring you a scholarship :// maybe thats why my parents had to pay the school fees,,,,,
all the characters here are so lovable wtf 😭😭😭 yEJI IS SUCH A MOOD I LOVE HER SM ,,,, im actly rly curious who new boy is i mean srsly if THE JUYEON is scared of losing against him, just how gorgeous is he????? 2 hwangs and jisung rivalry hmm 👀 nvm seungmin is my 👑 (sry not sry yeji , i still love you) "3rd place gets a thousand dollar cash prize so im in" -> highkey me ,, i would spare the embarrassment id feel for an award that big 👍
I FEEL BAD FOR JISUNG BUT HIM GETTING BULLIED BY LITERALLY EVERYONE IS SO HILARIOUS WTF AHHSAHSHSHSAHASHHAHASHH nvm 2min rivalry is the real one, 2 hwangs vs jisung is so one sided XD and i agree tho, jisung would be the type to make a stan acc dedicated to himself lol i LOVE how minhos captions just says minho 💀 all the phrases are so catchy ,,, how did u even think of this?!?! BRUH CHA FCKING EUNWOOOO???? LMAO GOOD LUCK WINNING AGAINST HIM ,,,, kinda feel bad for him tho ,,, boy getting played by our queen yeji 😔 💔
justice for jisung 😕
2min didnt make it? :( i want to see bad boy seungmin 😠😩 the 2 of them were so confident that theyd win but didnt pass the first round LMAOOOO ,,,, JISUNG AT THE END OF CH 7- IM DYING Y^Y
i still dont know what the poll was for but jisung is bias wrecking me hard, shouldve voted for him 😀👍 yeji opening up at her insecurities made me 😔 💔 eunwoo still deserved better tho Y^Y WHAAAATTT JISUNG X YEJI ???? 🤭🤭🤭 SHOCKED BUT OKAY CUTE HEHE okay jisung yejis the ship but eunwoo ugh still deserves so much so fcking wholesome im srsly crying
i sense drama and im sure af felix would be the cause 👀 i think im getting to see jealous jeongin real soon. they all think hyunjins going to lose, what if he gets the crown???? id want to see their reactions lmao "and not flirt with other people's girlfriends" LMAOOOO and felix's name on jeongins phone XD didnt expect the plot to go this deep,,,, juyeons words at the end were actually inspiring :">
its so beautiful huehue, i thought s2 would be pure crack but you surprised me once again ! im glad it focused more on their relationship in the second half of the story. full of drama but just my cup of tea 😌 i like how yeji and jisung ended together XD the 3rd bonus got me so intrigued, is this what your new hyunjin smau is about? hMMMMM but rest first 😠
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PLS. I DIDN’T EXPECT A TEXT WALL 💀💀💀
jisung being the comedic relief is such a trope i’m addicted to, i have to stop fr 😔💔 but i just love him sm.
AND THE TWITTER CAPTIONS SJWHSJAJS IT LEGIT TOOK ME A WHILE. i had to sit down and be like 🧎‍♀️hmmmm. and yeah, justice for eunwoo, i honestly like how i didn’t make him out to be a fuckboy— wanted to pull on those empathy strings 🙈.
AND YES, thank you 🥺💓. again, i really came into this wanting to focus on the “downs” of a relationship beneath all the “ups”. like, it has the feel of a serious series that has a layered comedy on top of it so that it’ll be easier to stomach for the reader because i myself don’t like writing pure angst.
and i’m sorry to disappoint but the ending is an open-and-shut case 😭. the hyunjin smau is a different plot, i just really wanted to give him a one-off spinoff because why not, give the people what they want. daddy jeongin is my fave character tho 💓.
i didn’t wanna make a hyunjin spinoff because this is already such a good ending, i didn’t wanna make the characters live longer than they already need to, i’d be dragging it by that point. i’m pretty satisfied by this, a bit sad to let them go but overall happy it’s over. 💓💓
thank you for the text wall bub 🙏🧍‍♀️
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Kakuriyo no Yadomeshi Volume 6 Chapter 4 - Secret Girls' Night-out
T/N: Hi y’all, it’s me again, it took a bit longer because I did my best to beta-as much as I could, but if it’s still wonky, I apologize, it's not like I get paid to do it lol also it's rather challenging when I had to convert my brain waves from Japanese to English to my native language and however those combinations work just to spew all of these out in sufficiently passable English. So I hope you all don't mind stuff like typos or inconsistencies with the tenses srsly even the original text has that and I just literally gave up evening out the tenses, like really apparently it's no biggie to have an entire paragraph in Japanese that both has past and present tenses (they mostly don't have future tenses) but if that happened in English some would just nitpick that shit out. I mean, yeah, for sure when I do editing and get paid for it I would, but if I'm just reading fanfics from writers who don't have English as their native language I just don't give a hoot, as long as the story's good, to heck with grammar, spelling and syntax. Srsly some non-native EN speakers get turned-off or even scared when nitpickers hit on their imperfect spellings or grammar or dictions, srsly honestly just give them a break, they worked hard to learn another language. I felt this even more so when I started learning Nihongo, like srsly as long as a person gets to say what they want to say even if it's not perfect in anyway, then that's more than enough for me.  srsly I am forgiving like that. Also this chapter has more notes than usual, especially regarding Nihongo and stuff, so if you don't like it you can always move along lololol Also I gave up, I'm keeping the titles and roles in Japanese i.e. Odanna-sama, Wakadanna-sama, Bantou-san, etc. I'll just stick in more notes instead lol
Also if you like this translation, you can heart it, share the link, reblog, I just respectfully ask that DO NOT REPOST ELSEWHERE. This is my contribution to the scant English content of this fandom, and I worked really hard to finish this thing, it’s not like I just copy-pasted everything. I even had to build the kanji in Jisho one by one. Try it and you’ll see what I mean.You can rave about this, rant about this, but if possible please link back to this page. If you’re unsure how to do that, just copy the web address of this page. If you’re on a blogsite just insert the web address as a hyperlink as a link back to here. Honestly if this light novel was officially-published in English, I wouldn’t even be doing this right now... And if it did, I’d take this offline to support the publishers and Yuuma-sensei. Creators support creators, is what I believe in. As previously-mentioned in earlier chapters, if you stumbled upon this one, the two seasons of the anime covered volumes 1-5, so other than the extra details, you didn’t miss much stuff. OK, with all of that out of the way, here's Chapter 4 now. P116 "Th... These are... The Southern Lands' cultured Japanese amberjack**... A bundle of Kiseki beef.. And there are so many other local products from the Southern Lands too. Ah, there's even the coconut oil that I always wanted!" So many extravagant ingredients have been hauled into Yugao, and I was flabbergasted by them all. There were also so many cans of various contents as well as dried fish and other products stuffed inside. Canned tuna and other canned stuff were considered as high-end products in Kakuriyo, and I am very grateful. Ginji-san and the Daruma gang from the kitchens delivered a box packed with so many ingredients to Yugao, and we had no idea why. "Well, the Dog said that these are their repayment to our kindness. It's because a while ago, Ranmaru came to Tenjin-ya." "Really, Ranmaru from Orio-ya?" "Hatori-san also came too, with him." In some way, Ginji-san's mood was good. For a while now, his nine fluffy tails were wagging from left to right. "It's from our head accountant Byakuya-san, Aoi-san's rewards for your achievement, and for Tenjin-ya's cooperative business venture and all sorts of other demands that were deemed justifiable, and because they wanted to give other things as a way of expressing their gratitude, they brought in many other souvenirs and products as well. They also exchanged with us various other information." T/N: This is related to tuna fish, but don't ask me how they cultured it. Probably in the open sea, like in sea cages. Yes, that's a thing, and yeah I was also in the fishing industry at some point in time, if you're wondering. Also if you're wondering why I rarely use "you" in the dialogues of the translations, it's because in polite Japanese conversations, instead of saying ANATA or OMAE= you, one's name is mentioned instead. In the original text, when people are talking to each other, rather than say "you" they say the other person's name or occupation + san instead i.e. bengoshi-san= lawyer san, Ginji-san, or if it's a username because they don't like using their true names- USERNAME-san. Because using "you" in any way, shape or form in conversations is deemed rude AF. So the next time you chat with Japanese people, please remember to address them by their name, or occupation, unless you've established rapport with them. I forgot to put this explanation in my earlier posts, but it's one of the most important stuff I learned in my Japanese classes, the Japanese folk won't care so much on grammar but more on being polite and taking care of remembering social status stratification aka just be polite by using polite terms. I actually experienced this first hand after chatting with some of them, they just told me not to use Google translate and just chat with them with whatever I know. They're very grateful when people could talk to them in their native tongue, especially when the honorifics are used. This note's long AF but I did say that I'm gonna drag you all with me in this whole learning Nihongo thing, and I'm doing just that. P117 "That friendly Ranmaru did that? Doesn't he hate Tenjin-ya?" "Hee hee. Well, don't take this too seriously, OK?" Even though saying it that way, I imagined that Ranmaru's horrible words and demeanour were probably due to his circumstances. Orio-ya sees Tenjin-ya as its rival, it's hard to imagine them having an image of humbly bringing over souvenirs. And the business dealings, I wonder what those are...? "Oh that, Ranmaru saw that you had a strong sense of duty. He wanted to particularly express his gratitude to Aoi-san." And thereupon, these ingredients from the Southern Lands. Stuff I rarely get hold of, especially something like that one round amberjack, and I unconsciously grinned. "Even so, if the circumstances allowed, he would have stopped by and said it himself** ..." "It was before Aoi-san's business hours, and Ranmaru is also busy it seems, so he had to go back immediately. Even I wanted to take our time since I thought it was fine, but it can't be helped... Because Ranmaru is the Southern Lands' Hachiyo." "Ha ha. Then what happens next is that if it's possible, Ginji-san will go to Orio-ya, won't he? Nothing's stopping you two from visiting each other now?" "Aoi-san...." Up until recently, Ginji-san and Ranmaru's long sibling feud previously ended sometime ago, and the long-standing so-called inn rivalry and clash between Orio-ya and Tenjin-ya has been cut. T/N: aisatsu=挨拶=greeting, introducing one's self, improving relations by dropping by every now and then, can also mean like popping up to say hi or whatnot. I don't know how to directly translate it since aisatsu has more of a sense of how a supervisor pops up in the work place or a teacher suddenly appears in a class just to check, it's not as informal as a neighbor dropping by the house just to have idle chitchat. Hweh. P118 But after the ceremony, the changed relationship between the two has been noticeable. "Oh, that, I see. Someday soon, I will take a break and go visit him too." "Yeah, I agree, that's great. Oh, I wonder if everyone's doing well... Hatori-san and Tokihiko-san, Hideyoshi and Nene, the cute twin chefs.. And Nobunaga." "It seems that everyone's doing fine. The twins Kai-san and Mei-san, Orio-ya profoundly realized that they're really suited to be chefs, and everyone seems to cheer them on, Hatori-san was still the same as ever, but sometimes he returns to Shumonzan. He says that he bickers with Matsuba-sama as always, but one way or another they've become in good terms with each other." Ginji-san asked Ranmaru, and he told things about Orio-ya's management staff. I see, everyone in each of their own way have been doing their best to move on forward. "Oh, and somehow Hideyoshi-san and Nene-san seems to have been engaged." "Whaaat? Why that fast?" Wait a minute. Hideyoshi knew that Nene-chan has decided, that she likes Ranmaru, wasn't it? But that's what Hideyoshi said... My astonished face must have looked funny, and Ginji-san turned away his face and giggled. "It's surely shocking, isn't it? Why, it's amazing, Hideyoshi was especially honest and manly. P119 I simply cannot..." Ginji-san let out a tiny laugh again. What is it about his old haunting grounds, being delighted at the many changes in Orio-ya? At any rate, I was surprised with Hideyoshi and Nene's engagement. Firstly, congratulations Hideyoshi. You thought that your unrequited love has been going on for so long, it was outside your thoughts early on, but now your love bore its fruit. I'm glad, as I'm rooting for you on from the sides. What the heck, behind my back, how did they get involved in that, that was surprisingly an unusual story, if I meet Nene this time I need to get information from her. "But the when the trustworthy Waka-danna** and Waka-Okami** get married, Orio-ya will surely become peaceful, and Ranmaru will also be pleased. Certainly after the marriage, their organization will grow even stronger. He'll get exhausted if it's just Ranmaru holding everything together." "Isn't Tenjin-ya also reasonably solid?" "I guess, although the position for Waka-Okami easily changes. Originally the person in that position is supposed to only resign once, but right now Kikuno-san has temporarily retired as the Young Mistress and supposed to come back. However, there have been circumstances in her family, and she immediately relinquished her seat as the Waka-Okami." "Ehh, like that?" After showing my disbelief, Ginji-san sadly nodded.
T/N: Waka-danna=young master, Waka-Okami=young mistress P120 "If it comes to that, when a new Waka-Okami doesn't hold the position for very long, we can say that there's a gifted person in Tenjin-ya, and it's only a little issue.** Likewise, during that matter with Orio-ya, we in the management staff really wanted the former Waka-Okami O-ryo san to come back and give it another go. Her abilities are very outstanding." "Even I too... I was shocked to see O-ryo completely doing her job well. Even Nene, one way or another admires her so much." "Yes, I agree. But, oh well... O-ryo-san returning to her former position, it's already a huge chance and a necessity. Right now she's drifting away from supporting her fellow waiters and waitresses, well, O-ryo-san must be intending to. To me, she seems to be enjoying having lesser responsibilities and more carefree in her current position." "Well, that's for sure..." Based on how Ginji-san talked about it, lately it seems that O-ryo has no obsession on the position of Waka-Okami. A little bit until recently, she seems, to have returned the bearing of her Waka-Okami decorum, but lately she's wholly just wanting to eat and eat, when she finally gets some free time she goes to Yugao, and lately has been persisting on going out hunting for marriage partners. However, I could say with confidence that she seems to be taking advantage of being relieved of her position as a Waka-Okami , and surely Tenjin-ya will realize that they need O-ryo's abilities. O-ryo's strength, is diligently doing her duties in that position. "Anyway, Aoi-san. I was preparing and building up the Autumn Festival here in Tenjin-ya at the end of this month, and I was thinking of using pumpkins, is it possible for Yugao to make Autumn foods and sweets for us?" T/N: Honestly double-triple negatives are a pain in the ass, srsly it's like inception to the nth power, I had trouble deciphering this line and almost this entire page in the original text so if it doesn't make sense, meh, I did my best within my current abilities. P121 "Pumpkin? Of course. It's gonna be fun, like Halloween." "Oh, right! There's a foreign festival called Halloween in Utsushiyo, but I thought it's impossible to recreate that here in in Kakuriyo, though I could imagine it to be made into a Pumpkin Festival." "Oh, not at all, we can make that same Halloween theme here because Tenjin-ya is mostly full of Ayakashi." A Japanese Halloween that doesn't use costumes... "But certainly, this year's pumpkins are delicious, so Pumpkin Festival sounds good, doesn't it? It's also a great idea to give out candies to our young guests." "We can probably decorate with paper lanterns and pumpkins too. We can place ogre-fire inside, and make them float all around Tenjin-ya." "Wow! That's very much like Utsushiyo's Halloween!" Why, the Autumn Festival goes well with the Pumpkin Event and our imaginations ran wild. "Also, Aoi-san. Pumpkins are not Odanna-sama's favorite." "..." Abruptly, the topic on Odanna-sama popped up, and I stiffened a bit. Some days ago, we came back from the orchard park date. I remembered being hugged in the airship's deck...** "How are you feeling, Aoi-san? Why is your face all red?" T/N: **insert lenny face here** You can't stop me wahahaha P122 "Hm? Oh, it's nothing, this is nothing. Odanna-sama not liking pumpkins, I wonder if I somehow  asked that before..." "Oh, right. I saw that Odanna-sama often puts a lot of his boiled pumpkins in Byakuya-san's small bowl." "...really, isn't Odanna-sama unbelievable?" "Yes, he is. I don't know when Byakuya-san patience will end, but I want Odanna-sama to overcome his distaste for pumpkins." "You're right. His pickiness for food would not end... In this event I will feed Odanna-sama with the pumpkin cuisines I wanted him to try..." I haven't yet known what Odanna-sama likes, but I know what food he doesn't like. It wasn't at all regretable to make fun of Odanna-sama, but this time I got surprised. "Aoi-sama-- Manjuu-steaming has been finished!" Ai-chan's face suddenly popped out of the kitchen. She seemed to have established her affairs in Hyakumeyama, and she has changed her appearance to that which she made herself. Her time before returning to the pendant is still short, but she's working hard right now as a newly-hired employee. "You were steaming manjuu**? I thought I was smelling something good." "Yeah. Just a while ago Dr. Saraku was asked by Tenjin-ya to do some manufacturing trials for a new souvenir product.** T/N:  Steamed bread with bean jam filling. They’re really good, try them when you can!
when I write souvenir product, it's translated from omiyage=お土産= something that you take home for your friends or family when you go have fun somewhere like a national park or a museum or amusement park. Like when you buy takeaways -  T-shirts, food, keychains, etc. and bring them home or something. Is there an English equivalent for this? Because I don't know. In my native language we have an equivalent, well, for most Asian languages I guess. Don't know about others though.. Hm.... korewa....*inhales* O_O
P123 "We're still only in the middle of improving it, but once we're done we want Ginji-san to be the very first to try them out." "Wah, that sounds fun. When Byakuya-san saw the special products from Orio-ya, he also also saw the need for Tenjin-ya to make new specialties and other famous products, and he's going to be considerably sensitive about it." "Uhm.... But we have no confidence to meet that expectation..." If we couldn't get to sell all of the products that we made, what will we do if Tenjin-ya gets struck greatly by that? What will we do if Tenjin-ya's status and popularity crashes down? With regards to that, we had to think very hard. For Yugao as a small establishment it is a challenge, and the pressure feels a bit different. "It's alright. With regards to hit products, through time and through fads, luck always has a greater control. To me, the only thing needed by Dr. Saraku are failures no matter how many times, in his division. That is why it is important to fail when tackling new challenges." ".. Ginji-san..." "Because I think, we become stronger, don't we?" Ginji-san's relieving smile is so bright, even today it's promising. Having his support, for today as well, I will work harder for Yugao's business operations. P124 The next day, around noon. Tomorrow Tenjin-ya will be closed for a break. Since today Tenjin-ya's business operations will end and all shall check out at the same time, everyone's waiting to be free of work. Today, Yugao also has no business transactions, so tonight I was making up my mind to call all of the ladies to make hotpot. I was thinking of calling out all about to all the members who could attend, I only need to walk to the inner garden. "Oh, it's Kasuga." I noticed Kasuga first. On the other side of the log bridge, she was under the ginko tree. I was about to call out "Hey Kasuga--" but she seems to be talking to someone and I stopped. Behind the base of the ginko tree whose yellow leaves were slightly changing color, what the... Kasuga is usually cheerful but her face now weirdly has this blank expression. "Isn't that..." Beside her, it was Chiaki-san, the doorman in charge of the footwear. A Bake-Tanuki like Kasuga. Normally he doesn't get involved with her much deeply, but this time their dialogues seem to be at a crossroads. I thought that the young man was humble and modest, somehow trying his best to look cool, but somehow he is speaking to Kasuga with a harsh expression, the atmosphere doesn't seem good in there, the impression is very different from the usual funny and light. What is up with those two. These two were different from how I knew them. "Oh, Aoi-chan." P125 From far away, Kasuga noticed me, her Tanuki ears popped up, and rushed towards me. "Aoi-chan, are you going to the main building?" "Ehhhrm, yeah. That was weird, seeing the two of you." "You think so? Chiaki is my relative you know. We were just talking." "Oh, I see..." I don't understand but, I wonder what's normal for those two. "Speaking of, Kasuga, tonight, uhm, won't you come to Yugao after work?" "To Yugao? To make me eat food?" "Yeah. I was thinking of actually holding a ladies-only hotpot banquet. I'll set up the kotatsu, and there's also mountain apple liquor. Let's have a girls' night-out once in a while." "Girls night-out..." Kasuga said "That sounds so much fun" with a wicked Tanuki face. I wonder if she's recalling amusing stories she got out of everyone. "I was thinking of calling O-ryo and Shizuna-chan too. I'm going out to meet them now." "If you say so, I'll go tell them. I'm roommates with Shizuna-chan, and I'm assigned to the banquet hall with O-ryo sama." P126 "Oh, is it OK to ask? Sorry about that." "It's fine, it's like the usual running of errands." Smiling like a beast, Kasuga nimbly dashed away. Under the deep autumn air that feels cold, her fluffy Tanuki tail swings left to right. "..." Looking back at the ginko tree, Chiaki-san the chief doorman wasn't there anymore. I wonder what the two talked about. He seemed to have casually listened to the girls night-out plan. The strong mountain apple liquor, lend me your strength... "Aoi-dono" "Wah, Sasuke-kun!" Without warning, Sasuke-kun the O-niwaban fell down beside me. He has a long scarf hanging down his neck, ninja-style from sunrise to sunset. Normally, during the day he usually wears a monk's robe as he sweeps the garden. "What's up? Something happened during work?" "I am patrolling around. Lately, there has been some disturbances." "Well, tomorrow the inn will have its break, it must be difficult. Are you hungry?" "Ah, my stomach is..." P127 Grrrrrmmmmm. Sasuke-kun's hungry stomach made some noise. "My stomach is probably hungry..." "Hee hee. When your duties are done, while on break come to Yugao. We received a lot from Orio-ya, blessings from the sea. The Southern Lands were also grateful to Sasuke-kun, would you want anything?" "Is that true?" Sasuke-kun always had a cool expression, but when it comes to food his eyes sparkle with joy, like  a child's. Realizing that he's let out his enthusiasm, he cleared his throat and hid his mouth with the scarf while saying "Well then, until later," and he disappeared into the wind. Sasuke-kun is just as always very earnest, it's adorable. "Nevertheless, some disturbance..." I heard about that by accident, recently. The disturbance, it's shady, things don't look good, among other things. I was working and doing my best in Yugao, and whatever lurks up in my surroundings I don't notice anything at all. But, at the moment I don't know about  the things that have started happening, and I got more anxious and worried. P128 Today is a secret girls; night-out, no guys allowed. It's going to happen after Yugao's working hours, a hotpot party will be opened for the ladies of Tenjin-ya. Today it's not at Yugao, the venue will be at my room at the back, and I will bring out the kotatsu. Tonight's dinner will be amberjack shabu-shabu. We'll make a light konbu/kelp dashi amberjack shabu-shabu from the many seafoods from Orio-ya. "We'll use the top shelf kelp to make the konbu dashi for the seafoods of the Southern Lands. It's a hotpot filled with crunchy mustard greens and thinly-sliced daikon, Welsh onions and enoki mushrooms, I'm going to fill it with amberjack as much as I want." "OK--- Let's eat!" Despite it being after work, the ladies' eyes will get fired up. I wonder if that's the case when they get hungry after working hours. I immediately placed in the fatty slices of amberjack in the hotpot's boiled  konbu dashi, and let it cook. I will add in here some ponzu for that single tingly flavor.** "Ahhh, what is this luxury. It's been a while since I had amberjack shabu-shabu..." "O-ryo sama, eat the vegetables too. Adding the thinly-sliced daikon makes this a shabu-shabu." "Alright, I get it..." O-ryo just ate only the amberjack, and Kasuga sneakily added in the vegetables. She also placed some of the boiled enoki, and placed a lot of the dashi along with the fish slices, placing all of these together she took a bite. T/N: Sour-tasting soups are best with fatty meats and fish, so I'd get that Aoi would do this to cut the fat and make the shabu-shabu taste even better and also to cut the fat and greasy feels. P129 The two closed their eyes in contentment. Certainly, when the raw amberjack was cooked over a flame, the entire flavor of the fish changes. Instantly the soft slices of amberjack became tough, and over that ponzu was added,  this was entirely different when eaten as sashimi or with pickles, it can be an enjoyable, extravagant yet healthy food. Well, not really, it's just the season to eat hotpot deliciously. "Speaking of, what time is Shizuna-chan coming?" "The bath hours haven't ended yet, I think she'll come over after fixing and cleaning up the bath houses. She's the only one from the management staff, and she has to stay in her working area up until the end of business hours." "Oh, yeah. I see. Shizuna-chan is part of the management staff." I lightly glanced at O-ryo. O-ryo was a former management staff member, but she seems to be unaffected by my words. It seems that the person in question enjoys whatever working position she's in right now, and is drinking carbonated water as well as the mountain apple liquors equally. Somewhat it's like being that annoying single office-lady... "Perhaps I should say it- did you know? Orio-ya's Nene is married to their Waka-danna?" "No, aren't they just engaged? It seems like that for the time being, before getting married?" P130 Uhm, Kasuga and I looked at each other. But O-ryo wasn't listening. "Hmmph. That young girl, she'll be suffering so much marrying so young. That Waka-danna called Hideyoshi, that tiny squirt, he'll noisily scold her." "You think so? I've seen that Hideyoshi, he seems good enough. Well, he is pretty noisy. But he seems to like Nene very much, I think it's wonderful that he got his feelings through." I feel like an aunty who's earnestly chatting away about her relatives. If I could talk about it better, those two make a cute, tiny couple. "Gah! Enough chatting about a guy's love for some girl! I am not interested in the happiness of other people!" With a thud, O-ryo slapped her empty wine glass on the kotatsu. "Ahhhh, O-ryo sama don't start complaing about envying other people..." As always, Kasuga started telling her off with her "good grief!" pose. "I'm sorry I'm late--" A breath of fresh air, Shizuna-chan has joined the party.** Shizuna-chan takes care of the bath houses and bears the task of keeping them in order, and is Tenjin-ya's sole management staff for that purpose. "Shizuna, you're late! The battle has already started!" T/N: well the transliteration of the original text was "Shizuna-chan has arrived in the battlefield", but I think this has the same feel, from RPGs honestly IDK anymore lol anyways IMO food parties are always a battlefield so wth it's the same gahaha P131 "Ah, yes--? I'm sorry, ehhh, a battle?" After that, even if O-ryo was just a waitress who glared at her instantly, Shizuna-chan humbly apologized. It seemed that she had no idea what O-ryo meant with her words of choice. Shizuna-chan brought a box for us, filled with so many delicious sweets.This seemed delicious to eat as dessert. "Shizuna-chan, come sit beside me. Say, do you like amberjack shabu-shabu?" Shizuna-chan rarely visits here. I did my best to take care of whatever she needs. "Well, it has been a while since I had some amberjack shabu-shabu, how nostalgic..." "Oh, right. When you were young, you were a staff at Orio-ya. During that time, did you ate a lot?" "Yes, it was my favorite. Shishou-sama** made a lot of it for me..." Talking while bashfully fidgeting, Shizuna-chan started to eat with a lot of etiquette. Suddenly, O-ryo started looking at Shizuna-chan like a sister-in-law. "I say, uhm, Shizuna? There's someone in Orio-ya like you, who's also nice and has good vibes?" "Yes? A person with good vibes?" "Hey, weren't you explicitly pursued here in Tenjin-ya? Who was it.... That guy who looks withered up, called Tokihiko. You like someone who looks bitter and glum, don't you? It's illogical and unadult-like. Don't think that somehow you're under the shadow of that guy.. *hic*" T/N: I don't know how to call the main artist or the one who takes in a lot of disciples or students or apprentices so this is the next best thing, I guess? I mean, it’s directly translated as Master=師匠-Shishou, but it can mean other stuff, not just like sensei though. P132 "Oh, uhm.. that.. Shishou-sama.... he is uhm..." Shizuna-chan's face started blushing, like she had some beer or whatnot. Once that conversation was started, she immediately got perplexed. "Wait a minute, O-ryo! Shizuna-chan just started eating, don't ask her such direct questions, her throat might block off the shabu-shabu." "You're loud Aoi! Shut up, what's more important than looks are the uses**, you crazed-cook!" "What the.." Whom on earth did she think this hotpot party was prepared for? When O-ryo drinks liquor, she always blurts out unapologetic things. "Haaahhh... Aoi may be crazy about cooking, but in the end, eventually she'll get married to Odanna-sama... He'll pick up an excessively-expensive palanquin for you, you won't understand how miserable I am..." "What the heck are you saying... I'm doing my best to avoid being his fiancee." "But Aoi-chan, didn't you and Odanna-sama went out, and you were away for more than a night?" "Hold up, Kasuga, it's a weird, story, it can't be helped. We were captured by the mountain's Kaku-zaru." "Ah, but.. Odanna-sama pulled you out of a pinch, didn't that made you have a change of heart? Or some progress?"
T/N: hanayoridango=function before looks, like buying food first before buying flowers, yeah that’s the literal meaning of the phrase. P133 "...what?" A while ago Shizuna-chan got asked the same kind of questions. Suddenly, the  three girls gazed at me. What the, what's up with their eyes, those three? They look like hyenas having an eye on their prey. "I.. I didn't mean it that way! Uhmm... Odanna-sama just.. gives his all as he saves me..." Speaking of progress, what on earth is progressing right now? My first-hand experiences weren't much, and even using those as my basis, I still don't understand. In the end, somehow despite never having an idea on what occurred, the warmth I felt when I was hugged just abruptly pops back again into my mind, and ultimately my face remains blushing, as I chattered and gritted my teeth in silence. I really don't understand this, I wonder... what is this feeling? "What the heck is that..?" "Yeah, what gives? It's weird, Aoi-chan's face is so red, why is that?" I could hear Kasuga and Shizuna-chan somewhat breaking the silence with their hushed conversations. "OK--- that's enough talking about sweethearts and whatnot--  That's every last one of them--" "Yeah, I heard you, I heard you!" O-ryo had enough of the topic already, and she rolled down into the kotatsu with an angry and dead-drunk expression. She probably got one-punched...** T/N: Yeah I feel you O-ryo, when everyone has some special someone and you're the lonely third wheel I mean, I can't blame you girl, I really can't. It's worse than getting one-punched by Saitama, but... Still lol tho sry my bad P134 "O-ryo sama, with that middle-aged man attitude such as yours, you'll miss your chances of getting married." "Kasuga? With the romance that a little girl-chama like you would know, wouldn't have an idea on what love is like, there's no such thing as an immediate fated encounter. Really esteemed women like me, wouldn't have to rush in choosing.There's no leeway for mistakes--" "Yeah, yeah. But regarding myself, I have a first love..." "What, that story about when you were young? Yeah, yeah, sure, that story that smells of inexperience is good enough. Kasuga, go pour me some more.." "Y-yes... Good grief..." The esteemed woman bully lied down again. And as the junior poured more liquor for her, she drank heartily, again. "But Kasuga, speaking of that, during the day, I saw you being with the Gesokuban** Chiaki-san. What on earth were you two chatting about?" "....uhm..." I suddenly remembered it, and without thinking I asked. Kasuga's facial expression slightly changed. "Reallyyyyy?! What the, Kasuga is with that Chiaki?!" Hearing that topic, O-ryo suddenly bolted upright. She kicked her legs inside the kotatsu, and Shizuna-chan let out a tiny, pained "ouch". "What is it, O-ryo?" "Chiaki may look sloppy and gaudy, but so many waitresses are eyeing on him. Not only does his face look good,
T/N: Gesokuban=下足番= doorman in charge of the footwear, normally in Japanese inns or hotels the footwear are kept outside the halls to prevent dirt from coming in. I think elsewhere in the world this is a practice, there’s a thing called indoor and outdoor slippers or shoes. P135 but being a Gesokuban, he's pretty much a member of the management staff. If he gets married, it's easy to dominate him. That's what I understand from hearing other people. Kasuga, he's also your type?" "...what are you talking about, O-ryo sama? Chiaki is my Uncle. Simply put, my father's younger brother.**" "Whaaa... Really?" Everyone got shocked. Everyone in here seemed to be unaware of that fact. Kasuga went "Uh-oh". Her face spelled out "I shouldn't have said that." "It's probably due to this liquor.. I may have said too much..." Kasuga was scratching an itch on her temple. Taking the opportunity, Shizuna-chan suddenly seemed to have remembered something. "Speaking of that... Kasuga is taking a long vacation to go back to her parents' home, and at the same time, Chiaki-san probably won't we working too, isn't it? Could it possibly be that, he's going home with you?" Somehow, a lot of suspicions and doubts started rising up, and Kasuga started clamoring and wailing. "Geez... stop it already! What I told you is already enough! More importantly, hotpot! Look, the mustard greens and onions, and the tofu had all boiled down.The umami of the vegetables and the amberjack have already dissolved into this precious konbu dashi, and it's considerably better now. Aoi-chan, how are we going to divide this?" With dexterity, Kasuga started distributing the contents of the hotpot into smaller bowls, but I was still determined to press information out of her. This girl is pushily taking charge over the hotpot... T/N: I don't know about you guys, but in some families due to the age gaps between the siblings, some of the nieces and nephews ar more closer in age to their aunts and uncles than the aunts and uncles have to the children's parents. I was actually raised by an elder cousin, and her eldest brother was around the age of my father, so yeah, I could understand how this whole thing with Kasuga goes. P136 "Ok, with this, it's definitely udon!" "Udon!" "Yeah let's do that" Shizuna-chan gratefully put her hands together, and O-ryo's sparkling eyes were on standby. Immediately, the udon balls were brought in, and these were dunked into the deliciously-filled dashi stock. After boiling it down, we only had to wait for the noodles to absorb the flavors. "By the way, you all, what do you think of the single guys in Tenjin-ya?" "Yes?" "Do you have anything funny about them to talk about?" While O-ryo poured some newly-opened liquor, she drunkenly pushed the question at me. This woman, sets herself aside and starts gossiping about Tenjin-ya's male army. "First of, let's start with Akatsuki. That guy's the youngest male in the management staff, he may have a promising future, surely being young his composure isn't yet enough, I think. Well, in desperate times I could say that he's adorable, but he's the type that holds grudges, and it's not a good thing that he easily snaps out. For certain, I think he doesn't have a girl." "It seems that O-ryo sama has a problem with the Bantou** -sama snapping out at her words and deeds, don't you?" "Shut up Kasuga--" "Owwwww" T/N:Bantou=番頭=head clerk, or the head receptionist
P137 O-ryo pulled out Kasuga's cheeks. Kasuga's cheeks stretched out so much. "Akatsuki-san's face is a bit scary, but he is a hard-working employee, in my opinion. But, well... I'm not interested in someone younger than me..." "That's right Shizuna, you have an older guy fetish don't you?" "Yeah, the guy has been living for 500 years now, yes..." Shizuna-chan just casually blurted out that she wasn't interested in Akatsuki. She's probably a bit drunk. She's drinking the mountain apple liquor on the rocks... "Akatsuki, you say... When I met him he shouted like he was going to kill me, that guy gave me the impression that he was the worst but... Now I think he's a really good chap. One way or another way though, he's not someone who likes taking care of others. I remember her younger sister.." That child** comes here to Yugao, his eyes may look evil but he's a caring person. Surely, I think that he's concerned about troubling his younger sister Suzuran and grandpa, among others. "Oh, and by the way..." At this point, Kasuga secretly pulled out a notebook and started telling us the stuff that she wrote. What the... What the heck, that is scary. "According to my research, the Bantou-sama doesn't have a woman's touch on him. He's aloof, and he easily and earnestly gets resentful. It also seems that despite the lady waitresses asking him out to have fun, he always doesn't go with them." "As expected..." T/N: the term Yuuma-sensei used for Akatsuki is mame=マメ=bean, but can also mean a child, a little person, etc. Honestly it's not wrong, Akatsuki is an actual precious bean IMO lol protect that spider bean lelz P138 "But that guy, a little girl once invited him to play with her..." Surprisingly, I thought this was a bit rude. Most likely, Akatsuki is sneezing a lot right now. "Wah, udon, udon--" Finally, the udon has been boiled enough. Everyone started putting udon on their bowls. "Gahh... This is it. The udon to finish the hotpot."** "Cooking this in the dashi makes it yummier, doesn't it?" The udon has surely absorbed the umami and the fatty flavors of the amberjack. I added the refreshing taste of the Sudachi Ponzu in mine. This went smoothly down the throat, and this perfectly wraps up the the meal. No, I mean, this is a work of art. "Hey Aoi, you only drank one glass of the liquor? You go drink some more..." "Sorry but, I dont drink more than a cup. Previously, drinking made my eyes hurt when I look at things." A cup of that liquor tastes great. But I dread getting drunk if I drink more than my limit. But everyone was just drinking heartily, so I guess it's fine. The mountain apple liquor also has another nickname, it's called "Easy Bandit-Killer". "Well then, next is the Waka-danna sama's turn" O-ryo continued the conversation where we previously left off. "Waaat? Even Ginji-san?! But.. Isn't Ginji-san perfect? No, a perfect Youkai? I couldn't find any fault with him." T/N: Just in case you're wondering how this works, it's rather easy.. After eating all of the ingredients in the Japanese hotpot, like taking out the veggies and meat, there's a lot of soup left. It's easier to just drink the soup but in Japan, they add stuff to help it go down easy. Choices are either noodles or rice, and the young ones love putting the noodles in. It actually tastes good either way, but I prefer noodles. I think in Persona 5 they also had this same dilemma lol Also yeah Ginji is just the ball, perfect ball of fur lol but he also has this shadowy and mysterious side so if you want a dude of mystery, Ginji's your man gahahaha P139 "Eh. You don't understand, Aoi. Seeing no faults or imperfections is that person's shortcoming-" An adultish smile floating up her face, O-ryo started spinning her glass around. "Waka-danna sama is, well, fanstastic. When you look at him he's handsome, he is well-mannered, and is skillful at his job." "Yeah I get that. He's very sweet, and he always lends a hand... But for sure, Ginji-san seems to have no interests in romantic relationships..." Even I haven't unraveled the reasons to why Ginji-san is still single. But I'm not surprised that he's well-liked. "Oh, well, based on what O-ryo-san was saying, Ginji-sama has no chink in his armor, doesn't he? When a little girl couldn't get any confidence from everyone and has to hold it together by herself, when that perfect Ginji-sama sees that person, his voice would probably not break so easily." "The Waka-danna sama isn't a greedy type, but look, what Aoi-chan is saying is that the Waka-danna seems to have no hobbies or interests. Aoi-chan doesn't understand how, but among the employees he seems to be the type that only admires one person. In that case, his attraction for this one girl could unfortunately end. And she won't be pursued relentlessly." Oh, I get it... Shizuna-chan and Kasuga pointed this out, and I could understand it better. "But after that thing with Orio-ya, somehow the air around the Waka-danna sama has changed, didn't it? T/N: OK I just translated from Japanese what I'd say if I was fan-girling over Ginji, srsly arrrghhh does a guy like this exist? I'd want the extra tails and the transformation powers but I'm OK without those as long as he's into romantic stuff.. Does he? Does he not? I don't know yet lol are there any Ginji fan-fams here too lololol P140 I heard it from the lady waitresses that aren't easy to talk to. That person, he has undoubtedly became likeable. And then, the Waka-danna sama, didn't he take care of you in your condition?" "..." With a wicked face, O-ryo was testing me with her words. But to me, up until now I think that Ginji-san is likeable, and in that case it's not even a joke. He hardly comes to Yugao now, and because of that it's gotten lonely... "On another point, among the Waka-danna sama's nine tails, the third one below, from the right seems to be the most unique.That is somehow a weak spot." "Kasuga, how did you know such information?" It's scary... Kasuga's information is creepy. Even though she's drunk the power of her research skills scared all of us. "Well then... Choubachou** Byakuya-sama--" "O-ryo, don't you dare take another step over there--" We suddenly exercised caution with Byakuya-san. If we speak rudely of him, we feel like we're going to get cursed.** "I honestly couldn't remember a time when he got angry..." "Me either..." "Me too..." T/N: OK so my bad, Byakuya’s supposed position ranges from accounting to reception, but I just previously translated his position as head accountant because it’s what I got before. But he’s more or less the chief of management operations, which includes accounting. Anyway... Hey, I mean, if Byakuya can kick Raijuu's ass then it's justifiable that Byakuya is always in a sour mood, and it's bad to talk about him rudely. Raijuu's a pain in the ass for sure. Arrrgh P141 In the end, this girls' group had nothing more to say. We shuddered when we remembered stuff, and inside the kotatsu we all curled up. Though we were only just talking about him, his pressure on us made us feel defeated even in here. "H.. However, Byakuya-sama stealthily spoils the pipe cats living at the back of the mountain..." "Kasuga, nobody knows about that yet. Don't talk about it, if that gets leaked out we'll get killed." Well, in short, Byakuya-sama pours all of his love to the pipe cats. "Geez, we've wrapped out heads too much on these puzzles, and my hands have lost all feeling. Like Odanna-sama, he also exists above the clouds." "That's because Byakuya-sama is Odanna-sama's good old wife." O-ryo and Kasuga opened the box that Shizuna-chan brought for us, and while munching on these they were sloppily chatting. "Good old wife?" Isn't Byakuya-san a guy? as I tilted my head. "Since long ago, he has assisted in the running of Tenjin-ya. Odanna-sama is able to go here and there freely for work, and Byakuya-sama was staying in Tenjin-ya and presides over it. He has long been in good terms with Odanna-sama, and Byakuya-sama could readily and frankly give out his opinions to him." Come to think of it, before Odanna-sama and I went out, him and Byakuya-san were talking about something one way or the other. P142 In that case, other than the other employess and executives, nobody sees it like an older wife giving encouragement to her husband. "And for sure, when the Oo-Okami** sama isn't here, Byakuya-sama also takes in that role as well, doesn't he?" "Oo-Okami?" Shizuna-chan was drinking the last drop of the sweet liquor, she was reminded of her old home and started talking. "Ougondouji-sama is currently residing in Orio-ya. Previously, Ougondouji-sama was asked to be the Oo-Okami. She holds the same position and rank as Odanna-sama, therefore ever since Ougondouji-sama left Tenjin-ya,the position has been vacant." "Oh, I see... If that's so, with regards to that old tale, I have asked Ginji-san about that." And with that, Byakuya-san also holds the position of Oo-Okami. "Haaaahhh... That weird chat about the Oo-Okami has been a bit too much already." "O-ryo sama, didn't you tell me back then that you'd focus intently on becoming Oo-Okami ,once upon a time?" "Shut up Kasuga! It's a harsh fact that I have to live with!" With O-ryo and Kasuga's conversation, my ears grew eager to listen. "But isn't that.. O-ryo already has no interest with the Waka-Okami position?" "Whaaat? Aoi, you're asking that question? Did't I tell you that I won't get into the position of Waka-Okami again?" T/N: Oo-Okami, Mistress of the House, or something, like the big lady boss.
P143 "R..Really?" "It's fine, really it is. My enthusiastic, indomitable personality is dead. I want to enjoy living a carefree life. I plan to marry a rich guy, then immediately stop working--" "..." Somehow, the atmosphere became tense. Could it be possible that, among all the people in here right now, we're all thinking that O-ryo didn't really want to give up that position? Especially Kasuga, she was shell-shocked, and her face looked troubled. I felt that the mood has changed, so I tapped my fist in my hand. "Oh, right, right. I brought some large-sized grapes from the fruit orchard park, and I made some grape tarts. Let's eat some? I added a lot of grapes on it, it's a custard cream dessert." "Kasstard? OK OK let's eat--" It seems that nobody understood what I meant, but everybody nodded their heads excitedly. Grape tart. I made the crust with the coconut oil from Orio-ya and baked it, and by adding the large grapes called Daishisui that I gathered with Odanna-sama yesterday, the tart looks like a sparkly jewelry box. On top of the crust, I laid down an easily-made custard cream made of Cassowary egg and some wheat flour, with cow's milk and a bit of sugar, P144 and these buried the grapes cut in halves, which I later baked in the oven. After baking this for a while, I topped everything with raw grapes and pure cream. These were arranged as such because the tightly-packed grapes beneath this layer cannot be seen. "Woooooow!" Those dynamic-seeing eyes, everyone's eyes were sparkling. I sliced the large tart in front of everyone, and when the neatly-arranged grapes were cut through, Shizuna-chan let out a regretful-sounding "Awww".** There wasn't any fork, we used kuromoji, special wooden chopsticks** normally used for Japanese sweets or just ate them using our bare hands. "Uwahhh this is juicy-- What is this, I thought this food has raw grapes, but this tastes is like it was meant to be a baked dessert!" "This is the first time I ate something that tastes like this, but the grapes' sweetness stands out, it's really delicious--" O-ryo eating with her hands and Shizuna-chan using a kuromoji, they fell into a trance like typical ladies who love sweets. "This is generally called a fruit tart, and with the rich taste of the eggs in the custard cream, it blends well with the sweet and sour freshness of the fruits, and together these really bring about the best-tasting combination. The sweetness gets reduced, and the sourness becomes mild." As I was explaining how the mild taste came about, Kasuga haven't taken a single bite of the grape tart, and while propping her chin with her hand, she was observing it quietly. T/N: Lol I feel you Shizuna-chan, I feel the same when a freshly-bought ice cream tub looks so neat I don't wanna cut through it lol that's why ASMR of perfectly arranged anything are famous bahaha
Kuromoji=黒文字= Japanese sweets are eaten traditionally by using tiny wooden chopsticks, to cut and skewer them. You can check them out via search engine or smth P145 "What is it, Kasuga? Don't tell me, you don't like grapes?" "Hmm? No, it's not like that.. I really love grapes. That dessert you called tart, I was thinking of something." Kasuga ate held tart like it was a hard cookie, and bit on it heartily despite doubting what it was, before chewing on it. She filled her cheeks with the grapes, the custard, and the fragrant crust. "Mmmm, I wanted to eat some more. The grapes are heavy, and they burst in my mouth." Just a while ago we were enjoying some amberjack shabu-shabu, but we still had room for dessert, and all of the girls ate as much of the grape tart to their hearts' content. "Aoi-dono--" In that moment, came a boy's voice that can be heard from inside Yugao. "It's Sasuke-kun. I told him that I was going to give him something to eat after his working hours." The three ladies around me went "It's.. Sasuke-kun?", and they looked at me from the side. "Say, Aoi, tell Sasuke-kun to come here too." "Really? Even if today's a no-guys-allowed girls' night-out, it's OK to call him in?" "Yes, it's totally OK. Sasuke-kun is an adorable and good boy." "..." Even though there was a nagging feeling, I went outside of Yugao and called out to Sasuke-kun. "Sasuke-kun, thank you for your hard work. We were just having a hotpot party inside but, P146 I'll also add something for you, OK?" "Hotpot, is it? Is it because it has already gotten a bit cold?" "Come in. Everyone's waiting for you. I'll go and prep up." "I understand." Sasuke-kun unknowingly trudged toward the innermost room, and opened the door. "?!" No sooner than opening the door. Sasuke-kun the ninja couldn't react fast enough, and he was dragged into the room. "Gyaaaaahhh! Aoi-dono, Aoi-dono---" Sasuke-kun, the innocent and sweet Sasuke-kun, he was preyed upon by the ladies starved of men. "I- I'm sorry, Sasuke-kun. I'll make you a delicious hotpot, OK?" I feel guilty that he gets harassed, and using another earthen pot I added dashi stock, vegetables and the amberjack slices, and hurriedly went towards the innermost room. Please, please let Sasuke-kun be OK! "..." Sasuke-kun was already pestered by the drunken ladies, here and there he was grumbling being urged to drink liquor, P147 his hair has been tousled and his scarf stretched out, it was horrible, but he was being coddled and spoiled. "Aoi-dono--" Poor Sasuke-kun, he was crying out of fear. He was unprotected, and the swarming girls were getting their fill, it was another shabu-shabu over the kotatsu setting. They're feeding him too much. While he's eating delicious food, I will protect Sasuke-kun.
Despite the determination of that bunch, just like turning off a lamp, the girls suddenly collapsed. 
Zzzz.... The effects of the mountain liquor came at last, and the intense sleepiness has struck. "Aoi-dono.. What on earth, were you doing here?" "Hmm? It's a secret girls' night-out, Sasuke-kun." "Secret girls' night-out..."
It's really too much to handle drunkeness. The true intents and personalities of the girls, were hidden and unseen, in this empty room these must not get out. Everything that they spewed out, they'll probably forget in the morning. And that was the so-called, girls' night-out.
End of Chapter 4, Volume 6. Previous - Intermission 1 Next - Intermission 2
References:
Wonderful site for the youkai references
Other stuff I used to do this: Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (you can buy here, I’m not sponsored btw). I was about to buy the older edition but then the newer one came out 2013 so I bought that instead. Worth buying since I was able to find nearly all of the words I needed just by stroke pattern alone.
Merriam-Webster's Japanese-English Dictionary (the red-covered 1996 version is apparently out of print right now). This is what I have been using for a very long time, I bought it when I was still a fetus (yes I am old so what lol), and after so many years, when compared to newer editions, I still prefer this one since its entirety is Japanese-English, the English to Japanese gloss are just 16 pages tops, so you get more Japanese words for your buck. But that’s just my opinion, maybe other people prefer the Jap-En x En-Jap IDEK.
Basic online dictionary, Jisho. Knowledge of verb conjugations  and other words are necessary since not all have entries.
If you can read Japanese, you can buy the whole set in Amazon Japan, they’re shipping worldwide now, I think.
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messedupessy · 4 years
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SAY HI TO MELLO YA ALL (͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) ❤
Ok so, this needs some explanation... so over on twitter there is a bit of an Underlöst craze going on atm, but now with doing them with different au’s and stuff, and I got very inspired and couldn’t help myself from trying to make my own take on a SwapLust au because I got absolutely no self control xD but then things like got weird as the au I came up with is nothing like Underlöst, or even my own take on it either, it morphed into its completely own thing, so may I present to ya all... EeaseSwap! :D
Will explain a bit more about it under a cut later and also go into a bit more details about this boy, just want to say some other things first!
For example how happy I am with his design, I am srsly so happy with how he looks, his outfit is so good I am so proud of it like seriously look at this boi! He is so flipping cute and he turned out so good, used the original sketch I made of him in my sketchbook as the base for this whole ref, and I actually messed up a bit as when I did the refs of my Underlöst bros I put the head onto the body proper before beginning to draw all properly, but I messed that up but solved it in the end xD So proud of this boy though he turned out so good bless
And now, onto the actual AU! Warning for VERY suggestive and some dark stuff ye, and also feel free to send asks and ask me stuff about this boi and the au because I am very willing to share! UwU ❤
So, firstly I got to admit that this is more like an uh, for example, coffee shop au than like an au au if you catch my drift. EaseSwap do not have much in common when it comes to either Underlöst or like Undertale overall in fact, only the characters but swapped, which usually isn’t the way I usually go with my au’s, as usually they have way more elements from the original game than this, but this time around I ended up doing it much more differently and I am sticking with it!
This au, or more like story, happens in a world/universe where there has never been a monster human war, the monsters have never gotten defeated and locked up behind a barrier under a mountain, instead, humans and monsters lives peacefully with one another on the surface. 
This a pretty like modern world like real life modern kind of deal, and in turn so will there be many things and subjects based on real life be appearing in this, especially sex, mental health and so on.
But in this story we will be following Mello, who lives in a small basement apartment where he runs a clinic of sorts, as he works as a so called sex worker therapist/massager person, I know that’s not a real thing but this be fiction and I do what I wanna. 
Anyway, Mello works as a sex therapist, where he uses his skills of being amazing at massages, being extremely good at reading people and psychology etc, to help his clients/patients to properly relax, get all that tense shit out of their bodies and make them feel way better both body and mind, which at times involves sex since having sex etc usually results in ppl be relaxed af afterward.
He does not have sex with all of his patients, it’s something he after properly talking with them and so on decides if it is something they need or not, sometimes it is sometimes it isn’t. It all vary to person to person and also what his clients/patients is okay with and so on.
Anyhow, this au follows Mello as he lives his life, helps his patients/clients etc, while things from his very rowdy past gets revealed and some trouble and drama and so on be happening.
I am not sure exactly just yet how this will be properly told, might become like a reader insert fic of some kind or maybe end up shipping Mello with someone, as that’s the kind of story this is and how it will work the best I believe, but now onto Mello himself, here’s some facts:
He is very similar to how my Stretch is, but yet not, but they got the whole wanting to help people, being hella chill, kind and very jokey in common, just that Mello knows when he is taking on too much of other people’s problems and is able to say no properly and so on.
Might not appear like it but he is very professional when it comes to his job, can appear as a bit of a slob at times but he is taking his job of helping his patients/clients very seriously.
He can see kinda okay without his glasses, but he is supposed to always wear them, but yet he constantly lose them even though he got those straps to help him keep an eye on them.
Is very cute, very friendly and befriends people, get them to open up with ease, he is just a very trustable guy. Is a tad bit messy, a bit all over the place and a tad bit chaotic, does some weird shit which I haven’t decided on fully yet, likes to read and play video games allot.
Feel guilty for things he have done in the past, but is doing his best to focus on the here and now and the future, but one thing he just can’t stop being guilty about is an incident involving his brother, which he desperately wish he could have changed, since then his brother might still have been around.  
And that is all ya get for now, feel free to send me asks about Mello and this au yes :>c
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oroontheheels · 5 years
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Why nobody’s talking about this ship??
Me and my bros were watching Witcher (Wiedzmin) TV-series. And so there’s an episode #7 that started with Geralt meeting with Dandelion (He is called Jaskier in subtitles, so i will use that name in this post), who just break up with his girlfriend Vespula. So our duo is headed to tavern to eat and drink but it turns out none of them have any money. Luckly for them they meet  Dainty Biberveldt and decided to feast on his money. Moments later the real Dainty runs into tavern and scream for them to catch a doppler. So they captured him.
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BTW if you have never seen old polish Witcher series the guy on the right is Jaskier. I know, i know, but that’s how it is. 
So this doppler is named Dudu and he took money from Dainy and spend them poorly wich made latter very sad. He asks Jaskier to check doppler’s pockets and then THIS happens
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Geralt is laughing his ass off 
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SOOOOOO story goes on and our heroes decide to take this tickster out of the city, so he won’t prank anyone and won’t be killed by autorities. While they escape the town Geralt needs to check if anyone following them, so he ask Jaskier to 
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And Jaskier keep carrying him after that for more, finally noticing that Dudu is looking at him lovingly.
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Dudu: *smooching noises*
Jaskier: *puts him down and grunts*
Geralt leves to get horses, when bad guys appear to ruin the day, so Dudu hides behind Jaskier and he is immidiatly protective
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But Geralt is there to save the day, so they all leave the town and continue they jorney a bit. At the river Geralt decides to rest for a night until they and Dudu part ways in the morning. Jaskier looks confused but the moment later he be like
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Geralt what are your witcher’s senses are telling you why are you smiling like this hmmmm
So while he eats Jaskier comes up with some INTERESTING ideas
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Dudu might be a trickster but he’s not a hoe
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Srsly be better Jaskier!
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Geralt is laughing his ass off #2 
So after some cute couple bickering they all talk about narute of humans, dopplers and stuff. It’s a nice scene, but you readeing this post not for fantasy philosophy, right? 
Scene changes for night time and Dudu tells his plans for future. Also he is cold so Jaskier rushes to help him
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Is this cute AF or what
In the morning Dudu transform into the raven and flys back to town so he can help Dainy to get out of the prison (for not paying his debt). But not until he bids his farewells
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Aghfthmrtdhgwsgh look at him being so proud lmao what a cupcake.
So that’s the end of their story... Until in episode 13 very depressed Geralt meets very sad Jaskier, both feeling very lonely and lost. But Jaskier tells Geralt that he is loved by Ciri, him and even Dudu. And then mentions that
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It’s not quite the happy ending tho, since Dudu now decided to stay in raven form. But! TV-series were not finished so you can headcanon any continuation you want. Also Dudu is doing fine in books also ok in video games based on books (and looks a bit hotter if you aks me :,D). SO, don’t know about you god people but I’M SHIPPING IT.
Also we need to choose ship name. @darii0 sugested dudelion (dudu + dandelion) or we can use dandudu. Both are empty on tumblr :D
Thank you for your attention.
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dxsole · 5 years
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🥝🥝🥝
for every 🥝 i get, i’ll recommend a blog i love | Not Accepting 
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First up we have… @softestmood !!!
Do I really :// have to :// say it ://////??? That Vi mun is a precious being of light with so much creativity and joy and positivity in them that boggles the mind :////??? Ye…Ye it gotta bE SAID!! I??/ Love em…I love their aesthetic, so dreamy and calm and perfect??? I love Vi? Udom? YILUN?? (I need to rp with her rn…like rn…..pls). I love how involved with your characters you are?/ Like someone could ask The Most Obscure headcanon question and you’ll spin around with one hella fine meta bc YOU JUST ARE SO IN TUNED!!!!1!!! You are an inspiration. You are a pleasure to have in the RPC and a total force for good and all things Sailor Moon themed. I am so happy that we rp? That we’ve developed such a cute ship? That the Srisati/Penzag fam is close knit with the Vega/Despereaux fam? That Vi roasts Lochlan on a daily? Like it’s domestic bliss and so much fun!!! Follow ‘Em. Do It Now.
Next up, drumroll please… @aspernamentum !!!
This meme…this…complete and utter fool. Is it really any surprise that I am a fan of this wild af blog ://// It really isn’t but like srsly?? I have so much fun with this dork. We haven’t stopped memeing since day one and yet we also manage to have like?? the best sort of drama and plot lines in our rps, like I really, truly enjoy what we do whether it be…crime dramas where we can both develop and play around with these real intense emotions and situations or when our characters are just bullshitting, shooting the breeze or doin wacky shit– it never gets boring! Plus, and you know this, I think it’s so cool this whole world they’ve created with all their characters and how they connect into a bigger picture and?? wow, u go bitch!!!! If you ain’t following them then….wtf u doin tbh???
And last, but certainly not least… @patiencetaught !!!
[gently takes ur hand] I love their soft girls and the care they put into their characterization and stories. Like, they really nailed the whole, soft, interesting female character as well as…rebel girl…like they nailed two very different female tropes without it being overdone or monotonous??? u feel??? like they are so well written and I Die M8 ://// Plus the mun is…kind, sweet, so chill to talk too? Like they’re such a soothing soul and rping/talking with them is so?? Effortless. Easy. Such a sweetheart….Also like I’m not memeing on this description bc i feel like i have to honor Jenny’s presence like…wtf she’s such a lady and I can’t yell too much jdfkbgjkdf Also wtf…the ships…i…..love…i’m ….ded….Jenny is loved by literally all my characters, all of them are convinced they were put on this Earth to Protec Jenny lbr– and piper n leslie just….i love….that….someone cares about this nerd….and flusters him….oh my gOD Follow them right now jfc
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Heyyooo🍑 I love you and I’m really excited to meet you and go to the top concert with you!! I kinda feel awkward ant telling you about me since we know each other but I hope you’re having a good day!!
Hiii! Srsly I’m so exited to meet you! It’s only 12 more days until my flight 👀
Who I ship you with: Calum
A little blurb: all I can think about is you two getting tattoos together and then having deep af talks about your tattoos and the stories behind them and stories about the future tattoos you want to get. ALSO he’d take you on so many cute skiing dates and want to go on cute little adventures with you around the world
Who would be your best friend: Michael
Who would treat you like a sibling: Luke
Personal compliment: I don’t know if I’ve told you this already but I LOVE your hair and I’m little envious of it, I just love the red curls sooo much!
Playlist
Swimming in the moonlight - Bad Suns
Surrender - WALK THE MOON
Street Fight - Smallpools
Let’s get married - Bleachers
Someone to you - BANNERS
Never give up on me - MisterWives
Chasing the rush - Sam Louis
Adderall - Max Frost
Feel it all - Vinyl Theatre
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Do you want one?
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mirandashadowborn · 5 years
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NEW SSO WILD WEST AU CHARACTER SHEET for Miranda
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Name: Madam Miranda ?
Age: 37
Occupation/Role: Is working on transforming the brothel into a boarding house and place of learning. Still operates a ranch with cows/sheep/olive and orange orchards. 
Team Good or Team Evil?: She’s def team good now. But she can do bad if she needs to. 
APPEARANCE: Slimmed down a bit as she’s working on the ranch more these days. 
Hair/eye/skin: Long wavy brown hair. Braids it when working, but otherwise wears it down. Dark brown eyes/Keeps out of the sun enough to have fair skin. She’s still kind of vain about her pale skin. 
Build: Heavy set, stronger than she looks as she still does stable chores at her ranch.
Defining Characteristics: Small scars under one eye and over another, a few others that aren’t immediately visible from bar fights where she had to defend a girls honor. Tattoo of an angel on her back.
Clothing Style: her clothes are more modest now. Her satin gowns are packed away, but she still sports some fine dresses when she does go into town. She still prefers more manly garments when she works or travels. 
Signature Look: Lots of blue and gray shades. Wears a large coat to cover her gun belt. No makeup still. Prefers to let her long wavy hair loose (even if it would be considered inappropriate for a woman her age to wear her hair down). Generally wears a silver heart pendant and silver and gemstone jewelry. 
Demeanor: Still prefers to stay quiet and let people talk. She’s a little more nervous after the war. Around her family she’s a chatterbox. 
Mostly she’s kind to people, but she wants any potential enemies to think her coldhearted and capable of destroying them.
STORY
Origins: Family moved with a small group of other vaqueros when work was promised up north with a wealthy land owner from somewhere far across the sea. The land owner was good to his cowboys, who defended the land (sometimes with their lives) and the cattle and horses. Mother took care of the ailing matriarch of the land owners family, and the land was left to them and the two remaining vaqueros when the grand dame passed. Mother became a midwife and nurse for the town- But after so many battles, Father turned to drinking and fighting. They returned home, with a modest savings, but Miranda opted to stay and work the land they were left with. Several acres, a rather large herd of cows, a handful of horses, and a good fertile garden. She sold the cows and purchased the big empty boarding house in town… since the saloon sprang up and the drunken patrons got themselves into a lot of trouble after the gambling tables closed, she gave them a place to go entertain themselves.
Economic Status: She has SO MUCH money. Srsly she did real well with whorin’ and now makes an adequate amount from the store and boarding house. 
Motivations: She still feels there needs to be a safe haven for young women without prospects of marriage, or travellers. Now she just wants to make sure people don’t come and destroy the town. 
ALLIANCES
Horse Name/Breed/Color/Sex: Her personal horse is an Azteca Gelding, (whose parents were brought over from home) named Silvershade. (like this guy but more brown)
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(pretty sure aztecas aren’t period accurate but… shush)
Pets: a bunch of kitties at home. Jamie, her boyfriend, has brought poodles into her life so now they have large black poodles too. 
Partner/Love Interest: James the assistant Blacksmith (not James who runs the Farroh table lol). He’s also an inventor, pf sorts. They live together now. 
Stage of Relationship: He went to the brothel when it was opening, and was so nervous and shy and cute she, uh, took care of him personally. They’ve been (secretly) exclusive ever since. His parents back home are trying to get him to marry wealthy, lol, but not like this.
Other Alliances: Her girls were her best friends. A few stayed on to help her run the boarding house. The ones that were married off and traveled write and send gifts. Zoe the schoolmarm is a close confidant. 
At home she has her daughter, Rose- whose existence would be a scandal and so she keeps her from the town, mostly. Also, the two ranch hands that stayed behind (and their wives- who care for the kid).
SKILLS
Level of Education: Likes to read, and when they came abroad language was a thing she immediately threw herself into. Though her formal education stopped at the 8th grade, she forced herself to study beyond that.
Fighting Skills/Style: Once a brawler like her father, now she only has to show her gun is unholstered… (she doesn’t fight nearly as often now, though she practices shooting to maintain her aim).
Trades and Talents: Languages, story telling. A good cook. She likes to sketch. Mostly she’s just good at finding peoples secrets and using them to her advantage. in business she shady af
MISCELLANEOUS: The madame all but disappeared after the war. Folks thought she died. This was cemented by the lonely grave marked “M” in the local cemetery, tucked away in a corner- almost off the property, the one her girls brought flowers to pretty frequently. 
She had been trying to live a double life, but didn’t think it ever really caught on until she heard from a passerby that the Madame had been killed in the war and folks were vying to buy the brothel to turn it into something more respectable. She took it upon herself to transform the brothel herself. 
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d0gdaze · 6 years
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Reddie fanfic where Eddie accidentally texts Richie (or Richie to eddie) and they become internet friends and then accidentally meet irl?
doing this as headcanons because i’ll never finish it if i write a proper thing aythey’re over 18 :v
- eddie’s phone starts going off at like 2am one night and wakes him up
- it’s an unknown number and he almost just ignores it, but he’s curious so he unlocks his phone
-  >‘u awake?? kinda wanna go to that food truck’
- eddie texts back ‘sorry, i think you have the wrong number.’
- he rolls over and tries to go back to sleep but then it buzzes again
-  >‘lmaooooo but srsly did u wanna? bev wont come w me’
- ‘no seriously, you have the wrong number.’
- there’s no response for a while so he closes his eyes but just as he’s about to drift off again it starts going off
-  >‘haha’
-  >‘wait fr??’
-  >‘but this is stans new number’
-  >‘nah ur just messing w me right? stan getting off a good one ;)) anyway, food truck?? y or n’
- ‘dude this really isn’t stan lol’
-  >‘prove it’
- he turns on the lamp on his bedside table and takes a selfie with his face half buried in the pillow and sends it
- ‘not stan’
-  >’oh shit u were serious’
-  >’sorry lmao’
-  >’ur rlly cute’
-  >’whats ur name?? obviously not stan ahahaha’
- eddie is pretty awake now so like,, may as well entertain himself y’know
- ‘how do i know you’re not some old creep though :/’
-  >’oof how dare u’
-  a picture sends through, a selfie of the dude and he’s got a fuckn,, manbun and glasses and he’s sticking his tongue out and doing the ‘hang loose’ sign with his hand
-  eddie is lowkey shook bc damn
-  >’i’m richie’
- ‘eddie’
-  >’aw cute :)’
-  >’like eddie spaghetti’
- ‘no’
-  >’so what r u up to??’
- ‘well i was sleeping but not anymore..’
-  >’oh sorry for waking u up’
-  >’u can go back to sleep if u want aha’
-  >’im gonna try and find stans number anyway’
- ‘good luck with that.’
-  >’night eddie spaghetti :)
- ‘goodnight.’
- he wakes up the next morning and there’s a new message that was sent at 3am and it’s a photo of richie and someone else in front of a food truck
-  >’found stan, we got deep fried marsbars :)’
- so yeaH anyway they start texting pretty regularly for a couple weeks, usually just richie sending him photos of random things or telling him stories about stuff stan or bev did, and eddie never really has anything very interesting to say because his life is basically work and college, but richie doesn’t mind
- ‘if all you’re gonna do is send me photos you may as well have my snapchat,, it’ll be a lot easier’
-  >’haha smooth ;)’
- ‘shut up’
- so now they’re snapchatting all the time and they start up a streak
- eddie barely ever sends selfies, he’s that guy to just cover the camera or take a photo of the ceiling or a chair or something, but when he does send selfies richie screenshots all of them
- he thinks it’s kinda weird but then again he’s screenshotted a lot of richie’s selfies because he gets twenty seven of them a day
- after like three weeks richie asks when they’re gonna meet up
- eddie’s like :V because he’s still lowkey paranoid about it like this guy’s still a sTRANGER
- richie’s really chill about it he doesn’t want to pressure him into doing anything and he’s cool with just texting and stuff ((but he’s lowkey got a massive fucking crush))
- it’s been like a month and a half since they started talking and eddie is at work at the pharmacy and fuckin,,, richie walks in
- eddie freaks out and runs to another aisle and pretends to be stacking shelves for a few minutes but then
- “holy shit”
- richie’s standing there wearing the wORST outfit ever he’s got a bright pink hawaiian shirt over a tank top and neon yellow shorts and probably crocs let’s be honest and he’s like over six foot?? what??
- eddie is kinda in awe tho because somehow he’s pulling it off?
- “eddie?!”
- “h-hey”
- “you’re a lot shorter than i thought you’d be”
- “um- thanks?”
- “when do you get off? work, i mean”
- eddie just gawking and flustered beyond anything
- *voice crack* “in half an hour”
- “cool, i’ll swing back around then ;)”
- how did he say an emoji out loud wtf
- he leaves and eddie fucking trips himself up
- anYWAYS richie comes back after his shift and picks him up and they talk
- it’s kinda awkward at first because eddie’s intimidated af but it gets more comfortable after a bit and soon they’re laughing really hard
- they go to the food truck richie is somewhat obsessed with and get waffle fries
- richie posts a selfie of them on his sc story labelled ‘united at last
this is bad i ran out of ideas bsfjkda but yay
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sannisideup · 6 years
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sweet despair
All it took was one moment for her whole world to shatter to pieces. 
She didn’t want to ever believe nor accept that one person, that he, could affect her so much. She didn’t want to give him the power to destroy her.
It hurt so much. 
She could feel the pain in her chest, like a weight that never refused to leave. She could feel it in every breath, a never-ending agony. 
She still couldn’t face her best friend on account of how similar they both looked. She couldn’t face looking at someone who had red hair that was ruffled just the same because he had taught him to do so. 
She didn’t want to hear his laughter only to find it attached to a different person. He had hurt her, but she still wanted him to stay. 
She didn’t expect that loving someone would hurt so fucking much.
Before Hogwarts, she had spent her childhood watching movies with princes and princesses. Watching happily-ever-afters. She had seen how happy her parents’ marriage was; how great love was. His parents’ love had only further convinced her that love was indeed very real and very beautiful.
Oh, how very wrong she was.
When she had fallen in love with him, she was absolutely taken with his playfulness, the way he refused to take life seriously, the way his smile lit up his eyes, making him look incredibly beautiful. 
When she had fallen in love with him, he had taken her on unimaginable dates; she had never laughed or smiled so much in her entire life. He had shown her the world, in technicolor.
When she had fallen in love with him, he had showered her with gifts. It was nothing over-the-top or expensive. In fact, they were small trinkets made with love rather than wealth. Once he had given her a necklace that was charmed to turn warm whenever he touched the second half of the half-moon.
The necklace had turned ice cold a long time ago.
When she was in love with him, he had treated her with utmost respect and love. He had looked at her like she was the most beautiful woman in the world. He had promised her once, that he would never, ever, ever hurt her, because hurting her hurt him, too.
When she was in love with him, he gave her toe-curling kisses that weakened her knees and brought tears to her eyes. He made her scream in pleasure like no man ever had; he loved her like no one had.
And then he came home with hickeys all over his body.
She had kicked him out at first. 
It was a mistake. She wanted him back, with her. It had only been a month, he would still want her. He would still love her.
She wanted him to stay. He didn’t.
It broke her heart.
She watched the months pass. 
And then one day, he showed up with a blonde girl on his arm, a diamond ring on her left hand. He had a bright smile on his face, his eyes lit up with unadulterated happiness. 
She found the necklace shattered in tiny pieces.
When he had his first child, a little girl with bright, blue eyes, she had felt the air leave her lungs, as if it was her last breath.
She sobbed in the hospital bathroom as her tears splattered onto the tiled floor.
When she found herself watching the father and daughter play on a broom, her little pigtails blowing in the wind, her childish laughter echoing in the air, her heart squeezed with the reminder of a future she had lost. 
She had bought all the children a going away present before they left for Hogwarts for the first time, but she found herself unable to look his daughter in the eye.
When she came back after her second year, her eyes filled with admiration for her, the war heroine, she found herself looking away. 
She couldn’t face his child, if it wasn’t hers, too.
When he was forty-three, his body was ravaged with an incurable disease that left him bed-ridden and magicless. 
She found herself sprawled in the middle of the night at the St. Mungos Medical Library researching his disease. She didn’t know how else she could help without completely losing herself in the process.
When his body was lowered six feet under, her heart was beyond repair.
She finds herself reaching out to his daughter, wanting to see admiration in her eyes again. 
It is finally time to let him go.
One mistake it's all it really takes To take my breath away Go on put the knife in Run away, don't need you anyway Although I wish you'd stay Go on put the knife in
~ sweet despair, cher lloyd
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ok so this angst was a whirlwind of emotions, hoenstly. it’s inspired by the song sweet despair by cher lloyd. as u can see the story quite literally parallels the set of lyrics ive indented up there. 
\also like pls dont find this unhealthy longing & obsession “cute” or “goals”; it’s toxic af. no one should be in lvoe w/ someone for yeaaaars after o.p. has moved like srsly. u should at least try to move in, that’s what’s emotionally healthy but basically this is angst for a reason & i just never want to become dependent on anyone so much so that i start to lose myself just ufck no
IF YOU’RE HURTING THE WAY HERMIONE IS IN THIS FIC, TALK TO A FRIEND/FAMILY MEMBER/THERAPIST DON’T TORTURE YOURSELF I MEAN SERIOUSLY. YOU DESERVE THE BEST THIGNS IN LIFE!! :)
& that seriousness aside, whyst the fuck did fremione not happen?????
p.s. if u havent heard sweet despair by cher lloyd go listen to it, homie. aite thanks (also i rly dont use the word homie like that but i felt like it so whatevs)
p.p.s. i couldn’t have ever written something this good if it wasn’t for @anievul who i consider an angst-reading queen. like legit, she has read so much angst, and is super picky about it, so like she’s the bomb.com. thank u for all ur help!! <3
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staysuki · 3 years
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to 🍕 : yes im female girl woman eveything yes
i liked s1 so much that i shipped reader with hyunjin instead 😃👍 lIKE IDK jeongin u dcurb it Y^Y u blind af man but without his obliviousness, then there wouldnt be any story lol and i liked readers character there 🤩🤩🤩
aND THERES THIS SCENE I CAN NVR FORGET ABT:::: i forgot her name but the toxic gf one texted reader "i hate u" but reader replied with "the feeling's not mutual, idc abt u" AND BRUH I WAS LIKE ok fck jeongin and hyunjin,,, im marrying reader SGFOUAYSOFSA
IK U WANT FEEDBACKS ABT S2 BUT I HAVENT STARTED IT BECAUSE IT ISNT FINISH YET :"> and i kent read long fics now cuz school is out to get me 🔪 PLS SAKSAKIN NIYO NA LANG AKO (🍕 this means 'pls stab me' im translating bc ily)
ASH WHY R U THERE BY URSELF Y^Y but tnx for dj-ing hhehehhahh is felix singing live 😱😱😱 ??????
🍕 we can have our second date on minho's resto 🤩🤩🤩 u dont have to worry abt penises,,, except maybe look out for ash im sure shes wearing dick themed clothes & accessories 😭
bUT EXCUSE ME I SRSLY FEEL LIKE YOU (yes u ash) used to be one of the artistic kids in school who was always forced to join competitions XD lIKE U CUT UR HAIR ,, UR PENMANSHIP IS bOoTyfULL and ur drawings r cute 🥺👉👈
y dont u hav a nose 😞 and the chastity ring 😭😭😭 wtf ash 😭 but the bananas 😋 i cant get over you being so lonely on the corner,,, is felix on bathroom break because of all the intense live singing?? HAAHHHAHHAH
your dick drawing is so detailed while mines literally looks like -> olo ,,,, just that ; no details
and i realized all my asks are so fkng long lmao,,,, i should prob speak less 😃👍 but im only like this to you (???) MAYBE BECAUSE I CAN FEEL UR CHAOTIC ENERGY OR SMTHNG ??? like idk the way i type changes depending on how i see the writer?? one author im also talkative with has a calm vibe so i barely use caps on her asks, tho my msgs are also chaotic XD
ok bye
- bs
i love how i'm just the msngr between you and 🍕anon now 💓🙏 i love modern day romance.
JSHWJSHSS and yeah, i loved season 1 a lot too, it was the perfect bite-sized smau 😩 shouldn't have ruined it ih8myself. also i would say that jeongin's season 1 smau perfectly embodies my blog and the way i write but honestly, i think PP HEART™️ took that spot now. I LOVED WRITING THE EX-GIRLFRIEND CONFRONTATION PART TOO!! I wanted to deviate from the standard doormat type of y/n so I made her as annoying as possible (but also charming). AND YEAH. EVERYONE WAS #HyunjinBestBoy SO I JUST HAD TO MAKE AN ALTERNATE ENDING. It was fun though, everyone was pro-Juyeon until Hyunjin came in the picture. I like to take it as a compliment that I write characters and chemistry well 😌 or everyone is just so easily swayed by charming men idk.
that's understandable! i wanted to finish season 2 as soon as possible too but i ended up making it longger than intended. dw, it's almost finished i swear 😭💔 and i'll be waiting for a complete 10 page detailed analysis and commentary review on it once you finish jkjk. also 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪
i'm in the corner watching over seo changbin so he doesn't flirt with y/n while felix is singing, boss' orders 😩🙏.
time to write about a minho fic where he owns a restaurant then 🤥 i'll make it boob-themed this time JKJK
AND NO BUT U R CLOSE. I used to be the textbook nerd, I spent so much time in the library, I'd stay there after class until it closed 😤. I did join a bunch of competitions but they are mostly acad-based and I was also in the student council (guess which position hehe). I also joined some pageants but let's move past that yeah(?). But unfortunately, i was NOT one of the art kids 😔 unless you count theatre and dance as art then yes.
ALSO PLEASE, i love how you keep coming back to the drawing 💀. Felix is refreshing his vocal cords 💔
I used to vandalize desk chairs back in school and I'd draw oddly detailed penises— i was a cHiLD back tHEN OKAY
ALSO DW, i like long 🥺👉👈 (all kinds of). Dw about shortening it or anything, i'll make up for it by using smaller text and also using a readmore for my reply hehe 👻peekaboo👻 or smth idfk.
ALSO HOW DARE YOU THINK I'M CHAOTIC 🤥😡🤬😫😝😩🤬🤬 DOES ME DRAWING DIFFERENT VARIATIONS OF PENISES NOT SCREAM "chill, mature, proper, classy lady" TO YOU 🕺 i am an artissê✨ but i feel special that you're only like this with me 🥺👉👈🕺🙈✨😭😩🤬🤬😝😫✨😔
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jinnielovebot · 6 years
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stray kids first impressions!
tagged by: @hyyunjinn @lovelyyhyunjin (hyunjin stan squad comin in hot 😩)
tagging: @hyunjinh @christopher-bang​ @seungchanie @felixeslee @felixsfreckles @bangchant @chuuyo @hyunsungg @scene-stealers @straykids1 (im tryna tag new ppl rn pls lmk if u dont want me to LMAO also idk whos done it so far)
the mv drops in like 4 hours im wheezing 
the date you found stray kids: oct. 6
how: i saw articles of jyp’s upcoming boy group/survival show and me, a hoe for survival shows had to know what was going on,,,,,,,and then the hellevator mv showed up in my youtube notifications and i was curious abt it so i clicked it and all hell broke loose from there
first overall impression: pls,,,no hate in my inbox i beg im gonna b real honest n genuine when i say this LFMAO: i didnt like hellevator when i was first listening to it, i kinda liked the beginning part of seungmins voice but once it did like a 180 and went to changbins rap i was immediately turned off by it and i honestly thought “ugh so its another bad boy group why do so many groups try so hard to be edgy nowadays” and i wasnt exactly a fan of the vocals or hardcore rap but i kept listening to it hoping it would get better and it did and once i got to the chorus i started warming up to it AND THEN hyunjins rap is when i hit the fkcing FLOOR and then i ended up falling in love with the song soon after lMFAOSO :’’’’)))) 
tldr; i thought they were trying too hard to b edgy but then realized they r a bunch of cute dumplings that i wanna boop on the daily :///
individual impressions ––
chan: "his hair looks fried” - LISTEN OKAY in the mv his hair looked like a pile of hay NO OFFENSE AHDKAS LMFAO but when i heard that he was a trainee of 7 years i was like holy shit?? my respect for u?? is thru the roof??? to be really honest when i found out he was one of the aussie members and he was the leader of the group i felt kinda iffy because i didnt think he would be fit for that role but i was COMPLETELY wrong after i watched the first few clips of him and honestly i could just feel that he was leader material and w0w i have so much respect for him and also funny story when i first got into them i thought chan and chris were two different poeple i hate myself
woojin: "omfg his neck is thicc af” - LMFASODASDA god i hate myself for that being the first thing i thought of when i saw him AJSDKA OKAY BUT LIKE i forgot which video it was but i just saw him at an angle that made his neck look SUPER THICC and i was like this guy probably has gr9 vocals nd i was RIGHT LMAO i thought he was super cute when he was playing the guitar and singing n oml i love him
minho: “rapper?? singer?? which one is he” - i felt like i was super behind on getting to know him bc i didnt see him too too much in the hellevator mv?? BUT i srsly went heart eyes when i saw him in those cute af circle glasses when he was packing his bundles n not to mention id heard a lot of people rave about his bundles which i thought was SO FKING CUTE and idk when i looked at him he kinda had this like shy smile/look and i thought it was just so precious watching him ;;;
changbin: "why is he so angry in his rapping” - changbin stans pls dont come @ me,,,,,when i first listened to hellevator i started to not really like the song or him after hearing his part because i thought it sounded overly angry and aggressive but after listening to 3racha i honestly started to fall in love with his style more nd more and even know hes probably my fave in 3racha and my luv 4 him grew even more when i saw how cute he was when he smiled and tried to b dark
hyunjin: “IM SORRY BUT WHO ARE U I NEED TO KNOW” - this bih COPPED me of my sanity when i heard his voice in hellevator like it just snapped me awake and made me suddenly 10000% more interested bc i felt like his voice just sounded so idk how to put it but it was like super determined and strong willed sounding kinda like an “watch me prove you wrong” kind of tone WHICH ISNT A BAD THING IDEFK HOW TO EXPLAIN OMG like it just went SUPER well with the flow of the song and i just absolutely fell in love with his voice n then i saw his face and i was like how do u rap like that u have such a cute baby face wtf and then i fking scoured all the possible info on sk to find out who he was and that was when i became a fool™ for him :///
jisung: “wait hes rapping now i thought he was the vocal what” - SIMILAR TO CHANGBIN i wasnt like overly fond of him during the first few parts of hellevator because i thought his vocals were just eh and unnatural sounding until later i realized it was autotunes fault and again like changbin i thought his rap was overly aggressive but it wasnt until 3racha that i started to really really appreciate him and fall in love with his voice not to mention i was SNATCHED by his high note in the hellevator practice perf in front of jyp
felix: “he looks like he has tangerine hair– WHAT THE FK IS THAT VOICE” - o boi even before i started getting into them i’d heard a lot of people rave about how there was an aussie kid w freckles in this group and when i first heard him in hellevator i was definitely impressed with his flow/voice in the song ASKDA and then after that all the moments of him memeing on everything and also his stage charisma just mde me go HEAD OVER HEELS FOR HIM AKSDH he was the first threat to my bias list bc he jus felt like so RELATABLE LMAO and also for the longest time i thought he was the maknae LOOLL
seungmin: “this voice is already a 10″ - goodness where do i start w kim fking seungmin,,,the moment i saw his face i just went heart eyes because he looked like a living marshmallow and his voice?? im dead. seungmins voice has just this warm sounding tone that makes him so easy and pleasing to listen to like IDK WHAT IT IS but i thought the way he sang was just so cute and genuine that i couldnt help but swoon over him ;;;;;; he was and currently still is threatening hyunjins spot on my bias list ASJKDKJAK i actually had a bias crisis around the time that sk went on the busking mission because i would watch hyunjin fancams,,,,,,,,but only pay attention to seungmin,,,,,,,,,,,,,i literally replayed seungmins part in school life like 600 times,,,aHEM anyways 
jeongin: “his eyes are so pointy” - the first thing that attracted me to him were his eyes bc they were just super unique looking?? idk im whack lmao but after watching the episode clips i was just WHIPPED for him bc he looked so soft n smol ;;; AND the part that Snatched me the hardest was when he was singing trot in the practice room and i startedTEARING UP because he was so cute and oh my god i love him
we dead binches after the mv drops good luck my dudes 😔✊
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