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"Trishelle, it's SATURDAY, why are you doing a FRIDAY Five--" SHHHHH MY SWEET, I was trying to make a funny b/c literally my last Friday Five post was a year ago to the day HDSJKHDJLKHJKDS

Without further ado, questions from The Friday Five 3/20/26!

1. What was the reason you began a Dreamwidth account?

I was seeing it around through folks on Pillowfort a couple of years ago and figured why not? I missed out on the initial Livejournal craze, so thought it'd be worth it to give DW a shot, even more so as a way to back up fics from Ao3! Now I can't see myself not having it xD

2. How many DW communities do you subscribe to?

I have to be honest that's a LOT so *gestures to my profile*

3. Do you have a favorite community or one you check out often to see what's new?

I do, actually!! [community profile] mobilegames , [community profile] fandomocweekly , [community profile] datahoarders , [community profile] smallweb , [community profile] fandom_checkin and [community profile] 3_good_things_a_day to name a few!!

4. How did you pick your user name?

I used to have dreams about ghostly cherries floating through a graveyard and dancing with zombies so YEAHHHHHHH that kinda happened. xD

5. If you could change your user name, would you?

GODS no, I love my DW username way too much to consider changing it. xD
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Title: Chinensis
Universe: Maria-sama ga Miteru
Character(s): Mizuno Youko, OC
Series: Project R.O.S.E.
Rating: U
Warnings: N/A
Summary: What did she have in common with Touko-chan, Mizuno Youko wondered idly, looking across the room at the younger girl with the ribbons in her hair and the slightly out-of-fashioned ringlets dangling from either side.
Length: 787 words
Author's Notes: external link.

chinensis

Chinensis )
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You know how Shadow Milk has many childish mannerisms and ways of thinking? How he has many themes and motifs that deal with play, such as plushies, stick puppets, and arts and crafts?

Have you even seen those drawings made by children who have been through trauma or abuse, and who were asked to draw the situation or person that hurt them?

Shadow Milk's sad, scribbly sprite Shadow Milk's manic, scribbly sprite The scribbly sprite of one of the Fount of Knowledge's followers

Did you know that, in the original text, Shadow Milk calls Pure Vanilla a "doll" instead of a "puppet"?

And have you heard that children with trauma often recreate their trauma while playing with dolls to process it?

A screenshot, showing Shadow Milk transformed into a dying cookie, talking to Pure Vanilla. He says, 'You promised... I'd be fine... *Cough* ... But... I'm going... to crumble… aren't I?’
A screenshot, showing Pure Vanilla in the flashback where he experiences what the Fount of Knowledge did. One of his followers says, 'O Fount of Knowledge! My dough grows colder and colder... They say there is no cure… Perhaps, you can help? Will I live?'
bedes: An icon of Bede from Pokemon, smirking towards the camera. (Default)
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Now, if I were writing the Kingdom Hearts series, I would make it so that Riku cut his hair while undercover at the Organization, so that his hair would grow out again and go down to his upper back by the time Dream Drop Distance comes around. Instead of cutting it short and then associating his longer hair with "Dark Riku" and his flawed past and such.

I mean, the writers can do whatever boring shit they're doing too I guess. All I'm saying is that every time a queercoded male villain is made to cut his hair during his redemption arc, an angel loses its wings.

Jan 22nd update: My feelings on this matter have only intensified since learning that the sole reason that Riku's hair was changed was because ""fans"" kept complaining about it.
bedes: (ivan)
[personal profile] bedes
But jokes aside, I’m pretty sure that The First Cookies are the Beast’s “mothers” in the same way that God is “the father”. It’s meant to mean that they are their creators in a religious context, not their literal parents. Especially since The First Cookies were once witches that are now in cookie form, and witches are very clearly worshiped as religious figures. (Shadow Milk even refers to them as “gods” quite blatantly.)

The implication is intended to be that The First Cookies made the Virtues when they were witches — thus, why First Milk is still a human when depicted with Fount of Knowledge.

Anyways, Shadow Milk’s creator being a healer and his other half being a healer and the Beast he’s arguably closest to being a healer is so funny because that freak has never healed from anything in his LIFE
bedes: Icon of Kangel from Needy Streamer Overload whistling (kangel)
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System: OSDD-1b (lacks amnesia between alters). Unaware that they are a system. They all believe that they are Shadow Milk, who has different “mindsets” he takes on.

Shadow Milk Cookie: Current host. Originated as a protector, now a persecutor. Initially split when Fount was attacked by the angry mob depicted in Dominion of the Beasts 2.

Fount of Knowledge: Ex-host and core. Infrequent solo-fronter, occasional co-fronter.

Young Shepherd Cookie: Syskid and innocence-holder. Only fronts when by himself. Initially split during their imprisonment in the Silver Tree, partially to make up for the system’s lack of a childhood.
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Like Takashima Yurina, Kawamoto Saya was a draft member who was moved into Team 4, however, it must have been like the two were ships passing in the night as Sayaya was one of AKB48's first generation draft members, alongside Goto Moe, Arai Yuki, and others, and she did not join Team 4 until 2015 when Takahashi Juri was appointed captain. Before all that, however, there were auditions, and Team B!

Sayaya!


Being selected for the draft pool in September 2013, it only took a couple of months before Sayaya was placed in Team B, then under the leadership of Umeda Ayaka, joining Katayama Haruka, who had returned to the team a year prior. Another handful of months and Sayaya was promoted to being an official member of the team, after which point she was amongst of the ranks of Team B until that shuffle the year after when she was finally moved over to the new new Team 4, where she started racking up the hits, joining the senbatsu for the celebratory Kibouteki Refrain, and appearing roughly every other single, with her most noticeable absence being between Halloween Night and Kimi wa Melody, and her best streak being between High Tension and the hauntingly French sounding Negaigoto no Mochigusare.

During this time, Sayaya was of note enough to earn herself a temporary exchange student position with JKT48 in 2018. As she took up duties in Jakarta as a member of Team T, Stephanie Pricilla Indarto Putri, then a member of Team J, joined AKB—but what kills me about this moment is that there's nothing concrete to really preserve it! Stephanie did not participate in the AKB general election, which, fair, I can understand a reluctance to do this as she may have seen it as setting herself up for disappointment, but the fact that neither girl was snuck into the senbatsu for a single for their temporary groups frustrates me so much. This would have been cool! Everyone loves a guest appearance! AKS, do I have to do everything for you?! Ahem. Perhaps I'm asking too much. In truth, the exchange was in place for only just over a month so there probably wasn't time to do anything really significant, but that just frustrates me even more.

From 2018 up until 2020, when we were in and out of lockdown in the fever dream of the pandemic and events were limited, Sayaya continued to work away as a member of Team 4 until, at the last, in August, she announced her graduation during a livestream, her final performance being a stream filmed live at the theatre, a last farewell with her friends where the only audience was watching from their homes.

I'm sure no questioned this arrangement at the time, but now, looking back, it strikes me as terribly sad. With a whimper, not a bang, Sayaya left AKB, but the significance of her role was undeniable. Sayaya and many members around her were not given the attention of the departing Kami 7 or the Sakura/Jurina/Nana axis, but they were the members who carried the group during moments of change and for that, I feel that Sayaya and others like her definitely deserved better than graduating in an empty theatre.
sonofgodzilla: yamabuki hanako/hanayama aiko (hanako's first love)
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Title: Chinensis
Universe: Oshioki Sanshimai
Prompt: Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: S03E04 - Ninja Quest (Part 1)
Character(s): Yamabuki Yukiko, Yamambuki Tsukiko, Yamabuki Hanako, Okubo Reika, OCs
Series: Project R.O.S.E.
Rating: U
Warnings: N/A
Summary: Her expression was sheepish, embarrassed. This, Yamabuki Natsuko thought, was her older sister, Tsukiko, all over. The problem was, however, that her Tsukiko was no longer older than her. In fact, all three of her older sisters—Hanako, Tsukiko, and Yukiko, in order of distance from her—were now her younger sisters, ages 12, 14, and 16.
Length: 2508 words
Author's Notes: "When Darkness Fell, a New Heroine Arose." also: external link.

chinensis

Chinensis )
sonofgodzilla: paris 2024 (stephanie au hoi-shun in the water)
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My favourite subject is Team 4! Takashima Yurina arrived as a member of Minegishi Team 4 in 2013 at Tokyo Dome, joining Aigasa Moe, Kitazawa Saki, Shinozaki Ayana, Murayama Yuiri, Mogi Shinobu, Okada Ayaka, Kojima Mako, Okada Nana, Nishino Miki, Hashimoto Hikari, and others in the lineup of the new team. Having auditioned in 2011, Yuurin had slowly been working up support as a member of the kenkyuusei and a member of the thirteenth generation alongside many of her new Team 4 peers and at last it had started to pay off!

Yuurin!


Yuurin's first performance in the theatre was during a revival of Aitakatta alongside the other members of her generation in 2011. A year later, after she had passed the selection exam then mandatory to fully enter the group, and became an established presence, those early performances resulting in an increased attention that led to her being promoted to Minegishi's new team. Having long been a fan of AKB48, Yuurin had initially tried out for the twelfth generation alongside Hirata Rina, Saeed Yokota Erena, Muto Tomu, Tano Yuka, and Sasaki Yukari, but had failed to pass the test. By the time the next auditions came around, she had apparently doubled down and whatever it was that had been wanting in her earlier was nowhere to be seen when it came time to decide on those selected.

With all this and a year in Team 4 under her belt, when 2014's next big concert took place, it was announced that she was being shuffled into SKE48's Team KII... only it never happened. Following a cancellation announcement, Yuurin informed us in a Google+ post that she had protested, offering the rationale that such a big move would have interfered with her studies. I think it would have been nice to believe that it was her loyalty to Team 4 that motivated her, but sadly less than a year after the abortive transfer, she announced her graduation, suggesting, maybe rightly so, that whilst being on that stage was important to her, graduating well from high school was maybe more so.

During her time in AKB48, Yuurin never managed to rank in the elections or appear in the senbatsu, but she was present on a number of B sides from Gingham Check onwards. Although she described herself as both timid and weak, it is clear that her time in AKB meant a lot to her and that those three years were an important part of her childhood. Our last news of Yuurin comes from 2024, when she posted about her work at an advertising agency, and whether she is still doing that or not, it only remains for us to wish her luck and hope that whatever is happening now, she still finds time to look back on those days between 2011-2014 fondly.