Rambling thoughts on collabs

Huh.

So Tuti's still the one mixing all of *pnish*'s songs?

Today I was told not to come to rehearsals, to just make the soundtrack, so here I am at home packing everything in. Everyone else has been working on the dances at rehearsals.
If I don't bring this tomorrow they're gonna get mad at me.
Hope I finish...

...As posted at THREE IN THE FUCKING MORNING. GEEZ.

And THAT SCREEN is Tuti's computer?! Holy crap *_____*

In other news--so apparently Nagayan is doing a collab with Naoya? I can't really tell...that actually looks like the Kime collab shirt to me. Guess we'll see?

I've actually been thinking about the collabs he does with his friends, and...no matter how you cut it, Tuti's is special. Like, REALLY special.

1) No one else has gotten more than two collaborations (with an implication that there may indeed be more coming). Kime got two--that's the most. And that was only AFTER Tuti already had two under his belt, with three now. Nagayan just doesn't collaborate with people more than once--and I dare say his second one with Kime could have just been an attempt to dispel suspicions about why Tuti was the only one he'd ever collaborated more than once with.

2) No one else has gotten their own brand name. Nagayan gave Tuti not only his own brand name (or hell, maybe Tuti thought it up himself?), but a name quite intimately linked with HIS brand name. Seriously, "decossam" doesn't even make SENSE. And yet it DOES make sense.

and (probably the most important) 3) No collaboration Nagayan has done with anyone else has been such a true collaboration, showing obvious elements of the two who put work into it such that it doesn't even look like Blossam anymore so much as a melding of two styles, like a collaboration should be. The wine label shirt with its 1978-1979, the two bags with their obvious floral patterns to represent Tuti (stated outright that they represent Tuti) and the plaid to represent Nagayan, the YELLOW decossam tag.

Every other collab he's done with people before has always been something that, if he hadn't said it was a collab, I'd have thought it was just another normal piece of Blossam merchandise. But you cannot argue that the collabs with Tuti aren't as much HIM as they are Nagayan, at all.

*dumbfounded*

...there are SERIOUSLY people out there who think there's no such thing as negative health consequences due to second-hand smoke?

IS THIS THE DARK AGES?

Some of the comments are just...I can't comprehend how these people walk through life so ignorant. "Well my grandmother died of lung cancer and never smoked or lived with a smoker a day in her life!"

SMOKING IS NOT THE ONLY CAUSE OF LUNG CANCER. AND LUNG CANCER IS NOT THE ONLY THING SMOKING CAUSES.

Smoking is another hot-button topic for me. Sorry.

love you guys ;_;

Geez Japanese chicks have the longest sticks up their asses o_O As seen on the *pnish* comm on mixi:

Fangirl #1: Hi, I've only just come into *pnish* fandom. I've got a question for everyone: If anyone has a copy of "The 59th Proposal," could I possible get a copy of it? I actually recorded it once, but at that time I didn't know anything about *pnish*, and so I recorded over it, and am now really regretting it. If someone wouldn't mind copying it, I'd be more than happy to pay shipping.

Fangirl #2: Well I understand how you feel, but that presents a problem of copyright legality, and if we were to do something like that then it might affect this community's being allowed to exist. Please check out this site: http://oshiete1.goo.ne.jp/qa2206428.html

(the site is some poor Japanese girl stuck in America wanting to know if it's okay to ask her family in Japan to record a television show for her and send it to her...which apparently that's a BIG BIG NO NO, even though it's just for her. What.)

This whole fandom, this whole country is full of people like that--stiff blowhards who don't know the world isn't black and white, that there are gray areas all around, and that yeah, rules are there to keep people in line, but they're supposed to be a framework you build off of and not bars caging you in.

The chick wanted a fricking copy of one episode that is nowhere available to be bought. How the hell is that hurting anyone?

I absolutely do not get the feeling that any fans here for anything feel close to other fans unless they're already friends. It's such a cold, sterile environment, and makes me wish sometimes I weren't a part of it.

I'd rather be friends with all you guys from behind a PC than friends in person with most of these chicks (I say most--because there are some people who are definitely all about, "SPREAD THE LOVE! SPREAD THE LOVE!" and they're the ones who are fun to fangirl with).