5 things meme
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Reply to this entry with a random fun fact or awesome macro (bonus points if it's myu-related!) and I will give you five words that remind me of you. Then post them in your journal and explain what they mean to you.
1) Theatre
I actually really used to be involved in theatre. In middle school, I got assigned to it randomly when I couldn't get into another elective I'd wanted to take, and while I'd never really been averse to being on stage (I'd done your typical school plays in elementary school), I'd never really had that much interest in it either. But being a theatre geek was fun, because of course you're all reasonably good friends and it has a way of breaking down the social circles that exist in the school at large, and for a few hours a day maybe you're a part of a fun group. Plus the rush that the stress of a production puts on you is really addicting, too :D I have no trouble understanding why the boys chose the path they did, and why while it may be stressful and low-paying at times, they stick with it.
I left the theatre scene in high school (despite my much beloved theatre teacher moving to teach there from my middle school), when the advanced theatre class conflicted time-wise with my fencing activities which I had become involved in :/ While I had a blast fencing for a while, admittedly, I really wish I'd kept up with it. I miss the feeling, and maybe that's part of what keeps me so damn interested in the guys over here--imagining that some day maybe I'll be able to have a hand in it all again with a new group of people I desperately want to interact with as more than a fan.
2) Translation
I feel like this gives me some sort of purpose :) It's one of the few things I feel like I can do pretty well (along with photoshopping stuff, sometimes), and I like having something to me that other people want or need. Add on to that the fact that languages in general really interest me and translation is something I really, really feel a connection to. I get this little rush any time I have an extended conversation with someone in another language (by and large, Japanese--but there was the one time in Korea where I indicated to a saleswoman that I wanted something and sdiufhslifdusfs it got me so excited :DDDDD), like wow, I am actually being understood here! It probably shouldn't feel so awesome, but I'm glad it does :DDDDD I got this email from a Japanese coworker yesterday that said, in response to another email I'd sent to a client (in Japanese): "Thank you for the mail you sent to BML. Your Japanese is perfect!" ;_; Things like this give me the courage to finally send off that letter to Daiki XD
3) The Boys
I'm assuming "The Boys" means all my boys I put forth time and effort tostalksupport, no? :D Just to narrow it down here, mostly Tuti & Nagayan, Eiji & Daiki, and Tsujimoto and Shouta to a lesser extent (I love them about as much, but haven't had as much time to embrace them ;D). Watching these boys do their things, be it work or play or some combination of the two, has done nothing but bring me joy and crushing financial ruin 8D Okay, maybe not crushing, but I'm not saving much money here XD; I really can't imagine my life without Japan and Tokyo small theatre and *pnish* and TeniMyu, which is a bit frightening, as I know that one day I'll have to confront it and I don't really have a "back up plan". I mean, my loftiest goal right now is to get in with Nelke or have *pnish* hire me in some respect to do SOMETHING, and...it just feels really far off, some days, yanno? But so long as these boys keep making me happy or giddy or want to lock myself in a bathroom stall in a theater and scream (fact: I have done this. Not screamed, but jumped around a little holding it in 8D;;;), I'm going to keep doing these things that seem like I'm setting myself up for such disaster. I just know that if I don't, I'll be miserable, so I'd rather try and fail than not try at all. Whether they're romantically involved or just friends or actually hate each other's guts underneath all that pretending to be cordial, they're extremely special to me in ways I feel are different from what they mean to many others (probably for good reason that involves a psychiatric diagnosis :P).
4) Life Abroad
So I realized that this summer will mark 3 years since I came to Japan (right now, it's 2.5!), and my family's starting to get tired of not having me around. It's hard to explain to them what I do and why, when I can't even really explain it that well to my closest family friends. Even less so can I tell them that damn, I don't WANT to go back to my hometown with my family in the shape it's in right now >_> I'll stick it out a little longer here, thank you very much! I live in the most populous city on the planet, I have access to more amazing stuff here than I could ever dream of back in the States, and while I would never give up my American citizenship, I've made quite a little home for myself here, I think, and so long as I have this fandom side of things supporting me (mentally, at least; which I think is more important at times even than the physical support of a well-paying job :P) I'll never be happy living at home, not truly and completely. Then again, I'll never be truly and completely happy anywhere, but I've had 22 years to enjoy my family and only 2.5 to enjoy Japan. I can live here a bit longer, I think :)
5) Boy Love
I remember the first time I ever watched something BL. I was 20, I was alone in my dorm room, and I had DC++ (file-sharing client like mIRC, but with a private hub just for on-campus use, so speeds were lightning fast). I had downloaded a few fun shonen series like Hikaru no Go and Prince of Tennis and, while I enjoyed the art and storyline (crack as it was at times), I also enjoyed those subtle slashy relationships only hinted at, even when I knew they were kinda gross and all. I imagine it was purely a curiosity for the forbidden-ness of it all that intrigued me originally. College does that to a girl raised conservative, even a conservative college as my own :P Long story short, I downloaded Gravitation, felt like the baddest ass ever, and fell hard and fast XD No more Mary Sues for me!!
fullmetalkatu! Changed the instructions up just a littleReply to this entry with a random fun fact or awesome macro (bonus points if it's myu-related!) and I will give you five words that remind me of you. Then post them in your journal and explain what they mean to you.
1) Theatre
I actually really used to be involved in theatre. In middle school, I got assigned to it randomly when I couldn't get into another elective I'd wanted to take, and while I'd never really been averse to being on stage (I'd done your typical school plays in elementary school), I'd never really had that much interest in it either. But being a theatre geek was fun, because of course you're all reasonably good friends and it has a way of breaking down the social circles that exist in the school at large, and for a few hours a day maybe you're a part of a fun group. Plus the rush that the stress of a production puts on you is really addicting, too :D I have no trouble understanding why the boys chose the path they did, and why while it may be stressful and low-paying at times, they stick with it.
I left the theatre scene in high school (despite my much beloved theatre teacher moving to teach there from my middle school), when the advanced theatre class conflicted time-wise with my fencing activities which I had become involved in :/ While I had a blast fencing for a while, admittedly, I really wish I'd kept up with it. I miss the feeling, and maybe that's part of what keeps me so damn interested in the guys over here--imagining that some day maybe I'll be able to have a hand in it all again with a new group of people I desperately want to interact with as more than a fan.
2) Translation
I feel like this gives me some sort of purpose :) It's one of the few things I feel like I can do pretty well (along with photoshopping stuff, sometimes), and I like having something to me that other people want or need. Add on to that the fact that languages in general really interest me and translation is something I really, really feel a connection to. I get this little rush any time I have an extended conversation with someone in another language (by and large, Japanese--but there was the one time in Korea where I indicated to a saleswoman that I wanted something and sdiufhslifdusfs it got me so excited :DDDDD), like wow, I am actually being understood here! It probably shouldn't feel so awesome, but I'm glad it does :DDDDD I got this email from a Japanese coworker yesterday that said, in response to another email I'd sent to a client (in Japanese): "Thank you for the mail you sent to BML. Your Japanese is perfect!" ;_; Things like this give me the courage to finally send off that letter to Daiki XD
3) The Boys
I'm assuming "The Boys" means all my boys I put forth time and effort to
4) Life Abroad
So I realized that this summer will mark 3 years since I came to Japan (right now, it's 2.5!), and my family's starting to get tired of not having me around. It's hard to explain to them what I do and why, when I can't even really explain it that well to my closest family friends. Even less so can I tell them that damn, I don't WANT to go back to my hometown with my family in the shape it's in right now >_> I'll stick it out a little longer here, thank you very much! I live in the most populous city on the planet, I have access to more amazing stuff here than I could ever dream of back in the States, and while I would never give up my American citizenship, I've made quite a little home for myself here, I think, and so long as I have this fandom side of things supporting me (mentally, at least; which I think is more important at times even than the physical support of a well-paying job :P) I'll never be happy living at home, not truly and completely. Then again, I'll never be truly and completely happy anywhere, but I've had 22 years to enjoy my family and only 2.5 to enjoy Japan. I can live here a bit longer, I think :)
5) Boy Love
I remember the first time I ever watched something BL. I was 20, I was alone in my dorm room, and I had DC++ (file-sharing client like mIRC, but with a private hub just for on-campus use, so speeds were lightning fast). I had downloaded a few fun shonen series like Hikaru no Go and Prince of Tennis and, while I enjoyed the art and storyline (crack as it was at times), I also enjoyed those subtle slashy relationships only hinted at, even when I knew they were kinda gross and all. I imagine it was purely a curiosity for the forbidden-ness of it all that intrigued me originally. College does that to a girl raised conservative, even a conservative college as my own :P Long story short, I downloaded Gravitation, felt like the baddest ass ever, and fell hard and fast XD No more Mary Sues for me!!
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Date: 2010-01-25 06:24 am (UTC)Gravitation was my first official (DNAngel, gay as it is, doesn't count) yaoi manga/anime too. I still love it.
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Date: 2010-01-25 08:45 am (UTC)No macros, but I do have Osamu-chan walking around in his pyjamas. Does that count? XD
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Date: 2010-01-26 02:31 am (UTC)2) Bleach
3) fanfiction
4) your username :D
5) ...Osamu-chan ♥
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Date: 2010-01-25 09:00 am (UTC)Fun fact: I have a poster of Nagayan from 2 years ago on my wall and none of my roommates (all 4 of them) have guessed even close to his real age. (The highest they got was 21 years old.)
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Date: 2010-01-26 02:21 am (UTC)2) living abroad (back atcha!)
3) cosplay
4) your hometown (...Bakersfield? *should know this*)
5) graduation
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Date: 2010-01-25 09:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-25 09:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-26 02:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-26 02:23 am (UTC)2) color (maaaaybe pink and yellow? :D)
3) living abroad
4) hetalia~
5) TxN XD
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Date: 2010-01-25 09:37 am (UTC)Fun fact: A few years back, I started drawing a picture of something that ended up looking vaguely like Nagayan, but it looks so damn bad that every time I scroll through that folder, I close my eyes when it pops up on the screen. XD
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Date: 2010-01-26 02:25 am (UTC)2) Eiji
3) yakiniku
4) Osaka
5) racy clothing
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Date: 2010-01-25 11:03 am (UTC)random fact of the day: no word in the english dictionary rhymes with silver :D
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Date: 2010-01-26 02:27 am (UTC)2) Tokyo
3) hetalia~
4) your username!
5) that crazy guy who plays Aizen :D
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Date: 2010-02-17 12:31 pm (UTC)