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8 hours ago, jon_jonz said:

Tracks 2 to 6 are DaizyStripper covers.

Which DaizyStripper release is 6 on?

And it's 3 and 4 that are definitely DaizyStripper songs.

Hello and welcome.

Totally am with you on the Gazette. Have been into the early Mejibray stuff but somehow lost it a bit to the end. Didn't even try 8P-SB. From the looks and from what I read it sounds like I just didn't even wanna try. Sad but true.

Hope you have a good time over here. ^^

They've been going with support members for a while but I guess they go for permanent ones and take that time off for this. At least that's what I imagine from the tweet. They sound like they'll be back.

That message states that they pause activities for a while.

As we know that can be true or turn out into forever but for now that one just doesn't say it's a complete activity stop.

23 minutes ago, zombieparadise said:

Haha reading these comments, I almost feel bad for these guys.

I'm amazed they've been around for so long—they must have a super loyal fanbase or something.

I've seen them live with their first vocal and that was real fun. I barely listen to them at home though.

That might be a reason, that they still exist due to lives.

They are touring a lot. They released that best of album with the songs voted by fans by the beginning of this year but yeah that just halfway counts as a new release since they barely recorded anything for it (which didn't surprise me since they've been touring for promoting their mini album from last summer all the time).

They are pretty active they just didn't release something new in a while and I was wondering when they will do. I hope it won't take too long.

I'm still not fully sure but I guess I'm both ace and aro.

I'm at the end of my thirties now not being in a relationship for over ten years, not having had sex for as long, too. And I can't see myself being involved in any of both.

There are thoughts of this on my mind but by now I think it's more some kinda wishful thinking of what's set so deeply in me by what society teaches by how one should be what is normal. Which's pure crap. There's no normal.

So while I've been in a relationship for almost nine years since I was 17 and I've had have sex less than ten times with him which's basically nothing I never was really fond of it. Back then I was curious like everyone at my age was. It wasn't really good but I never could have said that I even couldn't admit this to myself but just do now bit by bit (or start relating how I felt back then to what I think might be the reason).

I've been in another relation afterwards and there's been even attraction to physical closeness yet I still don't know if again this was the part I learnt by society or just basic attraction to the person (female this time) but less about sex itself. It got less and less and she even once asked me if I were disgusted by touching her. Now I'd say yeah, I was, I am by just thinking about it. But back then I was completely caught off guard and couldn't say anything on it.

To me attraction is also more of the aesthetical type even though I referred to people as hot in the past, too. However I recognized I connect hotness with aesthetics and beauty.

I came to the conclusion to leave behind what's bad for me. It's a hard decision and I've been through all my close to 40 year old life to get to that point.

However while a part of me just feels like advising to do the same I don't wanna do because I don't your whole situation, you are not me and all that.

What I think everyone in such situations should do is think through how things feel for them. Can you go on that way? Can you find ways to talk to her to give her a feeling of how you feel? It might be she never will even imagine this, I'm not even talking about understanding.

Also I think it's always good to not just think but listen to your gut feeling. It's so much more trustworthy than any logical thought or any feeling coming from a heart.

For your own sake distance yourself what feel unbearable to you. To keep yourself as healthy and strong as possible.

1 hour ago, heresytrash said:

 

I suppose I worded it weirdly, I'm mainly thinking about someone I know who's actually caused harm and 'admits to doing it' but hasn't made any attempt to formally apologize to me or the victim who has had it much worse from them. Thinking that we owe him any sort of forgiveness for simply 'getting help' when I know he's not remorseful at all and continues to play the victim card on us.

Fully agree to this.

Why forgiving them? So they go on like they did before? To make them feel better while they made others feel whatever they feel like now (since there's a wide range I don't put certain ways of feeling like there)?

That changes a lot depending on how close I'm listening and what I'm doing while listening.

I listen to music while doing house chores and I sometimes don't listen very closely especially when there are other thoughts coming to my mind and are more present.

I listen to music while working on novels and stuff and I sometimes don't even recognize what I'm listening to though later some of that music triggers thoughts of what I was working on so there's a connection being created and I sometimes connect certain scenes to certain parts of songs.

I barely watch anything so for bands I love a lot I might watch a PV when it comes out, sometimes I watch it a bit more often but that's rare. Depending on the bands and whether I've seen them live or not there also might be scenes of that on my mind either scenes I've seen or rather thoughts/feelings I've had during/around the time of the lives.

Also depending on what's present in my life while I listen to songs a lot I sometimes start connection songs to these situations. That also happens when I understand (parts of) the lyrics or read translations and connect to them out of my own experience (be it the whole lyrics or - what happens more often - parts of them).

I also sometimes concentrate on music and certain aspects even though I'm not really good at details so I focus more on accentuation in combination with the lyrics (for example Gazette's "Falling" like in the middle of the song where Ruki sings "I'm gonna fall" and with the word "fall" they made the song in an accentuated way, like everything's crashing without stopping afterwards but I recognized that pretty fast because this one is very obvious). I also do this to either find new things even after years of listening to songs or to focus on details I just love like certain guitar melodies or ways of singing or drums parts, bass parts whatever.

@KomorebiBasically I think talking things through is always worth it with people that are dear to oneself. But then you actually even tried with telling her how you feel while even going through a real tough time (which makes it even harder going through this crap).

I've been at a similar point this year, several times actually even though all were long-term stuff (like me being hurt for months or years). I decided on parting. I leave behind what's not doing me good. I've been fighting so much and it never paid off. Who doesn't show me I'm important to them doesn't belong in my life anymore. But I had to learn this the hard way and over many many years. I wish to you it'll be an easier way for you, it won't ever be easy though.

I always guessed all except for Aoi left 彩冷える to get out of their contract. I also guess they couldn't just disband due to that contract. But I don't know, that's always just been my guess. So with enough time passing they could get back together.

I think I never really listened to their older stuff so it's just parts of their albums I put here.

From best to worst

The Marrow Of A Bone

Withering To Death

Vulgar

Arche

The Insulated World

Uroboros

Dum Spiro Spero

Not knowing anything about the educational system in the UK but from your post it doesn't sound any different from Germany's regarding not caring about individual people but just wanting to get everyone out the same. As if people were like that ... Individualism doesn't count at all. Sad but true. In my opinion that's part of the increasing numbers of people suffering from depression, burn-out and a lot more. Everyone shall be as the rest, the bigger part not even be too educated to think for themselves but just follow crap some others came up with. Don't question anything just function. And be able to replace somehow who got sorted out.

2 hours ago, Gesu said:

I want to work with children in the future (as a paediatric therapist) so it's a relief to know they tend to take you more seriously than adults do. That being said, I'll probably be working with their parents too and it's them I'll most likely need to get through to more than anyone. I don't want them looking at me like I'm their kid bossing them around. 😕

I guess for the kids it was easy at some point because I acted as a mixture between teacher and buddy. Like we talked in a pretty lax way but I'm also pretty strict regarding rules. It's easier to show this to a kid. Convincing adults that think of you still being a child/teen/adolescent might be harder. On the other hand, if you work for a company and not self-employed you got hired and therefore must be qualified.

When I started working with elementary school students (I'm not a teacher it was more about teaching them how to use a PC more than ten years ago because most teachers were rather old and had no clue of it but it had to be taught), being the middle of my 20s back then and 154 cm I really was afraid about being taken seriously. It worked but kids are different from adults I guess. At least my voice ain't high therefore it's pretty low in volume because I'm shy and an introvert and that doesn't help with talking to others and I have to prepare myself before to talk loud enough. It worked better with the kids back then and after them getting to me and the other way around things settled pretty fine (I can talk pretty loud when I feel comfortable). But talking in low volume doesn't help with people taking me as serious as they should now, too. And I guess being that short always just made people even think more I'm quite younger than I am.

1 minute ago, spockitty said:

I don't particularly mind either, at least it always greatly amuses my mother when I mention it  apparently she was mistaken for underage until over 40, so I suppose there's still a long way ahead of me :'D 

I have to admit it felt strange when it stopped. I still think it's pretty funny and sometimes I still expect to get asked. And in the end I think it's better than looking a lot older than I am (at least considering I'm turning 40 next year yet still feeling like 22).

I've been through this when buying cigarettes until around 35. At some point I just awaited being asked and already smirked when they really did. Don't mind this I tried to take it as a compliment.

Gazette

Without any question.

I've been doing for 12 weeks straight just now (except for listening to previews or full MV vids here when they got posted but just for trying them out once).

Hey hey and welcome.

3 hours ago, Kaile said:

So instead of deciding of favorite album here are some of my all time best songs i would recommend to other people: Filth in the beauty, Zetsu, Namaatatakai Kaze no Zaratsuita Jonetsu, Dogma, Lucy, Fadeless, Uncertain Sense, Wakaremichi, Juunanasai, Miseinen, Reila, Ganges ni akai bara, Chizuru, Invisible wall, In the middle of chaos, Falling, Cassis, Gabriel on the Gallows, Babylon’s Taboo, Silly god disco, Inside Beast.

Those were the ones that came to my mind, probably forgot about some anyway. I think that  gazette is in a pretty good spot considering their music quality as even the weaker songs i can’t dislike and i just like them a little less. Or maybe i just became a die hard fan and i will accept whatever they release, haha

I also can't pick a single album as a favorite but starting by favorite songs, I actually can't decide either. Like you said some are better some are a bit less good but still good though. 😅

I never had a Spotify account or something the like. I dislike streaming. I'm still going by digital files from ripped CD's or sometimes digitally bought releases. I barely listen to any western music and when I do it's more for nostalgic reasons and there I'm back with ripped CD files.

3 hours ago, Komorebi said:

Well, my parents live in the countryside and there's always been infants in the house so for them a cat is an outside pet due to hygiene and safety. My cats were always born and raised outside, they just can't be forcefully kept inside and they live in an area were there's not many other cats to run into, really.

 

PS: same reason to keep dogs outside. 

I mainly referred to those that get themselves cats that haven't been outside before so they wouldn't miss it.

I've heard too many heartbreaking stories of cat owners also those not from cities. Like cats being in the fields in summer, harvester-threshed in that same field, accident. That for sure doesn't go for all cats. And I also know of people who always lived with cats in that way (cats outside, people inside) who don't have that deep bonds. If cats die by this, well, that's natural, something along that line. But I also know of others who are heartbroken and I don't get why to exposing cats to that risk, if not necessary (I consider a cat that's been outside all their life before as necessary to be outside in the future, too).

Aside from this my cat suffers from several chronic diseases and needs medication on a regular base. It's hard to guarantee this when cats can be outside (it weren't an option for me anyway, big city, big apartment house). But from seeing so many people, seeing them worry how to establish such kinda medical routine when their cats get diagnosed with a disease and also by the risks that being outside helds (cats that only live outside usually don't get very old and that's for some reasons) I came to the conclusion to rather give cats a good living in a save environment. I don't blame people who don't do but I think those that get heartbroken easily by this should consider to change their mind in the future about it.

I'd never let my cat be just outside, if I had the possibility. Aside from hunting I also see the other side like people poising cats (and also dogs) and all that crap. Nope. Never. And I'll never understand how people can do this to their cats (I'm on several cat forums and whenever someone starts like "I want to let them outside, they've never been" I'm like "why at all?").

Btw. ever lived with a cat that got raw fed? xDD

It's not exactly the same as a cat after hunting but to me it was a similar feeling when mine came to me right after eating. Even though I like the positive aspects of raw feeing.

1 hour ago, spockitty said:

Dude, I'm not they only freak around! I do the same ^^;;

 

Obviously I also keep the obi and any unrelated trash they feel like throwing inside the CD package (one notable trash I keep is an unused balloon that came with Miyavi's Shindemo Boogie-Woogie Single+VHS package). Obi itself makes the CD feel more special for me, for whatever reason.

 

 

I'm very careful when it comes to my stuff from Japan (but actually also for books, so it's not just this).

And yeah, I also keep everything inside, stickers, those tiny flyers for upcoming tours, even those stamp cards shops like Brand X sent with the order. 😅

I even keep the plastic wrapping the CDs come with. That's why I also leave the obi where it was when I got the CD. But I'm not as picky when it comes to buying used CDs. I love when they come with an obi but if it's missing I don't care, too.