mahoujin

I never liked Kiryu. I didn't like them when they were new. Still, I check back in every few years with stuff I didn't like. I kept giving them chances because my friends would rave about how good they are. I never liked a single thing I heard, even if I asked friends for recommendations. Well, it took me how many years? I watched some PVs a few weeks ago and actually liked it.

This ended up a lot better than I expected and a lot more quickly than I expected. I'm glad they can continue activities.

This whole situation is so shameful. I feel really bad for the rest of the band. Vexent is so good, too.

Went downtown for dinner and a Shonen Knife concert. We got asked about our Halloween costumes a lot. We dress like this year round.

I hope they find him, but the fact that they put it out there that he owes his band members money, it sounds like he's gonna be in trouble when they do. Also HE HAS A CAT. HAS ANYONE CHECKED ON IT? HAS ANYONE TAKEN CARE OF IT? Just real talk here. His cat, guys.

Conventions are where I can dress in a way that I really feel like myself

Definitely my favorite concert I've been to. Definitely my favorite weekend ever. I hope I can see them again some day.

When is the photo session on Saturday? Is it after the Q&A or am I just making weird assumptions?

Christmas and Thanksgiving are really the only ones my family does anything for and Christmas is basically Thanksgiving+, so I gotta go with Christmas.

I don't know if this is a "good" thing that happened to me, but I remembered I made an OkCupid account a few months ago and logged in yesterday. I haven't stopped laughing at a message I got.

YESSSSSS NAO

Good lord. I'm reading this at work and trying so hard not to laugh. He never learns.

I tried learning Japanese on my own nearly 10 years ago, but I didn't get very far because I had no guidance and was basically trying to memorize stuff on my own with no actual practice. I don't really remember much from then, aside from being able to decently read katakana, hiragana, and a few kanji. I'm terrible at speaking or understanding spoken Japanese. What I know now is really basic stuff and pretty random words and phrases that I've mostly just picked up from being a fan of Japanese stuff, but not from actively trying to learn the stuff.

"How much longer can I stay in bed without making myself late?"

I don't mean to post so much in a row, but I was at a store that was selling lenses that have been sold out every time I've tried to buy them online for like literally the past 5 years and I'm really excited to have them. Feeling properly visual kei with some unnaturally light blue-gray lenses.

Stumbled across this thread while listening to this song just now. It is fate.

I'm really looking forward to seeing them at Anime USA this year.

While Insanity Injection was a weird choice, the quote "it was Satan's side bitches and they didn't eat that morning" really made it worth it.

It's been a while since I posted

Songs or intros or anything with fucking crying babies. I know there are more examples than what I linked, but I can't think of them since I tend to banish those songs from my life immediately.

Okay so I revise my statement here from a year ago and am really just finally admitting that I'm trans. Because I'm not the "right kind of masculine" I never really considered myself trans and just kind of thought I must be neither. I've been identifying as nonbinary for a couple years, but honestly that just doesn't feel like enough or like it doesn't fit. I think I've really held back because I can't pass because of my body and my current situation doesn't allow me to medically transition. It's hard because I don't feel like I'm doing enough to "deserve" male pronouns or change my name (if I even knew what name I wanted, which I don't). I also feel like if I'm not dressing masculine enough and not conforming to American gender norms, that the trans community will view me as a joke at best and a threat to trans acceptance at worst. The idea of being accepted as I am as part of the trans community is beyond my expectations, honestly. This is kind of weird, but a visual kei forum seems like a good place to share this.

I'm assuming there was supposed to be more content here than just the band name and pic of them, but yeah the new look is nice and I'm glad to see Crim back.

He has a tendency to argue with overseas fans on social media and doesn't know when to let things go. I don't have caps anymore, but years ago, either a friend of mine or I (I don't even remember at this point) made a joke "Mana vs Dada" facebook post and he saw it and got FUCKIN PISSED, blocked everyone except the friend who jokingly "sided" with him, and wrote a rant on his own facebook about how Canadians (referring to us, despite no one in the conversation being Canadian) are terrible people and to not consider yourself his fan if you're Canadian, which created MORE arguing with MORE fans in the comments. He unfriended all of his Canadian fans on facebook, probably along with other people, considering we weren't even Canadian in the first place wtf, said he would never perform in Canada because Canadians are all terrible people who make fun of him, etc... It was just generally a clusterfuck he started because he got super offended about a shitty meme that literally no one was taking seriously. He started up again a few years later because some people were talking shit about Kiwamu (loooooool) and took shitty cell phone videos at his concerts, which he argued at length with fans about because again, dude doesn't know when to shut up. Threatens to leave facebook, disband/retire for the millionth time in said thread. There are caps for that one. Please note that he is literally starting drama on purpose by posting this. I don't know how often he does this or if he still does this since he blocked me like 6 years ago because of the Canadian Drama™ and blocked most of my other friends for various stupid reasons over the years and seriously no one actually cares to try to add him back even if they have new accounts now.

Came here expecting to at least see Dada from Velvet Eden mentioned because oh man... that guy...

I looked like I joined Schwarz Stein instead of met them. I was really nervous though. But then by the next day, I was much less nervous with just Kaya