Rahzel

So I'm back home, my dad is in a bad mood bc he's forcing himself to try and organize his own mess, meanwhile I'm here all ~*minimalistic*~ ~*less is more*~ ~*conscious consumerism*~ trying to share the wonders and he doesn't listen

So I start buying a lot of shit weeb merch to make the sanctuary I call my bedroom even more crowded and just. try and forget that the world exists  

Dear Lord when will I be able to move out? Why wasn't I born in a middle class family where kids take having a bedroom full of lame posters for granted? thx

So I'm surfing this local 'ebay' looking at things that I obviously can't buy and then I find the store of some random dude who seems to share my passion for bjd, japanese rock/idols and shit animu? "really cool, maybe I could buy from here bc at least I can save up on shipping" I thought, so I start scrolling and now I am.. intrigued by this combo of expensive brand clothes/luxury goods, bondage statue from gay anime and Yamamoto Linda CD. Atsushi Sakurai is that u? (honestly though, TASTE.)

Honestly though. This is 1/4 of a legit Brazilian Hawaiian Japanese Poke bowl dish and actually tastes good 👀 (Plus some Extra Spicy Curry powder from some instant ramen I threw away ? chefs kiss ) 

Restaurants ... missing u 

Certainly japanese food though I only liked tenpura/kakiage and kani (and Hana no kuchizuke does it count??) and hated most of it for ages. Then I started working at a place which only had 1 restaurant really close by, which happened to be a traditional Japanese food parlor ... I'm lazy and didn't wanna walk for ten minutes just to grab food and that's how I ended up like this. (When I say "I didn't choose the weeb life" ...) I was often just grabbing an onigiri or plain bento with sashimi and gyoza etc and mochi, jelly candy or (a very missed) dorayaki (and THE ANPAN !! ALSO MISS ;_; ) for desserts but ALL of it was so well-prepared I started seeking Japanese food parlors everywhere lol.  (Unfortunately most did not beat that small restaurant ;_; ) started a course near a very good restaurant just before the pandemic (and ate the HUGEST tonkatsu on the first day k) so thx covid now I am not broke nor obese yay  

Also for some reason I never got to eat curry rice but I assume that'd be my favorite dish if I had (taking into account I've been eating only the powder ever since instant noodles came to exist) and also I want to eat okonomiyaki and that fried tako stuff someday 

For everything else ... Chinese food often makes me sick, not sure if it's just my luck or the spice is to blame, but kung pao is great. I'm not super into pasta but it's ok ?? (My bff is half Italian and she's a cook so I eat it often, it's not SUPER my thing but gnocchi .. yum) Also not sure how common this is elsewhere but (local variations of) chicken stroganoff is one of my favorite dishes. ... Also, almost forgot, very much like local variations of french chicken fricassee but no idea if I'd like the real thing ??  

Edit: thinking harder about this I reeeally like portuguese custard tart and latin american alfajor and churros ... Actually, when it comes to desserts I feel like my taste is way more diverse! Gee wonder y 

(Honestly aside from these my thing is just junk/fast food and local food though, and by local food I mean not feijoada but rather pao de queijo for breakfast, barbecue, casquinha de siri or pastel for lunch, dulce de leche, bolinho de chuva and brigadeiro for desserts and a nice guarana soda to drink 🥰 ) 

So... industry gone idol doing idol industry shit? Damn shook 

Sarcasm aside, really wonder how commonplace that kinda stuff is. It's all obviously very common among fabricated pop idols and all who are basically dolls to their companies, but I didn't know/would probably not take very seriously if some stranger told me this was going on in underground japanese rock 🤔 ... So wondering for how long 

When you're so deep into your y2k aesthetic that you can't listen to anything that has disbanded in less than 20 yrs and the current qualities of most (basically oshare) vk acts of nowadays doesn't help 

Stuck watching vhs recorded lives. Bummer 

(Come to think of it ... Why haven't I checked any releases from that animal band yet?) 

Mine was mai k-pop boy before but then I changed to an icon created literally by pressing a randomize button in one of those... Icon "dollmakers" people throw around on Twitter nowadays ?? It was created at random but I found it very representative of myself 

Anyway, I should change it? I could prettify the world but do I want to 

9 hours ago, KrumpingChihuahua said:

Watching a lot of newer stuff i noticed it a lot too. The fanservice seemed to have calmed down. 

 

Something i started to wonder after being confronted with kpop-idol X reader fanfictions, i was wondering why this seemed to have never been a thing? 

It really has, hasn't it? Feels like bands woke up one day and went "why did we ever think that was good practice to attract fans?" (because let's be honest, they probably drew in sum weird kinds of frothing female masses thru it) ... I "went back" to checking vk releases somewhat recently and it surprised me that I find myself shipping "pink haired uwu k-pop boys" but not vk bandomen but that's just the reality we all live in. Weird. 👀 

Glad we never went that low tho 

As an afterthought. I take back what I said on the other post. Recently I have been watching videos by older bands and realizing that when they did the onstage fanservice thing it was often cringy/forced and maybe my "nay" has always been less about the ~bl 💖 ~ and more like I wasn't into it back then as I am not into it now lol. My pink haired uwu k-pop boys look cute when they cuddlin and acting like a married couple sry 

In a less angry note and more of a "late nite tweet except this isnt my Twitter and clearly I aint ok." today (while I was thinking of, honestly, people I met in elementary/middle school) I was hit by the sudden realization that I first heard (of?) vk probably on the year GazettE was FORMED which makes me think firstly I am getting old ffs 

But also that maybe it is why I feel zero GazettE nostalgia and fail to see how influential they were/are (they were/are right?)? To me it was literally "some random vk band some kids like (and I don't)"? Not even kidding? I was around when western ~ vk fandom ~ was p much 1/2 metalhead X fans and 1/2 fujoshi Gackt/Mana ficwriters ??? 

This was a scary realization of my own age and one I wanted to share. Thank you 

Do u have the right to call an off day if ur boss doesn't show up in thirty five minutes 

Cuz I arrived 5 min earlier only to wait for 40 min in the rain feet r tired 

Honestly if I found out they did call an off day bc of the rain and nobody told me (as I live in a different direction I can get there even if its raining ....... ) Ill be mmmmaddd (actually won't but.) 

2 hours ago, suji said:

Contact an admin and they can change it for you! ^^

Thank you!! Any of them? Is there anyone who does this regularly? 👀 

Been changing my username everywhere (some accs like this one I made with other mames who knows y) to "Rahzel" so can I change my name here too? 

Sorry if question is dumb 😔

Oh ok and I was Just getting into them again and I was so happy they were active still 

Hello darkness my old friend 

This is sooo ~randum~, but hey. I really wanna see people's replies to this

If you had to describe one (or more) of your favorite vk band(s) with one piece of media, be it a paragraph, a lyric, a picture, a song, an mv, an interview, whatever - how would you describe it? That one thing you saw and went "oh, ok, this is quintessentially ___".

This idea actually crossed my mind when I felt this watching Nazuki by Nightmare - a PV not many would consider their favorite but I really liked back then and completely forgot why, until I went back to it years later and realized the mess it is lol.

From there I realized that I only like messy bands most bands would have something like that you consider to be a "classical (this band)" thing, so... please introduce me to your favorite band(s) with one piece of media alone! No need to explain it, just go!  (The weirder, the better.)

Does anyone not? I mean, if their newer band sucks isn't it Fun to look at what they did before and go "cmon I know you could do better!" or If the new one is cool but you don't like their earlier bands see in what ways they changed and ended up suiting your tastes better? But this doesn't go for vk only, I am always very interested in seeing past and future projects of any musicians I like/d personally. For vk there is the added factor of how their AeStHeTiCs cganged too. Rly cool 

On 8/28/2020 at 12:23 AM, Chell said:

Wow what the hell. Some honest lack of entertainment in my life led me down the rabbit hole of Anthony Padilla's I-spent-a-day series of videos and I am pretty horrified at the maid cafe one lmaoo
Honestly some things like yaoi paddles and lewd maid cafes just never really made it where I live and I mean ........... do kids actually pay for some girls in a lewd* anime* maid* costume to step on them lol why would you do it to yourself and how many hours will it take for u to regret ur behavior

Updates 

Alice followed that track and found out that turned out to be, uh, this Youtubers idea of marketing his brand new fan meeting event, which was essentially meeting his fans in one such lewd anime maid cafe where girls get paid for stepping on nerds, except he became such a maid for a day 

You know, u'd think after decades of clearly not having a problem with hot guys dressed up as anime maids doing lewd 🚽 I'd take that easily, but the fact that some popular youtuber out there is doing that really makes me think.  ... And think. And there goes my brain spinning into the distance. 

Wow what the hell. Some honest lack of entertainment in my life led me down the rabbit hole of Anthony Padilla's I-spent-a-day series of videos and I am pretty horrified at the maid cafe one lmaoo
Honestly some things like yaoi paddles and lewd maid cafes just never really made it where I live and I mean ........... do kids actually pay for some girls in a lewd* anime* maid* costume to step on them lol why would you do it to yourself and how many hours will it take for u to regret ur behavior

um u ok

Hello, welcome back!

I'm relatively new here but gotta say your taste, particularly for non-vk bands is impeccable!! (according to: yours truly. lolol ) 

Hope to see you around so we can exchange some thoughts and recs ! ~

Not meaning to trashtalk a fav here but I didn't see anyone mention this so, just asking if anyone else noticed ... Doesn't the intro to ACME - Rotten Orange / Fuhai Mikan sound exactly like some early UVERworld song? Unfortunately only source: I have to offer is "14yo me ate those cds" but took me a while to not be like "here goes UVERworld(/some other jrock band maybe)." (and then it just becomes a very different ANGRY GUTTURAL NOISES type of song that relies on that one chorus as much as early UVER songs did but anyway lol. Who Knows why they like that song...)

Couldn't pass on the OOR classic (also is non-vk allowed???)

ONE OK ROCK - DEEPER DEEPER 👀

What's your favorite color?

When you find on some joke retro website you're browsing an animated deviantart stamp (!!) that looks just like the style of that lovely artist you lost sight of 7 years ago, but ur too chicken to ask for source out of nowhere and Google images can't search dA gifs 😞

43 minutes ago, violetchain said:

Haha, yeah, I've been laughing so hard watching those videos. While I'm a big KAT-TUN fan, I've always found Jin kind of irritating, tbh, so I was really surprised by how fun they are to watch. The dynamic he has with Ryo is so cute.

Yeah. Guess Jin had this "troublesome sht" image to him for a long time, but now I can't even see that. Big old-NEWS fan here and my best boi was Ryo so ever since he (finally) left Johnnys and solo debuted I've been following what he does, and am I glad this series came up! (because his music is underwhelming at best compared to what he did back then lol.)

Now for something in-topic ... This person has literally the only "anime channel" I find interesting on Youtube ; it's just ... a whole other level of content 

Hey, just a very random comment by someone who reads these on occasion - sorry it's late!

The Vocaloid utaite trash in me couldn't help but notice the way they put "or should we say 磁石 (lit magnet) no you ni ... lol" after mentioning that they met at a gig ; though I've been out of the loop so, don't know of any recent utaite gigs that played magnet. (speaking of which, Piko was doing some oshareish/anguraish/whatsthatish stuff before though I doubt anyone there is him.)

Anyway, hoping they get to release more music and play regularly soon! (since Kira mentions Nightmare as an influence I'm eager lol.)

30 minutes ago, plastic_rainbow said:

i mean, it's mostly just some of my favorite vk songs i've listened to over the years, nothing really special lol. it's a really long list, and i didn't even include everything i wanted, but if you're still interested i can maybe send the playlist to you.

 

not doing this to impress someone at all, just love sharing music

lol I know that feeling. If it's not a bother, could you? Honestly I'd love to listen to it (and, well, I'm not likely to judge because a) I don't really believe in "better tastes" and b) my tastes are Shit Tier apparently plus it's not like I can listen to it *right now* so there's probably enough time if you regret sharing and just feel like deleting it lol.)

And, well, maybe I can think of something different to add if you feel like it? (ie. something less heavy but still vk that they might like )