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Welcome to MH! Hope you have fun here~ nice to see another Versailles fan. Even though he's somewhat overlooked, I think Yuki is my favourite because he's the funniest IMO. What games do you play?

Most disgusting food ever invented.

Not sure if the two books posted in this thread count but here ya go

Completely unrelated to K-pop, but I don't give a shite about anything to do with the MCU except for Guardians Of The Galaxy (and even then, I only ever got around to seeing the first one). It's not that I have anything against it and I'm sure that if I saw more, I'd enjoy it; I just don't really care.

Because it's full of pretty men and most men ain't into that would be my answer in a nutshell, but I'll elaborate some. I agree with the people who commented on the first page that if you look at the audience of an all-female band's lives, visual kei or nah, it's more likely that you'll see more men in the audience. I disagree, however, with the idea that "it's all about the money". I mean... yeah, that is a part of it, and it would be naïve to assume that it's not at least a small motivation for anyone who charges for anything, but there is definitely some art in there too. I would argue it's all about the money for the more uninspired, cookie-cutter bands, but to say it's all about the money as a rule of thumb is to exclude the more creative and imaginative bands who really care about what they're doing and actually make an artform out of it. Japan is, generally speaking, still pretty collectivist, so I don't think the foundation of individualistic rebellion is completely gone yet and I think there are some bands who are still seeking to "stick it to the man", as it were, and that is definitely a motivation besides money. If not that, they're at least seeking to, as I said, make an artform out of it. Compare any of the recent bland-kei projects (not saying all the recent bands are like that but yanno what I mean) to something like Moran. The former just want to make money and a meaningless statement for their fifteen minutes of fame, whereas the latter have passion and soul. I didn't name a particular bland-kei band but I'm sure you thought of one or two and were easily able to distinguish them in terms of visuals, music, talent and theme, so I think it's a bit too broad to assume they all have the exact same motivation. Whatever, that was somewhat off-topic. I just thought I'd mention that because I saw a few people bring up the subject of getting money from bangya, although talking about this does make me wonder what the male-female ratio of fans for certain bands are in terms of their originality. Do more men like the more inspired bands? Conversely, do more women like the more inspired all-female bands?

Same, I just liked the Final Fantasy music lol

So my friend just sent me this.

Consistent flakers get a Teletubbies on steroids profile pic that they can't change (srsly, I loved that punishment)

On the subject of anime, Blood Lad was fucking shite. Never read the manga but I watched the anime and it was the dumbest thing I've ever seen.

Twitter always messes with the quality, it's probably that. I hope so, anyways.

Welcome to MH! Hope you have fun here~

Aye, reminds me of the term "chasing the dragon" for heroin.

My high school English teacher pretty much just told my class the exam board were just looking for a load of guff and basically said to just make something up about alliteration or whatever and they'd probably like it and I passed

Oh, this is definitely true. My favourite artist is probably Kerby Rosanes and he's a young artist of this century/decade. I guess the term "modern art" has become a genre in itself characterised by that shitty, "what does this mean" stuff we're used to seeing, and that's the kind I (and other people here) can't stand. I agree with the points made on both sides, really. I just hope more talented artists like Rosanes become more prominent in the art world to take over the abstract, meaningless stuff. I guess it's in the same way that there is good abstract art. For example, Megan Duncanson's art: It's just that negative definitions tend to take over more positive ones, I think. 😕

Agreed. You just reminded me of a book I saw in my local bookstore called "Why Your Five-Year-Old Could Not Have Done That: Modern Art Explained". I didn't buy it, but I read some of it in the store and literally every example basically said "well, your five-year-old could have done that but they wouldn't have seen this deep, esoteric meaning behind it". I wish I was exaggerating. I think this picture puts it best. Also, here's the Goodreads page for the book in case you were interested: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15917028-why-your-five-year-old-could-not-have-done-that What a fucking joke.

I don't like pixie cuts. No offence to anyone who has one/likes them, but it's the same thing with those trousers I mentioned before. Not hideous or anything, but I never really saw the appeal. 🤔

That was actually pretty good. The name of the band made me expect something kind of tanbi kei, and I can definitely hear the influence.

I've been there, only instead of hanging out without me, they just third-wheeled me and couldn't seem to grasp the fact that there is, indeed, a way to cuddle your significant other around friends and still pay attention to them. It was annoying as fuck. I'm no longer friends with them but occasionally I see them out and about together, so I'm assuming they're still in a relationship (it's been over a year since they got together). Even though I don't like them anymore, I'm weirdly proud of them for that. 🤔

I think I can relate to you here. I'm pretty blunt and assertive to pretty much everyone. Not harsh, just... forthright. Not everyone likes that, but as you said, you can't beat around the bush in these situations. It makes me sad how passive a lot of other people are because I always worry that they're not going to be able to stand up for themselves when they really need to. What makes me even sadder is that I learnt the hard way that I can't do it for them, or else they'll just end up depending on me and regressing even further into this state of being someone else's person. I just wonder where it all came from, and why some people are more resilient than others. Honestly, I should probably be dead by now given all the shite that's been flung my way, but for some reason I'm not and I guess that's why I felt that I had to stick up for everyone until I realised I couldn't. Everyone else thought I could, so I thought I should. I wonder if not being able to deal with that makes me stronger or weaker? Sorry, think I went on a bit of a tangent there. 😕

I know when most people are in the shower, they have really deep, philosophical thoughts but all I could think of when I was in the shower earlier was how much I love the word "gripe".

I was gonna say this but I wasn't sure how unpopular it'd be here. They just look like negative space unibrows.