u/CoolTransDude1078

So, in Australia, it's coming up to the end of semester one. That means a lot of assessments are starting to come up, and to prepare us, most of our classes have either mandatory or heavily recommended practice assessments. In english, I, under the time pressure, forgot the word "villagers" or "townspeople" so when analysing our novel in our practice assessment, I wrote "people" since I needed to just keep writing. I got the practice assessment back and, reading the annotations, she wrote "stories don't have people". YES. They don't. They have characters. And antis reallllly need to get that through their heads, I think.

I'm keeping it in my notes app, and I'll keep it updated all year and post it at the end, but currently the wildest is saying that >!rape!< and ageplay are comparable evils.

Like, there's 20 of us. And for some reason, the first 4 of us who formed are a group, no clue why 4, and then the first 12 that formed are also a group. Not a group as in "on their own" either, just like, a category. We have some categories that make more sense, like the shattered gang (they're all from the same universe) and the musical buds (both from different musicals).

To clarify, I don't mean at the same time, although if both happen to be the same song that's fine of course, basically I was to learn to sing to a babymetal song and learn to dance to a babymetal song. For singing, the language isn't a barrier too much since I learnt Japanese for 5 years.

As an additional question! I watched a video basically breaking down the whole history of BM and they also described some fandom terms, and megitsune is apparently used to denote female fans while kitsune is for any fans. I'm a trans man but I don't feel 100% aligned to masculinity, would using megitsune for myself be okay in terms of fandom etiquette?

TWO streamers I've watched have been so lovely!

First is Bubble Bee Lucy, an Australian vtuber. I'm in her discord so at the end of a recent stream I asked her if we could sign off our messages with who's fronting, and she said "yeah of course as long as no one's hurting anyone just do whatever" and a couple people made jokes but like, the chill kind where I knew it wasn't joking about me, if that makes sense.

Second is Goru San, an ASMRtist. I'm writing this as I'm still in the stream it happened on. We (as in, chat and Goru, not "me" we) got on the topic of ASMR channels and I brought up Shattered Stories ASMR, thinking no one would know of him because he was relatively small and unlisted (not deleted!) all his videos and Goru went MAYBE and I freaked so I sent them 2 archival playlists of his stuff (and then promptly left his server, I'm <18 his server is 18+ not because it's explicit or anything, so I of course asked first and he laid out the expectations of the interaction) and then I was like "I feel safe here, I have 3 fictives from some of those audio series" and he was so chill and it was a wonderful stream and he said that once I'm 18, which isn't too long away, I'm more than welcome to stay in his server.

By new I mean like an hour or so new. I decided to binge babymetal because I'd heard of them vaguely before and wanted to deep dive, I haven't listened to much yet, I nearly cried at KARATE but didn't, but then I watched an English subtitled performance of Ijime, Dame, Zettai and sobbed. As a previous bullying victim, that song hit very close to home. It's the sorta thing that if I'd known about it back when I was being bullied I'd have listened to it to find strength. I related to so much of the lyrics. And then I ended up bawling my eyes out while all I could hear was "WE ARE" "BABYMETALLLL".

I'm fine now but that was an emotional punch to the face I didn't know I would be getting.

A friend of ours asked this recently and it was a fun thing to consider. Some were obvious, like, Macha, she'd be a sorcerer. Because she's a sorceress. And Cerridwyn would also be a sorcerer, because in source she kinda has innate magic? (Alternatively she'd be a warlock but her magic didn't really come from a patron who watches over her or from learning so warlock and wizard seemed unlikely). Some were harder, like Belle and Vox.