who knows - but here's a link to a very short video I recorded for you all, please let me know if it works or if I have to go cry at someone today to teach me to Internet.
byeeeeee
Rachel
2019-11-18 23:42:46 +0000 UTC View PostHey! So, the most consensus was for tomorrow morning my time- 8:00 am JST. That should be early evening USA time, I don't know where you all live. So please message your questions to the inbox before that time, and I'll read and answer them. If you comment at that time, I'll try to answer then, too.
As long as this doesn't go horribly (read: somehow I burn this whole fancy hotel down on accident before my work conference), I'll be doing it again fairly soon- so don't ge...
2019-11-18 11:12:04 +0000 UTC View PostShe used hiraishin to return to her office in Kirigakure. She sat the rug down and unrolled it enough that Orochimaru’s pale face could be seen. Then she pulsed her chakra and cleared her throat. “Security,” Aiko called. Her voice was still a bit off, but much closer to her usual pitch. Her throat was quickly healing. “If you don’t mind, can someone come in here?”
The black operative who answered her call was clearly about 70% certain that he was walking into a tr...
2019-11-17 07:26:23 +0000 UTC View PostCurrently working on more Great Lakes as well as some scary short stories again (if you think you can inspire one of us to write something seasonal, shoot your shot).
Y'all have any requests or interests you'd like us to write about or include? Comment below!
(I also realized that maybe, maybe, I can livestream tomorrow night- Sat morning US time. If that appeals, please also comment.)
2019-11-15 12:37:52 +0000 UTC View Post(providing I can figure out all the internet tubes and how to do it)
Due to a work conference and some other issues, I have some options available por vous, my beautiful patrons.
On Sunday, November 17, which would be probably 11 pm JST. i don't know where you all are, but that's probably Sunday morning.
I also have "patrons' day" here on the 19th- I could probably manage either 8 am JST or in the evening my time, but it wou...
2019-11-14 04:31:14 +0000 UTC View PostHe only let her lay that way for about ten minutes before he gave up.
“You’re really gonna live in the tax shack?” He asked, voice nearly cracking at the end.
Oh no. She may have broken him.
She rolled over and opened one eye. “Is this not your house, the house in which I, your daughter, am expected to live?”
He squinted.
She huffed, and sat up. “Why wouldn’t I want to live in such a luxurious estate, so rich in…” she looked ou...
2019-11-12 06:47:12 +0000 UTC View PostRegina sent Shizune and Momo off to terrify the general populace, noting that a gaggle of anbu immediately appeared to shadow them.
‘Where were they hiding, the vases?’
Regina eyed the water suspiciously, but nothing moved.
She found Jiraiya just outside, suspiciously not-lurking by the flower beds. He was supposedly inspecting a daisy, but she’d bet her right tit that he knew jack all about botany. He kept making ‘hmm’ noises, and gently turning lea...
2019-11-12 03:33:06 +0000 UTC View PostWhat the hec should one of us talk about?
Comment, vote, yell it outside at the sky so someone tells me.
2019-11-12 00:58:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe last day before the office had left for New Year’s, Mr. Kondo had been particularly vile. Poor Kanna had had the misfortune to have a computer problem, as they were filing the end of year reports. He’d slapped her, twice.
After they filed out at roughly one am, long past their working time, he had stood holding the door. He sneered at each woman in particular, evidently enjoying their fear as they had to brush past him to leave the building.
When Miho had passe...
2019-10-31 14:59:49 +0000 UTC View PostMiho walked into the station, eyes cast down and with her right hand shoved into her purse. She tapped her ICOCA card on the sensor, and kept walking.
Her heart was beating strangely fast. She tried to slow her breathing, but the air just felt trapped within her face mask. She wanted to take it off, but she couldn’t.
She nervously adjusted her long hair around her face as she waited in the first station.
The train would be arriving any minute. She looked around...
2019-10-31 13:24:28 +0000 UTC View Post
I am locked out of by my tumblr, possibly forever
its fine
just saying.
other than that, life is going pretty well.
Will attach a photo of me at a Halloween party with the only other cop who showed up in booty shorts. It’s pretty spoopy.
Stay tuned for more spookiness.
Something was moving in the ceiling again.
“It’s just a snake,” Mama said, clacking down breakfast plates adeptly. “I’m sure it climbed up that kinmokusei tree and it’s living in our roof. Do you have your nametag? I don’t want to have to bring it to you again.”
“I have it,” Kanon said, in a grouchy tone she wasn’t entirely proud of. “Of course.” When Mama turned away, she slid her hand inside the pocket of her uniform vest to check. The thin piece of pla...
2019-10-31 07:59:54 +0000 UTC View PostRegina changed and sponged herself to a reasonable level of cleanliness. She scrubbed off the makeup, but left the hairdo. She was sure it was going to take hours to get all the pins and hairspray out.
And she was too hungry to wait that long, to be honest.
She dressed in one of her silk outfits and low heels, because Tsunade would probably be appalled if they’d gone to all the effort of polishing her up to a princess and she’d immediately attempted to look like a ...
2019-10-21 13:49:09 +0000 UTC View PostMomo the Zabuza-san, who had, she had to emphasize, had not dressed up whatsoever, was definitely still wearing the sake-and-shochu-stained clothes and face bandages of indeterminate purpose, ambled out of the princess box with the grace one would expect from a toddler trying to take off their own one-piece jumpsuit. It was clumsy, and horrible, and took a looong time.
He was enjoying it. When he finally ‘unstuck’ himself from the door, he stood to the side and cracked his nec...
2019-10-17 07:10:39 +0000 UTC View PostTraveling with Shizune and Tsunade was both excruciatingly painful and boring. She walked for hours and hours behind them in the hot sun. Tsunade inevitably vanished the instant they got to a town large enough to have a bar, and she and Shizune did errands- delivering suspect packages, providing medical care (Regina was like, really good at holding Shizune’s bag), and fabricating tracks so that debt collectors didn’t find Tsunade. At night, Shizune would take Regina to a ryokan, one of ma...
2019-10-09 13:40:34 +0000 UTC View Post
The damn thing only had one eye, yellowed and dim, but it was intently focused on the spectators. It pressed its face even harder into the space between the metal fence slats, as if it could reach them by sheer willpower.
“Kind of feel sorry for the stupid thing,” Grandma Gun muttered, too quietly for their escort to hear. “It’s just hungry.”
The part of the ghoul’s face that had been blown clean off showed brain tissue, grey-pink and faintly pulsing. It d...
2019-09-27 00:56:43 +0000 UTC View Post
“Do you have time to meet with the Fire Daimyo on Thursday?” Nishikawa looked pained, flipping between two pages of the master schedule book. “I think we need to block off the entire day for that, really… You’ll have to enter at the closest border the conventional way and be escorted to the palace, they won’t appreciate you-” he shot a glance at her. “Arriving at the gate directly,” he finished diplomatically.
Aiko bit her lip and leaned back, thinking thr...
2019-09-26 03:16:50 +0000 UTC View Post
“No.” Lilli said, immediately. “I thought you would be fixing this on your own. I’m not that good. And I don’t want to be near those things anymore.”
Fangs opening, and the reek of death-
She shook her head. “It was too much for me. I’m just a street kid. You should find somebody else.”
Elathor was befuddled. Their mouth hung slack. She noted that they, too, had fangs. Lilli fought off a shudder.
“Lilli, pleas...
2019-07-31 14:57:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Lilli found Elathor where she had left them, evidently watching the crowd go by.
“There you are!’ Elathor exclaimed, clasping her shoulder with their claws. The dulled tips put barely any pressure on her skin, but it still made Lilli feel a little uneasy. Survival instincts were hard to overcome. “What did you find?”
There was no way that Lilli was going to pull out guard property on the street. No one was that stupid.
“Maybe somewher...
2019-07-31 14:33:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Not pictured: the massive crowd of people I went out of my way to not picture.
2019-07-27 02:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
There are many things ya'll don't know about us. Or me. One of them is that I am super interested in metalworking, which I did a little of in university until I realized that art students are basically animals in paint-stained clothing and use arc welders without protection or warning anybody.
So many close calls.
So when I came to Japan, I obviously wanted to try my hand at one of the major, nearly-lost Japanese arts. Sword making!
YOU ASKED: What are the best things to eat/drink at japanese convenience stores and/or what are the best japanese convenience stores ?
Apologies that this took so long, we disagreed a bit on this. So you might get two answers, from both of us. This is ElectraSecond, the sometimes writer and idea-haver, first and onliest of my name.
The best convenience stores, ranked:
1. Lawson's - has good iced coffee. It is also served in Mega, which is a ...
2019-07-24 03:39:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Tasty, I hope the gold somehow costs my insides. Would just get the plain matcha next time tho.
2019-07-23 02:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostHey all!
just letting you know that we are working on some things- more ID updates, the Lillian, and some fanfiction are in the pipeline. Well get those in as soon as possible.
at the moment, there’s just a bit of a delay due to some living situation changes, a really iffy computer, and how today I was attacked by Japanese hornets trying to clean my backyard (Which I guess you may have seen if anyone is following our new Twitter account).
2019-07-18 13:05:02 +0000 UTC
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Ok, so obviously this topic is pretty serious.
We're getting into human rights issues, and they're important. One thing to remember when talking about human rights is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which I've attached in PDF. It's... very long, for good reasons.
The long-unupdated "Human Rights Web" has a good summary here, breaking up some of these parts into easier concepts. Today, we're only looking at genocide.
