#doesn't include MM 17th

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2024 list of 20 H!P vocalists

Tsutsui Roko (OC) Nishizaki Miku (OC) Yofu Runo (TF) Fukuda Marine (TF) Yagi Shiori (TF) Kasai Yumi (TF) Nishida Shiori (Byonz) Yamazaki Yuhane (Byonz) Matsunaga Riai (J=J) Inoue Rei (J=J) Dambara Ruru (J=J) Matsumoto Wakana (Anju) Hirayama Yuki (Anju) Kamikokuryo Moe (Anju) Yamazaki Mei (MM) Kitagawa Rio (MM) Oda Sakura (MM) Hayashi Nina (KSS) Goto Hana (Anju) Kawashima Miju (J=J)

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Age headcanons for the LU boys

So, for Gift Of Family I need to know all of the boys ages for when they're adopted and when the last of them is adopted. However, this meant that I had to figure out not only their age order but how close I could get the boys to their canonical ages as possible. So, I'm going to share with you my findings of not only how old I think each Link is in Jojo's comic but also how old I think they are in each of their games based on vibes, official nintendo art, Jojo's art, and Jojo's past QnA stuff. Let's begin.

Time

Time is both the easiest and trickiest. To avoid the trickiness, I decided to ignore his mental age and just focused on his physical age.

For Ocarina of Time, I've put Time as 9/16. First of all, we know he's a kid, maybe the youngest of all the Links, though I doubt it. But most of my reasoning for putting Time at 9 when he starts his adventure is simply because, ever since I was a kid, I thought it was a canonical fact that Time was 9 when he left Kokiri Forest. I don't know where I got this information, I can't find any proof of this being true, but nostalgia is very good at her job and I haven't seen anything from Jojo disproving this fact. So Time starts OoT at 9 and travels seven years in the future, making him also 16 at the same time.

Majora's mask was much easier. I hadn't made Time age up from 9 to 10 during OoT and, when MM opens, Time is actively trying to hunt Navi down. So i don't believe Time can be any younger than 10 when he runs into the Skull Kid. In fact, I believe he is ten during the entirety of MM, seeing as it only takes three days and Time doesn't really look any different then he did in OoT except maybe a little bit more maturity in promotional art. So, Time is no younger then 10 but no older then 12.

During LU I'd bargain that Time is exactly 30 years old. Jojo has stated that not only is Time the physically oldest of the Chain but she's also stated that it's been around 20 years since the end of his last adventure. I took the 20 year limit literally and decided that it'd been exactly 20 years since MM ended. And since I figure that Time was 10 at the time, Time is now 30 years old. I can see an argument for both 29 and 31 but there's not much of an argument outside of that.

Warriors

Canonically the comic's second oldest Link, Warriors is also one of the oldest heroes in his own game. Asuming that his only game inspiration is Hyrule Warriors, Definitive Edition not included, we can assume that Jojo's statement of Warriors being "about 6-7 years" out of his initial adventure is the only numbers we need.

We'll be basing Sky and Twi off of Warriors age scoring too but Warriors age actually came down to US military ages. While you can join the military at 16 (as far as I understand it) most people in training are 18 or older. While Hyrule is a fictional nation, we can assume that their age of maturity is either 17 or 18, seeing as BotW is very dependent on the Calamity arriving on Zelda's 17th birthday because she can only go to the Spring of Wisdom at the age of 17.

So with the numbers 17 and 18 to work with, my new moto was established. "When in doubt, go for the higher number." With this moto in mind, I decided that, as a recruit/trainee/whatever Warriors is at the beginning of his game, he's probably 18. And, with the idea that HW took around a year to finish, if not longer, then Warriors would end his adventure at 19.

So with Warriors at 19 by the end of his adventure, we can take Jojo's higher break number (BN for short), Warriors would have had 7 years between HW and LU. So one simple math problem later, I've figured out that the most likely age for Warriors to be is 26. I would have personally liked him to be a year older so he can be even closer to Time's age but he's more likely to be 25 than he is 27, so 26 it is.

Twilight

The third oldest, this is the first big age gap of the Chain (not taking Time into account because there was always going to be a large gap for him). Now, despite how old he seems in TP, I don't actually think he reaches the age of maturity, which, for the context of the Chain in particular, we will not be counting as anything younger than 19 because of Jojo's words early on in LU's existence.

I don't believe it's Nintendo canon but when I was younger I'd heard somewhere that Twi's age was 16 and, later on, learned that he was more likely 17. So I decided that 17 was the number I would be going with. Twi's BN was 4-5 so I took the 5 and made 17 into 22. Therefore, Twilight is the easiest Link to figure out and sits as a young adult which, yes, contradicts some of Jojo's earlier statements but I've taken Jojo's latest QnA as gospel for most all of my headcanons and anything that contradicts that is free game to be thrown out the window. Besides, it's not all a contradiction for Twi because...

Sky

Sky was another big dictator for the Chain's ages as a whole for one big reason. Early on, Jojo had considered Sky and Twi to be of similar age but Twi was probably older because he acted more mature. So, for a long time, I just considered them being the same age but, after doing the math, I have come to realize that Jojo has a little more grounds in saying that Twi is not part of the young adult gang. Not a lot more ground, but still more.

My first clue to this was that Twi's BN was 4-5 while Sky's was 1-2. This seemed like a large problem but then I remembered that Sky is one of the oldest canonical Links, if not the oldest in canon games (not counting Wild in TotK, who is an actual adult).

My next clue for Sky's age was the Knight's Academy. Though I could have gone with military age like I did with Warriors, as Sky is a newly minted knight, I decided to go by the educational system. In the US, high school ends at 12th grade, which makes most every student 18/19 when they graduate. For the Knights Academy I compared it to your average boarding school with high school grades. So that would make Sky, at youngest, 18 at the start of his adventure. And, to stay with my moto, I decided he could age to be 19 during his adventure.

With Sky now at 19, we can now add two years to make 21. Not as old as I would like Sky to be, as I love thinking about Sky and Twi being twins, but it's a lot closer then I could have hoped for in any form of canon.

Wild

The Chain's perpetual middle child, he is both, very technically, the youngest and the oldest of the heroes depending on how you look at it and how you count his age. However, since we're going for physical age, it's actually easy to figure out Wild's age.

Though there's an argument for everything from Wild being 16 during BotW all the way to being around 20, I believe he's actually 18 when he wakes up in the shrine. This is for three reasons.

The first is that Wild can't get a noble pursuit, so at the very least he is not past the age of maturity.

The second reason is that he is allowed to go to the Spring of Wisdom with Zelda. While he doesn't go into the spring himself, I doubt he would have been allowed near it if he wasn't at least 17. We've seen that Zelda had other people to travel with when Link was unavailable, as seen whenever she's in Gerudo Town without enemies pursuing her. It's clear no one was expecting the Calamity to start on Zelda's birthday, so there wouldn't be an immediate need for Link to break tradition just to protect Zelda.

The third reason is that adults flirt with Link after he wakes up. This may seem strange to point out because flirty characters are in many Zelda game but in BotW it's almost like there are no weird connotations, it's just adults interacting with each other. Still suggestive but it's silly and relaxed in most cases instead of a gross joke or something to appeal to teen boys. This implies that Link is at least recognized as an adult. And since, in BotW, the age of maturity is 17 at the youngest, I went a year higher and decided Wild was probably 18, maybe being 19 by the end of his adventure.

With the added fact that LU starts a handful of months after BotW, Wild can be no younger than 19 in LU. However, as the moto goes, older is always better and, because I think BotW takes nearly two years for Wild to finish, I decided that Wild was more likely to be 20 by the beginning of LU.

Legend

The last of the young adult squad, this guy was a challenge to pin down. He's done so much and it's so tricky to just choose time periods for him, it was nearly impossible to decide where to start or end. However, to make things simpler, I decided that each adventure takes a year to complete and the next adventure will only start around a year later. the exception to this is me mixing OoS/OoA/LA together for one long year of crazy adventures.

First thing's first, let's start going backwards. Jojo says it's only been around a year since Legend's last adventure, which is where I took the 1 year BN rule from. So, with that in mind, I wanted to find a number that kept him as young as possible while still making him undeniably an adult in the LoZ canon. So, 19 was my ending number for his age in LU.

After that was ALBW. Subtracting one year, he would be 18 by the end of that. And because of all that goes on in the story and that fact Legend is still very close to Ravio, I decided they knew each other for at least a year during that adventure. That puts Legend at 17 when he first encounter's Yuga and Ravio.

Subtracting a year from that, we get LA and Legend is now at sweet 16. This was honestly a surprise because I thought for sure Legend would be too young at this point to feel genuine feelings of romantic love but when I did the math I got 16 and it finally made sense why Marin would have such a big impact on him. As a person who struggles to have an understanding of romance, 16 was when I started understanding why people got crushes in the first place. So this makes perfect sense to me and matches Jojo's Legend sketches from this time period, as well as Jojo's design of Marin.

Now subtracting a year, which I will explain in a moment, we have Legend at 15 for the Oracle games. This came as a relief to me because seeing Din and Nayru for the first time, I immediately thought they looked too old to be shipped with Link. However, this feels slightly less creepy, but only slightly. Now, I subtracted a year because I had lumped these games together, and combining that with the two ocean travel times, decided that the ocean trifecta games had probably passed his birthday before he ever got back to Hyrule. So Legend is 15 when he lands in one of the countries.

Subtracting a year, we're all the way to the beginning with Legend being 14 when he defeats Ganon for the first time. However, I wasn't satisfied with him starting at the age of 14. Despite Nintendo's official art having Legend look like a teen in ALttP promotional material, art for later games in his story have him looking vaguely, if not noticeably younger. So I decided to play it safe and hack off one more year from the poor guy, making him unlucky 13. I honestly thought he would be twelve but him landing on a notoriously unlucky number just felt right and, honestly, it felt like it was destiny. Legend probably hates the number 13 now.

Before you ask me where Triforce Heroes comes into this mess, please don't. Not only does that game have three Links, not just Legend, Jojo has confirmed that Legend is not one of the heroes from Triforce Heroes. So let that mess stay in it's own little corner of the universe. We can question it another day.

Hyrule

For Hyrule, I actually have a semi-canonical age to work with. I can't find the evidence anymore because I forgot where it was, but in AoL, Hyrule is 16 when he saves the sleeping Zelda. And with Jojo's confirmation that LU takes place around two years after his adventure ended, that makes Hyrule 18. Hyrule is the entire reason I have such a weird maturity line, because Jojo categorized him as a teen but he's more likely to be considered an adult in Hyrule by now. Whatever.

The tricky one is the original LoZ. In promotional art he looks significantly younger but there's no way to cross reference this with Jojo's work because all of her Hyrule art is from AoL and after, as far as I can tell. So I had to get creative.

The age I think of for most Links in the LoZ universe is 12. This is for a specific reason I won't get into (Wind) but essentially all of the Links look like kids and teenagers, especially the toon Links and the pixelated Links. So I debated putting him at twelve but, when comparing the official art to the 12 year olds in my life, I decided he looked slightly older and settled on him being 13.

Four

Our next age gap, Four is a tricky one. He acts super mature and confident for his age but he's also super small for his age. So literally any age could be argued for him. In fact, I've seen arguments for everything from 12 to 30. So I had to start from the canon.

Jojo has stated that it's been two years since Four finished his last adventure. From this point forward, because Four knows who Ganon is, we'll be assuming that FSA is one of his adventures. So, assuming Four took one year between adventures, Four starts adventuring at 14. This is the oldest Four could be when he started his first adventure, not considering the times it took to complete his adventures and considering that out maturity age line is 19, Four being categorized as a teen with Hyrule and Wind.

Moving on with the number 14, I decided to start adding the adventure times. MC canonically takes a day, so that was out of the equation already. I don't know the canonical time progression of the FS games so I decided that they would each take half a year because they're rather short games. This now leaves our highest number at 13.

Now, unlike Legend, a one year break between games doesn't make sense for Four. He's more relaxed then Legend, with his confidence coming from him working on himself rather than from experience like Legend. So Four probably had a little more free time. So I added another year for each of our two free break periods. This now brings our biggest number down to 11.

Still, I wasn't satisfied. Four didn't strike me as being 18 when reading LU and he didn't strike me at 11 when studying MC's promo art. He looked younger. Much younger than any other Link, even considering the toon style and naturally short figure. So this was when I decided he was around Time's age when he started. But, to make things funny, I decided Four was 8 during MC.

Now with a starting age and two year BN rule established, my job became simple. Four would be 10 at the start of FS and, for the fun of it, I said he could celebrate his birthday halfway through, making him 11 by the end. Then, for FSA, Four would be 13 at the beginning of his journey. That leaves him at 15 by the time of LU. Maybe if we push he could be 16 but I'm not going to because I've already fudged his age enough for the hell of it.

Wind

Absolutely easiest of the bunch, we already have all of his canon ages. In WW and PH he's 12 years old, Nintendo certified and everything, seeing as WW happens on his 12th birthday. By the time of LU, Wind is canonically 13, going on 14. He is the last and smallest age gap for the chain but that just makes him even younger in all of their eyes. No wonder the chain tries to baby him. He's nearly a decade younger than Twi and nearly two decades younger than Time. Geez kid, slow your role! You don't need to keep defying the laws of the universe to show the other heroes how cool you are!

And that's the list. Honestly, I have more ages I could share, specifically the two Links we haven't met yet that I think I already know the identities of, including which hidden Link is which of the remaining Links in the timeline. But I'm not gonna do that because those two have little to nothing confirmed about them and trying to give you anyone else's ages without any Jojo support at all would have me pulling my hair out within seconds of researching. Therefore, this is where I end it until more information is available. Though I can tell you that Legend and Ravio are basically twins in all but blood and Malon is likely to be a year or two younger than Time because of her in game models in OoT. That's all I've really got though.

I hope you enjoyed this rant and have a lovely day!

[magicalgirlsandcerulean]

Shibusan was also selling Boueibu merch in August, including Ikaho collab merch until the end of September. Details here.

September 17th was Nanao's birthday. If you wanted this cake + cupcake set + macaron set in time for the day, then it should have been preordered until September 10th. This came with a bonus badge with the same design. The cake (which comes in 2 sizes - size 4: diameter: 12 cm, height: 5 cm and size 5: diameter: 15 cm, height: 7 cm) is in chocolate/chocolate cream and sponge/whipped cream varieties, with strawberries or yellow peaches inside for both (customer's choice), and the design is printed on to a sheet. The ink has a chance of running if you aren't careful. There are also Atsushi (preorder deadline: September 28th), Taishi (preorder deadline: September 29th), Kyotaro (preorder deadline: November 21st), Io (preorder deadline: December 10th) and Yumoto (preorder deadline: January 19th) versions. The cupcakes have a diameter of 8.4 cm, a height of 6.5 cm and come in a set of 4 - the cream on the cupcakes has matcha (green), chestnut (yellow), strawberry (pink) and chocolate (brown) and you can choose between black tea and orange peel/chocolate chip flavours for the cupcakes themselves. The macarons have a diameter of 4.3 cm, a height of 2.3 cm and come in a set of 6 - they come in strawberry (red), pistachio (green), orange (yellow) and chocolate (brown) flavours.

There are also Christmas cakes + macarons (preorder deadline: December 17th if you want it by December 24th) and Valentine's Day cakes + macarons (deadline: presumably February 7th) which come with badges (2 possible designs, 1 can badge that matches the design of the cake you chose). The Christmas cakes only have strawberries, as opposed to the strawberries and yellow peaches of the Valentine's and birthday cakes. The cakes only come in size 5. The badges are 54 mm in diameter. There was also a 5% discount applied to preordered Christmas cakes between November 6th and November 12th 2023.

The Shibukawa collab finished in September 2023. The crepes and drinks sold well. The collab page doesn't exist anymore, but there is a message from Shibukawa City: "To all the fans, thank you very much for coming to Ikaho time and time again. Look forward to the day we can hold another collab✰."

There was an online lottery on sale from October 20th at 12:00 pm - November 6th 2023 at 11:59 pm (all dates/times JST), with items estimated to be received in mid-January 2024. 1 attempt was 880 yen (tax incl.).

For said online lottery, if you won the A prize (probability of getting: 4.1%), you could pick which of the 2 fabric posters you wanted:

The B prize was a set of acrylic stands (probability: 13.8%, random out of 10 different kinds):

The C prize was acrylic keychains (probability: 20.5%, random out of 10 different kinds). The Anime Bako account (which is posting these tweets) recommends attaching them to a bag when you go out:

There are also D prizes (1 of 10 random square can badges, probability: 27.4%) and E prizes (1 of 20 random Polaroid-style cards, probability: 34.2%):

On January 1st 2024, the Boueibu official Twitter (X) account wished everyone a year overflowing with love and happiness. Please remember the Boueibu series this year too.

(Update: In terms of fruit, the Christmas cakes only have strawberries, while the Valentine's Day cakes have the choice of strawberries or yellow peaches.)

[taylorssewingcircle]

2022 - March to June

March 3rd - Cari and Kelsea meet irl !!

Kelsea gets invited to Fletcher’s concert through a mutual connection with Brad.

Instagram Live 12:54

March 4th - Kelsea posts from LA

March 5th - Fletcher and Kelsea both post on insta from Fletcher’s concert

March 7th - Kelsea posts and Fletcher likes

March 15th - Fletcher posts from Nashville and Kelsea likes.

The girls sing Landslide together at Fletcher's Nashville concert.

March 16th - They both post pictures/vids from the concert.

Kelsea posts a photo dump with a clip of them singing Landslide at Fletcher's show and tags her.

The last pic in the dump is of Kelsea and Morgan. Fletcher doesn't like but she does comment lol.

Fletcher posts twice on insta. Kelsea likes both posts.

Fletcher also posts this TikTok.

which one of us likes tequila more though

March 17th - Fletcher posts about her bday.

It includes a clip of her and Kelsea dancing to Wannabe by the Spice Girls and Kelsea's voice can be heard in the background of another clip.

March 18th - Kelsea flies from Miami to Savannah

March 19th - Kelsea posts and Cari comments

Fletcher easter eggs Birthday Girl with a snippet of the song in this post.

March 29th - Fletcher easter eggs Girl Of My Dreams (the song) on this post.

April 1st - Kelsea posts about HEARTFIRST dropping as a single on April 8th

April 2nd - Fletcher posts and Kelsea comments.

April 6th - Fletcher posts and Kelsea comments

April 22nd - Fletcher posts from Stokholm and Kelsea comments.

April 26th - Fletcher posts in a field of daisies.

May 1st - Kelsea easter eggs MUSCLE MEMORY in this post and says it sounds like driving the PCH?

May 19th - Kelsea posts that 9 songs of her album are done.

May 29th - Fletcher posts this tiktok with Olivia O'Brien and Kelsea comments

June (date unknown) - Cari plays Kelsea Better Version.

"cari played me better version in june through my jeep speakers in nashville and i felt my eyes get teary from the sentiment that truly loving someone well means that you give them your best to make them better."

[source: Kelsea's Better Version collab post]

June 12th - Fletcher easter eggs Holiday in a post.

June 13th - Fletcher posts from Texas.

June 17th - Fletcher easter eggs Girl of My Dreams (song) in this post.

Kelsea easter eggs WEATHER with a photo dump including Morgan.

I've been thinkin' you've been thinkin' 'bout something else, mm Yeah, we felt perfect, now I'm nervous, can you even tell? Mm Did I wake you up on the wrong side of the bed? Is there someone's body that you'd rather be laying with instead?

I'm so tired of your weather Stormy when we're together Yeah, we used to be sunny and 75 We were dancing, baby, rain or shine Had my dress in your dresser Now somehow, I need a sweater How'd we go from summer to cold as ice? Are we really lovers if you're changing your mind Like the weather, weather, weather?

June 20th - Cari and Kelsea go out together and sign this book.

Cari and Kelsea were here 6/20/22 12:42am

Fletcher’s stories from the night:

June 22nd - Kelsea posts this photo dump that features the book & a snippet of Love Is A Cowboy & Fletcher comments

June 28th - Fletcher includes her own POV of the book in a dump.

With a little detective work, the fletcherinis have established that this is probably Patterson House in Nashville. This literally doesn't mean anything or provide proof to anything it was just fun to hunt it out.

Have a look at the bar and the studs on the leather chair.

June 29th - Kelsea posts this and Fletcher interacts.

CONTINUE TO JULY

[peepintothewild]

Into the webs

Introduction: 

From 8 to the 80s, almost everyone knows about spider man. And when we hear this WORD, probably what comes first to mind – is a fictional character of the movie wearing a red and blue suit, gloves, boots, and mask. But that does not come to mind what exists in this nature – a generally dark or sometimes light-complexioned small creature with several eyes and legs having the tag of the most feared animal among the public, especially girls, jokes apart  it is none other than – “ SPIDER.”

So, this blog highlights some of the intriguing aspects of Parasteatoda tepidariorum, commonly known as Spider.

Characteristics

First of all, let me clear the most common misconception that it is an insect. But in reality, a spider is the most significant order of arachnids. They differ from insects in having only two segments of the body, eight legs, not six or eight eyes (generally two in insects). Unlike insects, spiders do not have any antennae.

Spiders occur in an extensive range of sizes. The smallest, Patu digua from Colombia, are less than 0.37 mm in body length. The largest and heaviest spiders occur among tarantulas, with body lengths up to 90 mm and leg spans up to 250 mm. While in many spiders, color is fixed throughout their life, in some groups, color may vary in response to environmental, internal conditions, and preying circumstances. Some spiders’ diets include nectar, flies, mosquitos, moths, ants, and other small insects. Most spiders are solitary animals and meet each other during mating by various methods – pheromones, tactile and complex courtship displays through dance (by jumping spider), and visual.

Web – 5x stronger than steel:

 Spider uses its proteinaceous silk to produce its webs, generally for capturing prey or, in some cases, the web acts as an auditory sensor. Various types of webs are –                                                             

Orb webs

Cobwebs

Tubular webs                                                

Funnel webs

Sheet webs

Human uses of webs:

 In traditional European medicines, it was used for wound healing aid. It is also used in cobweb painting, for reticles in telescopes, other medical devices, and consumer goods.

Prey: 

Have you ever wondered how this tiny creature captures its prey? Crab spiders are sit-and-wait predators. They are often seen perched on garden flowers with their long front legs held out, crablike, to seize insects visiting the plant. Wolf spiders are brown and furry; on sunny days, large numbers can be seen running through vegetation to hunt prey. On bright walls, black-and-white striped jumping spiders can be seen stalking and pouncing on prey. The distinctive nocturnal woodlouse spider hunts woodlice under stones and flower pots.

Some interesting facts you would wish you had known earlier

A few species of spiders (Jumping spiders)  can see UVA and UVB light and other spectrums which we can’t see.

There are over 100 species of spiders that mimic ants by having similar appearances and even similar pheromones. Most do it to evade predators and also help them prey on ants.

Some spiders eat their own webs.  Abandoning one web and building a new one every night would be pretty wasteful. Instead, some orb-web spinners recycle the amino acids that make up the silk proteins by ingesting the silk as they systematically dismantle their damaged webs.

Spider inspired a dance locally known as “ Tarantella.” During the 16th and 17th centuries, it was believed that a bite from a species of wolf spider (named tarantula) would be fatal unless the victim engaged in frenzied dancing to a specific piece of music.

Spider cannibalism - Many spiders can happily eat other spiders, and many can even cannibalize individuals of their species. The nursery web spider's mating session is a clear example of spider cannibalism. When courting a female nursery web spider, he should present a silk-wrapped fly to his prospective mate. If he doesn't, he will be rejected outright; according to new research, he won’t have anything to defend himself with if she tries to eat him. Female nursery webs rarely attack suitors. But when they do, the male loses everything. In the case of a red widow, the male force feeds himself to the female by placing himself into her mandibles. If she ‘spits him out,’ so to speak, he will keep putting himself there until she eventually eats him.

Historical & Mythological significance:

Spiders have been the focus of stories and mythologies of various cultures for centuries. In a story told by the Roman poet Ovid in his Metamorphoses, Arachne was a Lydian girl who challenged Athena to a weaving contest. Arachne won, but Athena destroyed her tapestry out of jealousy, causing Arachne to hang herself. In the act of mercy, Athena brought Arachne back to life as the first spider. Stories about the trickster-spider Anansi are prominent in the folktales of West Africa and the Caribbean. Dreamcatchers are depictions of spiderwebs. The Moche community in Peru depicted spiders in their art.

Spiders play a crucial role in the ecosystem, which makes them an essential part of the natural world. Whether you love them or fear them, there is no denying the incredible abilities of these eight-legged creatures. Hope you will not see it as a havoc during an encounter.

By,

Souronil