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Been working on translyrics for Makyuu Ichaival for a vocal synth project down the line and man this song is sort of a bear to make work.

It’s a really weird structure, gets across a lot of complex thoughts in not that many syllables, has random English words for emphasis. I couldn’t make sense of some lines so I sent it to a Japanese translator who came back to me basically saying “yeah some parts of this song are just nonsense that sounds cool.” Much later I learned about Denpa Songs and I think this is in that vein.

There’s a few parts I changed a little as well that are less accurate to the original meaning but I think better maintain the vibe and the general character of S1 Chris.

Anyway I’ve shopped this around with a couple other songwriters I know and while I am not like totally satisfied with the lyrics yet their consensus was more or less “seems good, I don’t know what I would change” so I’m putting them in the public while I work on other stuff. If you use them in your own project just provide credit.

Any lyrics you see (in parentheses) are pickup notes added to make some stuff fit the meter better

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Tonight's dream:

>by the stairs, there was a blue shoe

>as I was about to pick it up, someone took it and paired it with the one they're holding

>the father asked the daughter why she left her shoes, but she didn't respond, and the family just understood that she's upset about something

>as I look around, I see some samurai-themed displays being observed by people

>I suggested to Kareshy, who was suddenly beside me, that we look around cuz he might find something he would like

>went to a shop with him just before closing hours

>employees are already preparing to close shop

>Kareshy was looking for aluminum wires (alambre) so I asked the staff where I can find it

>they say they don't carry those because people use them for hanging themselves???

>I said I won't use it for that because I want it for drying clothes

>they don't sell any rope string (pisi) either, even though I used an example of theirs that was used for display.

>'Oh no, how am I going to hang my clothes up now' I said, hoping someone would help me, but they continued cleaning up the shop for closing so we just left

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Nightmare.

>I was riding on my dad's motorbike

>suddenly, he asked me to take over the controls

>I was able to drive the motorbike, though a little clumsily

>heading home, dad wasn't responding for some reason

>I can't remember how the rest happened, but when I got home, I'm supposed to be with my dad

>instead, I was told that my mom came to take his body, but not his head??

>so his head is supposed to still be in our home

>the house is empty and it was raining/flooded??

>I was rushing to prepare my things and money to head to the hospital, where I wanted to meet with my mom and ask why she took the body

>I was also preparing to look for my dad's head, which I expected they needed for his "recovery" so it needs to be in good condition

>it didn't occur to me that it's not supposed to be possible to re-attach a head and expect it to be ok

>as the realization began to sink in, I felt stupid and sad and began to wake up

>I drifted back to a dreamless sleep

>I wake up again, remembering that ominous dream

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i have to stay alive because i want to love someone and make her breakfast in the mornings and kiss her when i come home from work in the evenings

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Okay but the weirdest thing about the whole "Brotherhood is better you should skip 03" discourse that's become commonplace now, it sort of forgets the world Brotherhood came out in and why you should watch the original Fullmetal Alchemist. When Brotherhood came out, the original Fullmetal Alchemist was one of the most beloved and most watched animes of all time. Brotherhood assumes you the audience have already seen it because of course you have, everyone has seen it, so it skips important information and speeds the story up because it doesn't want to bore you with things you already know. Have you ever wondered "hey why does the first episode of Brotherhood kind of suck, and why am I being introduced to like 50 new characters, and why are they acting like I know what the hell an alchemist is?" It's because Brotherhood thinks you've seen 03.

The first 7 or so episodes of Brotherhood constitute dozens of chapters in the manga, and the first 25 or so episodes of the original Fullmetal Alchemist. The Nina Tucker episode in Brotherhood, in FMA 03 takes up nearly three episodes. Yoki gets a backstory in 03 and it's genuinely one of the best episodes and taken directly from the manga and Brotherhood glosses over it because: duh, you've already seen it. And so if you skip the original you miss out on dozens of really great character building episodes like Ed and Al meeting Hughes for the first time and getting to spend a whole episode helping him free a train from terrorists, or Ed and Roy having a duel that expands on the relationship they have, or episodes where the brothers just help out random people in towns before the major story gets going.

The original also paces itself quite a bit better than Brotherhood and is more in line with the mangas storytelling. In the manga we don't find out about The Gate until nearly two dozen chapters in, and the same goes for the original anime. Like, that's a twist reveal in those stories, and it's weird that the most watched series is the one where they tell you all about The Gate in the first two episodes because they assume you've already seen the original show.

What's more, people don't know that Hiromu Arakawa helped write for the anime while she was still in the middle of writing the manga, and as a result was inspired to write scenes in Brotherhood that the anime did first. That scene of Edward getting impaled by a falling beam? Directly inspired by a similar scene in the original anime. There's a lot of little instances of that and they're great when you can recognize parallels and things in Brotherhood that are direct references to the original anime, but people don't notice any of that anymore. Because the original anime is just an automatic skip these days, and it's a bummer because people don't realize what a giant it was back before Brotherhood was released. They treat it as *bad,* not realizing it was one of the most beloved anime of its time and the problems people take issue with have a lot more to do with personal taste than any kind of actual flaw in the writing. Brotherhood was never meant to dethrone it, and the original anime was always supposed to be part of the viewing experience which is why those first few episodes of Brotherhood are so fast paced. So like, please stop telling people Fullmetal Alchemist 2003 is a skip, or it's bad, or you don't need it because Brotherhood is better. Regardless if you think Brotherhood is better or not, the original wrote Brotherhood's check. It was huge, it was beloved, and Brotherhood is *banking* on the knowledge you've seen all of it and loved it. And trust me when I say there is so much to love about the original series. It's still my favorite branch of the FMA franchise, and it's worth your time, I promise you.

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touch-starvation needs to be written with emphasis on the starving part. you are hungry to be touched. so hungry that even the very taste of it makes you nauseous. it has been long since anything has ever touched you, ever fed you - that your body has grown more used to that gnawing emptiness more than anything else. it's better for you to be held, to eat but it makes you sick to try. you know

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a character type i’m really into is the ex-something - exile, obviously, but also anyone who used to have a role that was also an identity and now does not: ex-mage, ex-assassin, ex-monarch –

it’s about loss of identity and recreation of identity; it’s about how being an ex-something is impossible because the ghost of what you were haunts what you are now; it’s about reshaping the way you see the world and yourself in the world.

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The funniest part about tsukihime is that ciel starts gaslighting shiki on her own completely unaware of the fact he's already been gaslighted by his family for years. Like yeah she thinks he's roa but she also probably genuinely thought "well I'm manipulating him at school but at least his home life is decent"

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The Yukine Guidance System

We only know one kind of ride: Wild!

Audio Source

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Under PENALTY of INSTANT DEATH do NOT make blackout poetry of my posts. It is improper behavior and makes me wanna explode. You will receive 80 concussions. Don't make me spell it out again

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ep 110 - 111

this Karen's a crocodile

I really love it when great characters are friends ;w;

I sensed that they would duel at some point so this was great :D Paleontologist vs. dino nerd with dino DNA :D Unfortunately, I don't know enough about dinosaurs to have more to say about it.

ep 111

I'm glad we're respecting a man's chosen character design by not removing his very important hat during clinical treatment.

THANK YOU FOR THIS!! MORE PLEASE~!!!

I was so shocked at his calm and serious tone and he didn't even announce himself as Manjoume Thunder! Also the anime casually reminding me that his name isn't Manjoume, but in fact, Jun. But who remembers that when the entire show calls him Manjoume (Thunder)

please tell me nobody actually wants this tacky thing for the "precious gems" like hello?! That's a mahou shoujo duel disk. That's the only niche you're gonna get attention from.

The gun disk from the pyro dude was the peak of disk coolness.

Manjoume gets mecha gattai too. We LITERALLY have no need to keep Sho around. See what I mean when his deck could've belonged to a better character (Manjoume)?

YGO GX ep 108

A hundred episodes of SoL where Judai shows enjoyment of life at his own pace where the plot takes him, and this is the first time someone else brings that joy to him. Johan really is the best addition to his life so far. I literally can't remember the last time Judai was treated as a friend rather than a shining beacon of hope or a rival.

Judai is so real for this

BRUH SHUT THE FUCK UP

Judai LITERALLY saved the world from YOUR mistakes. You brought that useless prince with the satellite laser AND the N*zi commander to the school. The reason you can even THINK and make more mistakes right now is because Judai defeated the threat of world destruction while you're partying with the Genex tournament kids. What's the last thing you even did other than lose to Kaiser? Shut the fuck up. You're the most useless character in a show that has Sho, Misawa, and Asuka in it.

Hell yeah, I luv u bby <3

>Judai gives no fucks about Sho's stupid problems THAT'S RIGHT GROW THE FUCK UP YOU USELESS PEST

>aniki didn't help me, he's so selfish >gets used as a bait later Just let him die, seriously. Annoying incel, annoying voice, complete deadweight. He's only here cuz his deck is mecha. It's a crime that he lasted this long when he should've exited with the koala dude or Misawa.

Johan, I like you a lot, but please respect Kenzan's boundaries. He's cool and turns into a dinosaur, unlike that blue parasite with glasses.

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please watch this scene from the Garfield movie that establishes how evil the villain is

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am I gonna be unable to access twitter desktop forever?

I don't wanna be here

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YGO GX ep 108

A hundred episodes of SoL where Judai shows enjoyment of life at his own pace where the plot takes him, and this is the first time someone else brings that joy to him. Johan really is the best addition to his life so far. I literally can't remember the last time Judai was treated as a friend rather than a shining beacon of hope or a rival.

Judai is so real for this

BRUH SHUT THE FUCK UP

Judai LITERALLY saved the world from YOUR mistakes. You brought that useless prince with the satellite laser AND the N*zi commander to the school. The reason you can even THINK and make more mistakes right now is because Judai defeated the threat of world destruction while you're partying with the Genex tournament kids. What's the last thing you even did other than lose to Kaiser? Shut the fuck up. You're the most useless character in a show that has Sho, Misawa, and Asuka in it.

Hell yeah, I luv u bby <3

>Judai gives no fucks about Sho's stupid problems THAT'S RIGHT GROW THE FUCK UP YOU USELESS PEST

>aniki didn't help me, he's so selfish >gets used as a bait later Just let him die, seriously. Annoying incel, annoying voice, complete deadweight. He's only here cuz his deck is mecha. It's a crime that he lasted this long when he should've exited with the koala dude or Misawa.

Johan, I like you a lot, but please respect Kenzan's boundaries. He's cool and turns into a dinosaur, unlike that blue parasite with glasses.

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since I can't access desktop twitter, I'll have to post my screenshots here.

Twilight Zone S4E8: Miniature [SPOILER WARNING]

>he got fired for... doing his job rather than socializing with the co-workers who don't respect him

the world is cruel to introverts

>maybe if you've been hit as a kid, you wouldn't turn out to be such a loser who takes care of me, your sick naggy mother

nothing ever changes around here :)

>this is the only acceptable way of life and anyone who doesn't follow this rule should be reminded of the FAILURE that they are >raise a family to BE NORMAL garbage, truly why don't we talk about how you're a failure of a mother

>You're fucking sick Charley. Now I'm no psychiatrist, but I know exactly how to fix you, my useless recluse 30-something virgin brother. You need a girl! That will fix ALL of your personality problems! Cuz what can't a little dating and marriage not fix?

She even puts her glasses on before saying that, like she really thinks she's being intelligent lmao SHUT UP MYRA

when ur a man and u don't kiss flirty girls, ur mentally ill when u don wanna fuck, ur MENTALLY ILL

the world is cruel to asexuals :)

plot twist: he really IS delulu

:O!!!!!!! I was genuinely shocked that there's a legit mental health discussion here. Nice.

But seeing Charley look happy raised alarms in my head. I just don't trust anyone who seems to get better after a trip to the psychiatrist. He's either drugged or masking his symptoms.

I WAS RIGHT Charley is literally me :) You always gotta mask so people would leave you alone :D Now I don't agree that he should go and affix himself to the object of his affections like a stalker, but it IS a world he made up, so of course the girl likes him back as the savior from her "loneliness". :)

HAPPY END if everyone can end up in their own made-up world, we can all be happy :D

This is like that projector episode from S1, where the actress retreats to her idealized world where she can be young and happy again.

We don't have that kind of luxury in real life :) There's only expensive drugs and gacha and anime merch.

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>the forced Windows 11 update added garbage widgets to my precious screensavers

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I posted this on an aroace subreddit and what I loved is that everyone seemed to have their own interpretation of what it meant and how it applied to them.