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Welcome to the Nightmare Game II - CH12

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Chapter 12: Resurrection Overture (XII) {cw: brief suicide mention}

After this day's hellish diving training, Qi Leren, who was as heavy as lead, had no strength to climb aboard. He was floating on his back beneath the boat like a miserable little mermaid under the gaze of Chen Baiqi's disdain. Finally, Chen Baiqi dragged him back onto the boat.

On the way back, Qi Leren slept as if dead. When he was woken up by the coastal evening wind, Qi Leren suddenly sat up and the coat that had been covering him slipped down. It was Chen Baiqi’s.　

"What time is it?" Qi Leren asked in a hoarse voice. He remembered that it was about five o'clock when he’d come back, but after entering the border of Dusk where it was sunset all day, it was difficult to tell the time.　

"It's seven o'clock," Chen Baiqi said without looking back as she kneeled on the bow against the wind. "You can hurry home after you wake up, but don't expect me to carry you back."　

Qi Leren responded. After a short sleep, his spirit was much better and he could walk.　

The two people got off the boat together. Chen Baiqi put her hands in her pockets with a cigarette in her mouth and looked at the distant sunset with empty eyes, her expression unreadable.　

"Thank you," Qi Leren suddenly said.　

"Hmm?" Chen Baiqi was puzzled.　

When he first woke up, Qi Leren was slow to respond, but now he had recovered. How could it take two hours to sail from Undead Island to Sunset Island’s port? The ship had already landed, but Chen Baiqi hadn't woken him up after seeing that he was tired enough to sleep. She’d smoked on bow for two hours, waiting for him to wake up. In this world where time was life, she had expended two hours for a person who wasn’t even a formal disciple… No, it took far more time than two hours. This kindness was tantamount to a life-saving grace.　

"Nothing, just wanted to thank you." Qi Leren said sincerely, "For many things... I should thank you."　

The two of them having arrived at an intersection, Chen Baiqi was going back to her store to have dinner with her sister, and Qi Leren was going back to Dr. Lu where he was still spending the night.　

Chen Baiqi stopped and stamped out the cigarette butt: "It's no use thanking me. Come and show me your potential."　

"I’ll work hard."　

"I’ll watch it, too," Chen Baiqi said, then turned and left, waving goodbye at him over her back.　

Qi Leren stood in silence for a moment, looking at Chen Baiqi’s back. She really was a woman with many stories and many worries, but she refused to sell her own stories and was reluctant to share her past. She was tightly wrapped in secrets, and no one knew her age. Even the name Chen Baiqi didn’t seem to be her real name.　　

What had she done in the real world? What kind of experiences had she had in the Nightmare World? Why did she want to adopt a player's child and love her as a sister? How was her half-field broken? Qi Leren didn’t know any of this. His understanding of Chen Baiqi was limited to the words she had revealed—she had once worked in the Heresy Court of the Trials Court, was an assassin who mainly focused on intelligence and assassination, and had a summoning book that sealed many strange creatures, which were accumulated when she traveled in the Nightmare World.　　

He wondered if he could be as strong as Chen Baiqi once he had spent eight years in the Nightmare World. He should be able to, at least, as long as his luck didn’t stop him from reaching his eighth year. Qi Leren gave a wry smile in his heart, got rid of the idea, and set foot on his way home.　　

When he returned to Dr. Lu's clinic, Dr. Lu was treating a familiar young man and nagged, "Jumped from the third floor? I see you’re young, why do you want to die like this? Do you think you’re a superhero? Doesn’t it hurt to jump from the third floor in one breath? Sometimes people jump off buildings. If you can stop it, stop it. Otherwise, forget it. What kind of hero is that? Hey, you’re back? I'm starving for dinner right now."　　

The young man who was being treated by "Doctor’s Orders" also turned his head and leapt up from his chair in surprise: "Qianbei! Long time no see! How have you been recently? I thought about it, and the house should be returned to you. It was originally your house. I'll find another residence. I have a lot of time to live now!"　　

"It doesn't matter, I live here as well," Qi Leren said in a reserved way.　　

The last time when he signed the confidentiality agreement with Du Yue, he’d felt that he was very sorry for the other. How dare he take the house back?　　

Recently, he had had to buy an extra bed. Otherwise Dr. Lu, who was grudgingly made to sleep on the sofa, would have continued to look at him bitterly and even dare to be angry at this “evil guest” who had taken over his nest. 　　

Du Yue looked at Qi Leren, who refused to move back, as if he was wronged. He lowered his head like a big dog who had been reprimanded by his master. Dr. Lu looked at him pitifully and invited him to have dinner with them. Du Yue immediately perked up: "Good, good, I have no place to eat!"　　

So the meal became three people together. If Qi Leren's training ended early, he would come back to cook. If it ended late, Dr. Lu would do it. Dr. Lu's culinary skills were not bad. You could see it from how Du Yue ate three bowls in one go.　　

After dinner, Du Yue rushed to wash the dishes. Qi Leren and Dr. Lu had a brief exchange about today's events.　　

"Du Yue had come several times even before you came back. I'm telling you, he's a personal event trigger! Almost every time, it was a courageous injury. Walking on the road the day before yesterday, he witnessed a robbery. He went up and beat the robber who then stabbed him. Today, he met a pregnant woman who wanted to jump off a building. He saved her but fell off himself. Fortunately, only his arm was broken..." Dr. Lu gushed about Du Yue's glorious deeds, and he was very optimistic about this young man.　　

"Are you talking about me?" Du Yue came out of the kitchen after washing the dishes.　　

"Yes, talking about the series of accidents that you’ve encountered almost daily," Dr. Lu smiled.　　

Du Yue scratched his head and said with a silly smile: "It's okay… It’s not every day."　　

"Does it have to happen every day?" Qi Leren vomited a sentence.　　

"Is the pregnant woman you saved today okay?" Dr. Lu asked smoothly.　　

"Okay? Ah, Her friend persuaded her to go with her after a while and asked for my contact information, saying that she would like to thank me next time," Du Yue said.　　

"If you want an abortion, between the Village of Dusk’s medical facilities plus the monthly tasks, isn’t it only too easy?" Dr. Lu said.　　

"Yes, that's what I told them."　　

A young man who had just grown up and a young man who looked like he was underage talked seriously about the problem of pregnancy and childbirth. This picture was a bit funny. After listening for a while, Qi Leren suddenly remembered the laptop. He quickly got up and said, "You two take your time talking, I’m going to go for a walk."　　

After leaving Dr. Lu's clinic, Qi Leren followed the address that Chen Baiqi had given him before, and went to find the house of the tech savvy player who was still alive.　　

The place where the player lived wasn’t far from Dr. Lu's clinic. Qi Leren was still worried that he still hadn’t come back after leaving for his task. However, this time he was lucky. After ringing the doorbell, a mechanical voice that sounded like a young girl came from behind the door: "Master is busy. What can I do for you?"

"Hello, I was referred by Chen Baiqi. I need to make an electronic appliance please," Qi Leren said.　　

"Just a moment, please."

After a few minutes, the door opened and Qi Leren saw at a glance that the three foot tall robot on the ground looked like a moving trash can. It opened the shoe rack and found a pair of shoe covers for Qi Leren: "Please come with me."　　

It was indeed a high-tech house. Qi Leren sighed with emotion in his heart and followed the little robot all the way to the basement.　　

The basement was very big. After Qi Leren went in, he suddenly saw a screen on the wall facing him!　　

However, it wasn’t like the HD display screens common in the real world, it was like the oldest gray TV screens in an antique shop. There were constantly black and white pixels moving on this display screen, which was actually playing a simple shooting game like a computer in the 1980s!　　

As Qi Leren approached, the man who had his back to him as he watched the screen suddenly lost the game, one hand coming down on the table: "Shit, lost again!"　　

"Hello." Qi Leren made a noise.　　

The man's back froze and he turned slowly. He was a young man with glasses who looked a little dull: "...Oh, hello."　　

Qi Leren felt that he was more nervous than him. His voice was a little shaky and he stuttered a little, obviously the type that didn’t have contact with others often.　　

After Qi Leren stated his purpose, the techy suddenly got excited: "Did you bring your laptop into the game? Sell it to me, I’ll pay a high price!"　　

Qi Leren suddenly broke out in a cold sweat, not to mention that the laptop was still in Schrodinger's state, appearing and disappearing irregularly. Even if the laptop was in his item bar now, he couldn't give it to others. But if he refused this person's request, would he still help him make the charger or transformer? He had to find a suitable reason...　　

Qi Leren secretly gritted his teeth and made a decision.　　

"No, there’s very important information on it. I can't give it to anyone," Qi Leren resolutely said.　　

"I can print the information for you!" the techy said enthusiastically, without stuttering.　　

"This... is not that kind of information." Qi Leren looked embarrassed and his eyes wandered. "It's the kind of... hundreds of G, you know..."　　

The techy’s eyes grew brighter: "Dude! I haven't seen a movie in such a long time! Sell it to me! Lend it to me without selling it!"　　

Qi Leren coughed twice: "To tell you the truth, all I watched were pure men's shootouts..."　　

The techy was stunned for a moment, then resolutely insisted: "It's okay, anti-Japanese drama, gun battle film, American blockbuster, I watched all of these."　　

Qi Leren covered his forehead: "I'm talking about GV, GayVideo, a film made by a group of men, understand!"　　

"................I understand."　　

In order to keep the laptop far away, Qi Leren, who did not hesitate to destroy his image, showed a kind smile: "Do you want to see it? I have quite a few varieties there, from gangbang to S/M to people and animals-"　　

"No, I, I, I, I, I still like girls."　　

"Oh, that's a pity," Qi Leren said regretfully.　　

After he dispelled the techy’s idea of buying the laptop off him, Qi Leren quickly finalized this order with him: to make a mobile power supply that could be externally connected to a laptop, which was equivalent to a large charging battery—"When I go to a copy task without electricity, I also want to watch these films to reduce stress." Quote by a serious Qi Leren.　　

"By the way, make another transformer, because the voltage in the Village of Dusk is different from that in the real world—of course, you should watch movies to relax when you’re in the Village of Dusk." Quote by a still serious Qi Leren.　　

The techy wanted to warn him that "a little joy hurts his body". In particular, he looked at Qi Leren walking a little bit. He looked like he was worn out and exhausted. He was finally defeated by Qi Leren’s kind smile and closed his mouth silently.　　

Out of the techy’s house, Qi Leren gave a long sigh. Today, he once again made himself into a gay man with strange taste. He was still a wretched gay man who watched hardcore porn every day. It seemed that the path to building an upright image only grew longer.

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Editor’s Notes: Happy first day of pride month, everyone! 🌈

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experimentaldragonfire-fics · 4 years

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experimentaldragonfire’s SU Fic Rec List

Stuck at home? Running out of stuff to read? I figured I’d put together a semi-comprehensive series of fanfic recommendations so that all the hours I’ve spent on AO3 over the years can be considered at least vaguely useful. A lot of these are quite old, so if you’ve only read more recent fics, you might find something that you haven’t seen here!

Please feel free to add your own links and recommendations--I personally would love more reading material! This list will focus on SU fics, but I’ll probably make more for other fandoms going forward if anyone’s interested. Bear in mind that, as I’ve mentioned, since many (most) of these were written a while ago, they might not represent exactly how the plot of the show progressed (though they now provide a pretty interesting look at the older fanfic tropes/theories!)

Also, upfront: most of these, when ships do appear, are Lapidot or PearlRose--clearly, I’m very narrowly-focused on what I read. And if one of your fics is on here and you want to be tagged, let me know and I will do so!

Steven Universe Fic Recs

General (None or canonical/background/multiple ships):

histories by avulle (T, F/F, Gen)

“Pearl (pearl) is born in what would have been the year 100,492 BCE. (She is not older than the entire human race—but only just.)”

An introspective look at the Crystal Gems through the years, written in a style that’s practically poetic and absolutely gorgeous.

Inferior Blue by hTeDruknenPotaT (M, Gen)

"Your name is Lapis Lazuli. Lapis is a fun thing to name your child when your last name is Lazuli, and when your name is Lapis Lazuli, blue seem like a nice color to dye your hair. It's fortunate that blue is your favorite color, that you manage not to despise it after all the blue you've been surrounded by all your life."

Lapis Lazuli meets a strange young boy who helps to heal the scars of her past.

The first time I read this fic, I stayed up until 5AM and cried into my pillow through the final chapters. And it continued to make me cry every time I reread it. Massive angst warning, but if you can handle fics that are beautiful but tragic, this is for you.

capacity by broken_halleluiah (G, F/F)

After a routine council meeting, Pink Diamond insists on repairing a broken piece of equipment. The result is far more than she bargained for.

A fic speculating on the nature of Pearls in Homeworld society, written well before we got to see any of that in canon. As such, it isn’t entirely in-line with later canon, but is still entirely worth reading.

Breaking Down by PTlikesTea (M, multi)

Rose's world view is shattered by a black market pearl and the realization that everything she knows about them is wrong.

An extensively long series of shorter mostly-self-contained stories exploring a version of Homeworld society where Pearls are considered as little more than disposable property. Major warnings for Pretty Much Everything--definitely keep an eye on the tags--but this is an iconic series of works, started in 2015 and predating many of the later revelations about canon Homeworld.

A Gem and Her Pearl (Rose) by Potential Violet (G, gen)

Blue Diamond forces Rose Quartz to get a pearl, changing Rose's life, the pearl's life and the course of Gem history. All relationships begin somewhere, this is the beginning of Rose and Pearl's.

Another take on Rose and Pearl’s meeting, and the status of Pearls in Homeworld society (there’s a bit of a theme here with these recommendations). Again, predates most canon revelations regarding the topics, and predates all of the canon information about the Diamonds.

Pearl, Interrupted by AceyEnn (E, multi)

In August, Steven Quartz Universe was born.

In August, Rose Quartz died in childbirth.

In December, Pearl decides she can't handle any of it.

Or: Pearl Tries To Kill Herself And Ends Up In A Therapy Group Run By Her Best Friend's Mom (Well, One Of Her Moms).

Human AU focusing on Pearl dealing with Rose's death--or rather, not dealing with Rose’s death. Major content warnings for suicide attempts, self-harm, etc (please read the tags), but overall a very well-written story. Still updating, despite being first posted in 2016!

Lapidot:

in which Peridot is Not At All Surprised by the sudden appearance of a new waiter by gaySpaceRock_exe (G, F/F)

Peridot meets the new waiter at her regular restaurant and immediately falls head-first in love.

Cute and fluffy, what more do you need in a fic?

Homesick by DrPaine (G, F/F)

An encounter at the Galaxy Warp.

Short oneshot predating the Peridemption/Barn Arc, can be read as friendship rather than romantic.

Observation by DrPaine (G, F/F)

Peridot is a technician, meant to catch every detail. Not something she’s very fond of, but making yourself aware of your surroundings can be helpful, when you’re slipping into troublesome thoughts.

Incomplete but very much an introspective look at Peri’s character as perceived back in 2015-ish. Not as much focused on romance as on concepts of identity and anxiety.

Of Stage Lights and Stage Fright by AcrylicPaint (M, F/F)

All Lapis wanted was to participate in the local production, but there was a minor element she hadn't taken into consideration when she agreed to take the leading role, and that was; dealing with the cute techie's constant staring.

That, and the fact she was beginning to stare too.

Human theatre AU, and an excellent completed multichapter fic. I remember that when I first read this, I was in high school and part of the musical, so it was a very topical read--and now it’s the height of nostalgia.

No Regrets by Raptor_Red (E, F/F)

No Regrets, or, the story of how Peridot tried to romance the blue-haired tattoo artist from the parlor across the street

A personal favorite! The writing in this fic is just so nice to read, and though I’m not usually a fan of tattoo artist AUs, this one really managed to make the whole concept make sense within the story. I can’t count how many times I’ve read this fic. Please read this.

12 O’Clock at Your Local King Soopers by InsomniacArrest (T, F/F)

Lapis works late night shifts, Peridot is somebody's overworked assistant, they both need more sleep and better people skills: the grocery store story.

Is it a Lapidot fic rec list if I don’t include 12KS? Probably the most iconic fic for this pairing, with good reason. Also, consider this a recommendation for literally everything IA has ever written--there are too many good fics to name them all individually, otherwise they’d comprise half of this entire list.

Of Meteors and Minimal Speech by Waypaststrange (moonbeatblues)(F/F)

In which things at the barn settle down, nobody speaks much, and strange lights appear in the sky.

Vaguely fluffy oneshot, very cute!!

Awkward Office Encounters by SilverEyedRukia (T, F/F)

Due to a broken down air conditioner on a scorching hot day the computers' overheated systems need fixing. Luckily for everyone a blonde technician is up for the job, but unbeknowst to them the IT nerd turns out to be someone they didn't expect her to be, especially not Lapis who kind of asked her out on a date already.

Human workplace AU, starts off relatively comedic but gets into Emotional Territory towards the end.

Camp Pining Hearts by kamanzi (M, F/F)

Peridot and Jasper return to summer camp after their freshmen year of college--this time, as counselors. Peridot is disappointed to learn that nothing is quite the same, especially her relationship with her best friend. Whose fault is this? She blames Jasper's girlfriend.

“‘Let’s go back next year and be counselors,’ she said. ‘It’ll be fun,’ she said.”

Human summer camp counselors AU that’s definitely long enough to use up some stuck-at-home-self-isolating time.

A Week by teamchaosprez (E, F/F)

Who knew that a single night of drunken sex could push Peridot and Lapis from being roommates with a mutual crush to regularly fucking and maybe - just maybe - eventually becoming girlfriends and standing up to the homophobia surrounding both of their family lives.

A human college AU focusing a lot on working through interpersonal relationships and coming to terms with emotions

Set Me Free by cym70 (T, F/F)

Being roommates gives Lapis and Peridot a lot of time to get to know each other and, despite their rocky history, they might just be able to make something entirely new.

A friends-to-lovers fic, post-Barn Mates. Very sweet!

Waltz of the Nian by QuickYoke (T, F/F)

Lapis doesn't understand fusion at heart, but she does know she's an unideal partner for it.

Lapis' relationship with fusion, and also Peridot. A fic that basically encapsulates the ideal of profound prose that makes you feel things, even if you don’t precisely know how or why.

Pushing by Like Hearts by mautadite (T, F/F)

“Sounds like you’re really counting on that road trip magic.”

(Peridot and Lapis do Midway City, and Empire City, and Plateau Ville, and all the places in between.)

Canonverse road trip, because every rec list needs a “the characters go on a long journey together and find themselves, and each other” fic. And because this fic made me feel so many emotions.

A thousand years (F/F)

I have died a thousand years, waiting for you.

Childhood friends-to-adult-lovers human AU, one of the fic tropes that always just punches me in the face with feelings.

#fic rec list #su fic recs #lapidot fic recs

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anonymous-mary · 4 years

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Why does it seem every time there is an election, your state has so many problems? Reading an article about all the problems there was. Were there problems where you were working?

Honestly, yesterday was crazy for a short while where I was but we got it fixed by 9:00 am. Afterwards we were really busy but things went smoothly at my precinct.

One of the problems was Covid 19 and brand new equipment. They replaced all of the equipment because there had been complaints of people not thinking their vote was tabulated correctly. The new system however lets you see your vote after you vote but it's really a throwback to have paper ballots.

Instead of having little computers to check people in, we had iPads. I have joked before about me being the techie of my group and how very sad it is that is 63-year-old is the most technically savvy person there.

Really and truly the thing that would help fix the Georgia system the most is for a lot of college students to sign up to work for the polls. Before I go any further I really would like to push that you get paid. It is a very long day and I do it out of civic duty but for college student about $200 for a long days work is decent.

Anyway one of the problems was that all of the training because of Covid was training films not in person. So you have a large group of retired people who have never seen this stuff before. Even if they have an iPad of their own this one was put in a stand and is doing completely different things than you've ever had it programmed to do before.

In my precinct we arrived at 5:30 a.m. put together all new equipment with incredibly long government written manuals. You can't even imagine how redundant almost everything is.

Another huge problem was so much time had passed. Several things were changed but the voting manual was never updated. The instructions told us the passwords and the cards that would allow us to put passwords in the machines were in an orange binder. But as it turns out they were on lanyards in a completely different place.

Normally at my precinct we have about 15 voting machines for an election. Instead because there had been so many people voting early they only gave us three that can accommodate just three people each. Even worse they only hooked up printers to three of them. So for all practical purposes three of the six were not open. They felt people would be afraid to stand close together because of Covid and we would have practically no voters anyway.

At 6:30 a half hour before the polls opened we could see how wrong that would be. There were already people standing in line outside. As line official I spoke to the people and let them know we were very shorthanded but we would get them through as quickly as possible as soon as we officially opened at 7:00 a.m. .

Inside we had four people. Normally for an election we have 6 to 8 people. Instead of three people to check people in we were going to have to have one.

As soon as we started the chip card reader which loads the vote onto the card you use to vote malfunctioned on one of the machines. The system says there's a problem but would you like to bypass it. So the poll official clicked on "yes I would like to bypass it". What happened is it only loaded part of the ballot if you bypassed. So people started to vote with the card and then found the rest of the ballot was missing.

Once you have started voting it takes a call to downtown voter registration to allow you to use a different ballot. Of course registration was flooded with calls because most people did the same thing my poll official did. They hit " bypass"

Meanwhile I set up a second machine and a third. They both worked correctly all day and we were able to move the line as much as possible but we still only had three voting booths. So it was slow but at least the line was moving The first people in the morning actually took about 45 minutes to vote at my precinct.

The unfortunate people that had registered on the malfunctioning iPad had to wait about an hour and a half for us to get bypass numbers to allow them to vote. A couple of them decided to cast the paper provisional ballots instead. Because this happened in many places all the provisional ballots will need to be counted and there will be many more than normal. So I don't expect results to come in for days.

About 9:00 a tech person came over hooked up all the rest of the printers and we were able to have many more people vote at the same time because we were able to open 8 booths.

I know people will wonder why we didn't just hook up the extra printers when we saw how many people were waiting to vote but the way the voting machines are configured there are tons of cables running in a very tiny space underneath

It was impossible to tell which cable went to which printer and they were all pre put together. Everyone was afraid that if they pulled the wrong cable they would take a booth down instead of adding one. We are not supposed to touch anything but let the technician do it. Each technician though is assigned to three or four polling places.

Anyway for me by 9:15 we were running smoothly. We did have a few problems with people that had requested absentee ballots and then never used them. If you ever do that yourself bring your absentee ballot with you to the polling place. It is a very simple matter for me to cancel your absentee ballot if you have it with you. I can cancel it and let you vote immediately.

However if you don't have it, it is much more complicated. We have to make sure no one else in your family picked it up and cast it in your name and so we have to cancel the ballot. This takes a call to the downtown voters registration office. Because of Covid many more people than usual requested absentee ballots. I also talked to people that said they received absentee ballots they did not request.

A few entire families came in that had requested absentee ballots but never used any of them. So the calls to the downtown registration office were many more than normal. At my precinct those were the only people that ended up waiting about an hour to vote.

Other problems were because you have paper ballots, it was pouring rain outside and really humid. People's damp hands tended to make their paper ballots not want to go through the scanner. At our precinct it was not really a big deal but it did sometimes cause a line at our only scanner. However nobody waited more than 15 minutes just scan their ballot.

So basically there's plenty of blame to go around.

The Secretary of State for purchasing equipment that really didn't work very well.

Fulton county did not have adequate people to operate the polls. Training elderly people to operate computers remotely was never going to go well. They did pull all of their employees in to help. However none of them received any training. I had the head of Health services helping at my precinct.

We have many good technical colleges in Georgia. We actually could have made an appeal to recruit more technicians and train them. Lots of young people are fired up about voting right now and we need to take advantage of that by having at least one technician that understands the systems in each polling place.

Fear of Covid also took a huge toll. People that normally work were afraid to and skipped the election.

So brand new technology with half as many people was never going to go well. I feel very fortunate my precinct did as well as it did. The four of us never ate lunch and went from 5:30 in the morning until 7:00 with just grabbing a bitel of something here and there.

During the extended hours from 7:00 to 9:00 we only had four more voters in my precinct and so we were able to eat then. By the time I got the equipment back to the collection point it was 10:00.

I know that's a really long answer and I expect most people to scroll past. However for people that are interested in what exactly went wrong in Georgia, that's what happened where I was.

I will edit this later. I realize some of this is not terribly clear but I spoke this into my phone while I was getting ready for my regular job.

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slackingsatan · 5 years

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Hi!! So I can see Nico spoiling the FUCK out of Levi. So an AU were Nico isn’t under Link, he’s a super super super successful&rich, and he just loves to spoil his little bean.

AAAAAAAAAAA AM SORRY I’VE BEEN GONE FOR A FEW DAYS. THERE’S BEEN LIKE TRAINING AND PRODUCTION STUFF WORK AND SHITS. FEELING SICK AS WELL… LOL ALRIGHT HERE WE GO..

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So here some notes.

RichBoi!Nico AU

- In this timeline, Nico took another career path and became successor of some family business.

- His company is one of the benefactors of Grey-Sloan and other hospitals, especially hospitals that encourage medical advances and breakthroughs. Having a different career path doesn’t mean that his passion for medicine died.

- He visits Grey-Sloan and there he met Dr. Levi Schmitt, a surgical intern. Levi thought he was some patient’s relative and he escorted Nico to the waiting area.

- Levi is a clueless tiny bean about who he is. Taryn and Dahlia kinda recognized him. Casey knows about him because Nico’s company is a medical tech company. Casey would be the reason Levi would know about how big Nico’s empire and name is.

- Yeah teenie tiny Levi so clueless about the fact that every equipment of Grey-Sloan has Kim written all over it, and he doesn’t know AT ALL

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How they first meet

“U-Uh sir there’s a waiting area for relatives and family members.” A young looking nerdy doctor said.

Wait, is he talking to me? Nico thought with confusion.

“I’m not really a-”

“I’ll escort you there.” The young looking doctor interrupted Nico’s explanation.

He doesn’t know me? It’s the first time that happened to Nico, that a doctor doesn’t know who he is. Every hospital he’s ever visited would recognize him. He’s like the Elon Musk of medical technology. He thought that no doctor in this world would not know of his name. He build an empire of medical tech and paved way to future medicine after all.

Nico followed the young clueless doctor, but with a bit of a distance between them in order to examine this rare specimen.

Light blue scrubs at Grey-Sloan? Must be an intern. He thought, still confused since even interns still know who Nico Kim is.

The young doctor opened a door towards the waiting area. He then gestured a ‘come-here’ hand gesture.

That’s cute. Nico thought and smirks while approaching the young looking doctor towards the waiting area. Come to think of it, he looks cute too.

“O-Okay. A doctor will come here and update you.” The young looking doctor broke the silence.

He still thinks I’m a patient relative. Nico giggled a little bit.

“I’ll be going now.”

The young doctor was about to go.

“What’s your name?” Nico asked, not going to miss a chance to know this cute little child doctor.

“Dr. Levi Schmitt.” Levi replied. “But everybody calls me glas- y’know what.. it’s just Dr. Schmitt.”

There’s a huge amount of trauma at the pit so Dr. Schmitt had to leave. If only there’s a bit of time to ask his number, Nico would have done that. He thought about it and Levi’s his type of guy he would date. Cute, nerdy, and sweet.

Next time I’ll ask him out.

“Thank god you’re here, Mr. Kim.” A doctor said and relieved that she found Nico at last. “My name Dr. Miranda Bailey, Chief of Surgery, and I’ll be touring you.” Dr. Bailey said enthusiastically.

“Hi, and please, lead the way.” Nico said politely.

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How they met, 2nd time

Levi drank with his friends at Joe’s after a long ortho session with Dr. Link.

“I’ve never done ortho before!” Levi exclaimed and sighed. He’s venting his stress out.

“Are we playing never have I ever?” Taryn said sarcastically. “Okay, never have I ever dropped my glasses at an open abdomen.”

Dahlia laughed so hard that she almost slipped her drink.

“ha Ha haarr.” Levi laughed sarcastically. Annoyed, he thought two can play that game. “Well how’s the secret crush at Dr. Grey.”

“Ooooh. Who wouldn’t though? But in a non-romantic way of course.” Dahlia said.

“Wow!” Taryn shocked at the foul move, and recovered quickly. “For the record, hear her talk about Christina Yang and tell me if you think she’s straight.”

They laughed and tell stories about how their day went. Casey was still on shift, so he’ll join next time.

Levi’s going to order another drink when a tall handsome man brushed a cold beer bottle towards his hands. It’s the patient relative that he escorted before.

“Rough day?” Tall handsome man said. “You need a drink.”

“T-thanks.” Levi replied and confused with the kind gesture. “B-but here I can pay-” He’s about to reach for his wallet when Mr. Handsome stopped him.

“No need. You owe me a drink next time.”

“Okay.” Levi replied and still confused. Wow he’s hunky, and ripped, and chiseled, like a model. Like a roman stature. Geez, what am I thinking?

Mesmerized, Levi asked for the tall handsome man patient relative’s name.

“It’s Nico.” Nico responded. “By the way, I’m not a relative of a patient.. just so we’re clear, I was checking medical equipment.”

“What? But you’re wearing a suit.. aand uh” Levi’s more confused and now embarrassed since he escorted him away and thought he was some patient’s relative. “I’m sorry.”

Nico was wearing a suit on that day. He doesn’t look like IT or tech support. Levi thought. Now, he’s wearing a smart casual outfit. Stylish techy tall handsome tall venti guy. Interesting.

Nico’s phone rang.

“It’s okay. Have to go. Remember you owe me a drink.”

“Saturday?”

“Saturday.”

Nico left to answer a call. Taryn and Dahlia went to Levi.

“So that’s a date?” Taryn smiled and giggled.

“N-no it-s nott a date” Levi got all flustered and in denial.

“Trust me it’s a date. He asked you out for drinks.”

“He looks familiar.” Dahlia added.

“He sure does, we only saw a glimpse of him so i dunno.” Taryn shrugged.

“He works as IT or something.” Levi explained. “He was checking medical equipments and I thought he was a patient’s relative so I escorted him towards the waiting room. And now I owe him a drink. Nothing more.”

Dahlia and Taryn laughed.

“How can you have mistaken him for a relative?” Taryn asked after laughing.

Dahlia laughed harder.

“Pheww haah wa-wait.” Dahlia took a breather. “Anyways, it looks like you’ve hit a jackpot!”

“I told you, it. Is. Not. A. Date.” Levi’s still not convinced, but deep inside he’s excited about it.

“Whatever floats your boat.” Taryn said.

“… Whatever makes you sleep at night.” Dahlia added.

And they drank again, because tomorrow it’s back to work.

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Let’s skip to when they’re together and Nico spoils him hard on one of their dates

It’s been a while since they’ve seen each other. Levi was busy with fellowship and Nico’s managing his business. They treasure the times that they could meet, and then hope for those times to happen.

They have a day for themselves, at last. Nico planned an extravagant date. He doesn’t really mind to spend money for Levi.

The night before their date, Nico waited for Levi’s shift to end inside his sportscar. Levi’s shift ended. They talked about what happened to them over the past few days, even though they always talk through phone or chat.

“… and I was about to c-cut thee .. the..”

Tired, he slept midsentence when he was telling a story about his recent patient.

Cute. Nico thought and drove the sleeping bean to his house. He had planned the night as well. There was a scheduled full body massage and jacuzzi in case Levi wanted to splash the stress away as well.

Levi felt relaxed and happy because he’s spending time with Nico. Tonight is relaxation… and another kind of stress relief IYKWIM. Tomorrow is the real date.

Levi wanted to sneak and make breakfast for Nico, but Nico’s hired chef had already made breakfast. Breakfast is served on a long table full of Levi’s favorite foods. He was surprised with the enormous amount of food. But Levi wanted to cook for both of them, not that he was against letting other people cook their food. It was supposed to be their time. And he wanted to show Nico how much he loves him too.

“Ohh… Uh.. Hi.” Levi greeted the people inside the kitchen and the dining area.

“Good morning, sir!” The personal chef greeted the tiny bean and proceeds to introduce the dishes. Nico went down a minute later.

“Good morning, hun.” Nico said and kisses Levi. “Let’s eat.”

“Good morning.” Levi replied, smiled and then asked. “Isn’t this a bit too much?”

“Too much? Don’t you worry and just eat.”

I really wanted to cook breakfast. Levi thought, and then dismissed it since it’s their time and no negative thoughts.

Next, Nico and Levi went to shop clothes. Levi insisted not to since he has a lot of clothes already but Nico wants Levi to have new nice things.

“Try everything on him.” Nico said calmly, but like in an order.

“Yes, sir.” The staff replied. Levi looks amazing on everything, and he almost thought that Nico would buy the whole damn store (he bought half of the store.)

Next, for their lunch, there’s a reservation on one of those fancy restaurants that it cost a fortune for just a glass of water.

“Uhhh are you sure this is okay?” Levi said, because those prices can kill a middle class man.

Nico chuckled. He remembered this scenario when Levi hasn’t realized who he is.

— Flashback—

Nico invited Levi to dinner, and Levi is surprised that it’s in a fancy restaurant.

“Uhh Nico we can’t afford this.” Levi said while computing what he has to order.

“It’s my treat, anyways.” Nico said, and he touched Levi’s hand above the table for reassurance.

“Y’know that I’m just a surgical intern right? And idk you work like IT or Tech…. these prices are just… wow… we can just bail…” Levi whispered.

Actually, I’m the President of KMS Corporation (Kim Medical System Corp.)

“Trust me I got this.” Nico reassured.

–end of Flashback—

Levi seems a bit troubled, and Nico have noticed it. They stumbled across some sort of arcade shop. Levi wanted to try it and Nico was persuaded easily. Nico wanted to win him the big teddy bear on top of the shelf, it cost like 30000 tickets. One of the fastest way to gain tickets is a shooting game. Nico went and bought tons of tokens to try the shooting game with Levi. It turns out that Levi is good at these types of games. Levi won like 70% of their shared tickets. Nico saw Levi’s genuine smile and laugh for the first time today.

“You didn’t enjoy today didn’t you?” Nico said.

“W-What? Can’t you see I’m enjoying it? We can actually collect 30000 tickets! Or even more than that!” Levi replied, excited to get some prices.

“I mean like when we ate breakfast and when we shopped you clothes. Also, when we had lunch. If something’s bothering you, tell me.”

“It’s not that I didn’t enjoy it. It’s just that I’m not used to having fancy things, or like a fancy lifestyle… I actually wanted to make you breakfast this morning…. I want to show you how much I love you, too.” Levi explained, and then touched Nico’s fingertips with his own.

“You wanted to make me breakfast?”

“Y-Yeah.. I’m actually good at cooking, FYI!”

“How about dinner?”

“Oh absolutely! B-But maybe you have plans, I don’t want to interfere.”

Adorable! I want to squeeze him like a tiny teddy bear! Nico thought.

“No worries, let’s go with your plan. Let’s go grocery shopping.”

Nico cancelled like this ferris wheel dinner where for each loop at the ferris wheel, there will be new servings. He didn’t let Levi know, he wants him to not worry about such things. They went grocery shopping together, picking up ingredients. Levi’s going to cook German cuisines and then Nico will teach him about Korean cuisines as well. So the bought enough for both German and Korean food.

It might not be the most romantic and fancy dinner they’ve had, but it’s the moment that has value more than its financial worth.

#SCHMICO #AM SORRY I WAS GONE FOR LIKE DAYS #THERE WAS LIKE PRODUCTION SHITS AND ALSO TRAINING #WORK INTERFERED #HERE IS WHAT I COULD THINK OF #AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA #AM A BIT SICK #BUT STILL MOVING #SCHMICO AU #SLACKING ASKS #AU

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If Lee wrote otome #8 | Interstellar Shoestring Budget

PREMISE:

Top Secret and yet also chronically underfunded, understaffed, misunderstood government office focused on extraterrestrial affairs - primarily, keeping their presence a secret, helping stranded extraterrestrials integrate into Earth society, processing planned visits, occasionally preventing mass invasions - with a basically nonexistent budget, since the people making the decision on where to allocate money can’t know the truth. This means cobbling together disguises with the help of a local community theatre department or high school art program, macguyvering weapons together from duct tape, staplers and tech that’s 20 years out of date, and relying on an unpaid (extraterrestrial) intern to handle social media updates and PR. 3D prints most of their supplies. TAKES PLACE IN LAS VEGAS probably. Where else would you hide the fantastical?

Potentially fatal extraterrestrial parasite found? Let’s hope roach killer spray works on it. I think there’s some under the break room kitchen sink.

Large scale invasion by the Truorans imminent? We avoided the last one with Tweeter - do they have Tweeter? Do we know anyone who can communicate in Truoran? No - let’s try emojis then, I guess.

Newly stranded alien has blue scales and six eyes? Welcome to Earth - here’s a mepipe contouring video and some concealer, good luck.

Zero mind-control memory wipe devices - unless they can convince an alien with those abilities to do it, they pretty much have to rely on chicanery, natural skeptical instincts, and bribery (as a last resort, because, budget).

(side note - super tempted to say it’s old enough to have been ‘Ye Olde Extraterrestrial-Earth Transfer Support’ but over time the ‘olde’ and ‘support’ got dropped so now it’s just YEET)

HEROINE

Bad at delegating - takes on too much too often (usually because she’s so used to not having budget to hire more people to do it). Somewhat high-strung. Prone to trying every new ‘this will change your life’ trend out there but never makes it more than a month or two before falling back on bad habits. Excellent cook, often of very, very weird combinations in hopes of landing on the right mix for some of her clients (even though many of them find the practice of coming together as a group to independently ingest energy sources bizarre). Staunch believer in trying for peace first - just because we can’t communicate doesn’t mean we don’t have common ground, and just because something is unexplained or unfamiliar doesn’t mean it’s dangerous. Too tired to be scared of anything, which is good, because sometimes the existential questioning of her reality and the world beyond it can be derailing. Went straight into the military after high school, which is how she ended up learning about extraterrestrial outreach. Still keeps a lot of service habits. Currently trying to wean off of caffeine (it’s not going well). Has no social life because she is always on call for work. Angry and hurting about the cruelty of the world--not just hers, but universally--but tries to ignore the anger in favor of doing small things to make it better.

Love Interests

Alien 1: Alien who integrated into Earth six-seven years ago when heroine was first being assigned to the department. Has some serious telepathic ability, which allows them to conveniently convince anyone looking at them that they’re seeing a regular, normal human being, instead of what they actually are (basically energy-based, rather than having a solid manifest form). Unfortunately, they also kind of uses it willynilly to ‘convince’ people of over things, because they don’t believe in subscribing to human ethical codes except when convenient, which makes them a teensy bit untrustworthy. Generally seems content (even happy) to be on Earth, making a significant effort to establish a long-term life. Occasionally acts as a consultant to the department since their ability makes them generally able to communicate with most species, so long as they produce rational thoughts on a similar level, but refuses to help for free, dealing instead in favors (doesn’t need money since they can just convince people to fork over twenty bucks or food for free or whatever they need). Super shady about their backstory. Does not deal in absolutes - their perception of reality is somewhat more multi-tiered and probability-based. Originally from a species with collective thought/memory - something they were shut out of shortly after arriving on Earth, without explanation. Semi-dealing with the trauma of that, and waffles between being elated with their independence, and feeling a profound sense of loss and severance.

The Techie: “I have a computer science engineering degree from MIT and I took this lousy-paying government job because I thought I’d get to hack into alien spaceships but instead I’m basically the Help Desk for Earth-integrating aliens.” Eternally despairs over the incompatibility of Earth tech and extraterrestrial tech - though they’ve managed to make a few basic communication consoles work retroactively and never give up on writing some kind of code or program that will ‘click’. Teensy bit of a mad scientist when it comes to dismantling alien stuff to try and figure out how it works. Perennial smarta--. Knows how critical they are and milks it - basically constantly threatens to leave and go work for Fwoogle (particularly when called upon to do something like unjam the printer). Generally has to be bribed to participate, but more reliable than they pretend. Sociable nerd. Constantly dealing with parents who are disappointed because they expected them to be an Aluminum Valley billionaire by now. Builds apps that provide helpful tips for integrating aliens, and programs the 3D printer to print out disguise pieces.

Actually does quit to go work for Fwoogle or a startup in their own route to avoid coworker issue - except they get sucked back in to at least helping due to some major trouble.

The oh shoot we ended up in space for the final act route - and not only did we end up in space, but we are stranded on a ship that uses totally different tech than ours?

Alien 2: SUPER UNHAPPY about being stuck in this backwater solar system, with such a horrible, rude, unpleasant, backwards-thinking, awful-acting dominant species. May or may not be plotting to wipe them all off the face of the planet. Very volatile (in a literal sense - their surface tends to react explosively with Earth’s atmosphere), though they are trying hard to control it because that’s potentially fatal. From a very aggressive species that has a narrative of peace-through-conquest - but their last mission to do so, there was a catastrophic failure, and that’s the last Alien 2 knows.

Private Industry/Casino Owner (Alien 3): From a shapeshifting species that is essentially adaptive - becoming more and more like their surroundings as time goes on, which means they have super easily integrated into Earth society. Unfortunately, they arrived on Earth back when the Mafia was running Vegas, so, those are the behaviors that are integrated first. Generous but violent. Persuasive, arrogant, has a strict moral code that is a mix of alien and Earthling. Genteel but vicious. Literal embodiment of what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger due to adaptive abilities. Has amassed enough of a fortune through running a (super shady) Vegas casino that they have opened their own charity to support extraterrestrials on earth. Frequently tries to hire MC to run it (look at all the resources you could have) but she considers it a conflict of interest (she’s more afraid they will entice away Techie). Has every intention of making Earth an interstellar destination for extraterrestrial tourists - regardless of what Earth’s governments think of it.

Space Pirate (Alien 4): There has to be one, okay? Child of a union between a generally terrifying species and one that inadvertently created them in a last-ditch effort to halt the conquest of their planet, which did not make for a great childhood as they were somewhat disdained by one parent’s species and feared by just about everyone else. Because of this, they have a very strong dislike/distrust of organized groups (governments in particular) but (deep down) they still believe in individuals, as they’ve found several of their life who have become friends or family (or crew). Fiercely loyal to their own. Likes Earth because as an unintegrated planet, they can come and go without scrutiny (except for one measly office that sometimes harangues them). Operates in a very gray morality - stealing is okay, killing in self-defense (even proactively) is okay, doing what you have to survive is okay (though they try to be one to make that decision before their crew), but some things just aren’t. Values independence and freedom over all else. Does not get along with Alien 1 at all because of the collective-thought aspect.

Conspiracy Theory TV Producer: coming soon maybe idk

Supporting Cast:

Various clients:

Doesn’t experience time in a linear fashion which makes them super hard to keep track of.

Myth bases - various types of dragons, mermaids, selkies, etc

A neon-based organism that is colorless and a low-energy loner, and returning them to their home would require a massive amount of voltage, which when applied totally alters them.

A sodium-based organism to whom water is toxic, making it a massive time crunch to get them to a desert location

A mercury-based parasitic organism that has found it can ‘merge’ with humans as their skin absorbs it, giving them a mobile vessel that blends in, except ultimately their toxicity kills their host and they have to find another.

Starkillers! Check it out. Iron-based organisms born from the death of massive stars (creating iron takes more energy than is released by the fusion, so stars that make iron essentially cannibalize themselves) - they are subsequently feared by default by most species that recognize the power inherent to stars. They consume other entities in search of the greater energy they once had. Consuming carbon-oxygen based entities stabilizes them into steel-based organisms.

Various visitors who they haven’t figured out how best to communicate with but they’re trying!

Fire cat: An alien lifeform that seems to be a physical, tangible manifestation of heat. It followed heroine home from work and refuses to leave. Since it likes to cuddle and has taken the shape of an Earth cat (...except for the fact it glows like a hot coal), heroine doesn’t really ask too many questions (Even though sometimes, out of the corner of her eye, she swears she sees some massive, fiery shape). She’s still not sure what it eats but it seems content. It’s even started purring on occasion. It will absolutely scorch her fingers if she pets it when it’s not in the mood, though. She keeps telling it she’s a dog person and it keeps giving her a perfect Judgey Not-Actually-A-Cat stare.

Author Roomie: Former frustrated wild child who has (sort of) settled down - with a vengeance. Only leaves the house when they have to - which, given modern conveniences, means almost never - or when they finish a book, at which point they disappear for a few days and MC never knows where they go. They actually hired one of MC’s extraterrestrial clients to act as them for book signings and the like. Was raised by their ‘aunt’ *coughcough*my ode to Aunt Beast*coughcough* who was, in fact, an extraterrestrial, which is how they know about all this. Super helpful in coming up with cover stories. Incredibly laid back about life, incredibly NOT laid back about their book plots - tends to bite MC’s head off (figuratively) around deadline time or when stuck on a particularly tricky chapter. Thoughtful, in the sense that they think things through before answering, clever. Jealous that fire cat loves heroine but won’t sit in author’s lap unless it is SUPER cold outside.

Author’s Editor: Had an absolutely hysterical panic attack when they found out their number one author’s stand-in was not from the planet Earth. Still prone to being hysterical about it if they think about it too much. Chronically weeps over their trouble child client - who is a consistent top ten bestseller, but the definition of exhaustion to work with. Ebbs and flows with author’s mood - when author is laidback, editor is stressed, when author is stressed, editor is the picture of serenity and encouragement. Totally ends up dating ET stand-in even if they have hiccups.

Author’s Aunt: The sort of being who imparts strength on/in others simply through steadfast grace. Just a profoundly loving presence. Healer in a very literal sense, she can help most species to be well and healthy, but there is not a good way to articulate how. Very, very old and has been on Earth a very, very long time - even before the government started a program to integrate aliens, she was acting as a kind of welcomer/healer/mentor/surrogate family to stranded aliens - and the occasional hurting, angry, frustrated human child, as was the case with Author. Often beats the government to the scenes of crashes. Home is always open to anyone who finds their way there. Heroine sees her appearance differently than the author does - when asked about it, neither can really explain why or how, since AA does not perceive the world visually.

Intern: Snarky college kid who acts like an absolute slacker but it’s all a smokescreen for a pathological need to exceed expectations - they actually work super hard behind the scenes. Primary duties include yelling PHOTOSHOP on forums where people post pictures of extraterrestrials. Always seems to have energy. Acts like they are super grouchy about having to adhere to the overly rigorous NDA but is actually extremely zealous about making the world better and safer for all of its residents.

#otome #if lee wrote otome #alien otome #aliens #extraterrestrials #extraterrestrial

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Anime in America Podcast: Full Episode 8 Transcript

It's time to bid farewell to Crunchyroll's Anime in America podcast, but not before it goes out with a banger of a final episode. Join host Yedoye Travis and special guest Kun Gao as they tackle the streaming wars, and read on for the full episode 8 transcript.

The Anime in America series is available on crunchyroll.com, animeinamerica.com, and wherever you listen to podcasts.

EPISODE 8: THE STREAMING WARS

Guest: Kun Gao

Disclaimer: The following program contains language not suitable for all ages. Discretion advised.

[Lofi music]

Last we checked in, the anime industry was struggling. Rising competition matched with the economic crisis of ‘07 and ’08 caused half the industry to shutter its doors within the next five years. And even without economic obstacles, the physical media and broadcast focused industry was still facing the looming threat of piracy.

I’m Yedoye Travis and this is the final episode of Anime in America.

[Lofi music]

By this point anime was already available to stream legally, and had been as early as 2002 with Valkyrie Media Partner’s video on demand service Anime Network. It had been a mainstay on Netflix since back when the company was still mailing out DVDs, which it technically still is, but if you already knew that, chances are your internet connection isn’t strong enough to listen to this podcast. Funimation and VIZ had already made the jump to digital with major streaming services Hulu and...uh… Joost?

Do you remember Joost? Cause I do not. What the fuck is “Joost?”

Both inked deals along with the now defunct U.K. anime distributor Gong in 2008 to stream select anime series from their catalogs. More on that in Anime in the U.K.! Ha ha, just kidding… unless… maybe?

Video hosting websites were presenting a major problem to anime distributors, however. The internet had entered the age of YouTube and new sites and services where literally anyone could upload a video without any kind of quality control were rising and falling daily and with them fell the final remaining barrier between consumers and pirates, technological literacy [Pirate “Arr!”]. The online ecology was primed for pirates to step out of IRC and torrenting sites and start putting their work on streaming video pages that literally anyone could use.

Unburdened by approvals and quality assurance, piracy had been beating official releases in terms of speed for decades and now suddenly was standing shoulder to shoulder with official services in availability.

But already the seed of a new era had been planted. And among the thousands of video hosting sites was an anime-focused page run by a group of young Bay Area techies.

Gao: We started to just tinker around on nights and weekends. We were watching Starcraft replays, we were watching anime content, and every week it was like “well, let’s load up this torrent and let’s wait for the Naruto to come out, and now we have to seed to a bunch of people before we can watch and let’s hope we don’t get a virus, or whatever.” And it was like, you know it was like a lot of work. And then we’re like “well, why don’t we just make a website that people can just click, just like YouTube, and just start watching?” And coincidentally, YouTube took off in… I’ll say ‘05-’06, when it was really starting to hockey stick, so we kinda said “well, that’s kinda the model.” YouTube, there was many other sites, at the time, now it’s just YouTube, but Veoh, MetaCafe, like Stage6, like all these sites we were like, what if we just did one where people would upload content they normally just can’t watch? And anime just made a lot of sense to us because we couldn’t find how to watch it… anywhere. Except for torrent sites. That’s kinda the chronology up until we founded the company in the middle of ‘06.

That is Kun Gao, founder and former CEO of Crunchyroll. It wasn’t always the biggest catalog of anime in the world, back then it was a small website he and his friend designed to host anime and Starcraft videos which quickly turned from a passion project into an ever-increasing logistical and financial struggle as site traffic began to balloon.

Gao: We ran out of bandwidth [dialup sounds] though pretty quickly, because bandwidth was really expensive. Especially back then [dialup sounds end] it was like 20 times more expensive than it is now. And I remember we were just maxing all our credit cards, because we didn’t, we weren’t really making money, there wasn’t a way to monetize with video ads, there wasn’t video ads to begin with. So yeah, that was the situation in early ‘07. So we, first it was raising with some angels. We said, we approached some angels, they were angels for our first company, my first company, and they had gotten a return from that investment. And I asked them if they wanted to invest into the new company, and they were very supportive and they were right behind us. And then within about a month or two after the angels invested, the site just continued to grow. And it was showing up on Alexa, which was not the Amazon speaking thingamajig, it was a website where you could look at other peoples’ traffic, and how they were trending over time. And I think that’s when VCs started knocking on our doors, they saw that the website was just hockey sticking and blowing up and they approached us and said they wanted to invest. And so from about… August-September through December of 2017, we started talking to a lot of VCs and then we found the right VC to invest into our business, and then we raised about $4 million bucks into the company, and that was when we started paying off all our credit card bills, and then we started to you know, get more servers, starting to hire full time employees, because we weren’t paying anyone or ourselves at that time, so that everyone could work on this full time.

That’s Angel Investors, of course, not actual… angels, which, uh… in some circles, you might believe are fake. Depends. We’ll leave that up to God. Who is real! [angelic choir].

Gao: In 2008, after we raised VC funding, we said “well, we need to figure out how to, like, license this content. We need to figure out how to compensate creators, and then we need to figure out how to make money for this content.” And so at that time, I think the company was like six, maybe seven, people? And everyone was an engineer, and so I drew the lucky or unlucky straw of having to figure out how to like, figure out Japan. The first thing I had to do was, you know, was like figure out “who do I talk to?” And I didn’t know who to talk to. And so fortunately, one of our advisors was a guy who was, at the time, the CEO of a company called BitTorrent, and he, along with Bram, who created the BitTorrent protocol, had setup a office in Tokyo where BitTorrent was a thing you can license to put on to like, a NAS drive, or a router, where you could do BitTorrenting on your NAS or your router so you don’t have to turn on your computer to do that. And so they had a business out there, and so I talked to him about who to talk to. And he said “well, you should talk to this guy called Vince Totino, he works for the BitTorrent in Japan.” And so in March of 2008, I went to Japan, met up with Vince, and then the more we talked, the more it was like “well, this guy’s awesome. Like, he knows everything about Japan, because he’s been there for 20 years. He speaks fluent Japanese. Maybe he can help us to navigate Japan.” And so he joined full time, and then we then set about going to all the major Japanese anime companies. And he didn’t have all the connections, either, so it was just we found someone who knew someone who knew someone, and then we contacted him and just kept going down the chain until we were able to get to, we were able to get to the key folks at all the major companies. And then, as relates to subtitling, outputting content, once we figured out the business side and we were able to get a deal with TV Tokyo, we had to figure out how to legitimately subtitle the content. Because we were getting the files before TV broadcast, we can’t just put it out there for fansub groups to fansub, because we wouldn’t know or be able to trust that. And so we started to hire people to help us to subtitle. And it ended up being that a lot of the people who used to participate in the fansub community were the best people to subtitle. And so they were able to receive some compensation and credit for their work doing it officially, legitimately, through the Crunchyroll business.

So, Kun just went to Tokyo, linked up with Vince and got all the major anime publishers on board. Pretty simple, right? Wrong! Absolutely wrong. You’re stupid for thinking otherwise. Turns out it was pretty difficult not only to sell them the whole idea of streaming media, but also to convince those publishers to license out their valuable IP to a pirate site.

Gao: Interesting side story is, if you remember when we previously talked about VHS that was pirated and distributed by fans, for fans, very analogous to what we were doing, that started a company called AD Vision, by John Ledford, who I would say is probably the pioneer of anime home video distribution. And today the company’s called Sentai. But he helped us to introduce us to TV Tokyo, in like the Fall of 2008. And then, when we got to TV Tokyo, they were, you know, they were very pragmatic about the situation. I would say not everyone was pragmatic. We would have conversations, a lot of conversations, were something to the tune of “Hey! We’ve got a website, there’s a lot of fansubbed content on there, we know it’s not legal, we want to get the license to legally do it.” And then they would just… not try to make eye contact, they would like act visibly angry, they would be shaking and they would say “you’re stealing from us, you’re pirating our content.” And we said “well, we want to make it legitimate. And if you want us to take all of your content down, today, we will. But that’s going to send all the fans to dark corners, to get access to your content, because they really want to watch it. And we want to make a bright lit place for you and your content to be distributed worldwide.” And so I think TV Tokyo really got that, and so we were able to work with them to figure out how to license Naruto legitimately. And at the end of ‘08, we announced together with TV Tokyo that they would be, we would be simulcasting Naruto, for the first time [Naruto opening 2 “Haruka Kanata” plays], within like an hour of TV broadcast starting Jan…. uh, Jan 7th, or something, 2009. So that’s kinda how that arc started.

[Lofi music]

On New Year’s Eve 2008, Crunchyroll deleted all of its illegal videos and fan contributed content, converting to an official streaming service that began simulcasting Naruto Shippuden in January 2009. On the Japan side it would remain an uphill battle over the years as Crunchyroll continued to shop itself out and prove itself to other publishers, but in America it was a deal that shook the entire industry. Streaming anime was just beginning to creep onto platforms like Netflix and Hulu in 2008 but NO ONE was simulcasting. At the time, Naruto was the single most popular anime in the world and suddenly it was on a brand new service that was putting it up to stream within an hour of its Japanese broadcast.

For anyone who doesn’t know, simulcasting is a portmanteau of the words “simultaneous” and “broadcasting,” and I think based on those two words you can guess that it means “simultaneous broadcasting.”

This was a foundational shift both for the established industry and for pirates. Where before pirates had speed on their side, they couldn’t hope to turn around episodes of Naruto within an hour. Crunchyroll’s agreement with TV Tokyo got them all the materials in advance of the broadcast to allow them to do the legwork pre-release, which would eventually shrink down the window to be near simultaneous with the Japanese TV broadcast. Suddenly the fastest and easiest way to watch new anime was once again an official source.

Along with their new offering, Crunchyroll also established a new framework for the streaming business. Although Crunchyroll’s original catalogue was small, many fans considered it a win-win.Crunchyroll had a large pre-existing community that trusted the brand and now it was beating the pirates in speed and had a clear financial throughline from your wallet to the people making the product.

So Crunchyroll started to grow. And it started to grow FAST.

Suddenly industry titans like Funimation, VIZ, and the recently established Aniplex of America found themselves having to play catch-up. This started the Simulcast Wars, a nearly 10 year long race for each of these companies to launch its own branded streaming services and get their products out alongside the official Japanese broadcast, and of course, everyone tried to get in.

And I mean everyone. Every single person.

But quick aside before I get into that… This pivot to simulcasting is a huge moment for anime itself, but that moment had another lasting effect on licensing that’s definitely worth mentioning. Anime itself got more opportunities. Licensing companies always have to be strategic to make money, but the shift toward streaming as the primary vehicle changed the economics of anime. You might say it… disrupted… the industry.

Gao: I think when you start off as… when you start off and become so successful like Funimation in home video, sometimes it’s tough to switch gears and disrupt your own business. And so we were disruptors. We were definitely way smaller, but we had to be nimble. And there were a lot of content that Funimation just doesn’t license, because for them it doesn’t make sense to go get Haikyu!! [Haikyu!! opening “Imagination” plays]. It wouldn’t ever sell on home video, and that was the only way they made money. So that wasn’t interesting for them. But it was interesting for us. Through the internet, there’s a lot of sports anime fans who love that genre, who love the fact that sports is just a vehicle for telling stories, and they’re willing to subscribe, they’re willing to watch online. And so we had an advantage in that regard.

Before our modern era where there’s just about 100 percent licensing rate every season, tons of titles would get skipped over because anime distributors in the U.S. had to judge new titles through the lens of a physical release and decide if a production looked like it would sell enough units to make up for their investment. A streaming model meant it was not only easier for each anime to find its audience online, but a lower price tag since you didn’t necessarily have to add the costs of designing, manufacturing, and distributing DVDs and a title’s performance online could act as a testing ground to inform your later decisions regarding a physical release.

You could make the argument that this also hurts anime’s longevity since physical releases are often all that is left of a title if the license enters limbo and that’s certainly legitimate but, as a counterpoint... We might notta gotten Haikyu!!... so there’s that. That’s enough of an argument, right?

Okay! Back to the thing that I was talking about.

EVERYBODY. In all caps.

Funimation was the quickest to follow, streaming a near simulcast of Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood the very next season, four days behind the Japanese broadcast, which was fast by industry standards, but still gave pirates plenty of wiggle room for one of the biggest shonen releases of the 2010s [Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood opening “Again” plays].

VIZ followed next with Inuyasha: The Final Act in the Fall season which they simulcast on Hulu.

This was the pattern for about two years as other companies experimented with simulcasts of top priority titles and Crunchyroll continued to grow not only in subscribers but their number of their simulcast titles each season.

Then Anime News Network tried to get in on the action.

Y’know, the news site. The one with “News” in its name? One of the most trafficked anime sites in the world at the time, Anime News Network wanted in on the game, and after picking up some catalog titles from the likes of Aniplex, Bandai, and Sentai, they made their simulcasting debut starting with Oreimo in Fall 2010 [Oreimo opening plays]. Oreimo is… uh… I will say the definitive title in a genre of anime known as “Siscon,” upon which I refuse to elaborate but you can google at your own risk.

Unfortunately ANN pulled a Funimation, and someone took advantage of an exploit in their system and managed to get ahold of the second episode of Oreimo pre-release, and ANN was also forced to suspend its simulcasts because siscon dudes mean business. At this point though they were probably already on their way out of the streaming business. Despite the large amount of traffic ANN commanded on its editorial side, it was unable to leverage that into streaming views and it quietly wound down its catalog over the years to once again focus exclusively on news. Because they’re a news site. They do news.

The Fall 2010 season also saw the launch of Toonzaki, a creation of none other than the now-failing 4Kids’. It started with a catalogue of 72 mostly non-exclusive titles, and honestly the streaming site may have been one of the best things 4Kids’ ever created, a community focused platform that attracted even longtime critics of the anime licensor. Unfortunately the site couldn’t survive 4Kids’s financial woes and it was ultimately killed, likely as a result of the 2012 lawsuit we mentioned in the previous episode. In 2012 Toonzaki suffered the 1-2 punch of losing its entire Yu-Gi-Oh! catalog and having its site mysteriously going down for three whole months. I dunno about you but I would cancel my subscription after uh, probably a couple of hours, actually. Ultimately the site’s ownership was passed to Konami and it was later shut down in 2013.

In 2012 VIZ announced its own online streaming channel called Neon Alley which was kinda like a TV channel but VIZ anime and on the internet. That uh, ya know the whole concept of streaming? That’s what we’re talking about this episode. Unfortunately it didn’t fly and by early 2014, VIZ cut a deal with Hulu that added Neon Alley as a content channel to the larger streaming service’s menu. Within just a few months the Neon Alley name was dropped altogether as VIZ’s content was fully incorporated into Hulu’s service.

2013 saw the introduction of a brand new face in American anime streaming which, if I were a company like Crunchyroll or Funimation at the time, I probably would have greeted with hostility. Daisuki was founded by a Japanese consortium led by Asatsu-DK whose investors included major studios like Toei Animation, Aniplex, Sunrise, and TMS with the intention of streaming their anime globally. If that wasn’t scary enough, they were later joined by another $3 million in investments from a who’s who of Japanese publishers like Kodansha, Shueisha, Shogakukan, and Kadokawa.

Included in their starting catalog were Aniplex hits like Puella Magi Madoka Magica and Sword Art Online as well as a large number of Sunrise mecha anime. And I can not emphasize enough the vibe at the time was that this was the apocalypse for international licensing. Japan’s gonna hold onto all their titles, choke everybody else out, and run their own one-stop shop for anime.

But obviously that didn’t happen, so… what went wrong?

Well nobody’s entirely sure but probably a number of things. By 2013 America’s short romance with mecha anime like Gundam Wing, Escaflowne, and Evangelion had long since come to an end and it was Gundam titles courtesy of Sunrise that made up most of Daisuki’s initial offering of exclusives. Look, Gundam fans, I see you. I’m one of you. I don’t know why kids these days can’t appreciate giant robots, either, but that’s just how it is. The rest of Daiksuki’s starting catalog was pretty sparse since they’d already shopped out the licenses to many of their major titles in the largest international markets. By now, I’m sure this episode feels like a thinly veiled Crunchyroll ad, but the fact is, Crunchyroll had the good fortune of launching with Naruto the single most popular anime of its era, while Daisuki had two major Aniplex hits that were already showing their age. That, along with some endemic technical issues on their platform, seem to have made an environment not even One Punch Man and Dragon Ball Super could save. Also, it seems, splitting up anime streaming rights by region and selling them piecemeal to major streaming services may have been more profitable for some of Daisuki’s investors.

In March of 2017 Bandai Namco purchased Daisuki’s owner Anime Consortium in Japan and by October of the same year the service shut down completely.

Anime was already a popular subsection of Netflix’s sprawling catalog in 2014, but that year the company started to make public moves to invest in the medium and secure their own exclusives, teaming up with Polygon Pictures to secure many of their future seinen releases such as Knights of Sidonia and Ajin: Demi-human [Ajin trailer clip], likely establishing the relationship that would later lead to a number of 3D anime produced by Netflix itself like the upcoming Pacific Rim and recently released Altered Carbon and Ghost in the Shell.

Early 2016 saw Funimation launch their own streaming platform dubbed FunimationNow. But that wasn’t the only major announcement they planned that year. 2016 was also the beginning of what was probably the biggest news for Anime in America since the start of simulcasting: the big Crunchyroll/Funimation alliance.

Under the tagline “better together” Crunchyroll and Funimation, now two of the biggest names in anime not only in the U.S., but worldwide, announced a strategic partnership in which they’d be sharing their libraries with one another.

[Lofi music]

As it turned out, 2017 was the year that two media juggernauts would turn their eyes on anime and I just gotta discuss the most unfortunate one first. I’m talking, of course, about Amazon’s Anime Strike. And I say “of course,” but you might not’ve known about it until I just said it, so... Amazon announced its entry into the anime industry January 17th with a great deal of fanfare.

[IGN News: Amazon has just launched its own anime focused streaming channel, called Anime Strike]

Anime Strike was the first of what would be several branded add-on channels for Amazon Prime Video, which were essentially ways of compartmentalizing content that they could charge extra money for. So, in addition to your Prime subscription, you’d have to shell out an additional $4.99 to watch the exclusive anime Amazon was planning to load on the service.

Amazon wasn’t fuckin’ around, either. Among their first exclusives was the seinen sex drama Scum’s Wish, which would be the first of Amazon’s new exclusive streaming deal with the lauded Noitamina animation block on Fuji TV which, down the line, would land them Inuyashiki, After the Rain, and Banana Fish. They also entered a strategic deal with Sentai Filmworks that would give Anime Strike an exclusivity window for certain new Sentai titles. After about four months they even rolled out the ability to download episodes for offline viewing. So even up against Netflix and the new alliance between Crunchyroll and Funimation, Anime Strike was shaping up to be the next major competitor in anime streaming.

Or… it seemed that way.

Let’s just say anime fans didn’t like Anime Strike very much. You could forgive them for charging another $60 a year for a very limited library of anime ($160 if you didn’t already have Prime). But also, Anime Strike just didn’t seem to “get” anime fans and didn’t seem very intent on trying to figure us out.

And despite Amazon’s massive and sophisticated streaming video infrastructure, they just couldn’t seem to get anime episodes up on time. They would show up days late, often without subtitles. And discoverability was a problem, with many complaining they were unable to find Anime Strike anime on Amazon even after searching for its exact title. Amazon publicly blamed late deliverables from Sentai for the frequent episode delays which Sentai very publicly stated was an outright lie.

It was a bad look that just got worse with their PR. Anime Strike “no commented” several journalists looking for interviews and the ones they did get like ANN’s interview with VP of Digital Video Michael Paul were… uh, awkward? Forbes and IGN each released articles panning Anime Strike, citing its prohibitive cost and that it just didn’t seem to understand anime fans. Despite acquiring many major titles in 2017 including the Anime Award Winning Made in Abyss, Anime Strike was circling the drain.

Just seven days shy of its first year, the channel was finished. Amazon announced they were canning Anime Strike and putting their content back in general population on the rest of Prime Video. Their deal with Sentai ended with Sentai slowly retrieving their titles off Amazon and eventually losing their exclusive deal with Noitamina as of 2019, which you can probably thank for The Promised Neverland, Given, and Sarazanmai showing up on Crunchyroll. But Amazon hasn’t gotten out of the anime game entirely. Their acquisitions have been more low key and selective but they’ve kept things going with dark fantasy and science fiction anime over the past year such as Dororo, Blade of the Immortal, Psycho-Pass 3, and PET. So some good shows to check out if you still have your mom’s login or your college forgot to delete your .edu email. Otherwise, you know, I don’t know what to tell you.

Later in July, Sentai would announce its own streaming service HIDIVE to stream Sentai and Section23 anime which at first looked like any of the services I’ve already talked about that had good catalogs but not much new anime because of Anime Strike’s exclusivity window, but in hindsight this may have been some next level maneuvering from Sentai to prepare for Anime Strike’s fallout. However you look at it, Strike is dead and HIDIVE lives, having picked up many of Strike’s most acclaimed titles like Made in Abyss and Land of the Lustrous since their exclusivity window ended on Amazon. So thanks for the signal boost, Bezos. And congrats on your… unnecessary amount of money.

[Bezos clip: Thanks, it’s great to be here.]

In October of still 2017, a year that felt never-ending until 2020 came along, Netflix announced a big $8 billion dollar spend on original content, a considerable portion of which was earmarked to produce 30 anime titles in the coming years. On the heels of the Neo Yokio announcement some fans with zero taste thought this was pretty terrible news, considering Netflix had also rubbed those same fans the wrong way earlier in the year by purchasing TRIGGER’s much-anticipated Little Witch Academia set to premiere in January then just not releasing it. So, until its eventual release six months later, no one knew why it wasn’t already out or when they could expect it to be released.

It turns out this would become Netflix’s strategy in the coming years, eschewing simulcast schedules for batch releases often months after their conclusion to compete with international dubs… unless you’re in Japan where they broadcast on time. This supports the binge culture that has only become more important as we all stew in our own smells at home. It’s hard to tell if that system is working out for them or not because Netflix only recently hinted at maybe releasing viewership numbers and because they’re so big they could honestly just buy all that anime and set it on fire and still not hurt their bottom line.

Anyway, Little Witch Academia was the first of a sudden Netflix shopping spree. In addition to streaming titles from other anime distributors, Netflix has been pretty reliably picking up exclusive rights to about two to three anime per season, even securing a big (although temporary you’ll soon discover) exclusive streaming deal for the Fate franchise with Aniplex, and slapping a “Netflix Original” sticker on it, driving anime aggregator websites crazy every quarter when they try to build seasonal launch lists.

Regardless, Netflix’s interest in anime is undeniable. They would follow up their 2017 announcement with another in early 2018 claiming they had partnered with Production IG and Bones to produce new anime and ANOTHER announcement including Anima, Sublimation, and David Production in 2019. And context should tell you those are VERY BIG anime studios. But If it doesn’t, I will tell you. They are VERY BIG anime studios.

Meanwhile their list of air quotes “original” exclusive seasonal anime is growing and Netflix has begun announcing a number of new original anime now based on successful live action Netflix series such as Altered Carbon, and also licensing all the live action anime from Japan that nobody has ever seen, unless you live in Japan. Basically what I’m trying to say here is Netflix is very into anime.

Another smaller announcement in 2017 was that Funimation had been acquired by Sony, which was notable but not unusual, since the company had changed hands multiple times.

And that’s where I’m ending my history. That’s it.

[Lofi music]

Now, in case you’ve been trapped under a rock for the past 10 years, you should know that media companies in the U.S. have been slowly consolidating, with Disney leading the charge on their mission to own all 100 of the Top 100 blockbuster Hollywood movies every year. And if you didn’t know before, I’m sure you’ve learned in quarantine, that Disney has started its own streaming service.

2020 was the starting line for what’s already been a free for all between Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Video, Disney+, and HBO Max for the eyeballs of every human being on planet Earth and, of course, anime is a big part of that. If Amazon and Netflix suddenly investing in the medium doesn’t convince you then here are some numbers.

A report estimated the total revenue generated by the anime industry at about $19 billion USD in 2017. Another report estimated the total revenue generated by the U.S. film industry as a whole at about $43 billion USD, with anime on average being considerably cheaper than inflated Hollywood and premiere TV budgets like Avengers Endgame’s $356 million purse or Game of Thrones’s $90 million final season budget, which covered a mere 6 episodes.

It’s also worth noting that under quarantine a lot of anime is on hold, but overall animation is the easiest television production to produce, with Netflix going back into production on shows like Big Mouth and things of that sort.

Ironically, despite technical advances we’ve just about come full circle with the largest media conglomerates in the U.S. once again being in charge of anime localization. We’ve also seen the reappearance of anime as a relatively cheap addition to content portfolios, the major differences being the dramatically shrinking distance between Japan and America, an almost 100 percent rate of title acquisition by Western companies, and anime having transformed from something to fill time or disguise as American cartoons into its own mainstream force in the media alongside the MCU and whatever HBO is doing since Game of Thrones ended.

There are definite concerns with the way the industry is headed but the benefits are undeniable. Save for maybe China, Americans are the most privileged group of anime fans, even more so than those in Japan itself. A perfect storm of being one of the largest anime markets in the world paired with this decades long consolidation of media is that all the anime gets licensed but spread across less platforms than even in Japan. So, even if it seems like you’re forking over subscription fees to an unreasonable number of services to catch all the big shows, realize you’ve got it better than international fans whose countries don’t even get every seasonal title.

When you think about it, anime is even easier to keep up with than American TV. Amazon Prime, Netflix, Crunchyroll, Funimation, and HIDIVE gets you well over 99 percent of everything out there. Meanwhile in the sprawling American media landscape you’ll also need a subscription to Disney+, HBOMax, Peacock, and not only Hulu but make sure to grab Starz, Cinemax, and Entertainment add-ons… maybe even Hallmark if you, if you’re into stuff your grandma watches. And this is to say nothing of specialty and classic services like Shudder and Criterion. And of course Quibi. How could we possibly forget Quibi? Point is, each of these services probably has a few titles that were formative to your childhood and has some upcoming release that you’re interested in. And compared to that, anime has been cordoned off into what appears to be a reasonably small number of subscriptions.

Now the face of competition has changed entirely. Co-productions are nothing new in anime, dating back to the beginnings of anime in America in the 60s and definitely providing a deep enough topic to warrant its own episode if Crunchyroll greenlights a season two…?

But co-productions had previously been a way to get a particular project created, one of the most famous examples being the 1995 Ghost in the Shell film, a joint production between Kodansha, Bandai Visual, and the U.K.-based Manga Entertainment. Once again, Anime in the U.K.?

Maybe?

As previously discussed in our manga episode, up until that film Ghost in the Shell, along with many Masamune Shirow works, had a considerable following in the West, greater even than in Japan. Investing in the film made sense and the deal gave Manga Entertainment exclusive rights to a cult classic that’s still being both emulated and outright ripped off by American directors to this day. At the time it was what you’d call a smart investment in a specific title with crossover appeal to Western audiences.

And… yeah that’s still what co-productions are, but also they’re a way of getting your foot in the door early on titles you wanna license by investing in them years in advance rather than bidding on rights in the lead-up to the release. It also goes a long way in developing good relationships with studios and production committees.

And Netflix has been loudest on the co-production front, proudly announcing their strategic partnerships since as early as 2014, licensing content from studios directly to dodge the committee system, and just slapping “Netflix Original” on titles after they purchase exclusive rights whether they were actually involved in production or not, partly because that’s just how TV works in America.

Looking back you can find at least one example of a co-production from most of the major American anime companies that rose and fell in the 90s and 2000s. Crunchyroll itself has been quietly producing anime since early in its existence, counting over 60 co-pros before announcing their Originals Slate in 2020. Funimation first dipped their toes in back in 2016 with Dimension W and have slowly started to accrue their own roster of co-productions since late last year. If you’re a proper anime fan that never skips the OP, you may have noticed a growing number of American names and companies in the production credits since 2010.

[Lofi music]

Which brings me to my final point. What even is anime anymore?

Japan has been outsourcing work to Korea for about 20 years now even as foreign animators have been traveling to Japan to work in Japanese studios. International entities are becoming increasingly involved in production and now foreign creators and source material are more prominently featured in new titles. As the number of foreign names increases in anime credits that inevitably means the number of Japanese names proportionally decreases.

Korean webcomics are getting anime, Daft Punk and Porter Robinson had music videos made by anime studios, Studio 4C produced an anime film adaptation of the manga Tekkonkinkreet directed by an American animator. A manga by a french Canadian has been adapted into an anime. Marvel comics have gotten anime. Batman is a ninja now. Well, he has been for a while but this time animated by the studio that does the JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure openings.

At what point does a production lose the essential Japanese-ness that the term anime implies?

Scratch that, what does “anime” even mean?

The very definition of anime is now being tested, used as a marketing term to evoke a popular conceit about the medium rather than an identifier of its point of origin. Nowadays if you ask Netflix what an anime is, they’ll tell you it’s a cartoon written by the lyricist of Vampire Weekend starring Jaden Smith or an animated series made by a studio in Texas based on a 1983 American kids show, and written by the director of MallRats.

So where are we headed with all this? Can anime survive its exposure to the American media ecosystem keeping its identity intact, or will anime soon just mean “cartoons but with blood in them?”

I can’t answer these questions, I don’t know. Gonna have to get back to you in a sequel podcast in 2030. Anime in Space. Or in The Parallel Dimension That Apparently Exists. All I can do for now is provide you with the wise words of the individual who has provided me with the answers to most of life’s questions up until now. My mom…

Grace: I don’t- I tried to do research, and I have no clue what this thing is.

Yedoye: Yeah? Like, nothing at all? You didn’t find anything?

Grace: They’re just cartoons! That’s all I know, you trying to test me?

Yedoye: [laugh] A little bit, yeah.

Grace: Why?

Yedoye: Because-

Grace: I never watched cartoons.

Yedoye: But WE watched cartoons!

Grace: It was never my thing.

Yedoye: It was our thing, though.

Grace: Pinky and the Brain, that’s it.

Yedoye: I mean, yeah, but that’s what we did on Sundays. But there was other stuff, after that.

Grace: [skeptical] Okay. I have no clue. I wish I did the research, I was too busy.

Yedoye: You didn’t listen to any of the podcast?

Grace: I listened to one, it’s all about Japanese something, right?

Yedoye: Yeah,

Grace: I know ??? used to draw them. He loved Japanese cartoons.

Yedoye: Yeah.

Grace: But I can not make out- I may have been sitting there, but I never paid attention.

Yedoye: No? There’s, I mean, there’s like… Pokemon is anime. That counts.

Grace: Oh, really? Pokemon is anime?

Yedoye: Yeah!

Grace: Oh my God! I thought the name of the cartoon is “anime.”

Yedoye: Oh, no, no.

Grace: [realization] Ahhh, Pokemon is anime, which means... There’s several versions, right?

Yedoye: Yeah, there’s a lot. There’s like, there’s Pokemon, there’s Dragon Ball Z, umm-

Grace: Dragon Ball Z! I just recently [Notification sound] heard that.

Yedoye: Yeah. And there’s um… did you ever watch Speed Racer?

Grace: In the car?

Yedoye: Yeah.

Grace: They like to drive?

Yedoye: Yeah.

Grace: Yeah, I’ve seen that.

Yedoye: Yeah. That’s anime, too.

Grace: I watched you guys ?? , but I just- you know, all that stuff was for you guys, babysitting activities.

[Both laugh]

Yedoye: There’s shows-

Grace: It was for babysitting, it was all for babysitting.

Yedoye: They're not even-

Grace: Did you know that?

Yedoye: They’re not even for kids, though!

Grace: Eh?

Yedoye: Those shows are not for kids though!

Grace: Yeah, that’s why I’m trying to tell ??. Yeah, so the general name is “anime.”

Yedoye: Yeah.

Grace: Then under anime is like, you have all these different versions of cartoons.

Yedoye: Yeah, yeah.

Grace: Okay.

Yedoye: You thought it was one show?

Grace: I thought it was just one.

Yedoye: Oh G- Okay.

Grace: And I just heard of them.

Yedoye: I definitely could’ve uh…

Grace: And the name is anime.

Yedoye: I definitely could’ve clarified that a few weeks ago.

Grace: Yep, I didn’t even know.

Yedoye: Okay, maybe that’s my fault.

Grace: So Pinky and the Brain, Pinky wasn’t one of them?

Yedoye: Uh, no, no, he was not.

Grace: Oh, okay. You guys confuse me. What else you wanna know?

Yedoye: Umm, I think maybe that’s it? I don’t know-

Grace: What do you mean “that’s it?!”

Yedoye: There’s not that much, I just wanted to know if you knew what anime was.

Grace: I wasted all this time just to tell you in five seconds that anime, something is under anime is just a broad name for all the cartoons.

Yedoye: Yeah!

Grace: Jeeze.

Yedoye: [laugh]

Grace: And I be here, all excited, thinking that something else is coming up.

Yedoye: Oh, no, no, I just was gonna- I just wanted to ask if you knew...

[Lofi music]

Thanks for listening to Anime in America presented by Crunchyroll. If you enjoyed this, please go to Crunchyroll.com/AnimeInAmerica to see the site I’ve talked non-stop about for most of this episode.

Special Thanks to Kun Gao.

This episode is hosted by me, Yedoye Travis and you can find me on Instagram at ProfessorDoye, or Twitter @YedoyeOT. This episode is researched and written by Peter Fobian, edited by Chris Lightbody, and produced by me, Braith Miller, Peter Fobian, and Jesse Gouldsbury.

[Lofi music]

[Beep]

Yedoye: But you can just- you can like, you can start watching them now, if you want.

Grace: [skeptical] Seriously?

Yedoye: Yeah, anime’s not just for kids, you know. There’s like, there’s adult stuff.

Grace: [continued skepticism] Really? Like, one example.

Yedoye: There’s… Cowboy Bebop is a good one, it’s like a… it’s like a drama sort of like...

Grace: Okay, tell me what do they do?

Yedoye: They’re uh… so the main characters are like they’re bounty hunters, and so they fly through space just like, tracking down criminals. It’s kinda like a, it’s like a crime thing.

Grace: You know I don’t like Star Wars.

Yedoye: [sigh] I know you don’t like Star Wars. [Chuckle] But I know you like crime stuff.

Grace: So now you think I’ll gonna like-

Yedoye: But I know you like crime stuff, though!

Grace: Ah-ha! Now you’re talking!

Yedoye: Yeah! It’s like a crime show.

Grace: Which one? I have to watch it! Which one?

Yedoye: It’s called “Cowboy Bebop,” they like, track down criminals and they take them in for a bounty.

Grace: They like, all those stick people do, right? It’s all cartoon folks, it’s not real? It’s not realistic?

Yedoye: I mean, it’s not real, it IS realistic, it’s drawn really well.

Grace: Yeah… see that’s still fake to me, I like more realistic stuff.

Yedoye: I think you would like it.

Grace: Name it again?

Yedoye: Cowboy Bebop.

Grace: Cowboy what?

Yedoye: Bebop.

Grace: Bebop? Cowboy Bebop, okay.

Yedoye: Yeah.

Grace: Cowboy Bebop.

Yedoye: I’ll send you a link.

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Thanks! Bye.

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Looking For Moving To Full Stack Development But Struggling Where To Begin The Journey?

The Startups, be it a company or developer always face a question that was to start to do full stack development or to be a full stack developer. The current post is clearing the concepts regarding stacks involved in full stack development and technologies required to go ahead.

Let check this sweet & short guide to move in the right direction.

Introduction:

Full stack development is a buzz in the present software developer community. Niche experts who have expertise in the selected stacks have ambitions to be full stack developers. Fresher also are dreaming of hitting big salary packages come after establishing their reputations as full stack developer.

It has increased curiosity among all to know about full stack development and how to be a full stack developer. However, without knowing anything about software stack, we hardly can understand full stack development. What Is Software Stack?

Stack means a pile in English dictionary. Fundamentally, software stack implies the set of software subsystems or components to develop an entire software system or platform. So, in a broad term, software stack is a unique set of programs work in tandem to achieve a functional software outcome. It may be a web stack, mobile stack, or native application stack.

Common Stack Layers of the Modern Software Applications

Modern software applications have some common layers

Front-end (Presentation Layer):

It could be a user interface, a browser, or a mobile screen that allow end-users to interact.

Be it a standalone desktop application, a website, web application, or mobile application.

Anyone can use it.

Backend (Business Logic Layer):

It could be a user interface specifically developed to operate the software system.

Today, it contains a feature-rich dashboard allows monitoring, configuration, and reporting with visuals.

Developers and non-developer users can use it with administrator privileges.

Database (Data Layer):

It could be SQL/tabular or NoSQL/non-tabular data with database management software.

Operating System (OS Layer):

It provides organized computer commands, and converse those into basic binary code (0–1) of the computing system. Thus, it enables the execution of computing commands to operate computing machines.

For computing devices, Windows and Linux

For mobiles, iOS, Android, Windows Phone, and so on

For wearable devices, Android, iOS, and a lot more

Technologies Corresponding to Software Stack Layers

At present, all these layers have corresponding technologies including programming languages, development frameworks, and tools. However, we need not learn all, but only in demand, such as

Front-end Development Technologies in Demand:

User Interface Layer

To create a user interface (UI), you must know graphics designing tools, designing techniques, and programming to translate designs into code pixel-to-pixel.

Photoshop is an excellent graphics designing tool.

HTML is browser-based client-side script known as markup.

CSS is cascading style sheet script to describe how HTML elements display in a web page.

JS (JavaScript) is a lightweight and JIT compiled first-class programming language for browser and non-browser environment.

HTML 5 and CSS 3 along with JavaScript is an excellent combination to translate graphics design into an interactive and functional UI.

Front-end Libraries/Frameworks

Bootstraps, Foundation, Backbone, JQuery, Angular JS, React JS, Ember JS, LESS, SASS, and other JS-based libraries or frameworks are an excellent choice for front-end software programming.

Remember:

Bootstraps, Foundation, Backbone, Angular JS, and Ember JS ensure great content presentation across the devices. JQuery, LESS, SASS, and other JS-based libraries are packing code into usable, space, and time-saving formats.

Thus, you can use these frameworks & libraries for front-end, and more often back-end coding for all kinds of software and modern devices/clients including web browsers, native mobile UIs, and wearable like emerging technologies. Back-end Development Technologies in Demand:

Back-end development demands core computational logic to create the back-end user interface and allow smooth exchanges of data between front-end interfaces and databases.

For web applications, it is between client devices and web servers.

For mobiles and other innovative devices, it is between front-end UI and back-end databases.

Moreover, back-end developers also manage data flow between core software applications to web services like third-party (APIs) integrations and vice verso.

Web Server Layer

Now, we need server-side scripts to process requests to come from client-side devices and pull required data from the database. Today, following are most used server-side programming scripts/languages (Mostly open source).

PHP

Java

ASP.NET

Python

Ruby

C-class languages including C++ and C#

Unfortunately or fortunately, most of these dynamic coding scripts have a number of frameworks to do coding for efficiencies, speed, accuracy, and ease in different scales of software development projects. You also need to learn more than dozens of JS frameworks useful for back-end development.

Web server layer also requires understanding and command over web servers hardware side such as CPU, RAM, Motherboard, and Networking, server types like Apache and Nginx, as well as Server OS (operating system) like Linux and Windows.

With web server expertise, a developer can provide superb web hosting services for various hosting models including shared hosting, VPS, and dedicated servers. It all possible in hosting server environment as well as a cloud hosting environment.API Layer

We know Application Programming Interface coding helps developers to connect software, applications, databases, and 3rd party services together seamlessly. API developers have to learn SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) and REST (Representational State Transfer) architecture to address resource limitations, fewer security needs, browser client compatibility, discoverability, data health, and scalabi

Cloud computing is a buzzword in the software market. Cloud services provide data storage as well as various services to create, sustain/support, and function various software applications including the web and mobile applications. Thus, it is imperative for a back-end and full stack developers to learn cloud integration and programming for cloud development/services.

Database Development Technologies in Demand:

To store, retrieve, and feeding data, the database management system/software (DBMS) is inevitable need in any software development. Developers used to deal with two types of database models, relational database and non-relational database.

It requires learning of SQL and NoSQL quarry languages. MySQL and PostgreSQL are SQL RDBMS while MongoDB and Hadoop are NoSQL DBMS. Data-driven application development is in demand and requires expertise on various SQL and NoSQL languages to accomplish DCL, DDL, DML, and DQL tasks.

Where to Start & How to Go to Be a Full Stack Developer

Now, you might have all concepts regarding software development stacks and relevant technologies. If you have a certificate, diploma, or degree in computer engineering fields or information technologies (IT) related courses, you may have worked to in-depth knowledge of all stacks and technologies.

In such cases, you need real-world experiences by working on different projects, which are demanding skills in various software stacks. By working with experts and their contributions/mentoring, you also can get expertise on different trendy software stacks and go ahead to be a Full Stack Software Developer.

Apart from the practical experiences, you have to gain complete knowledge regarding your interested stacks, go for online learning with eBooks, tutorials, and paid course.

Udacity, Lynda, Thankful, Coursera, General Assembly and other myriads of eLearning software academies are providing such programs upon some fees. The leading universities across the globe, which have software engineering courses in their curricula are extending their reach beyond classroom walls and offer online as well as a combo of both world experiences.

The universities and government bodies are arranging camps to boost software learning for techies as well as tech-savvy but non-technical background people frequently. However, it is up to you take a suitable route or approaches to move in a direction to be a full stack developer.

Conclusion:

Wrapping It Up:

If you are looking for practical guidance and experiences, I will recommend you a USA-based Full Stack Development Company, Perception System in San Jose. It has 17+ years of experiences in the software industry and consists of an impeccable team of Full Stack Developers, which are available under the title of “Hire Dedicated Full Stack Developers” to exploit the talent available at competitive rates.

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donaldresslerfanfic · 7 years

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Pay it forward.

Rating: M

Warnings: Strong Language (little bit)

Word Count: 2092

Donald Ressler X OC Maggie Waters.

Chapter: One.

Chapter Index

Story on Wattpad

Maggie.

“The room is one of the toughest and most advanced out of the ones we’ve built so far” I slid into the panic room along with Senator Williams. He had managed to piss off some people by not shaking the right hands. Though that wasn’t my problem, nor my business.

The only thing I needed from him was a good review to my new employer to ensure me the job and stay in Washington. Lord knows I need some stability.

“The floor is reinforced concrete, all the way down to the foundation of the house, the walls are also reinforced to stand heat, blast explosions, and the impact of every kind of bullet there is, including an RPG.” I explained as the senator moved inside the room, it was big enough to hold his family of four with commodity, just like he had asked. “We also have some security measurements like this computer and monitors, connected to a live feed of the security cameras in the house, that way you can see the attackers. We also have a ventilation system with a filter, just in case the intruders decide to pump something in it to neutralize you”

He looked at me with a little bit of astonishment.

“You’ve thought of everything huh Waters?”

“Absolutely” I nodded as I gave him my best smile. “We also have a two lock safe, which means it has to be opened with both your code and the release program your firm of security has, in case you’re force to give up the code you can start a contingency protocol to ensure your assets are covered by giving them the wrong code, I would suggest you put some tracking device in the things you put into the safe though, just to be extra sure. If anything, all of these needs electricity, and in case the power supply gets cut down, there’s a generator embedded in the concrete floor below us, unaccessible to the attackers and it can run for five hours.”

“And if I’m stuck here for more than five hours?”

“Police and SWAT teams have an estimated ETA of 30 minutes, after that the whole room unfortunately shuts down completely, and the door is released for you to get out. It’s the biggest generator we could fit into the space without risking it being left in the open”

So, let’s pray to god the police do actually get here in that window, otherwise you’re kinda fucked my friend.

“And you did all this in 10 days” he concluded.

“I didn’t necessarily smooth down the concrete if that’s what you mean” I try to save it with a joke, to which he fortunately laughed.

“Everything is impressive, above my expectations. Especially after hearing you were new” he shot me a glance before continuing his strol around the room

“New here, but I’ve been doing this type of job for a few years now” I said, linking my hands in front of me.

Lucas, our link with the security company that tracked the cameras in the house entered the panic room, he gave me a look to let me know he would take it from here.

“Unfortunately, this is were we split” I said, catching the attention of the senator “Mr Rogers here will instruct you to the security measurements of the room and how everything works”

The senator nodded and took a step to me, giving me his hand for me to shake

“It’s been a pleasure to assist you” I said with a smile

“It’s been a pleasure to be assisted by you, Miss Waters, I’ll recommend you to my friends”

My smile only widened as I nodded thankful and left him with Lucas.

I would like to think I’ve got this in the bag.

I walked outside the house, purse in hand, looking for my phone to instantly dial Gina, one of my hopefully future coworkers.

“How did it go?” Was her greeting tone

“I think I got it?!” I said, clearly nervous, he could’ve been bullshitting me into thinking it was all great, I wouldn’t relax until the words ‘you’re hired’ came from Paul Bronton himself

“Oh my God, of course you got it! Bring me some coffee to the office and we’ll start hunting houses for you. Say goodbye to that stupid motel girl. Oh and Sam says to bring him one too, black”

“OK got it” I said fishing my car keys and opening the door “I’ll be there in 20”

Gina and I had only met for lunch for the last two weeks I had been in Washington, but everything clicked between us, and we became friend within hours of knowing each other. Maybe it was my desperate need to start growing roots somewhere that lead me to become very close with her in a matter of weeks.

I arrived at the coffee show where I have become a regular, 'Sweet Tooth’, to which I will admit I have. I parked and made a beeline to the counter, only placing second, after another cute couple, I glanced at the watch in my wrist. 11 am, I still had time to squeeze this coffee before the senator called my boss so I could be given a definitive answer.

The couple in from of me moved from the register to the counter to wait for their coffee, and I could feel the presence of a line beginning to for behind me.

“Hi Maggie!” Dana greeted me enthusiastically, I smiled at her and set my purse on the counter “the usual?”

“Yes, and add two others, one black and one latte to go please” I said looking down at my wallet. Gina could talk shit about my cheap ass motel, but right now it was saving me the big bucks.

My phone dinged, looking at the message I received I tsked my tongue

'Drop the black, Sam had to leave’

In queue Dana placed the three coffees in the counter in front of me. I paid and took them, turning on my heels to find a tall blonde guy, looking down at his phone and waiting

“Do you take it black?” I asked, he lifted his blue eyes to me

“Excuse me?” He asked frowning

“Your coffee, do you take it black?”

“Yeah- ” he wanted to continue talking, probably to question me why, but I didn’t have time. I handed one to him, he gave it a quick glance, and I could see he was getting his rejecting speech ready.

“It got canceled by one of my friends, please take it” I gave him a smile, looking behind him at the line that we were stalling “we can start a pay it forward”

He gave me a little sideways smile and took the coffee, I moved away from the line and looked at my watch. Muttering a 'shit’ I turned to Dana to give her a fast wave and made another beeline to my car.

Ressler

I moved away from the line, after I paid for the coffee of a business woman behind me, taking the one I had been gifted and walking to the side of the shop.

Being suspicious of everyone was a the first rule I always put to practice, and receiving a coffee from a woman was defenetly up there in my reasons to being suspicious of someone.

After another road trip, this time to Bolivia for a hunt on Reddington, I wouldn’t put it past him to end me with a kind gesture and a pretty face, sometimes it was the way he did things. I took the cap from the cup and smelled the content, seemed harmless.

After taking a sip and ending up convinced that it was in fact a kind gesture and a pretty face, I continued with my coffee as it sat in one of the stools near the window.

For what I could gather, the pay it forward was still playing in the line of the café.

A waitress came to clean the mess left by some inconsiderate client, and it was my chance to ask her about the girl.

“Excuse me” I said, she stopped cleaning and looked at me with a smile.

“What can I help you sir?”

“The girl, the one who started the pay it forward…” I didn’t need to begin asking info, the waiter kindly began talking

“Ah, Maggie. She’s new in the neighborhood. Very friendly and super nice, she leaves nice tips”

“Is she a usual?”

“Yes, she only takes to go, all but Friday, I take she works at a later hour so she sits down there” she motioned at one of the chairs outside. “With a coffee and her laptop, often a slice of cake”

I slid my hand on my inner pocket in my suit jacket, leaving a tip for the girl on her info and taking my ringing phone.

I took my coffee outside and answered the phone call once I was out.

“Ressler”

“Don, I have Intel on Reddington, come by when you have time”

“I’ll be there in 10”

Maggie.

“He didn’t compliment you just cause Mag, you did an outstanding job in those 10 days, you barely slept and considered every little detail, every possible scenario” Gina sipped her latte.

Still, I had already made friends in Washington, it would be a shame to have to leave.

“Besides, if the senator told you he would recommend you, that means you’ll have a ton of work, as soon as you start working, they’ll all want you to work for them. You might leave us all out of business”

I rolled my eyes and gave her a smile

“We’re a team, you and Dam hunt the materials and the interior design of the rooms, Lucas does the spiffy techy stuff….”

“And you take the glory” she interrupted.

“Someone has to” I replied playfully “otherwise Bronton gets it and by the looks of it he doesn’t do shit”

Gina winked at me as I looked at the door of Paul’s office, he should be calling me in any minute now.

“So, what do you want? A house? In the suburbs? Or an apartment downtown?”

“We’ll see how it goes, buy an apartment downtown sounds good for now”

“For now?” She asked dancing her fingers on the keyboard

“I guess I’ll go suburban when I settle down with someone”

“Settle down” she said with a little disgust in her undertone

“You’re married” I said incredulous, how could someone who I thought had a 'happy ever after’ be so bitter about having to spend her life with someone she loves?

“It was the next thing for us, Marcus and I, we’ve been together for too long and the next logical thing was to either get married and move together or split up. Don’t get me wrong I love the guy but… I wish I had traveled more”

“Take it from someone who has traveled a lot, and not necessarily for pleasure: you get tired of it, and you just want to go back home; only to find out you didn’t really have one”

She gave me sad grimace as she leaned to squeeze my hand

“Washington will be your home now Mags”

I gave her a thankful smile, she always warmed up my heart.

The door of the office opened, another man came out shaking Paul’s hand, then his eyes landed on me and beckoned me to enter the room.

I was nervous out of my mind, but still my feet carry me in confidently, well, until I was stopped before I could even get in.

“Impressive Waters, I’ll have Brenda clean you a desk and you can begin in two days” Paul said, while we were standing in the doorway of his office. I was astound, my jaw was hanging low and when I wanted to talk I just stuttered on my first words of thanks.

Paul chuckled and placed a hand on my shoulder

“Can I call you Maggie now?”

“Absolutely s-”

“Paul” he interrupted, I laughed in a mix of nervousness and happiness.

He squeezed my shoulder and led me out of the office, hearing his phone ringing he gave me an apologetic look and I understood he was a busy man after all.

I turned back to Gina, to find her with her hands in a praying manner in front of her lips, I walked to her and let out a breath I didn’t know I was holding.

“So, about that apartment”

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#7 The Patient Connection

○ What we will discuss this time:

■ The Patient- Provider relationship.

■ How to establish that connection.

■ And how that connection benefits both you and patient.

I know that we are living in a modern techie world with EMRs, electronic devices, apps to monitor blood pressure readings, apps that can obtain an EKG for you, apps to track food, apps to track glucose levels, average expected A1C, ovulation and even menstrual cycles. You can download a report of all of those things in a beautiful graphic form. If you are lucky enough to have a techie person that can set it up, you can download and interface these things into the patient’s EMR system right from their phone or other tracking device. You potentially could have all the data you need in a click before the patient comes in. With all of this you should be able to manage your patient, perfectly right. And they should be able to manage their comorbidities, well right? Because with all of the tools available everyone involved should have everything that they need to live in perfect health.

So, I ask the question, why are our outcomes no better?

I propose it’s the human experience.

What about the human experience? The provider patient connection? What about the value of those subtleties that you pick up on in human interaction, communication and observation that are not included in all of these tracking devices?

What about the motivational piece? What is going to keep them going when they STOP tracking the data? A who is more motivating than a device.

There is much research on the missing element of human connection in our modern-day world. This has been further evidenced during the COVID pandemic.

An electronic device can never replace a personal interaction. I think they are causing more stress. They are causing more health decline. On the stressful aspect, people are constantly monitoring numbers that they may not understand. I believe this data overload is more likely to increase anxiety than to improve health outcomes. Because when you put all that data mixed with some symptoms into Dr. Google what happens?

In my experience they always come out with diagnosis of either cancer or something that is going to kill them. And then they come in in a panic.

I have been concerned about the concept of healthcare being moved towards the virtual world for some time. We are not robots. We are not computers. We are humans and we have our own hard-wiring that requires interpersonal interaction. Do not get me wrong, there are several things that once you have become established with a patient you can take care of virtually. However, there are many things that require face-to-face interaction and to see the entire patient.

Think about perception in interactions without humanism. For example, when getting a text message from someone and not understanding the intention of the words without a voice from the other side. You can take a message that was meant to be lighthearted and joking as an absolute jab or an insult and be angry. That is because it’s missing the facial expression and voice inflections and all the other things that go around the meaning of just words.

At the beginning of the stay at home orders during the pandemic, I personally was forced to implement the virtual visits, so that my patients were not left hanging. I still wanted to be able to speak to them and see them, even if it were through the computer screen or a telephone encounter. There are so many things you can get from nonverbal communication that help manage the patient, however, given the situation I had no choice but to follow the virtual path.

I was anxious to see how they would receive this virtual world. Would they be happy they didn’t have to leave home? If it were not for the safety factor during the pandemic… Would they start to think that it was easier to not have to take a day off work? To be able to do that visit and go on about their day?

I am happy to say that I am no longer fearful of losing the one on one patient encounters to my computer screen! With most every visit that ended, the patient would say “I really hope I get to see you in person next time.” Not very many were happy with the cold computer screen interactions. As for the the lack of the physical aspect of visit, I was concerned about not being able to track vitals on patients I had initiated medications on prior to the abrupt shut down. Assessing fluid volume status on patients that I had placed on diuretics. Were the home weights accurate? Were they telling me the truth? Or were they maybe adjusting the numbers a little bit, so they didn’t get fussed at?

How about those who were experiencing emotional challenges due to the pandemic? Did they feel that they were able to convey their feelings to me appropriately through the computer? But, Was any contact better than no contact? That question I can answer positively yes. At least there was some contact, but not the same.

I have been very fortunate to have established many wonderful therapeutic relationships with my patients. I am confident that from the very first meeting they can feel my energy of compassion and genuine interest in their needs. My patients are very important to me. Whether it is the first time I have met them or the 20th time we have had an encounter, each person matters. I believe that conveyance genuineness improves the quality of care.

When a patient comes to you they are often nervous, in pain, distress, worried about something, happy about something, wanting your advice and your guidance for something or looking to you to help them with something pertaining to their own physical or emotional self.They could have read some thing on the Internet that is stuck in their mind or heard something from another person that has caused them a lot of anxiety and worry about how it may affect them or someone they love. They don’t always tell you this in the beginning. A lot of times you have to ask, you have to get deep into the conversation you are having to read their body language and watch the expressions on their face to make sure that you explain something completely or that you have addressed all their concerns. Sometimes you are the only person they have to confide in or to ask something without feeling as if they’re being judged.

This doesn’t happen without a connection. This doesn’t happen if you were staring at your laptop or whatever device you take into the room. If you are not fully engaged with that person during the visit you were going to miss a lot. They are going to leave that visit in the exact same way that they came in. What is the good in that? Do you want to send them back to Dr. Google or to get their advice from the neighbor or coworker Who tells them do something crazy, like I don’t know put an onion in your sock when I go to bed. That would help a diabetic ulcer wouldn’t it?

I’m going to share with you how I believe you can establish a connection with your patients that will benefit both of you.

Establishing that connection is very worth your time and effort. Remember that nurses are one of the most trusted professions. There’s a reason for that. There’s a reason why patients tell us things that they don’t tell others. They feel safe and they feel like you care. Remember our role is to advocate for patients. You can’t advocate for someone you don’t know anything about. Because each person is an individual and each person deserves your time and your expertise to make them feel well and improve their health.

I believe first and foremost; you must treat them as an individual and give them your full attention. The first time that you meet with a patient, it is almost like an interview process. YOU get to set the tone of the interview. You both most likely are on your best behavior and put your best assets forward.

I believe that one of the best assets in practice is listening and being intuitive to what the patient is saying, or trying to say, so that you may guide the visit in a manner that gathers information efficiently that is real relevant to the situation at hand.

This comes with time. This comes with each patient you encounter. This is why being an advanced practice nurse matters. All of the years you spend bedside gives you the intuition you need. If you are still new to this, don’t worry. You will develop this overtime. It is called experience. If you’ve been doing this for a while, you understand that there are many things you can pick up on non verbally when you were actually present in the encounter. Every encounter, with every patient is a learning experience.

Here is the way to start that connection:

In that first visit, make sure to enter the room with a smile, set that tone. You should never appear to be in a hurry no matter how behind you are. Always make eye contact and shake the persons hand if appropriate. Then sit. When you sit, even if it’s only for 30 seconds, it is perceived as if you have all the Time in the world. The patient perceives this as if you care about them and what they have to say, That You are present and that you are listening. I like to think we are sitting for a cup of coffee. Professional boundaries in place of course, but when your patient is comfortable the conversation flows. No need for hierarchy here.

Do not focus on an electronic device, with your face in that device instead of looking at the patient. There will be time to get out that device our later. You can’t possibly chart it all in the room anyway, so give them your attention instead. If you have reviewed the information, they have submitted on their forms prior to going into the room you can give that attention. Typically, I start with, “I understand that you’re here today for…” you want to be able to summarize some of that knowledge to them, so they know again that you really are there and present and you reviewed their information. Some of those forms have a lot of questions on them and they took the time to fill out those forms and if you look at them you were going to get a lot of insight. Even if you look at their handwriting. I still have my patients fill out a form manually because handwriting matters. Did they misspell something? Is it sloppy that might indicate there is a tremor? again, the little things you learn to evaluate with attention to detail.

I do not type while I’m speaking to the patient. I will take in a good old fashion pen and paper and write on the back of their intake form if it’s their first time or the charge sheet that comes back with them. Whatever I have.

Then there’s this crazy thing that happens, I listen to them. I may guide and direct the conversation when appropriate, but I listen and let them finish their sentences. Many times, you will hear that they have been from provider to provider telling the same story and still have not gotten any answers. And I truly believe that that is because many providers don’t take the time to listen. It’s more about numbers getting to the endpoint. What’s your cholesterol, what’s your blood pressure how much do you weigh, this is what your goal should be, these are the test we’re going to order.

Patients are not going to confide in you or interact with unless they know that you care. The more you gather on that first visit and the more that you connect with the person on that very first visit, the better your experience is going to be in every subsequent visit. And you just might get that one piece of information that will bring everything together.

THAT helps your patient.

What also helps them is that knowing you care, improves their willingness to make an effort towards the plan of care developed. They will “TRUST” you will do no harm and have their best interests at heart. You see, they don’t understand what you understand. All of the numbers, all of the guidelines, all of the medications mean very little to that person. That person is thinking about how they feel. How they want to feel. The person is thinking about the family they want to be around for or the life that they want to enjoy, without illness or limitation. When you connect with them in such a way that they trust that you are doing what is right for them, they will work towards the goals that you have set together.

The other thing is to always make it a point to explain what you were doing and the intentions behind it, as well as expected outcomes. To just say stop eating sugar. Or stop drinking soda sounds like a demand. But when you say, “if you continue to drink that many sodas per day, you’re going to keep putting out a lot of insulin that is causing you to gain weight and makes you feel terrible. So, if you were able to decrease those sodas by maybe one a day until you get off of them completely, you’re going to be able to lose weight and stop an insulin roller coaster that is making you that gain weight and feel so bad.” They hear you. When they look at it from that perspective, they are more likely to succeed.

You see, talking about your health and personal concerns, such as stress, anxiety, weight management, depression, symptomatology are all better when you’re discussing them with someone that you have a relationship with that you trust with your health. Not just your health, but with your life.

No how does it help you as the provider? Well, a pleasant experience for one thing. When you build a relationship, you enjoy going into each and every patient encounter. You look forward to beginning the visit with “how are you, how is the family, how’s that new job”, and then get down into business. Because once you set that relationship and set in motion the action plan that you get to review, the visits are way more enjoyable for both you and the patient. And then you can glide into the next goal. Get to know them first, get their take first, then you can either support their efforts with your clinical findings or help to revamp the plan a little bit to achieve that goal. But it’s much less labor-intensive once you have a relationship. There won’t be any hiding of information or worry that if they tell you something, you’re just going to look down on them or judge them or dictate another action that is inconceivable to them. This should be a reciprocal patient provider relationship. Not a dictatorship. We are working with in their life. We cannot put our life into their life. We help them to guide their life to improve their quality of life and their health.

Another great thing is, that if by chance you should be running behind, they are less likely to get upset with you. Not that it’s an excuse to always run behind, but they know that when the time comes that they need more of your time, you’ll be listening to them. I have on many occasions said, “I am really sorry that I ran a bit behind I do appreciate your patience. I know that your time is important, but someone needed a few extra minutes of my help” if needed I will add, “and you do know I would do the same for you if the situation came up that you needed more time with me.” And almost every time that I need to do that, the patient will sit back, relax, and verify that to be true. that is because I have given them my time before. I have set the stage and I have set the tone that they are important and that their time matters as well.

To further support that connection and patient provider relationship, at the end of each visit summarize what you have went over, what the action plan is and what the goal is for the next visit. Then they absolutely know that they were heard and if there’s anything that was missed, they have the opportunity to add that in now. Specifically ask, is there anything that I missed? Is there anything else that I can help you with?

I hope this was helpful. If you have been in a situation where you were a little bit rushed, where you don’t always have control over your schedule or you have other things that are coming into play during your day you may not always take the time to stop center yourself and go into the room to intentionally create that connection. But I can assure you, that if this is something that you are able to implement you were going to see the reward for both yourself and for your patience. I don’t want you to get burned out. And we are in a profession that has a high burnout rate right now. It’s because we are expected to go go go, see 30 to 40 patients in a day and not really spend any time with any of them. All you do is jump from room to room with the sole intent of getting finished before the end of the day. Don’t do that to yourself. Don’t do that to your patient. I urge you to work on this therapeutic communication and connection so that you can continue to practice what you love. I want you to be able to continue to do what you love. I hope that you love anyway.

So, the take-home from this podcast is to remember the human experience. Don’t get caught up in all of the technical world of healthcare. Even if it’s five minutes in a room you can make it a connected experience. You probably need that just as much as your patient does. This profession for most of us is who we are, not what we do. So, with that, give just a little bit of you and your time and every visit. It will change your practice dramatically. You might even find yourself smiling a few more times during the day instead of being always hurried and stressed.

I want to thank you again for taking your time to listen to this podcast. Let me know if you are enjoying the podcast! Subscribe so you don’t miss an episode! Share your thoughts. And if you’re feeling connected, give me a review! That will help others find this podcast to help with their practice also!

You can find more of me and what I’m up to on healthinterventions.net, Facebook and Instagram!

Have a great week! May it be filled with many Health Interventions!

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MaxMailz Review – The Positives & Negatives

POSITIVES

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Superb designs for your entire email capture requirements 100 +

Pages and pop-ups creator for absolute drag and drop

Creating and submitting engaging wonderful e-mails

Automate the campaigns with the unique technology of the email tour

Upgrading free commercial license – build an incredible income offering services to clients

NEGATIVES

No negative things to point out.

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What Other Marketers Say About MaxMailz?

My Final Thoughts

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MaxMailz Review – Product Overview

Product NameMaxMailzProduct CreatorDr. Amit PareekLaunch Date & Time[2020-Jun-22] @ 10:00 EDTPrice$47BonusYes, Best Bonus Available!Refund Period30-DaysOfficial Sitehttps://maxmailz.com/Product Type360º Email AutoresponderSkillAll LevelsRecommendedHighly Recommended