#luqs-stuff

[shihalyfie]

not sure if you have discuss this before, but i've seen a video about digimon facts you should know that said demon was supposed to be the final boss instead of belialvamdemon. i personally don't think that this is the case. as far as i know, nothing about demon being the main villain is ever confirm by kakudou and others. how much is this info is true? what is your take on this? by the way, on other news, the beginning movie is finally set to be release this october. based on the teaser trailer, it's safe to say that it put more focus on rui owada with 02 cast set to play more like supporting roles in the movie.

This is actually not the first time I've heard this myth (I don't know if it's because of that video, or if that video is just parroting it, and honestly I don't have the patience to check), so I've just gone ahead and added it to the mythbusting list. To be blunt about it (and you'll have to excuse my language), it's absolute bullshit and completely made up, because we actually have it on record what the originally planned final boss was:

We planned to have the reformed Ken Ichijouji be confronted by a young boy-like Digimon that looked almost exactly like Ken Ichijouji. But it was difficult to have him fight while in the form of a boy. On top of that, this Digimon’s special attack would involve cutting off a part of its body and having it explode. As a result, its body would become smaller and smaller, and in the end the children would be fighting this Digimon that had been reduced to only an idea, but it was utterly unsuitable content for a Sunday morning 9 AM show, and a single sentence of “give it up for now” from Yomiko Advertising’s Kyoutarou Kimura-san put an end to that idea.

And yeah, that sounds wild and made-up compared to it being Demon, but it's also the one we actually have citeable sources for. 02 is constantly the subject of people just making stuff up wholesale because they want to blame it for things or pigeonhole it into their idea of what they thought the series should have been, so while I generally am cautious about people making claims about production in general, I especially side-eye anything about 02 because of how willing people are to flat-out lie about it.

Incidentally, based on the way Yoshimura framed it, it seems like you're actually supposed to see the final boss of 02 as Oikawa and his minions rather than BelialVamdemon. I've covered this in an earlier meta, but if you think about it in a thematic sense rather than "who's the one with the most battle power?", in fact, Oikawa really is the final antagonist from an ideological perspective, and I suspect Vamdemon was picked because he's the only Digimon that would work with Oikawa's timeline and position in the real world.

As for the movie, I'm still trying not to formulate too many strong stances on it before we get more info, but I am happy to see that everything still points towards Rui being the actual focal character of the movie and the 02 cast being support. I think they're really good in those roles, so I'd love to see how they interact.

[the-city-kitty]

I made up the OC’s for the first chapter of “Nobody Invited You” in like five minutes with very minimal backstory and now I am attached. Your honor these are my stupid kids and I love them so much

[marcholasmoth]

OSRR: 3626

today i obtained my morning gluten to be disappointed by cream cheese.

and then i forgot it in my car when i went into the office.

work was kinda slow today, but it was fine. i just realized i'll be alone for several hours tomorrow. hope nothing happens.

i encountered a few issues today which i solved handily. i wrote my report in an hour and a half. i discovered our alarm monitoring wasn't the same and figured out another way to track them. i'll also be the problem solver for formatting of a document because apparently no one else can format things well??? truly it baffles me. i don't know how my coworkers don't know how to use word properly. word. i can understand excel. but word???? yikes.

anyway, i like solving problems.

joel texted me early on asking me how the day was going. he also sent me a moving snapshot out the window of the bus as he and dean went to new york.

after work i chatted with leo for a bit and then got a phone call from my health insurance provider about a personalized care team, courtesy of the company. so that had me on the phone for a hot minute while dana and luq came in and talked about movies and stuff with leo. luq is cool. he's chill. leo is still my favorite.

after that, i came back up here and went to dinner with lisa, which was a nice change in pace. i was able to eat vegetables and enjoy them and i gotta say i do love salads. broccoli? i'd die without it. and we got chocolate cake which we brought home and is now in the fridge.

and now i'm in bed and i need to sleep bc it's later than usual and i need the sleep lmao

[corneliaavenue-ao3]

20 Questions

I would like to thank @thenicestthingiveseen for the ta

How many works do you have on AO3?

I have 9 whole fics on that website

2. What's your total AO3 words count?

A whole whopping 29,110

3. What fandoms do you write for?

Only Harry Potter. I don't know what other fandom I would write for tbh

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

Loves a Game, Wanna Play?

up on a roof with a school girl crush

i wrote a poem (you say what a mind)

Island Breeze with the Lights Down Low

the road not taken looks real good now

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

I usually do! I love commenting and having conversations with fanfic authors, so I try to respond. Sometimes I read a comment and struggle to really form my feelings into words because I am so overwhelmed that anyone is liking my stuff enough to comment!

6. What's the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

Probably the road not taken... because it ends when the death eaters interupt fleur and bill's wedding

7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

up on a roof... ends with their second kiss and i love that for them

8. Do you get hate on fics?

you have to write popular fics to get hate i think

9. Do you write smut. If so what kind?

i do. the kind of smut i write is smut between harry potter and ginny weasley. sometimes they are step siblings in this scenerio.

here is a snippet of chapter 2 of trust him like a brother i intended to write more of last night

Harry cleared his throat at the invitation. "No, I just, er, realized that your mum was awake and leaving the house at the same time we were, you know," Harry's voice trailed off.

"Fucking?" Ginny finished for him, opening just one eye to give him a sharp look. "Your tongue has entered my vagina and you can't say the word fuck?"

10. Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one you've written?

I do not. but i have this weird falling asleep story that i fix season 7 of the 100 by sending bellamy to hogwarts during dh and helps the da because that would still make more sense than whatever the hell the writers wrote

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

YES ACTUALLY. So this is not my first fanfic account. I had one at the bright age of 12, and I wrote a better than revenge fic for ginny based on cho chang, and then SOMEONE STOLE IT! IT WAS SO BAD? WHY WOULD SOMEONE STEAL THAT?

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Nope

13. Have you ever cowritten a fic before?

I have not

14. What's your all-time favourite ship?

Hinny <3

15. What's a WIP you want to finish, but doubt you ever will?

The one where Harry and Ginny get stuck in a time loop at grimauld during ootp. It is bad, and I don't want to take the effort to fix it.

I JUST OPENED IT AND ITS 40 PAGES???? I THOUGHT IT WAS LIKE 15

16. What are your writing strengths?

That is a great question, someone please tell me

17. What are your writing weaknesses?'

I struggle with making my writing sound pretty. Adding detail that paints an image and not so literal. Because most days this is what my writing looks like.

*** is a 71 year old male with a past medical history of HTN, HLD, CHF, GI bleed and a recent hospitalization for PE and is now on eliquis who is presenting to the hospital for significant, persistent epigastric pain. He has had this pain before and it was present during his prior hospitalization. The staff at his nursing home noticed that he was in more pain, so he was brought via EMS to the ED. The pain is primarily in the upper abdomen, specifically the epigastric and LUQ, worsened with palpation, and improved with pain medication.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?

I struggle with English enough

19. First fandom you wrote for?

Harry Potter

20. Favourite fic you've ever written?

god rest my soul I can already tell you that would've could've should've will be my most listened to song this year and I just love looking into the relationship between Tom and Ginny

[randomartsideblog]

Okay I'm very sorry but I am going to make my brainrot EVERYONES problem beware of me please

Med student Ami man,

She wears glasses.

She goes international to study, and this is post-Galaxia, so it's pretty chill n any stray monsters are weak, meaning the others won't die without her

Ami calls Mako almost daily (let me have my MakoAmi platonic or romantic) just to talk about whatever and it helps Ami remember her material for tests and Mako just likes hearing her voice/info-dump

Multiple times Ami just thinks, "What if I just dropped out. What if."

Ami is a genius but the medical field is so much and she cries after getting her very first 89%(she got the RUQ and LUQ mixed up on a question about the liver's location and it has cuased her soul to leave her body)

She has so much stress and has never had such a challenge

Ami misses Mako's cooking

Because there's So Much Work Ami only gets a good meal every month or so and her diet mainly consisted of instant-ramen for a time

Mako does not approve.

"Ami, you've mentioned you're usually really busy... when do you cook/eat?"

"Oh, I just eat instant Ramen. If I have free time, I'll eat out somewhere occasionally."

UNACCEPTABLE.

So Ami only eats ramen when there's very little time for anything else and sandwiches have made a comeback.

Mako guided Ami through a cooking lesson once which... went okay...(lies)

Ami talks with all her fellow guardians as well

Usagi mainly gushes about how she misses ami and then oh you better be back for my wedding it's gonna be so amazing oh and did you hear already-

(Ami has heard already. Minako probably told her)

Actually most conversations are gossip

Ami and Minako, like said, mainly consists of gossip, but also Minako mentions of visiting Ami on a vacation maybe, if she can get affordable tickets for everyone

Mina is a rising pop star and showed Ami a song she was writing dedicated to Ami that was immediately scrapped after it was responded to with silence and Ami hung up

(Ami didn't want the spotlight)

Ami n Rei just vibe, maybe vent a little. They grow a bit distant since coexisting is more of their thing

Ami and the outers is more occasional, general chit chat with all of them, more focused topics include:

Smart people stuff with Setsuna and Hotaru

Cars (not the movie automobiles in general but actually it would be funny if they did converse about Cars at one point), engines, ya get it, with Haruka

Swimming with Michiru, but maybe Ami mentions wanting to get more into art and they have a discussion about that sometimes?

Ami loves cats- hence she has tamed tons of stray cats, some of which have followed her to her... condo? Dorm? Idk place if residence and stopped letting them in after (lovingly named) Tuna literally ripped her homework to shreds.

Thankfully, Ami remembered all the answers but she stayed mad at Tuna for 3 days before she caved and forgave the kitty

I'm obsessed with this show.

[missmalaysia]

why does this hurt im such a softie 😭😭😭 ik theyre j being friendly but 😭😭

[carriedon-awolfsback]

OC infodump? OC infodump!

Luc (sometimes Luq, pronounced somewhere between Look and Luke, I still can’t decide how I feel about the spelling) came into being sometime in 2017 and his lover Maria followed soon after, although I went through a ton of names for her I can’t remember now. Luc was always a cryptid, a shapeshifter and a human-eater, and Maria a dropout and monsterfucker, but initially he was just an out-and-out villain who would betray her trust in the end. But I went off the nihilistic ‘bad end’ idea quite quickly and started to mould him more towards a guardian/vigilante/antihero personality, and then later on (maybe 2019) I started to conceive of him as a justice/vengeance demon in an orderly heaven/hell system; one who devours bad humans and sends their souls to hell, rather than just a rogue killer beast. He can smell harmful intentions on people, and judges and dispatches them accordingly.

In comparison, I knew who Maria was from the start: a punkass urbex cryptid-hunting nerd from some shitty bit of Spokane who finds a cabin in the woods being lived in by a leopard-stag monster man who helps her solve all her grudges and problems through murder. My girl out here living the dream.

Luc’s preferred form is loosely modelled on a leucrotta from the Dungeons & Dragons bestiary, which in turn draws from old real-life myths about hyenas. His facial structure has gone through quite a few redesigns to try and find that feline/canine balance, but my most common frame of visual reference for him is leopards and jaguars. Technically Luc operates outside of human ideas of gender, sex, orientation and most other identities, given that he can take any organic form imaginable- but he defaults to an adult white cis masculine presentation and pronouns in his earthly body because, of course, it makes it much easier for him to move through our society. He uses other, more vulnerable human forms (usually women or children) as honeytraps when he goes hunting for bad people.

Also, in my head his voice/human form actor is Crispin Glover, because I was mildly hyperfixed on American Gods series 1 when I was really building more of Luc’s persona and I adore his ‘hot dad who is also an eldritch death omen’ vibes

My brain is fuckin’ dead today, so please, feel free to ask me random stuff about these two and see if it kickstarts my brain cell. I adore them.

[emmajackielee]

Stuff I Learned: Surgical Recall XIII

Chapter 58: Thyroid Gland

Artery: only superior and inferior thyroidal arteries

Veins: superior, middle, and inferior thyroidal veins

Thyroid Cancer

Types

Papillary

Psammoma bodies

Metastasize by lymph to lung

2x more common in women

Can diagnose by FNAC

Good I-131 uptake

Treat by total thyroidectomy, may consider near-total

Follicular

Capsular or blood vessel invasion

Metastasize by blood to bone

3x more common in women

Need biopsy to diagnose

Good I-131 uptake

Treat by total thyroidectomy

Medullary

Amyloid histology

Metastasize by lymph and blood

1.5x more common in women

Poor I-131 uptake

Secrete calcitonin, test by pentagastrin stimulation test

Treat by total thyroidectomy + median lymph node dissection

Anaplastic

Giant cells, spindle cells

Can diagnose by FNAC

Very poor I-131 uptake

Treat by total thyroidectomy + XRT/chemotherapy

Poor prognosis

Chapter 49: Parathyroid

80% of people have parathyroids supplied exclusively by inferior thyroid arteries

10% of people have 3 glands and 5% of people have 5 (extra one in the thymus gland)

Hyperparathyroidism

Causes

85% adenoma

10% hyperplasia

1% carcinoma

Symptoms: stones, bones, groans, psychiatric overtones

33 to 1 rule: in primary cases, serum to phosphate ratio is 33:1

Plain X ray findings: subperiosteal bone resorption in hand digits

Treatment

Adenoma: remove adenoma and biopsy all enlarged glands

Hyperplasia: remove all parathyroid glands and leave 30g of tissue in the non-dominant forearm

Carcinoma: remove carcinoma and ipsilateral thyroid, all LN

Chapter 60: Spleen

Signs of rupture/bleeding

Kehr’s sign: left shoulder pain in rupture

Ballance’s sign: LUQ dullness

Seagesser’s sign: phrenic nerve compression causing neck tenderness in rupture

Complications of splenectomy

Overwhelming post-splenectomy sepsis (OPSS)

Pancreatitis

Necessary vaccines for splenectomy (preoperative)

Pneumococcus

Meningococcus

H.influenzae

[atishakirastory]

Setinggi-tinggi penghargaan kepada semua ahli keluarga yang sudi meluangkan masa utk kita berfamily gathering, kawan-kawan sahabat handai yang sudi datang even semua tahu Jumaat hari jamm sedunia, kumpulan marhaban wanita Taman Ampang Indah, anak-anak tahfiz, orang taman dan semua yang terlibat. . Terima kasih kepada semua yang mendoakan yg baik-baik utk Cakil, Aisy & Luq. . Pelamin as usual by my sis and uncle. Sewa stuffs at @yourdiyprojectsupplies then pasanglah. Love it! Congrats good job guys! #cukurjambul #aqiqah #ShaquilleRufi #AisyFhayyadh #LuqmanulAdha #alhamdulillah #diy #babyShaq #mylife #mylove #myheart #mysoul (at KUEHiBU)

[shihalyfie]

Adventure & 02's digimons are effectively part of their human partners souls, the other part of themselves. can it also be said that their digimons are also equivalent / like a wife? this is what yuuto kazama & mayumi yamaguchi said in an old interview. when being asked the question about the relationship, kazama said things like "to Yamato, Gabumon is a bit like his wife. A very well-balanced". yamaguchi then replied, "That’s because the husband is a useless child". this is them just joking about it. personally i think maybe it can be true but can't be said as 100% correct. what's your take about this?

This is a subjective issue, but my answer is no. I think it's a very dangerous prospect to compare a Digimon partnership with a romantic one; a good relationship and a good Digimon partnership should have certain things in common, but there's some pretty problematic aspects that come up if you actually conflate them. This is especially in regards to the interview you mentioned, in which, as you said, they're saying this as a joke, and especially because Yamaguchi means it in that rather heteronormative sitcom sense of "wife chasing after the useless husband's messes".

YK To Yamato, Gabumon is a bit like his wife. A very well-balanced one. MY That’s because the husband is a useless child. (laughs) YK Right, he rushes off to do reckless things. And he watches his younger brother more than his partner. (laughs) MY No matter how much devotion Gabumon shows, he doesn’t turn around to notice. But all Gabumon says about it is, “You’re fine that way. I’ll just keep waiting for you.” (laughs) YK But Yamato does worry about Gabumon, too. Like those times when Garurumon is attacked. MY Oh, I would expect that he be a little worried in those times, at least! (laughs) YK Yeah, you’re right. I’m sorry. (laughs)

This was an interview taken in the mid-2000′s, and even that aside, it’s unfortunately still a common thing to joke about today, but it isn’t really something you should be taking seriously regarding Yamato and Gabumon unless you want to start stepping into some fairly misogynistic territory.

I’m not saying that voice actors can’t make insightful takes about their characters at all, and in fact I quote a lot of their impressions of their own characters on this blog, but you still have to take things with a grain of salt since they’re not technically on writing staff and have limited input on the characters, and especially with ones like Yamaguchi who has a history of joking around about the characters she voices a lot. (In this same interview, she claims that Taichi would be a better partner for Sora because Yamato is too troublesome for her, which is a take I take issue with in regards to Taichi, Yamato, and Sora if it’s treated as anything but a joke.) Other voice actors have also made offhand jokes about their characters that would be disturbing if taken seriously; for instance, Araki Kae was really obsessed with the idea of Hikari having a brother complex to degrees way deeper than the series ever implied or could be reasonably interpreted as. They’re in a position where you can get some insight about what directions they might have received, and it is true that as the “closest” to the characters they’re the ones who put the most thought into how to handle their performances, but in the end they’re still giving their own interpretations without that much more information than what the audience has.

[little-lazylily]

This year hasn’t really been the easiest. Shit, I think it was one of the worst but thankfully there are people who stood by me throughout, some left halfway through, some I pushed away, some couldn’t last. Some decisions made might be regretful, but things happen for a reason whether you know it or not. Regardless, you can’t undo what happened. All you can do is to learn from it.

So, just a short snippet of what happened in 2018.

January

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I went to my first concert ever, and it was for Imagine Dragons (losing it) and honestly I did not regret my company for the day. And I freaking cried throughout when they entered till the end of the first song. Seriously. HAHAHAHA.

Also, it’s the first time I went JB with the clique or my friends tbh. It required more convincing than I thought, LOL, but yas, I’m so glad to have you guys around.

February

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I started talking to TW which was… HAHAHA. Oh well, everything is an experience aye?

It was a weird month where everything was so jumbled up together tbh.

It wasn’t that long since I got together with Da but it’s also when we ended. I’m so thankful that you showed me so much patience and understanding and took care of me throughout the semester and stayed by me relentlessly. I honestly don’t know how to tolerate me even after what happened.

March

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I started talking to Nic again because it felt right; that we could become friends again. We started hanging out and tried so many new firsts together, again. I wish I could feel the same again but it just wasn’t right anymore.

And my ex-girlf was dumbly back in Singapore for work, last I heard, she’s back in China again, smh. But I’m glad I got to meet you even if it’s for a while.

I met some friends in SMU and truthfully, we are kind of a shitty group in terms of classwork wise HAHAHA. Pulling stunts every time and doing work freaking last minute, it’s a surprise that we passed the module even.

April

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Sem 1.2 would not be survivable without Luq and I’m so thankful for you bro. He’s been there for me for whatever shitty reasons that makes me 24/7 upset, especially with all the exams and stuff. And he’s been filled with all my nonsense and bullshits, I don’t know how he’s still surviving being my friend HAHAHA. So glad I met ya.

And I met Jun, I liked him so fucking much guys. I can’t HAHAHA. Thanks for bringing me to my first clubbing session ft. Zedd. I can’t believe I was prioritizing guys again. Sigh.

May

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An important month of the year for my Chigga, THEAAAAAAAA. I’m sorry I kinda disappointed you with a simple plan to chill at the beach for your birthday, you had so many people to choose to spend it with but you spent it with me yas. I appreciate you so much. We’re just too damn ridiculous with our constant bullshits and I’m thankful that someone like you is around in my life.

Luq and I restrung a guitar for the first time while being scrub and doing it at a Coffee Bean outlet. Such horrible low ses lyf, just because we didn’t want to pay extra for services HAHAHA.

Also, Taiwan trip was a bomb. Sure I did not expect to go with MJ and it’s definitely weird but guys, platonic af. He’s always so understanding and tolerating of my tantrums and rage quits. Though he sucks at planning but HAHA at least he tried. Thanks for bringing me around and it was really enjoyable because I got to travel alone for a bit as well, it was one of the best fucking experience.

June

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I knew this guy through OkCupid and it was just that period of like, “oh I’m bored, let’s find some guys to talk to to pass time”. Damn, ever since we met at KOI and talked bout shits, I don’t know why it was so personal but I’m glad you opened up. And I couldn’t wait to see you, it was a weird feeling and I’m really not against it. You went Artbox with me, it was my first. Worse, you tricked me into hugging and kissing you okay. HAHAHA, you were just really this adorable guy and I wasn’t expecting much for us to happen and my friends weren’t really supportive either because I ain’t ready for this shit. But for me, I just wanted to see where this goes.

July

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I realized you were a camwhore by now HAHAHAHA, I hate taking photos and you know it. It caused some issues between us but whatev LOL. I can’t. Deal with you. At this point. You were still so adorable and YOU were the one who stole my heart you shit. Tbh, really proud of you and what you were doing, all those relentless trainings for NDP and drinking of BBTs for free HAHAHA, fattie. You look damn suave in uniform and TOTALLY WERTH THE WAIT.

It was also a milestone for Xi Mum and finally got proposed to. I’VE WAITED TOO LONG FOR THIS. I’m so glad it happened, it was so freaking beautiful okay guys.

And a million thanks to my BFF who made time to spend my birthday with me. I’m just so thankful that it was spent with someone whom I love. There was so much chilling and new shits. Thanks for putting it out to cheer me and showing so much love.

August

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Jiamin is finally back in Singapore and the weird poly clique could reunite again, at least for like… a few hours HAHA. You guys are still weird af. Though we are walking different paths, I wish y’all the very best in the next to come.

And I met this weirdo SMU girl, Amanda. HAHAHA, so our friendship literally started from, “Eh you want go club tonight with us?”, and I’m just like, “Ya sure ONS”. HAHAHA, WHY ARE WE SO FREAKING RIDICULOUS. I think it was just FOMO but HAHA, she’s one of the best out there guys.

September

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I finally went to Teepee Hut @ Mr Stork’s, it was freaking great though my company wasn’t what I expected but okay.

October

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As the date comes nearer, I get more nervous, I have no idea why but yeahs, it was our anniversary and it still kinda haunts me. We used to go every HHN together, except for the last and this year. And yeahs, it was just our thing, and now it’s changing.

Also, it’s my BFF, Denise, birthday as well. It was saddening that she didn’t join us for HHN, I think she would flip and it would be the joke of the next century HAHA. BUT WELL WELL WELL, that spot is taken by Lixuan and Thea and HAHAHA, GUYS, legit damn funny their reactions.

November

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Finally brought the bae to Teepee Hut because, yas, he was my supposed company and he’s still pissed that we didn’t go together first. He’s still such a cutie, I really don’t know how he still holds it together and tolerating me LOL.

And woohoo, shoutout to my SMU marketing chiongsters. You guys need to stop staying up and talking shits about what, getting fucked sideways by a carrot, PLEASE GUYS. HAHAHAHA, what a joke ass bunch, thanks for making this sem a fun one. Love y’all.

December

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Finally, a break to take a short travel, ALONE. Guys, I might be addicted to travelling alone. Tbh it was abit scary because of all the recent events and I don’t know, it just isn’t a safe country LOL, no where is.

Anyways, another milestone for my ex-colleague, congratulations on finally settling down.

And yas, I travelled to JB with the bae. It’s his first travelling with just two people, CAN MEH? Such a group-oriented person. It wasn’t what we expected and I think shits got abit bad at some point but I’m so glad to go through this with you, though it’s kinda boring af.

  Overview of 2018 This year hasn't really been the easiest. Shit, I think it was one of the worst but thankfully there are people who stood by me throughout, some left halfway through, some I pushed away, some couldn't last.

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2/4/2017 8:29 PM

despite everything i still love Shaz. i dont see us getting together again, but i would be lying if i said i didnt care. i was thinking about her again on the drive home today and its ok, its all part of the process, and it may very well be like this for a long time but i know I'm moving on and coping well. this whole weekend was really productive, saturday morning i got up early and run with Alec, not sure if i mentioned that already, then i went to parra to meet with Eljay and Poco, had yum cha and a good catch up with the dudes. its nice to see all the past issues the guys had has been put behind and everyone seems quite close again, or getting there. i bought a new wallet, just filtering out things shaz bought me that would trigger reminders which are still a bit painful to think about right now, its not something i would usually get, its green lol, was contemplating returning it but i might just go with it, new year new me. i then caught up with Mariko and shopped a bit n got coffee then dropped her home before heading back to the area. good to see new girls now, even though nothings gonna happen i guess just making new friendships and seeing where they will go if something sparks, but i know right now is definitely not the time for me to think about that since investing in someone as much as i did with shaz is the last thing i would be wanting to focus on right now. especially since I'm on the road to prioritising myself and taking care of myself more. i think I'm at a stage I'm ready to start dating, nothing full on but meeting people and stuff, you just never know and the right one might come along sooner then expected. though i doubt it right now lol. sat night i went to annas 31st and went clubbing with the filos from Aon. they're pretty cool but not really the crowd i like being with. i was close to being tempted in drinking and other shit more but probably cause when i went to the toilet and couldn't get back to the rnb section kind of finished the night for me, ended up leaving going to kfc and since my phone died couldn't call alec to ride with after her gig. train to minto and 45 min walk from station. this morning i realised my phones completely gone lol, I'm seeing the silverliing with this. its literally a fresh start memories wise with all the convos and pictures on my phone forecefully gone now, going to look into getting the new iPhone or just having my current one replaced with a refurbished. today linked with chris again along with Luq and Raf, yum cha again, i feel guilty for all the food I've been eaten this weekend but better I'm out and about socialising, it was really good to laugh with my friends and talk about past outings weve had, especially raf and luqmans bux. it felt good having no phone, i mean it was difficult at first but now I'm forced not to be on my phone all the time. i went hurstville to try buy the new phone with raf but couldn't get the financing without my bank details.probably better that way cause i would've have just acted on impulse, now i can properly think what to do with it all. after that had a solid gym session with raf nikki and chris, might be a regular thing now on sundays, that was literally a 2.5 hour gym session. i feel really good about it all, and cause of the hard work and feeling guiolty about food its got me wanting to start with the healthy eating since I've been talking about it a lot. i just have to do it, theres no other way. got some steaks grilled, some steamed broccoli and a salad bowl. going to bring it tomorow and see how i go, might save money too. week planning begins now, time to tighten up this routine i got going, i think after all the activity and socialising it was good to give myself time to grieve again, which was the ride home after. was just reminicing again about times ive had wit hshaz and trying to think what we would be doing now if we were still together. did get me down a bit but i bounced back n got on with my meal prepping and socialising with family. now just in the living room with mum and dad watching suits. i like this just being around them, even though were not talking caus of the tv show its good to be around them, and its nice that i get to share my day with them and feel closer then ever. time to prep the rest of my week and work towards a better me, i dug up my visa too so now i can try and organise my next move if i decide hitting up london next year. peace!

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i'm currently watching adventure psp gameplay on Gamezer 1 youtube channel, english patch translated by kazarin & onkeikun. there is this extra scenes after the game credits in which taichi talks to everyone after they return to the real world. interesting facts foreshadowing 02 are : yamato about to attend band concert from overseas, thinking of picking up a bass (he eventually did in 2 and a half year break), sora quits soccer and starts to play tennis, thinking of changing her image into a more feminine look, koshiro said about the impact of apocalymon battle and how people begun to look at the incident (like gennai inform miyako & iori in 02 ep 39). another interesting fact is that taichi looking at the memorial picture, said that gennai sent it to him by email. nice to know the info but it certainly is a contradiction since the anime never really confirm this. maybe tri staff consider this fact as a justification on why taichi and friends have the memorial picture in part 1. in truth, it really just an added info for the psp game. the staff even use tobira door song as takeru's ringtone in tri part 3. in general, if you have played the game, overall, what's your opinion about the game, its side quests and digital dungeons? i enjoy watching it so far.

Well, to be honest, I really doubtthe tri. staff members were referencing the PSP game at all -- I'm pretty sure the use of Tobira in Part 3 is just because FEEL MEE (the label that handled Adventure's original music) was involved on tri., so it was very easy to yank that out of the archives. Almost all the stuff in tri. that seems to reference more obscure material (Homeostasis, etc.) comes from stuff that you can easily find on Japanese Wikipedia, so I have a hard time believing they went that deep and to be honest, I would prefer they have referenced things a lot more important than a questionably canon game from 2013.

I think the game's fun if you like Adventure, I think there was a lot of thought put into things Adventure fans might like, I'm glad we got to hear stuff from the voice actors again before the cast shifted over to tri./Kizuna's cast (and it's the game that gave us Han Megumi's Takeru as well). I think there was a lot of love for Adventure put into it, I especially like the attention to little details. It's also not a particularly difficult or obtuse game to play (if anything the gameplay is too easy and bare-bones, but it at least isn't a huge chore to play), so it's got that going for it as well. I'm not sure if it really has any appeal for anyone who isn't already an Adventure lover, but it's nice to have.

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hi! it's me. i've been following your blog for 2 years now, this year will be 3 years already. i really love this awesome digimon blog. i am a big fan of Digimon Adventure series. reading every posts about the series are really interesting. i've been thinking about this lately. would you mind if i share your Digimon Adventure (DA metas) to other platforms like social media. i don't start to do it yet but i've been thinking to share it to other people about the 20+ year DA series, if you don't mind about it.

Thank you! Please go ahead; I never have any issue with linking my posts anywhere.

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hello! recently, i've read your post about the filipino english dub. i want to say that i really like the south east asia eng dub. i am from a south east asian country myself. the dub is exactly the 'english ver.' that i used to watch digimon adventure & 02 during childhood days before i find out about the original JP ver later. i still have few DA & 02 cd's based on the dub that i kept until now. also i have both series in that dub on my laptop too. other than the original JP ver., i also prefer to watch digimon in that kind of eng dub. i didn't know that it is a filipino eng dub until i found it on youtube later. taichi daisuke & miyako's voices are cool to me. sounds like a native eng speaker voicing them even though it is a SEA dub. like you said, the script, character development of taichi and his friends, the settings as well as other things are much closer. i say that it is staying true to the original ver. as much as possible. in my opinion, all of the filipino eng dub voices fit to all 12 characters, although i feel a bit weird, have a mixed feelings about the voices in DA ep 1-4, i feel comfortable, get used to listen to the voices starting in DA ep 5 all the way until 02. even the 12 kids' names & their families are the same as the JP ver. except for miyako. in that dub, miyako is being called as kyo inoue. wish that they had mentioned the full miyako name on the dub. that is my only gripe on the dub, but even that sounds fine to me now. i really love the dub so much. reminds me of the good old days.

Thank you so much for sharing!

In regards to Miyako's name, that's actually most likely because her kanji name 京 can also be read "Kyou" (as she explains in the first episode, the same "Kyo" in "Kyoto"). I've heard multiple dubs named her that, and it's entirely possible it may not have been an intentional change as much as accidentally reading her name that way. I mean, if you're not familiar with the arbitrary readings Japanese kanji can have, "my name 'Miyako' is written like the 'Kyo' in 'Kyoto'" doesn't exactly make sense...

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hi! this is out of curiosity, since when do you start to watch adv series in its original jap. ver.? do you find any difficulty in trying to adapt, get used to it? like the voices, names of the characters, music, the way the story is presented. i first watch the series in my own language and the english ver (not the us ver., more like asian english ver.) before i encounter the original jap. ver. during my teenage years and get used to it over time until now. i'm okay with dub ver, but i always prefer, love to watch the jap. ver. more than other dubs.

(Note: This was cleared up later with the asker and various parties, so mostly leaving this for posterity: while it's not universally well-known, "J*p" is a slur originating from WWII, so I ask that people please be careful about not using that even as an abbreviation.)

Regardless of language, I've always been interested in original versions of any dubbed media for as long as I've been consuming media (I won't say I'm necessarily a purist, I just happen to have a natural curiosity for what must have been the original source), so I'd been interested in the Japanese version of Digimon ever since I first got into it, and had been following it ever since it started getting translated. If you know anything about Digimon and subbing, it actually took some years for most early Digimon series to get decent quality subs in full, so I thank everyone involved for their hard work, especially since the prevailing attitude at the time was that "the (American) English dub didn't change anything substantial anyway" (ignoring the fact that there would still be good reason to have the Japanese version on hand even if that were the case...) and the demand for it was even more niche than it is now.

I didn't really have problems getting used to names. I did have to get used to the voices, because since I got in with the American English dub initially, I had a strong attachment to the voices I'd associated with them there (and I still do, even if I haven't fully watched the dub in years!), so there would be things like Yamato (Kazama Yuuto)'s voice being much deeper than I'd expected, or Agumon's voice being completely different in general, but I got used to it quickly because I felt like everyone fit their character perfectly in their own way. The music was a bit surprising, but I was never too incredibly attached to the original music anyway so it was mostly just discovering something new and fun. Other than that, I guess I was incredibly surprised by how different of an impression 02 gave me, especially Daisuke; having been eyeing 02 in Japanese since translation efforts first started, I knew there had been some changes (Hurricane Touchdown...) but the actual degree really surprised me, especially since, as I said, the prevailing attitude was that "it didn't change much". Part of the reason I write so extensively about how much the 02 dub changed is that I personally witnessed firsthand how much my perception of the series abruptly shifted after my first time watching it in Japanese, and how nearly impossible it became to hold analytical conversations about certain smaller details with people who mistakenly over-applied dub things to the Japanese version because "we're actually talking about two different things, aren't we..." never comes up thanks to how prevalent this myth is. Driving this home further, I don't have this issue at all with fans who had their own local dubs more closely adapted from the Japanese version, so the problem really isn't whether it was in Japanese or not, or whether it was a dub or not, as much as the fact "the script really did change that much".

Currently, I guess I would say I have a pretty complicated relationship with Digimon's American English dubs. Like I said, I don't necessarily think I'm a purist or anything, and even though I have an increased stake in watching things in Japanese since I can actually understand much more about the language than I used to, I myself still enjoy a good dub and also completely understand and appreciate the nature of what dubbing entailed in those days, the dub's role in getting Digimon to a wider audience, the reason people prefer dubs and how important this one is to people, and, heck, I still love the voice actors. At the same time, this "it didn't change anything significant" myth has been really damaging and frustrating to deal with, because you get pointless, unnecessary arguments about people trying to talk about two very different versions of the series and arguing because they don't realize the characters they're discussing weren't even written similarly (hi, Mimi and Daisuke). Even if people do acknowledge the changes, there's also a tendency to worship that dub, so even though I feel my complaints about it are pretty legitimate ones (my gripes mainly being that I'm uncomfortable with the characterization changes, I feel many of the changes caused a significant adverse impact on the story and characterization integrity especially in the case of 02, and I get a bit of a bad feeling about some of the cultural localization attempts in dialogue borderline crossing into racism), it's frustrating to constantly get shut down because everything should be excused as long as it was in someone's childhood, and it's also frustrating to see these dismissals applied to people who had their own aforementioned local dubs and are upset at how this impacted their own childhood, but are thrown under the bus because their own dub is treated disrespectfully as if it were "secondary" to the American English dub somehow being the enforced, mandated standard for any kind of localized Digimon outside Japan.

I completely understand that a lot of this is lashback developed from Japanese-version-only purist camps being obnoxious about dunking on dubs, but it's uncomfortable observing the results of the fallout when you're kind of here in the middle not wanting to dunk on it for the sake of dunking on it, but also having concerns that you feel everyone is dismissing you for. (Not helping is also the fact that obnoxious purists love to dunk on people for having a personal preference for dubs; there are a lot of reasons to prefer them even if you're aware of the changes, personal emotional attachment and accessibility reasons being among them, and my grievances have more to do with the "it didn't change anything" myth still being prevalent, the experiences of having any criticism I have of it being so easily dismissed, and the fact that a combination of both means that having strong loyalty to the Japanese version gets you pinned as being an unusual purist or being overly picky.)

Also, I think one thing that isn't often talked about is that there's a huge difference between the dubs of everything up to 02 and the dubs of everything between Tamers and Savers (Xros Wars we'll...leave aside for now, haha). In the case of the latter, the aggressive joke-adding is much less intrusive, the changes (including to characterization) are less significant, and you can even see this in that Diablomon Strikes Back's dub has much closer dialogue and characterization to the original than anything else from the 02 dub. So a lot of what I said above actually just applies to Adventure and 02 more than anything. For series after, I don't make it a habit to watch their dubs as often these days, but I'm still familiar with them and have my own pretty strong sense of nostalgia for the Tamers and Frontier ones in particular, and for anything after 02, I haven't had any particular experience with other fans regarding trying to discuss the series but finding we're talking about two different things, other than maybe one or two minor things that had to be cleared up every so often. So in that case I myself also agree more with the idea of mostly treating the dubbed and Japanese versions as the same thing, whereas with Adventure and 02 I honestly feel they need to be treated as separate and distinct things.

In the end I guess the take-home I have here is that I feel like my experience going from the dub to the Japanese version has been a lot less shocking or eventful than dealing with the perceptions and stigmas around them from other people...^^;;