#no wonder soccer isn't as popular in the US

[pynkfairyheart]

Hii I was wondering if you could do an collage au armin arlert oneshot, imagine or Drabble (totally up to you) where armin is a very popular soccer player at the college and since he’s so popular that causes him not have as much time for his gf so she catches an attitude and ignores him and he fixes it ifykyk. I was thinking more of like a dominant or switch armin for this yk?

pairings: soccer!player Armin x black reader

warnings: smut 18+, a lil angsty, orgasm denial, car sex

a/n: i love this request, armin is just so ૮꒰ྀི˶˃ ⌓ ˂˶꒱ྀིა

Ms. Attitude

“I’m sorry, baby. I promise I’ll make it up later. I love you, bye” The monotone beep of the phone soon followed his hurried voice informing you he ended the call before you could even breathe.

“Yep, I love you too” You mumbled. Glossy eyes scanning the hair and makeup you spent hours on.

This was the second time Armin failed to show up for your date.

Soccer season was picking up and with Armin being the captain you understood you'd no longer be able to spend as much time due to practice, but the frequent outings with his team members were becoming infuriating.

Was it that hard for him to plan around your date nights?

With a deep breath, you soaked a cotton pad in makeup remover. Too exhausted to even take pictures before the excess liquid on the pad mixed with your stray tears. It was rare for you to cry over a guy, even rarer to cry over Armin, but the disappointment was turning into frustration that was too overbearing to contain.

What made things worse is that you felt it wasn't fair to Armin you were having these feelings.

You knew what you were entering into when you said yes to being his girlfriend. He told you his goals from the start; become captain, graduate with a 4.0, play professionally, and ultimately make it to the World Cup.

Of course, you knew achieving all he wanted would take time, and you wholeheartedly supported him.

To maintain a healthy relationship you two had a system. Once a week, you would set aside time for a date. It didn't need to be elaborate or fancy; the simple goal was for you to spend time alone. Everything was perfect. Until it wasn’t.

Something Armin didn’t take into account with the new season was the influx of freshmen on the team. This meant lots of bonding time with the team and less time with you.

°⋆.ೃ࿔*:･

It was a week before you saw Armin. Granted it wasn't on purpose and you just happened to catch a glimpse of him from across the crowded room, but you saw him nonetheless.

The events on how you approached him are a little cloudy, your actions encouraged by the shots you took and your anger. The only true remembrance was Sasha’s attempt to make you stay and the snickers from certain teammates who could predict what was about to happen.

“What the actual fuck, Armin.” You huffed

“Baby? What’s wrong?” His smile disappearing at the pout settled onto your face

You were baffled, was he actually serious?

“What’s wrong is that I haven't seen you in three weeks all because of your little bonding outings. Which this does not seem like bonding” A mixture of frustration and hurt fueling your emotions as you motioned to the party

“I know how this looks, baby but I swear we just got caught up after practice, sit with us I promise to make it up to you- Did you just roll your eyes at me?” Nothing pissed Armin off more than when you rolled your eyes at him.

“Yes! You've said the same thing every week Armin, you're like a fucking broken record and it's actually pissing me off”

“I'm pissing you off?” The indifferent tone of his voice and minuscule smirk on his face should have told you to stop and think but you were just too upset to think.

“Isn't that what I just said” Your iris slightly disappearing as you rolled your eyes once again.

He’d been waiting for it.

Many people knew Armin to be the passionate sweetheart he was. It was rare to see him upset. That emotion reserved for whenever his team got a foul and occasionally whenever you gave him attitude.

Before you could even register what he was doing he grabbed your arm and dragged you out of the party

That little eye roll ended up with you in the backseat of his car, legs on his shoulder as he drilled into you.

“Minniee, pleaseee” You whined, tears threatening to spill from your eyes at the pleasure building in your lower stomach

“You wanted my attention right? So stop fucking complaining and hold it like I said” His hips snapping forward as he buried himself deep inside you with every thrust.

You were certain stars were blurring your vision. He was just stretching you out so well, the girth and the angle he was at leaving no spot along your walls untouched with how deep he was.

Just looking and hearing the whines that slipped passed your lips made him want to fuck orgasm after orgasm out of you.

Just looking at you had him on the brink of a second orgasm.

You just looked so pretty to him. Bouncing breasts no longer confined by the tight shirt you wore, hardened nipples glossy from his previous sucking. Don't even get him started with your teary eyes and glossy lips.

What really got him though was the way your puffy cunt surrounded him. Folds so warm and wet with your slick and his cum that your walls failed to contain.

Armin however didn’t reward bad behavior, especially yours. Maybe he’d let you cum if you whined enough, but who knows. For now, he’d continue to use you for his own pleasure as he pounded into you.

“What's wrong princess? Isn't this what you wanted? Caught an attitude just to get fucked like a slut” He hissed, blonde strands sticking to his forehead as he increased his pace.

“I’m sorry, Minnie, please. I just missed you” You spoke through your broken moans and cries

Leaning down he encaptured your lips, his pace slowing as the guilt seeped into him, oh how he wanted nothing but to go back and spend that time with you.

“I know, I’m sorry. I’ll make time for us, I mean it this time” His voice coming out in a whisper as he kissed along your neck

“Y-yeah? “ Speech broken by the newfound pleasure as he applied pressure to your clit

“Mhm, as long as you stop with that fucking attitude” Within that second the soft and caring Armin was gone and now replaced with the Armin whose only goal was to make you feel pleasure

You were so close, every rock of his hips hitting your spot so perfectly you were seeing stars and begging to cum but he kept denying you over and over. His responses consisting of “Be my good girl and hold it” or “You want it so badly don’t you?” a condescending pout resting on his pink lips every time

It was only when he grabbed your ankles and pushed your legs up against your chest that he allowed you to cum, pace becoming sloppy as he watched you cream around him, basking in the way every contraction of your cunt added to the milky ring around his base.

The feeling of you clenching around him, the sight of your closed eyes and slightly agape mouth as you came, it was too much for him to handle as spurts of his milky cum forced its way into your stuffed cunt.

“That's my girl” He mumbled. Smirking at the cum spilling from your hole the moment he pulled out

It was only when you felt his hands spreading your legs apart and his tongue plunging into you that you opened your eyes.

“Armin” You shrieked

“Mmm, relax, baby. I've got three weeks' worth of orgasms to get from you.”

[remuswriting]

depends, who's asking; m. osamu

Summary: As far as first meetings go, fighting over udon noodles is not one you thought you'd ever have.

Pairing: Miya Osamu/Male! Reader

Tags: Pre-Relationship; First Meetings; Meet-Cute; Canon Compliant; Second Person POV

Word Count: 1,002 words

Notes: Writing in second person is really not my thing, so hopefully it's good. I think this may be the only reader fic I've ever written where Y/N or L/N isn't used.  This is just a silly little thing I wrote over a year ago. I hope you enjoy.

It’s been a long day since the soccer team practiced later than usual. Interhigh Qualifiers are coming up, and your coach wants to make sure everyone is ready. You’re only a first year, so you aren’t on first string, which you don’t really mind. You have two more years, after all.

Practice being grueling and running late leaves you absolutely exhausted, but thankfully, you don’t have to worry about your parents being upset since they work late on Wednesday. This means you cook dinner for yourself, which you like doing. Trying out new recipes is something you tend to do on Wednesday, but you’re not sure if it’ll be a new recipe night. You’re not sure what you have to eat at home, so you decide you’ll just stop by the store on the way home. There’s a simple recipe you like to make whenever you’re tired, but you know you need a couple things.

Your phone vibrates in your bag, so you pull your bag up to have easier access to it, but moving your bag results in your phone falling deeper and deeper into it. So, you’re shoving your hand past your school supplies and bento box until you finally have a hold of it. You see a couple of people looking at you, and you wonder if it might have been easier if you had stopped to take it out instead of walking at the same time. It doesn’t matter now, especially since the store is already in view.

“Oh,” you say, seeing that it was your mom who texted you. Apparently, she left money on the counter for takeout. You look up at the store and decide you might as well get some groceries while you’re here.

To: Mom

From: You

>>At the store. Do we need anything?

A long list of things is the next thing she sends. You sigh as you walk into the store and grab a basket. This is the main store your family goes to, so you know where everything is without needing to think too much about it.

“Alright, all that’s left is udon noodles,” you mumble as you look over your mother’s text again. As you make your way to where those are, hoping they have them, since the store’s popularity has grown due to a store nearby being remodeled.

There’s someone else on the aisle, a guy also wearing an Inarizaki uniform. The dyed gray hair gives away who it is; Miya Osamu. You’ve never met Osamu since he’s a year older, and most sports clubs don’t talk to each other. The boys’ volleyball club has several annoying members, so your soccer teammates say it’s better just not talking to them.

You walk down the aisle and find he’s standing in front of what you need. After a minute of standing there, you gently tap his arm. He looks at you. “Can I help you?” he asks, annoyed, which understandably so. You’d be annoyed too.

“Uh, I was wonderin’ if ya could hand me some udon noodles,” you say, and he doesn’t say anything as he stares at you. You try not to fidget, but you’re so uncomfortable. People always said that Atsumu is the “scary” twin while Osamu is laid back. You’re disagreeing right now.

“No,” he says, and you furrow your brows.

“No?”

“No,” he says, and he holds up two packages of udon noodles. “They’re mine.”

You move your head to see that there aren’t any more udon noodles on the shelf. You look back at him and bite your lip as you let out a deep breath. “Do ya really need two?”

“Yeah,” he says as he puts them in his basket. “Even if I didn’t, I’d take ‘em anyway.”

“Are ya new to this store?” you ask, and he shakes his head.

“No, I’ve been comin’ here since I was a kid.”

You point at the noodles in his hand. “Then ya know that’s all they’ve got right now.” He just stares at you. “They won’t have any more until Tuesday.”

“That ain’t my problem,” he says, and you bite the inside of your cheek.

“Why’re ya bein’ an ass?” you ask, and you don’t know why you kept going. Maybe it’s because practice had been awful. Or maybe because your mom stressed wanting udon noodles. “Ya don’t need both of ‘em.”

“How do ya know that?” he asks, and you clench your jaw. “Maybe I need more than two and I’m settlin’ cause there’s no more.”

You roll your eyes. “I doubt that’s it.” It’s quiet as you two stare at each other. At this point, you can’t just back down. “I’ll pay you for it.”

Osamu blinks. “What?”

“I’ll pay you for the noodles.” You pull your wallet out of you bag far easier than you had pulled your phone out. “I’ve got the cash.”

“I’m not doin’ that,” he says, and you huff.

“Why not?”

“Cause I got here first.”

“Doesn’t mean ya’ve gotta be greedy!”

Osamu looks you over before shaking his head a little. “Ya know what? I’m just goin’ go. I hope ya get noodles next time.”

He turns and starts walking away. You clench your wallet in your hand. “I won’t forget this, Miya-senpai!”

He looks back at you with wide eyes. “You know who I am?”

You nod. “I also go to Inarizaki, and I’m not gonna forget this.”

“What’re ya gonna do?” he asks with an amused smirk, and you straighten your posture completely.

“I’m gonna buy all the udon noodles whenever I come here so you can’t have any of them!”

Osamu stares at you, shocking and not knowing how to respond, before chuckling slightly. You hate that he has a nice smile and laugh. “Good luck with that.”

He hurries down the aisle before you can say anything else. You throw your wallet on the ground as you grumble a little. Your teammates are right. Inarizaki boys’ volleyball club does have some annoying members.

[munsons-maiden]

I feel like a lot of this hierarchy talk comes from what we as fellow Europeans have seen in American movies. Think Mean Girls and She's All That, movies like that. They have this clear separation of class, jocks and nerds and the popular people. I think a lot of us draw big conclusions from that, I have no doubt that SOME schools are like that in America in Europe it generally isn't like that.

We've had separation of groups but everyone's always been generally friendly to one another, like I was the sad art kid and my friends and I were called the losers club pretty much but we talked to the popular kids and the jocks just fine. We all had friends from different groups, I had a close jock friend once! Played soccer, really tall and I had to run to keep up with her when we walked around the school because she was like 6'0 tall and I was like 4'11 at the time. Overall I don't think being in different cliques is ALL THAT BAD, some losers have jock friends and some nerds have cheerleader girlfriends (looking at Eddie and sweet bb Chrissy), people are different. Places are different. Just happy Eddie is a big hearted guy, takes care of the sheepies when they are lost. Its nice of him, we love him.

- squelch

I got so many asks about the social hierarchy in US high schools that I decided I'll collect them here and answer them all in one reply because they match perfectly and because I see that they all have in common that there are hierarchies and people cluster in cliques regarding their hobbies/interests but there's no exaggerated separation of the different cliques and they're mostly friendly towards each other, that's what I think the consensus is here 🤔 It's super interesting to learn about these things because I've always wondered whether all the movies painted a realistic picture since it seemed very crass and I'm relieved to hear it's not that crass. I figure it's similar to Europe minus the sports favoritism 🤔 Anyways, thank you all for shedding some light on the matter! 🖤

And I find it interesting that it varies by region, we don't really have these kinds of differences in Germany but then again, Germany is tiny compared to the US so it makes sense 😂

And squelchy, hard agree. The lost little sheepies gets me every time 😭🖤

[gabegoodmcn]

Gabe (full name Gabriel) Goodman, who has just turned eighteen, is an intelligent, ambitious, and charming young man. He seems to have everything going for him; popular at school, a great group of friends, dashing good looks, and top grades. He is on the soccer team, playing the center midfielder position with dreams on playing professionally one day. Gabe is also in jazz band and is part of the key club; a club that does a lot of volunteer work in the community.

However, Gabe has undiagnosed bipolar disorder (which will become diagnosed in time) that is inherited from his mother, Diana. This paired with the stress of maintaining his "perfect life" causes Gabe to go out partying. A lot. He's able to hide it for a time but then his parents begin to notice. He doesn't care, though. Things get worse. He tries drugs during one of these parties and ends up passing out. His friends worry, carrying him home. This sets his mom off, her own mental illness worsening. His dad is angry, thinking Gabe will destroy their normal, perfect family despite the fact that their family has never been normal or perfect. His younger sister, Natalie, feels ignored and overshadowed by her brother — a frequent occurrence.

Once Gabe recovers, he promises to never do it again. Does he keep that promise? No. He does it again. His bipolar disorder (which he still doesn't know he has at this point) makes him feel like he's losing his mind. He suffers the symptoms and believes he might end up tear himself apart just to get inside and fix whatever is wrong with him.

On one terrible night out, Gabe goes completely off the rails. In a fit of mania, he climbs on top of his school. While up there, he hallucinates. He believes he's on a stage, that he can hear rock music playing! There are happy shouts! An audience cheering for him from below. Like he's a rock star. And what do rock stars do? They crowd-surf! Which is exactly what Gabe does. He leaps into the crowd, arms out like he's flying.

He's free.

But there is no happy crowd. Nobody to catch him. He isn't flying. In reality, those happy cheering, are screams of horror, shouts for help, please someone call 911! Gabe isn't a rock star on a stage. He's just a young boy in desperate need of help. He plummets to the concrete. The emergency services arrive and rush him away. Gabe goes into cardiac arrest. The ambulance staff perform CPR all the way to the hospital, keeping him alive but only barely.

They treat him, managing to restart his heart and save his life. However, Gabe falls into a coma. It's there he remains for the next ten months. During this time, he becomes what is essentially a "coma ghost" and is able to follow his family/friends around. He is angry, vengeful, and hateful of the world. He is a sinister energy that only grows darker the more he believes people are forgetting him. But deep down, he is remorseful and desperate for a second chance at life. When he finally realizes how loved he is, Gabe stops blaming others and looks inward. Looks at the things he can change. That he will change if he can just get one more chance.

Thankfully, he wakes up after those ten months and doesn't have any lasting brain injuries. Of course, he needs to relearn how to walk as well as other basic actions such as how to use cutlery and tie shoelaces. He is able to speak the same only needing help with a few words he temporarily forgets. His voice remains quiet and tired for a few weeks following his return to consciousness. This gradually sorts itself out.

He apologizes to his loved ones for the grief he put them through. They vow to help him and his mom admits that she thinks he should be tested for bipolar disorder. While he was in a coma, it gave her time to think and she came to wonder if he perhaps inherited it from her. This is what leads to Gabe being properly diagnosed and receiving the help he needs. Slowly, his life starts to look better than it ever did. He continues with his classes but recognizes that he doesn't have to push himself so much to be perfect because perfection doesn't exist. He remains on the soccer team but attends extra training with his coach and captain to help him get back on track. He hopes that with their help and his own tenacity, he still has a shot at making it into college on a soccer scholarship.

[queequegsleash]

Each time I try to give men’s soccer a chance, the diving/flopping turns me off. Just pathetic. Grown men falling like they’ve been hit by a sniper on the roof.

[haiangels]

strong girl, don't be shy

requested by @/lyra0cassiopeia

genre: would this be considered fluff??

characters: mikey, draken, chifuyu, baji, sanzu, ran, & rindou

a/n: long fic. sorry if this isn't what you expected ;; we tried our best to stick to the request. hope you like it though! thank you for requesting, we appreciate it ^^ ♡

The bell rang as the teacher dismissed the class, walking out of the classroom while the students started to get rowdy with their afterschool activities and plans. Packing up your things excitedly, you smile as you had plans of your own with a certain someone.

“What’s got you smiling like that?” A hand reached out and picked up the notebook on your desk, empty with a couple doodles here and there; due to you daydreaming the whole day.

“Nothing,” He gave you the notebook, which you took and put in your bag. “Should we head to the cafe today?” You asked as he followed you out of the classroom. He nods, matching your pace as you two took your time walking to the cafe; chatting about random topics and how the day went.

Approaching the cafe, you see a girl with the same uniform as the ones you two wore; bearing a tie color that indicated she was a year below your own. Thinking she must be also interested in the new cafe, you minded your own business as you entered the cafe; giving her a smile as a greeting as you passed by her.

Getting a table outdoors, the waitress handed you two the menus as she started talking about the popular desserts and drinks that have been circulating around social media. Speaking your order to the waitress, your gaze notices the previous school girl now being approached by a suspicious looking male.

You watch as the girl’s face turns into one of discomfort as your male companion finishes his own order, him also taking notice of the girl because of the way you weren’t giving him the usual attention he’s used to. Pondering if he should make a move, his gaze flickers from you to the harassment about to happen in front of his eyes.

Before he could return his eyes onto you, you were already gone and in front of the suspicious man who had his hand on the younger school girl’s wrist. Giving a sweet smile that didn’t match the cold gaze in your eyes to the harasser, you landed a hit on him. He stumbles backwards and falls, his own hand reaching the place you wounded him. His mouth agape, revealing some of his teeth gone as blood ushers through and out of his mouth.

mikey ;

He’s half paying attention, too busy focusing on his snacks

Would look up and assess the situation, then smile at you with his dopey smile

Walks up to you and pats your head

“Do you want some of my snacks?”

He never shares his snacks, but for you, he’d always make an exception

Would encourage you and shout out compliments and praises because he enjoys seeing your shy expressions

He likes making you blush; he knows he’s the only one who can turn your face into a tomato color

He’s like those soccer moms cheering for their children

Would shout and brag about you to everyone there

“THAT’S MY Y/N! MY BEAUTIFUL CRUSH. LOOK AT HOW WONDERFUL AND STRONG SHE IS!”

Accidentally confesses, but that’s okay; he has no regrets.

Tilts your head up when you look down at the ground shyly and kisses your forehead

“You did well, y/n.”

draken ;

This man ain’t gonna ponder at all, he’s right in front of the harasser in a flash

In fact, would probably leave his seat as soon as the suspicious man approached the younger student if he was with Mikey or alone

But he was with you, so his actions were slightly slow(?)

He witnessed as you smacked the harasser’s cheek, sending him to the ground

He’s sHOCKeD because he didn’t expect you to hit someone?? And when were you so strong???

“Is this the same y/n that I like?” He jokes, noticing the blush covering your cheeks

Would pinch your cheek and smile at your reaction

Has to fight off a laugh as he ushers you and the younger student to the cafe’s table

Glaring at the harasser who was still on the ground, giving a warning through his eyes

Come if you dare.

chifuyu ;

Hold uP- this boy was looking at the cat in the alley

Since when did you leave your seat across from him to his line of sight??

Watches with reactions present on his face, gasps and astonishment heard from his seat

Like he was watching a kdrama LOL

By your side as soon as the harasser gets back up on his feet

His fist ready to sock the dude’s other unwounded cheek

“Sorry, not letting your dirty hands touch my girl.” He states before connecting his attack

“Your girl?” You asked, the cold look in your eyes dispenses from his words. “Since when?”

“Well… I- that's how the usual shoujo mangas go.” He smiles softly and rubs the back of his neck

Your own hands reach up to cover the pink color present on your face, trying to not stutter

“W-what happens afterwards?”

“This” and he leans in, kissing your cheek shyly

baji ;

No.

Wouldn’t let you fight at all

He’s an egomaniac who loves to fight; gets a kick out of showing off, especially to you

“Sit here and watch as I beat the guy to a pulp”

This is the same guy who burns cars for fun

This the same guy who also got a short attention span

He gets distracted, like a clown, and when he finally remembers his mission

You’ve already knocked the man out, stepping on his chest holding him down

Stares at you in shock because you stole his spotlight

Once he gets over the shock, he’d frown and check for any possible injuries on your limbs

Would try to wake the knocked out man up “hey, can we get a redo. I want a turn.”

Or even “y/n, please do that again so I can record it. And give a heads up this time. Please.”

Would ruffle your hair and hug you when you look down at the ground, shy “that was amazing, but never do that again. You could seriously hurt yourself.”

sanzu ;

He’s there for his strawberry shortcake that he saw on social media

And for you.

But mostly the shortcake- unless ( ๑ •́ω•̀)

He watches from a distance as you sock the harasser

That exact moment, the waitress comes back with your orders

He takes the cake and starts eating, enjoying the show

Something sparks inside of him as he watches you smile your usual loving grin that he always found adorable but this time an icy gaze was replaced in your normally kind eyes

Before the harasser can get up and attack you, he shouts out your name

“Y/n, your order is here babe!”

That nickname snapped you out of your chaos, as a rosy color soon made its way on your cheeks reaching to your ears

“B-babe?”

“Yes, now come on. Time to eat.” He chuckles at your reaction, arms raised as if welcoming you back from your adventure

ran ;

Honestly, he’d be up and out of his seat in a flash

Knows that you want to help the girl out and would ready his baton to give the guy a beating

But he was too busy tryna stalk towards the man in a cool way that you beat him to it

He goes through a lot of emotions, ranging from sadness to shock to astonished

Would definitely stand back and watch, smirking proudly at how flawlessly you moved

Whistles in amazement, walks up to you, and wraps his arm around your shoulder

“Nice hits, princess.”

HE KNOWS YOU LOVE TO BE CALLED PRINCESS

Kisses your temple gently and picks you up bridal style; he smiles at you, starstruck

Lands his own kick at the man, giving him a cold side glare

“Let’s go shopping princess, we need to get yourself a weapon”

For defense he says, even though he never leaves your side and will protect you regardless

Would later notice your flustered state and tease you

“Awww, your face is all red~ you’re so adorable”

Just smack him upside the head and kiss his cheek to shut him up

Y’all can be embarrassed and shy together

rindou ;

This boy just wanted a nice relaxing date hangout with you

Away from his brother

And unfortunately away from his roppongi area that he ruled over with said brother

But you wanted to go to this cafe, and he wasn’t one to deny what you wanted

Seriously thinking it was better to go to a cafe in roppongi area instead as soon as he saw the suspicious man approach cause no way this will happen around him if they were in roppongi

A frown was present on his face, wondering if he had to step in before something bad could happen

But you were already there, fist midair from punching the harasser to the ground while he was mid-thought

His eyes were almost popping out of his sockets, since when were you this strong?

He quickly gets by your side before you could land another blow on the dude’s face

Rapidly breaking the hand that grabbed the younger school girl’s hand, the harasser’s loud screams echoed through the streets

“Y/n…” He calmly grabs your fist, unclenching it from it’s tight clench as blood and wounds were apparent on your knuckles and from your nails digging into your palm; you soften from his hold

“My angel, who knew you were such an impulsive one?” He smirks as he presses a kiss on your knuckles

we kind of went wild for our own absolute faves ahaha ^^;;

thanks for reading! reblogs/comments are appreciated ♡

[notafraidofredyellowandblue]

Flake's podcast - Sport

podcasted 2022-08-09

Finally a theme that doesn't need translation: Sport 😊 Flake doesn't know what's more useless, doing sport or making music, but the most useless is music about sport.

And yes, we have a Rammstein anecdotes, like at 0h10, although Flake is not sure if he should tell his audience this: some of Rammstein are pretty big soccer fans, and when Rammstein does festival tours, this is often in the summer months, just like the major soccer championships (europeans, worlds). Well, one year indeed Rammstein was on tour during the Soccer World Championships, and they decided to take some small tv screens with them on stage, so they could glimpse at the match during the gig.

Flake is not naming the names of his soccer-fan-colleagues, but to stop people worrying at 0h17 he does confirm that it isn't Till. Flake is very glad about that because Till is always working the big flamethrowers and everything, and Flake is happy that he didn't let soccer distract him. Flake also mentions Till is not a soccer fan at all, which he thinks is impressive 🍀

Flake only ever met one soccerplayer, Mehmet Scholl, they met at a social event and talke a bit, but because everyone assumed they were both pretty well known, nobody bothered to introduce them, so Flake only found out afterwards who it was, and Mr. Scholl also didn't know Flake 😊

0h16 he talks about the first tours Rammstein did, when they only had one published album, and that fact, going on tour with just one record of songs, and Flake assumes they added some unfinished songs, or songs that never appeared on an album; he thinks that is an athletic performance all in itself.

At 0h25 the band even considered doing a sports song once, because like Christmas and birthday songs, these are usually popular and used a lot, but it wasn't very good, and never made it to an album, and in hindsight Flake is happy about that 😊

When (at abt 0h42) mentioned the East German band Engerling, who went to shows on bicycle, Flake muses that in the past him and his bandmates went to their concerts in a car (5 guys, all smokers, in a small Skoda), or later by bus, and all the warm, nice talks they had when travelling..when he thinks back at those times, he thinks back more fondly on their cartravels than at the concerts themselves (and wonders if they'll ever go to concerts on bicycle)

Rammstein tried (1h32) to make a song for one of the Klitschko boxing brothers once, as an 'entrance to the boxing ring' song; rumour in Berlin at the time was that they were looking for songs for that purpose and lots of bands sent one; allegedly, the Klitschkos liked the Rammstein song a lot, but their management said there was no way they could use something of a band with Rammstein's image. So Rammstein turned that song into 'Sonne'.

The song at 1h33 is called 'Ski Heil' and Flake plays it because his dad (who is from Thüringen, known for many wintersports like 'cross country') used that phrase a lot when Flake was a kid.

At some point (1h14) Flake muses that basically every lovesong is also a sports-song, because the one you love, doesn't have to be a woman, or a man, it can also be a sportsteam 💕

(And ofcourse we end with one of the classic sports songs 'We are the champions'by Queen) 🍀

More of my takes on Flake's podcasts

[kiriddo]

Prom Night

One of them is (maybe) attending @sojutrait's prom!!! (or, well, Ollie's prom)

Note: you can change their sexuality/gender/whatever you want. I already gave them likes/dislikes in the attraction traits but I don't really care, just change to whatever you think is nicer/makes sense. You can find them by searching your hashtag (#olliepromnight) in the gallery. The relationships between them is just because. I like connecting my stories and characters (; Updated: added classes and some stuff, including a OOO (opinion of ollie)

Let's meet the boys! (bc there's a 10 pics limit lol)

Nothing more fair than to start this with Gustav Legacy (he/him, straight I think), because he's never the winner. While some will be dancing or DJing, he would rather tend the bar. He drowns in confidence and self-assurance, but what's that for if he chokes and sweats whenever someone asks him about Cristina and him? "Is it true you used to date that ***** *** **** ****** ** ***** ***?", they say. "G-g-g-g-g-gah?!", he says. At least Sasha's got his back... he's the most capable guy Gustav knows! Origin: a sim from my Legacy family!! Classes: honor roll on everything B) / Occupation: soccer club (or anything with sports) OOO: "Isn't Cristina in a class with her? I-I mean, Cristina is popular, everyone knows what classes she's in! I'm hiding nothing! GAH!"

Talking about angels... look who it is! Sasha Rock (he/him, prob bi or gay idk), the most loved guy in all [insert the sims world here]. He's kind, he's nice, he's cute, seriously, your mom would love him! I-I mean, as her son-in-law, ofc. He would never steal her heart. He totally can do it, but he wouldn't. And even though he's all that, for some reason he's very insecure and paranoid... good thing Gustav's got his back, he's the most capable guy Sasha knows! Origin: character from a story I used to write Classes: arts class with Ollie / Occupation: nothing but enjoys gardening (I think) OOO: "Ollie? Hmm... I don't talk to her that much, but... she's nice. Not sure if she likes me though. She looked at me weird that time. Everybody always looks at me weird..."

Hey hey hey! Look here, the last candidate. That doesn't make him less important though... right? Oh, what is it? You don't know Dexter Wish? Well, that's ok, nobody does. Nobody but the adults, of course. And I'm telling you, you don't want trouble, don't come near this guy! He's not a bad kid, but trust me, he's just too... oblivious to his surroundings. He's reckless, he's a rebel, an anarchist who challenges authority. And, on top of all that... he's accident prone. VERY accident prone. Although he is loved among oppressed kids... I mean, he IS a bro. Maybe his reputation would be better if he attended school. But hey, he's going to prom! That counts, right? If you're wondering how he hasn't been expelled yet; one of his relatives is the beloved school janitor. Oh, he's also a straight he/him. Origin: one of my characters from a rpg, son of the Blue Fairy! Classes: doesn't go to school / Occupation: Skateboarder, rebel, protestant, & DJ. All of this and he's still a vagabond... OOO: "Ollie? Is that a new recruit? We do need more soldiers. For what? That's a secret. But if you want in you're welcome. Just know... once you're in... you're in for real."

[rpmemesbyarat]

RP meme from Tori Amos quotes

- Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.

- I think that people who can't believe in fairies aren't worth knowing.

- I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things.

- Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes.

- I have so many different personalities in me and I still feel lonely.

- The violence between women is unbelievable.

- I'm too wacky for most weirdos. Who am I to judge?

- If they keep crashing stuff into the moon, the moon's gonna get pissed off, and the tides'll change, and all the women'll start PMS-ing together. Then you guys are going to fucking regret it.

- If you really want a challenge, just deal with yourself.

- I don't see myself as weird, I just see myself as honest.

- I see the dream and I see the nightmare, and I believe you can't have the dream without the nightmare.

- Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much.

- Once the bleeding starts, the cleansing can begin.

- On some of my darkest days, Lucifer's the one who comes and gives me an ice cream.

- Most people would rather be sheep than stand on their own with antlers on.

- The sense of loss is such a tricky one, because we always feel like our worth is tied up into stuff that we have, not that our worth can grow with things we are willing to lose.

- When you've got the virgin and the whore sitting next to each other, they're likely to judge each other harshly.

- I think you have to know who you are.

- Get to know the monster that lives in your soul.

- Dive deep into your soul and explore it.

- I don’t want to renounce my dark side.

- The truth has always held an enormous interest for me.

- Healing for me is being able to sit next to the butcher and say 'Yes, I’m sitting next to the butcher now,' instead of saying 'there is no butcher'.

- This is very simple in the world of chicks; some are hoochies, some are not, and some should never try to be.

- We don't often see our own stories. Good artists are the ones that whisper our own stories back to us.

- Music is about all of your senses, not just hearing.

- Again, we go back to the power of words and how they can make you feel. They bring liberation or stagnation, they're chains.

- You don't have to apologize for growing and learning and changing your mind.

- Music has an alchemical quality.

- Certain relationships can just wear you down.

- Containment of your opinion is a must if you are going to nurture an artist's development.

- It's a good thing I'm curious, because sometimes I just research how a soccer player kicks a ball and the impact it has on his foot. I haven't used this yet, but I might.

- But over the years you can cultivate hate for the art you love.

- I don’t believe anyone’s story is boring. Every story has value because it belongs only to you.

- Sometimes I fantasize backstage about how people do their laundry. Woolite? Mixed-color loads? Do they fold? Do they press? Do they Shout it out? And the thing that kills me—do their whites come out dingy?

- Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change.

- We like our pain. And we’re packaging it, and we’re selling it.

- Festivals or radio shows can be the heavyweight championships of arrogantly detached clusterfucks.

- People who are addicted to power can live on the same street or attend the same school as us or even play on the world stage.

- None of us are this light and dark fantasy. What's dark to you may be light to me and vice versa.

- I don't think that many performers necessarily want to see their audience empowered. I think a lot of performers, no different from priests, need the hierarchy.

- Modern, celebrity-driven entertainment turns the stage into an altar, and so many celebrities refuse to be removed from those altars once they manage to ascend.

- All storytellers, all troubadours worth their salt knew their myths.

- The Sídh's historical myth is the source of the bastardized concept of a fairy—as if anyone gives a rat's ass.

- The problem with Christianity is, they think everything is about outside forces, good and evil. There's not a lot of inner work encouraged.

- Over the last few hours I've allowed myself to feel defeated, and just like she said if you allow yourself to feel the way you really feel, maybe you won't be afraid of that feeling anymore.

- I'm the queen of the nerds.

- Don't give up. Don't listen to these foolish critics that are so small minded they don't get it tonight.

- Sometimes listening to music can motivate you.

- I think even in a good marriage, especially if you stay together long enough, there are going to be events that happen.

- An ounce of breast milk is even more potent than the finest tequila.

- Music is always a reflection of what's going on in the hearts and minds of the culture.

- Many people lock a part of themselves away. It's a bit sacred.

- I've always seen the songs as having a consciousness.

- Our world is a huge mess right now, and not big enough for masses of intolerant people.

- We are all fairies living underneath a leaf of a lily pad.

- That is some funky-fresh, pop lockin' shit.

- If I saw someone destroy a piano I'd fuckin' kill 'em. Wouldn't think twice.

- I experiment with things that are usually an internal experience, because that's just what excites me. And yes, it does sometimes give me visions.

- Some of those trips were eighteen hours long and I'll never forget, once I ended up sitting by the bush trying to ask the flowers why they didn't like me. It's like, Why can't I be your friend?

- You might not like my story because I'm not gonna tell you how it ends yet, and you need to travel it with me.

- I just imagined a huge juicy vagina coming out of the sky, raining blood over all those racist, misogynist fuckers.

- You can't control your popularity

- If you can't create physical life, you find a life force. If that's in music, that's in music.

- I started to find this deep, primitive rhythm, and I started to move to it.

-I held hands with sorrow, and I danced with her, and we giggled a bit

- I usually get myself into situations that cause sparks.

- I love feeling alive, I love walking out in the cold in my bare feet and feeling the ice on my toes.

- For the most part, pianos are female to me.

- Anger is natural. It's part of the force. You just have to learn to hang out with it.

- In our minds, love and lust are really separated.

- I think all the boys that write the screaming stuff would write the best love songs

- When you stop putting yourself on the line, and you don't touch your own heart, how do you expect to touch other people?

- Guys would sleep with a bicycle if it had the right color lip gloss on. They have no shame. They're like bull elks in a field.

- Your worst enemies are made when you ignore people.

- It's as if the horses have come to take us back, to descend, to find the dark side. By dark I mean what's hidden, not necessarily satanic.

- There's room for everybody on the planet to be creative and conscious if you are your own person. If you're trying to be like somebody else, then there is isn't.

- Sometimes you have to do what you don't like to get to where you want to be.

- You know that saying, bad things don't happen to good people? That's a lie.

- I'm not a habit, I'm a lifestyle.

- There are a lot of hidden nerds.

- People who become the front runners often used to be outcasts or loners.

- Um, don't get me wrong because I love boys, it's just that sometimes we don't need you.

- There are only ten ideas under the sun. What makes the difference is how you spice them.

- So I'm in Virginia, and I had crabs--I keep saying that! I had crab sickness, I had eaten bad crabs in Maryland!

- I'm a winter girl; I like coming out when things are desolate and everybody's ready to slit their wrists.

- You can only be you. A lot of times it's never enough for people.

- I've never played the guitar, except throwing it against the wall cause it was pissed off I couldn't play it.

- Truly, I was a sweetheart when I was little, like the Honeysuckle Faery. Sweet-pea. But sweet-peas are not popular after second grade. Sweet-peas become nerds really fast.

- I really enjoy having a giggle with a friend, but then someone crosses my line, then I don't really take it lightly.

- I sometimes forget I'm not 7'2" and a Viking.

- A boundary was crossed. And maybe I drew a boundary, consciously.

- It was a bit violent, a bit sexual.

- When nothing makes sense, music seems to come and bring me a margarita and sit down with me.

- You don't have to justify everything. Being pissed off is just absolutely okay.

- There is a level of the vampire in me, which is OK.

- It hurts me when a woman doesn't come through for me, more than a man.

- I'm a grown woman. I've earned my experiences, my scars.

- What is an angel but a ghost in drag?

- I'm beginning to accept and love the parts of me, of women that I was trained to hate all my life.

- People can be so vicious toward the imaginary world and it saddens me. You kill a lot of little people's dreams that way.

- Even if you don't read history or you aren't interested in anything that happened before the '60s, there are reasons why we think the way we do.

- That's how the story goes but I don't believe the story.

- I would find myself either the lovey-doveyest-woviest sweet pea, or a mad-woman.

- I believe in eating.

- You can't change what happened. And nobody's asking you to forgive.

- Why be afraid of these cuddly, soft, adorable things?

- I have good days. Like if I get really good coffee ice cream with just the right amount of chocolate syrup.

- A lot of people see themselves as victims, even when you have to stand in line for ice cream.

- It's so difficult to be critical of children because they need to discover themselves. We're always telling them, "No, the tree has green leaves!"

- I'm tired of being a rebel. Now I just want to be me.

- When things get really empty for me, empty in my outer life, in my inner life, the music world, the songs come across galaxies to find me.

- Do you know what it's like to be a girl and have blood running down your legs and think that you're dying, just because no one's told you that's what happens? It's horrible.

- An angel's face is tricky to wear constantly.

- Mess with me and you will not survive.

- I think that happiness is when you can let yourself feel every emotion you want at any time instead of being a lying little fuck.

- I'm not into this dieting thing.

- The cross has been used as a weapon, as it has been used against all women throughout the ages. And that's the greatest evil of all.

- I think you've got to find a giggle somewhere in stuff that would scare the poop outta ya.

- A cornflake girl is Wonderbread whereas a raisin girl is whole wheat bread.

- I would like to think I'm a raisin girl, because in my mind they're more open minded. Cornflake girls are totally self centered, don't care about anything or anybody.

- I like butter and the people who like butter."

- I'm known as that girl who has tea with the Devil.

- I'm not afraid of sadness.

- Everybody has creativity and each person has it in a different way. Some people aren't musical, some musicians can't even think about painting or gardening. There's so many different ways to be creative.

- I wanna be burned, definitely burned, like the witches.

- Give the kids tools, so they can go build their own houses; not the blueprint of what the houses should be.

- Look at me now. I'm breast feeding pigs.

- I wish I had more of a sense of humor.

- I can be so hard on people.

- If somebody's being a jerk, I would like to go wee on their head. And then I do that, mentally.

- The people on the internet know more about what I am doing than I do. Like, they will say that I am going to be in this mall on this day, and sure enough, I am there!

- I'm like a lioness who kills her own prey and no one else has to kill for her. But if some other lioness comes to me and says "I just got a good prey, do you want a piece?" I can say "of course" - and the other way around.

- There are things that I would disagree with Jesus about, and I feel really good about that.

- History has recorded some pretty nasty things that have happened to people. I think we remember. I think it's in our cells and I think it can still hurt sometimes."

- I don't believe in the saying that it all happens for the best, it's just not appropriate.

- Of course I believe in past lives, I mean, three quarters of the human race believes this, it's not like a great new thought here.

- I use innocence in my demeanor like a Venus flytrap.

- I do like to talk about things no one wants to hear at the dinner table.

- I'm not interested in being a really nice person; I want to be a creative, responsible person that's balanced.

- Boys are cute but food is cuter

- Do any of you dream about crocodiles?

-I know I dream about crocodiles. I'm obsessed with them.

- If people can't see things from the other side that's not my problem, it's theirs.

- I think I give equal time in my hatred, right?

- Sometimes I'm mad at some guy, sometimes I'm mad at some girl, and sometimes I'm totally loving some guy, so and sometimes I'm loving some girl.

_ Well, Pele is the volcano goddess and I thought of like, um, sacrificing some of the boys in my life to her but then I decided that that wasn't really a very good idea.

- Anger originates from envy and outrage, not being seen, not being heard.

- We don't know where souls go when they die. We don't know a lot of things. We didn't create the planets. We didn't do this all by ourselves. So, therefore, why wouldn't there be a creative force if it can create humans and planets?

- I've been hanging out with some of the Hell's Angels in England. They're some of the sweetest people I've ever met.

- Real friends have to be understanding of each other, and their faults.

- I think I'm really hard to get to know on a personal level.

- Thailand is calling me.

- People I see laughing all the time, check for razor blades in their anal-force underwear, because it's just a little lie.

- I'm not interested in taking drugs. I do hallucinogens once in a while for journey experiences.

- I hear the wine. It's like a structure. I see it as a piece. I hear it before I taste it. It's calling me. And then I start to hear it when I'm tasting it.

- Not that I use crystal suppositories, I'm not New Age.

- A peach tree says, 'Some of me will be juicy and some of me will be dry I'm not growing for you; I grow because that's what I do.' You always hear some person complain about how dry their peach is and the peach says, 'It's not our fault you have no understanding on the proper use for dry peaches.'

- My theory is that women were the Mona Lisas for a long time and now men are Mona Lisas with little goatees. They are our muses.

- If you're gonna tell a story, you have to grow into the head of the rapist as well as the raped.

- He was a lite sneeze, and not the flu. Most boys would like to think they're the flu, wouldn't they? But they're really just a achoo.

- If you call me an airy-fairy new age hippy waif, I will cut your penis off.

- It's a double-edged sword and if you pretend you don't want it you're a liar and that is going to rip your soul to pieces.

- I'm always dreaming that these bulls are chasing me. Half the time I don't get away - I almost get over the fence, and then they gore me.

- I believe in energy, everything is energy. And therefore sometimes magic can be created if somebody is open to letting energy do what it does, instead of being so cynical, that you miss magic happening.

- I feel like a work really has many sides to it when people have such extreme reactions. When a work is greeted with just, 'Oh, you know, it's nice', then it's not affecting people. So love it or hate it, that's okay.

- I am a real believer in looking at pain and taking it out shopping.

- The music is the magic carpet that other things take naps on.

- I just try to strip myself, peel myself like an onion. At different layers I discover stuff.

- Why is the world where it is? It's so deep-rooted, if we really start looking, and we might not like what we find. But I think we have to, we have to ask the questions.

- I'm beyond the fury of youth.

- I love young women who are angry. They're wild mustangs.

- I didn't want her looking and hearing me and thinking, "Oh my God, that's a scary lady!"

- They felt that it was detrimental material for their children and that it was blasphemous.

- They've decided they kinda' have you figured out.

- My nightmares are so bad, that I mostly reject it when my friends want to take me to a cinema to watch a horror movie. Then I say, "No, thank you. I will dream in a few hours."

- I don't know of anybody who's gonna be fulfilled if they get hit by a bus. You have to surrender to that eternal need to be fulfilled.

- How do you know I'm not having a margarita with Jesus tonight at 10 o'clock?

- Let's be honest, religion has not supported women and men exploring all sorts of their sides, their unconscious. It has not been supportive of, you know, go into the places without shame, without blame, without judgment, and just let yourself really see what's cooking in there.

- I think human beings are so much more capable of what they told us we're capable of.

- Anyone can attend yoga, kabbalah classes, church, lectures by the 'Dalai Lama', yada, yada, yada - but can you be present for your life, and live with the way you treat other people?

- Only a few people should have a "greatest hits". I'm not one of those people.

- I feel like our leaders have hijacked America's personality, and taken her to personality plastic surgery school. And they decided this is who she is.

- The playground is the biggest war-zone in the world.

- You have to read visionaries to have visions.

- They squash the baby bird because their bird got squashed.

- I love reading. I'll read the first sentence and if it makes sense to me I pick it up.

- It's ridiculous saying there's only one true faith, it's like saying there's only one map to get you up the mountain. I want to see those other maps, man.

- I kinda have all the aspects of my personality round one table for spaghetti.

- If it's too loud, turn it up.

- I was doing drugs with a South American shaman, and I really did visit the devil and, well, I had a journey.

- There is no passion without broken crockery.

- You have to ask, how could a nation nearly vote in somebody who isn't qualified for the job?

- We're living in a frightening time and I wish people would wake up and realise they're surrendering their civil liberties.

- Who wouldn't want to shag a queen?

[blazehedgehog]

Honestly, that Inside game looks like such a rough draft of what could be an okay game that roasting it feels almost too easy? Maybe English isn't the dev's first language, I dunno, but it all feel super amateur

Oh! Right! You reminded me, I never posted about this on tumblr. I’m all out of sorts these days. If y’all out there reading my blog like my Dare to Scare videos, here’s another one, and it’s a grab bag of indie horror games.

I mean, Inside definitely seems like an okay concept. Certainly, the Lovecraftian undertones can be done well, and I think there are scary concepts in there. I can see how the game would evolve to become scarier as you played. They give you a device for detecting “the energy” but it only ever registers when you can see a physical being, but totally expect that once you get far enough, eventually the being will die and you just have to use the device to detect something that’s invisible. If done right, that could be terrifying! Like the very first year I did Dare to Scare, there was a game with an invisible monster, and I couldn’t get past it because it legit scared me.

It does feel amateur, and in that regard I think the developer is kind of punching above their weight class. Which is admirable, but also... know your limits and scope appropriately, I guess. There can be a charm when something shoots for the stars but can’t quite go the distance, but that’s not a guarantee.

English being a second language wouldn’t excuse the weird waddling animation the monster does, or the missing ceiling texture in the power room, or the fact you can’t skip the intro cutscene. I think certain gameplay concepts are indelible and cross language barriers because fun is fun. Like, the rules of soccer don’t really change just because you speak Spanish or Italian, right? The game is the game.

What also struck me is that... I think I play four games in this grab bag, but I downloaded seven or eight. Two of the games in the video have poor English, and I played two more on my own time that also have poor English. That means half the games I downloaded (most of which were rated as “popular” on Itch.io in the horror tag) were by developers who made English-language horror games despite it not being their primary language. That’s very interesting, and I wonder what that says about the state of the horror gaming genre.

The full list of games I downloaded, incidentally: TRAPT, Lights Out, Skywatching, Cursed Soul, Tape, Inside, Jack’s Home, and Dispatch. Of the ones not featured in the video, I played Lights Out, Cursed Soul, and Tape on my own time. The only game out of that batch I haven’t played yet is Skywatching, come to think of it.

Lights Out could possibly be described as an inverted Five Nights At Freddy’s. I think you’re house sitting or something -- it’s not important. Point is, the lights keep going out and something is lurking in the darkness. Your phone has a light, but you have limited battery, but you have to head down and reset the fuse box every so often and manage which rooms have lights on and which don’t. I think I managed to turn my phone’s flashlight on but couldn’t turn it back off, so I ended up not playing it very far.

Cursed Soul is one of those games that punches way above its weight class. You’re like, a detective and can shift in to the spirit realm like Soul Reaver on PS1. It’s more like an adventure game, where you have to gather items and use them to solve puzzles. It’s a cool idea but it’s lacking a lot of polish and the puzzle solutions could get pretty bland.

I played about five minutes of Tape. Nothing I haven’t seen before, and the game is caked in bad VHS filters, amateur voice acting, and it’s a generic chase game in a boring, pseudo-retro environment. There’s also an obnoxiously loud “jump scare” if you get caught. It doesn’t happen when you’re caught, it only happens after you pick “quit” or “retry.” It’s more annoying than anything, because it’s deafening static noise.

I should probably make time and play Skywatching soon.

[boredom-reigns]

Ken Amada : Character Introspection

Persona 3 and some P4:AU Spoilers!

Ken Amada is honestly one of my favourite Persona 3 characters. I know the way his character arc was handled was somewhat flawed (like when he basically doesn't matter after the closure of Oct. 4), but I still love him a lot nevertheless.

My main problem is honestly the fact that a lot of people in the fandom hate him so much it can get grating, especially if it's for nonsensical reasons (like him apparently being the cause of Shinjiro's death even though the person who shot the guy was right there).

I mean, not liking characters is fine. I respect other people's opinions. But spreading misinformation based on a misinterpretation of a scene is... yeah.

Note: These are my opinions and interpretations of his character based on P3 and P4:AU. Other opinions and interpretations are welcome!

First off, like most Persona characters, Ken's character is based off an archetype. Ken's archetype, you could say that it's based on the Adorably Precocious Child trope. He's acts too mature for his age, even trying to hide his childishness by denying the fact he watches Featherman and saying that he drinks black coffee.

But this maturity came at a cost. From the little glimpses of childishness that Ken has shown (for example, the movie showing event where he's basically jumping up and down in happiness because the superhero movie was so cool!) along with his reinforcement of the idea that no, he's capable even at 11 years old (one of his battle voice lines is "Don't underestimate me because of my age") makes me believe that he wasn't always like this. He was forced to mature due to circumstances or he forced himself to mature due to circumstances.

What was this circumstance?

Obviously, the death of his mom.

Ken's mom is a huuuggeee part of his life and basically affected him a lot. Her death made him what he was today. First is that he saw her get murdered right in front him. Of course he's going to be traumatised. Not only that, he had something to direct his anger and hatred to (I'll talk about that later).

But when he told people about what he saw, nobody believed him, obviously. But remember this, Ken was a kid. He was 9 at the time. And he was 100% sure that what he saw was real. When he was being basically labeled as a liar because everyone won't believe him and just treated him as some fragile, traumatised kid, he's going to lash out. He knew it was real yet everyone just thinks that he was lying. He didn't think that obviously no one would believe him because he was deep in grief and hatred. He wanted justice. But no one would help him because everyone's saying that it was an accident. And he hated that.

He had a target to hate, yet he was powerless to inflict punishment (his idea of "justice") on that target.

So he wanted to be capable. If no one's going to help him, then so be it. He'll do his own justice. So Ken forced himself to grow up. He forced himself to be more mature, copying the image of capability he believes in.

Another thing that possibly added to Ken forcing himself to mature is the way people treated him afterwards. To outsiders, he was a traumatised kid. Ken says in his conversation with Shinjiro that he just receives pity no matter where he goes and he hates that pity.

I've seen LPs where they're like "huh, but isn't that good?" to that line. Speaking as someone who has lost a loved one and dealed with other people who lost a loved one, expressing pity is a balancing act.

It's hard to express pity because people deal with grief differently and some people despise pity when they're grieving. Some people are of the mentality of "what use is your pity because it's not going to bring them back!". Being treated differently because you lost someone or being treated as some fragile person made of glass who's going to have a breakdown at any time is horrible. Moving on can be so hard when everyone is tiptoeing around you. And I think that's what Ken felt.

What Ken needed during his grieving was someone who would support him. Someone who believed in him. He didn't need someone who just stood along the sidelines and pitied him. He needed someone who actually approached him and bothered to listen. I feel like that was what Ken was looking for: someone to listen to him. Because everyone around him never listens and just calls him off as a liar. He had no support system whatsoever. He was staying alone in the elementary school dorm and from the convenience store bentos in his room that can be seen in P3D, you can infer that he was forced to take care of himself for 2 years. For 2 years, all he got was financial support and never the needed emotional support.

Because of this, he was left to internalise his grief which then evolved into hatred. He didn't have anybody anymore. There was no point in living for him because his mom, his light, was gone. No one else was there to give him a reason to live. No family, no friends, no one who believes in him. Ken felt that it was only him against the world.

So why should he keep on living?

And this is where the idea that he has a target enters in. This target of his hatred became his one and only purpose. Why? Because it was the only thing that was there for him. He had no one and nothing. The only thing he had in life was this target of his extreme hatred. The target for his justice. Giving the rightful punishment to this target became his only purpose in life to the point that after killing Shinjiro, he was going to kill himself. Ken's only reason to live was to kill Shinjiro for revenge.

As for his entire "Mom would've wanted this.", I feel like that's more of him trying to justify his actions. He had a target of his giref: Shinjiro. He wanted to kill Shinjiro because Shinjiro killed his mom. But murder is a very daunting task. Even Ken hesitated. I feel like he just justified himself with "Mom would've wanted this." so he can do it. Because killing Shinjiro is the only thing left in life for him. It's the only thing he can do now. He had no reason for living other than Shinjiro's death. So he tried to justify it so he would be able to get through doing it and to give him more reasons as to why he should really do it and not hesitate.

On October 4, it was an utter disaster especially when Takaya (*cough* Shinjiro's real killer *cough* people who keep insisting that Ken is the killer) arrived. At this part, Ken finds out about Shinjiro's drug deal. He loses his shit because he finds out that Shinjiro's going to die early anyway no matter what he does. Killing Shinjiro at this point felt like knocking someone who was already down. It had no point. And because killing Shinjiro had no point, Ken's entire purpose for living had no point. So... He had no purpose.

And this was why Ken went "I have no reason to live."

Other things we can actually see on October 4 is that Ken does care about SEES. He joined SEES with ulterior motives but in the end, he cares. He pretended that he was the navigator to make sure that Takaya won't find out about Fuuka and that Takaya would target him. The time he spent in SEES was most likely the most emotional support he got (and that's kinda sad because SEES is like the most dysfunctional party out of all the Persona games (except maybe P2:EP?)). He got people who saw the same things he saw, people who understood him. He got people who actually bothered to talk to him and listen. Heck, you can even bring him to the movies which I'm sure is great because who knows how long has that kid haven't seen a movie or had fun. There's people who actually don't treat him with so much pity. That fact that you can bring him to Tartarus, I think he's glad about that because he's not underestimated. Ken was respected in SEES as an equal and he appreciated it.

After the entire Oct. 4 shenanigans, Ken has learned to look into himself. He realized his mistakes, his deep hatred blinding him, but most of all, he found a reason to live. He finally moved on, and decided to live as that was what his mom and Shinjiro would've truly wanted.

Then fast forward to P4:AU we can see that he's indeed living. He's pretty much the most popular guy in school, he's in Student Council, and he's even in the soccer club. But he can't fully live yet.

If you've P3 episode of P4:AU, you'd play the Ken vs Shadow Ken part which actually reveals a lot about post-P3 Ken. If you haven't, watch it here.

Ken can't be 100% content with his current life. He feels fake, being a child again, going to school normally and having friends his age to talk and laugh with. This is because of how much his past has destroyed his childhood. He was forced to mature, forced to see things his age shouldn't see, forced to experience things that he shouldn't experience that age. No one his age could understand. They were too innocent while the ones who could understand him (SEES) were too old.

An interesting thing about his entire image post-P3 is that he was basically the "ideal student". He was handsome, smart, athletic, responsible, etc. It makes me wonder if he got that image because it was what he thought was what living was (which his mom and Shinjiro wanted) or because that was what people expected of him. I can see him trying to be more of a child because people expected him to be lighter as the entire Tartarus-Nyx dilemma was gone. I can also see him forcing himself to be more of a child as he feels the obligation to take back the childhood he lost. But that's it, he forced himself. He's not content because for him, he's fake.

Ken's fake he only wanted to fight and this affects him. I think he wanted to fight because that felt the closest to his true self: who he was when he was with SEES. He wanted to help the Shadow Operatives because it was the only environment he can be 100% honest to himself. No pretending that he had a normal life. It was living as him, with people who knew him. In the end, it circles back to the point that he finds fighting Shadows as a purpose to live.

This chapter also showed that Shinjiro still affects him. He blames himself for what happened on October 4, with his monologues saying that he committed a mistake in relation to Shinjiro's death. Shinjiro is an important person to him and his death was very much impactful.

Then Ken fights his fake, where he says that he's been "conceited" and "didn't understand anything at all". I take this as a point of enlightenment for him. What he didn't understand was "living". He followed a mold that be felt he should follow. He thought that he could only feel true to himself by only fighting supernatural creatures. He realised that he wasn't truly living at this point. He thought he understood that he was living like how his mom and Shinjiro wanted but he wasn't. He was still stuck in the past.

This was why I loved his epilogue. In his epilogue, he decides to quit the Shadow Operatives. He decides that it was time for him to move on from their dark past and continue living, not only for his mom and Shinjiro, but also for himself. He thinks that it was better for him this way. He gets to regain his childhood.

His fangirls notice that he's become less distant and more warm to approach, showing signs that he's beginning to open up to people. Despite the fact that he can never tell people about the whole Shadows and Personas, he can still make new bonds. He doesn't have to be stuck on one bond.

This doesn't mean he's abandoning SEES. He still recognises his string bond with them, one might even say that they're family at this point. But just because he has a bond with them doesn't mean he should only restrict himself to them. He can make new, true bonds that aren't fake.

He finds out how to truly live. He just enjoys the moment and finally lets go, showing his inner child.

Ken's character is all about the purpose of life. Because even if life is so hard it feels like death, there's always a reason to live. Even if you can't find your purpose to live now, you will find it someday.

[female-buckets]

Also, about “white, cute, straight girls next door“

Hey, this applies to women volleyball too. US women volleyball is even more white and more straight than soccer players and they were and still among the best team of the world

So what’s going on here? I don’t understand

I’m a sport fan and I followed Logan Tom for a long time. I’d say these volleyball players were/ are great, maybe volleyball is not a “mainstream” sport so no American care about?

But soccer is not mainstream either, so I’d wonder why they think the World Cup is such a big deal especially they don’t even follow the NSWL games

Ohhh, I'd say volleyball is popular here for sure. Especially college volleyball. There's no volleyball leagues here for men or women. It's more of a sport that people follow at the college level and the international level. Soccer is similar.

During the Summer Olympics, volleyball is the women's sport that gets the most coverage by far. They cover every game, even if Team USA isn't in the game.

the USWNT has it's coverage and it's following.

And then there's USA women's basketball, the most successful and dominant national team of any team sport, male or female. It's not that other countries don't try at this sport. Australia, Russia, China, the Balkans, Spain, Japan, France, they put a ton of resources into their women's national teams. Many US players play for foreign teams to help grow the sport globally. Team USA is not invincible. The senior national team has lost one time in the last 30 years or something. And the junior national team lost 5 years ago. There's a whole world of teams who want nothing more than to beat us. It's not impossible, but the women on the senior national team have indomitable wills.

But far more people follow women's volleyball and soccer than women's basketball.

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3 Common Reasons Why Your what is a font Isn't Working (And How To Fix It)

To start with glance, a lot of people feel that both equally logos and icons are a similar. After all, each serve the objective of symbolizing something. But The reality is, Whilst both equally icon and symbol may well search alike, They can be equally very distinctive with regards to coming up with way of thinking and necessary instruments. So, what's the difference between a symbol and an icon? Well, This is a quick tutorial that provides you with a clearer image with the distinction between a logo and an icon.

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Exactly what is a emblem?

The brand is not simply a symbol, designed by making use of textual content and images that assist the organization detect brands. It might be so far more! From becoming a cornerstone on your manufacturer's identify that can help clients comprehend what you are and Anything you do, this small picture carries a lot of obligation. Aside from searching visually attractive, the logo serves many alternative features. It might not only assist you to get noticed in the Levels of competition, but In addition it identifies critical details about your enterprise. For optimum effect, make sure your symbol is simple, unforgettable and functional.

Let us Examine a couple of well known samples of business symbol Suggestions.

Logomark

A logomark not simply projects a strong Visible appearance for your business but improves your manufacturer identification also. This type of symbol tends to be far more abstract and seems like a image devoid of remaining connected to some brand name name. The timeless silhouette brand design and style of Apple is a good illustration of the logomark kind. Logomarks are rather uncomplicated, uncomplicated to remember and instantaneously representative with the model, that makes them a great choice for a lot of tech companies.

Logotype

Unlike the logomark, the logotype contains typography ("phrase mark" is another identify for typography in the design industry.) employed to point the company's identify. This style strengthens the tie among Visible memory and name recognition of models. Should you be starting up a whole new business and would like to have your organization identify be well known on your brand name's identity, the logotype is the most suitable choice. Google and Fb are two of the best samples of Logotype. As you'll be able to see, Though Google and Facebook are only the names of two providers, their best shade(s), font(s) and magnificence(s) of lettering make their logos more beautiful and eternal.

Combination mark

As being the identify indicates, a combination mark indicates the 'mixture' of two different types of logos - the logotype and the logomark. This mix not simply improves the branding information and also can help clarify what a company is about. Starbucks is a great example of a horizontal mix mark brand.

As it is possible to see, Though both equally logomark and logotype represent Starbucks flawlessly on their own, It is their mix that results in a much more memorable visual for their brand.

Precisely what is an icon?

An icon is traditionally acknowledged to be a symbol, utilized to instantly characterize an plan, thought, Procedure, and motion. In easy terms, an icon's purpose would be to summarize a process/operation through Visible representation, which can be then conveyed towards the viewers. Icons are generally used in applications, to show what the app does. They can also be employed on the responsive Web content being an addition to textual content to help users navigate round the web page as human beings answer most to Visible stimulus.

Let us just take a closer look at the preferred example of an icon that will allow you to to comprehend the time period much better.

Fb "Like" icon is One of the more recognizable and well-liked icons. This 'thumbs up' gesture was built exclusively for Facebook, but right now, many other social websites platforms have copied this idea and turned it into their particular. To really make it more recognizable, this icon is designed with Fb's symbol hues which are blue and white. Hence, there isn't a need for text: the purpose of the System is created very clear by way of concise Visible information and facts.

Final Considered!

Though the icon is often used in brand style and design to make it extra recognizable, both of those are technically totally unique. If you are puzzled about which 1 is the ideal for your online business, you might want to request you if this image simplifies your enterprise motives? In that case, then use an icon. But if you wish to represent your manufacturer visually, then select a personalized emblem structure.

No matter if you operate a startup or an established organization, a perfectly-made symbol is important for your brand name existence. But before you decide to get your logo designed, you should realize that symbol is way more than just a mix of styles, textual content, and icons. It really is an image within your brand that symbolizes and represents your organization values and nature. That may be why it is important that you end up picking the correct symbol style.

Exactly what are your choices? Effectively, Listed below are 7 popular small business brand variations which you can use to enhance your brand name price.

Emblem

Emblem model logos characterize impressive common concepts, so, they will appear anywhere. For example, what is a font three lions for England's nationwide soccer group signify strength, royalty, and custom. This brand design and style contains fonts inside a symbol or icon. For illustration, crests, badges, and seals. As a consequence of its common search, it truly is commonly utilized by schools and government organizations. You usually takes symbol structure inspiration from Harley Davidson's symbol, which is one of the most popular examples of an easy emblem design brand.

Summary

If you want to use a picture without having constraining which has a literal illustration, abstract design and style logo is the best option for you. What this means is the abstract is a style of logo that induces a feeling over a thought. Also, you may produce a little something certainly unique With all the support of the mark. The wonderful thing about a lot of these logos is whether or not the site visitors are unfamiliar together with your brand, they get yourself a very good notion of what your logo means. The Nike Swoosh has become the fantastic samples of these types of logos.

Wordmark

Whether or not you've got a distinct organization identify or your name is your brand's name at the same time (e.g., in case you are a photographer), a wordmark model emblem is perfect for you. Make sure your model name is catchy and memorable because only interesting names with string typography can create solid brand name recognition. You can take Google's emblem as an ideal illustration of this design and style logo.

Pictorial

A pictorial mark can be an icon or graphics-centered emblem that represents a certain manufacturer. It could possibly connect more about a brand name than an summary mark or wordmark, so, it really is very talked-about in the market. A real pictorial mark is only a picture, This is exactly why it could be tough to utilize for those firms which might be only beginning and do not have a powerful plenty of brand recognition. When you concentrate on the logo, it is probably the images that arrive at your mind: the long-lasting Apple as well as Twitter chicken. Both equally logos are figurative and since Every manufacturer is so recognized, their icons are quickly recognizable too.

Letter mark

A letter mark is also called the monogram logo- it is about simplicity. This is a variety of typography symbol that is made up of the manufacturer's initials. If you wish to connect your manufacturer name and Visible identity, but you have a prolonged name, a letter mark is an excellent choice for you. For example, simply how much simple can it be to say and remember-HBO rather than Home Box Business?

Blend

If you'd like a picture, but In addition, you will need the assistance of text to describe what your manufacturer is, a combination mark is the proper option for your model. Burger King is among the fantastic examples of The mixture mark. Most of these logos are adaptable, so you can use them by combining wordmark and letter mark or pictorial mark or emblem mark.

Get impressed

There won't be any difficult and quick guidelines in logo style and design. It's possible, with the above examples, you'll get a simple plan about Every single form of emblem. But regardless of what logo design you decide on, it is best to Guantee that your brand style and design leaves an effect around the men and women.

Whilst designing a emblem is pleasurable, it involves suitable knowledge about hues, fonts, sizes, and types. As well as just a little blunder can spoil your brand name's complete picture out there. So, you'll want to retain the services of an expert logo design service to get the most effective results.