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Adonis, how are things going at Kaori? Hear any interesting gossip recently?
Adonis: Everything is fine.
WATARU CAN YOU CROCHET??? WILL YOU EVER CROCHET??? CAN YOU TEACH ME TO CROCHET!!!
Wataru: Amazing...!
every single subreddit for a C list city is just suburbanites in their late 20s early 30s trying to meet up to play d&d, asking what bars are good, and complaining about traffic. it’s a look into america’s future. we’re all going to get further and further away from each other physically and socially while simultaneously trying to claw back some semblance of normal urban life without ever realizing what it is that’s keeping us from living the way we want to live
last ☝️⏰ christmas 🎄 i 🥰 gave u 😖 my heart 😍🫶❤️
i hope reis solo song is bossa nova or smooth jazz or smth. we got our Sexy Jazz solo now rei grab your tambourine let’s go record some goddamn hold music (he will proceed to record one of the greatest songs ive ever heard)
Halloween Tatsumi!
go to this random coordinates generator and say in the tags how you would fare if you were dropped where it generates without warning. i’ll go first i’d be dropped in the middle of the fucking south atlantic ocean and perish
today I recited Shakespeare to a small army of eight-year-olds
So last week an email got sent round my college asking if anyone wanted to read some poetry to primary school kids and I was the only one who responded and I asked if I could do some Shakespeare, since I have quite a lot of experience with it, and the teacher said that would be fine.
So I was discussing with friends what I should do and they said ‘er yeah, don’t do Shakespeare.’ And I was like ‘what why’ and they went ’well, maybe if they’re over 10 but otherwise you’ll just get blank looks’ and I went ‘well I don’t want to insult their intelligence’ and then another friend was like ‘hey you should do that kid’s song ‘When I Was One’, they’ll like that!!’ (it’s a really babyish song for toddlers with silly actions) and I thought about it and was ‘like nah actually, I’ll do the ‘Once more unto the breach’ speech’
So I learned that over the week, and I was walking up to the school, and the whole way I was thinking ‘Oh god this was a terrible idea they’re going to hate it, they’re going to look at me blankly like those kids in The Polar Express, my friends were right it’s going to be a disaster’, and I was there early, so I sat in the classroom for the first half an hour, got given a cupcake by some kids from a different class, said hello to some of the kids in my class, they got a look at me.
At half 2 the teacher mentioned I would be reading some poetry, and I asked if we could go outside, which she was more than happy to allow, and the kids were all so confused (‘where are we going? Isn’t it only poetry?’) and we got onto the field, the teacher got them all to stand an arm’s length apart from each other, so I could walk around them, and I did a brief overview of where the scene came in the play, how the king is on the battlefield, talking to his soldiers (“Could all you be the soldiers?” “Yes!!”) and they’re attacking the French, who are all in a castle (forgot it’s really a castle town), and they’re attacking them through a gap in the wall, the breach. Me and the teacher emphasised that if there was anything they didn’t understand, that was completely fine and they could ask me at the end. I asked the kids to watch for when I held my fist in the air, which is when they had to cheer loudly, we had a practise at that, and then I did the speech.
Everything I had been scared about evaporated. All the kids were totally engaged, they were all watching me, they all listened right the way through, I saw lots of excited faces, and they all cheered really well at the end.
Afterwards, there was a lot of chatter, several of them asked me questions (”how do you remember all those words?”, “what did you mean when you talked about nostrils?”), one boy asked me to do it again, they were all really lovely and had genuinely enjoyed it. It was so much fun, and they especially loved it when I told them how my big college friends had told me not to do Shakespeare because they wouldn’t like it. Those kids 100% proved them wrong
Monologue corner? i feel like you skipped an important detail right there
Eichi; Wait, what did you say...?
mr hasumi!!! I am back!!
with another sillyyy question!!
What do u think about dakimakuras? And... what do you think about dakimakuras of yourself?!?
Keito: I swear it's not mine.
Fashionable bat costumes for your next costumed ball!
From La Mode Illustrée (1887), proposed fancy dress ball costume
From Fliegende Blätter (1882); it’s a satire magazine so it’s almost certainly mocking the idea, but I’m gonna take it at face value
Ideal adonis set for the future?
hello reisakumaproducer
UM um oh gosh there are so many
animal ear card! ive made a whole tierlist on all of the people in enstars who've gotten animal ear cards and adonis is one of the very few people whos never gotten one! rei even refers to adonis as a bear constantly in canon. (im not counting horns / demon ears in this) an undead animal ear gacha perhaps, since rei's assigned all of them animals…
a winter card! we've gotten a ton of adonis summer-themed cards but none of them in the wintertime! id love to see a starfes-like card, or even just see him playing in the snow a la mitsuru's snowman card, since adonis has talked about his love for christmas / the holiday season before
REAL undead goth set i need to see BLACK LIPSTICK and EYELINER and PLATFORMS
something with plants and flowers would be so lovely, like pj sekais sunflower set…
a card where undead goes to adonis' home country okay HEAR ME OUT (rambling under cut)
in the scene where adonis talks about how his dream is to perform in his home country, he mentions that he has "no intention of dragging everyone from undead along with [him]" because it's "[his] dream alone," which i always saw as a little lonely… id love for there to be a story where undead decides to take their performances overseas for maybe part of the year, in the same way that characters like izumi and shu have! koga has spoken before about how he wants to show off his rock 'n roll to people all over the world and not just in japan, and i think rei leaving his responsibilities behind and going off to sing overseas with undead would be a lovely parallel to his travels overseas in the war era — rather than traveling overseas all alone because he feels obligated to help others, he's traveling for the sake of his selfish desire to stay with undead. and they could FINALLY escape from rhylink
i finished reading the event. i now understand
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Oh fuck off
please show us the reichi dorm
Rei: Ku ku, noise-cancelling headphones are necessary when sharing a room with Tenshouin-kun~
Aira: ...
// SO SORRY FOR BEING SO LATE, I've been having trouble doing things lately
Read this. Even if you hate eggs and perky diet blogs. Read through Wednesday at the very least. My bet is if you get to Wednesday, you’ll want to read the rest.
for the UNDEAD boys: are you thinking about getting any other piercings? I think Kaoru looks like he needs another 🤔
Adonis: I shall go prepare the ice.
hey koga why are you so doggy coded? :-3
- 🍰 anon
Koga: Nevermind.
have any of you tried ensemble training yet?
Yuzuru: He's been training a lot, such a wonderful app, isn't it?
adonis you play animal crossing? who’s your favorite villager
Adonis: The game direction is very good, the characters are very likeable.
// Here's a little Adonis in Animal Crossing doodle!
Sailors & Other Sea Travellers - Superstition & Folklore
”Red skies at night, sailor’s delight. Red skies at morning, sailor take warning.”
Lore
Davy Jones is a popular character in sailor’s yore, especially of the gothic variety. Davy Jones’ Locker, is an idiom for the bottom of the sea: the state of death for drowned sailors. The origins of the name are unclear, and many theories have been put forth, including:
An actual David Jones, who was a pirate on the Indian Ocean in the 1630s.
A pub owner who kidnapped sailors and then dumped them onto any passing ship.
The incompetent Duffer Jones, a myopic sailor who often found himself over-board.
Or that Davy Jones is another name for Satan or “Devil Jonah”, the biblical Jonah who became the “evil angel” of all sailors. Due to this, sailors with the name “Jonah” were bad luck to have abroad.
Upon death, a wicked sailor’s body supposedly went to Davy Jones’ locker (a chest, as lockers were back then), but a pious sailor’s soul went to Fiddler’s Green (in maritime folklore it is a kind of afterlife for sailors who have served at least 50 years at sea).
At Fiddler’s Green, where seamen true When here they’ve done their duty The bowl of grog shall still renew And pledge to love and beauty.
Dolphins and albatrosses were said to be the reincarnated souls of dead sailors; and sailors could not kill either of them.
Mermaids & Mermen
The legend of the mermaid, a creature with the upper body of a human and the lower body of a fish, has circulated the worlds oceans as far back as 5,000 B.C.
One of the earliest scientific accounts of the mermaid was documented by the great historian Pliny The Elder in 586 A.D. Pliny the Elder was convinced of the existence of mermaids and described them as “rough and scaled all over.” Since that time, and well before, thousands of sailors across the globe have reported seeing mermaids swimming off the bows of their ships. Even the famous Christopher Columbus reported an encounter with a mermaid; in January of 1493 Columbus reported that he saw three mermaids fin the ocean just off Haiti.
Mermaids were often considered lucky, but not universally. In Trinidad and Tobago, sea-dwelling mermen “were known to grant a wish, transform mediocrity into genius and confer wealth and power.” Mermaids appear in British folklore as unlucky omens, both foretelling disaster and provoking it.
Sailors would look for mermaid’s purses (the egg case of a skate, ray or shark; one of the most common objects washed up on the sea) on beaches for signs of mermaids in the area.
Klabautermann
Traditionally, a type of kobold, a Klabautermann, lives aboard ships and helps sailors and fishermen on the Baltic or North Sea in their duties. He is a merry and diligent creature, with an expert understanding of most watercraft, and an unsupressable musical talent. He also rescues sailors washed overboard. The belief in Klabautermanns dates to at least the 1770s.
A carved Klabautermann image, of a small sailor dressed in yellow with a tobacco pipe and wooden sailor’s cap, often wearing a caulking hammer, is attached to the mast as a symbol of good luck.
However, despite the positive attributes, there is one omen associated with his presence: no member of a ship blessed by his presence shall ever set eyes on him; he only ever becomes visible to the crew of a doomed ship.
More recently, the Klabautermann is sometimes described as having more sinister attributes, and blamed for things that go wrong on the ship. This incarnation of the Klabautermann is more demon- or goblin-like, prone to play pranks and, eventually, doom the ship and her crew. This deterioration of image probably stems from sailors, upon returning home, telling stories of their adventures at sea.
Sailor Tattoos
Sailors believed that certain symbols and talismans would help them in when facing certain events in life; they thought that those symbols would attract good luck or bad luck in the worst of the cases:
Sailors, at the constant mercy of the elements, often feel the need for religious images on their bodies to appease the angry powers that caused storms and drowning far from home.
The images of a pig and a hen were good luck; both animals are not capable of swimming, but they believed that God would look down upon a shipwreck and see an animal not capable of swimming and would take them into his hand and place them on land. Sailors had the belief that by wearing the North Star, this symbol would help them to find his or her way home.
The Flying Dutchman
The Flying Dutchman is a legendary ghost ship that can never make port and is doomed to sail the oceans forever. The myth is likely to have originated from 17th-century nautical folklore. The oldest extant version dates to the late 18th century. Sightings in the 19th and 20th centuries reported the ship to be glowing with ghostly light. If hailed by another ship, the crew of the Flying Dutchman will try to send messages to land, or to people long dead. In ocean lore, the sight of this phantom ship is a portent of doom.
Some say that The Flying Dutchman was used for piracy and was loaded with gold and other loot. While travelling with a load of treasure, unspeakable crimes were committed on board the ship, thus making it cursed forever.
“originally a vessel loaded with great wealth, on board of which some horrid act of murder and piracy had been committed” and that the apparition of the ship “is considered by the mariners as the worst of all possible omens.”
Other variations of the legend say that the Captain of The Flying Dutchman refused to go to port in the face of a horrible storm and as a result the entire ship perished. Others claim that the ship was not called The Flying Dutchman - that instead it was the name of the captain of the ship. Eventually, as people passed the legend down through the generations, the story of The Flying Dutchman referred to the ship.
Superstitions
Bad luck:
No bananas on board - At the height of the trading empire between Spain and the Caribbean in the 1700’s, most cases of disappearing ships happened to be carrying a cargo of bananas at the time.
No women on board - Women were said to bring bad luck on board because they distracted the sailors from their sea duties. This kind of behaviour angered the intemperate seas that would take their revenge out on the ship. However, images of naked women were carved onto the bow of the ship because the woman’s bare breasts ”shamed the stormy seas into calm” and her open eyes guided the seamen to safety.
No whistling on board - Mariners have long held the belief that whistling or singing into the wind will “whistle up a storm”.
Deathly lexis - At sea, some words must be strictly avoided to ensure the ship and crew’s safe return. These include obvious ones like “drowned” and “goodbye”. If someone says “good luck” to you, it is sure to bring about bad luck. The only way to reverse the curse is by drawing blood.
Lurking sharks - A shark following the ship is a sign of inevitable death.
Unlucky days: - Fridays: Fridays have long been considered unlucky days, likely because Jesus Christ was crucified on a Friday. - Thursdays: Thursdays are bad sailing days because that is Thor’s day, the god of thunders and storms. - First Monday in April: The first Monday in April is the day Cain slew Abel. - Second Monday in August: The second Monday in August is the day the kingdoms of Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed. - Superstitious sailor believed that the only good day to sail on was sundays.
Changing the name of the boat - Boats develop a life and mind of their own once they are named and Christened. If you do rename the boat- you absolutely must have a de-naming ceremony. This ceremony can be performed by writing the current boat name on a piece of paper, folding the paper and placing it in a wooden box then burning the box. After, the ashes were scooped up and thrown into the sea.
Red heads - Red heads were thought to bring bad luck to a ship if you happened to encounter one before boarding. However, if you speak to the redhead before they get the chance to speak to you, it is cancelled out.
Good luck:
It is good luck to spit in the ocean before you sail.
Coins thrown into the sea as a boat leaves port is a small toll to Neptune, the sea god, for a safe voyage.
Horseshoes on a ship’s mast will turn away a storm.
Cats brought luck. If a ship’s cat came to a sailor, it meant good luck.
Pouring wine on the deck will bring good luck on a long voyage.
It is often considered lucky to touch the collar of a sailor’s suit.