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#gazette #the gazette

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#reverse 1999 #reverse: 1999 #tooth fairy

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"According to Director Darren Lynn Bousman, Paris Hilton was so passionate about the film being made, that when production was going to be halted due to the budget going over by $50,000, Hilton made a paid appearance at a nightclub for that sum to make up the difference and keep filming going. Despite this, she is not credited as a producer." Horror Character Appreciation - Paris Hilton as Amber Sweet in Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008) dir. Darren Lynn Bousman

#repo! the genetic opera #paris hilton

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She found a boyfriend and instead of fucking him in her nest, SHE WAS FUCKING HIM ON TOP OF MY LIGHT OUTSIDE MY BALCONY DOOR! BITCH REALLY?

To the cooing bitch destroying whatever metal hangs from the end of my balcony corner that I can't see: how do you like your pigeon daddy. Tell me. Imma go find one for you so that you shut up at once. Please!

She used to coo only in the morning now she does all day. You aren't the only girly looking for love in the neighbourhood, so stop making this much fuss about it! And I was wondering why she was tapping the window recently. I was like maybe she got babies and she is hungry but no. This bitch apparently thought having more territory shall give her a hubby. Honey a different location would give you a hubby. Pigeons rarely fly on this side. Go close to a church or sth. Your best chances here are with a sparrow. Stubborn birds.

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Me realizing after so long that Kamijo didn't use "Moulin Rouge" as a setting for the stuff transpiring in his song but as a metaphor for "blood mill" for his French character:

#mofo is genius #cause mills are long like necks right #and mills turn seeds to sth we use #so the neck as a source of blood for vampires get it?

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To the cooing bitch destroying whatever metal hangs from the end of my balcony corner that I can't see: how do you like your pigeon daddy. Tell me. Imma go find one for you so that you shut up at once. Please!

She used to coo only in the morning now she does all day. You aren't the only girly looking for love in the neighbourhood, so stop making this much fuss about it! And I was wondering why she was tapping the window recently. I was like maybe she got babies and she is hungry but no. This bitch apparently thought having more territory shall give her a hubby. Honey a different location would give you a hubby. Pigeons rarely fly on this side. Go close to a church or sth. Your best chances here are with a sparrow. Stubborn birds.

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#the fact picrasma grow on a tree though #give me candy trees in real life too please :P

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It appears there is no shortcut to learning how to draw with a tablet, you have to keep tracing for weeks for your brain to learn to comprehend how the cursor moves on the screen compared to your movements on a black pannel and since I am tired of waiting for my brain to adjust to pretty much anything in life to do what i want, I shall keep my practice to traditional drawing and then, since I am always worried I will fuck up the sketch with colors, i will simply take a pic of it and do the coloring on my computer after tracing it. Since it's my drawing, tracing it won't bother anybody. There. problem solved. I'm tired of this damn brain and training it function normally.

#stupid skills i need you now #and i swear if this skill too goes to the dumpster I will lose my mind #i'm tired of learning skills that don't help my progress in life and work

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"Most JP bands treat their foreign fans as non existent." was sth I shouldn't have found today but it's not like i dunno. I just didn't wish to hear it rn. However I will say this, because it's been bothering me for years.

While fc stuff is sth most western fans dislike (including myself) and just accept it's sth common in Japan so they choose to ignore it, it is still unfortunately one of the biggest incomes for the bands. Whether it is available for global fans or not and whether we can be part of it or not (financially i mean), I think it's good to put that into perspective too. If it wasn't for this "politic", some bands would have disbanded way earlier than they did. Also do consider that some bands, regardless of whether they have an fc or not, do not favor one or the other. It's rare I know but it happens. Like yeah fc members get extra stuff release-wise, special lives and some even get to go on a trip with the band (not all bands do the latter one though let's be real) but as a whole, the band doesn't ignore its non monthly payers. That is very important to consider before feeling like "unless i'm paying a heavy load, i am not appreciated enough".

Another thing I'd like to point out is that, yes these people are artists and artists depend largely on people's emotions but being an artist is also a job. So we can't really be mad that these people use every method in the book to earn money. Paying the bills isn't the only thing they use money for. They need money for their costumes, mvs and tour expenses. That is a lot of money guys and if you think buying their cds and merch alone is enough you are wrong. Especially if the band isn't independent, the biggest percentage of their products' income goes to their company, not them.

As for my last point and the view of Japanese artists towards foreign fans, I'd like to point out a type of experience I've read more than once from jrockers and that is "moving on from the bands". It is really hard for a small band, or a band with fans under 20k anyway, to imagine themselves making fans outside of their immediate environment. Sure, some can argue the insecurity lies in Japanese culture as a whole, but with the years I've come to realize it's more than that. Bear with me. There are bands who are not interested in expansion abroad, sure, but you will be surprised how many actually ARE interested. The problem lies in the fact they can't trust it. Either because they themselves have never left their country before or cared to research how other cultures act, they know what they know based on word of mouth and stereotypes, OR because they met foreign fans at their lives, got excited about it and then said fans had to go so, because they had no visual proof those fans were still there, they believed they were forgotten by them. I also met a fan living in Japan a couple of years back and she confirmed that for me, that many jrockers have this fear of being forgotten or not being relevant for long. They do everything in their power to keep their relevance going so they can't depend on things they can't see and confirm they are loved on the regular, because that's a lot of anxiety to take in. They prefer focusing on what's there, cause if their venues don't fill up there, then no matter how many fans they have abroad they won't be able to sustain their dream.

So yeah before you get upset at a band for how they earn their money from fans or how they act towards different types of fans, put yourselves in their place. What would YOU do to keep your dream going and not having to live a life you hate. There lies your answer. They are not hollywood artists. They don't earn royalties from interviews and commercials the way hollywood people do, so they will never be able to quit the fc method or having to manipulate emotions a bit to keep their shit going. I'm not a fan who is able to pay often and yet every jrocker I tried approaching was really patient with me. And I personally appreciate that. Sure it's part of the business to be polite, but having had a bad experience too, among the good ones, I can tell you that won't hold an arsehole back when you find him.

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#gazette #the gazette #our rhythm team

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Rajigaze Oct 14

Reita: “Ruki-san, Reita-san, good evening. I know you guys travel a lot when you’re on tour, but is there anything you don’t like about taking the bullet train or airplane? For me, it’s the whole exchange around reclining your seat. I want there to be a standard as to whether or not you should ask the person behind you [before putting your seat back]. Please take care of yourselves! We rock!”

Ruki: Hm…

Reita: I feel this. The seats on the bullet train…well, if the person behind me is one of you, I feel super relieved. Cause I can just recline that shit all the way back.

Ruki: But there are some people who worry about that, you know.

Reita: Well, maybe a little bit.

Ruki: I don’t worry about it at all.

(Reita laughs)

Ruki: Especially if it’s a first-class car, people are more or less prepared for that.

Reita: You ride first-class?

Ruki: Yeah, of course.

Reita: Of course (laughs)

Ruki: Oh, shut up. Huhu. But if it’s first-class, it’s not that cramped [even if someone reclines their seat]. But in a regular car, it comes back pretty close, you know?

Reita: It does, it does.

Ruki: In that case, I would check.

Reita: If I was just gonna put it back a little, I wouldn’t feel like I have to say anything.

Ruki: Ah, you’re not the type to say something?

Reita: Nope.

Ruki: Ah.

Reita: Well no, if the person behind me was a stranger, I wouldn’t put it back in the first place.

Ruki: Ahhh….

Reita: I would just have a sore back the whole time.

Ruki: I put it back right away.

Reita: Oh. And you ask?

Ruki: Yeah… well, I don’t ask, I glance back at them.

(both burst out laughing)

Reita: Like you’re coercing them?

Ruki: No, no, no

Reita: You just look at them like, “I’m just gonna put this back?” Ruki: I look back just to be like, “…sry”

Reita: (laughs) But if you’re just putting it back a little bit, I think it’s fine.

Ruki: I mean, there’s a lever to put it back and everything.

Reita: Yeah, so why do you have to go out of your way to ask the person behind you?

Ruki: Hmmm…..

Reita: I mean, if you were gonna put it all the way back, that’s different. But I think you shouldn’t be doing that in the first place.

Ruki: Well, you can only go as far as the lever lets you.

Reita: Okay, yeah, I guess.

Ruki: If it was a plane, though, I wouldn’t like that.

Reita: Yeah, planes…

Ruki: Yeah, planes…

Reita: Cause you always fly business class, right?

Ruki: No I don’t!

(Reita laughing)

Ruki: I never fly business class…Never.

Reita: If someone is behind me, I never recline my seat.

Ruki: Right? Same.

Reita: But some people do – I mean, and that’s fine. It’s tricky, eh…

Ruki: It is…

Reita: Oh, if you’re in the middle seat, and you have to get up to go to the bathroom, but the person beside you is sleeping with their legs stretched out, what do you do?

Ruki: I jump.

(Reita laughing)

Ruki: I jump right over them.

Reita: Oh, you do.

Ruki: I do. I hold onto the seat in front of me and go, boing!

Reita: Well, what else are you gonna do, right.

Ruki: And there are some times too where we’re on the same plane as fans.

Reita: Yeah.

Ruki: That complicates things, you know?

Reita: It does.

Ruki: It makes it hard to go to the bathroom.

Reita: Yeah, we can’t go…a while ago on the world tour, I went to the bathroom on the plane, and when I came out a fan was standing right there with a paper waiting for me to sign it – an international fan.

Ruki: Oh– I got one too. You know how we bump into fans at the airport? Why do they just stand off in the distance and look at us?

Reita: Well, they’re probably thinking they’re not allowed to come up close, aren’t they?

Ruki: Nah, they can come talk to us, no? Like, “good job guys” or whatever. Like, I’m not gonna ignore you.

Reita: Ahhh, yeah yeah yeah.

Ruki: That’s a real mystery, eh? I don’t think that happens to other bands.

Reita: Really?

Ruki: It totally doesn’t.

Reita: But yeah…they definitely don’t come up to us.

Ruki: Mhm – but when we’re on tour, I kinda get it. There are quite a few [fans]. Like in Sapporo, we’ll see them on the plane, and it’s so intense, they’re all just watching from afar…

Reita (laughing): And they don’t talk to us…maybe they think they shouldn’t bother us while we’re travelling?

Ruki: I wonder if they think there’s some kinda rule like that, or they just don’t wanna talk to us.

Reita: …Probably both? (laughs)

Ruki: Well, that’s what I thought, but then in Sapporo, I was drinking milk.

(pause)

(both laugh)

Ruki: I thought no one was around, and for some reason I had my hand on my hip –

(both die laughing)

Ruki: Just drinkin my milk…and then a fan comes up like, “Hello~” …Like why now of all times?

(Reita laughing)

Ruki: I guess I seemed approachable?

Reita: While you were drinking milk.

Ruki: I guess I’m easy to approach when I’m drinking milk with my hand on my hip.

Reita: It felt kinda comfortable….oh okay, what if you were approached by 50 people?

Ruki: What, like in a line?

Reita: Like, they all came and surrounded you. (laughs)

Ruki: What? After a tour?

Reita: After a tour.

Ruki: …I don’t know…It’s a mystery (*how the fans gather around them)

Reita: It is, but I think they’re just being considerate of us.

Ruki: …But they just look at us.

Reita: Ah, so it kinda bothers you?

Ruki: If I don’t notice them looking, it’s fine, but when I see them and they’re just looking at me and whispering shit…

Reita: (laughs) Yeahh, it bothers me.

Ruki: It does, it does. Like wtf.

Reita: Yeah…but you know that just means we’re looking at them too.

Ruki: Omg tru – that’s scary man.

Reita: That’s……..deep

(both laugh)

#gazette #the gazette #i thought i had never read this one until i read the part with the milk #that i remember #so i have definitely read it before #also the last part is the reason for me #like you're looking at me you noticed me?#i'm not coming close cause i didn't intend to in the first place but it's awkward so i keep looking too #and that's how awkward silent staring happens

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The way my brain was looking for his comment while I was reading the rest's and I had to actually command it to not do that after done reading cause it's not there anymore. Like why would Reita write a comment for that, get your shit together.

#i expected a live announcement tbh #and i am glad they did that because #yeah part of me thought they might need more time #but there's no better way to burst than that for them rn #so i'm hoping for a full release of tension from them #to scream everything out #the pain might never heal but their mind and soul might get a good breather with this one

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#gazette #the gazette

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i watched one (1) video on how to draw hands that changed my life forever. like. i can suddenly draw hands again

these were all drawn without reference btw. i can just. Understand Hands now (for the most part, im sure theres definitely inaccuracies). im a little baffled

#drawing #tutorial

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I try to check some posts and I get discouraged. No reversing. It's either go or die at this point. 100% or 0%. He too was filled with doubt once and the others kept pushing. Let's see how that goes.

#i hate finally feeling this now #but i will learn to look back with a smile #if i keep still and go more numb i'll end it #and that won't do him any justice

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