Title: Menhera
Universe: Kamen Rider Black RX
Character(s): Fumiko, Masaki
Series: The Unspeakable Oath | Between To-day and To-morrorow | Pagliacci | The Ghost of a Flea | Dangerous Days | dérive | In Accordance to Natural Law | Shadow Moon | Wake Up the Hero! | Rêve | Channelling the Power of Souls | Evanescent Quietude | Pearls Before Swine | One Day Closer to the End of the World | Lonely, Lonely Heart | Life Eternal
Rating: 15
Warnings: Discussion of mental health, suicide
Summary: Her smile faded a little, she looked away, staring down at her plate, expensive pasta, expensive bolognaise. She would regret spending so much on the night when her rent was due. It was easier when people knew about it, she thought. If she told them, then she wouldn’t have to worry about them hating her. She would know for sure.
Length: 946 words
Author's Notes: I feel like I need to start making notes about where all these kid characters, now grown up, originally appear. We first meet Fumiko in episode #18, Masaki appears in episode #11 (PSA: he's the kid that turns into a bike), Chigusa appears in episode #9, Shizuka and Yuichi are from episode #10, and Tomoka is from episode #8. also: external link.



( Menhera )

Creator: Zdenka
Title: Gave What I Dared Not Take
Rating: G
Type: Fic
Size/length/word count etc.: 524 words
Prompt: #076 – Jet
Fandom/Ship: Le Cid - Corneille, Chimène/Doña Urraque
Notes/Warnings: unrequited love, renunciation
Summary: The Infanta of Spain confesses her love to her faithful confidante. She is not entirely truthful about the object of her affections.

Link: Here on AO3

The Inevitable Collapse
Author: Wallwalker
Word Count: 1134
Fandom: Final Fantasy VII (Video Game 1997)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: None
Relationship: Hojo/Ifalna/Lucrecia Crescent/Gast Faremis
Prompt: #60 Slate
Additional Tags: Sedoretu, Alternate Universe, Jenova Project (Compilation of FFVII), Community: fourormore, Community: 40sedoretu, Community: 100ships
Series: Part 55 of Fills for 100ships - Jan 2022 to ?
Summary: A marriage of four minds, based on scientific curiosity, and on lies.
Ifalna knows she has to make a plan, and find a way out.

Count: 55/100 (Table Link)

Non-spoilery, but really, why don't you just go watch the episode?

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Welcome to dw100! Challenges are posted approximately once a week.

Challenge 1043 is poke.

The rules:

• All stories must be 100 words long
• Please place your story behind a cut if it contains spoilers for the current season
• You don't have to use the challenge word or phrase in your story; it's just there for inspiration
• Please include the challenge word or phrase in the subject line of your post
• Please use the challenge tag 1043: poke on any story posted to this challenge

Good luck!

OMG THEY REFERENCED TURLOUGH! AND I MISSED IT THE FIRST TIME!

*happy dance for one of my favorite companions*

A weird thing happened today.

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In other news, the upcoming episode is still our #1 topic of conversation.

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Used my manga TBR boardgame.

I know I wanted to read more BL last time and only got 1, but this time I'm feeling like more Yugioh, Kuroshitsuji, Are You Alice? etc again lol

I've decided to go through my physical manga and sort them into: still keeping, need to reread & decide and 'I need to buy the next in the series'. Instead of choosing a reward at the end, I'll pick and read something from my box.

Avatar:

Conan
(beat the trap tile 1 time,
roll a prompt)

Roll #1:

A 2, prompt: slice of life. More Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun then!

Roll #2:

A 3, prompt: manga by a woman that got an anime. Kuroshitsuji!

Roll #3:

A 6, prompt: costume on cover. Card Captor Sakura!

Roll #4:

A 4, prompt: only has one volume. Ooh, let's see...okay let's change things up a bit with Dogs: Stray Dogs Howling in the Dark. MAL says I've only read one chapter but that doesn't seem right...

Roll #5:

A 3, right past the trap tile. Well. I got the same prompt. Only has one volume. I'll finish Touken Ranbu Online: Anthology Comic - Squeni no Jin.

Roll #6:

A 7 and I landed on the CR title. I generated a 62 and landed on Gyakuten Saiban, but I'm trying to finish the anime so probably won't go finish the manga for quite a while. Regenerated a 32 and that's D.Gray-Man. Ye gods I haven't read this in ages, I hope I'm not too confused...

Roll #7:

A 1...prompt: featuring a group of friends. Yugioh.

Roll #8:

Another 1 what is happening...May only has one week left! Not that I have a time limit, but... Prompt: fantasy creature. Think I'll try to finish ½ Prince.

Roll #9:

A 3, right past the trap tile again. I almost feel disappointed I didn't get to use my skill. Prompt: mythology. Hrmm...oh, One Piece is tagged with that! Why not.

Roll #10:

Is the game broken?? Another 3 ig. TBR tile. Generated a 716. It'sss Jibaku Shounen Hanako-kun! And I'm happy to read the manga first for this one.

Roll #11:

A 5...literally right before the end. Prompt: color in the title. Uhh I guess Red Raven?

Roll #12:

A 7 and the end thankfully, my head was starting to spin... The manga I'll be reading from my collection is a BL Croquis.

Boardgame changelog: Removed a few prompt cards. I plan on adding a bunch of prompt cards soon too!

I'm "at" WisCon this weekend! It's hosted online this year, so I expect to be glue to my computer screen all weekend, but I'm really looking forward to interacting with a bunch of new folks without having to, like, put on pants.

You can still sign up for tickets if you want to attend! It's pay-what-you-want, too.



sunshine_revival is happening in July! More info here!

the-lemonaut made this cute comic about solarpunk and how it needs to be grounded in reality if it's actually going to become reality, and not just another aesthetic.

If you have a personal fic archive, why not join the fan archives directory? (via smallweb)

And head's up about a "Deprecated Fandoms" Spam Bot that's showing up in fic comments.

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If you haven't seen it, well, spoilers...

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I have moved into the new apartment I own, yay! Now I have properly room for cat trees, and a new bigger cat tree was the first thing I bought and carried into the empty apartment. I had the big moving day 2,5 weeks ago so I've had some time to get used to everything. I emptied the last boxes yesterday, I had a little bit of a crisis with the new wardrobe but let me tell you. I bought TWO cheap plastic boxes and it fixed EVERYTHING. It allowed me to organize everything better and save room = boom all good now.

My big gripe is the shower cubicle! God it is so ass. The floor keeps flooding and the doors keep falling off the rails. As soon as I can afford it, I'm getting rid of this and buying a new one.

Speaking of affording, I'm still missing some essential furniture, namely balcony seats and little table, a shelf for the living room, and shelves for the laundry. I'm supposed to go to another town/city the 1st of June and they have IKEA so I know where I'll be visiting. My wallet is not gonna like it though.

And the reason I'm going to that city is because I'm helping out a certain lesbian. We're gonna be in the same town for the summer. I wonder if we'll be dating some day?

Oh, I am also happy I got to set up my weirdo shelf xD It has two pieces of art on it, of Kave and Päivätär, as well as a forest reindeer horn and a magic wand made of forest reindeer horn ^^''' I have a weird liking of forest reindeer.

So uhhh Eurovision happened. I felt sooooo meh about the whole thing because last year's competition was mega ass. And I kept getting Youtube ads of the Israeli artist saying in Finnish, vote for me. It's so annoying and I'm not even sure if that's allowed, nobody else makes such ads for their songs. I was, however, enamoured with Erika Vikman's stage performance in ICH KOMME, holy moly I got the feeling like yeah I am a lesbian alright... Spain's ESA DIVA was also great and gave me same feelings! My favourite for the victor would've been Estonia. It felt so wholesome, he just sang about coffee. I want more coffee songs for humanity. (Also Joostice.) While I would never wish a victory for a ballad in ESC, I'm not so mad at Austria's win because the artist has real talent and an amazing singing voice. I'm also happy for young queer performants successes this and last year.

They have made some fixes (like not making me look at Martin Österdahl's face), which is an improvement sure, but the competition is not fully saved by any means.

That's all worth mentioning I can think of right now.

Self-proclaimed lovely, splendid and elegant girl, Iwata Karen was a rising star during a moment in which AKB48 were at the forefront of everyone's attention. Appearing in Sailor Zombie as a member of the unit, MILK PLANET, the fact that she was present alongside both Yuihan and Mayuyu is maybe all I need to say to make you ware of her popularity.



Passing auditions in 2011 and joining the kenkyuusei, it was customary for members to spend a year as research students during this time for a year, only really being promoted during shuffle events. During 2012's Saitama Super Arena concert, Karen was promoted to Team 4 in March, then under the resumed leadership of original captain, Oba Mina, but was only a member for a handful of months, as, during 2012's team shuffle in August, she was moved to Team A where she remained until graduation, turning down a transfer to SKE48's Team S.

I sound like I am offering commentary on something far weightier than the history of a Japanese idol group when I write these entries, but I really want to impress on you something of the moments in which I fell in love with the members of AKB48. I think Team A is the group that a lot of people associate Karen with most. It's difficult for me, because when I think of them I always default to the idea of Team A as original Team A, and often when I hear Karen's name, I think of Team 4 despite everything she achieved after. Karen's generation, the twelfth generation, were also the last members of the kenkyuusei I actively followed, and what with Murayama Yuiri debuting as part of the successive thirteenth generation, I kind of think of them as the dividing line between the AKB of to-day, your AKB, and my AKB.

Karen debuted alongside some pretty famous names. Saeed Yokota Erena! Tano Yuka! Muto Tomu! Hirata Rina! Sasaki Yukari! Ah, and later, Eguichi Aimi. As a child, she often appeared on television with her mother, a local celebrity in Sendai, and starred in a number of adverts. Between auditions and the final results of her selection, the Tohoku earthquake hit, and she almost considered withdrawing. Sendai and Iwate were hit hard by the earthquake and subsequent tsunami. I can't imagine what it must have been like. I remember seeing it on the news, and I couldn't understand the context, every natural tragedy to me felt then like a snow day and I couldn't understand the full extent of the tragedy or why anyone would be concerned if it hadn't hit their hometown. My Japanese friend at the time was really angry with me. I keep thinking of that moment whenever I think of the earthquake. Having established that I am uniquely unqualified when it comes to understanding the fallout of tragedy, I think it's amazing that Karen did not withdraw, even more amazing that in her first year, she passed the auditions held to decide the voice cast of AKB0048 and was announced as central character, Motomiya Nagisa, during the reveal. To pass auditions in April and then to be cast as the main character of a show in December is... it's pretty amazing, I think. Still processing all those feelings, still struggling with that unexpected tragedy, you can see Karen visibly shaken during interviews for DOCUMENTARY of AKB48 Show must go on, and yet still, despite this, she won her role as Nagisa. Similarly, with the tragedy still fresh in her mind, she appeared on the song Hana wa Saku alongside a number of other celebrities commissioned by NHK, her solo version of the song released as the single's B side.



To coincide with Karen's rising star, she was selected for the media senbatsu of Manatsu no Sounds Good!, the group's first post-GIVE ME FIVE! single, a sort of bikini filled retrospective of their success, the last real release before Maeda Atsuko's graduation, the beginning of my heartbreak. Despite all this intense focus on Karen, she didn't actually appear in the senbatsu again, although her presence can be seen and heard on a host of B sides all the way up to the release of Kimi wa Melody. That rising star burnt furiously bright, and then, at the end, we lost sight of it.

In January 2016, she announced her graduation, and in March, she said good-bye, her last activities taking place in May. Since then, she has continued to appear on stage and screen, focusing on her dream of appearing on Broadway. In keeping with Karen's tradition of firsts, in 2020 she was the first former member to test positive for covid. A year later though, she returned to the AKB theatre to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the twelfth generation and then went on to appear in the Japanese production of the Harry Potter play that everyone seemed crazy about for a while but always seemed like bad fanfiction to me. Performing in this production seems to have lit a fire under Karen again though, and since 2024, she has been living in New York in order to study English.

Lastly, and of maybe little interest to anyone but me, I want to point that she lost in 2015's Janken Tournament to Izuta Rina, just because it gives these posts a nice symmetry. :p

 But mostly of myself. 
will try to be less annoying in the future.