How Do I Find God ?

how do i find god ?

don’t look now but he’s right behind you

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[TL] BIOHAZARD/Chapter 8

[ This post uses Ois~su ♪ ]

Time: A few minutes later

Location: In a private karaoke room in the back of the livehouse

Keito: What is this place?

Kaoru: You don’t know what karaoke is? You’ve probably never played around like this so you wouldn’t know, would you Mr Honours Student?

Keito: I know what karaoke is. I’m asking why there’s a room like this in the back of the livehouse.

Kaoru: Yumenosaki’s pretty strict on a lot of things, so we were trying to expand our horizons. This lesson room has all the proper equipment and soundproofing, but it’s never been that popular.

Koga: Hmph. Those Yumenosaki guys who were supposed t’be the ideal customer aren’t even interested in playin’ music.

Kaoru: Yup. That’s why we made it look like a regular lesson room, so it’s more accessible to the general public. It’s a new service we’re providing.

Koga: Ah~, so that’s what happened.

Kaoru: Almost painful to see how much effort I put into managing the place. I was trying to gather as much information as I could, working as hard as I could~.

In the end, this place became a safe haven for kids who felt they didn’t have a place in Yumenosaki, and for those who wanted to use the lesson room like normal.

That room was renovated, but nobody really used it so it returned to how it was before. We started running out of lesson rooms.

Ahh, this is super nostalgic… I was really giving it my all back then.

Koga: Shoulda tried harder in yer idol activities ‘n school work. Barely saw you at school back then, ya know?

Kaoru: Well, me back then didn’t have any interest in that sort of thing ♪

Kaoru: Oh~? That’s weird…

Keito: What’s wrong? Did you see something suspicious?

Kaoru: Sakuma-san was supposed to be waiting for us here, but he’s nowhere to be found.

Keito: …Sakuma-san? What does he want from me now?

Koga: Wait, Sakuma-senpai’s comin’ here?! Hahah! I can’t wait ☆

...I acted like such a sheeple back then, it’s embarrassing.

Kaoru: Aren’t you still embarrassing sometimes~?

Rei: Yo~.

Sorry for keepin’ ya. My bad my bad… Coupla scary people caught me~. Hadta to explain some stuff to them which took a while.

Haa, bein’ popular’s a pain.

Keito: ...

Rei: Oh, you actually came, bouzu. What a good kid you are.

Keito: You were the one who called for me.

Rei: Right, ‘course. You lucky you get to see me like this.

Ain’t you embarrassed? I beat you up so hard the other day you couldn’t even stand ♪

Keito: ...

Rei: Uwaa…. Noooooo~, I was sooo embarrassing back then~...

Why was I acting like that? I should have had more tact!

Koga: ...Is that you, Sakuma-senpai?

Kaoru: Ahh, it’s like we’re right back there.

Rei: Indeed… It seems you’ve come to grips with the current situation. We are looking at ourselves in a ghost-like state.

This is hell of earth, having to watch myself act so embarrassing for such a long time. What sort of crime would you class this as?

Koga: Hn, you’re just reapin’ what you sowed. I live my life stayin’ true t’what I believe, nothin’ I’d be embarrassed by people seein’.

Koga: Kyaaa! Sakuma-senpai! Kyaaaa! I-i-i-it’s a privilege to be able to meet you like thissss![1]

Koga: ...

Rei: You’re amazing, Koga, so mentally strong… How can you not be embarrased after seeing that?

Koga: I am so sorry that was extremely embarrassing of me.[2]

Kaoru: Uwa, Hearing Koga-kun use keigo is such a treat.[3] Whilst I’m not as bad as you two, I would rather not have my immature past self put on display for all to see.

But why’s this happening? I guess it’s part of the AIIE project.

Rei: Umu… At the moment, I haven’t any more guesses.

I suspect that, since we are all connected to the same device, our dreams are being mixed together.

Koga: Do you think so? Aren’t dreams supposed t'be more of a private affair?

Rei: Well, this is technology that not much is known about yet.

Kaoru: Now I feel like I’m going to regret taking part in such a questionable experiment.

Rei: We cannot turn back the clocks now. All we can do is adapt to this current situation in as little time as possible.

[ ☆ ]

he speaks formally here

he speaks formally here too. He says ‘gomennasai, hazukashii desu’. Just so you know

keigo is polite speech!

Chapter 7

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translations thank you op for your translation!! the italics to represent current vs ghost past self was smart love the way op translates rei three cringe boys forced to look at their wildly different cringe past selves vs adonis who didnt even change his winter casual outfit between war and !-era surprising also that the livehouse was designed to cater towards yumenosaki students one thing ive really liked about this story and crossroads is that they reveal how diligent kaoru really was with the livehouse...

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songhunter

1 year ago

Okay, I have found a way to add in transmasc people

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gus

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songhunter

1 year ago

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

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my stuff thanks for the ask! <3 that probably wasn't the answer you were looking for but ill take any excuse to ramble about my dream undead event

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songhunter

1 year ago

How Dare Adaptations Make Dracula/mina The Ship When First Of All, Jonathan Is The Obvious Gothic Heroine

how dare adaptations make dracula/mina the ship when first of all, jonathan is the obvious gothic heroine of the book, and second of all mina would put the fear of God in dracula for touching her man. she proposed to him as soon as he woke up from his coma and MARRIED him while he was in the sick bed of a catholic hospital, this girl is Not Normal either

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songhunter

1 year ago

as we give each other someone to blame / and to be grateful for, all the same

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rei sakuma koga oogami reikoga oh my god... oh my god koga gripping reis sweater tight the pained expression on his face the light on the side of their faces op's vibes are immaculate

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songhunter

1 year ago

[Headline] What were Israel’s main defence arguments?
Step Vaessen / Reporting from The Hague

Israel’s main defence was that its actions were self-defence against Hamas’s attack on October 7.

Unsurprisingly, we heard a very long argument about how atrocious these attacks were, they showed pictures of the hostages and they also mentioned that South Africa didn’t mention anything about this on the first day of the hearing on Thursday and that was misleading, a word that was mentioned many times.

In terms of the intent, which is a very important issue to prove that Israel indeed has the intent to commit genocide against the people of Gaza, the argument by Israel was that it was clearly not government policy, according to them, although South Africa mentioned a number of statements [by Israeli officials].

Israel also pointed out that it is a rules-based country with a legal system, so everything that goes wrong in Gaza, if crimes are committed, those will be dealt with in the national courts.

And finally the issue of jurisdiction; for a dispute to be here at the ICJ, one of the requirements is that the state that takes a case to this court should try to sort out this problem first; according to Israel, they didn’t manage to talk to South Africa before they brought this case to the court although they tried.

*Analysis

[Headline] Israel’s legal defence off to weak start: Analyst

Al Jazeera senior political analyst Marwan Bishara says Israel’s legal team has made a weak start in its case but made a few strong points near the end.

Bishara said the lawyers’ efforts to deflect blame for Israel’s attacks and ignore the context of Israel’s 75-year occupation of Palestine came across as “illogical”.

Their claims that Israel’s forces are trying to protect, rather than harm, civilians were also unconvincing, he said, given the death toll of the war: 23,708 Palestinians, including 9,600 children, since October 7.

However, Bishara said Israel’s lawyers did well to zero in on the jurisdiction of the ICJ – pointing out that the court must specifically prove Israel is guilty of genocidal intent, not any other violations.

“You can claim Israel has committed heinous crimes, but if they do not fall under the framework of genocide, the court has no jurisdiction,” Bishara said.

* Analysis

[Headline] Israel’s arguments may not hold up at the merits stage: University lecturer

Thomas MacManus, a senior lecturer in state crime at Queen Mary University of London, has spoken to Al Jazeera about Israel’s arguments and compared them to South Africa’s case on Thursday. Here are his main points:

*The statements outlined in the intent section of South Africa’s case clearly showed talks and rhetoric from government officials about “human animals” and about destroying Gaza. They were giving concrete examples of intent.

*Israel’s argument is that they are statements of anguish and maybe they don’t have any control over the military or are not part of the war cabinet.

*That’s not what we’re going to look for when we get to the merits stage of intent. We are going to look for the overall picture. Is the government creating an atmosphere where everyone understands that it’s government policy to destroy the Palestinians?

* Analysis

[Headline] Israel lost ‘moral’ case, but made strong ‘procedural’ points

Al Jazeera’s senior political analyst Marwan Bishara says that throughout the hearing, Israel lost the moral, factual, historical and humanitarian argument because of the way the situation has unravelled in Gaza – with the sheer death and industrial killing there”.

He said the Israeli legal teams’ continuous efforts to blame Hamas for the suffering in Gaza – where at least 23,700 people have been killed – and to convince the court that Israel is trying to ameliorate the humanitarian situation there were unconvincing.

However, he said the Israeli team did make strong “jurisdictional and procedural arguments”.

They relate to whether South Africa has a legitimate “dispute” with Israel that warrants it taking Israel to the ICJ in the first place, the court’s limited jurisdiction, and the grounds for each of the “provisional measures” sought by South Africa to protect Palestinians from harm.

While Israel lost the “moral argument”, its team may have “made a dent” in South Africa’s case with its jurisdictional points, said Bishara.

[Headline] ‘Self-defence is no answer to genocide’, says South Africa’s justice minister

South Africa’s Minister of Justice Ronald Lamola just spoke to members of press outside the ICJ.

Here are the main points from his interaction:

* Israel failed to disprove South Africa’s compelling case that was presented yesterday.

*Israel tells the court that these statements read out by senior Israeli political, military and civilian society leaders are simply rhetorical, and we shall not ascribe them any importance.

*There is no debate about what Prime Minister Netanyahu’s term “Amalek” means and how it is understood by soldiers fighting on the ground and by the Israelis.

* How can you ignore Netanyahu’s statement, the statement of the defence minister and the ground forces? That is a clear implementation of policy.

*Israel chose today to focus extensively on the events of October 7. South Africa has not ignored this event as Israel alleged because it has unequivocally condemned and continues to condemn October 7.

*Self-defence is no answer to genocide. Nothing can ever justify genocide

* Analysis

[Headline] ‘Massive disconnect’ between Israel’s claims and reality

The ICJ is likely to see a “massive disconnect” between the picture Israel painted today of its humanitarian concern for Gaza and “the reality on the ground where UN agencies say people are starving, lacking water, and seeing attacks on hospitals, schools, and universities”, says Thomas MacManus, a senior lecturer in state crime at Queen Mary University of London.

“I think the court will find it very difficult to add these two things,” MacManus told Al Jazeera.

Countering the Israeli team’s case that Israeli decision-makers have not shown “genocidal intent” towards Palestinians, MacManus pointed to numerous statements by Israeli leaders, documented in South Africa’s submission to the court, that suggest otherwise.

“The court only needs to look at the statements in South Africa’s submission – with the ranking and authority of those making them – and ask whether they plausibly reach the level of intent required for genocide. I think the court will have to do that,” he said.

from al jazeera's live reporting of the second day of the ICJ hearings, 12 Jan 2024

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songhunter

1 year ago

show us the baby photos

Adonis: ...

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adonis otogari BABY ADONIS BABY ADONIS BABY ADONIS aww you can see his roots…

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songhunter

1 year ago

update: it sucks

i tried recreating the adonis mocktail from the enstars collaboration cafe without ANY cocktail/mocktail experience so I just muddled some rosemary and thawed frozen pink dragonfruit in a glass (read: mushed it with the back of a spoon) and added club soda and blue curaçao and it is BRIGHT purple. adonis color