The last days of the petition against conversion therapy are FASCINATING to watch. I have been following it pretty closely for almost a year now, and the progress was, above all, steady. There was this jump when some algorithm in Finland picked it up, but even that was local.
And now, everyone is panicking.
Which really shows.
These past three or four days, multiple countries have reached the threshold. Even more notably, the number of signatures in total, the ones that we need to get one million of, are growing rapidly. There are only 400'000 signatures missing. Two days ago, it was closer to 600'000.
You can see the progress here:
Consider joining the fun by making everyone around you sign it!
[ 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
[ This post uses Ois~su ♪ ]
Season: Winter
Time: Early March in the first year of ES’s establishment
Location: In a underground livehouse, one of UNDEAD’s haunts
Keito: (What is that?)
(What the hell is happening…?)
Rei: 『♪~♪~♪』
Kaoru: 『♪♪♪♪♪』
Koga: 『H!E!L!L!』
Adonis: 『S!I!N!G!』
Koga + Adonis: 『We are 『HELLSING』 ...☆』
Keito: I have no idea what’s going on—
HELLSING…? No matter how I look at it, that’s UNDEAD!
Rei: 『♪~♪~♪』
Kaoru: 『♪♪♪♪♪』
Keito: Oi! Listen up!
I know this isn’t a great time but I need to ask you guys something!
Adonis: —Hey. Oogami, Oogami, Hasumi-senpai is in the stage wings making a racket.
I am not sure how our senpais will react to this, so I think we should deal with him before something bad happens.
Koga: Nah, if somethin’ was gonna happen, it woulda happened by now.
Actually, I don’t want this important live t’be interrupted. Guess we’ll have t’see what he wants.
Oi, shitty glasses— Whaddya want?
Can’t you see we’re in the middle of rehearsal?
Keito: Let me make this clear first of all - I have no intention of interrupting your activities. I’m no longer the vice-president of the Student Council so I have no reason to be supervising the activities of problem children like you.
Koga: God, you fuckin’ know how t’waffle on and on. So why are you here if it’s got nothin’ t’do with us? Random person who looks good in glasses, whaddya want, hmmmm?
Keito: Well I don’t see how that’s relevant. We once donned the same costumes and participated in the same activities, and now we share an agency.
And that is precisely why I, as a representative of RhythmLink, have gone out of my way to come ask you this.
Your recent “peculiar activity” has become troublesome for the agency.
Therefore, I’d like to know what’s happening, UNDEAD.
Firstly-, what is “HELLSING”?
Koga: ...
Keito: Why are you keeping quiet, Oogami?
Can’t you explain it to me? After all, as you quite rightly said, you and I are in different units and are complete strangers who–
Adonis: Please wait a moment, Hasumi-senpai. I don’t think Oogami will be able to explain this very well.
Truthfully, we don’t really know what’s going on ourselves—
Koga: Shut it, Adonis. Yer actin’ like a parent who’s watchin’ their kid run their first errand. Stop addin’ unnecessary shit to the conversation.
Adonis: But, Hasumi-senpai will probably be able to offer useful advice—
Koga: Shut up! He fuckin’ said it himself, he ain’t got nothin’ to do with us anymore!
Now you’re actin’ like your our parents and tryna stick your nose in where it doesn’t belong! Stupid shitty glasses.
Keito: That was never my intention… I’m really– no, I mean, I’m worried about you.
I always end up imposing Oogami with heavy burdens that are my own responsibility.
Koga: Oi, don’t apologise! They told me to take it on, and you told me it was a lot anyway!
…Seriously man, don’t worry ‘bout it. HELLSING is just a different name we, UNDEAD, use on stage.
Recently, the hardcore rock image we use on stage versus the stupid silly image we use on like, variety shows is creatin’ a divert… divertent?
Adonis: A divergence?
Koga: Yeah, that! It’s creating a divergence in terms of how we present ourselves, so we thought that we could just use different names whether we’re on stage or doin’ our regular activities!
It’s like those mangas you fuckin’ love so much. They use different names dependin’ on what they’re doin’.
Keito: Umu… I suppose that’s true, as there are mangaka that operate under different pseudonyms based on if they are working on commercial materials or R-18 material.
Though generally, fans can tell from their art style that it is the same person.
Adonis: I don’t know much about manga but. Think of it as a parent company setting up subsidiaries, where each brand markets different things dependent on what activities they engage in.
Our, so to speak, immoral, radical activities will be handled by HELLSING, and our more friendly and palatable activities handled by UNDEAD.
Only what we do and the name has changed, the members remain the same. Me, Oogami, Sakuma-senpai, and Hakaze-senpai.
Keito: So what’s the point in doing all this…?
Koga: Shut uppp, there’s a ton of reasons. I get you’re a producer ‘n all but why’s it any of your business?
Keito: ...
Koga: …It’s whatever, alright?
This is what I wanted. To be honest, the fans are a little confused but everyone else is pretty happy with it.
I feel like I can actually breathe now I’m not bein’ forced t’do stupid varieties shows ‘n shit like that.
So that means it’s a good thing— all of it is.
I said it’s fine so everyone who says otherwise should shaddup!
『♪~♪~♪』
[ ☆ ]
Chapter 1
Adonis will say the most profound thing and then follow it up with “sorry I am not good with my thoughts”. Enough is enough, let my boy stop with his lies
cant stop thinking abt richard siken saying that people liked him better when they thought he was forever young, beautiful, serious and dead
also I asked this in a discord server I'm in and I was wondering if you would be interested in seeing this kind of thing :O
YEAH ID LOVE TO SEE YOUR THOUGHTS ON EVERY UNDEAD STORY! (ressun perhaps? summer vacation perhaps?? 👀) especially if happyele goes through with !!!-era, it'd be a lovely send-off to !-era and !!-era to read all the stories.
also as someone with absolutely awful memory story summaries would be so helpful im gonna be referencing your summaries all the time. will you be reading gacha stories as well or just the main event stories (although even just event stories is time consuming enough, nothing but respect for you)
👸🏻 girlbossladyjane Follow
It really makes me sick to see people giving money to penny weeklies when Franklin's expedition STILL has not been found 😭 There are good men out there trapped in unimaginable temperatures and literally all that's needed is a little more funding for another rescue mission yet all you guys seem to care about are your vulgar little stories...
🧔🏻♂️ queerqueg Follow
the franklin expedition is dead as hell
👸🏻 girlbossladyjane Follow
Disgraceful thing to say but I'd expect nothing more from a M*lville fan
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👨🏻❤️💋👨🏻 hartgrindisreal
Sorry for posting so much about Tom Gradgrind/James Harthouse from Hard Times lately. It turns out that I was getting arsenic poisoning from my wallpaper? Anyway I took a seaside stroll and I'm normal now. Check your walls y'all
#whyyy did i assume they were committing unlawful actions together like where did i even get that from lol #hard times isn't even that good by dickens standards tbh
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🎨 asherbrowndurand
Just painted this
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RIP Napoleon... you may have been unable to conquer Alexander's Russia but you sure as hell conquered Alexander's bed
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HERITAGE POST
📝 shakespearesforehead Follow
How does this have less than 100k notes you could literally not avoid this post back in the 20s lol
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🌄 loyalromantic Follow
poets just aren't dying young in mysterious water-related incidents like they used to :/
#as useless and degenerative as i find 'the living poets' and i'm glad we're finally moving on from them #i have to agree with op in this respect
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🎀 thefopdiaries Follow
I finally got a daguerreotype of myself ^_^ Porcelain urn for scaling
📜 bartlebi-thescrivener
i think i hauve consumption
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🐋 whaler4life
They found oil in the ground??? WTF. THIS IS LITERALLY THE WORSTTTT. FUCK MY LIFE FOR REAL THIS TIME
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🌿 naturesnaturalist Follow
I swear this website has 0 reading comprehension skills. Darwin NEVER claimed we "evolved" from apes like if one of you guys actually bothered to open his new book you'll see all his arguments are backed up by evidence. He actually makes a lot of sense
#sure there's nuance like i don't fully agree with all of it #but his general theory of natural selection seems pretty sound imo
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Of course these are the finalists lmao this website is so predictable. Anyway vote Heathcliff if you dont i'm going to assume you're a phrenologist
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It's not problematic to acknowledge the fact that Heathcliff was a brute like he literally killed dogs in case you forgot. #rochestersweep
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I love the implication here that Rochester never did anything cruel either. He literally locked his wife in the attic and lied to Jane about it 😭 like that was a pretty significant thing that happened
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And? God forbid women do anything
#why'd you have to pit two bad bitches against each other #anyway i'm not attracted to men but still went with rochester #bc in terms of living quarters thornfield hall > wuthering heights easily
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👨🏻❤️💋👨🏻 hartgrindisreal
Not the Russian tsar dying immediately after hartgrind became canon
#i know dickens hasn't technically confirmed it yet but like. SOMETHING was strongly implied ok #see: my previous post #dickensposting
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👨🏻❤️💋👨🏻 hartgrindisreal
LORD HELP ME. THE BODY LANGUAGE. THE WAY THEY'RE LOOKING AT EACH OTHER. AHHHHHH
#this installment!!! im-- #dickensposting #i can't fucking cope #dickens wants to KILL us he wants us DEAD....
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⭐️ newamerican
Hi guys sorry I haven't been posting lately it's been so difficult getting to California 💀 I'm finally here now though just need to find a pickaxe and soon I'll be digging! :-) wish me luck lol
#gold #gold rush #gold rush grind #california #adventure
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In the absence of a clear and obvious angle to attack Bushnell’s protest, most likely due to his status as a serviceman that would make outright insulting him or suppressing the news itself scandalous, discussions on Western shores have now taken on the familiar framing of mental illness. In Time Magazine’s write-up of Bushnell’s death, the article finishes with a link to the suicide hotline, and asks readers to contact mental health providers if they are experiencing a “crisis.” Mark Joseph Stern, a writer at Slate, seemingly unasked, also wrote on Twitter/X:
“I strongly oppose valorizing any form of suicide as a noble, principled, or legitimate form of political protest. People suffering mental illness deserve empathy and respect, but it is wildly irresponsible to praise them for using a political justification to take their own life.”
Conviction does not exist to the American. To be willing to die in a selfless act for what they believe in only exists for those outside America's sphere of influence. Many will recall reporting on those who self-immolated in protest in Iran and in Russia for instance where this sort of approach, unwilling to engage with the root of its cause, would not even be entertained, let alone written and published with sincerity. The Arab Spring began with a self-immolation. The self-immolation of Buddhist monks in protest of South Vietnam’s persecution became defining images of the war and its corruption. Within America’s walls however, there is a belief, unspoken and ingrained from birth, that democracy allows for everyone’s voices to be heard and that its representatives are inherently inclined to respond to the people and their widespread wishes.
Desperation at inaction or complicity in terror and atrocity need not apply. Everyone incensed by their government to such an extent must simply have something wrong with them. To be able to go about one’s day knowing that children are screaming from the hunger that is eating their insides and that pregnant women are eating bread made from animal feed, and that the United States is supporting Israel’s creation of this famine, is apparently the real sign of well-adjustment.
Seamus Malekafzali, “The Words Burned Through His Throat: The Sacrifice of Aaron Bushnell,” February 26, 2024.
can i give adonis a roomba as a gift?
Koga: Thank you for the gift but... I think Adonis thinks it's a pet
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