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I'm an artist, actress, and musical addict. Loves JRPGs, animation, and musical theater! This is a place where I reblog a lot. More active on Twitter: @charaito

[charaito]

My friend Startales and I are big fans of the Tales of series. Every couple of years, we would participate in a group medley featuring other Tales fans and singers. This year, we decided to collaborate for the 21st anniversary of Tales of Symphonia and do a cover of Negai, the first ED of the anime OVA.

Star has such a gentle and warm voice, and I am so stoked I got to sing with her!

We've been planning this since late June of this year, hope you enjoy it!

Thanks for the memories, Tales of Symphonia! Happy 21st Anniversary!!  

Original Singer: Kaori Hikita

Video & Mixing: @charaito

Singers: Startales, @charaito

Lyrics taken from: https://www.animelyrics.com/jpop/hikitakaori/negai.htm

Art from:

[princesonic]

I dunno, stop apologizing for your art. This includes not posting enough, too much, changing style, inconsistent style, repetition, subject. Its your art its your expression. Have fun.

[miseria-fortes-viros]

“what’s your dream job” im so glad you asked. picture this. i am the lone employee of a strange and mysterious tchotchke/bookshop in the middle of nowhere, full of fun and interesting things that i am allowed to take for the low low price of free of charge. i get one, exceedingly interesting, customer per hour. i work no more than twenty hours a week and am salaried 3 million dollars

[everythingwillsurelybealright]

[befuddled-calico-whump]

by fossilisedflowers (found on instagram)

(I don't like to repost screenshots but they're not on Tumblr that I could find and I thought some of these ideas were great, so I wanted to share!)

[likes-words-and-shrimp]

Tales of Symphonia is a love story.

[just-vt]

Then I heard your heart beating, You were in the darkness too, So I stayed in the darkness With you ☆ﾟ*･｡ﾟ

[khairosclerosis]

🌷 marie colère est maintenant là devant toi

marie douceur n’est plus qu’un souvenir déjà

(ref painting under the cut)

love’s shadow - frederick sandys

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also hey while we’re down here i actually tried to do this 2 years ago n bruh look at this 💀 utter madness

- 🍊

[oneweekoneband]

Vienna Teng - Never Look Away

In my last post, I quoted Teng on how Aims is a more joyful album than its predecessors. I feel like “Never Look Away” is probably one of the best examples of this. It is, to me, a song about what a powerful thing it is to feel like someone actually sees you.

As someone who exists at the intersection of several marginalizations–someone poor, queer, disabled, indigenous…–I am used to other people ignoring or forgetting aspects of my identity. I don’t think it’s wilful or malevolent on their part. I suspect it’s just that it’s easy to fail to consider the ways in which someone’s experience is different from your own. It’s easy not to take the time to really pay attention to someone, to really make the effort to understand their experiences. It’s easy not to see them.

And that’s why “Never Look Away” resonates so strongly with me. It’s a song about compassion and about holding the entirety of someone’s experiences in your mind, refusing to ignore the parts that aren’t simple or familiar.

Let me uncover the silver in your dark hair The weight of your bones I want to witness the beauty of your repair The shape you’ve grown

[…]

I want your warm bright eyes To come back to me And hold on to me You know I won’t lie I will never look away

It’s a powerful statement, and one with a lot of love behind it.

[hartesa]

Day 3: Celsius (Tales of Symphonia)

[elwenyere]

-- Ted Chiang, from "Why A.I. Isn't Going to Make Art"

[oldshrewsburyian]

I'm so glad they got Ted Chiang -- a wonderful writer of science fiction and thinker about technology, in my opinion -- to write this essay. My favorite line was this:

Generative A.I. appeals to people who think they can express themselves in a medium without actually working in that medium.

[thefroglab]

before you beat yourself up for not cleaning, ask yourself:

is there a proper place to put the things you're tidying up?

[thefroglab]

a lot of times i would find myself struggling to finish cleaning things when the real problem was that I didn't actually have a permanent place for things to go once I had actually picked them up.

once I was making sure I had shelves or bins or organization things first, it became a lot easier to actually finish tidying things up since I knew where things were supposed to belong

[ghostofbriggiesmalls]

Oh.

[mutant-distraction]

The peregrine falcon is walking on the grass March 2025

Photography by James C SENGUL

Sony A1 / Sony 600MM F4 GM

instagram: jamessengul

[dogpuppy]

[skullchicken]

If you have achieved something, please remember to observe a mandatory period of basking in the warm glow of your achievement like a lizard on a stone, lest you teach your brain that effort is futile, actually, because it didn't get to enjoy its happy chemicals, so, naturally, nothing good ever comes of trying. (And no, avoiding punishment is not a reward!)

I recommend, like, 5% of basking time in relation to whatever time you invested into achieving the thing minimum. And if you can't make your own bask, friend-brought is fine (= tell your friends!).

[baredwolf]

Take what you need and pass it on:

A hug

A smile

A joke that makes you belly laugh

A snack

A butterfly in the sunshine

A grilled cheese cut diagonal and a forehead kiss

An encouragement: “You’ve got this!”

A nap

A high five

Voting ended onSep 19, 2025

[isuggestcompassion]

I support this compassion!!

[aptericia]

Give him your name and he’ll give you his!

[secondlina]

Existence is a group project.

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