Daikon

She/Her(s) | Mostly Sailor Moon, mental health, and social justice | Find me on Ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/users/Daikon1

[daikon1]

Thirsty For Your Love

https://archiveofourown.org/works/79072786/chapters/207434901

Mamoru has had months to acclimate to his crush on a certain bun head. Finally, he’d gotten his feelings down to nothing but a dull ache – so why exactly is Usagi becoming more irresistible by the day?

[musashi]

Hey can you guys reblog Cheeseburger so he can take a sunbeam nap on lots of blogs. No other reason I just want you guys to see him.

[musashi]

So, Cheeseburger died on November 21st after an unfairly short battle with an unfairly rare cancer that is rarely seen in cats. I only got to spend a month with him after his diagnosis, and losing him has been the greatest heartbreak of my entire life so far. He was my best friend and my soul cat, and he was there for me when I was completely alone, for twelve long years.

I made this transparent PNG the night he died in preparation for one of the many ways I was going to memorialize him--a surface rug in his likeness that I planned on laying directly in the line of his favourite sunbeam. And I uploaded that PNG here, because this is the website where people post their cats.

I was not expecting the reception I got. Many people have pointed out that this post has more reblogs than likes, and how insane that is in 2025 when reblog culture is at an all time low. I didn't even talk about the fact that Burger passed away in the original post, it wasn't a tearjerker reblog bait or anything like that. People just loved Burger that much, in the same way I fell in love with him at first sight. He was such an ugly kitten.

Anyways, it's really special to me that so many people have reblogged my best friend. I made this PNG to memorialize him in a completely different way, and you all wound up doing just that in ways I never even imagined.

Thank you. Wherever he is, I know the sun is shining.

[eeadrawings]

Tutu polyphon Around 40 characters are represented. Translations and more close-ups under the cut.

To fit with the episode 14 character Nyājinsky (after Vaslav Nijinsky), the other real-life names are animalized as well (mostly in Japanese or English, like Gutenberg to Goosenberg, Taglioni to Toraglioni, etc.), so I included them with the German translations. And I don’t speak German, so feel free to correct me on anything.

Blumenwalzer = Waltz of the Flowers

Nussknacker und Mausekönig = The Nutcracker and the Mouse King E. T. A. Hooffmann = E. T. A. Hoffmann D. D. Druckerpresse = D. D. + printing press

Schwanensee Quellenforschung = Swan Lake Sources and Influences Der geraubte Schleir = The Stolen Veil Johane Kārl Auspist Musäugurs = Johann Karl August Musäus (hane = feather, kā = crow sound/ auspice and augur [bird omens] might be hard to pick out of the others) Die weiße Ente = The White Duck Alewander Arfaunasyip = Alexander Afanasyev (wan = dog sound) Schwanenjungfrau Folklore-Traditionen = Swan Maiden Folklore Traditions Umazurakōmorinosuke (episode 21 bat. His name in the credits is pretty funny, as he’s a hammer-headed bat, so he’s umazura [horse-faced], kōmori [bat], then nosuke, a suffix that gives off an assistant/administrative/old-timey vibe [it was originally a title used for samurai working as government officials in the Edo era], hence him being an assistant at the library circulation desk). Der Märchenkönig: Ludcyg II. Biografie = The Fairy Tale King: Ludwig II Biography (cyg = cygnus [swan]. This influence is partially debatable, as some claims of it are due to Ludwig II’s 1886 lake drowning, which was after Swan Lake’s 1877 premiere [but to complicate things, the most common ending is from 1895 libretto, so it remains a possibility with any after]. But Tchaikovsky’s contemporaries did say he was inspired by Ludwig II, who was also known as the Swan King and an infamous Wagner fan and patron. Leading to Swan Lake’s many Wagner/medieval Germanic legend similarities, like the Siegfrieds in both the Ring Cycle and Swan Lake falsely confess their love to another woman due to the enemy’s magical deception and their unintentional betrayal of Brünnhilde/Odette causes all their deaths, Brünnhilde’s immolation and return of the ring to the Rhine’s waters lifting its curse compared with Odette and Siegfried drowning in the lake lifting the swan maidens’ curse [in later versions], Lohengrin being the Knight of the Swan, Gottfried enchanted into a swan by Ortrud, the relationship between swan maidens and either valkyrie or the Knight of the Swan in folklore, etc. Then, the swan theme is pretty undeniably derived from Lohengrin’s forbidden question leitmotif, and both represent impending tragedy as well). Eichenbaum von Goldkrone = Oak tree of Kinkan/Goldkrone Buchleute verboten = Bookpeople-banned (I’ve mostly seen them translated as “bookmen,” but they’re 図書の者 / tosho no mono, which doesn’t specify gender). Pike Lilie

Trilby; oder Die Fee von Argyll = Trilby; or, The Fairy of Argyll (La Sylphide basis) Charles Tsunodier = Charles Nodier (tsuno = horns or antlers) Vorwort = Foreword Ein Rezept für „Bravo!“ Spitzenschuh-Frikassee = A Recipe for “Bravo!” Pointe Shoe Fricassee (Rue mentions the legend of Marie Taglioni’s fans eating her shoes in episode 9. Tutu’s costume is also partially inspired by Taglioni’s in La Sylphide). Marie Toraglioni = Marie Taglioni (tora = tiger) Nachwort = Afterword Schottenstoff pas de chat: die Grundlagen für ein haarfrei Kilt = Tartan pas de chat: The Fundamentals for a (Cat) Hair-free Kilt (pas de chat is a ballet leap meant to look like a cat [chat]). Nyājinsky Scheherausgabe = Scheherazade + publishing (herausgabe)

Das hässliche Entlein = The Ugly Duckling Honks Chriswigeon Gandersen = Hans Christian Andersen Goosenberg = (Johannes) Gutenberg

The next part (library checkout card on the right) can only be read on the unskewed version attached at the end. Buch-Nr. = Book number / P22 / 16.08.2002 / 26.AKT (Akt = ballet act or scene. Used in Tutu’s episode titles) Verfasser = Author / D. D. Drosselmeyer Titel = Title / Prinz und Rabe = The Prince and the Raven Ausgeliehen = Borrowed / Leser = Reader / Zurückgegeben = Returned Uzura! (Fakir is correcting her writing) 15.AKT Autor 26.AKT (he’s testing out author’s signatures for his future tragic masterpiece) 10.AKT Waniko 26.AKT / 15.AKT Armajirō 26.AKT / 18.AKT Boayo 18.AKT / 17.AKT Montand 17.AKT / 9.AKT Yagiko-sensei 26.AKT / 19.AKT Lysander 26.AKT 21.AKT Marie und Clara 21.AKT (Two extras listed in the credits. Marie is the main character of The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, while Clara is usually her name in the ballet adaptation) 1.AKT Fakir 26.AKT (It’s supposed to look like his handwriting in episode 23. A cool detail in the show is that when he’s possessed by Drosselmeyer in 25, his handwriting looks different and much more sophisticated) Schwanz (Uzura drew a picture of Ahiru as a duck and tried to write the word for “tail” [Schwanz], but instead wrote the word for “swan” [Schwan], so Fakir added in the Z)

[bambistjames]

non-writers will never understand the mental illness of writing an entire conversation in your head while doing dishes and then forgetting every word the second you open a blank doc

[heliphantie]

One character I seemed to forget when submitting for Favorite Dad tournament (I can't remember if I included him back then, it was long ago) is Mamoru (from manga and 90s series as well). Though I'm not sure if he would end in final lineup or if people could vote for him in big numbers, because audience tends to be weird about every aspect of him and his relationships.

Anyway, despite him not having children (yet) in main timeline of the story, he shows signs of being capable parent figure, especially for someone who was denied a proper family in very young age and living independently in his late adolescence. In both manga and corresponding anime storyline, he makes caring and attentive guardian for a kid who he doesn't even know yet is his future daughter (resulting in her developing precocious misguided crush on him, which people tend to take at face value and act scandalized about), and it's indicated in flashbacks of her that he took most of parenting over while his regal wife was busy with ruling the world, thus Chibiusa having much stronger connection with him than with her seemingly distant mother. In anime series in particular, Mamoru in everyday civil form appears to be quite a dork and, despite having conventionally romantic alter ego, doesn't seem exactly fit into the role of perfect suitor, but he seems to be someone who's rather cut for a role of stable life partner and familial figure once he's welcomed into Usagi's family and especially after becoming a parent himself.

"Those are my future wife and daugther!"

Attached is my 2022 fanart made to commemorate his birthday (in beginning of August).

[shamebats]

Since there is a wave of anti-birth control propaganda, this is your reminder that the birth coontrol pill was responsible for 30% more women graduating with college degrees between 1970-1990

[cwicseolfor]

Also a whole lot of people need it to hold down a job or stay in school regardless of reproductive risk: it offers menstrual control. It can be the difference between debilitating, bedbound periods and normal function. It’s medicine. It’s also very cheap to produce and returns soooo many thousands of dollars to the economy for every dollar it costs, so don’t let anyone make a false financial argument about it.

[sanshofox]

Muah 😘

[whitepeopletwitter]

[drownedinlight]

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: that hotline is forvo.com. It’s a pronunciation dictionary that allows you type in a word and see how it’s pronounced. They have multiple languages as well. Don’t see a word on there that you know how to pronounce? You can totally add it. Visit forvo. Help yourself.

[defectivegembrain]

that is much better than a hotline because you don’t have to actually talk to someone

[mikilynnarts]

Some Usamamo

For my soul 💙🩷💙

[podcastwizard]

affirmations for writers: i know how to write. i have seen sentences before, and i know how to make one. i can identify up to several words and their meanings. i am not afraid of semicolons.

[16th-of-a-twigg]

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[thelatestkate]

Shop , Patreon , Books and Cards , Mailing List

[piro-piroooooo]

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this one was soooo fun lol they're eating sopita de sus enemigos (pozole)

[joeyclaire]

you are not an endearingly rude and unfriendly cartoon character you need to be nice to people

[risarei]

“here’s your order s—”

[3000s]

i just realized the only 2 options arent "make someone angry" or "do what they want"

[3000s]

being in love is like you learn theres other reactions people have besides angry or not angry

[3000s]

love when its safe

[w-o-w-b-a-g-g-e-r]