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AnimagiC Day 3 (Sunday)

Keiko Instagram post 1 & 2 | Tweet by Keiko | Tweet by YK | Tweet by Joelle | Tweet by Keiko

Setlist August 6 Overture: Prologue Parade Distance Heaven (Kaori solo) lullaby (Yuriko solo) Parallel Hearts Sokyu no Fanfare Encore: Moonlight Melody

I have not come across any reports regarding the Meet&Greet on Sunday and whether the FJ girls were present for it as well. I doubt it though since Keiko didn't mention anything about it.

Check below the cut for a little link┗(•ˇ_ˇ•)―→

forionby

Ohhh thank you for the link! I've managed to see both shows from close distance (one from “Kaori side” & the other from “Joelle side”) & am still reliving them. Friday for me was more like “AAAA OMG THEYRE REAL ITS HPAPENIGN AAAA”, on Sunday I was able to listen more rationally (after having bawled my eyes out to PARADE & Consolation in a queue earlier that day, lol) but still melted in my place when Lullaby began ;____;

Needless to say, all the vocals were perfect; I've found a new appreciation for Joelle because of how passionate she was about the lyrics (even those she didn't have to sing :)); and of course, Keiko's command of the stage was a whole level above the rest of the Sacra crowd here…

Speaking of songs, I understood that Sokyu no Fanfare was a sure banger & made with live shows in mind, but the actual live version has exceeded any expectations. That's a song to ride into battle to with a smile :D But then Distance was probably the song best fit for the time & place, with “hageshiku yasuragi o yumemiteru” etc… And the four solo songs were just so touching, idk what else to say ;_;

Oh, and the “happy birthday” part :D I didn't even realize how much over the place the first attempt was, until hearing the recording X)) Fortunately the host dude conducted the second attempt properly after the encore (it's not on this recording, but I've seen it somewhere on twitter))

#yuki kajiura #fictionjunction #animagic 2023

swan-lutz

Anyone know what their shirts say

kittyprincessofcats

My Russian is rusty, but I’d translate that as “You/They can’t catch up to us”. I’m not sure, but it seems to be a “we’re better skaters than others, they’re not as good as us” thing.

forionby

that's a reference to the song “Not Gonna Get Us” by t.A.T.u., which was the final song for this show apparently there's nothing inherently political about it, but with plush around everything gets political because it's plush (funny enough, t.A.T.u. were the first to wear the “Х*й войне” (“F*ck war”) slogan in public, though back then they only protested the wars fought by USA and now their song is featured at a pro-war show, look how the turns have tabled)

#figure skating #russians being russian

prelude-numero-2

The last post of Evgenia Medvedeva (on instagram, 5 march 2022, link).

She is really, really brave, with the repression. Hope she is okay and safe right now.

#figure skating #evgenia medvedeva #ukraine

thecollectibles

Art by selected artists: Raja Nanadepu, Michal Kváč, Ujjal Santra, Serhii Kovalckhuk, (Yuumei) Wenqing Yan

9 Meaningful Ways You Can Help Ukraine

Want to Support the People in Ukraine? Here’s How You Can Help

#ukraine

rearrangethestarrs

if russia stops fighting, there will be no war. if Ukraine stops fighting, there will be no Ukraine.

@/ferdoreyko on tiktok

please support Ukrainian army!

Join. Money transfer from abroad: Fondy.eu – is the highest security level – PCI DSS Level 1. Transfer currency is Ukrainian Hryvnia.

#ukraine

alina-rubanenko

The Kremlin regime should be called Rushist regime — Ukraine’s Kyslytsya / UN Security Council

#ukraine

talestales-art

Its not the Ukraine crisis

It’s not Putin vs. NATO

It’s not russians vs. Ukraine

It’s not Putin vs. Biden

It’s Putin (and the Russian army) invading, threatening, provoking and attacking Ukraine. And they’ve been doing it for years. It’s the Russian-Ukraine war.

Don’t sit here and make WW3 or other jokes about it, you’re not “coping” with anything unless you’re directly/indirectly involved.

This isn’t your excuse to make jokes, you’re not in the war, you’re not forced to join an army for this, you’re not a civilian in the crossfire, you’re not a person in a country nearby fearing the future. And you’re definitely not a Ukrainian fleeing for their life and losing their (possible) hometown and maybe even country. You’re not a Ukrainian fearing their own life, not to mentioned their loved ones and home. Wars (and tragedies like this) never have and never will be funny.

Here are some posts that inform, give perspective and link to sites where you can help:

https://neweasterneurope.eu/2022/02/24/ukraine-under-attack-how-to-help/

On February 24 2022, the Russian army began a full scale attack against independent and free Ukraine.

https://savelife.in.ua/en/donate/

Join. Money transfer from abroad: Fondy.eu – is the highest security level – PCI DSS Level 1. Transfer currency is Ukrainian Hryvnia.

Screenshots from some of the Instagram links mentioned above:

#ukraine

lengthofropes

#ukraine

looool

#figure skating #olympics #ted barton

this just in: #shameOnTutberidze (#позорТутберидзе) is trending in Russia with 10K tweets in like 3 hours

#figure skating #olympics

julienbakerfavormp3-deactivated

Antigone, dead siblings are set. As for the living, pick me for a sister.

I, too, love a proper funeral. Drag, Dig, and Sisters’ Pop-Up Burial.

Landlady, I make the rounds of graves keeping up my family’s topnotch properties.

On a torture instrument called an accordion I stretch my fingers into those of a witch.

My guts have been emptied like bellows for the best sound.

Once we settle your brother, I’ll show you forests of the unburied dead. We’ll clean the way only two sisters can clean a house: no bones scattered like dirty socks, no ashes at the bottom of kneecaps.

Why bicker with husbands about dishes when we’ve got mountains of skulls to shine?

Labor and retribution we’ll share, not girly secrets.

Brought up by dolls and monuments, I have the bearings of a horse and a bitch, I’m waterproof, I’m cement in tears.

You can spot my graves from afar, marble like newborn skin.

Here, history comes to an end like a movie with rolling credits of headstones,

like a movie with nameless credits of mass graves.

Every ditch, every hill is suspect.

Pick me for a sister, Antigone. In this suspicious land I have a bright shovel of a face.

Valzhyna Mort, “To Antigone, A Dispatch”

#valzhyna mort #poetry #belarus

theoptia

Valzhyna Mort, from Music for the Dead and Resurrected: Poems; “Genesis”

Text ID: I’ve always preferred Cain. / His angry / loneliness, his / lack of mother’s / love, his Christian / sarcasm: “Am I / my brother’s keeper?” / asks his brother’s murderer. / Aren’t we indeed / the keepers of our dead?

#valzhyna mort #poetry #belarusian

Belarusian Musicians from IRDORATH band facing a long prison sentence for playing their music. They need our support!

“Musicians from the world-famous Belarusian fantasy-folk band IRDORATH (https://www.facebook.com/Irdorath.by/) were detained at a summer house near Minsk on August 2.

The detention with automatic weapon shooting took place at the birthday party of the band’s frontwoman Nadezhda Kalach. Some of the Irdorath band’s detained friends were already sentenced to imprisonment for 15 days, some of them were fined. And the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs reports that criminal proceedings have been instituted against six detainees. According to human rights activists, members of the band are charged with Art. 342 of the Criminal Code (Organization of actions that grossly violate public order). They face up to 4 years in prison.

The reason? They were playing bagpipes on the streets during the mass demonstrations in Minsk in August 2020. Those days in August 2020 hundreds of thousands of people across the country took to the streets in opposition to electoral fraud of the Lukashenko’s regime and unprecedented violence of security forces. Active but peaceful protests continued for several months. As a result, more than 35,000 were arrested on administrative charges. More than 4,000 criminal cases have been filed. More than 600 people are recognized as political prisoners by human rights organizations. And these numbers are growing every day.

The band members are in jail awaiting trial. Musicians can be sentenced up to 4 years in prison! 4 years for playing music!

How to support musicians within the campaign #freeIrdorath:

The Belarusian Council for Culture starts raising funds to support musicians. First of all, for lawyers, financial assistance to families.

Spread this information - for example, using the hashtag #freeIrdorath

All the money raised will be transferred to the protection, support, rehabilitation of the detainees at the birthday party of the Irdorath band’s leader.”

[link to the fundraising campaign]

#belarus #irdorath #folk rock #police brutality

NAVIBAND & VOLNY CHOR — “The Hanging Tree” cover — NEW VIDEO

“August 9 is the day we will never forget. The day we realised that we want to live in a free, modern, young, forward-looking country. But we remember well what has happened. Thousands beaten, wounded, sentenced, driven out of home. We have seen it with our eyes. We know the truth. And all this mayhem goes on still. We dedicate this video to all those who keep fighting and believing in our country and our people. Long Live Belarus!”

#naviband #volny chor #belarus #hunger games

vydumaj

Naviband - Пад дубам (The Hanging Tree from The Hunger Games movie in Belarusian)

July 3rd is Belarus official Independence Day, in the state calendar, and is the day of the Soviets liberated Minsk from Nazi occupation. This holiday is controversial, because Belarus did not achieve independence on that day. Between 1991 and 1996 July 3rd was celebrated as the liberation of Minsk day, but after a disputed referendum in 1996 it became Belarus Independence Day. Many Belarusians consider March 25th as Belarus’ Independence Day, which is more commonly referred to as Дзень волі meaning Freedom Day, because it was when the Belarusian People’s Republic declared independence from the Russian Empire in 1918.

(Please note that I’m not from Belarus myself and correct me if I’m wrong on anything.)

#naviband #belarus #hunger games

karlmarxverstappen

guys i think we should chill about the scores because in the end all that matters is that the athletes are getting to compete hopefully being safe from COVID and that Kaori Sakamoto will decapitate every single judge in her free program

#figure skating

kittykatninja321

My hypothesis is that in like 10 years gen z is gonna have a big cult boom the way the boomers did in the 70s

chazymandias

It’s already happening on tik tok. There’s a fun new thing going round that’s citing common symptoms of depression and anxiety as signs you’re about to have your awakening and that you are actually an alien and the reason you don’t feel right is because you’re home sick for your own galaxy. So that’s fun.

aleatoryw

agreed, and i don't mean this in a "haha gen z is so dumb they're gonna join a tiktok cult lmao" i mean that conditions are perfect for the formation of cults right now.

high unemployment and a lot of underpaying, pointless jobs = people are looking for things to do with their life, a purpose

skyrocketing cost of living = most young people will not be able to live on their own, meaning some will end up in a group living situation with people interested in recruiting them

it's a time of great cultural and political upheaval, nothing feels real, people are desperate for meaning and human connection. cults promise that

there is a new wave of acceptance and understanding for ways of life outside the norm, which is great! ...except for when cult leaders tell you abusive and controlling practices are just their culture, their religion, their lifestyle, their beliefs, their tradition, and if you disrespect it you are the problem

social media influencers have already shown us how easy it is to build a cult of personality and attract people from anywhere in the world who are interested in the exact brand you are selling

spirtuality is having a boom, as are things like astrology, crystals, tarot, meditation, energy... those things aren't bad on their own but they are often used as tools of cult spaces

wellness. i think a lot of people are already in wellness cults. you can make people do a lot of things in the name of "wellness" and a big factor of maintaining a cult is keeping members in a state of decreased cognition..... like say, with regular fasting

i think people are just unaware in general of how cults function, especially because the satanic panic was a big stupid false alarm that convinced the youths that dungeons and dragons or doom were gateways to cults, which are scary evil child murdering, satan-worshipping gangs. people don't know how to spot them in real life.

apple-dandy

So if that's the case everyone remember with me the cardinal rules of not getting cult'd

SOCIAL BUFFER: Learn what healthy social boundaries are and develop relationships which are within those boundaries.

Be wary of those who step on your or others' boundaries. Be there for your friends, but don't be their therapists or parents. Go get coffee or juice or snacks & chat casually with a friendly crew on a regular basis.

ESTEEM BUFFER. Recognize that you and every other person on this planet are owed a baseline of respect.

Respect means that what you wear, what/who you take interest in, and who/what you are are things which you decide on based on your own reasoning. If anyone is trying to change your mind, make sure to think critically about their side and decide for yourself whether you want to change. Ask: Why do they want you to change? Is that valid to your situation? Who / what would benefit from this change? Do you want them / it to benefit? Then decide for yourself.

RELAXATION BUFFER. Take time exclusively for yourself.

Take care of your body and mind when it needs to be fed, watered, washed, or nurtured. Have a couple hobbies that are just for you. Have more than one interest. Think about more than just one topic. Cults keep you focused on them to the exclusion of all else, so don't allow yourself to be blocked in.

BUBBLE POP BUFFER: Learn from multiple sources, even ones you don't like or respect.

Read multiple sources' versions of events before you decide what you feel about something. Recognize that not all sources are valid, but understand what those invalid sources are trying to do. Are they misguided or malicious? Who are THEIR sources? What is the agenda? Who benefits? Why would they want to say what they're saying? Do they have a point? Who pays them? What do they care about? Then make your decision.

BEWARE THE B.I.T.E.: Cults control people via Behavior, Information, Thought, and Emotion control. BITE

Look up the BITE model and consider it against groups you wish to join / have joined.

Remember. You are the arbiter of your mind.

You have the blessing and burden of making your own decisions. Other people who will love and care about you throughout your life will want you to think for yourself and will think for themselves.

You are not alone. You are worthwhile. Your thoughts are your own and you have every right to control them yourself.

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