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THAT FIRST SITE IS EVERY WRITER’S DREAM DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY TIMES I’VE TRIED WRITING SOMETHING AND THOUGHT GOD DAMN IS THERE A SPECIFIC WORD FOR WHAT I’M USING TWO SENTENCES TO DESCRIBE AND JUST GETTING A BUNCH OF SHIT GOOGLE RESULTS
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i had Gessekai stuck in my head for a couple days right before i found out that Atsushi Sakurai had passed away
the universe is so strange like that
it's left me with this weird, yearning, empty ache—i'm upset but it's tempered by...gratefulness i suppose you could say and theres this melancholic nostalgia
the first time i ever heard Buck-Tick, i was doing the thing i normally did in my depressed and lonely teens which was watch anime OnDemand (where all my Comc*st cable millennials at!!!!!)
id randomly pick one and watch it and that was the gist
the one i picked then was Nightwalker and btwn Gessekai as the OP and the content and themes of the show i was immediately smitten (im always a sucker for vampires, as it were)
ive admittedly been a rather casual B-T fan, but they still made an impression on me—my music taste, the things i watched, what i wanted for my gender presentation...Atsushi was sooooooooo gender for me before i could understand what it is that i wanted and who i was
i wanted to sound like that!!!
a few years back i went to karaoke with a couple close friends
i'd been on hrt for about a year or two by that point, and my voice had changed a lot
i decided to sing Dress, and was able to sound exactly how i wanted, and that was one of the first and biggest instances of concentrated gender euphoria—like, i did it!!! i did it!!!!!
and i think, maybe, i'd like to think that'd be a cute fan story he'd have enjoyed maybe
a few months ago, one of those hobby type stores opened downtown; you know the types with vinyls for OSTs and imports and vintage anime and films, old game consoles and the like
while i was there with my husb, i spotted the vhs tapes for Nightwalker in a display case
i got them all of course
it's not a great series, but it means a lot to me, it's weird impact on me cannot be overstated
anyways, i'm sitting here now with Gessekai still stuck in my head, debating if i want to pop one of the tapes into our little crt tv to let it play in the bg while i finish out my work day or if i want to forgo it because i can feel my eyes getting misty and burning and my throat tightening as my slowburn grief settles in
the connection of humanity is so strange, the power of music is even stranger
i dont know what the point of all this was; maybe i just wanted to get it out somewhere
ignore this 30-40 yr old sitting in his feelings lol
Love the contrast between the Americans’ “Apollo” and the Soviets’ “Sputnik.” You got the Americans naming their rocket after a Greek god trying to communicate the grandness and importance of this rocket. And you got the Soviets naming their rocket “fellow traveler.” Like a friend you go on an adventure with together. This rocket is our little friend lol
