break up your paragraphs. big paragraphs are scary, your readers will get scared
fuuuuck epithets. “the other man got up” “the taller woman sat down” “the blonde walked away” nahhh. call them by their names or rework the sentence. you can do so much better than this (exception: if the reader doesn’t know the character(s) you’re referring to yet, it’s a-okay to refer to them by an identifying trait)
blunette is not a thing
new speaker, new paragraph. please.
“said” is such a great word. use it. make sweet love to it. but don’t kill it
use “said” more than you use synonyms for it. that way the use of synonyms gets more exciting. getting a sudden description of how a character is saying something (screaming, mumbling, sighing) is more interesting that way.
if your summary says “I suck at summaries” or “story better than summary” you’re turning off the reader, my dude. your summary is supposed to be your hook. you gotta own it, just like you’re gonna own the story they’re about to read
follow long sentences w short ones and short ones w long ones. same goes for paragraphs
your writing is always better than you think it is. you just think it’s bad because the story’s always gonna be predicable to the one who’s writing it
Yea so this blog hasn’t been updating much, huh? It’s cause we all can’t find our muses I guess. Here’s something though, in honor of Ritsu’s birthday and stuff. But like what did you expect from me, I wouldn’t be serving my mod name well if I didn’t write something for the good ol’ buchou, right?
M-most people don’t t-talk like th-this when they st-stutter from n-nerves.
It’s more…it’s more like going back and…and starting over. Maybe repeating some, some words.
Bonus tip: this is ESPECIALLY true in thoughts. Thoughts are a lot more fluid than speech because there’s no physical barrier to get past when they form into words.
Yui: asexual, the appeal of sex doesnt make sense to her. Very gay though, so homoromantic; and has a type that is dark haired composed guitarists. (cough~ Azusa, Mio, Akira, etc.)
Azusa: repressed gay. Thinks she was straight because of social upbringing and denies her gay until Yui goes off to college and she realizes how much she misses Yui more than the other seniors.
Ritsu: the gayest fucking lesbian you’ll ever fucking meet. All men are bros to her could never see herself dating or having sex with one. Though she has intense sexual needs, the thirst must be quenched. Wow has mio always been this attractive?
Mio: Repressed gay with intense needs. INTENSE NEEDS. Thinks she has to be straight cause that’s what is expected of her, then thinks she’s bisexual cause she tries to date men, but it just doesn’t work out (all men are animals). She’s kinda trying to reason to herself that men are attractive but wow girls are really cute especially tomboyish ones with large foreheads and wild personalities. Ends up being really super gay for Ritsu and will never love anyone else the same way.
Mugi: Pansexual, but has a preference for girls. Honestly, she’s more concerned that her friends romantic lives get figured out before her own and seeing them happy brings happiness onto herself (not like that, you lewd ass sickos). Unrelated but she would be the most comfortable being casually nude out of the the five of them.
Nodoka: what is love? What is sex? I dont have time for that shit. Im a CAREER WOMAN.
Jun: Token straight friend. She’s that tomboy that despite everyone thinks is a lesbian, actually likes guys and what ends up happening is that cliche thing in teen movies where she’ll try to act more girly to woo her crush but then he’s like “wtf no i like you cause youre a tomboy pls go back to who you are before.”
Akira: Bisexual, likes that one guy from high school (the one who’s name I forgot but works at a record label or something) but it doesn’t work out. She’s a killer with the girls and gives in cause “yea i guess girls are just as cute as guys.”
Ayame: The second gayest lesbian you’ll ever meet but probably has trouble getting into a dedicated relationship cause getting girls to fall for you is hard.
Sachi: the “you fall in love with a person not a gender” kind of person and is still patiently waiting for that person to come through her life, but is not actively looking for when they do. (cough… Mugi~)
Sumire: Doesn’t understand why people are worked up with sexuality. Doesn’t identify as anything (labels kind of confuse her) and doesn’t really know either, so maybe when someone comes that shes attracted to it’ll all sort out. Mostly since Mugi is pan, Sumire would also be open to it too.
Nao: Is too busy trying to figure out her life to think about sex and romance. She has brothers to take care of goddamnit. Probably straight, or bisexual once she figures out what’s even going on.
Satoshi: Also token straight friend. He’s the best ally and doesn’t care what other people are into, mostly because he’s watched Ritsu and Mio’s relationship evolve over the years like it was the most natural thing in the world. But for him… girls, man. Girls. Are. Cute. As. Fuck.
I FORGOT UI! (I was just copying this from messages on discord, forgive me) -Mod Ritsu
Ui: Bisexual, though prefers men. Girls are cute but she'll probably end up with a metrosexual guy and they'll have a happy stable relationship with no angst ever that it's almost creepy.
Yui: asexual, the appeal of sex doesnt make sense to her. Very gay though, so homoromantic; and has a type that is dark haired composed guitarists. (cough~ Azusa, Mio, Akira, etc.)
Azusa: repressed gay. Thinks she was straight because of social upbringing and denies her gay until Yui goes off to college and she realizes how much she misses Yui more than the other seniors.
Ritsu: the gayest fucking lesbian you'll ever fucking meet. All men are bros to her could never see herself dating or having sex with one. Though she has intense sexual needs, the thirst must be quenched. Wow has mio always been this attractive?
Mio: Repressed gay with intense needs. INTENSE NEEDS. Thinks she has to be straight cause that’s what is expected of her, then thinks she’s bisexual cause she tries to date men, but it just doesn’t work out (all men are animals). She’s kinda trying to reason to herself that men are attractive but wow girls are really cute especially tomboyish ones with large foreheads and wild personalities. Ends up being really super gay for Ritsu and will never love anyone else the same way.
Mugi: Pansexual, but has a preference for girls. Honestly, she’s more concerned that her friends romantic lives get figured out before her own and seeing them happy brings happiness onto herself (not like that, you lewd ass sickos). Unrelated but she would be the most comfortable being casually nude out of the the five of them.
Nodoka: what is love? What is sex? I dont have time for that shit. Im a CAREER WOMAN.
Jun: Token straight friend. She's that tomboy that despite everyone thinks is a lesbian, actually likes guys and what ends up happening is that cliche thing in teen movies where she'll try to act more girly to woo her crush but then he's like "wtf no i like you cause youre a tomboy pls go back to who you are before."
Akira: Bisexual, likes that one guy from high school (the one who’s name I forgot but works at a record label or something) but it doesn’t work out. She’s a killer with the girls and gives in cause "yea i guess girls are just as cute as guys."
Ayame: The second gayest lesbian you'll ever meet but probably has trouble getting into a dedicated relationship cause getting girls to fall for you is hard.
Sachi: the "you fall in love with a person not a gender” kind of person and is still patiently waiting for that person to come through her life, but is not actively looking for when they do. (cough... Mugi~)
Sumire: Doesn’t understand why people are worked up with sexuality. Doesn’t identify as anything (labels kind of confuse her) and doesn’t really know either, so maybe when someone comes that shes attracted to it'll all sort out. Mostly since Mugi is pan, Sumire would also be open to it too.
Nao: Is too busy trying to figure out her life to think about sex and romance. She has brothers to take care of goddamnit. Probably straight, or bisexual once she figures out what’s even going on.
Satoshi: Also token straight friend. He’s the best ally and doesn’t care what other people are into, mostly because he’s watched Ritsu and Mio’s relationship evolve over the years like it was the most natural thing in the world. But for him… girls, man. Girls. Are. Cute. As. Fuck.
First of all, oh my god I’m so sorry I didn’t get back to you ASAP, it’s been crazy the past few days/weeks, that and I’m just lazy as all hell.
To be honest, I still don’t know where I’m going with this blog. If you ask certain people, they’ll say that I created this blog as a way for me and those people to make collabs between fics, make headcanons, and recommend fics all within one name, at the same time, I did recruit only those people to be on this blog, mostly because they were the first people that I had on mind that are writers, and the ones that I trust the most. I’m pretty sure that I won’t change the mod team anytime soon.
Speaking of @redlerred7 we need to rec your stories because yeesh, man, they’re quality gems... I guess
I mean that’s because I saw the excerpts in the discord i’msorry
Challenge time: What kinds of exotic (non-Japanese) snack/candy would each K-On! girl end up liking, if they tried it?
YO OK UM Ritsu would like chips!! Not exactly the Doritos headcanoned by @badartforrecess in the houkago meme time au, but in that ballpark. I chose this because in canon, she says she values full meals over snacks. But, she would only like the ones from like Lays or some shit with the really unique flavors, like Truffle Fries or New York Reuben. Makes up for the meal part. If not like pizza rolls or some shit honestly because I can’t see Ritsu not eating them HAMio would like s'mores. I was thinking about it and started with like a few chocolate bars, but then I remembered the references she made to marshmallows in fuwa fuwa time. So, I put the two together and there came s'mores. Mio likes sweet things. Sickly sweet things. And spending quality time with her friends. If the keions ever went camping, Mio would love sitting around the fire making s'mores but she would freak out every like, 5 seconds because of bugs and darkness. A bit off topic, but I feel like Ritsu would buy those flavored crickets and try to get Mio to eat them.Mugi, being Mugi, would probably be extremely fascinated with other cultures (since she is well travelled after all) as well as the snacks. Because we all know Mugi loves snacks. I’m pretty confident in the fact that she’s in love with macarons. Not the shitty coconut type, the French ones. She always brings them for the club, and they are a very sought after dessert after all. Very expensive too. Perfect for Moogs.Azusa at first I thought about what “serious” snacks she would like. Yanno, like the shit matured and slightly cynical adults eat. Like Mounds. Or chocolate that’s 90% cocoa. But then I remembered about this one anime that I watched a long time ago, I can’t remember the specifics, but a character almost exactly like Azusa went to a carnival with a few others and was super intrigued by the food there. So, I believe Azusa would like cotton candy. She does have a big soft spot for sweets, after all. And she probably finds the spinning of the candy floss super interesting. Oh, and to anyone reading this, just try imagining Azusa taking one of her tiny nibbles into some cotton candy and tell me it’s not a match made in heaven lmao Yui, we all know loves every food she comes across. Like, shit, she devours truckloads of it. So, it’s very hard to headcanon a specific thing she likes. I thought about it for a while, and pinpointed Pop Rocks. Yui’s pretty uh… “childish”… so she’ll love the naive sensation of trying Pop Rocks for the first time. And I’m like, 100% sure she’ll get Mugi in on it too and they’ll both be making “oooh!” Sounds as the others watch and listen to the crackling noises in confusion.
No its cool thank you for the wall of text! Something about discords scare me off but I'll give it a try
Mod Ritsu: Don't worry man, we're a great community! Actually, it's one of the only discord servers I've stayed active in because of the people. I'm not gonna force you if you're uncomfortable, but at least give it a go at some point.
Also do you ever think mio frets over uncontrollable things like, oh man what if ritsu dies first, how long will until then, when is then? And (I have a personal Head cannon mio has panic attacks) if she did have one, would mitsu be there to talk her through it and keep her grounded.
Mod Ritsu: oh MAN do I! I actually have this sequel headcanon for my not yet written pathfinder AU about how Mio lives after Ritsu’s death (her death is still to be decided, this was just a offhand thing). And don’t get me started on all the fanfics where Ritsu DIES. But yea, it always goes back to Ritsu probably dying first from either recklessness or not taking care of body or just crappy genes. I’‘d like to believe that Mio is always worried about Ritsu getting into something way over her head so that’s why Mio’s always so hard on Ritsu.
I also have headcanons of Mio having minor anxiety (probably social anxiety) and Ritsu knows when to stop her teasing and be a stabilizer for Mio, especially as they grow older and more mature. I touched a little on it in Casual Cuddling but given the time, I might go into depth with it. I also have this one headcanon about Ritsu being depressed but represses it to the extreme. This one stems off of Mezase Happy 100%
If you also asked that question about becoming a mod, I’d ask Mod Mio for that... He’s the one really in charge of this blog. I just shitpost some headcanons sometimes and write grossly cute mitsu fluff.
Sorry, wall of text. I ramble on sometimes xD but if you want to talk to me more about it, join our discord. I tend to talk a lot of mitsu. and i mean A LOT OF MITSU. Anyways, hopefully you got something out of this maybe?
Update: the date is supposed to be 6/24/17. It took hours until someone pointed this out to me cause apparently I have lost the concept of what the passage of time is.
Hello everyone! I told you a while back that there were some things we were working on, and I’m so happy to finally be able to share it with all of you!!
Introducing, Moe Moe K-Yun!
This is going to be a K-On! rewatch podcast in which each podcast episode focusing one each of the episodes of K-On! as well as talking about a few of the songs releases with the series. It will be hosted by me (Mod Ritsu) and Monica (Mod Jun), but will occasionally feature some guests from the K-On! discord server. Episodes will come out bi-weekly, with the first dropping on the 24th of Jun(e)!
Be sure to follow the Moe Moe K-Yun! tumblr to stay up-to-date with the episodes!
Also special thanks to everyone on MLiaFF and the K-On! discord that have been super supportive of my production of this podcast. This is like my child that I’m raising from the ground up and I really hope it goes places.
I’m so excited to share this with you all and I hope you enjoy listening to it! See you on the 24th!
Look me in the eye and tell me Ritsu doesn't like laying in Mio's lap (and possibly taking naps). I dare you. Also, I'd like to think that Mio likes running her fingers through Ritsu's hair. It calms Ritsu down and gets her to fall asleep in the first place. -Mod Ritsu
Loosely based on @otpisms‘ OTP Idea #828: Imagine Person A of your OTP trying to sneak into their significant others house, Person B, without their parents knowing.
Honestly, I don’t even know what I’m writing anymore. This was supposed to be a drabble, but somehow ended up over 2k words long. My writing might also be getting progressively worse, I’m not sure, but here’s something for you guys anyways since not much has been posted on here. Sorry for the lowkey door puns at the end...
Also expect to see this on my Of Rice and Pens collection on FFN sometime in the future.
Ritsu groaned as she felt the reverberations of her phone vibrate through her pillow. The girl had passed out again after talking to her best friend late at night.
Who the hell’s calling me right now? Ritsu complained to herself as she lazily slid a hand under her pillow to retrieve the pestering device. Sliding the phone open, Ritsu squinted against the phone’s light to check the caller ID.
[2:23am Incoming Call: Dangerous Queen]
Mio? What is she still doing up? The drummer thought to herself. Both of them still had school the next morning, and usually it was the bassist herself who berated Ritsu for staying up too late and sleeping in when they had to get to school. Squeezing her eyes shut from the pain of the artificial light, she pressed the answer button and pressed the phone to her ear.
The drummer grumbled something to acknowledge her presence on the line, but was barely able to formulate her syllables properly from the drowsiness.
“Ritsu, are you awake?” Even when half conscious, Ritsu could still hear the uneasiness of her voice.
Ritsu answered in a grumble that neither confirmed nor denied the question.
“Why,” her sentence was cut off with a long yawn, “why are you calling me so late?”
“I-I just couldn’t sleep. And I know you, you probably passed out again when you didn’t reply to my text but… I don’t know. I just needed someone to talk to.”
Ritsu knew that Mio would occasionally have trouble sleeping, caused by either her social anxiety or her never-ceasing thoughts.
“What’s up?” Ritsu forced herself to sit up so that she wouldn’t fall asleep on her friend while she was talking. Mio began spilling out what was on her mind. She wasn’t particularly anxious about anything, but she had be so worked up about needing to write new songs for the band and college entrance exams that her mind was on stuck on overdrive. Ritsu simply had an ear to lend and would soak in everything the bassist said, knowing that through the venting and ranting Mio would eventually run herself to exhaustion.
Except tonight, it seemed that Mio’s thoughts were particularly rampant. Everything she said would segway to a new thread of thoughts and the girl would go on tangent after tangent. Ritsu knew that at this rate, neither of them would get any sleep. There had to be a way for Ritsu to get her childhood friend to calm down enough to get a little bit of rest. The drummer glanced at her bedside clock.
[3:04am]
Ritsu frowned. Mio had been talking on for over half an hour and it didn’t sound like she was stopping any time soon. The drummer was actually surprised, it was rare for the bassist to be this talkative. But, she couldn’t bring herself to ask the dark-haired girl to stop. Ritsu knew that even if she told Mio to sleep, odds were that Mio would just end up lying awake drowning herself in her own thoughts and at best getting restless sleep.
An idea popped into the brunette’s head. She continued to acknowledge the girl on the other end of the phone line, but proceeded to sneak down to her front door and slip on some shoes. Mio’s house was not far, probably a ten minute walk at best from her own house. Ritsu knew she would get there before Mio was able to tire herself out.
Mio couldn’t figure out why her thoughts would not stop reeling tonight. Even after she realized Ritsu had fallen asleep during their text conversation, Mio couldn’t get herself to fall asleep. She had given up trying to fall asleep and got up from her bed, maybe she could expel her thoughts if she tried to write lyrics for a new song. But even with all the thoughts rampaging in her head, she had trouble formulating the ideas into lyrics that flowed nicely. She began getting rather aggravated at herself for her inability to compose and control her own thoughts. Random ideas would fly in but would lose momentum and die out just as fast. The bassist couldn’t keep her mind on any one particular thing, but she also couldn’t get the stream of consciousness to stop
At that point, Mio decided to call her childhood friend. In hindsight, it probably would have been better for Mio to allow the drummer to sleep; but unless she vented out her thoughts to someone, she probably wouldn't be able to sleep at all tonight.
It was understandable that Ritsu did not put much input in the conversation, Mio was not expecting the drummer to do so. The girl answered the phone half asleep and Mio had initially called simply hoping that her rambling would eventually tire herself out. She knew that Ritsu understood that much when the drummer didn’t flat out tell her to go to sleep and hang up. But it had been almost an hour and Mio’s thoughts were still driving at full speed. She had no concept of how long she had actually had been talking until the girl on the other end of the phone line suddenly cut her off.
“Mio.” Ritsu’s voice was more firm than when she had originally picked up the phone, though a hint of drowsiness still shone through.
“Huh?” Mio glanced at her wall clock.
[3:17am]
“I’m so sorry. How long have I been talking? Crap, we still have school tomorrow, and we need to sleep. I’ve kept you up with my rambling, I’m sorry. I just thought that saying it to someone would help me-”
“Mio, stop. I know. But could you open the door?”
Mio halted immediately. Her thoughts blanked out for the first time that night. Open the door? Why would I open the door?
“Is this another prank? Cause if it is, I’m not falling for it. Scaring me is not going to help me fall asleep, you know that.”
Mio heard a tired sigh come from the phone line.
“No, Mio. I’m outside, and it’s kinda cold. Please open the door for me?”
“RITSU!” Mio couldn’t scream, as her parents were asleep, but the same harshness still cut through even in her hushed tone. “What are you doing at my house?! It’s the middle of the night!”
The bassist stood from her bed and carefully exited her room, not wanting to cause too much noise as she made her way down the stairs to the front door as Ritsu provided an explanation over the phone.
“You didn’t seem like you were going to stop; and besides, I know even if I told you to stop and go to sleep, you probably wouldn’t. So I came to make sure you went to sleep.”
Mio opened the door and glared daggers at the drummer. Ritsu came simply in her pajamas and gave a wide grin to the bassist.
“Just get in here, idiot.”
Mio moved out of the way to let Ritsu in, planting her fist into the drummer’s skull as the latter passed through. The latter released a whimper of pain but proceeded to climb the staircase as she nursed her head wound. The two snuck back into Mio’s room and shut the door behind them.
“Did you even think this through?” Mio scolded the drummer. “You didn’t even bring anything with you! You know we have school tomorrow, and you don’t have your uniform.”
Ritsu yawned and waved it off. “It’ll be fine. I’m pretty sure I left my other uniform here the last time I came over.”
“How can you be so sure?”
“Cause it’s in a pile over there in the corner where I always leave my stuff when I’m over.”
Mio looked over her shoulder, and among all of the clutter in the bassist’s room, there in the corner was Ritsu’s extra uniform. It was still dirty and wrinkled from getting tossed there, but that was something they would have to figure out in the morning.
All Mio could do was roll her eyes and began to move toward her closet to grab the extra futon. Ritsu managed to stop her with a grab at the wrist.
“Oh no you don’t. You’re getting in that bed and going to sleep.”
“But what about-”
“Mio we’ve shared a bed countless of times since we were kids. It’s also past 3:30 in the morning and I just want to pass out at this point. Not to mention you need to sleep too and I’m going to make sure you do. Now get in that bed woman.”
Mio could only grumble as a response to the drummer’s demands but proceeded to heed them. The two made their way under the covers of Mio’s bed. The two said their good nights and Ritsu quickly nodded off to sleep in her exhaustion. So much for making sure Mio went to sleep properly.
Mio was still slightly restless. Her thoughts were now dominated with worries of how they would deal with Ritsu’s sudden idea to sleep over. How would she explain to her parents why Ritsu was here? What about Ritsu’s uniform? Would they even wake up on time? It was already so late. Mio couldn’t help but brace herself for the consequences of this whole ordeal.
Next to her, Ritsu laid sleeping soundly, as if she hadn’t even gotten up and walked to Mio’s house in the middle of the night. Her breathing was slow and shallow, but had put Mio into a calming spell. The raven-haired girl couldn’t help but smile at Ritsu’s antics. Though some of her ideas could be spontaneous, the drummer did show some concern for the bassist’s health every so often. Hell, the girl walked down a couple blocks in the middle of the night dressed only in her pajamas just to make sure Mio went to sleep properly.
Mio found herself getting drowsy quite easily in the company of her childhood friend. Perhaps it was the comfortable warmth radiating from the body sleeping next her her. It wasn’t quite winter yet, but the chill was starting to set in. Mio would never admit it to anyone else, but having Ritsu around gave her such comfort that even being in her presence would give Mio a sense of security. Ritsu was like an anchor that kept Mio rooted to reality, ensuring that she wouldn’t fly away in her own thoughts.
Eventually, the drowsiness and exhaustion set in and soon enough Mio nodded off to sleep as well, sleeping soundly without her raging thoughts invading her dreams. She dreamt of the stars and floating in space, freely floating in the void. From her position, she had the freedom to explore the vast expanse of the universe if she so freely chose to do so. She dreamt of looking at Earth from above, how close yet so strikingly far away she was from it. She swam within the vacuum of space, but not toward the stars far beyond, but back toward the terrestrial planet. She felt herself falling into the gravity of Earth, though her descent was a gentle free-fall. As she fell, she could see another object falling, just several meters below her. Mio was unsure of what it was, but was compelled to reach out to it. It seemed to reach out to her as well and when the two found each other’s embrace, Mio felt complete. She sought to savor the moment, the feeling of contentment. But a distant, constant beeping began to intrude her tranquility. Muffled beeps became louder, more aggressive, more intruding.
*Beep Beep Beep*
Mio awoke quite annoyed. She was rarely ever grumpy waking up, but today was an exception. Mio slammed the snooze button on her alarm clock without so much as opening an eye and turned over to her other side hoping to catch a few extra minutes of sleep. She already forgot what she had been dreaming of, but it seemed to be a good one, considering how reluctant she was with wanting to be pulled out of it. Instinctively, she reached out hoping to cuddle with a body pillow she kept on her bed and was quite surprised to find it much warmer this morning. Sighing contently, Mio snuggled in closer and let herself fall back asleep.
Ritsu laid undisturbed by both the alarm clock and the bassist cuddling into her. The two continued to sleep until mid-morning, when Ritsu finally woke up and realizing how intimate their sleeping arrangement had become and promptly freaking out, waking the bassist. They freaked out more when the two checked the clock to find that classes had already started two hours prior. It seemed that when Mio went to snooze her alarm clock, she actually turned the alarm off completely and both were too exhausted (and comfortable) to wake up on time.
With the frenzy of rushing to school, the awkwardness of their casual cuddling was quickly forgotten. Ritsu had don her wrinkly uniform but then realized she still needed her school bag. The two had to make an extra detour to the Tainaka household for Ritsu to change into a more presentable uniform and grab her school bag. Luckily her parents had already left for work and Satoshi was already in school.
The events of that morning was again brought up when Yui asked why the two were so late to school during club activities. At the thought of remembering, the drum and bass pair quickly donned embarrassed faces. Ritsu answered in their defense, saying that they had stayed up late talking and accidentally slept in. The details involving their cuddling each other was left unmentioned. Yui let it go as is, however Azusa held a confused look. Meanwhile, Mugi seemed to be in bliss for a reason none of the other girls could decipher.
On their walk home, both agreed to forget about the ideal and never bring it up again. But, despite their outward denial, such an intimate interaction could not be easily forgotten, and only served to open the door for a romance to blossom in the coming years.
I don’t know when exactly I came up with this idea, but it just kinda showed up in my brain. Hopefully I can use these as notes for something - assuming I could get off my lazy bum.
At NatsuFest, everyone else has pretty much gone to sleep, except for Mio and Ritsu. Mio’s practically restless because of the fact that she geeked out over all of the bands at NatsuFest, and she’s staying up to listen to the bands perform at night. It helps fill the quiet ambiance of the night as Mio and Ritsu sit together. Not that they’re speaking to each other, but they’re just merely enjoying each other’s company. Ritsu’s staying awake with Mio because, well, she’s keeping her company.
Mio’s tone takes a somber turn as she laments the fact that, well, NatsuFest is ending, and it’s now a very special moment in her life, as well as the fact that this is their last year of High School - they can’t go back, they can’t undo all their progress, they can only move forward, and they are obliged by society to become actual adults. Mio’s scared of what will happen, where she almost cries because of that fact. Ritsu tries her best to comfort her friend under the stars, admitting to Mio that she’s scared, too, saying that whatever happens, she’ll always be with her every step of the way.
For the rest of the night, they gaze at the twinkling stars above, blissfully in each other’s company. In the morning, Mio earnestly thanks Sawako for the opportunity she’s given the club, and it makes a sense of pride and happiness swell inside of her, and it reassures her that she’s done good choosing to be the advisor for the Light Music Club.
Of course, on the ride home, the two have stayed up for so long, that they’ve practically exhausted themselves, and end up resting their heads on each other’s shoulders on the bus, looking to catch up on some sleep.
Random-ass headcanon that came out of nowhere and makes no sense with no evidence to back it up or support it but
Ritsu has a hidden fascination of stars - when she was younger, where instead of sleeping like her parents expect her to do, she’d stay away and watch the glistening night sky from the window of her room. Of course, it’s usually the sky that’s painted with stars, but every once in a while a shooting star passes by. Ritsu would usually make some sort of ridiculous and impossible wish every time, but on one particular day, she drops it, and wishes for something serious - she wishes for someone who’ll be by her side - someone who’ll put aside her flaws and lover her either way.
Ritsu isn’t that type of person to embrace loneliness as a good thing - she’s afraid of being alone, and wishing to have someone be with her rectifies that problem. Lo and behold, in her elementary school days, she gets her wish in the form of a certain familiar meek, raven-haired girl.
Of course, the rest is history, and we all know that song and dance, but Ritsu still has that little passion for stars, almost going up to High School...
...Until she actually takes astronomy. The terminology and how everything works frustrates her to the bone. It’s all confusing for her, and nothing really grasps her, so she drops learning how stars work altogether and appreciate stars as something to look at.
This might be tying into something else I’m posting later on, but just enjoy this headcanon that I just made up irrationally...
Mio: *walks into kitchen in the morning while Ritsu’s coking breakfast* Mornin’.
Ritsu: Good morning! *takes a drink of some purple liquid in a glass then goes back to frying eggs*
Mio: what are you drinking?
Ritsu: *too concerned with cooking, nonchalantly answers* Mio.
Mio: *instantly scared* WHAT DID YOU SAY?!
Ritsu: *snickers* No, Mio. Mio. Like the stuff you put in water. It’s berry flavored. *points across the counter where a container of Mio Energy was.*
Mio: oh…
Ritsu: *smirks* I mean I could also drink Mio if she wanted me to.
Mio: *glares* Ritsu, finish making breakfast. *turns away and mumbles* we can do it after…
Ritsu: what was that?
Mio: NOTHING. *storms out of the kitchen to do literally anything other than be in the same room than Ritsu in the current moment*
Ritsu: *snickers and takes another drink from the glass, then shrugs* eh, Mio tastes better. *goes back to cooking*
