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[theharoldsong-blog]

It would be pretty funny when Louis sisters make an account for something and they put "name of first pet" as their security question and they have to put 'eleanor'

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[askpandaman]

Tell me Pandaman, do you have a favorite book or story?

The stories that Anon tells me sure is a favorite, except it's more like an autobiography on their sort... So.

Yeah! My favorite story is definitely The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter. It's an old folktale about an old, child-less man named Taketori no Okina, who harvests bamboo. He came across this one stalk of bamboo that seemed to shine, and when he cut it open he found a beautiful baby girl the size of his thumb. He and his wife took care of her, and she grew into a normal-sized woman. Her name was Kaguya-hime. Everytime he cut open bamboo after that, small nuggets of gold lay within and they, the bamboo cutter and his wife, became rich. Eventually, after being asked her hand in marriage by six different people, five of them princes and one of them an Emperor, she revealed to her 'parents' that she was of the moon and missed her people. As the day of her return approached, the Emperor set many guards around her house to protect her from the Moon people, but when an embassy of "Heavenly Beings" arrived at the door of Taketori no Okina's house, the guards were blinded by a strange light. Kaguya-hime announced that, though she loved her many friends on Earth, she must return with the Moon people to her true home. She wrote sad notes of apology to her parents and to the Emperor, then gave her parents her own robe as a memento. She then took a small taste of the elixir of life, attached it to her letter to the Emperor, and gave it to a guard officer. As she handed it to him, the feather robe was placed on her shoulders, and all of her sadness and compassion for the people of the Earth were forgotten. The heavenly entourage took Kaguya-hime back to Tsuki-no-Miyako, leaving her earthly foster parents in tears. The old couple grew old and sickly, and couldn't leave their beds. The officer returned to the Emperor with the items Kaguya-hime had given him as her last mortal act, and reported what had happened. The Emperor read her letter and was overcome with sadness. He asked his servants, "Which mountain is the closest place to Heaven?", to which one replied the Great Mountain of Suruga Province. The Emperor ordered his men to take the letter to the summit of the mountain and burn it, in the hope that his message would reach the distant princess. The men were also commanded to burn the elixir of immortality since the Emperor did not wish to live forever without being able to see her. The legend has it that the word immortality (fuji) became the name of the mountain, Mount Fuji. It is also said that the kanji for the mountain, 富士山 (literally "Mountain Abounding with Warriors"), is derived from the Emperor's army ascending the slopes of the mountain to carry out his order.