Hey citrus! I'm about to go to Japan in about a month and a half. Do you have any good tips? Like, how many people did you encounter that spoke English? How did you handle money (exchanging or just getting it from ATMs)?
Ooh, how exciting!! I’m really happy for you, I hope you have a great time!
Overall, I found Japan to be quite easy to get around in. All of the bus/train information I encountered had English alongside Japanese, and several restaurants offered menus in English as well. There were certainly a few times when I was standing around in the middle of a train station trying to figure out how to get where I needed to go, but the station information booths were quite helpful for general directions and I was able to find enough people who spoke English to get around otherwise, particularly while sticking to touristy areas.
As for money, we just used ATMs! Pretty much every major convenience store has them (and there are a LOT of convenience stores), and I think we used one in the airport as well. Didn’t exchange a thing! Major credit cards work at lots of stores and restaurants too. Would recommend paying cash for smaller expenses.
I think my other advice would be to figure out what you want to do and do some research to determine if you need to make any preparations beforehand! For example, the Digimon pop-up cafe required a reservation, which I made a few weeks in advance and printed a copy of the confirmation at home because I didn’t want anything to go wrong (hey, priorities) XD On the slightly more spontaneous side, my partner and I signed up for a cooking class while we were there–less than 24 hours in advance– and it turned out we got a private lesson because the other couple cancelled but didn’t tell our instructor (rude!!) :O I also rented pocket Wifi for the days we were in and around Tokyo. Wifi is available all over the place, but it was nice to carry it around for the extra peace of mind, especially while I was wandering around Ikebukuro hunting for specific shops and cafes. I rented it online before I left and it was waiting at my hotel when I got there, then I just dropped it into the nearest mailbox when I was done. Very easy!
Also, decide if it’s worth it for you to get a JR Pass. We determined it wasn’t for our trip, but I think it largely depends on where you’re going and how many times you’re planning on taking a bullet train ^_^ It would also save some time to not have to buy individual tickets.
Hope that helps, and let me know if I can offer any more advice!
Hey, I just wanted to back you up. That anon was rude, disgusting and, of course, uncalled for. You already defended yourself but sometimes, even though you seem to stand above it, support from outside helps a lot. So from one Hiddlestoner to another: don't listen to them. People who can't keep their ugly thoughts to themselves are not worth our time.
Aww bless you @rockthistowninsideout that's so sweet 💕💕
yeah!! Me n @pandemic-bones have been watching an ep or two a night for the past couple weeks. we’re trying not to binge watch it bc we want it to last. we’re on the last season now.
it’s!! so!! fucking!! GOOD!!
and me n bones have started doing this thing where every so often during the show after critical evidence has been found or someone’s acting suspisious, we start theorizing how the ep is gonna end/motivations of the killer ect.ect.. I think Bones was right on atleast two episodes n I can’t recall if I’ve ever been right (probs not)
also we now have the inside joke “I DON’T TRUST THAT MILK” bc of a thing that happened in season one and now I exclaim it every time I see someone acting Suspisious it’s grand
I feel you so much! Right now, I have to say goodbye to my favourite car. It's been in our family for 14 years and I got to drive it for four - I learned driving with it and got more attached to it than was good for me...
That is terrible. That is an old family friend you’re having to say goodbye to.
I seriously understand people who grow attached to their roombas and such, because losing Big Bad George is just... it’s heartbreaking. I don’t care if that makes me stupid or irrational. It’s how I feel.
Driving the rental home today (after a trip to Urgent Care - nothing broken, thank God, just muscle and back strain, ie. whiplash and pulled my shoulder), I couldn’t help but be mad at the rental because everything is in the wrong place. It’s objectively a better car than BBG. It’s new, has all the cool bells and whistles, etc.
But I don’t like it. It’s not right. It’s not my Big Bad George.
I’m sorry to hear you have to say goodbye to such a long family campaigner. It’ll take some time for another vehicle to feel right. Bless your heart.
Can you maybe answer this question: I always thought that Jake resided in San Diego and I thought I had heard it somewhere official. But now going through the questions on the Jaeger Academy it tells me he lives in Santa Monica. So maybe I was wrong from the very start but I'm still rather convinced about San Diego...
No it was Santa Monica this is also mentioned in first edition of the PR: Aftermath comics with Jake
Hey! I just stumbled across your Disney AU for the Chosen Children from August - and they're all perfect! Would you mind making a second part as you were hinting that you had more? It would be much appreciated. Kudos from a fellow Digimon enthusiast ;)
I’m sorry I’m getting to this so late! I wanted to get to this ask sooner but I just got so busy…
But I’m glad you liked the first Disney AU list I wrote out ^^ I do feel like they can be rambling from my end, but hey, if you don’t mind listening, I don’t mind sharing!
I tried making this list with different ships and stuff, for the sake of variety. But if you want to hear about a specific ship or certain AU setting, just let me know! I can go on and on about these things.
Of course, the full list of random disney aus is under the cut.
Taichi + Hikari with a slight hint of Taiyama. - Lilo and Stich AU
Taichi, the overprotective brother who is trying so hard to be an adult as quick as possible in order to take care of his sister. However Hikari is having trouble adjusting and fitting in with her surroundings as there are so many changes happening. Taichi feels bad that Hikari is struggling to make friends and stuff, so they go to get a cat (because they used to have Miko) and…it’s tailmon!
Because I think it works so well! Tailmon, coming into their lives as Hikari wishes for a guardian angel and instead gets a ‘monster’ that has trust issues and has a lot of destructive power??? I think it’d fit well! Especially when it came down to Hikari bonding with Tailmon. and the two of them having a relationship unlike anything else.
lol the ‘slight’ hint of Taiyama comes from the idea that Taichi and Yamato used to attend school together and that their siblings are the same age so they know each other well. But I won’t lie. it’s entirely because I think it’d be funny if Yamato was trying to impress Taichi, only for it to go badly and then he feels embarrssed and Hikari just goes, ‘It’s okay. Onii-chan likes your butt. and he thinks your hair is fancy. I know because I read his diary’.
Taichi, Yamato, Koushiro -Three Cabelleros AU
This makes no utter sense other than it’s what I like XD. Growing up, Three Cabelleros was my favorite movie, I love it to death, I watched it more than anything else. And don’t test me on how well I know the songs lolYamato is Donald Duck. The guy just celebrating his birthday but winds up losing his temper multiple times yelling ‘WHATS THE BIG IDEA!!!’ over and over again as his birthday is full to the brim with craziness.
Koushiro is José. He just shows up randomly going ‘you haven’t been here before? Well let’s go! You got so much you need to learn!’’ and winds up dragging Yamato all over the place just to teach him a thing or two. Plus Koushiro looks good in a bow tie so why the fuck not. Taichi is Panchito. In this case, Yamato is probably about to eat his birthday cake only to have Taichi jump out of it screaming and hollering and shooting off a bunch of guns before grabbing Yamato and Koushiro and yelling “WE’RE THREE GAY CABELLEROS!”
lol its completely impractical. but just imagining them singing the three cabelleros song together makes me smile.
Aristocats-Daisuke/Takeru
You know. The main reason why I wanted this kind of AU for this pairing is because I think it’d be so cute???
Like. Takeru, as the ‘duchess’. Someone who comes from a lavious lifestyle and then gets thrown out of his cozy life and is forced to have to make due with the skin on his back.
Daisuke, the ‘alley cat’, who only approaches Takeru at first because he thinks it’d be funny.
At first Daisuke tries to show Takeru the ‘ropes’ but Daisuke himself is a little bit of klutz and Takeru isn’t so dainty as he may appear to be. And the two wind up learning a lot about each other as Takeru tries to find his way back home.
Idk I’m a sucker for daikerus where its about the two of them coming from polar backgrounds and them reaching a middle ground. Add a dash of social classes, cuddling ontop of the rooftops under the moonlight and walking along the edge of a dribbling stream and I’m happy!
Taichi/Jyou -Rescuers
Taichi is a field operative for a rescue task force. Because of his reputation and success record, he’s often sought for. And during one of his mission briefings a lot of people are scrambling to be his partner…
And then he chooses Jyou! A simpleton who isn’t actually part of the agency! Why?! Because Taichi “needs a plain guy who’s not gonna bother him!” Jyou doesn’t want to go but Taichi drags him along. And all of a sudden Jyou’s safe and routine lifestyle is swapped with near death experiences, crossing massive hazardous terrains and wishing that Taichi didn’t have to opt for the most stunt crazy airplane pilot every time.
Through some miracle, their first mission together is successful. And when it’s all over Jyou is just absolutely exhausted and kinda happy that it’s all over.
But Taichi took such a liking to Jyou that when he jumps outta his mission detail and grabs onto Jyou’s arm going "guess who’s now gonna be my new partner from this point onward!!” and Jyou silently weeps as he wishes his pleasant common life goodbye.
Yamato/Mimi- Hercules
Again another AU that is extremely self indulgent on my end. Ever since I saw all of those Hades/Persphone AU fanarts concerning this ship I can’t help but associate Mimato with anything remotely close to Greek Mythos lmaoBut I gotta admit. Yamato, having one goal ingrained in his head, so much so that he is really socially awkward and is especially bad at dealing with Mimi because she just always plays the devil’s advocate?? I just picture that scene where Mimi is leaning in trying to be sexy and then Yamato just pinches her dress strap back up on her shoulder lol. Hercules is another favorite Disney movie of mine. They’d so be cute in this setting.
Sora/Mimi -Tarzan
I think this is just me drifting off into dreamland but like hear me out. just. let me explain.
So there’s a study on gorillas and stuff, and the team of researchers is Koushiro, Jyou, Mimi and Taichi. Jyou is actually there as like a medical professional, Koushiro is the one manning the research. Taichi can be the bodyguard or something he’s not a scientist. And Mimi is a botanist who was brought along cause she works under the same grant as Koushiro.
Now they are there doing their research. However while studying gorilla packs and stuff, they start noticing oddities which they have trouble explaining. Which get Koushiro up in a tizzy even if the rest of them aren’t too focused about it.
One day, Mimi like wakes up early, and starts walking around to the stream nearby. While at the water front, she sees a colorful flower near her. When she talks toward it, she finds another flower–same type slightly different in color. She starts following them down the river before actually noticing they were placed there, they aren’t naturally growing, which makes her want to see who’s placing them down. At the end is a bunch of beautiful flowers but, these ones are special. Mimi specifically remembers seeing the laid out flowers earlier in her expedition but didn’t have time to draw and take notes about it cause Taichi was yip yapping about the sun going down and how they had to head back to camp and stuff.
Mimi of course likes the flowers, but then starts wondering why they were there. When she heads back to camp and Koushiro has been going on and on about his theories about how the gorilla pack they are studying must be raising something that’s not a gorilla (lol jyou is just feigning interest at this rate and taichi is trying to go back to bed) Mimi can only think about the flowers so she actually starts siding with Koushiro and wants to learn more about what’s going on because her gut feeling is telling her that this is important.
However, as they try to research this it doesn’t yield the best results. Whatever is going on, its elusive to them. And its hard to keep track of. It gets to the point where Jyou reminds everyone *why* they are all there and stuff. And even Koushiro is forced to resign his theories to focus on their jobs.
And Mimi feels oddly upset by this and takes away from camp to cool off (Taichi offered to go with her, but Mimi refused wanting to be alone). While she’s sitting by herself feeling really defeated without knowing why, she finds another flower. This time she’s like driven to find out *why* she’s being given these gifts. (as she’s now convinced this is no accident) and then runs after this trail and finds!!! Sora!!!! :D Who has been out in the wilderness ever since she was young and was raised by the gorillas and stuff. Sora tries to run but Mimi manages to approach her. (Mainly cause Sora is both curious and feels calm around Mimi) The two of them are about to make contact before Taichi comes swinging at foliage with a machete yelling out Mimi’s name (cause she hasn’t come back to camp) which scares Sora and gets Mimi mad. Then of course the rest of this AU is spent on them trying to ‘find’ Sora. Even though Sora is kinda only comfortable around Mimi. At first its just the two of them, learning things about each other slowly and then its all disney magic fromm there LOL
annnndddd. I think that’s enough for one list. lol I’m sorry I tend to get caught up when I start thinking of these AUs. I hope that you enjoyed some of them though! Thank you for your patience and for the ask!
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Great, another Meat Loaf enthusiast :)
Oh, my God, I have loved Meat Loaf since high school. I mean, everyone loved “Paradise by the Dashboard Light”, of course, but it wasn’t until Back Into Hell came out and “I Would Do Anything For Love” took over the airwaves that I realized there was MORE. And that it was all so fucking good.
Been in love with his music ever since. Especially when I realized he was in MOVIES, TOO. *snerk*
The Lizard is still one of my favorite characters ever. And Eddie, of course. I even liked him in Fight Club, though I’m not a big Fight Club fan.
He was good in Leap of Faith, too, though we could’ve all done with more singing from him. *grin* He’s been in so many movies!
And he was SO ENTERTAINING on his episodes of Ghost Hunters! So adorable!
