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florianschild ([personal profile] florianschild) wrote in [community profile] sunshine_revival2025-06-30 01:52 pm
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Friending Meme

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Maybe you struck up a conversation while you waited in line for the roller coaster. Maybe you and a questionably large group of friends all tumbled out of a van and walked in together. However it happened, you're now here at the Carnival with your friends. The best experiences are all the richer for having fun and interesting people to share them with. Let's all get to know each other and make some friends to hold our hands during the scary rides or split a basket of fries with.

Feel free to post your answers in the comments or on your own journal and share a link. See you around the fairgrounds!

Basics
Name:
Age:
Location:
Other blogs/socials:

Dreamwidth Stuff
What do you post about?
How often do you post
What communities, if any, are you involved in?
What kind of accounts do you like to follow?

Fandom Stuff
Fandoms:
Favorite Characters:
Ships:
Things you're into but not fannish about:

I Designed This Meme So I Get To Ask Weird Stuff
Explain your username:
Favorite season (it's ok if it's not summer):
What's your vibe?
What is your summeriest fandom? (You can interpret this however you like….):
Opening song on your summer mixtape:

elyusion: (super shy)

[personal profile] elyusion 2025-06-30 07:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Basics
Name: Chris
Age: Officially in my mid-twenties 🎉
Location: Deep South, U.S. (for now...)
Other blogs/socials: This isn't a blog or social, but it has links to those, so I'm pretending it counts. Also been into Sheezy.Art lately, but I haven't added that to my about yet.

Dreamwidth Stuff
What do you post about? Myself, my life, things I've found on the net, and fannish stuff.
How often do you post? Often. Once a week at minimum, usually. If I grant you access, it could be multiple times a day at times.
What communities, if any, are you involved in? All the communities I want to be involved in are dormant, and while I have no problem shaking them awake, I don't want to be the only one posting :(
What kind of accounts do you like to follow? I have this in my profile, but those who share adjacent interests (I know the fandoms for my specific interests are mostly long dead) and use DW casually, or like a diary.

Fandom Stuff
Fandoms: Still don't feel like I'm a "part" of any fandom, but the things that are mentioned most in my journal are Angelique, Neoromance in general, Fire Emblem (4 + 16 mainly), visual kei (not many modern bands though), Guilty Gear, and lately Naruto. More generally, I like joseimuke (note that I avoid gacha games), JRPGs, and visual kei.
Favorite Characters: Felix Fire Emblem, Clavis Angelique, Testament Guilty Gear, and Shannan Fire Emblem have stood the test of time so far.
Ships: Whatever's funniest. (Okay, Izark/Noriko, Michel/Giselle, Felix/Dimitri, Felix/Bernadetta, and Clavis/Lumiale.)
Things you're into but not fannish about: A whole bunch of shoujo animanga, video games (invariably ones with Japanese cartoon aesthetics), and music. I guess I'll specifically call out The House in Fata Morgana, From Far Away, Utena, Ojamajo Doremi, Splatoon, Style Savvy, Castlevania (the games!!!!!!!!!), and older R&B. I also like history and language and fashion.

I Designed This Meme So I Get To Ask Weird Stuff
Explain your username: It's the default name for the player's continent in Angelique. It's a reference to Elysium too, but it's not me who's obsessed with ancient Greece, it's Angelique.
Favorite season (it's ok if it's not summer): It's summer! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
What's your vibe? No clue, honestly. Unless this is asking what kind of vibe I like, in which case I just don't like mean people. I understand the urge to hate on stuff, but you must pace yourself...
What is your summeriest fandom? (You can interpret this however you like….): The Splatoon series, if it isn't summer, is definitely a "school's out!" kind of thing.
Opening song on your summer mixtape: It apparently released during March, but I strongly associate hot weather with Here I Am by Rick Ross anyways. I could try to think of a better or more popular song, but I'm speaking from the heart here.
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[personal profile] zenigotchas 2025-07-01 01:38 am (UTC)(link)
Ships: Whatever's funniest.

MECORE. I'm not much of a shipper but ships that have a funny premise to them are always worth appreciating.

What's your favorite visual kei band?
elyusion: (okuni)

[personal profile] elyusion 2025-07-01 05:18 am (UTC)(link)
Of course they've only been vkei (or at least, hard vkei) for a small part of their career, but Buck-Tick is my absolute favorite ^_^
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[personal profile] zenigotchas 2025-07-01 06:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Which type? I'm not very familiar with v kei but I know the music sound can be very diverse
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[personal profile] elyusion 2025-07-01 09:29 pm (UTC)(link)
As for type of visual kei, at their very start they were okeshou kei (generally kind of looks like glam rock, but in their specific case they wore chic suits with their hair bleached and straight up like Polnareff or Guile or Benimaru), then they were kurofuku kei (this just means wearing cool outfits in all black, crazy hair optional), and around 1994 and beyond they can be called either soft visual (not super crazy-looking, but definitely more unique-looking than your average Joe on the street) or not vkei at all.

Their sound was beat rock (a pretty Japan-only type of rock music) during the okeshou kei era, during the kurofuku kei era they were beat rock with strong elements of post-punk or new wave, and beyond they have done all types of rock -- more post-punk, new wave, goth rock, garage rock, industrial, grunge, electronic... generally they can be called alt rock.

Most of the popular visual kei bands these days are metalcore, and I'm not huuuuuge on metal. Definitely don't hate it, I guess I prefer songs that sound depressed over angry?
Edited (I really didn't want it to look like I dislike metal 😭) 2025-07-01 21:32 (UTC)
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[personal profile] zenigotchas 2025-07-03 07:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh this is a LOT to learn from! :D

Lol so you're more into emo stuff then? Or whatever the closest genres in v kei get to emo?

(Ironically, you'd be considered very metal for not being a big metalcore fan lol. It's okay if you aren't much of a metal person)
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[personal profile] stardust_rifle 2025-07-04 03:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Fellow visual kei fan on DW, hello! (I don't really post about it anymore because getting really into real-people fandoms is Bad For M's Brain, but if you go far enough back in my journal you can find some super embarrassing posts about my favorite bandmen there...)
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[personal profile] elyusion 2025-07-05 12:07 am (UTC)(link)
Don't worry! I don't think I'll be bad for you, because I'm a casual(?) fan. I don't often watch interviews or attempt to interact with members (most bands I like are too old for that anyways) or anything. I mostly just look at pictures and videos and listen to music, without looking too far into what the members are like as people.

By the way, I do enjoy JJBA too :] and I know some things about Enstars because of an Enstars friend, so I have, like, satellite favorite characters (Rei and Nagisa) from a game I won't play. And Shiki! I watched Shiki years ago and I remember liking it. I have fond memories.
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[personal profile] cornerofmadness 2025-07-05 02:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Ships: Whatever's funniest. this made me smile