I can’t stop thinking about how he only just made it to 40 but looked 25 when I met him 5 years ago.
How when he was asked how he feels about the band’s 20th anniversary he said he feels like it’s only been 5 years. He had so much more to do.
He felt 25 and it’s killing me.
There is something really wrong about this. The tone of his tweets up until yesterday, his excitement for upcoming events and his new years wish to dote on us more. It feels so strange.
Every sixth gun who has to hold it together in front of people this week I’m holding your hand. Every bandman influenced by Reita who has just had to and continues to perform in these conditions I am so sorry.
As expected of Ruki to write something that makes me sob uncontrollably while he’s giving me great strength and will to face forward in spite of it all that I didn’t realise I even had in me
My whole body feels so numb.
He was smth like my first love when I was young and just getting into Vk. Pasted around for years. When I met them in person he’s the only one I never managed to thank. We just held gazes for a few seconds and burst out laughing. I really loved him.
BANDMEN ARE JUST GUYS. I need to impress that so much upon newer fans. They are just some guy 😭 a guy who works at conbini and has the smallest apartment you can imagine and several STDs no less! He is just a guy.
Best part of this is the insecure men whose idea of personal grooming and self expression stops at showers and belt buckles trying desperately to dampen Jackson’s godlike rizz calling him girly… I know thawing from cryogenics takes time but showers don’t cut it anymore babygirl
You’ve heard of the kuroshitsuji and final fantasy pipelines, now get ready for
“I discovered vkei through that one Yoshiki tweet vaguely alluding to suing Elon musk?”
Absolutely fascinated by YouTube videos called ‘underrated visual kei’ and it’s literally 9 of the biggest sellers of the past decade + a band that came out last year but is the algorithm’s favourite guy
Ok you know what’s super super super weird to me? None of the new western bangya getting into an cafe. What do you MEAN???? You guys love crunchy videos, weird freak little guys and oldschool lolita and are not obsessed with THIS????? Huh?????
🐟“Ooh this is good, check him out. Delicious [as in juicy footage/good shot]”
🌕 (laughs) “WHAT is”
🐟 “Oh, you caught me?”
🌕“I caught you, I can hear you”
🐟“Whaaat. That was nice, you were sexy”
🌕“Sexy~?”
🐟“You looked like a Christmas roast chicken…”
🎥”That’s not-“
This is actually rock bottom for our community. Worse things cannot happen. He was the most universally loved person who only ever did good, showed tangible support for the marginalised, only ever showed understanding, and gave love. Noone brought us all together like that. Ever.
Can we please learn from the miyavi situation. Not to assume what people know, not moralise down to others for optics or publicly start shit but wokely. Leave people be. Worst case scenario this happens.
And don’t attack perpetrators in their private space no matter how idiotic.
Sad, not productive in any way → need to see how everyone is doing → scroll Twitter → feel really sad for us → not sure if cathartic or not but still not productive → look away → gazette merch on every wall → sad and panicked → listen to his voice → cry into a migraine
There is such a nasty attitude from metalhead guys about Vkei visually & often musically so, even tho they’re the most musically palatable band to that crowd I can think of, having a band recognised and cheered for in a hostile place feels so good man. Resurrection fest is a win.
I beat the hell out of our faces for an hour to become visual kei dot com with my babies in maccies.
My lads my angels my flesh and blood. What a unit.
On 26th Dec 2007, Girugamesh released Kowareteiku sekai, a lament for the dying earth brought by war and environmental destruction. Brothers nii and Яyo are in keffiyeh.
The song ends soothing that though the end is near, you are loved, and that was the purest thing we ever had.
Not sure what to say to new fans who don’t know this scene is fully comprised of boys who SH but if you’re worried for someone it’s best to try DM them that you value them and ask if they’re eating and treating themselves well, as hashtags in a tiny scene sadly cannot rly help.
The funny thing is I don’t even rly talk about them here bc they’re such an obvious in my life I don’t feel the need to, I don’t even feel bad. They’re a given and I trust them. Listening to them is ritualistic and constant and mention of them incites essays like a sleeper agent.
Uruha trying to check how nervous Reita is by checking his pulse... and just grabs a tiddy LMAOOO then just
“....you’re so thick I actually cannot tell” HELPPPP
Being uk gya I’d hoped to get him extra rare sex pistols merch that he loved to collect for when I saw them in japan. It’s funny the things you read in a scan at 13 and never forget. He’s 1cm taller than me and his birthday is the day after mine. He smokes seven lights. He’s gone
New thing is crying imagining them playing on stage and looking to where his body should be and jumping in fright that he isn’t there. Especially Uruha who has barely known life without him at all and will have to learn to remember. Trying to comprehend and not be scared for them
Drummers are already exerting themselves most. Using all 4 limbs at once, can’t breeze legs or move toward AC, seeing less of the crowd at the back so less eye contact, interacting less, and getting to absorb less of your energy. The least you can do is treat them w equal warmth.
Thinking about how the first day that Gackt met Mana様 & Közi he didn’t know what was a fun thing to do so he just drove them to the fucking Aum Shinrikyo death cult headquarters like an unhinged person
Idk why I need to say this but it needs to be clear that
• salacious comments are sexual harassment
• artists are strangers & real people
• keep ur violent delusions in mentions to yourself
• using streams as a chatroom is rude esp in a foreign language
• not all jokes carry
I hate going over this EVERY YEAR literally why are you people HERE I don’t understand how someone could get into vk thinking it’s not trying to be vile. Absolutely gross, abhorrent. Maybe it was right to jumpscare babygya w obscure so they’re aware?? No more kirakira as an intro
Fantasy fact: If you put a gothic elf prince into pink clothes at an elf wedding they start balding & sprouting like a pikmin.
(Aka 4 people buy me drinks, we talk about the logistics of ghosts while adorning ourselves w all the flowers we can steal & my wig starts running away)
Still thinking about my friend’s mum finding some lady’s extremely horny self insert Royz Subaru published fanfic sold in her local second hand shop and bought her it.....
Hold on Japanese minimum wage is ¥1k an hour?????? 🥶 what happened to supposed higher cost of living but higher wages that balance it out, like. That’s HALF of ours. What.
Anyone who hasn’t already muted MiA and doesn’t want to see ED content I strongly suggest you go do that bc he is purposely filming himself doing weird triggering shit now
Tomo on twitcast rn:
Going to France with them I realised
My band is full of idiots
I’m not exactly saying I’m smart
But god the members are stupid
Like actually, properly stupid
Ryoga is answering questions and one was ‘Ryogasan how do I get a boyfriend’ and he said, well to start it depends here if this is from a boy or girl... some comments were like ‘It’s obvs a girl?!’ and usually pacifist Ryoga said very firmly “Its NOT good to assume!”
A good egg.
Takashi introducing THE MADNA:
“There is a ‘the’, but you don’t say it! Just MADONNA!
The Vocal is Ryouta! I read it as ‘Ryouta-shi’!
The bassist is Tomo; I read it as ‘Tomochi’!
The drummer is Rio, I call him ‘Rio-kun’,
and the guitarist is ‘Takashi’…
I call him… ‘Me’ :)”
Oh god this is making me laugh because Yocchi said when he tried this outfit on after 5 years he bulged out the stripes and holes like a ham so I guess he just went for not zipping it up
Oh I though I should add, the nuance of what he said is more
‘I’m sorry. I’m not actually sure we do always eat without leaving the crumbs’
and it’s just taking me tf out how earnest he sounds 😭😭😭😭
Cannot believe I can’t find this on the internet and had to yank this out of my heavy mag pile but… this photoshoot was so beloved by baby me that it’s one of the first things I ever bought online from japan I think 🥰🥰🥰🥰