Twenty Bucks Says You'll Remember Me...~

I think this is the first time you're ever gonna catch me lowkey disagreeing with a BTS concept

I say lowkey 'cause this isn't something you can literally "disagree" on? This is fuckin Artist Culture in a nutshell. All of us feel like this at some point and time. I don't deny that. Maybe disagree isn't the right word. But I really want people to know that that fear isn't rooted in anything real. If you are an artist feeling like you've lost all passion for something you love, and you feel hopeless and lost, I want you to hear me: you cannot lose anything that is woven into your DNA. It is yours forever, whenever. Right now, for whatever reason, you are simply disconnected, or you just need rest (GOD I cannot stress rest enough in artistry). Whatever the reason, I can promise you with certainty that one day, the fog will lift, you'll find your way back, and it will be waiting right where you left it like nothing happened.

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So, I binge-watched the anime Angels of Death last week, and it's pretty safe to say I've become thoroughly obsessed with it.

If you've never heard of it, Angels of Death, or Satsuriku no Tenshi, is the anime adaption of the indie horror game of the same name, released in 2016. I never heard of it until I saw the release trailer for the anime last summer, but apparently it was SUPER popular in Japan. The story follows Rachel Gardner, a stoic teenage girl who has a strange, intense desire to die. She finds herself trapped in a strange building where she meets a serial killer named Zack, who, as you can probably guess, tries to kill her as soon as they meet. Upon realizing she *wants* to die, and therefore wouldn't give him the thrill he craves, he instead makes a deal with her: She helps him escape the building and all the deranged murderers who control the other floors, and he'll grant her wish and kill her once they're outside.

The anime trailer hooked me immediately. I haven't totally divulged here yet about my favorite tropes and things in media, besides maybe what you've caught on to if you've been paying attention to my writing updates, but I LOVE edgy shit. I missed the train that left in 2007 that was supposed to transport me out of my emo phase. You give me anything that deals with monsters, villains, death, angsty violent characters, or anything otherwise dealing with what's usually undesirable in society, and you've got my attention. It was a bonus that Zack had the same VA as Bakugo from My Hero Academia (who is my favorite—again, edgy angry boy). You're gonna give me a full-blown apeshit Bakugo????? With a kickass scythe??? Sold. It took me awhile to get started, as most things do, but once I finished it, it was exactly what I wanted and more. I can't say that for many shows anymore. It's the only new anime I've actively searched fanfiction for in YEARS. I'm that desperate to stay in the world.

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We had an assignment in my Contemporary Writers class to write a poem "under the influence" of a poet we read. This assigned poet was Danez Smith, and I actually adore how it turned out. I wanted to post it somewhere, so here it goes!

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