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Monthly Magical Girl Media: April - May

Sometimes I avoid watching magical girl shows because I know I'll have to write one of these entries if I do.

( Kimi to Idol Precure )

( Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider Wizard & Fourze: Movie War Ultimatum )

I read a lot of books these past few months. I'm working my way through the Fushigi Comedy series as a whole, but I'm mostly watching the "robot comedy" shows, so apologies for the lack of variety in this month's post.

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FIC: A Nation of Orugu - Veritable Pandæmonium

Title: Veritable Pandæmonium
Universe: A Nation of Orugu
Character(s): Asuka, Odagiri Aya, Arashiyama Misa, OCs
Series: in answer | Divine Metal | Reinforcements From the Future | Forever Red | Monster Calendar Worlds: tsukumogami | All Because of You | A Nation of Orugu (I, II) | A Nation of Ogres (I, II, III) | A Nation of Orugu (III, IV, V) | Monster Calendar Worlds: Kaijin | Whisper of Demon | Hyakujuu Sentai Gaoranger vs Aliens
Rating: U
Warnings: N/A
Summary: With Odagiri Aya in command, she was certain nothing could go wrong.
Length: 1511 words
Author's Notes: external link.

Asuka

( Veritable Pandæmonium )

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murdle, leather at pride, protest poetry

Happy Thursday! I'm leaving this housesit tomorrow-- I have the weekend free for sightseeing and then I need to make my way over to Evanston, Illinois for my next (short) sit. Today is a lot of cleaning, packing, and trying to eat whatever's left in the fridge!

For now, here's some links for y'all:

The Quantum Bang multi-fandom fix-it big bang is live and stories are being posted now! (h/t

starwatcher)

June's theme at

fancake is female relationships (of all kinds). Come make recs!

unfitforsociety posted some Batman (Batfamily) fanfic recs. ( More links! )

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culture consumed

Things

Books
Finished Jazz Money's how to make a basket. Mostly I liked it. Some of the concrete verse didn't work for me, but that's a me thing, not a problem with the writing.

The book's main theme seemed to be time travel: back before her land's invasion or back to her father's childhood or simply travelling minute by minute; the wish to change the past and the impossibility of doing so.

( more )

After reading

skygiants' review of KJ Charles' Death in the Spires I remembered that I had bought a copy of that when it came out and hadn't read it yet. Read it.

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Games
I hear that Long Live the Queen is getting a followup game, Galaxy Princess Zorana! I'm excited. (Long Live the Queen itself is current on 70% discount on Steam if anyone reading this might be interested in a fun visual novel game. It's pretty and pink and really astonishingly lethal.)

Slay the Spire: I did a few daily climbs. I'm finding them more fun than the regular runs at the moment.

Tech
Still working on the laptop. In the meantime I bought a webcam and plugged it into my desktop so that I could still attend Telehealth appointments. Got complimented on how I looked: turns out that a room with better lighting, and a better-positioned camera, really do make a difference. Go figure.

Household
My laundry area now has a shelf above the washing machine. I took the opportunity to do some decluttering of that area, and it looks much nicer now. So nice that now I want to paint the wall behind it. /o\

Weather
It's fucking freezing.

Links

Petition: Justice for Kumanjayi White. (Police killed a young disabled Warlpiri man outside a supermarket in Alice Springs.)

Why I Revealed My Kink On Television: Meghan Cherry, a Seattle comedian, on her recent audience appearance on Game Changer. (Some of her own comedy work can be found here.)

Cats
Currently headbutting my hand while I'm trying to type.

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reading wednesday

2025 Reading Log | 35/200 yearly goal (+2 from last update)

I've gotten sucked into a fanfic-reading frenzy (Naruto, of all things) so my book-reading has been sparse these past few weeks. However, I did read two books since my last Reading Wednesday post!

First, I decided to read the Oz books (including the post-Baum books by Ruth Plumly Thompson) as a kind of reading project thing, and I of course started with The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

I've read it before, but the last time was (I'm pretty sure) back in 2007 when I got my first ereader and put a bunch of public domain books on it.

It's a charming book, and I especially liked the intro from Baum in the beginning that spells out the aim of the book: to be a modern fairy tale for kids that isn't focused on morality lessons. And it does that!

( Chatter about Wonderful Wizard of Oz, including spoilers )

Besides that, I also read a novella by KL Noone called The Pooka's Share. It's a m/m urban fantasy romance between a paranormal police officer and a pookah (Celtic shape-changing spirit) with surprise (to me, because I hadn't read the summary) BDSM elements. A cute story! Perhaps spent a bit too much time on the worldbuilding when this is just a one-off and short to boot, but overall good.

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AKC Courtneyyyyyy Culture Festival #180: Ito Momoka

Ito Momoka is so new to us that as of February 2024, she had not joined AKB48.

Itomomo!

The nineteenth generation were announced on 17th March of last year following auditions that must have taken place whilst Itomomo was either still in Stardust’s theatre group, Always thankyou, under her stage name, Kitano Nana, or just after she had left. Here we are in June 2025 and, at the time of writing, we are one day away from the announcement of AKB48’s sixty-sixth single featuring Itomomo as a member of the senbatsu. In fact, not only is Itomomo, a member of a generation who debuted just last year, in the senbatsu for this single, she’s joined by one of her peers, Hanada Mei, as well as a whole host of overseas members. If you could sense my excitement about Yagi Azuki being a member of Masaka no Confession’s senbatsu, imagine what I am like at the moment, waking up so early on a Saturday and watching this stream and just reeling from the wild decisions management are finally making.

What do we know of Ito Momoko then, a girl who has barely been in the group a year. Born in December 2003, the first time most overseas fans possibly became aware of her was as one of the four kenkyuusei members featured in Masaka no Confession. Before that, however, Itomomo had made several appearances on B sides since Koi Tsun Jatta last year. One of the B sides was in fact a Wcentre with Sato Airi, Pin to Kita, something that should have communicated to us all that management expected big things of this girl.

Dedicated Japanese fans will have had a chance to have met Itomomo a long time before us, however. Her theatre debut came a month after the revelation of this new generation, beginning with performances of the tenth kenkyuusei stage, Soko ni Mirai wa Aru, a post-OUT OF 48 gathering of members of the seventeenth and eighteenth generations now bolstered by the new trainees.

Clearly, she made an impact, or, at the very least, management were banking on her making an impact, as at the end of September, she got a solo photo shoot in gravure magazine, B.L.T. Maybe part of this was by merit of her being the oldest member of her generation at 21—and by the way, I am really trying my best not to think about the fact that kids born in 2003 are 21-years-old—but whatever the case, it seems that Itomomo is more popular than us overseas fans could have guessed, even appearing on some of Nantettatte AKB48’s big songs like LOVE Machine and MomoClo’s Ikuze! Kaito Shoujo, even appearing on the album with a solo cover of the Honeyworks Hayami Sora song, Kawaikute Gomen—you know, the one covered by Takane no Nadeshiko.

Perhaps domestic fans might think it absurd that we’re so late to the party when it comes to appreciating Itomomo’s talent, but with the sixty-sixth single around the corner, I really think that’s going to change. I keep telling you that we’ve been on the cusp of a new age of AKB48, well, friends, now we’re at the tipping point and new members like Ito Momoko and her peers in the nineteenth generation are definitely going to push us over!

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None Shall Pass.

Like all stupid ideas, I began to take this seriously. I tried writing about this in a lot of different ways, but each time it felt like I was trying to tell people what to do and that's not something that is fun to write nor, I imagine, would it be something fun to read, so I started thinking about what was important to me, and why it is that I need to fix a moment in time in order to explore it, so I'll just come out and say this directly: I think yuri is over. I think that by broadly applying the term, yuri has become a word we use now in the same way we say "sellotape" or "google"—although in the latter example, it does appear as if the original name owner keeps doing their best to remind us how awful they've become. I think that if we regard yuri as a movement, what we see now in media is both reactionary and different, it is the relationship between modernism and postmodernism; it is post-yuri.

To-day I discovered that Yoshiya Nobuko, the author of many Class S novels that helped define the genre, joined the pen butai in 1938 alongside Hayashi Fumiko, and reported on the Second Sino-Japanese War and Japanese interests in Manchuria. One year earlier, that same government banned Class S as a genre as part of restrictions depicting even heterosexual romance in children's literature. Her house in Kamakura is, like Hayashi's former abode, now a museum to her life and works. I thought I might go there at some point this year if it's open. I'm fascinated by Yoshiya's development of Class S, of the framework for what later became yuri, and of how this is juxtaposed by the details of her real life, her beliefs in the inherent status quo of Japan in that moment. This is your regularly scheduled reminder that I am very invested in the life and works of Mishima Yukio. Not all our gays are "good guys," is my crass way of making a joke here about how sharing a romantic preference is sometimes interpreted as having identical values.

The intensity of Yoshiya's depictions of relationships between girls is what I'm interested in. The social context of Class S and the ideas of sisterhood that characterised these works and early yuri is what I want to explore. I think that the moment a reciprocal sexual element is introduced, the work strays away from the tenets of the original idea. I feel like you don't need me to tell you that I'm not against the idea of the depiction of sex acts in literature, but I would also characterise the beginning of yuri becoming synonymous with pornographic content in the 1990s as the watershed that brought to us to the idea of post-yuri as a genre.

I know some of you will disagree with me about this, which I think is a good thing, as I want to maintain a conversation with you about literature and how we interact with media. I'm interested in your feelings and thoughts about yuri—as long as your name isn't Rebecca Silverstein. Unless I go completely off-the-rails and found a private militia with the aim of defending "true yuri" against "outside influences" and holding public rallies, I figure we can keep having this conversation as I talk my way through my relationship with this genre.

Uh, happy almost Pride month?

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From Penny Press to Protocols: The Structural Shift AI Forces on the Internet

Link: joanwestenberg.com (2025)

The web isn't dying. It's becoming infrastructure.

Just like newspapers didn't disappear when the telegraph arrived—they just became less central to how information moved through society. The human-facing web will persist, but the economic and structural center of gravity is shifting toward systems designed for machine consumption.

This new infrastructure web won't be as colorful or engaging as the human web. It will be more like plumbing—essential, efficient, and largely invisible. Success will depend on reliability, speed, and interoperability rather than creativity, engagement, and virality.

We're moving from an internet designed to capture human attention to an internet designed to feed machine intelligence. The companies that recognize this shift early and position themselves accordingly will build the foundational infrastructure of the AI economy.

What’s at stake now is the kind of infrastructure web we build—one that supports human flourishing or one that prioritizes machine efficiency above all else. The telegraph era of journalism wasn't necessarily better or worse than the penny press era, but it was fundamentally different.

The same will be true of the infrastructure web. It won't be better or worse than the human web that preceded it. But it will be optimized for entirely different purposes, serving entirely different users, operating according to entirely different economic principles.

And most of it will be invisible to the humans whose world it increasingly shapes.

This is definitely already happening-- I just got an email from a professional blogger about writing for Google's AI search, and to structure your blog so AI can more easily read it. You basically have to, if you want to be seen (and maybe make a few bucks off ad revenue).

There's another angle where you could instead move to write for Pinterest search (which is just another kind of AI), or you could pivot to video (Youtube = Google), but for me...I think I'm just take a step back. My little for-profit blog makes about $100/month and hasn't moved beyond that despite a year plus of work, so I don't feel like it's worth the anxiety to worry about what Google's doing or try to change my writing to give AI more access. I do still enjoy writing for that blog, though, so I'm gonna keep going, but I'm just gonna do my own thing.

Anyway, if you're interested in an internet that isn't written for robots, check out the IndieWeb instead!

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FIC: Kamen Rider Black RX & Power Rangers Dino Fury & Wonderful Precure! - Super Mutiny Time!

Title: Super Mutiny Time!
Universe: Kamen Rider Black RX, Power Rangers Dino Fury, Power Rangers Wild Force, Wonderful PreCure!
Series: Season One | Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers: The Movie
Character(s): Kujo Osamu, Zayto, Cole Evans, Nekoyashiki Yuki/Nekoyashiki Mayu
Rating: 15
Warnings: Mature themes (stories #1 & 3).
Summary: Those days were a dim memory now, the sawdust beneath his sneakers, motes of dirt gathering in the sunlight, her face furrowed in concentration, the joypad of the old console in her hands.
Length: 725, 809, & 757 words
Author's Notes: I read Abe Kazushige's Nipponia Nippon recently and it had a profound impact on me, so I decided to order all these stories in the same fashion as the three cover songs found on Nicole Dollanganger's Columbine EP. The third story also functions as a

luckyzukky Flash Box Prompt reply. also: external links 1, 2, 3.

Mutiny!

( Kamen Rider Black RX )

( Power Rangers Dino Fury, Power Rangers Wild Force )

( Wonderful Precure! )

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corporateville

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lmao i love my work IT department, i start having weird certificate issues after an update that aren't solved by three resets and basic troubleshooting on my end - and my favorite IT bro escalates me directly to the executive support specialist skipping who knows how many levels :') 'eh fuck it, krad never calls unless if it's a kernel issue or something similar.'

( called it too. i can tell by the teamviewer shenanigans this is more than your average 'have you tried to turn it off and on a fourth time' bug )

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AKC Courtneyyyyyy Culture Festival #179: Otsuka Nanami

Hono no Tenko Tchionger Seven is a delight, a love letter to the original Kamen Rider, to older tokusatsu in general. The moment I first encountered and realised it was filmed and broadcast on a local network in Niigata, I began clutching at straws, wondering if there was an NGT48 tie-in that I could chase down. Sure enough, the second season of the show from 2021 features a supporting cast made up almost entirely of second generation NGT members! There’s Morohashi Hinata! There’s Ogoe Haruka! There’s Oguma Tsugumi from the first generation! There’s Otsuka Nanami playing a mysterious woman with a dark past!

Nanachi!

In June 2018, amidst uncertain waters, NGT’s second generation debuted with Nanachi in the line-up. By August, it was time for AKB’s second Unit Janken Tournament, a result that ended in the CD debut of the sub-unit Fortune Cherry (Matsuda Yumi and Tada Kyoko). Because of the way this contest was set up, contestants entered in groups, with Nanachi numbering amongst the members of 2ki, an NGT kenkyuusei gathering with Morohashi at the centre. Against all odds, they got really far in the contest and earned themselves a place on the B side of the Fortune Cherry single! Drone Jealousy is an odd song, but it’s upbeat and exciting, so even if Akimoto didn’t hit the ball out of the park with the lyrics, it's still a good song, a song sadly forgotten now as it came at a bad time in NGT’s history. I don’t want to attribute too much to it but it’s really telling how only now is it considered an NGT song, whereas previously it was a song belonging to the kenkyuusei runner up group of that contest.

With their success, the second generation of NGT became more well known, continuing activities as 2ki until the end of the year. In November, Nanachi appeared in a revival of Team G’s first stage, Saka Agari, as an understudy for Seiji Reina, Sugahara Riko, and Kamimura Ayuka. 2019 was a year in which NGT underwent a lot of changes. It feels like a long time that Nanachi and the second generation kenkyuusei were left hanging, but in 2020, Nanachi was announced as a member of the senbatsu for the group’s fifth single, Sherbert Pink, standing shoulder to shoulder with a number of original members and a whole host of kenkyuusei, not least of all, the demoted Kato Minami. After this, the second generation was finally codified as ‘official’ and Nanachi, Morohashi, and Ogue and their peers were ‘promoted’ into their own generation.

Nanachi became a familiar face in the senbatsu, and whilst NGT48 singles have dwindled to a once-a-year event, Nanachi has been on each of them since Sherbert Pink, and with the two most recent release, Isshun no Hanabi, and new single, Kibou Ressha, she appears as joint centre!

If you are new to NGT, or if you are willing to put the past behind you and wanted to know who to look out for in the group, my advice would be to follow Nanachi. Having weathered the storm and now being one of the group’s longest serving members, Nanachi is clearly in the hearts of fans.

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landcomm, free covid tests, zines

I'm working on my write-up of Wiscon 47 (including a massive list of interesting links and book recommendations), but for now: here's some links to look at!

Interactive multi-fandom challenge community

lands_of_magic has been reborn at

seasons_of_fandom and will start accepting new members in June.

Here's a great Tumblr blog featuring diverse Murderbot fanart/fan creations.

VidUKon (a fanvid convention!) is happening May 30-June 1; online tickets are £20, or if you'e in Bristol and want to attend in person it's £50!

( More under here! )

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culture consumed

Things

(One day early or thirteen days late, depending how you count.)

Books
Finished reading Freya Marske's A Restless Truth. Despite how long it took me to read it, it was a good fantasy romance novel. If it weren't the middle novel in a trilogy with m/m couples for books one and three, I'd be reccing this one to nearly every f/f romance reader I know, actually. As it is, well, that recommendation stands if either you read m/m too or don't mind reading book two of a trilogy as a standalone when it really would work better as book two.

It's not a heist novel, but it pushed some of the same anxiety buttons for me that heist plots do, which is probably at least part of why it took me so long.

A thing I'd like to note: a lot of times when I read f/f romance by an author who mostly writes m/f or m/m, the f/f doesn't ring very convincing to me (same problem with m/f romance authors writing m/m.) This was Freya Marske's second published novel, so I don't know what she "usually" writes, but this did ring convincing. I believed that Violet was bi, and I believed in Maude's lesbian awakening, and I believed in their attraction to each other.

My paper copy of Cameron Reed's The Fortunate Fall arrived in the mail. I read it back in uni (borrowed from the Rowden White Library in the early 2000s) but hadn't owned it until now.

About midway through Jazz Money's how to make a basket, a 2021 book of poems in which Wiradjuri words grow up through the cracks of the English.

Started reading KJ Charles' Death in the Spires. (Waiting for the "in spires" pun to drop.)

Not books but literary analysis: I read Andrea Long Chu's 2022 article Hanya's Boys, on Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life. I haven't read the novel itself, and don't think I want to. And I think Chu is very incisive and good at what she does. But also: wow, mean. Maybe the meanest literary review I've read in I don't know how long. Came away feeling defensive on Yanagihara's behalf as someone who has ever read even one whump fanfic.

Fandom
Prophet:

rydra_wong posted her post-canon 'a word you've never understood'. I don't know that I can recommend it to people who haven't read Prophet (I can recommend they read Prophet and then read Rydra's fic) but if you have read the book and liked it and are someone who reads fanfic then I unreservedly recommend this fic. I've been looking forward to this one since Rydra started writing it (under extremely stressful writing conditions) and I'm so happy she did.

Comics
I cackled out loud (very loudly) at the (nsfw-ish) recent Dumbing of Age strip titled 'Fingering'. And then went "aww" in a sad way at the next page. Joyce and Dorothy are both going through some things, and afaik poor Joe has no idea.

Making
Made another linocut, this one a bookmark-shaped print of stacks of books. It came out nicely: I'm pleased. I like the idea of bookmark-shaped lino printing: it's a manageable size for a project, and produces objects I can use, or that I can give as gifts without worrying about giving clutter.

Tech
Felt the urge to spend some days spending more time changing my laptop's window manager configurations than talking to people. You know how it is. And it does look better than it did before, although somehow I changed the lockscreen without realising I'd done so, which was a bit of a shock when I locked the screen for the first time after that.

It was after I wrote that post (Tuesday last week, I think?) that my laptop's wifi card started disconnecting randomly while I was using it and needing the external wifi/radio switch[*] jiggled to reconnect it. Then it stopped reconnecting and I had a crash course in Linux kernel drivers for WWAN, WLAN, and Bluetooth, what rfkill does, the difference between soft-blocked and hard-blocked wifi, etc.

( cut for length )

Games
More Slay the Spire: still no infinity deck, but I got the 'Ooh, Donut' achievement for killing Donu with a Feed card. So that was satisfying.

Garden
I bought a little (less than one square metre) pop-up greenhouse tent thing, set it up outside, and planted the basil cutting there. A few days later I woke up and found that it was gone. Tent and all.

I have no idea what could cause that. Did I not put the stakes in deep enough? Did some basil-loving animal come into my back yard? ???

Weather
It's finally cold. Cold enough, in fact, that last week I purchased an electric foot warmer for those "oops, my toes are all corpse white" times. I'll keep looking for a less e-wasteful solution, but I'd like to still have toes by the time I come up with it.

Miscellaneous
Last week I had to get a routine blood test. I noticed that there was a case under the exam bed across the room from the chair I was in. I couldn't tell what instrument it was, it was a bit too broad and flat for a trumpet. Banjo, maybe? Ukulele? "Aha," I thought: "an opportunity to make small talk as the humans do!"

When it was my turn in the conversation to provide a line, I asked "What instrument do you play?"
"I actually don't play an instrument," the phlebotomist said. "It's funny that you thought I did..." and then followed my gaze to the case. "Oh! That's not an instrument. A patient gave me that. She was cleaning out and thought I might like it. It's actually an arm. A rubber one, for practising giving injections. She thought I could give it to the company, but they have their own training materials. I'm not sure what I'll do with it. Fancy dress, maybe?"

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krad.txt

engaged cruelty & disengaged cruelty

little bit of thoughts on a trend.... not intensely dark or particularly squicky, but more of a somber topic.

i've been rotating a theory lately of something i'm calling "engaged cruelty" vs "disengaged cruelty". a lot of this is in the context of pondering about how the online world has changed from the early 2000's to now; particularly in cis(?) male dominated spaces (eg the chans, hacker news, jock-y subreddits, but also some real-world spaces).
( Read more... )

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Current Music: Mizmor - Acceptance

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New York, New York

Last week, lulled by the movement of the train, I read The Chosen by Chaim Potok, and I spent a long moment thinking about the fairytale of New York. I can't imagine New York outside of cinema and records. Some of you live there and I deal with this contradiction daily, the idea of a city as a fantasy and a city as a fixed location. This book made me think a lot about my relationship with the world around me, the world to come. I realised I don't want to talk about that ever; I realised that this was something I held deep in my heart and that it has become who I am now that I am adult, and I don't want to talk about it so I won't. Yet I keep thinking about the friendship this book depicts, the things it says about our relationships with our fathers, with the fathers of our fathers. I should have read this book long before this past week, I thought sadly as I turned the final page.

Last night, I watched Fruit Chan's Made in Hong Kong, also for the first time, and whilst it did not speak to me in the same way, it held in it a portrait of another city that also resonated, one I know slightly better, one I am forever mourning. Mourning is not the right word. Hong Kong was never mine. Much like the idea of an acceptable Jewish identity, it was simply something I ached for. I hate typing these words because I can see the fault line of my father's behaviour in them. Sometimes, on the Piccadilly Line, swaying back and forth on the way to work, I'm scared of what I have left to lose, what is almost out of my grasp.

A year ago, I wrote a story about a character that I was already in the throes of being obsessed with. To-day's flavour of frustration with myself feels very apt. I didn't realise to-day was its anniversary and now I am a jumble of feelings.

Current Mood: content
Current Location: somewhere
Current Music: Nicole Dollanganger - Runnin' Free

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FIC: Kamen Rider Black RX - Menhera

Title: Menhera
Universe: Kamen Rider Black RX
Character(s): Fumiko, Masaki
Series: The Unspeakable Oath | Between To-day and To-morrorow | Pagliacci | The Ghost of a Flea | Dangerous Days | dérive | In Accordance to Natural Law | Shadow Moon | Wake Up the Hero! | Rêve | Channelling the Power of Souls | Evanescent Quietude | Pearls Before Swine | One Day Closer to the End of the World | Lonely, Lonely Heart | Life Eternal
Rating: 15
Warnings: Discussion of mental health, suicide
Summary: Her smile faded a little, she looked away, staring down at her plate, expensive pasta, expensive bolognaise. She would regret spending so much on the night when her rent was due. It was easier when people knew about it, she thought. If she told them, then she wouldn’t have to worry about them hating her. She would know for sure.
Length: 946 words
Author's Notes: I feel like I need to start making notes about where all these kid characters, now grown up, originally appear. We first meet Fumiko in episode #18, Masaki appears in episode #11 (PSA: he's the kid that turns into a bike), Chigusa appears in episode #9, Shizuka and Yuichi are from episode #10, and Tomoka is from episode #8. also: external link.

Fumiko

( Menhera )