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Hello, friends! 3weeks4dreamwidth is officially happening from to-day until 15th May, and, as promised, I thought it would be nice to run a little event mostly for my own amusement in order to celebrate that. As previously established, my entire life revolves around inventing excuses to make things, so I've been sitting on my hands all this week getting excited for this and now here we are and I don't really know to word this post so, ah, let's get straight to the point, shall we?

AKC Courtneyyyyyy Culture Festival
For the next three weeks, pick the members of our weekly Wednesday column! Make sure your oshimen gets the attention she deserves! Pick a member from AKB48, Nogizaka46 or any of their sister groups, or, if you will, any core Hello! Project group, and if I haven't written about your oshi before, I will ensure they get their time to shine! If I have written about them before, I will merrily redirect you. It would be really nice if I made some kind of master list post for this, wouldn't it?

Who's that Pokémon?
Pick your favourite little guy from the pokédex of Red/Blue or Gold/Silver and leave a prompt pertaining to them and I will write a little fic between 100, ~500 words! No promises that I won't keep my favourite trainers out of said fic, be warned!

Kamen Rider (Showa)
Kamen Rider fights Shocker for humanity's freedom! Pick one of the 10 Kamen Riders and/or Black/RX and leave a prompt and I will write something for them! Yes, Mikazuki Nayuta is Hongo Takeshi's adopted daughter. Yes, the first Kamen Riders in antiquity came to us from the Dreamlands. Yes, Kudo Fuga will have met many of these men during his pre-show Ikari Gendo arc.

Kamen Rider (Reiwa)
This exists here purely as an excuse for me to talk about Harima Shiori.

Their choice of matter and their scream of chatter
A young lady and a prompt from a series of your choice, Maria-sama ga Miteru, Strawberry Panic, Hasunosora Girls' High School Idol Club, Gakuen Idolm@ster, or Mayu/Yuki from Wonderful Precure! Short fics about school life, freindships in bloom, rose gardens and falling snow. Only the most elegant of prompters need apply.

Fushigi Comedy
Have you, dear friends, ever wanted to get into Toei's Fushigi Comedy Series but don't know where to start? Ask me! I'll probably just recommend Shushutorian as I definitely haven't watched all of these shows, but Shushutorian is really good! You should probably watch Shushutorian.

How do we know this event will stay exclusive to dreamwidth, Courtney? you may ask. Aha! Have faith in me friends and my absolute inability to hardly ever crosspost. Trying to update the Shiori post alone is a nightmare of jumbled comment thread links, and yet, at the same time, I secretly love making it this frustrating for anyone who might make the mistake of attempting to engage with the nonsense I make. At this point in life, I am almost certain that I will not change.

Other events to visit:
👻 - gen horror prompt fest, hosted by the lovely fiachairecht.
⚡🐁 - Chemy Card Spring Silly!! over at precuretokuprompt.
🤼 -Tokusatsu Drabblethon, hosted on toku100challenge by the equally lovely linky.

I think that I would like to do a flash prompt event during 3weeks4dreamwidth. Now watch as I eventually start planning to do this, and then, when the time comes, refuse to tag it so it turns up on the feed. This is another step in my attempting to do things because I went to see them happen even though I am very self-conscious about the fact that I look like I have no friends when I do this. Case in point: Chemy Card Spring Silly at precuretokupromp. It's fine! Everything's fine! Don't pity me!

Because I've been kind of bummed out about stuff, I've still thinking about the ebb and flow of these little streams within fandoms I enjoy that eventually run into the sea of just general tokusatsu fandom the greater the distance from their airing becomes. I tried to look elsewhere for engagement with the shows I like, I begged people to introduce me to their friends, I even went looking on ao3, and I still came away mostly empty of hand. On fedi recently, kera posted some thoughts on filing the serial numbers off of fandoms you have put a lot of work into developing beyond the context of the original source material. In fact, her account is a treasure trove of this kind of inspiration, and each time the subject is broached, I think about it as I procrastinate on posting a second big Shiori post in which I continue to argue with Hasegawa Keiichi about the way the world he was hired to write works. What would I even call a Shiori expy, I asked myself recently, and the answer came back too quickly: Kotone Shiori. Because コトネ, Kotone in katakana, would be close to sounding like コートニー (Courtney). Get it? It's funny. I'm obsessed.

I'm not doing this, I just want to say. But if I was, I thought it would be funny. I think that the reason I've been even considering it is that I realise that as those rivers run closer to the sea, I'm going to make myself more miserable expecting conversation when the topic I wish to discuss is considered settled by others. I feel like I make this kind of post frequently when what it comes down to is basically: I'm going to look at making things in another way so I don't get sad.

What else is going on? Not much! I'm reading Abarat at the moment, which, for some reason, is one of the few Clive Barker books I didn't read when it came out. I'm properly watching the adaptation of Miyuki by Adachi Mitsuru, which I have been on-off-again watching since 2013 when I was going through a moment where I really wanted to talk about love triangles and first discovered the series. Because I'm watching the adaptation of Yume Senshi Wingman by Katsura Masakazu (sorry, it's tokusatsu related!) at the same time, and because both shows came out within a year of one another, the dynamics between the love triangles in each show are sort of blurring into one huge love hexagon. I'm also steadily and happily reading a variety of yuri manga in the wild and ignoring Rebecca Silverstein's opinion about them all.

That's it. It's spring. I want to keep making things. I'm still watching lonely, livestreamed ice-skating events on youtube at work. Season 2 of The X-Files is on abema but it's sadly not eligible for catch-up. I'm going to start re-watching Kindred: the Embraced again and you can't stop me.

We cannot escape talking about Team 8. With Abe Mei, Okabe Rin, Okubora Chinatsu, Nagano Serika, Fujimura Natsuki, Onishi Momoka, Kuranoo Narumi, Shitao Miu, Cho Kurena, Hamamatsu Riona, Fukuchi Rena, Honda Hitomi, Yokomichi Yuri, the other Yokoyama Yui, Yoshino Miyu, Oda Erina, Oguri Yui, Yoshikawa Nanase, Hayasaka Tsumugi, Hirose Natsuki, Iwasaki Moeka, and Yaguchi Moka, Takahashi Ayane joined AKB48 in 2014!



Along with Yui, Erina, and Nanase, Ayane was one of the first Team 8 members to appear on stage, appearing as a backup dancer in early June for the Team A Renai Kinshi Jourei revival before going to appear with the rest of her new team for PARTY ga Hajumaru yo and the later revival of Aitakatta a year later in 2015. Working as part of Team 8 as they toured Japan throughout 2016, and appearing during her time as a member of the team in Kumamoto, Sapporo, Gunma, Aichi, and Niigata, so the wiki tells me, the first big shake up came in 2017 with the announcement of her concurrent membership in Team 4, then under Takahashi Juri, with Murayama Yuiri announced as the next incoming captain. She stayed in the team for what could be considered a long time in AKB years, surviving three further shuffles until, at last, in 2023, she was moved to Team K, the last shuffle of members before the dissolution of the teams came into effect.

Like Iwatate Saho, Ayane was in the line-up for Lion wo Nerae! Also like Sahho, Ayane is one of those girls who have appeared on a lot of B sides—beginning with Theme 8 theme tune, 47 no Suteki na Machi e on Kokoro no Placard, missing out on appearing on B sides for Bokutachi wa Tatakawanai and Halloween Night, and then returning now and then until Nemohamo Rumor, where she has remained ever since. Your time will come, Ayane! You deserve to be in the senbatsu! I hope stupid posts like this will encourage people to... actually, without the general elections, I have to confess that I have no idea how the senbatsu is picked now. I assume it's all just management making choices based on who they feel is popular. Ah, go to the theatre and shout Ayane's name, I guess, you guys!

Ayane has a really cute look and a new haircut for 2026! She has always insisted that despite how young she looks, despite how her younger sister might now be taller than her, she's the dependable one and that one of her strongest features is that she "don't care about how bad things are" [sic]. I really like that! We definitely need more girls like Ayane! Keep fighting, Ayane! You'll be in the senbatsu soon!