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etheriaI'm going to give this another try. It didn't quite stick last time because I got eaten up by Twitter and the microblogging ecosystem and was in the middle of a burnout, but I used to be on LiveJournal a lot -- I had a couple roleplay character journals, in addition to my personal blog. Also it's been like *looks at calendar* 14 years, so. I need somewhere to post things that are too long and navel-gazey for Mastodon, but not self-important enough for a self-hosted blog. Expect about an even mix of thinking too much about Transformers and psychoanalyzing myself via the not-very-Transformers-at-all novel I'm getting ready to self-publish. Also old person cranky thoughts.
three weeks for dreamwdith: a gen horror prompt fest
Apr. 25th, 2026 11:45 amfiachairechtIt is ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
3weeks4dreamwidth time and I am celebrating the same way I always do by bringing a mini version of my old beloved ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
sharp_teeth to Dreamwidth! The fest is open to everyone and runs here for the full three weeks (until it's no longer May 15th in any timezone).
banner byluckyzukky
Rules
☠ This is a comment meme for creating works focussed on horror for any fictional canon, including original works and crossovers.summerofhorrorexchange has a list of horror subgenres for your inspiration, and you can also re-post prompts from the 2024 round.
☠ RPF is not allowed. Fictionalised versions of real people (e.g. prompts for Gentleman Jack) are allowed, provided they are not in extremely bad taste (war criminals, serial killers, etc). I determine what extremely bad taste is. This rule does not apply to fictional canons.
☠ This is a comment meme for gen (in the relationship sense, i.e. not focussed on romance or sex) fanworks. Background pairings are allowed, but should not be the focus of the work.
☠ This is a comment meme for Dreamwidth. Works should be Dreamwidth-exclusive for the duration of the event, to the extent possible (e.g. artists and podficcers obviously need to host somewhere, but fic should not be posted to AO3 or other sites until after the 15th). You can crosspost anywhere on Dreamwidth (your own journal or fic comm, other thematically relevant comms) at any point during the event, and anywhere else after May 15th.
☠ To participate in the meme, all you have to do is leave a prompt or reply to a prompt with a fill.
☠ Post your prompt as a comment to this post, one prompt per comment. Prompt comment subject lines should follow the format Fandom, Character(s), short description of prompt, for example Zone Blanche, Camille, came back wrong.
☠ 'Any fandom' and 'Specific fandom, any character' prompts are allowed.
☠ If you want to use an image or video as a prompt that's fine, but please link to it with a description rather than putting it directly in the comment.
☠ Post your fills as replies to the prompt comment. Fill comment subject lines should follow the format FILL: title, rating.
☠ If filling an 'Any' prompt, fandom and/or ship names in the fill titles are appreciated but not mandatory
☠ Warnings at the start of fills are appreciated but not mandatory. In fact, the entire comments section is a choose not to warn-friendly space.
☠ Link your fills in the fills thread below. I'll collect them in a masterpost after the event ends. (I mean it this year.)
☠ Multiple fills and self-fills are allowed.
☠ You can use fills you create for this event to fill prompts in other events, as long as those events are also hosted on Dreamwidth and their mods are fine with cross-fills.
☠ Be 18+ and don't be a fuckwit. Complaining that you don't like a prompt, character-bashing, and other wankery will get you banned from my journal. If you're one of the tiny handful of people banned from my journal, you're also banned from this particular event.
Dreamwidth With Friends
Gen horror not your thing? There are other prompt fests ongoing! If you're running one as well, drop the link in the Questions/Etc thread and I'll add it here.
☠toothpastepancake is running Rarest of Rarepairs: Microedition, for ships with less than 35 works on AO3
☠likealighthouse is running April Iconathon, for icon fills
☠precuretokuprompt is running Chemy Card Spring Silly, for works featuring Chemy Cards from Kamen Rider Gotchard
3weeks4dreamwidth time and I am celebrating the same way I always do by bringing a mini version of my old beloved sharp_teeth to Dreamwidth! The fest is open to everyone and runs here for the full three weeks (until it's no longer May 15th in any timezone).banner by
luckyzukkyRules
☠ This is a comment meme for creating works focussed on horror for any fictional canon, including original works and crossovers.
summerofhorrorexchange has a list of horror subgenres for your inspiration, and you can also re-post prompts from the 2024 round.☠ RPF is not allowed. Fictionalised versions of real people (e.g. prompts for Gentleman Jack) are allowed, provided they are not in extremely bad taste (war criminals, serial killers, etc). I determine what extremely bad taste is. This rule does not apply to fictional canons.
☠ This is a comment meme for gen (in the relationship sense, i.e. not focussed on romance or sex) fanworks. Background pairings are allowed, but should not be the focus of the work.
☠ This is a comment meme for Dreamwidth. Works should be Dreamwidth-exclusive for the duration of the event, to the extent possible (e.g. artists and podficcers obviously need to host somewhere, but fic should not be posted to AO3 or other sites until after the 15th). You can crosspost anywhere on Dreamwidth (your own journal or fic comm, other thematically relevant comms) at any point during the event, and anywhere else after May 15th.
☠ To participate in the meme, all you have to do is leave a prompt or reply to a prompt with a fill.
☠ Post your prompt as a comment to this post, one prompt per comment. Prompt comment subject lines should follow the format Fandom, Character(s), short description of prompt, for example Zone Blanche, Camille, came back wrong.
☠ 'Any fandom' and 'Specific fandom, any character' prompts are allowed.
☠ If you want to use an image or video as a prompt that's fine, but please link to it with a description rather than putting it directly in the comment.
☠ Post your fills as replies to the prompt comment. Fill comment subject lines should follow the format FILL: title, rating.
☠ If filling an 'Any' prompt, fandom and/or ship names in the fill titles are appreciated but not mandatory
☠ Warnings at the start of fills are appreciated but not mandatory. In fact, the entire comments section is a choose not to warn-friendly space.
☠ Link your fills in the fills thread below. I'll collect them in a masterpost after the event ends. (I mean it this year.)
☠ Multiple fills and self-fills are allowed.
☠ You can use fills you create for this event to fill prompts in other events, as long as those events are also hosted on Dreamwidth and their mods are fine with cross-fills.
☠ Be 18+ and don't be a fuckwit. Complaining that you don't like a prompt, character-bashing, and other wankery will get you banned from my journal. If you're one of the tiny handful of people banned from my journal, you're also banned from this particular event.
Dreamwidth With Friends
Gen horror not your thing? There are other prompt fests ongoing! If you're running one as well, drop the link in the Questions/Etc thread and I'll add it here.
☠
toothpastepancake is running Rarest of Rarepairs: Microedition, for ships with less than 35 works on AO3☠
likealighthouse is running April Iconathon, for icon fills☠
precuretokuprompt is running Chemy Card Spring Silly, for works featuring Chemy Cards from Kamen Rider GotchardFushigi na STORY: a Three Weeks for Dreamwidth prompt box that I refuse to tag properly!
Apr. 25th, 2026 09:08 amsonofgodzilla
luckyzukkyHello, 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.
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Apr. 23rd, 2026 04:42 amyerboypetroY'know, in spite of it being Not Very Good (frequently bordering on gawdawful), Medusa (2015) has really stuck in my head.
It's been something like a week and I am still thinking about it because even though it does a dozen things that piss me off (at one point conflating the gorgons with Christian fallen angels in a move that had me just boggling at the screen), to say nothing of the writer/director showing up at the start of the film as a (and this is a fucking quote) "witch doctor" and the writing's bizarre insistence that Medusa Gorgon's deal was being an evil temptress...
In spite of ALL OF THAT, I keep looping back to wanting to do something with a similar premise because the concept and even some of the momentary bits of execution are rock-solid and as a guy constantly cycling through fixations (hyper- and otherwise) including this one where I try and get some inspiration around Medusa and her immortal sisters (Stheno/"forceful" and Euryale/"far-roaming") but without being all weird and hornt for a snake lady, so.
I dunno. I just keep thinking there's something fun and weird you could do with obsessions around mythic figures and the creeping "oh but what if it's not just myth?" around the edges without random magicians showing up to tell you the exact date and time you have to do the ritual to prevent the thing from crawling out of you into the world so you can explode it and everyone gets hit with the green goo and it all just ends.
Love and spite, the twin motivators, still locked in.
Anyway, I think if they could have just locked in on a protagonist or a motive or a WHY of the movie because the biggest thing I keep thinking is that if the writer/director would have just made a movie about wanting to fuck a snake lady, it might have been a bit more coherent.
It's been something like a week and I am still thinking about it because even though it does a dozen things that piss me off (at one point conflating the gorgons with Christian fallen angels in a move that had me just boggling at the screen), to say nothing of the writer/director showing up at the start of the film as a (and this is a fucking quote) "witch doctor" and the writing's bizarre insistence that Medusa Gorgon's deal was being an evil temptress...
In spite of ALL OF THAT, I keep looping back to wanting to do something with a similar premise because the concept and even some of the momentary bits of execution are rock-solid and as a guy constantly cycling through fixations (hyper- and otherwise) including this one where I try and get some inspiration around Medusa and her immortal sisters (Stheno/"forceful" and Euryale/"far-roaming") but without being all weird and hornt for a snake lady, so.
I dunno. I just keep thinking there's something fun and weird you could do with obsessions around mythic figures and the creeping "oh but what if it's not just myth?" around the edges without random magicians showing up to tell you the exact date and time you have to do the ritual to prevent the thing from crawling out of you into the world so you can explode it and everyone gets hit with the green goo and it all just ends.
Love and spite, the twin motivators, still locked in.
Anyway, I think if they could have just locked in on a protagonist or a motive or a WHY of the movie because the biggest thing I keep thinking is that if the writer/director would have just made a movie about wanting to fuck a snake lady, it might have been a bit more coherent.
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dw_maintenanceHappy Wednesday!
I'm taking search offline sometime today to upgrade the server to a new instance type. It should be down for a day or so -- sorry for the inconvenience. If you're curious, the existing search machine is over 10 years old and was starting to accumulate a decade of cruft...!
Also, apparently these older machines cost more than twice what the newer ones cost, on top of being slower. Trying to save a bit of maintenance and cost, and hopefully a Wednesday is okay!
Edited: The other cool thing is that this also means that the search index will be effectively realtime afterwards... no more waiting a few minutes for the indexer to catch new content.
AKC Courtneyyyyyy Culture Festival #218: Hashimoto Haruna
Apr. 22nd, 2026 06:39 amsonofgodzillaWe're still talking about Team 8, I'm so sorry, but we have to, Team 8 is what makes the backbone of current AKB. So, alongside her fellow members, 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, Yaguchi Moka, and Takahashi Ayane, Hashimoto Haruna, born in the early summer of 2000, made her debut 14 years later!
Like her peers, Harupyon debuted as part of Team 8's revival of PARTY ga Hajumaru yo—performing Skirt, Hirari—and the later revival of Aitakatta—performing Nagisa no CHERRY. Also like the rest of Team 8, her first recorded debut was 47 no Suteki na Machi e on the B side of Kokoro no Placard in 2015. I won't go through all the B sides that Harupyon has appeared on—you can guess them based on previous Team 8 entries alone—but I will mention that during her time in the group, she became close friends with Rissen Airi, who joined Team 8 in 2018, and now works elsewhere for another agency. I will also mention how much I instantly fell in love with her introductory speech as soon as I read it:
"I will work hard to deliver smiles to everyone! Wait for my visit with smiles as a souvenir!!"
If that doesn't tell you all you need to know then I don't know what does!
Initially debuting at the SKE48 theatre performance with Yaguchi Moka, Hirose Natsuki, Hayasaka Tsumugi, and others, she also joined Moka in gaining a concurrent position in Team K in 2017, and then moving to Team B in 2021 where she stayed until the teams were eventually all folded up into the situation we have here. This gives me an opportunity to talk about Team B Oshi once more. I was a little hard on the idea of Team AKB Oshi last time we spoke about the song. Team B Oshi implies the existence of Team A Oshi. As far back as 2014, when Harupyon was first joining the group, this was being performed at concerts. The difference is that I will excuse this because it's Takahashi Team A. If Takamina says it's okay, it's okay, basically.
Haruna, always hopping like a rabbit, dreamed of being an idol since elementary school, and now here she is, the self-styled girl with glasses from Toyama Prefecture. Team 8 may be "on hiatus" but, at the same time, Team 8 now is AKB48, and in the spirit of that sentiment: who's your Team 8 oshi?
Like her peers, Harupyon debuted as part of Team 8's revival of PARTY ga Hajumaru yo—performing Skirt, Hirari—and the later revival of Aitakatta—performing Nagisa no CHERRY. Also like the rest of Team 8, her first recorded debut was 47 no Suteki na Machi e on the B side of Kokoro no Placard in 2015. I won't go through all the B sides that Harupyon has appeared on—you can guess them based on previous Team 8 entries alone—but I will mention that during her time in the group, she became close friends with Rissen Airi, who joined Team 8 in 2018, and now works elsewhere for another agency. I will also mention how much I instantly fell in love with her introductory speech as soon as I read it:
"I will work hard to deliver smiles to everyone! Wait for my visit with smiles as a souvenir!!"
If that doesn't tell you all you need to know then I don't know what does!
Initially debuting at the SKE48 theatre performance with Yaguchi Moka, Hirose Natsuki, Hayasaka Tsumugi, and others, she also joined Moka in gaining a concurrent position in Team K in 2017, and then moving to Team B in 2021 where she stayed until the teams were eventually all folded up into the situation we have here. This gives me an opportunity to talk about Team B Oshi once more. I was a little hard on the idea of Team AKB Oshi last time we spoke about the song. Team B Oshi implies the existence of Team A Oshi. As far back as 2014, when Harupyon was first joining the group, this was being performed at concerts. The difference is that I will excuse this because it's Takahashi Team A. If Takamina says it's okay, it's okay, basically.
Haruna, always hopping like a rabbit, dreamed of being an idol since elementary school, and now here she is, the self-styled girl with glasses from Toyama Prefecture. Team 8 may be "on hiatus" but, at the same time, Team 8 now is AKB48, and in the spirit of that sentiment: who's your Team 8 oshi?
Bleh.
Apr. 20th, 2026 09:44 pmyerboypetroWell, can't get Semagic to actually connect to Dreamwidth.
So I guess I'll just use the old-fashioned dealum here and see what happens.
Once I start having ideas about shit to say.
Aaaaaany second now.
So I guess I'll just use the old-fashioned dealum here and see what happens.
Once I start having ideas about shit to say.
Aaaaaany second now.
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Apr. 19th, 2026 09:08 pmyerboypetroOh, it has been a while since.
I wonder if the third-party app still works. Look forward to finding out because I love having a little connected program where I can draft stuff and junk.
Should probably go through the website but I know what I'm about.
I wonder if the third-party app still works. Look forward to finding out because I love having a little connected program where I can draft stuff and junk.
Should probably go through the website but I know what I'm about.
One River Analogy, Used Often
Apr. 19th, 2026 05:31 pmsonofgodzillaI 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.
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.
FIC: Kamen Rider Black, Kamen Rider Geats - Black!! Transformation
Apr. 17th, 2026 06:20 pmsonofgodzillaTitle: Black!! Transformation
Universe: Kamen Rider Black, Kamen Rider Geats
Character(s): Minami Kotaro, "Ukiyo Ace", Joe the Haze, Otohime, Kugimiya Licht, Tsurumi, Girori, General Jark, OCs
Rating: U
Warnings: N/A
Summary: “Congratulations! From this day forth, you are a Kamen Rider.” In the calm of the dark night, with the sound of the fairground attractions in the distance, she had held out a small, plastic box towards him, black and white like her dress, the stylised imprint of a grasshopper encircled at its centre.
Length: 8005 words
Author's Notes: external link.
( Black!! Transformation )
Universe: Kamen Rider Black, Kamen Rider Geats
Character(s): Minami Kotaro, "Ukiyo Ace", Joe the Haze, Otohime, Kugimiya Licht, Tsurumi, Girori, General Jark, OCs
Rating: U
Warnings: N/A
Summary: “Congratulations! From this day forth, you are a Kamen Rider.” In the calm of the dark night, with the sound of the fairground attractions in the distance, she had held out a small, plastic box towards him, black and white like her dress, the stylised imprint of a grasshopper encircled at its centre.
Length: 8005 words
Author's Notes: external link.
( Black!! Transformation )
AKC Courtneyyyyyy Culture Festival #217: Takahashi Ayane
Apr. 15th, 2026 05:28 amsonofgodzillaWe 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!
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!
