Eluvianii

About a month. How would you go about teaching English to someone?

I... I think I don't. Huh, didn't notice the transition. TPBM runs on coffee and sugar.

Realistically something like a chicken. It'd be heartbreaking though. An office job or straight up dying?

About 5 times a day? Just whenever I'm bored. It's been a few days already, I think you should take a shower.

Chocolate Wednesday! Do you have any difficulty lying and stealing?

Very much so. TPBM has achieved sibling peace.

Alright, I came as quickly as I could. Had to leave a critical business meeting but it sounded urgent. What happened? Like chocolate flavored pasta sauce.

Dark brown. What's your favorite candy?

Yeah, kind of. My main is piano but I have the basics for guitar. Also learned a bit of violin but it's been so long I couldn't hold the thing correctly if I tried now. TPBM plays Pathfinder.

That's a broad term but I'll say yes. TPBM collects stickers.

Hi! *extends right hand with the palm somehow facing outwards* Shaken, not stirred.

I don't. TPBM has had lucid dreams.

Love pineapple on pizza. TPBM likes beans on pizza.

With so many characters, I wonder who's the real Stormlight hero. Cheese or no deal.

That's impossible. Let's see, Chinese dragons maybe? I'm sure there's something cooler if I dig around. What's your favorite juice flavor?

I can use chopsticks effectively, but I do it wrong. I really want to learn the proper way to hold them but I'm usually too busy eating to spare time to practice that. TPBM likes pudding.

Most of the time at least 12am on school nights. TPBM is a night owl.

10pm is way too early to sleep. TPBM can fish.

Dalinar. What's your favorite SA country?

Well, that is encouraging to hear. Yearly threads are certainly an idea, wouldn't be the first instance here. And right back at you, there's lots of artists in your list that I haven't even heard of. I might take a page from your book in the categories. This list was longer before I shrank it to 30, and the first year I did it it was supposed to be 10, but I just added new categories as an excuse to choose more songs. You clearly have that covered.

I'd resurrect the other thread, but I might get in trouble if I decide to do that every 12 months. Besides, it seems kind of silly in retrospect when we already have this one, so here goes. The best 10 songs I found that came out in 2021: 1. In Hell We Live, Lament - Mili 2. Hadashi no Step - LiSA 3. One Last Kiss - Utada Hikaru 4. Manners - Band-Maid 5. Bulbel - Mili 6. "M" Revolution - Unlucky Morpheus 7. Surprise - LiSA 8. Fiction - Polkadot Stingray 9. Darken - Zutomayo 10. Messenger in Flames - Cepheid The best 10 songs I found in 2021 but that came out before: 1. Dokuhaku - Maaya Sakamoto 2. sustain++; - Mili (technically listened to this one last year, but it kind of fell into oblivion after the first time. This year I became obsessed with it) 3. Haru wa Yuku - Aimer 4. Summoning 101 - Mili (the fastest I've gone from 0 to a tear shower (just under 3 minutes)) 5. FATE - Band-Maid (all of World Domination really) 6. Komm Susser Todd - Arianne (same as sustain++; but all the way back in 2015) 7. Odore Ophelia - Feuille Morte/RD-Sounds (one of those names is the artist name. Couldn't figure out which. This song is obscure, it's not even on youtube anymore) 8. world.search(you); - Mili 9. Standstill - Poets of the Fall 10. Dear Alice - Arai Tasuku And the best 10 background themes from a soundtrack, which all happen to be from video games: 1. Spiral of Erebos - The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III 2. Dark Beast Ganon Battle (spoilers for final boss I guess) - The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 3. Great Power - The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel 4. Make Me Feel Sad - Dragon Quest V 5. Harmonious - Ender Lilies: Quietus of the Knights (composed by Mili) 6. Triumphant Return - Epilogue - Dragon Quest VII 7. Pledge of Demon - Yakuza 0 8. Twilight Green Passage - The Legend of Heroes Trails of Cold Steel IV 9. Bewitching Dance - Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate 10. Severe Blow - The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II Special mention here to Morimiya is Okay from Tokyo Xanadu. It was my number 10 but I wanted a CS2 theme just to round things up so it had to be sacrificed. This is also the year when I just had to accept that Mili is my current favorite band. It was evident before but the more I listen to, the more obvious it becomes. I really recommend it, they make some weird stuff in terms of the lyrics actually fitting into a melody sometimes, but it's great. They go from crude reality to sci-fi to fantasy to a mix of all three like it's nothing. You could make a compilation of their lyrics and sell it as a short story collection. It's also probably worth mentioning Vivid Undress as probably best discovery of a band? Spotify does a weird thing where if a playlist/album is over it just goes on playing whatever it thinks I might like. The thing was right, I listened to a few of their songs and they're storming great. Parareru wa (or something) particularly stayed with me. I love discovering bands like this, it's like an adventure. It happened almost at the end of the year so I'm excited to listen to all of their stuff. I'll also be checking out Band-Maid's early stuff because I feel like I abused too much of World Domination this year.

Another six hours for that I'm afraid. The Shard already marks every post as December 31 rather than 1 minute ago though. Feels weird. TPBM accomplished their new year resolution.

Finished Demon Slayer season 1. It was fun, I like how Ufotable handled character designs here. Also the visuals for magic (if it is indeed magic) were awesome. The aesthetic is really cool, I love the main four, the pillars sure know how to make a terrible first impression but they'll probably grow on me eventually. On to the movie.

Playing video games actually. Gotta use the nights before going back to school. TPBM goes back to school in less than a week.