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Coldphile Starter Pack

This is my first time writing resource post, so hopefully I can get my points across.

If you’re someone who is fond and ecstatic with:

-the sky in charcoal/greyish monochrome color -storms/thunderstorms -torrential rain/rainfall in general -the dark blue/almost black ocean especially the cloudiness before rainfall -imagining the geography/texture of planet outside of ours -anything without ends, like the deeper part of ocean (eg Mariana Trench/) -the sensation of being sucked into something dark or the unknown -fog/misty/snowy path/weather -the sensation of exploring the unknown in general -sound texture of any objects

And of course, if you’re fond of writing and feel the need to be immersed in a specific atmosphere that can recreate the sense of ‘comforting’ isolation that you might have felt during the phenomenon/weather/sensation on the lists, I have personal tracks to listen to during the condition, or if I want to recreate the feeling of being in the condition. It’s a mixed of instrumental/vocal track.

Akira Yamaoka - Childish Thoughts (Inst.)

Akira Yamaoka - Creeping Distress (Inst.)

Calla Soiled - Lucoq (Album) (Inst.)

Chrono Cross Game Soundtrack - Dead Sea

Chrono Trigger Game Soundtrack - The Day The World Revived (Inst.)

Cliff Martinez - Contagion Movie Soundtrack (Album) (Inst.)

Contra Game Soundtrack (NES) (Album) (Inst.)

Daisuke Tanabe - Before I Forget (Album) (Inst.)

Daisuke Tanabe - Floating Underwater (Album) (Inst.)

Daisuke Tanabe - Cat Steps (Album) (Inst.)

Detroit: Become Human Game Soundtrack - Hostage (Inst.)

Dino Crisis 1 Game Soundtrack - Save Room (Inst.)

Haruomi Hosono - Watering a flower (EP) (Inst.)

Hiroyuki Sawano - Kiっ9=KELL

Hiroyuki Sawano - 凸】♀】♂】←巨人 (Kyojin Shinkou) (Inst.)

Hiroyuki Sawano - Counterattack Mankind (Inst.)

Hiroyuki Sawano - 巨♀〜9��区 (Megata Kyojin Kuchiku) (Inst.)

Hiroyuki Sawano - Attack on Titan Anime Soundtrack Season 1 Part 2 (Album)

Ib Game Soundtrack (Album) (Inst.)

Joe Hisaishi - The Procession of Celestial Beings I (Inst.)

Joe Hisaishi - The Sixth Station (Inst.)

Joe Hisaishi - The Dragon Boy /The Bottomless Pit (Inst.)

Joe Hisaishi - Kids Return (Inst.)

Keiichi Suzuki - Outrage Finale (Inst.)

Kevin Penkin - Memories (Inst.)

Kevin Penkin - Crash (Inst.)

Kevin Penkin - Wake Up, Moving On (Inst.)

Kim Joon-Seok - 소년 박해영 (Signal Kdrama Soundtrack) (Inst.)

Koji Kondo - Dire Dire Docks (Inst.)

Martin Stig Andersen - Limbo Game Soundtrack (Album) (Inst.)

milo - Filifjonkan

Peter Gundry - Jewel Of The Ocean (Inst.)

Plague Inc. Game Soundtrack (Album) (Inst.)

Rebel Inc. Game Soundtrack - Main Menu Theme (Inst.)

Sasakure.UK - Little Cry of The Abyss feat. Toki Asako (Music Box Cover) (Inst.)

Secret Forest Kdrama Soundtrack - 01 비밀의숲 (Inst.)

Secret Forest Kdrama Soundtrack - 20 The Suspect (Inst.)

Susumu Hirasawa - Behelit (Inst.)

The Little Mermaid Game Soundtrack (NES) (Album) (Inst.)

TK from Ling Tosite Sigure (BGM) (Inst.)

Yoko Kanno - Crystallized (Inst.)

Yoko Kanno - KIDS ON THE SLOPE (Inst.)

Trauma Team UOST - Diagnosis ~ Rosalia's Bloom

Toe - Hear You (Album) (Mixed Inst. Vo)

Toe - Our Latest Number (EP) (Mixed. Inst. Vo)

Yoko Kanno - China Ending Theme (Inst.)

William Basinski - Watermusic II (Inst.)

Agent Fresco - Silhouette Palette

Agent Fresco - Wait For Me

Arcade Fire - The Suburbs

Bjork - Vespertine (Album)

Bjork - All Is Full Of Love

Bjork - Army of Me

Bjork - Hyperballad

Bjork - Isobel

Bjork - Joga

Bjork - Possibly Maybe

COgeNdshE - cogency (Album)

Epik High - Mr. Doctor

Flying Lotus - Never Catch Me feat Kendrick Lamar

Haisuinonasa - Machi ni Tsuite (EP)

Haisuinonasa - Animal Body (Album)

Haisuinonasa - The Child of Imagination and City (EP)

Haisuinonasa - Transformation (EP)

Haruka Nakamura - Twilight feat. April Lee

Haruka Nakamura - Light

Keiichi Okabe - Wretched Weaponry (Dynamic)

Kenichiro Nishihara - my leaving feat. Mabanua

Kenji Kawai - Reincarnation

Kevin Penkin - Underground river feat. Raj Ramayya

Kids On The Slope Anime Soundtrack - But not for me (rendition)

Kirim - Wanderlust (Album); Highlight Tracks: 裏山の木の家, walk in a fog, Midnight

Ling Tosite Sigure - Illusion Is Mine

Ling Tosite Sigure - #5

Ling Tosite Sigure - 24REVERSE

Ling Tosite Sigure - am 345

Ling Tosite Sigure - Mirror Frustration

Ling Tosite Sigure - A 7days Wonder

Ling Tosite Sigure - A Symmetry

Lorn - Acid Rain

Mizoguchi Hajime - Grace omega feat. Yoko Kanno

Psysalia Psysalis Psyche - Tokyo+Lolita

Ropes - Dialogue

Shing02 + Nujabes - Luv(sic.) part 1

Susumu Hirasawa - Indra

Yoko Kanno - Von feat. Arnor Dan

Yoko Kanno - Birden feat. Arnor Dan

Yoko Kanno - Monochrome Feat. Ilaria Graziano

Yoko Kanno - Where does this ocean go? Feat. Ilaria Graziano

Yoko Kanno - Moon

Yoko Kanno + POP ETC - is

Yoko Kanno - Rosario

Yutaka Yamada - Glassy Sky feat. Donna Burke

Low Roar - I’ll Keep Coming

Low Roar - Tonight, tonight, tonight

Silent Poets - Asylums For The Feeling Feat Leila Adu

Spangle Call Lilli Line - Cast a spell on her

Spangle Call Lilli Line - Nano (TK kaleidoscope remix)

Spangle Call Lilli Line - Sea

Tablo - Scratch by DJ Friz

Tablo - 유통기한

Thom Yorke - Last I Heard (…He Was Circling The Drain)

Thom Yorke - Hearing Damage

Thom Yorke - Suspirium

Thom Yorke - Has Ended

Thom Yorke - Volk

The Neighbourhood - Sweather Weather

TK from Ling Tosite Sigure - Flower

Uri Nakayama - Hotaru

Note: will try to add more when i discover more tracks.

#bgm #anime #ost #anime ost #instrumental #ambient #math rock #melancholy #sad songs #chill #cold weather #rain

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What I really like about Jung and Seol’s relationship is Jung absolutely making sure that he tries to not treat Seol the way his father treats Jung. Jung helps Seol (in his way) to not bottle up her frustration, her anger, etc etc. Unlike Jung’s father who pushed Jung to not feel anything when his friend took something precious to him, Jung wants Seol to blow up all her emotion and feel relieved after she’s finished blowing up. The easiest example is when he helps Seol to express her anger to Minsoo.

[[[SPOILER]]] I think that’s why too he’s scared when Seol does his way, the “”“manipulative”“” way to know who steals her notes. He’s maybe scared that he hasn’t done enough and instead he builds Seol’s personality just like him. And now I just want to reread CITT again 😭

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Japanese Boy Groups That Kpop Stans Love

I made a girl group version earlier and there was a good response, so here we go with a boys version. Again, I’ll only be posting groups with an easily countable number of members (~7-12). And obviously, only groups with serious vocal/dance talent that I have found appealing to kpop fans.

If you like BTS, Seventeen, iKON, TVXQ:

1. Generations

7 members, 5 of which are dancers. Those are solid numbers for a performance based group and it means that the vocalists are always stable, even during lives. Heavily EDM inspired. The members are diverse too; Alan (bottom left) is half Filipino and Mendy (top right) is half Nigerian.

Generations~ Alright! Alright!

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If you like BtoB, Got7, JBJ:

2. Da-Ice

A quick change of pace from Generations here. Da-Ice have two vocalists and three dancers. Whereas Generations is a performance based group, Da-Ice relies heavier on the vocalists Yuudai (short black hair) and Sota (red hair). Sota especially hits crazy high notes. The group has a more familiar Jpop sound.

Da-Ice ~ Toki

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Yeah, yeah, it’s an older song on their discography. But Toki still holds up and it’s super catchy.

If you like BigBang, Super Junior, Shinhwa, Shinee:

3. J. Soul Brothers

Company seniors to Generations. J Soul Brothers began as a project in the early 90s, hence the old~ish R&B name. In the early 2000s, the second generation of the group was formed. And most recently in the 2010s, we have the third generation. The Sandaime. Another performance group like Generations, but they have that stage presence that only age and experience can bring. Again, 2 vocalists and 5 dancers. Elly, in the top left, is also half-black like his labelmate Mendy.

JSB ~ Summer Madness ft. Afrojack

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If you like BtoB, Block B, Dean, Winner:

4. Solidemo

An 8-member consisting of only vocalists. Seriously, the ultimate group for ballads. The name stands for “strong emotions” and every comeback delivers just that. Honestly, I seriously respect the group for going against the usual “~everyone has to be a visual~” theme. Excellent vocalists >>> flower boys in my opinion.

Solidemo ~ Our Days

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If you like BTS, Seventeen, Wanna One:

5. Ballistik Boyz

So this last group hasn’t even debuted yet, but I’ve added them in because they are already in “controversy” with kpop fans and specifically BTS stans. The current rumour is that Ballistik Boyz is a copy of BTS, but frankly it’s completely unsubstantiated.

For one, why would a Japanese boy group be called Tado Sonyeondan as has been “reported” on Pann? That’s Korean, y’all. How does that even begin to make sense?

Second, the shorthand for Ballistik Boyz is Ballibo, not BTZ. That’s another rumour that came out of literally no where.

And third, god forbid a group have 7 members, 3 rappers, and 4 vocalists. I guess BtoB and Block B also copied Bangtan before they even debuted.

Frankly, I’m excited for their debut. They’ve worked hard in LDH’s training system and this has been a long time coming for those of us who follow the company.

It’s a shame that someone decided to pull “facts” out of their ass and post them to a fan board on Pann. It’s even more of a shame that international kpop fans took that as truth and ran with it. And it’s just straight up embarrassing that Soompi, NetizenBuzz, and Allkpop is where people got this information from. Those aren’t exactly bastions of reliable journalism y’all.

I get the feeling that like all of LDH’s other boy groups, Ballistik Boyz will be popular and I recommend we keep up with their development.

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BALLISTIK BOYZ from EXILE TRIBE / 「テンハネ -1000%-」 Music Video

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Japanese Boy Groups That Kpop Stans Love

If you like BTS, Seventeen, iKON, TVXQ:

1. Generations

Generations~ Alright! Alright!

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If you like BtoB, Got7, JBJ:

2. Da-Ice

Da-Ice ~ Toki

vimeo

Yeah, yeah, it’s an older song on their discography. But Toki still holds up and it’s super catchy.

If you like BigBang, Super Junior, Shinhwa, Shinee:

3. J. Soul Brothers

JSB ~ Summer Madness ft. Afrojack

youtube

If you like BtoB, Block B, Dean, Winner:

4. Solidemo

Solidemo ~ Our Days

youtube

If you like BTS, Seventeen, Wanna One:

5. Ballistik Boyz

For one, why would a Japanese boy group be called Tado Sonyeondan as has been “reported” on Pann? That’s Korean, y’all. How does that even begin to make sense?

Second, the shorthand for Ballistik Boyz is Ballibo, not BTZ. That’s another rumour that came out of literally no where.

And third, god forbid a group have 7 members, 3 rappers, and 4 vocalists. I guess BtoB and Block B also copied Bangtan before they even debuted.

Frankly, I’m excited for their debut. They’ve worked hard in LDH’s training system and this has been a long time coming for those of us who follow the company.

I get the feeling that like all of LDH’s other boy groups, Ballistik Boyz will be popular and I recommend we keep up with their development.

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テンハネ 1000%

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Writing ship-able couples

Here are some tips for writing relationships your readers can get behind:

1. Give them reasons to click

The two characters must have things in common - a hobby, a philosophy, a background. There has to be some element that connects them.

Your readers will root for relationships in which the characters fit together better than they would with others.

Also, make their traits compatible. Have them share some characteristics or have their strengths and weaknesses be complementary. Is the one hotheaded? Maybe the other keeps their cool well in situations of conflict.

There are endless possibilities. Just make sure there’s a reason these two people like/love each other.

2. Have them be vulnerable in front of each other

Personally, this is the best way to get me to love a couple.

Have them share secrets, open up about their feelings and tell each other things they haven’t told anyone. Have them cry in front of each other and comfort each other.

This can be taken to a whole new level by having them understand the other’s emotions even without speaking and already offer comfort. Keep in mind that this will probably only be possible with long-established couples.

And having them open up is also a great way for them to discover all the things they have in common/love about each other.

3. Build up the tension

I cannot emphasise this enough: DO NOT MAKE YOUR COUPLES GET TOGETHER TOO QUICKLY.

One of the best elements of a romantic subplot (or even main plot) is the tension. Your readers want to see the pining! They want the build-up.

And no, I’m not saying that you should introduce endless, petty obstacles. That can become tedious and appear forced.

Just give your characters time to sort through their feelings. Make them fall in love slowly. Have them be unsure. Insert SOME obstacles/conflicts.

Have them almost kiss a few times. Not all the time. Too many almost-kisses can become frustrating. But you should throw a few in there.

And, if you feel comfortable with it, add some sexual tension. Have them notice each other’s bodies and imagine what they’d like to do to each other (that sounds more explicit than I intended :) )

4. Write a healthy relationship

This could just be me and my rejection of unhealthy romances, but I will not root for abusive relationships.

Have your characters be kind to each other, support each other and truly care for each other.

If your characters are constantly putting each other down, physically/emotionally abusing each other or going against the other’s wishes, they’re not in a healthy relationship.

A great way to write a healthy relationship whilst still maintaining the tension, is to have the conflict in the relationship be external. Instead of having the conflict be due to internal struggles between the two characters, have obstacles enter from outside.

Your readers should want them to be together and for that, they should be good for each other.

5. Have their friends/family see their chemistry

I find it beyond adorable when two characters are still figuring out their feelings for each other, but the fact that they’re perfect for each other is crystal clear to everyone around them.

Have their friends tease them about the relationship. Have family members ask after the them. Have their loved ones conspire to get them to admit their feelings.

If your other characters are rooting for them, your readers will probably do so as well.

Plus, this means that the chemistry between the two characters is so strong that it’s obvious, which is always good for an exciting romance.

That’s all I’ve got for now. If you have any further questions about writing OTPs or any other aspect of writing, feel free to message me or pop me an ask.

Reblog if you found any of this useful. Comment with your own tips. Follow me for similar content.

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Inveniam viam

Note: my first fanfic of Touken. sorry for the bad english and misuse of words. i write from touka’s perspective, first person view. thank u for reading.

Sometimes I wondered if life was just a hallucination made of dream dust, occurring in an alternate inner timeline of my own universe. I dived down, coursing myself through all the patches and stitches of possible moiras; my story, my choice, and my characters blend in together in a nonchalant way, seamlessly, tonally, as if nonexistent.

But here I was, pouring each cup of coffee with a sense of dread that they could just barged in and caught us all off-guard, as I drip all the powerless potion into the grainy floor.

The CCG. They could come in any moment, and I was too aware of this that I felt like diving myself much further into the intoxicating train of thoughts of a poor high school girl- trapped between reality and her most feeble desire.

As visitors came and go, so did my conscience. As I got older and learn more about the world, as invigorating as the experience could be at times, but when it’s a Monday, the start of a hectic morning, I wonder if I could went through the same ordeal over and over again.

Two guys chimed in, ringing the door bell above the heavy wooden door, taking a seat near the centre of the room. I stood across them, over the kitchen-counter that visitors could freely roam across it if they were interested in the process of making their favorite sip of coffees. A young man who sat beneath the counter looked at me. I wanted to tell him off, but Yoshimura would not let me off the hook if I did it again, like yesterday.

The two guys seated on the centre exchanging conversation so playfully and freely that they bring me Yoriko to mind, the only classmate I had that coincidentally the only friend I have within the entire school. I hate to admit the fact that I almost rendered to a lethargic of social intercourse, but it was not always easy to start a brand new relationship with strangers. With Yoriko, our first meeting was coincidental, and if it were to be filmed, you would not really believe how fate could seem like making itself too clear that it triggered your soul because of the cliché it embarked on.

“So who’s da chick you want me to see, Kaneki?” The blondie guy who almost always had a smirk at the edge of his lip whispered to the black hair guy named Kaneki, who looked like an innocent high school boy my age.

“C-can’t you be louder than this? The entire people here could almost hear you!!” He whined, biting his lips with a panicked and embarrassed looked on his face.

“Well, whatever. Oh-“ The blond guy stopped as soon as I arrived on their table.

“Wow, Kaneki! What a shot! Is this the girl you’re aiming for?” He grabbed me by shoulder, bouncing it like it was his first gained trophy, exuberant and cheerful, while keep on knocking on my patient.

“What’s your name, Miss?” He suddenly turned to me again, just inches away from my face that I could feel his warmth and breath.

I became mortified at the intimate distance and his collective awareness of his excavating persona that I gasped and tried to fence off an answer, just to make myself more calm, if possible.

“Kirishima Touka.”

“Ah, Touka-chan the name! You’re cute! Kaneki does know his way, after all!” He widened his smirk, and he chuckled when Kaneki’s face was red from the ridiculous situation he must be in.

“Hide, stop it! Well, s-she’s cute, but not the one I’m talking about!”

I already ran off from their table, trying to camouflage myself with the metallic wall behind the kitchen counter, hoping they wouldn’t have to involve me in more languish interaction that took me off blushes and further embarrassment.

A defined body, like hourglass, of a glass-wearing girl, with her purple hair shied away from the stream of air conditioner, entered the coffee shop, carrying a book on her right hand.

Kaneki gasped, swallowed off his saliva, jaw-dropped.

Hide shook his head in a grim mood. “Oh no. No, Kaneki. Not her.”

Kaneki didn’t answer, his gleaming intensified as he followed her way through the seat in which she headed.

I sighed. Not her.

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That was our first meeting. Me, and my… husband.

Sometimes I wish that we were not living for just everyone. This was my one sided wish. I once believed that I could live for myself and for whom I cherished, just for me and them. I really wanted to feed on this belief that I inherited from my uncle, Yomo. I remembered how compulsive and complicated I felt when Yomo revealed it to me, the fact he had always been my maternal uncle, trying to protect ourselves while distancing himself from us by pretending to be an outsider that we care about, because we’ve been through a lot, and mostly, facing it together. Ayato as usual, as jerky as he had ever been, gave him a menacing stare, trying to sustain the suppressed feeling he had contained for centuries, but he looked at me and gave a melancholy smile, without doubt, without being pretentious. He wouldn’t look at Yomo, but he let himself opened the tip of the mask he’s wearing, the fragile part of his rockabout façade to me.

I felt that by having a brother like Ayato, I also have learned bit by bit, the compelling layers of his personality, Kaneki.

I felt that with him, I had to be in the middle of anything. Not too dictating, but also not letting him decide everything on his own. Because he still had that bitter memories carved petulantly on his mind, without his will, affecting the way his thought progress, almost always self-inflicting.

I wanted to protect him. But in the middle of this red abyss, my mind withered away with the luscious amount of streaming red liquid down the dark tunnel in front of me.

What could’ve lie in there?

What if… Kaneki became them? What if he was back to the dark again? What if he followed my father’s footstep? He lied to himself. Or he became a new Yomo. He trying to protect his loved ones while ignoring his own needs of acknowledgement, affection that he never fully realized until late. And what if he became a complete version of Ayato? The one who showed his bitter stance against mostly everyone, and probably more, to his loved ones, as his means of protecting them at all cost.

BLOB…BLOB…BLOB…

I gasped. The sound was coming behind me. A big wave, again, in red, appeared before me crashing unto me.

“ARRRGHHHHHH!”

My screams then reduced to a mute, as I drowned into the wave, all red, and I started to be blinded and retorted from all the unity of colors no matter how they differed from each other.

I let myself carried away by the stream of waves, when eventually it stopped. I found myself castaway on again a red path. I stood up.

“Kaneki!”

I keep on calling him.

“Tell me, Kaneki! Where are you?”

All the pain started to ditch in like needles. I grasped my belly, trying to converge the pain inwards, like nothing had happened.

“Kaneki!”

I dived into the endless dark tunnel, nothing seemed to change much, just blood and red flesh scattered everywhere, vanishing into the dark when my vision started to decrease.

I stopped right before what seem like a giant tangling of spiderwebs, and inside of it seemed like a bulk of dark stature.

“K-Kaneki!” I etched, trying to give a sense of confirmation from that shade lying on the spiderwebs.

No answer.

I tried to walk closer to the spiderwebs.

I tried to tear off all the webs that was crowded and latched into a spiraling conclusion. It was sticky, hot and clammy. I bashed away the thought of weird things, like it was a noodle or something, and quickly finished tearing it off and grab the dark stature.

“Kaneki!” I cried.

I hugged him. He was wet and warm. I clung to him and burying my face deep beneath his shoulder.

I soaked. “I-I thought I’m gonna lose you, you idiot!” Even at times as sparse like this, I couldn’t stop my habit of cursing him.

I studied his face. He was sleeping like baby. I could feel his belly churned up and down.

He’s alive. My husband is alive.

I couldn’t contain all the feelings and hugged him again. And this time, even tighter.

#touken #touken fanfic #kaneki ken #touka kirishima #tokyo ghoul #tgre #tgre manga

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