Ai Mihama

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[Ai Mihama @MihamaBURST]

After that day, I felt something change between us, like there was something deeper connecting us than just her being my 先輩. She gave me the confidence to be who I was really was. Not an American, not Japanese, or anything else like that. I was me, and that was more than enough

[Ai Mihama @MihamaBURST]

[腐女子A] When I first told my 先輩 I wanted to go with her to the US, part of that was fueled by the stories my parents told me about life there, including the food they ate, the places they went, and how everything seemed bigger over there. My first few days there felt...off

[Ai Mihama @MihamaBURST]

She asked if I wanted to talk about it with her, and, over a few drinks, she shared about her own feelings about growing up half Okinawan, and about growing up in a country that wanted to see her culture completely erased from any form of history, including the language

[Ai Mihama @MihamaBURST]

@ShadowfireTV @MadamSavvy Egg is the Trans community team for someone that has the tendencies of a Trans person, but does not believe they're Trans, with egg cracking being convincing them to become Trans. As this mainly relates to younger people, it's often compared to grooming

[Ai Mihama @MihamaBURST]

@KlaimGames @MoriCorvyn They certainly did shit themselves in the foot

[Ai Mihama @MihamaBURST]

@itamiworks That's incredibly obvious tracing, which is at the same level of scumbaggery as plagiarism and claiming AI's art as your own

[Ai Mihama @MihamaBURST]

@BIazingBull @AI_EmeraldApple Because that's how US law views it. Unlike other places, possession of CSAM or acts between them is prosecuted the same, no matter of those involved. Even if they somehow beat the charges, unless they have friends in high places, they are, in less delicate terms, permafukt

[Ai Mihama @MihamaBURST]

@chickletfila @MLB @Yankees @grok Apparently, it's $17

[Ai Mihama @MihamaBURST]

@jchensor @Maso_Prince In certain contexts, yes. In drag culture, it comes from the acronym for Creative, Unique, Nerve, & Talent, which is used as the term you see here, and whose adjective form is, indeed, CUNTy, likely to take back the insult as something more positive, than the one you know it as

[Ai Mihama @MihamaBURST]

So when Boss-chan asked if I could help her learn Japanese, I knew I had to get some outside help...and that I would probably be relearning some stuff alongside her, as she got into the trickier bits. Felt pretty bad, but I suppose it's better than letting it atrophy, right?

[Ai Mihama @MihamaBURST]

[腐女子A] when I was growing up, my folks would always bring up a word someone made up, when talking about people typing stuff, over writing it by hand. 提筆忘字[ちょうひつぼうじ] is what I remember them calling it, which they said meant "lift the pen, forget the character"

[Ai Mihama @MihamaBURST]

As a kid, I thought they were just being cranky and old, but when I went to try writing something by hand in Japanese, it was suddenly REALLY hard to write a lot of stuff outside what English would call the alphabet, even though I KNEW everything else about it. It was crazy!

[Ai Mihama @MihamaBURST]

[腐女子A] So when Boss-chan came to me, one day, asking me to teach her some Japanese, those ended up being the first things I ever taught her to say, though, unlike my dad, I thought it better she knew what they meant, as I taught her, hoping she'd better get why, as she grew up

[Ai Mihama @MihamaBURST]

[腐女子A] growing up, I learned Japanese a little differently. Before I picked up a lick of anything involved with the technical stuff, my dad made sure I knew how to say 4 phrases:
ごめん(I'm sorry)
許して(forgive me)
ありがとう(thank you)
愛してます(I love you)

[Ai Mihama @MihamaBURST]

[腐女子A] She looked over at me, put her hand on my shoulder, & nodded, without saying anything else. I hugged her harder than I ever had before, and cried like a baby, with her patting me on the back as she told me "it's okay, [腐女子A]. But please, don't do that again, okay?"