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[quartered]

i feel like so much has happened this year. i cannot comprehend how it is october already, and in a few months it will be november. 2018 has been a whirlwind of good news, starting with my engagement (holy crap!!), to a job promotion and all other happy and positive bits in between. it's kind of funny how i never imagined my life going /this/ well

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[penmi]

These were the days, when others said Sho and Jun had no chemistry and Ohmiya was still all the hype... I wish I could find these kinds of posts and tell them all about how SJ trending on twitter ALL THE TIME nowadays.

It's so crazy. When I watch VS Arashi and think about how I actually saw the very first episode, when it was still such a small, cute show with max. 2 guests... I often wonder where the time went. It's 2018 already. I just looked up when I made my lj, and it was May 2006, even before Arashi released Arashic. Oh man. We can feel a little bit old. :P A little bit. We're not as old as Arashi after all.

I totally understand. I also never quite felt comfortable to move on to something else like tumblr or twitter. And now I'm kind of stuck with all these Arashi emotions bottled up inside me and nowhere to release them. ESPECIALLY all the ShoJun ones.

Ah, a trip down memory lane. So sad we can't do a revival like old classmates. That would be so fun.

After I was in Japan on two separate occasions (the 10-year anniversary 2009 and their Japonism Arena Tour in 2016 ) and could NOT GET IN a con because tickets were like 2000 bucks in 2009, and they had that face-check for the arena tour, I asked a friend whether I could use her address for the fanclub. Her mum is a Jun-fan, so she doesn’t mind collecting my fanclub-mail for me. :D So even though I’m in Germany I could try for tickets… But alas. I was not lucky.

Let’s not give up!!!! I kind of feel like this is one thing I just HAVE to do. Arashi played such a huge roll, still is really important for me, I WANT to see them in concert.

After we got our lives in order we should manage that, too? Somehow? Yeah!

:D Oh man. It’s so obvious how much I missed just rambling about Arashi to someone.

[quartered]

i know exactly how you feel. nowadays, sho/jun interaction is normal (!!) and new fans think that they actually did not have that awkward/estranged phase at all. which is good i guess, but man did we have a hard time shipping them back then. back then just eye contact between jun and sho was enough to make me happy. now they have duets! how far we have come haha

oh man, i rewatched the 5x10 concert last week and they were listing down all the stuff that happened to them for their first 10 years and i couldn't believe that VS Arashi was part of it. it's crazy how that show is more than 10 years airing. we were fans during the time shukudaikun was airing and even that seems so long ago. the bit about how we're not as old as arashi makes me feel a little better though so thank you for that hahaha

yes! twitter and tumblr are both nice social platforms, but i use twitter when i want to say random things that pop in my head and i go to tumblr to look at gifs. there is no in between. i think the reason why i can't let go of my lj is just when the emotions i feel get out of control (especially the fangirl-y kind) there is nowhere to go but lj. this is why i still post even if most of my friends aren't active here anymore lol

you are so very lucky! i have been to japan before, but since i don't have any friends residing there, i can't get in the fanclub. here's to hoping you get into their next con! and yes, i am forever hopeful. going to an arashi concert is one of the top things in my bucket list. my friends and i were talking about it a few months ago and we were all talking about how going to an arashi concert will probably when our lives would peak--i couldn't agree more. somehow, someday, we will get to see them live ♥

arashi rambles are always welcome! it's kind of obvious i miss flailing with someone about them too haha!