Bizarre little dream... and mail! :D
I must have been stealing someone else's dreams last night. Not only did I dream that I was an otokoyaku, but I was hanging out with Chigi...
It was the most bizarrely amusing thing. There was some kind of multi-troupe-and-OG special going on, and Chigi and I got to be in it. (Clearly I could not be anything other than a Soragumi otokoyaku. XD) But our part was very small, so apparently we could just show up in the middle, do our thing and then leave again.
The performance wasn't being held in the Daigekijou, or even in Bow Hall; it was some smaller venue that only had one level of seating (i.e., no balcony / second floor seats). The "stage" was a plane of hardwood that was level with the floor. But there must have been some kind of backstage, because that's where Chigi and I entered from.
The set-up seemed to be a long parade of people taking the stage and performing a few lines from famous Takarazuka plays. I dimly recall that the one right before me and Chigi may have been Suzukaze Mayo doing a bit from Berubara. But when it was our cue to go on, all I remember is us walking across the stage, and the audience was awfully close, and there was some fan in the front row with a personal video camera, and apparently that was allowed. Also, we had some magical Wind in the Hair effect going on (and despite being an "otokoyaku" in my dream, my hair was shoulder-length just like it is in real life).
Anyway, we got to the other end of the stage, did our little poses and said our little lines, and when we were done we walked up the aisle and out the front door. Outside people were lined up, as if coming in late, and they didn't seem overly phased by two ken-8-ish otokoyaku sauntering out the door.
But the fan with the camera had affected me, and I had a particularly strong sensation of "how did I get here"... Despite being a young rising star in about the same position as Chigi, I still had a kind of low self-confidence where I couldn't understand what people saw in me.
It was especially strange because, of course, none of it was real. XDD;; That's all I remember. Silly, silly dream. ^^;;;
In other news, I GOT MAIL FROM BECCA SHOP!!! muffin_song, the way you wrote your name on the package made me laugh out loud. XD XD Anyway, it's REIMEI SHINKO PICS OF GOODNESS AND LOVE, plus two new photo holders because god knows I needed more at this point. ^^;; So there's another purple one, and then I branched out and asked for a pink one as well! For all my other-troupe pictures. ;D
AND AS IF THAT WASN'T ENOUGH, I ALSO GOT MAGGY MAIL!! kalen9, thank you so much!! Old Soragumi shinko digests... Mmmmmmm. <3 <3 And other random Soragumi things which are always love. X3
Lastly, I did end up writing an email to Fukuda-san saying I was so thankful for her reports that I wanted to give her a gift, and this morning she emailed me back... And of course I should never have expected a Japanese person to say "sure, yeah, a gift from America, I'd like _____!" She's much too sweet and modest for that. <3 She's like "you don't have go give me anything, I like doing this and just sent reports whenever I felt like it", etc. And she's happy that I'm coming back in May, so we can meet up again and have more conversations (about Alice-chan, naturally X3) in person. :D
The only thing that... I wouldn't say worries or troubles, but at least "stands out" to me about Fukuda-san is that we've always kept up that basic level of formality in our exchanges. And I thought this was good and proper, seeing as she's about five years older than me and I wouldn't want to seem disrespectful. But it also seems like squee is a little less squeeful when you're being all polite about it. I dunno. Actually, I think maybe Fukuda-san is the "deeply devoted" type, but also a quiet type who doesn't "squee" as much.
Anyway. :) Fukuda-san <3 Maggy <3 Becca <3 Alice-chan!!! <3 <3 <3
It was the most bizarrely amusing thing. There was some kind of multi-troupe-and-OG special going on, and Chigi and I got to be in it. (Clearly I could not be anything other than a Soragumi otokoyaku. XD) But our part was very small, so apparently we could just show up in the middle, do our thing and then leave again.
The performance wasn't being held in the Daigekijou, or even in Bow Hall; it was some smaller venue that only had one level of seating (i.e., no balcony / second floor seats). The "stage" was a plane of hardwood that was level with the floor. But there must have been some kind of backstage, because that's where Chigi and I entered from.
The set-up seemed to be a long parade of people taking the stage and performing a few lines from famous Takarazuka plays. I dimly recall that the one right before me and Chigi may have been Suzukaze Mayo doing a bit from Berubara. But when it was our cue to go on, all I remember is us walking across the stage, and the audience was awfully close, and there was some fan in the front row with a personal video camera, and apparently that was allowed. Also, we had some magical Wind in the Hair effect going on (and despite being an "otokoyaku" in my dream, my hair was shoulder-length just like it is in real life).
Anyway, we got to the other end of the stage, did our little poses and said our little lines, and when we were done we walked up the aisle and out the front door. Outside people were lined up, as if coming in late, and they didn't seem overly phased by two ken-8-ish otokoyaku sauntering out the door.
But the fan with the camera had affected me, and I had a particularly strong sensation of "how did I get here"... Despite being a young rising star in about the same position as Chigi, I still had a kind of low self-confidence where I couldn't understand what people saw in me.
It was especially strange because, of course, none of it was real. XDD;; That's all I remember. Silly, silly dream. ^^;;;
In other news, I GOT MAIL FROM BECCA SHOP!!! muffin_song, the way you wrote your name on the package made me laugh out loud. XD XD Anyway, it's REIMEI SHINKO PICS OF GOODNESS AND LOVE, plus two new photo holders because god knows I needed more at this point. ^^;; So there's another purple one, and then I branched out and asked for a pink one as well! For all my other-troupe pictures. ;D
AND AS IF THAT WASN'T ENOUGH, I ALSO GOT MAGGY MAIL!! kalen9, thank you so much!! Old Soragumi shinko digests... Mmmmmmm. <3 <3 And other random Soragumi things which are always love. X3
Lastly, I did end up writing an email to Fukuda-san saying I was so thankful for her reports that I wanted to give her a gift, and this morning she emailed me back... And of course I should never have expected a Japanese person to say "sure, yeah, a gift from America, I'd like _____!" She's much too sweet and modest for that. <3 She's like "you don't have go give me anything, I like doing this and just sent reports whenever I felt like it", etc. And she's happy that I'm coming back in May, so we can meet up again and have more conversations (about Alice-chan, naturally X3) in person. :D
The only thing that... I wouldn't say worries or troubles, but at least "stands out" to me about Fukuda-san is that we've always kept up that basic level of formality in our exchanges. And I thought this was good and proper, seeing as she's about five years older than me and I wouldn't want to seem disrespectful. But it also seems like squee is a little less squeeful when you're being all polite about it. I dunno. Actually, I think maybe Fukuda-san is the "deeply devoted" type, but also a quiet type who doesn't "squee" as much.
Anyway. :) Fukuda-san <3 Maggy <3 Becca <3 Alice-chan!!! <3 <3 <3