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My last name is culturally important to me

His last name is something like Cox or Boner and it’s just not worth it

I got a doctorate before I met him and don’t want to change it

I don’t want to change my name on all my documents and have people assume I’m stealing my own identity in the early months of our marriage

I would rather keep my own last name out of personal preference

I would rather keep my own last name to make a political statement

Example: I downloaded Friday the 13th because it’s free on psn. I dunno how to play, so I just enter quick play and I’m matched with 3-4 kids on mic. Immediately on mic they’re shitty and disparaging to each other. They laugh at each others deaths, they actively work against team mates and self sabotage, they call each other “fags”, etc. From the sounds of the voices they cannot be older than 13-14.

I put on my mic and just decide I ain’t havin it. I am nice. I thank them for barricading doors or leaving me items. When they break free from Jason’s grasp I say “good job!” or I try to help them. One kid survived for most of the match by himself. When he dies, I tell him he did a fantastic job.

The mood shift is practically INSTANT. These kids almost immediately stop being dick heads. They start encouraging each other and being kind. After the match all of them try to friend request me. Which should tell you a couple of things:

A) kids want to be kind, and they want to have a nice time playing games. But encounters with adults like me or so rare that they’ve trained themselves to instantly put on a toxic, shitty, defensive veneer when encountering any new person online. It’s literally just THAT EASY to not groom a horrible gaming community, it’s just that NO ONE does it.

B) the speed of which they all tried to friend me was cute, but paints for me such a sad picture? Like these kids are SO desperate to find people to play with who aren’t crappy jerks. They played with me for 10 minutes TOPS and all instantly tried to reach out to me.

The Boku No Hero Academia Season 3 Vol. 4 DVD comes with a drama CD track where All Might and Aizawa go drinking together, only to be interrupted by Present Mic and Midnight and hilarity ensues. Here’s my translation of the track! Enjoy~ **Note: In case the audio doesn’t work, here’s another link.

All Might: Good work out there, Aizawa-kun!

Aizawa: Same to you, All Might.

All Might: Haha, well then, let’s cheers!

Aizawa: Cheers? For what?

All Might: Hmm, how about for a successful meeting with all the different families?

Aizawa: I guess. It was rather good news to hear that all students’ parents agreed to allowing them to enter the dormitories.

All Might: To the new homes for the kids!

Aizawa: To the mentality of the teachers who will need to monitor these kids all the time now.

All Might & Aizawa: Cheers!

All Might (to himself): All right- this is a good mood! I’m going to be even better friends with Aizawa-kun after this dinner outing today! All Might, you gotta push past the walls of Aizawa-kun’s heart! GO BEYOND, PLUS ULTRA!!

Present Mic: HEYY!! CLASS A TEACHERS!! MC MIC IS IN THE HOUSE, CRASHING YOUR SECRET DINNER OUTING!

All Might (to himself): Or on second thought…probably not then.

Present Mic: What’s with that face, Eraser? If you’re gonna go drink, at least let me know, yo! This bad water is foul, man!

Aizawa: Go home!

Present Mic: Woah, that was SO COOL! Kinda a stiff reaction though. Anyway, I’m kinda thirsty, so imma drink your beer. *gulp* OHH YEAHH! DRINKING A BEER AFTER WORK REALLY MAKES ME GO TO HEAVEN!!!!!

Aizawa: GO HOME!

All Might: Haha, so by showing up here out of the blue, I’m guessing you come here often to drink?

Present Mic: Well I try to invite Eraser to come but he always rejects me, what kind of idiot does that?

Aizawa: Heh, you mean the type who literally asks me every day?

Present Mic: Man, your follow up is so bad, my friend. Makes things awkward, yo!

Aizawa: If that’s so then GO HOME.

*door opens*

Midnight: Good evening. Oh what? All Might, Eraser, and Mic are here?

All Might: Oh, Midnight-kun!

Present Mic: Hey there young lady! You joined in at a good time! Come over here and drink with us! GO TO HEAVEN!!!

Aizawa: You’re the one who came after us, don’t just take charge.

—

Aizawa: Midnight, here’s another round of your tequila.

Midnight: Thanks! *gulp* AHAA!!

All Might: You’re quite strong with alcohol.

Midnight: Yeah, I don’t feel like drinking until my stomach gets warm from the alcohol.

Present Mic: AS EXPECTED OF U.A.’S QUEEN TANK! It would be awesome if the alcohol really doesn’t affect you!

Midnight: Mic, if you’re going to be using weird slang to refer to me, I’m going to pour all this tequila on you.

Aizawa: Do it.

Present Mic: Hey my friend, that’s not very friendly of you to say! After all, I was the one who gave you the hero name Eraserhead! I came up with such a cool hero name, too!

Aizawa: Well if that’s so then I should have just changed my name.

Present Mic: To “Small Energy Sho-chan?”

Aizawa: Shut up!

Midnight: Mic, the tequila?

Present Mic: AGAIN!?

All Might: Midnight-kun, perhaps you should drink in moderation…

Midnight: What are you saying, All Might? I’m not even drunk at all! Mic, the tequila!! What are you waiting for?

Present Mic: Ah yes! Here you go!

—

Midnight: *drunk giggling* All Might, try drinking this!

All Might: Oh uh…I don’t really…drink much…you see…

Midnight: *laughs* Okay fine, Eraser drink this.

Aizawa: Uh, what is this?

Midnight: It’s my original concoction! A cocktail made of cocktails!

Aizawa: Why on earth would you do that?

Midnight: That’s because normal alcohol is boring! Alcohol is the same as life- an adventure with experiences you must repeat lest you get rusty! You agree with me, right Mic?

Present Mic: Wha- uhh…somewhat?

Midnight: Exactly, so that’s why you gotta drink up, Eraser! Experience something new!

Aizawa: Nope.

Midnight: You’re such a boring guy! You must be boring in bed, too!

Aizawa: I sleep in a sleeping bag.

Present Mic: *whispering* All Might, this is Midnight’s drunken state. She always makes disgusting cocktails and forces people to drink them.

All Might: I…I see. That’s terrifying.

Midnight: MIC!

Present Mic: WHAT?!

Midnight: DRINK UP! DRINK THIS COCKTAIL I MADE!

Present Mic: Ughh no thank you! That cocktail has all the worst ingredients mixed in that with a suspicious dark color, a color that says DO NOT DRINK ME!

Midnight: IT’S SAYING NOTHING OF THAT SORT! JUST DRINK IT!

Present Mic: *gulps* UGHH!!

Midnight: AHAHA! Hey Mic, tell us how was the taste?

Present: Goo…

Midnight: Goo…d?

Present Mic: Bye…*faints*

Midnight: AHAHAHA! It was so good he fainted!

Aizawa: More like definitely die.

All Might: Well then, I’ll take my leave now. Don’t want to drink too much…

Midnight: Okay! Hey Mic, All Might’s leaving now!

Present Mic: Augughhghg!!

All Might: Yeah, definitely don’t want to drink too much…

—

*running* Aizawa: All Might!

All Might: Oh, is something wrong, Aizawa-kun?

Aizawa: Uh, thank you very much.

All Might: Eh?

Aizawa: I’m uh…drunk right now so…well. I probably wouldn’t say this if I wasn’t drunk, but…I’ll say it anyway. Because you fought for us at Kamino Ward, because you defeated All For One for us, I will do my part and look after the students as much as I can.

All Might: Aizawa-kun…

Aizawa: That’s why I want to thank you for everything.

All Might: Aizawa-kun, let’s watch over the students from here on out together.

Aizawa: Anyway, when I sober up, I’ll probably forget everything I said while drunk, NEVER MENTION WHAT I JUST SAID!

All Might: Ah…sure…

Aizawa: I’m counting on you. See ya.